Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7AFC43A36; Wed, 8 May 2013 07:15:08 +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 960333A00; Wed, 8 May 2013 07:15:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BE60639DA; Wed, 8 May 2013 07:15:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130508051504.BE60639DA@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 07:15:04 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.1 birthday response X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 1. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 01:52:24 -0400 From: Grover Zinn Subject: Re: 26.1028 [should be 27.001] HAPPY 26th BIRTHDAY HUMANIST! In-Reply-To: <20130507052806.5DEBB2DE5@digitalhumanities.org> Hello Willard and Humanist readers (and "ponderers") Another year as the wheel turns. Congratulations to you Willard for seeing us through another cycle of the years! Indeed, 26 is something like "maturity"---hopefully not creaky old age, of which some of us are too aware; may there by 26 more, and more. And if we add the UToronto predecessor to Humanist (alas, my fading memory has forgotten the name :-( ) Willard deserves credit for more than 26. And speaking of blogs, twitter, etc. I suppose I show my age, but that is just too much information (some of it pretty random) to digest---either quickly or slowly. But I show my age in that comment. Humanist moves "slowly" so to speak, but hopefully it moves thoughtfully and reflectively (not that a blog is not thoughtful and reflective also!) I give less attention to Humanist than I should (I keep a closer focus on some current research/translation projects). But the digital humanities stay on my mind. And yes, interdisciplinary, or as I have now heard, collaborative research is flourishing in some quarters---but it hard to see what the best model for achieving true collaboration will be. Surely the possibility of quick, easy and detailed (textual, aural and visual) communication over vast distances is one element that is present now that was absent when Humanist stuck its foot into the flow of electrons. I'm struck (from a weekly lunch with retired colleagues that includes scientists and one in particular who is still conducting research, how in certain fields (his is chemistry) you have to collaborate with others for reasons of lab equipment, expertise in the nitty gritty or the purely theoretical, etc etc. I note with great interest (since I seem to be combining theology, spirituality, exegesis and iconography some of my endeavors) that the U. of Chicago has a new program (and building!!) dedicated to collaborative research (with funding!!!) chaired by David Nirenberg (who just spoke at Oberlin on the topic of his newest book). I also discovered (probably old news to many on this list) that Notre Dame has a Mellon grant for interdisciplinary research/workshops on Literature and Religion, Music and Religion, and other combinations. Perhaps, to take up Willard's comment near the endof his reflections---we ourselves have to envision and actualize (and encourage) work that brings disciplines together as much as we can in our own work, while drawing other people into the 'mix" and furthering (and perhaps being a bit activist about it) interdisciplinary conversations. Well, enough for now. I've not posted in at least 26 "dog years". So to close, Happy Birthday Humanist! best Grover Grover Zinn William H. Danforth Professor of Religion, emeritus former Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences Oberlin College Oberlin, OH 44074 grover.zinn@oberlin.edu On May 7, 2013, at 1:28 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > 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 75B383A4D; Wed, 8 May 2013 07:16:32 +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 56AE83A00; Wed, 8 May 2013 07:16:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 586BF39FC; Wed, 8 May 2013 07:16:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130508051629.586BF39FC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 07:16:29 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.2 interoperability between stemmatological microservices? 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 20:15:14 +0200 From: Tara Andrews Subject: Request for Comments: Interoperability between Stemmatological Microservices Dear colleagues, Thanks to a Project Support Grant awarded by the ALLC this year, we have the opportunity to connect two related web services for stemmatological analysis of texts: Stemweb (https://github.com/Stemweb/Stemweb) provided by researchers at the University of Helsinki, and Stemmaweb ( http://byzantini.st/stemmaweb/) provided by the Tree of Texts project at KU Leuven in collaboration with the Huygens Institute. After a meeting in Helsinki we have produced a white paper on our plans for interoperability, and we warmly invite comments or suggestions from any interested scholar, researcher, and/or developer. We intend to begin work in June, so comments received by the end of May would be particularly helpful. The white paper is available here: http://treeoftexts.arts.kuleuven.be/?p=58 Comments may be mailed directly to the authors, or preferably added directly to the blog post for open discussion. Best wishes, Tara Andrews (tara.andrews@arts.kuleuven.be) Teemu Roos (teemu.roos@cs.helsinki.fi) Joris van Zundert (joris.van.zundert@huygens.knaw.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 6319E2D0B; Wed, 8 May 2013 07:17:49 +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 1BA832CE2; Wed, 8 May 2013 07:17:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 461502CE0; Wed, 8 May 2013 07:17:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130508051746.461502CE0@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 07:17:46 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.3 PhD studentships 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. 27, No. 3. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 17:35:55 +0200 From: Malte Rehbein Subject: PhD students in Digital Humanities at Passau Dear list, In addition to the recently advertised PostDoc, I am searching for two PhD students to join the Digital Humanities team at Passau as research and teaching fellows. Find more details in the job description: http://www.uni-passau.de/fileadmin/dokumente/beschaeftigte/Stellenangebote/2013_04_WM_Prof_Rehbein_Doktoranden_engl_1_1.pdf International candidates are welcome to apply in English, and German is not a requirement for your research and teaching. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with me. The deadline for applications is May 27th. Best regards, Malte -- Prof. Dr. Malte Rehbein Lehrstuhl für Digital Humanities Universität Passau Gottfried-Schäffer-Straße 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 ED4D03A36; Wed, 8 May 2013 07:23:06 +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 4FFD42CF5; Wed, 8 May 2013 07:23:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 58F382CF5; Wed, 8 May 2013 07:23:02 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130508052302.58F382CF5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 07:23:02 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.4 events: many, various and intriguing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 4. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Mareike Koenig (20) Subject: event: young scholars and digital humanities: call to join the blogparade [2] From: Michael Ullyot (27) Subject: Call for Papers: RSA 2014 [3] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (36) Subject: Lecture on vernacular web culture and performative archiving [4] From: Amanda French (46) Subject: THATCamp CHNM 2013, June 7-8, 2013 [5] From: "smc2013@labe.felk.cvut.cz" (6) Subject: IEEE SMC 2013 - Systems, Man, and Cybernetics [6] From: Kai Jakobs (101) Subject: Deadline extended - SIIT 2013 (Standardisation and Innovation in IT --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 14:02:58 +0200 From: Mareike Koenig Subject: event: young scholars and digital humanities: call to join the blogparade "Research Conditions and Digital Humanities: What are the prospects for the next generation?" June 10 and 11, 2013 will see the fifth colloquium in the "Digital Humanities at DHIP" series, which has been organized by the German Historical Institute Paris in collaboration with L.I.S.A. - The Science Portal of the Gerda Henkel Foundation and the Centre pour l'édition électronique ouverte (Cléo). What it is about... At this year's conference, attended by experts from across the globe, the thematic focus will be on the effects current changes in the digital world are having on research conditions and in particular on the question as to the consequences this could have for the next generation in the humanities. The discussions will centre on the following themes: Education and careers, recognition of academic achievements, quality assurance and evaluation, and new digital forms of science. As such, there will be four panel discussions: · Panel I: Which changes are currently taking place in our research and academic culture? (With Edward van Houtte, Dominique Bouiller and Arianna Ciula) * Panel II: University education: Which new abilities/skills have now become essential? (With Malte Rehbein and Jean-Michel Salaun) * Panel III: Evaluation and quality assurance in the digital humanities. (With Milena Zic-Fuchs and Denise Pumain) * Panel IV: Career, financing and the academic recognition of achievements in the digital humanities. (With Claudine Moulin and Pascal Arnaud) This call to join the blog parade is intended to provide the entire academic community with the opportunity to collectively and indeed publicly participate in preparations for the colloquium. We welcome contributions on the abovementioned topics by individuals or groups that have been published on blogs or in wiki and/or iPad-compatible format, as well as other relevant texts or material from Zotero, Diigo, Tumblr or Storify, etc., audiovisual pieces, illustrations, podcasts, interviews, etc. - any format that enables a contribution to this public dialog is welcome! Conditions of Participation and Contact Participation is subject to one condition: the contributions must be in the public domain and contain the hashtag #dhiha5. If you would like to contribute, post your entries as a comment beneath this article: http://www.lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/content.php?nav_id=4326 If you don't have your own blog you can send your contribution to us via email for publication on our blog (see below for contact details). We have also set up a publicly accessible Twitter archive for the hashtag #dhiha5. All entries will be compiled and summarized by a group of young German and French academics and presented at the beginning of each of the panel discussions in the colloquium. There are still free places in the group if you wish to participate. Those speaking will then be asked to provide a response to the entries presented. The contributions we receive will also form the basis for a manifesto for the next generation of academics in the digital humanities, which will be edited at the end of the colloquium and subsequently published. So get those keyboards tapping - we look forward to reading your entries! The call in German: http://dhdhi.hypotheses.org/1598 The call in French: http://dhiha.hypotheses.org/755 Mareike König (mkoenig [at] dhi-paris.fr) Pierre Mounier (pierre.mounier [at] ehess.fr) Georgios Chatzoudis (chatzoudis@gerda-henkel-stiftung.de) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 10:47:49 -0600 From: Michael Ullyot Subject: Call for Papers: RSA 2014 CFP: Renaissance Studies + New Technologies RSA 2014, 27-29 March; New York, NY Since 2001, the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) annual meetings have featured panels on new technologies for scholarly research, publishing, and teaching. At the 2014 meeting in New York, we will offer panels on recent research (with 20-minute papers, followed by questions) and workshops on emerging ideas and methodologies (with 10-minute introductions, followed by hands-on demonstrations). Your proposal should include a title, a 150-word abstract, and a one-paragraph CV. We welcome proposals from individuals and teams for papers, panels, or workshops in the following areas: WORKSHOPS: 1 / New forms of publication, including social, hybrid, and dynamic editions; from the perspective of authors, editors, and publishers 2 / Training the next generation of digital humanists, for the alt-ac and/or tenure tracks 3 / Scholarship in the public sphere: crowdsourcing, collaboration and resource development; gathering expertise and feedback through social/web 2.0 channels 4 / Digital pedagogy: issues specific to early modern materials/archives; course and assignment designs; collaborating with students (graduate and undergraduate) PANELS: 1 / Big data and early modern scholarship 2 / Text analysis and early modern language 3 / Data visualizations and/or GIS 4 / Other research, with a focus on results as well as processes **Through the support of Iter, we are pleased to be able to offer travel subventions on a competitive basis to graduate student presenters. Those wishing to be considered for a subvention should indicate this in their abstract submission.** Please submit proposals before Wednesday 11 June 2013 via EasyChair: NB: All participants must be members of the RSA by August 2013 or they cannot be included in the program. * William R. Bowen, University of Toronto Scarborough * Laura Estill, Texas A&M * Diane Jakacki, Bucknell University * Ray Siemens, University of Victoria * Michael Ullyot, University of Calgary ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Michael Ullyot, Assistant Professor Department of English, University of Calgary ullyot.ucalgaryblogs.ca/ | @ullyot | 403.220.4656 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 17:47:27 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Lecture on vernacular web culture and performative archiving > From: Katrina Sluis > Subject: Talk at the gallery your department may be interested in? > Date: 7 May 2013 09:56:11 BST > Over an 8 week period, Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied have been presenting 'One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age' on our video wall, consisting of 16,000 animated screen captures of homepages from the Geocities archive. They will be giving a talk at The Photographers' Gallery this Friday 10th May at 7pm.Their talk will be focusing in on their research into the ruins of Geocities, vernacular web culture and performative archiving. > > As part of the exhibition, we are also interested in stories from people about their first webpages, from the period prior to 2004 - if you have an old, hand-coded website which you can find through the Internet Wayback Machine (http://archive.org/web/web.php) we would love you to send us a screenshot and a few sentences about it for our blog (email us at digital.programme@tpg.org.uk). > > You can book tickets to the artists' talk here (£7/£4): > http://www.thephotographersgallery.org.uk/olia-lialina-dragan-espenschied > > You can read more about their research here: > http://contemporary-home-computing.org/1tb/ > > You can see what they are uncovering in their Tumblr site: > http://oneterabyteofkilobyteage.tumblr.com > > About the artists: > Moscow-born artist Olia Lialina has, for the past decade, produced many influential works of network-based art: My Boyfriend Came Back from the War (1996), Agatha Appears (1997), First Real Net Art Gallery (1998), and Last Real Net Art Museum (2000). Currently she is a professor at Merz Akademie in Germany. Lialina writes on digital culture, net art and web vernacular. > > Dragan Espenschied, born in Germany. His music and online art has received international acclaim. He co-founded the home computer band Bodenständig 2000 that toured and released records throughout Europe and the USA. He has also won the Webby Awards People's Voice NET ART (2004), and the ZKM International Media Art Award (2001). > > Since 2002 Olia and Dragan have worked together. Among their collaborations are Zombie and Mummy (2002-2003), Midnight (2006), and Online Newspapers (2004, 2008, 2013), Digital Folklore Reader (2009). Individually and as collaborative partners, the work of both artists has been exhibited extensively online and at venues including Ars Electronica, Linz; the New Museum, New York; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; Transmediale, Berlin; Havana Biennial, Cuba; ACAF, Alexandria; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; ABC Gallery, Moscow; ZKM, Karlsruhe; Madison Square Park, New York. > > Best wishes > > Katrina Sluis > Curator (Digital Programme) > The Photographers' Gallery > ------------------------------------------------------------ > The Photographers' Gallery > 16-18 Ramillies Street, London W1F 7LW > 44 (0) 20 7087 9337 > thephotographersgallery.org.uk > Follow us on Facebook and Twitter@TPGallery > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 16:05:58 -0400 From: Amanda French Subject: THATCamp CHNM 2013, June 7-8, 2013 Hi all, There's still space at THATCamp Prime at the Center for History and New Media -- please distribute the below to anyone you think might be interested. Cheers, Amanda **** The Humanities and Technology Camp http://thatcamp.org is a free, open unconference where humanists and technologists of all skill levels learn and build together in sessions proposed on the spot. Since its founding at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media http://chnm.gmu.edu at George Mason University in 2008, more than 105 THATCamps http://thatcamp.org/04/24/how-long-how-much-how-many/ have been held in places all around the world, helping more than 6000 students, scholars, and professionals improve their skills in the digital humanities while meeting terrific, smart people from all kinds of fields and professions. The sixth annual THATCamp CHNM http://chnm2013.thatcamp.org (affectionately nicknamed "THATCamp Prime") will take place June 7-8, 2013at the Roy Center for History and New Media in Fairfax, VA. Spots are still available, and the whole event is free. At an unconference, the program is mostly created on the first day by the participants themselves, but pre-scheduled events http://chnm2013.thatcamp.org/schedule include a Wikipedia editathonwhere participants edit Wikipedia, a manuscript transcribathonwhere participants transcribe and tag digital historical documents, and workshopson topics such as how to use JSTOR Data for Research to analyze a massive archive of scholarly journal articles. A Maker Challenge http://chnm2013.thatcamp.org/challenge will offer THATCamp CHNM participants prizes such as an iPad Mini for any original project begun that weekend. Register now http://chnm2013.thatcamp.org/register while space is still available. Everyone is welcome, and THATCamp is notoriously http://www.foundhistory.org/2010/05/24/thatcamp-groundrules/ fun, productive, and collegial. Visithttp://chnm2013.thatcamp.orgfor more information or write Dr. Amanda French at info@thatcamp.org . *** -- Amanda L. French, Ph.D. http://amandafrench.net Email: amanda@amandafrench.net Cell: 720-530-7515 Twitter: @amandafrench Skype: amandafrenchphd AIM: habitrailgirl --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 18:47:14 +0000 From: "smc2013@labe.felk.cvut.cz" Subject: IEEE SMC 2013 - Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Dear colleague, I would like to remind you that the deadline for the paper submission for the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, which will be held from 13 to 16 October, 2013 in Manchester, UK, is on May 15, 2013. Please feel cordially invited to submit your paper. http://www.smc2013.org/ Best regards, Vladimir Marik --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 07:02:42 +0200 From: Kai Jakobs Subject: Deadline extended - SIIT 2013 (Standardisation and Innovation in IT Dear all, The submission deadline for the SIIT 2013 conference has been extended until 15 May. We welcome papers that deal with e.g. the development, diffusion, impact of ICT standards, and their relation with innovation, from a broad variety of perspectives (see CfP below for more detilas). Cheers, Kai. 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 04D613A29; Thu, 9 May 2013 18:11:36 +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 A0ED93A37; Thu, 9 May 2013 18:11:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9C15E2DD0; Thu, 9 May 2013 18:11:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130509161133.9C15E2DD0@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 18:11:33 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.5 attitudes? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 5. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 14:20:12 +0100 From: "James O'Sullivan" Subject: DH attitudes towards development practices Dear all, I am conducting a survey in relation to the DH community's attitude towards software development / programming, and would appreciate any contributions. The survey is quite short, and is anonymous: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/C85KTBJ Sincerest thanks in advance, 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 918CC3A7B; Thu, 9 May 2013 18:12:12 +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 819873A75; Thu, 9 May 2013 18:12:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1BF2F3A6E; Thu, 9 May 2013 18:12:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130509161210.1BF2F3A6E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 18:12:10 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.6 jobs at Leipzig 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="===============8292379193077207632==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============8292379193077207632== Content-Type: text/plain Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 6. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 12:32:00 +0200 From: Gregory Crane Subject: Jobs at Leipzig In-Reply-To: <20130508052302.58F382CF5@digitalhumanities.org> http://sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdates/2013/05/08/jobs-at-the-humboldt-chair-in-digital-humanities/ Jobs at the Humboldt Chair in Digital Humanities University of Leipzig [Please re-post] In February 2013, the Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities announced possible jobs. Funding from the European Social Fund has now been finalized (http://sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdates/2013/05/02/reinventing-humanities-publication-project-receives-e1-1-million-grant-from-the-saxon-ministry-of-science-and-european-social-fund/) and we are pleased to announce two positions: one for someone to supervise systems and text processing workflow; the other for someone with expertise in interactive design. Applicants should have completed their most recent degree after January 4, 2011. Positions will begin June 1, 2013 or as soon as a suitable candidate is found, and will run through December 2014. Pay will be commensurate to experience under Saxon and ESF regulations. *System and workflow manager* We are looking for an addition to our team who will develop and administrate scalable systems and workflows for processing and visualizing billions of words. Our text analysis includes the latest technologies in OCR, linguistic annotation, named entity identification, text reuse and topic modeling. You will be working in an international and interdisciplinary group of young scientists, aiming to create a new generation of tools and methods for learning, analyzing and interacting with languages. The job will range from general systems administration to the planning, implementing, managing and monitoring of completely novel software systems. Skills Required skills and experience: # Linux/Unix System Administration # Build management system (at least one of Maven, Gradle or Ant) # Scripting language (at least one of Perl, Python, Ruby or Clojure) # Version control (at least one of Git, Mercurial or Subversion) # Unit test development Desired skills and experience: # Experience with workflow tools such as Taverna # Object oriented programming language (e.g. Java, Python, C++) # Multi-threaded / distributed programming # RDF, XML and Linked Data concepts # Continuous Integration environments and test-driven development Personality # Ability to prioritise # Attention to detail # Ability to take initiative (self-driven), to work independently and as part of a team # Forward planner # Clear focus on high quality *Interactive designer* We are looking for an addition to our team who will join us in developing new methods by which users can interact with historical sources in general and with the collections in the Perseus Digital Library in particular. In this position, you will build ‘gamified’ user interfaces for eLearning applications which enable students to contribute to current research, to receive and give feedback, and to track and analyze their learning progress. You will be working in an international and interdisciplinary group of young scientists, aiming to create a new generation of tools and methods for learning, analyzing and interacting with languages. Skills Required skills and experience: # Graphic design # Javascript, CSS and HTML # RDF, TEI XML and Linked Data concepts Desired skills and experience: # HTML5 and/or mobile application development skills # Knowledge of Ancient Greek or Latin # Experience with linguistic annotation Personality # Strong attention to detail # Ability to take initiative (self-driven), to work independently and as part of a team # Empathic communicator # Creative and forward planner # Clear focus on high quality Please send a CV and a (short) cover letter to dig-hum-jobs@e-humanities.net. --===============8292379193077207632== 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 --===============8292379193077207632==-- Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id F2F583A6B; Thu, 9 May 2013 18:13:04 +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 1F9773A5F; Thu, 9 May 2013 18:13:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 28D9E3A40; Thu, 9 May 2013 18:13:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130509161300.28D9E3A40@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 18:13:00 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.7 events: prosopography; VR; the dark side; vagueness X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 7. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Daniel Thalmann (Prof)" (12) Subject: Call for Papers_Virtual Reality Software and Technology (ACM VRST2013) [2] From: "penaloza@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de" Subject: Call for papers: Vagueness, Imprecision and Uncertainty in Description Logics [3] From: Willard McCarty (22) Subject: the dark side [4] From: Seth Denbo (39) Subject: Digital History Seminar, Tuesday 14 May: Matthew Hammond 'The People of Medieval Scotland Database: A Prosopographical Survey' --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 03:34:30 +0000 From: "Daniel Thalmann (Prof)" Subject: Call for Papers_Virtual Reality Software and Technology (ACM VRST2013) *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1368001622_2013-05-08_danielthalmann@ntu.edu.sg_22338.1.txt http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1368001622_2013-05-08_danielthalmann@ntu.edu.sg_22338.2.txt ** IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING NEWS SERVICE ** IFIP=ACM+ACS+BCS+CIE+GI+IPSJ+KIISE+SEE++ ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** Send all news to: icec@listserver.tue.nl **************************************************** ** NOTE: Please reply to article's originator, ** not this IFIP EC News Service **************************************************** --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 03:39:41 +0000 From: "penaloza@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de" Subject: Call for papers: Vagueness, Imprecision and Uncertainty in Description Logics In-Reply-To: <628705758.20414724.1367875264529.JavaMail.root@loria.fr> Vagueness, Imprecision and Uncertainty in Description Logics Special Session at the Joint Rough Set Symposium (JRS 2013) (October 11-14, Halifax, Canada) http://cs.smu.ca/jrs2013/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Description Logics (DLs) are a well-established group of knowledge representation formalisms targeted towards the representation of terminological knowledge and reasoning procedures for it. For applications in areas such as the Semantic Web, Bio-medicine, Context-aware systems and others, representation of merely crisp information is not enough. Instead it is important to deal with vague or uncertain terms, as well as with imprecise definitions in order to reflect better the real-world semantics and build more adequate knowledge-based systems. In recent years, several extensions of DLs have been developed to address these needs. However, many problems remain open in these extensions -- ranging from fundamental questions such as what kind of semantics do applications require to enhancing existing reasoning algorithms and systems to handle the associated, possibly large, data. This special session aims at bringing together researchers working on rough, fuzzy, and probabilistic extensions to DLs, and discussing the latest results in the area. We solicit theoretical contributions, new empirical results, implementation and modeling experience reports, and system demonstrations. The session will encourage discussions that aid in the further advancement of this emerging area. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Decidable rough DL languages- Rough reasoning - Scalable reasoning with data properties for rough set attributes - Interaction of rough ontologies with large amounts of data - Applications of rough ontologies - Rough set decision tables and DLs - Vagueness and imprecision in DLs - Fuzzy and other extensions of DLs for vagueness - Probabilistic DLs - Possibilistic and other extensions of DLs for uncertainty - System descriptions and empirical results - Experiences on modeling vague, imprecise or uncertain knowledge Submissions are made through Easychair at https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=jrs2013 When submitting, please make sure to select the corresponding Special Session. Submitted paper should be between 8 and 10 pages long, in Springer LNCS format. All accepted papers will be published in Springer's LNAI series. A Special Issue of a journal is planned for the best submissions. Submission Deadline: May 25 Organizers: Maria Keet. University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Pavel Klinov. University of Ulm, Germany. Rafael Peñaloza. TU Dresden, Germany. Anni-Yasmin Turhan. TU Dresden, Germany. -- -------------------------------- Dr. rer. nat. Rafael Penaloza Technische Universität Dresden Fakultät Informatik Institut für Theoretische Informatik Lehrstuhl für Automatentheorie 01062 Dresden Tel.: +49 (351) 463-38351 Fax: +49 (351) 463-37959 E-Mail: penaloza@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de -------------------------------- --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 10:45:22 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the dark side In-Reply-To: <628705758.20414724.1367875264529.JavaMail.root@loria.fr> Many here will be interested in a recent conference organized by Richard Grusin, Center for 21st Century Studies (Wisconsin), "The Dark Side of the Digital" (http://www.c21uwm.com/digitaldarkside/), reported in the Chronicle of Higher Education by Marc Parry for 8 May, "Scholars Sound the Alert From the 'Dark Side' of Tech Innovation". Google will find it, of course. Some of the details, I suppose, we couldn't see coming; the future of the real world is never predictable (he predicts). But that the bandwagon promotionalism of the next-new-thing rah-rah mentality would lead to a balancing silliness should hardly surprise anyone. The journalistic spash is useful. But.... Somewhere in the world the sun has set. Time for a drink? 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/ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 16:14:20 +0100 From: Seth Denbo Subject: Digital History Seminar, Tuesday 14 May: Matthew Hammond 'The People of Medieval Scotland Database: A Prosopographical Survey' In-Reply-To: <628705758.20414724.1367875264529.JavaMail.root@loria.fr> Digital History Seminar Matthew Hammond The People of Medieval Scotland Database: A Prosopographical Survey 5:15pm (BST) on 14 May 2013 Room 243 (Senate House) and live on the Web at History SPOT ( https://historyspot.org.uk/podcasts) ‘The People of Medieval Scotland, 1093-1314’ is a prosopographical database that has been in production since 2007, and has been freely available online since the summer of 2010. Since the relaunch of the database last year, the site has had over 40,000 unique visitors from across the globe. Now nearing completion, the database contains records on over 20,000 individuals, drawn from over 8500 medieval, mostly Latin documents. The paper will examine some of the PoMS project’s technical innovations as well as the new directions we hope to take in the coming years. The seminar will take you behind the scenes of the public website to see how this database evolved from the factoid prosopography model created for the ‘Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England’ (PASE) by John Bradley of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, now Department of Digital Humanities, at Kings College London. PoMS has developed what might be called a ‘transactional model’ of factoid prosopography, due to the fact that it is comprised almost entirely of transactional documents like charters. Rather than simply recording events, the transactional model is explicitly interested in relations between individuals as recorded in the documents. We will examine the new structures PoMS incorporates to allow end users the ability to research the terms of the transaction, and thus the nature of the interaction between people, as well as multiple transactions happening at different times within the same document. We will look at the work of Michele Pasin, formerly of DDH, in developing new ways for users to both search and visualise these transactions. The seminar will finish with a consideration of the capabilities of the database for studying the social networks, and visualising the relationships between large numbers of people. *Matthew Hammond* is a Research Associate in the School of Humanities at the University of Glasgow and former Lecturer in Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh. Since 2007, he has been a team member of the AHRC-funded projects that created the ‘People of Medieval Scotland, 1093-1286’ database (www.poms.ac.uk) and is now working on a Leverhulme-funded project to expand the capabilities of that database, especially in the area of Social Network Analysis. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D93DD3A84; Thu, 9 May 2013 18:13:35 +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 857913A6B; Thu, 9 May 2013 18:13:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 249083A66; Thu, 9 May 2013 18:13:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130509161332.249083A66@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 18:13:32 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.8 the Duke Collaboratory for Classics 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. 27, No. 8. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 12:06:29 -0400 From: Hugh Cayless Subject: Duke Collaboratory for Classics Computing (DC3) Colleagues: We are very pleased to announce the creation of the Duke Collaboratory for Classics Computing (DC3), a new Digital Classics R&D unit embedded in the Duke University Libraries, whose start-up has been generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Duke University’s Dean of Arts & Sciences and Office of the Provost. The DC3 goes live 1 July 2013, continuing a long tradition of collaboration between the Duke University Libraries and papyrologists in Duke’s Department of Classical Studies. The late Professors William H. Willis and John F. Oates began the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri (DDbDP) more than 30 years ago, and in 1996 Duke was among the founding members of the Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS). In recent years, Duke led the Mellon-funded Integrating Digital Papyrology effort, which brought together the DDbDP, Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens (HGV), and APIS in a common search and collaborative curation environment (papyri.info), and which collaborates with other partners, including Trismegistos, Bibilographie Papyrologique, Brussels Coptic Database, and the Arabic Papyrology Database. The DC3 team will see to the maintenance and enhancement of papyri.info data and tooling, cultivate new partnerships in the papyrological domain, experiment in the development of new complementary resources, and engage in teaching and outreach at Duke and beyond. The team’s first push will be in the area of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, where it plans to leverage its papyrological experience to serve a much larger community. The team brings a wealth of experience in fields like image processing, text engineering, scholarly data modeling, and building scalable web services. It aims to help create a system in which the many worldwide digital epigraphy projects can interoperate by linking into the graph of scholarly relationships while maintaining the full force of their individuality. The DC3 team is: Ryan BAUMANN: Has worked on a wide range of Digital Humanities projects, from applying advanced imaging and visualization techniques to ancient artifacts, to developing systems for scholarly editing and collaboration. Hugh CAYLESS: Has over a decade of software engineering expertise in both academic and industrial settings. He also holds a Ph.D. in Classics and a Master’s in Information Science. He is one of the founders of the EpiDoccollaborative and currently serves on the Technical Council of the Text Encoding Initiative. Josh SOSIN: Associate Professor of Classical Studies and History, Co-Director of the DDbDP, Associate editor of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies; an epigraphist and papyrologist interested in the intersection of ancient law, religion, and the economy. http://www.stoa.org/archives/1736 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8F0BF3A93; Thu, 9 May 2013 18:14:11 +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 64ABD3A6D; Thu, 9 May 2013 18:14:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 23D3F3A67; Thu, 9 May 2013 18:14:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130509161409.23D3F3A67@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 18:14:09 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.9 the Virtual Paul's Cross X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 9. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 15:42:52 -0400 From: John Wall Subject: New Website for the Virtual Paul's Cross Project John N. Wall, Project Director and Professor of English Literature at NC State University, announces that the Virtual Paul’s Cross Project website is now available for exploration at http://vpcp.chass.ncsu.edu. The Virtual Paul’s Cross Project uses visual and acoustic modeling technology to recreate the experience of John Donne’s Paul’s Cross sermon for November 5th, 1622. The goal of this project is to integrate what we know, or can surmise, about the look and sound of this space, destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666, and about the course of activities as they unfolded on the occasion of a Paul’s Cross sermon, so that we may experience a major public event of early modern London as it unfolded in real time and in the context of its original surroundings. The Virtual Paul’s Cross Project has been supported by a Digital Start-Up Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Virtual Paul’s Cross Project has sought the highest degree of accuracy in this recreation. To do so, it combines visual imagery from the 16th and 17th centuries with measurements of these buildings made during archaeological surveys of their foundations, still in the ground in today’s London. The visual presentation also integrates into the appearance of the visual model the look of a November day in London, with overcast skies and an atmosphere thick with smoke. The acoustic simulation recreates the acoustic properties of Paul’s Churchyard, incorporating information about the dispersive, absorptive or reflective qualities of the buildings and the spaces between them. This website allows us to explore the northeast corner of Paul’s Churchyard, outside St Paul’s Cathedral, in London, on November 5th, 1622, and to hear John Donne’s sermon for Gunpowder Day, all two hours of it, in the space of its original delivery and in the context of church bells and the random ambient noises of dogs, birds, horses, and crowds of up to 5,000 people. There is a Concise Guide to the whole site here: http://vpcp.chass.ncsu.edu/quick-guide-to-the-site/ In keeping with the desire for authenticity, the text of Donne’s sermon was taken from a manuscript prepared within days of the sermon’s original delivery that contains corrections in Donne’s own handwriting. It was recorded by a professional actor using an original pronunciation script and interpreting contemporary accounts of Donne’s preaching style. For John Donne's Paul's Cross sermon for November 5th, 1622 (in 15-minute segments), as heard from 2 different positions in the Churchyard, go here: http://vpcp.chass.ncsu.edu/listen-the-sermon/ On the website, the user can learn how the visual and acoustic models were created and explore the political and social background of Donne’s sermon. In addition to the complete recordings of Donne’s Gunpowder Day sermon, one can also explore the question of audibility of the unamplified human voice in Paul’s Churchyard by sampling excerpts from the sermon as heard from eight different locations across the Churchyard and in the presence of four different sizes of crowd. For excerpts of the sermon from eight different locations and in the presence of different sizes of crowd go here: http://vpcp.chass.ncsu.edu/experience/ The website also houses an archive of materials that contributed to the recreation, including visual records of the buildings, high resolution files of the manuscript and first printed versions of Donne’s sermon for Gunpowder Day 1622, and contemporary accounts of Donne’s preaching style. In addition, the website includes an acoustic analysis of the Churchyard, discussion of the challenges of interpreting historic depictions of the Cathedral and its environs, and a review of the liturgical context of outdoor preaching in the early modern age. To see the visual model in detail on a fly around video go here: http://vpcp.chass.ncsu.edu/fly-around-the-visual-model/. This is especially dramatic if viewed in HD video and at Full Screen display. This Project is the work of an international team of scholars, engineers, actors, and linguists. In addition to the Project Director, they include David Hill, Associate Professor of Architecture at NC State University; Joshua Stephens, Jordan Grey, Chelsea Sacks, and Craig Johnson, graduate students in architecture at NC State University; John Schofield, Archaeologist at St Paul’s Cathedral and author of *St Paul’s Cathedral Before Wren *(2011); David Crystal, linguist; Ben Crystal, actor; Ben Markham and Matthew Azevedo, acoustic engineers with Acentech, Inc; and members of the faculty in linguistics and their graduate students at NC State University, especially professors Walt Wolfram, Erik Thomas, Robin Dodsworth, and Jeff Mielke. Wall’s team is now planning a second stage of this Project, with the goal of completing the visual model of Paul’s Churchyard, including a complete model of St Paul’s Cathedral as it looked in the early 1620’s, during John Donne’s tenure as Dean of the cathedral. This visual model will be the basis for an acoustic model of the cathedral’s interior, especially the Choir, which will be the site for restaging a full day of worship services, including Bible readings, prayers, liturgies from the Book of Common Prayer, sermons, and music composed by the professional musicians on the cathedral’s staff for performance by the cathedral’s organist and its choir of men and boys. They will be competing for our attention, as they did in the 1620’s, with the noise of crowds who gathered in the cathedral’s nave, known as Paul’s Walk, to see and be seen and to exchange the latest gossip of the day. JNW -- 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0329A3A97; Thu, 9 May 2013 18:14:54 +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 2C4973A6E; Thu, 9 May 2013 18:14:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 63F643A6B; Thu, 9 May 2013 18:14:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130509161452.63F643A6B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 18:14:52 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.10 tagging and implementing haptic knowledge X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 10. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 09 May 2013 18:06:22 +0200 From: Willard McCarty Subject: haptic knowledge In a paper given in a recent session of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, "Using Robotic Exploratory Procedures to Learn the Meaning of Haptic Adjectives", Vivian Chu and a dozen co-authors argued as follows. This is the abstract: > Delivering on the promise of real-world robotics > will require robots that can communicate with humans through > natural language by learning new words and concepts through > their daily experiences. Our research strives to create a robot > that can learn the meaning of haptic adjectives by directly > touching objects. By equipping the PR2 humanoid robot with > state-of-the-art biomimetic tactile sensors that measure temperature, > pressure, and fingertip deformations, we created a > platform uniquely capable of feeling the physical properties of > everyday objects. The robot used five exploratory procedures > to touch 51 objects that were annotated by human participants > with 34 binary adjective labels. We present both static and > dynamic learning methods to discover the meaning of these > adjectives from the labeled objects, achieving average F1 scores > of 0.57 and 0.79 on a set of eight previously unfelt items. Many here will, I expect, zero in on words "annotated" and "binary adjective labels". We do lots of annotating. I expect we would have much of interest to say to these researchers, and much of interest to learn. But what would we say? What would we learn? 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 7A7A13A6E; Fri, 10 May 2013 06:56:52 +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 498D63A59; Fri, 10 May 2013 06:56:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 337303A46; Fri, 10 May 2013 06:56:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130510045649.337303A46@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 06:56:49 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.11 comments on paper? 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 18:27:11 +0200 (CEST) From: marjorie.burghart@free.fr Subject: The Three Orders or Digital Humanities Imagined In-Reply-To: <542361265.125107556.1368116656160.JavaMail.root@zimbra72-e12.priv.proxad.net> Dear Humanists, I would like to invite you to comment on a text I sent for the upcoming DH symposium of the German Institute in Paris: "The Three Orders or Digital Humanities Imagined": http://dhiha.hypotheses.org/817 Since this text is a virtual contribution to the discussions at the upcoming symposium, feel free to post your thought as comments on the blog post, so that attendees (actual and virtual) will be able to benefit from them even if they are not Humanist members. Best regards, Marjorie Burghart _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D18643A84; Fri, 10 May 2013 06:57:52 +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 002523A60; Fri, 10 May 2013 06:57:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7EF1E3A5F; Fri, 10 May 2013 06:57:50 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130510045750.7EF1E3A5F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 06:57:50 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.12 jobs at OpenEdition X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 12. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 18:38:32 +0200 From: Marin Dacos Subject: Jobs at OpenEdition (Marseilles, France) Dear colleagues, OpenEdition recruits several people with various skills: - responsable de projets d'édition électronique : http://leo.hypotheses.org/10527 - développeur open source : http://leo.hypotheses.org/10703 - chargé de projet OpenEdition Manuscripts http://leo.hypotheses.org/10573 - in the future, we will also hire a community manager for Hypotheses and more people with IT, digital publishing, community management and documentation skills. Speaking French is mandatory. People native from different languages are very welcome. These full time jobs are located in Marseilles, France, without any exception (no teleworking). 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9288D3A99; Fri, 10 May 2013 06:58:23 +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 A96D83A6E; Fri, 10 May 2013 06:58:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 93C543A6B; Fri, 10 May 2013 06:58:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130510045820.93C543A6B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 06:58:20 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.13 DHQ: temporary moratorium on submissions X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 13. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 14:21:44 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: DHQ: temporary moratorium on submissions This summer, Digital Humanities Quarterly will be moving its editorial operations to Northeastern University. During the transition period, we will observe a temporary moratorium on new submissions, to enable us to focus on a few infrastructural improvements. The moratorium will last from May 15 through September 15, 2013. The journal's production work on articles and special issues already submitted will not be affected by the moratorium. The journal will continue to publish as usual during this period. Thanks to all for your patience during this transitional period, and we look forward to receiving your submissions in the fall! best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders Editor in chief, DHQ Director, Women Writers project Please note my new email address, effective July 1 j.flanders@neu.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 433133A9A; Fri, 10 May 2013 06:59:13 +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 5FE683A73; Fri, 10 May 2013 06:59:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3A9BF3A60; Fri, 10 May 2013 06:59:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130510045911.3A9BF3A60@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 06:59:11 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.14 events: media monitoring X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 14. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 17:06:26 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: Symposium: Media Monitoring in the Digital Age NUIG - 23-24 May 2013 You are all cordially invited to the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, National University of Ireland, Galway Media Monitoring in the Digital Age Symposium. Where: Huston School of Film & Digital Media, National University of Ireland, Galway When: Thursday 23 & Friday 24 May 2013 Speakers: o Greg Philo Bad News for Broadcasting o Mike Berry The Financial Crisis, the Media and the Public o Mark Deuze Media Life as a Massive Mutual Monitoring System o Roddy Flynn Representation of Disability in the Irish Media o Lee Salter From Surveillance to Sousvaillance: the paradoxes of media monitoring in the digital age o John Underwood Living in Spin o Anne Karhio Media Monitoring :A Professional’s Perspective *** 7.30 Wednesday 22 May. Huston School of Film & Digital Media, screening of the award winning documentary: Secret City: A film about the City of London and the Corporation that runs it For full details please visit Huston school website http://www.filmschool.ie/events/media-monitoring-digital-age-symposium Shadi Abu-Ayyash PhD Student in Digital Arts Researching ‘Political Activism and Online Communities’ Huston School of Film & Digital Media National University of Ireland, Galway _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DDDB13A82; Sat, 11 May 2013 07:05:03 +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 E41F13A68; Sat, 11 May 2013 07:05:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D35D43A0C; Sat, 11 May 2013 07:04:59 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130511050459.D35D43A0C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 07:04:59 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.15 events: computational linguistics for literature; celebration of research 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. 27, No. 15. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Roueche, Charlotte" (18) Subject: DigitalCelebration [2] From: Anna Kazantseva (6) Subject: 2nd Call for Participation: Second Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature, NAACL 2013 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 07:22:22 +0000 From: "Roueche, Charlotte" Subject: DigitalCelebration This summer sees the completion of the first round of research projects in the humanities funded by HERA, Humanities in the European Research Area. http://www.heranet.info The event is being marked by a Conference, and a Festival of the Humanities, The Time and the Place, in London, on 31 May and 1 June: http://www.heranet.info/final-conference-and-humanities-festival As might have been expected, several of the projects focussed on the digital world, and all of them engaged with digital humanities to a greater or lesser extent. We are therefore organising an event presenting and analysing issues that have emerged during the research period: this will take the form of a series of presentations, followed by a panel discussion. For a programme of the event, on Friday 31 May, 13.00-15.30, at King's College London, see http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/chs/eventrecords/2012-13/timeandplace.aspx Admission is free and open to all, but those attending are asked to register online. We look forward to welcoming you! Andrew Prescott and Charlotte Roueché ---------------------------- Professor Charlotte Roueché Centre for Hellenic Studies King's College London WC2R 2LS fax + 44 20.7848 2545 charlotte.roueche@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/chs --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 10:55:27 -0400 From: Anna Kazantseva Subject: 2nd 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 Second 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. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7D5313A5A; Mon, 13 May 2013 07:18:22 +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 0F61E2C9A; Mon, 13 May 2013 07:18:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3B7CA2C9A; Mon, 13 May 2013 07:18:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130513051818.3B7CA2C9A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 07:18:18 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.16 pubs: history & philosophy of technoscience X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 16. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 13:46:03 +0200 From: Alfred Nordmann Subject: Book series History and Philosophy of Technoscience 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? 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 O’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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4872D3A65; Tue, 14 May 2013 07:29:56 +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 35D702DCD; Tue, 14 May 2013 07:29:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 80BD92D0F; Tue, 14 May 2013 07:29:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130514052953.80BD92D0F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 07:29:53 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.17 mapping Transylvanian 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 17. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 13:08:19 +0300 From: Corina Moldovan Subject: help for building a project Hello, I am working on a collaborative project entitled "Application of geocriticism in the humanities. Mapping Transylvanian cultural representations". We are very much interested in any opinion on this matter, especially from an e-pont of view. Thank you Corina Moldovan corimoldovan@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 9D3BB3A9D; Tue, 14 May 2013 07:31:45 +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 2374A2DCD; Tue, 14 May 2013 07:31:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C91782DCA; Tue, 14 May 2013 07:31:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130514053141.C91782DCA@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 07:31:41 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.18 events: DHA2014 in Perth; Around the World Symposium everywhere X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 18. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (8) Subject: Around the World Symposium [2] From: Craig Bellamy (24) Subject: Announcement: DHA2014: Perth 18-21 March, 2014 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 09:14:12 -0600 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Around the World Symposium Around the World Symposium on Technology and Culture, May 30, 2013! Join us for a 24 hour online symposium on digital culture. Scholars from around the world will be presenting short papers and engaging in live panel discussions in an innovative online event that travels from institute to institute around the world. This sustainable Symposium is being hosted by the Kule Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Alberta in partnership with research institutes in Japan, Brazil, Australia, the UK, Ireland and the United States. For more information, for a tentative schedule, and to watch the stream see: http://aroundtheworld.ualberta.ca You can tune in at anytime on May 30th or come back later. We will archive all the talks and panels! The University of Alberta opening remarks will be at 11am (Mountain Time) in the Senate chamber on the 3rd floor of Old Arts. These will be followed by a panel of speakers from the University of Alberta. International proceedings streaming from leading digital humanities scholars from around the world begin online in the early morning of May 30 - check the blog for a schedule and to view the stream! --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 10:56:29 +1000 From: Craig Bellamy Subject: Announcement: DHA2014: Perth 18-21 March, 2014 Dear Humanist, The Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) is pleased to announce that Perth, Western Australia, has been selected as the location for the second Digital Humanities Australasia conference. *"DHA2014: Expanding Horizons"* will be held 18--21 March 2014, co-hosted by The University of Western Australia http://www.uwa.edu.au/ and iVEC http://www.ivec.org/ . The local organisation committee will be chaired by Professor Jenni Harrison of iVEC at the University of Western Australia and the program committee chaired by Professor Hugh Craig, aaDH and the University of Newcastle, Australia. The Call for Papers for DHA2014 will be posted soon. More details about the aaDH on our web-site: http://aa-dh.org/ Kind regards, Craig -- 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 631B53A5C; Tue, 14 May 2013 09:49:37 +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 34CAA2CDB; Tue, 14 May 2013 09:49:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 67CC52C9A; Tue, 14 May 2013 09:49:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130514074931.67CC52C9A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 09:49:31 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.19 events: post-disciplinary curation (Sydney); digital tools & methods (Melbourne) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 19. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Nick Thieberger (26) Subject: Second Call for papers: PARADISEC conference and workshop on digital tools and methods [2] From: Willard McCarty (33) Subject: curating in a post-disciplinary age --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 09:32:04 +0200 From: Nick Thieberger Subject: Second Call for papers: PARADISEC conference and workshop on digital tools and methods Announcing the conference "Research, records and responsibility (RRR): Ten years of the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC)" Dates: 2nd-3rd December 2013 Venue: University of Melbourne, Australia Keynote speaker: Shubha Chaudhuri Associate Director General (Academic) Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology American Institute of Indian Studies Gurgaon, India For details and the call for papers see: http://paradisec .org.au/2013Conf.html This will concide with the Workshop on digital tools and methods for language documentation on the 3rd-4th December 2013 Keynote speakers: Alexandre Arkhipov (Moscow State University) on methods used by his research to build an integrated documentation and analysis system. Andreas Witt (Head of the TEI-SIG, Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim) on the Text Encoding Initiative-Special Interest Group and TEI for linguists. For details and the call for papers see: http://paradisec .org.au/2013ParadisecToolsMethods.html Paper abstracts due 31 May 2013, notification by 15 July 2013. Full papers will be submitted for a peer-reviewed volume hosted in an open-access online repository at Sydney University. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 08:30:23 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: curating in a post-disciplinary age The following will be quite a challenge for anyone not in Australia to attend, but knowing that it is happening is, I think, sufficient justification for dangling the event before you. (UTS is the University of Technology Sydney.) The official flier may be found at http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1368517021_2013-05-14_willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk_10417.2.pdf WM ----- Seminar: Object Lessons: Curating Things in a Post-Disciplinary Era: A discussion with Brook Andrew, Tony Bennett & Holly Williams; chaired by Lizzie Muller. Thursday, 16 May, 12.30-2pm UTS Gallery: Level 4, Peter Johnson Building (CB.6.04) Recent curatorial practice demonstrates a growing desire to breach disciplinary boundaries. Many of these curatorial projects draw explicitly on the phenomenon of the Cabinet of Curiosities for inspiration. In doing so they use a pre-disciplinary mode of display as a precedent for what could be called a post-disciplinary sensibility. UTS Gallery's current exhibition, Living in the Ruins of the Twentieth Century, provides the focus for asking what happens when objects cut loose from their disciplinary moorings: when things formerly known as decorative, scientific, natural, ethnographic, artistic, domestic, technological or fictional come together to form new allegiances and break old dogmas. This seminar addresses the question: What might museums become in a post-disciplinary era? Find out more by visiting http://www.livingintheruins.net/Seminar.RSVP requested: utsgallery@uts.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,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 781A63AA8; Tue, 14 May 2013 12:02:54 +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 DA5AC3A96; Tue, 14 May 2013 12:02:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8546C3A65; Tue, 14 May 2013 12:02:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130514100249.8546C3A65@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 12:02:49 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.20 PhD studentships at King's College London X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 20. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 10:47:01 +0100 From: Abigail Woods Subject: Reminder: PhD studentships at Kings College London [I forward the following from Mersenne. Someone with the right sort of background *and* an interest in pursuing research in the cross-roads of digital humanities and the history of science, technology and medicine could be a very good fit. The deadline is quite soon, so my advice is to apply straight away, then if selected contact me about the joint PhD. --WM] This is a final call for applications for two PhD studentships in the history of science, technology and medicine at Kings College London. Students will be attached to the history department and begin their studies in the 2013-14 academic year. The deadline for applications is 31 May. 1) AHRC award. This covers standard tuition fees and a maintenance grant of £15,726 per year for three years. EU candidates are normally eligible for a fees-only award, unless they have been ordinarily resident in the UK for 3 years immediately preceding the date of the award. 2) Hans Rausing award This is open to home, EU and overseas students for study in the history of science and technology. Proposals in the history of medicine are not eligible for consideration. It covers tuition fees and a maintenance grant in line with that paid by the AHRC. All applicants should have a strong academic track record, and hold or be studying for an MSc or MA degree in the history of science, medicine and/or technology, or in another relevant area of history. We offer supervision across the full range of science, technology and medicine, from the early modern period to the recent past. Staff include members of the Centre for History of Science, Technology and Medicine at Imperial College London, who move to Kings College London on 1 August 2013. Prospective applicants should contact Professor David Edgerton, d.edgerton@imperial.ac.uk to discuss their area of interest. http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/historyofscience http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/history/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 699FC3AC6; Wed, 15 May 2013 07:36:14 +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 75A863A5C; Wed, 15 May 2013 07:36:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D5A5A3A4F; Wed, 15 May 2013 07:36:02 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130515053602.D5A5A3A4F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 07:36:02 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.21 mapping Transylvanian 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. 27, No. 21. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 11:50:08 +0200 From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.17 mapping Transylvanian culture? In-Reply-To: <20130514052953.80BD92D0F@digitalhumanities.org> Il 14/05/2013 07:29, Humanist Discussion Group ha scritto: > I am working on a collaborative project entitled "Application of > geocriticism in the humanities. Mapping Transylvanian cultural > representations". what exactly do you mean with "geocriticism"? do you mean geolocating "cultural products" (rituals, traditions, words, feasts/holidays, etc.) in order to be able to study them taking into account the geographical component? maurizio > We are very much interested in any opinion on this matter, especially from > an e-pont of view. ------- 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 69E093ACB; Wed, 15 May 2013 07:36:40 +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 E1C123ABE; Wed, 15 May 2013 07:36:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9933D3AC6; Wed, 15 May 2013 07:36:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130515053630.9933D3AC6@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 07:36:30 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.22 partnerships, collaboration -- and words X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 22. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 12:20:47 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: partnerships and collaboration Many here will be interested in William Pannapacker's "Cultivating Partnerships in the Digital Humanities", Chronicle of Higher Education for 13 May (http://chronicle.com/article/Cultivating-Partnerships-in/139161/?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en). I admit to being curious about one of the newer bad words, "silo". I didn't grow up on a farm, so I have no gut-level sense of this structure for storing grain, but my understanding from books is that a silo is a kind of treasure-house where the wealth of the land is kept between harvest and distribution. I would think that discipline-as-silo is rather good and highly complimentary. But then for reasons I don't understand we seem quite easily and quickly to polarize words, to eliminate shades of meaning so that they're either entirely signs of approval or disapproval. Then, as with the word "open", they become shelters for all manner of quite shady meanings, e.g. "open" being open as long as you pay, and shut until you do. Couldn't we do with a number of philologically serious people to help improve the level of our discourse? 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 856343AEF; Thu, 16 May 2013 07:25:50 +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 481B73AC9; Thu, 16 May 2013 07:25:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9443A3A97; Thu, 16 May 2013 07:25:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130516052538.9443A3A97@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 07:25:38 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.23 mapping Transylvanian 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. 27, No. 23. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 09:39:02 +0300 From: Corina Moldovan Subject: Re: 27.21 mapping Transylvanian culture In-Reply-To: <20130515053602.D5A5A3A4F@digitalhumanities.org> yes, we intend to find those cultural products that define in a symbolic way Transylvania and create an interactive database. but we are very new in this domain so we could use some help. Sent from my iPad On 15.05.2013, at 08:36, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 21. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 11:50:08 +0200 > From: maurizio lana > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.17 mapping Transylvanian culture? > In-Reply-To: <20130514052953.80BD92D0F@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Il 14/05/2013 07:29, Humanist Discussion Group ha scritto: >> I am working on a collaborative project entitled "Application of >> geocriticism in the humanities. Mapping Transylvanian cultural >> representations". > > what exactly do you mean with "geocriticism"? > do you mean geolocating "cultural products" (rituals, traditions, words, > feasts/holidays, etc.) in order to be able to study them taking into > account the geographical component? > > maurizio > >> We are very much interested in any opinion on this matter, especially from >> an e-pont of view. > > ------- > 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AF3973B4D; Thu, 16 May 2013 07:26:33 +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 E993E3AF1; Thu, 16 May 2013 07:26:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 86CF83AEF; Thu, 16 May 2013 07:26:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130516052621.86CF83AEF@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 07:26:21 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.24 geolocating cultural products? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 24. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 07:49:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Karl Grossner Subject: Re: Humanist Digest, Vol 56, Issue 13 In-Reply-To: I am very interested in the practice of "geolocating cultural products (rituals, traditions, words, feasts/holidays, etc.)," particularly in categorizations of such activity. Can anyone give examples of where this has been done at regional, continental or global scale? Karl > > Il 14/05/2013 07:29, Humanist Discussion Group ha scritto: > > I am working on a collaborative project entitled "Application of > > geocriticism in the humanities. Mapping Transylvanian cultural > > representations". > > what exactly do you mean with "geocriticism"? > do you mean geolocating "cultural products" (rituals, traditions, > words, > feasts/holidays, etc.) in order to be able to study them taking into > account the geographical component? > > maurizio > > > We are very much interested in any opinion on this matter, > > especially from > > an e-pont of view. > ------------------ Karl Grossner, PhD Digital Humanities Research Developer Stanford University Libraries Stanford,CA US karlg@stanford.edu www.kgeographer.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 222A83B66; Thu, 16 May 2013 07:26:50 +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 529823ADE; Thu, 16 May 2013 07:26:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 235323B4F; Thu, 16 May 2013 07:26:39 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130516052639.235323B4F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 07:26:39 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.25 silo X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 25. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 11:38:18 -0400 From: Daniel Griffin Subject: Re: 27.22 partnerships, collaboration -- and words In-Reply-To: <20130515053630.9933D3AC6@digitalhumanities.org> Hello, I actually think I know the answer to this one! The word "silo" is derived from the Greek word σιρὀς (*siros*; cf. *OED*), which is literally "a pit (for storing grain)" (*LSJ*). This would be different, say, from the Greek word θησαυρός (thesauros), which is "a treasure store", though occasionally it can be used to mean something like a storehouse for grain (*LSJ*). The idea of a "pit" versus a "storehouse" can illuminate (maybe) some of the shades of meaning inherent in the two terms. That said, I believe that, when used of the academic disciplines, the term ""silo" is used to indicate the act of putting something away indefinitely, a "walling-off", if you will. The point of putting something into a silo is to protect the grains from the elements; in this way, to silo off a discipline is to not expose it to outside influences, or, more importantly, not expose it to outside criticism. I cannot offer a better metaphor, unfortunately. If you wanted to keep the food theme, something about "having a seat at the table" seems about right; the "big tent" metaphor has already been used in other contexts. Best, Daniel Griffin ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel J. Griffin PhD Candidate, James B. Duke Fellow Humanities Writ Large Digital Humanities Assistant Duke University, Department of Classical Studies 233 Allen - Box 90103 Durham, NC 27708-0103 734.657.5533 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 1:36 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 22. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 12:20:47 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: partnerships and collaboration > > > Many here will be interested in William Pannapacker's "Cultivating > Partnerships in the Digital Humanities", Chronicle of Higher Education > for 13 May > ( > http://chronicle.com/article/Cultivating-Partnerships-in/139161/?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en > ). > > I admit to being curious about one of the newer bad words, "silo". > I didn't grow up on a farm, so I have no gut-level sense of this > structure for storing grain, but my understanding from books is > that a silo is a kind of treasure-house where the wealth of the > land is kept between harvest and distribution. I would think that > discipline-as-silo is rather good and highly complimentary. But > then for reasons I don't understand we seem quite easily and > quickly to polarize words, to eliminate shades of meaning so > that they're either entirely signs of approval or disapproval. Then, > as with the word "open", they become shelters for all manner of > quite shady meanings, e.g. "open" being open as long as you > pay, and shut until you do. > > Couldn't we do with a number of philologically serious people to > help improve the level of our discourse? > > 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 > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 070013B91; Thu, 16 May 2013 07:27:59 +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 130CF3ADE; Thu, 16 May 2013 07:27:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 831453ADE; Thu, 16 May 2013 07:27:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130516052749.831453ADE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 07:27:49 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.26 PhD studentships at the Science Museum (Manchester & Leeds) 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. 27, No. 26. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 17:15:15 +0100 From: Graeme Gooday Subject: Two AHRC Collaborative PhD Studentships for 2013-14: the Science Museum, University of Manchester and University of Leeds THE SCIENCE MUSEUM, BT ARCHIVES, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER 'Research is the door of tomorrow': the networks and culture of the Post Office Research Stations, Dollis Hill and Martlesham, c. 1910-1983 Two Fully-funded AHRC PhD studentships Applications are invited for two AHRC-funded PhDs working on the Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill, one of Britain's most important government research establishments in electrical engineering, telecommunications and computing. These two studentships are part of eight fully-funded awards made by the newly-established Collaborative Doctoral Partnership managed by the Science Museum Group and in association with BT Archives. Both studentships are funded for three years full-time equivalent, and will begin in September 2013. PhD Project 1: The Genesis and Early Development of the Post Office Research Station Supervised by Graeme Gooday (University of Leeds) and Tilly Blyth (Science Museum, London). Between the two World Wars the Post Office served as Britain's principal research organization for telecommunications and computing. This PhD studentship focuses on the development of the Post Office's dedicated research station at Dollis Hill (Northwest London) from 1925. Although it produced TIM the speaking clock and the electro-mechanical expertise later deployed in Second World War code-breaking activities, the origins and development of this Post Office laboratory have not previously been studied by historians. Overall this project examine how the ethos and practices of Post Office research emerged from its national prerogatives in innovation and the broader agendas of the interwar military-bureaucratic state. Potential issues that students can choose to explore in reconstructing its multi-faceted story include the nationalization of the UK telephone network in 1912; the role of Post Office researchers during the Great War, and the subsequent automation of telephone exchanges using electromechanical and electronic switching technology. Further questions arise in understanding how Post Office researchers managed their relationships with the Treasury, the British Broadcasting Corporation, National Physical Laboratory and Armed services, both in access to resources and in serving as public authorities on technological novelty. Broader national and international perspectives on the techno-politics of communications and computing may also be useful for the student to consider. Relevant sources for this PhD project include Post Office documentary collections held at BT Archives, e.g. the extensive papers on the early years of the Dollis Hill research station, and related telecommunications and computing object collections held at the Science Museum, e.g. early models of automated telephone exchanges. Potential applicants for the first project may contact Prof. Graeme Gooday (G.J.N.Gooday@leeds.ac.uk) for further information. PhD Project 2: Research Life of the Established 'Station' in the 'long Cold War' Supervised by Jeff Hughes (CHSTM, University of Manchester) and Tilly Blyth (Science Museum, London). By the late 1930s, the Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill was one of the largest research establishments operated by a UK state agency, and had an international reputation in an extensive network of telecommunications research, testing and manufacturing facilities encompassing other state civil and military establishments, research associations and industry. This project will explore the institution's organisational development, its technical work and its changing relationship with the state and other institutions from the mid-1930s through WW2, the post-war years and the Cold War up to the 1960s. There is significant scope for the student undertaking this project to develop their own thematic and empirical interests, but among the relevant topics that might be covered are: the mobilisation of Dollis Hill for war work on radio and electronic computers for code-breaking during WW2; the development of submarine cable and repeater technology, culminating in the transatlantic submarine telephone cable in 1956; work on automatic dialling and switching on long-distance telephone circuits and national trunk-mechanisation; electronic speech and artificial devices for telephone measurements; the development of microwave radio relay transmitters and the establishment's work on the Goonhilly satellite ground station; electronic switching and pulse code modulation; and the beginnings of fibre optics. Cutting across all these topics, the project will analyse Dollis Hill as a deep reservoir of skilled practice: its labs and workshops maintained huge expertise on materials and production processes - initially valves and crystals, later semiconductors and transistors. It will also explore the ways in which Dollis Hill was central to the British state's role as a provider of communications infrastructure both for public use and for national security purposes. Among the sources for this exciting PhD project are the BT Archives, which contain extensive Post Office records; the National Archives at Kew; and the telecommunications collections of the Science Museum. There will also be opportunities for oral history. Potential applicants may contact Dr. Jeff Hughes (jeff.hughes@manchester.ac.uk) for further information. How to Apply Applicants should have a good Master's degree (or equivalent) in history of science/technology or a related subject, and will need to satisfy AHRC academic and residency eligibility criteria. Applicants will also need to demonstrate a commitment to collaborative research with fellow PhD students, partner archives, museums and universities, and a willingness to engage with wider publics in sharing the results of their work. Applicants for either studentship should submit a curriculum vitae and a letter outlining qualifications and relevant experience for the studentship in the form of a single Word file no more than three pages in total. The names and contact details of two academic referees should also be supplied. Applications for the first studentship should be sent to g.j.n.gooday@leeds.ac.uk no later than 10 June 2013. Interviews are scheduled to be held in the Science Museum, London, on 10 July 2013. Applications for the second studentship should be sent to jeff.hughes@manchester.ac.uk no later than 10 June 2013. Interviews are scheduled to be held in the Science Museum, London, on 10 July 2013. Graeme Gooday, Professor of the History of Science and Technology Deputy 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=-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 C61F23BCB; Thu, 16 May 2013 07:29:35 +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 917B93B99; Thu, 16 May 2013 07:29:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C65813B4F; Thu, 16 May 2013 07:29:25 +0200 (CEST) Subject: 27.27 events: Da de Humanidades Digitales; Network Detroit From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130516052925.C65813B4F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 07:29:25 +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. 27, No. 27. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Nathan Kelber (45) Subject: Network Detroit: Digital Humanities Theory and Practice CFP [2] From: igalina (27) Subject: DíaHD: Día de Humanidades Digitales --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 10:21:59 -0400 From: Nathan Kelber Subject: Network Detroit: Digital Humanities Theory and Practice CFP Network Detroit: Digital Humanities Theory and Practice (September 27-28, 2013) at Lawrence Technological University will bring together Detroit-area digital humanities scholars. Partnering institutions include the Detroit Institute of Arts, The Henry Ford Museum, The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, the Detroit Historical Museum, and local universities, colleges, and community colleges. More than an academic conference, Network Detroit is a large-scale effort to build up southeastern Michigan’s humanities cyberinfrastructure and is intended to send out a call to action. The primary goals for Network Detroit are to create a census of Detroit-area digital humanities projects and to invite participants to think creatively about inter-institutional collaboration and resource pooling. For instance, we want to intensify focus on the place of digital methods in cultural heritage work, both in Detroit and throughout the state. We also want to create a conversation about what issues arise for digital humanists in this regional context. The keynote speaker for the event will be Ethan Watrall, the Associate Director of Michigan State University’s MATRIX: Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences and Director of the Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative. For more information, see the conference website: http://detroitdh.org We welcome proposals for individual papers, panels, posters, and workshops that focus on the digital humanities, especially regarding the cultural heritage of Detroit. Papers and posters may address, but are not limited to, the following topics and lines of inquiry: digital humanitiesdigital art humanities computing digital archiving career paths for digital humanists (universities, libraries, corporate, alt-ac) text analysis digital pedagogy (methods, gamification, content management systems, online learning) history of the book design thinking simulation game studies Abstracts can be submitted on the conference website: http://detroitdh.org The deadline is June 15, 2013. -- Nathan Kelber Ph.D. Candidate in English University of Maryland http://nkelber.com @nkelber on Twitter --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 14:25:43 +0000 From: igalina Subject: DíaHD: Día de Humanidades Digitales Dear All, Some of you may be interested in the following invitation to participate in DíaHD (Día de Humanidades Digitales) to be held on 10th of June 2013. Similarly to DayofDH the aim of the project is to document for one day what digital humanists do. This particular version focuses on digital humanists from the Portuguese and Spanish speaking countries or researchers from other parts of the world that work primarily in these languages. We hope to provide a forum that will help us identify digital humanists in these regions as well as providing them with the opportunity to share their work. DíaHD is organized by: CenterNet Humanidades Digitales Hispánicas. Sociedad Internacional (HDH) Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Red de Humanidades Digitales (RedHD) Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Humanidades Digitais, Universidade de São Paulo Please distribute as widely as possible. Isabel Galina (Red de Humanidades Digitales RedHD) -------- DíaHD Se convoca por primera vez el Día de las Humanidades Digitales. Inscríbanse antes del 10 de junio los interesados en proyectos en que concurren Humanidades y Cómputo en http://dhd2013.filos.unam.mx/ y participa. Un día en la vida de las Humanidades Digitales (Día HD) es un proyecto de publicación digital común abierta, que convoca a investigadores de todo el mundo interesados en las Humanidades Digitales (principalmente los que hablen o trabajen en español o portugués) para que documenten con texto e imagen (durante un día) las actividades que desarrollan. El objetivo del proyecto es ofrecer en un sitio web el panorama de la actividad desarrollada por los participantes congregados en el evento, de forma que se contribuya a dar respuesta a la pregunta: ¿qué es lo que hacen realmente los humanistas digitales? El proyecto se ha realizado en años anteriores en inglés, y este año se acomete la iniciativa en español y portugués. ¡Inscríbete en http://dhd2013.filos.unam.mx y participa! Síguenos en Twitter @Red_HD y #DiaHD. DíaHD es organizado por: CenterNet Humanidades Digitales Hispánicas. Sociedad Internacional (HDH) Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Red de Humanidades Digitales (RedHD) Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Humanidades Digitais, Universidade de São Paulo _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6D3713B66; Thu, 16 May 2013 07:50:03 +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 9238C3AFA; Thu, 16 May 2013 07:49:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4ED923AFA; Thu, 16 May 2013 07:49:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130516054953.4ED923AFA@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 07:49:53 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.28 apologies for an allergic reaction! X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 28. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 06:39:48 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: an allergic reaction to an accented character? Dear colleagues, You will have noticed, perhaps not for the first time, that Humanist's software has a problem with accented characters (even in the 28th year of Humanist, though the software is much younger). Humanist 27.27 demonstrates this problem. My apologies. (Do I apologise for software more than for any other kind of entity?) The problem is being investigated! 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 F0B1A3B66; Thu, 16 May 2013 10:46:50 +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 C45263AED; Thu, 16 May 2013 10:46:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B6C343AED; Thu, 16 May 2013 10:46:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130516084640.B6C343AED@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 10:46:40 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.29 the techno-sciences? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 29. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 09:33:02 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the techno-sciences Dear colleagues, I would like to get a more accurate sense than I have about our relationship to the techno-sciences both theoretically and practically. (I say "techno-sciences" rather than just "sciences" to include engineering and to give recognition to the fact that the sciences have been profoundly affected by computing; "science" I mean in the Anglo-American sense.) This is more than a question of whether individuals in this community have background in these sciences. Rather I am concerned with curiosity about, interest in, openness to scientific research, perhaps even alliances of digital humanities with one or more of the sciences. I'm aware that some of us in the humanities think that scientific sensibilities are anathema. Needless, I hope, to say, this is not my attitude, and not just because I began my life as a student in a physics department. The important matter to my mind is connecting with all disciplines to which we have a relation or potential relation. That means the social sciences as well. Do we not sit (or dance?) at the crossroads of techno-science and the humanities -- and the arts? For practical reasons, especially in the U.S., digital humanities has managed to get a foothold in the academy often via departments of English, which seem to be able to do just about anything and get away with it. But I think it would be good to consider from a more theoretical point of view where in the academy digital humanities might be located as an entity on equal footing with English, History et al. Not *within* a traditional department but *as* one. And as such does it belong institutionally among the humanities, or are there other trajectories beginning from different locations with different rationales? My sojourn among the roboticists recently provoked me to think of what might happen if an established technological area were to initiate a digital humanities department. This is not beyond the realm of possibility. 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 F0FC43C07; Fri, 17 May 2013 07:25:00 +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 AD9623BFE; Fri, 17 May 2013 07:24:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1742F3A3A; Fri, 17 May 2013 07:24:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130517052450.1742F3A3A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 07:24:49 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.30 geolocating & mapping 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. 27, No. 30. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Daniel O'Donnell (52) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.24 geolocating cultural products? [2] From: maurizio lana (37) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.23 mapping Transylvanian culture [3] From: maurizio lana (40) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.24 geolocating cultural products? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 07:52:49 -0600 From: Daniel O'Donnell Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.24 geolocating cultural products? In-Reply-To: <20130516052621.86CF83AEF@digitalhumanities.org> Would ArcticIQ be an example of what you mean? Part of that project has been mapping crowdsourced indigenous cultural knowledge. On 13-05-15 11:26 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 24. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 07:49:43 -0700 (PDT) > From: Karl Grossner > Subject: Re: Humanist Digest, Vol 56, Issue 13 > In-Reply-To: > > > I am very interested in the practice of "geolocating cultural products (rituals, traditions, words, > feasts/holidays, etc.)," particularly in categorizations of such activity. > > Can anyone give examples of where this has been done at regional, continental or global scale? > > Karl > >> Il 14/05/2013 07:29, Humanist Discussion Group ha scritto: >>> I am working on a collaborative project entitled "Application of >>> geocriticism in the humanities. Mapping Transylvanian cultural >>> representations". >> what exactly do you mean with "geocriticism"? >> do you mean geolocating "cultural products" (rituals, traditions, >> words, >> feasts/holidays, etc.) in order to be able to study them taking into >> account the geographical component? >> >> maurizio >> >>> We are very much interested in any opinion on this matter, >>> especially from >>> an e-pont of view. > ------------------ > Karl Grossner, PhD > Digital Humanities Research Developer > Stanford University Libraries > Stanford,CA US > karlg@stanford.edu > www.kgeographer.org --- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada +1 403 393-2539 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 17:09:35 +0200 From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.23 mapping Transylvanian culture In-Reply-To: <20130516052538.9443A3A97@digitalhumanities.org> Il 16/05/2013 07:25, Humanist Discussion Group ha scritto: > Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 09:39:02 +0300 > From: Corina Moldovan > Subject: Re: 27.21 mapping Transylvanian culture > In-Reply-To: <20130515053602.D5A5A3A4F@digitalhumanities.org> > > yes, we intend to find those cultural products that define in a symbolic way > Transylvania and create an interactive database. but we are very new in this > domain so we could use some help. i think then that it could be useful for you to know that my friends and colleagues piercarlo grimaldi of Università  di Scienze Gastronomiche (p.grimaldi@unisg.it) and davide porporato of Università  del Piemonte Orientale (davide.porporato@lett.unipmn.it) built the "atlante delle feste popolari del piemonte" (atlas of folk festivals) which is online at http://www.atlantefestepiemonte.it/ (you can go there, then to access the archive register as user and you can immediately start browsing; ... in italian). they have been searching, and describing, and videorecording folk festivals for many years, and geolocated them. their idea, and their realization of the idea is very important reference because its conceptual and technological framework can be adopted even for other cultures/regions. if you like to get in touch with them you can directly write them at the addresses above. 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 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 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 19:15:09 +0200 From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.24 geolocating cultural products? In-Reply-To: <20130516052621.86CF83AEF@digitalhumanities.org> Il 16/05/2013 07:26, Humanist Discussion Group ha scritto: > Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 07:49:43 -0700 (PDT) > From: Karl Grossner > Subject: Re: Humanist Digest, Vol 56, Issue 13 > In-Reply-To: > > > I am very interested in the practice of "geolocating cultural products (rituals, traditions, words, > feasts/holidays, etc.)," particularly in categorizations of such activity. > > Can anyone give examples of where this has been done at regional, continental or global scale? Corina, Karl, i think that a good example of geolocation of cultural products could be the "atlante delle feste popolari del piemonte" (atlas of folk festivals) which is online at http://www.atlantefestepiemonte.it/ (you can go there, then to access the archive register as user and you can immediately start browsing; ... in italian). my friends and colleagues Piercarlo Grimaldi of Università di Scienze Gastronomiche (p.grimaldi@unisg.it) and Davide Porporato of Università  del Piemonte Orientale (davide.porporato@lett.unipmn.it) have been building it in the last years. they have been searching, and describing, and videorecording folk festivals for many years, and geolocated them. their idea, and their realization of the idea is an important reference because its conceptual and technological framework can be adopted even for other cultures/regions. if you like to get in touch with them you can directly write them at the addresses above. maurizio -- saffo, Lobel-Page 147 ma io sono certa che qualcuno si ricorderà  di noi anche quando ce ne saremo andati ------- 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1081E3C0E; Fri, 17 May 2013 07:26:46 +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 421233C04; Fri, 17 May 2013 07:26:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 434243BF9; Fri, 17 May 2013 07:26:35 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130517052635.434243BF9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 07:26:35 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.31 techno-sciences & 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. 27, No. 31. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: marjorie.burghart@free.fr (4) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.29 the techno-sciences? [2] From: drwender@aol.com (3) Subject: Re: 27.29 the techno-sciences? [3] From: James Rovira (36) Subject: Re: 27.29 the techno-sciences? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 12:36:10 +0200 (CEST) From: marjorie.burghart@free.fr Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.29 the techno-sciences? In-Reply-To: <20130516084640.B6C343AED@digitalhumanities.org> > My sojourn among the roboticists recently provoked me to think of > what might happen if an established technological area were to initiate > a digital humanities department. This is not beyond the realm of possibility. Actually, this has already happened: the Swiss EPFL in Lausanne, a prestigious techno-science school, has had a Digital Humanities laboratory for a year or so: http://cdh.epfl.ch/digital --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 10:46:00 -0400 (EDT) From: drwender@aol.com Subject: Re: 27.29 the techno-sciences? In-Reply-To: <20130516084640.B6C343AED@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, I would compare DH with statistics: a chair for statistical methods might be useful in many departments, but in what faculty you'll locate a department to deal with 'theories and practices in statistics'? Surely not in a faculty for? social sciences - what I would see as analogous to the (dis)placement of 'digital humanities'? side by side literature & language studies. Yours, Herbert --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 11:24:01 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: 27.29 the techno-sciences? In-Reply-To: <20130516084640.B6C343AED@digitalhumanities.org> I think new disciplines tend to follow that trajectory -- they start out embedded in an established department, they move to a middle stage in which they share resources with a variety of departments, and then they become fully-fledged, independent departments with their own faculty. Film studies and women's studies tended to start in English and then move out of it in that way. Media studies at my last institution started out at phase two, with a department of two but many contributions of individual courses from faculty in other departments. Digital humanities can certainly follow this route. The question is -- do we want it to? Do we want DH work to be exclusive to DH departments? Why not stay with DH centers that serve all departments (of course these exist)? I think that's a better model, as it works on the basis of shared resources rather than competing for resources. The DH center can have its own faculty and tech people (but maybe fewer than if it were its own dept.), and concentrations in DH can be made available to all majors. The existence of a center wouldn't necessarily exclude the possibility of a DH degree, which would have to be highly interdisciplinary to begin with, but the core of the DH center could make up a separate DH department, part of whose mandate was to support the functioning of the center -- something like writing centers being run by English departments. Part of the problem with a completely separate DH dept. is that it needs art, English, history, philosophy, media studies, etc. -- so would we really want to have to replicate these resources just for a DH dept.? Wouldn't it be smarter to make DH the hub and departments the spokes? DH wouldn't have to be the only hub, of course. Jim R On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 4:46 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > For practical reasons, especially in the U.S., digital humanities has > managed to get a foothold in the academy often via departments of English, > which seem to be able to do just about anything and get away with it. > But I think it would be good to consider from a more theoretical point > of view where in the academy digital humanities might be located as an > entity on equal footing with English, History et al. Not *within* a > traditional department but *as* one. > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 714963C10; Fri, 17 May 2013 07:29:06 +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 DE3663C0D; Fri, 17 May 2013 07:28:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id F3AF43C04; Fri, 17 May 2013 07:28:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130517052855.F3AF43C04@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 07:28:55 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.32 events: DH Luxembourg 2013; iConference 2014 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 32. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Frédéric_Clavert (24) Subject: Digital Humanities Luxembourg (DHLU) 2013 [2] From: "Geoffrey C. Bowker" (17) Subject: CFP - iConference2014 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 14:01:50 +0200 From: Frédéric_Clavert Subject: Digital Humanities Luxembourg (DHLU) 2013 Dear all, The CVCE, together with the Jean Monnet Chair in History of European Integration (University of Luxembourg, FLSHASE) and its research programme ‘Digital Humanities Luxembourg’ — DIHULUX (research unit Identités-Politiques-Sociétés-Espaces (IPSE)) — and the University of Luxembourg’s Master’s in Contemporary European History, are pleased to organise the DHLU Symposium 2013. After the inaugural DHLU Symposium in 2009 that focused on ‘Contemporary history in the digital age’ and a second edition which tackled the methodological and theoretical implications of considering websites as primary sources (March 2012), this third edition will focus on the use of online thematic research corpora. Given that more and more sources for contemporary history are being made available online as digital research corpora — as on the CVCE’s site — and following on from the first two editions which examined the methods used to develop these sources, this third edition of Digital Humanities Luxembourg will focus on the various ways in which this material is used by humanities researchers, particularly contemporary historians and more specifically specialists in European integration. For more details: http://www.cvce.eu/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=9442e254-4547-4c27-b4af-d5a4742eef78&groupId=10136 Deadline for proposals is 20 August 2013. Best, Frédéric Clavert --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 10:38:00 -0700 From: "Geoffrey C. Bowker" Subject: CFP - iConference2014 Hi folks, This conference may be of interest - there's been an increasing amount of digital humanities work there - http://iconference.ischools.org/iConference14/2014index/. Also, we'll be hosting it in Irvine in 2k15 and I look forward to soliciting some strong tracks from this community, bestl Geoffrey C. Bowker Professor Director, Evoke Laboratory Department of Informatics Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine 6210 Donald Bren Hall Irvine, CA 92697-3425 http://www.ics.uci.edu/~gbowker http://evoke.ics.uci.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 7B5663C12; Fri, 17 May 2013 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 9F8873A1E; Fri, 17 May 2013 07:30:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 550093A3A; Fri, 17 May 2013 07:30:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130517053049.550093A3A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 07:30:49 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.33 pubs: Cambridge Research; D-Lib X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 33. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (34) Subject: University of Cambridge Research Horizons Magazine [2] From: Bonnie Wilson (49) Subject: The May/June 2013 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available. --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 09:48:08 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: University of Cambridge Research Horizons Magazine -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: University of Cambridge Research Horizons Magazine > Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 08:24:16 +0000 > From: Research Horizons Hello Please find attached the latest issue of the University of Cambridge's Research Horizons magazine. This issue we focus on *digital humanities* - how the digital revolution is offering new perspectives in humanities research, from GIS-enabled mapping of history and language change to cinematographic analysis of architecture and archaeology. Plus: -- How our academics are working with industry to create oral vaccines -- New research on helping computers find meaning -- The development of an artificial pancreas for patients with Type 1 diabetes We hope that you enjoy this issue. We're keen to hear what you think - do let us know by emailing research.horizons@admin.cam.ac.uk And if you would like to read more about the latest research, discoveries and innovations at the University of Cambridge, you can find many more news and feature articles, as well as audio and video, at our dedicated research website: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research Best wishes Louise Dr Louise Walsh Communications Officer - Research and Research Horizons Office of External Affairs and Communications The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street,Cambridge, CB2 1RP Tel: + 44 (0)1223 765443; Fax: + 44 (0)1223 330262; Email: louise.walsh@admin.cam.ac.uk www.cam.ac.uk/research/ *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1368694321_2013-05-16_willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk_18671.2.pdf --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 11:48:34 +0000 From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The May/June 2013 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available. Greetings: The May/June 2013 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains four 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 the Cornell University Law Library's Trial Pamphlets Collection. The articles include: NDSA Storage Report: Reflections on National Digital Stewardship Alliance Member Approaches to Preservation Storage Technologies By Micah Altman, MIT Libraries; Jefferson Bailey, Metropolitan New York Library Council; Karen Cariani, WGBH Media Library and Archives; Michelle Gallinger, Jane Mandelbaum, and Trevor Owens, Library of Congress Choosing a Sustainable Web Archiving Method: A Comparison of Capture Quality By Gabriella Gray and Scott Martin, UCLA Library A Model for Providing Web 2.0 Services to Cultural Heritage Institutions: The IMLS DCC Flickr Feasibility Study By Jacob Jett, Megan Senseney and Carole L. Palmer, University of Illinois Unlocking Open Educational Resources (OERs) Interaction Data By David Massart and Elena Shulman, ZettaDataNet, LLC The reports are: "Curate Thyself" and the DigCCurr Experts' Meeting: Communication, Collaboration, and Strategy in Digital Curation Education By Alex H. Poole, University of South Carolina at Chapel Hill Developing Cyberinfrastructure for Earth Science: an Opportunity for Collaboration By Sarah Ramdeen, University of North Carolina 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 May/June 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 2DAF83A3A; Sat, 18 May 2013 07:49:18 +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 CF3E23A15; Sat, 18 May 2013 07:49:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id ECCD92DAB; Sat, 18 May 2013 07:49:08 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130518054908.ECCD92DAB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 07:49:08 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.34 geolocating & mapping 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 34. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Douwe Zeldenrust (10) Subject: Re: 27.30 geolocating & mapping culture [2] From: "Charles Faulhaber" (25) Subject: RE: 27.30 geolocating & mapping culture --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 08:44:43 +0200 From: Douwe Zeldenrust Subject: Re: 27.30 geolocating & mapping culture In-Reply-To: <20130517052450.1742F3A3A@digitalhumanities.org> Maybe the databases of the Meertens Institute (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) could help. We study Dutch language and culture and almost all of our collections have a geocode: http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/cms/en/databases. Douwe Zeldenrust (MA) Coordinator Research Collections Meertens Institute - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Joan Muyskenweg 25 1096 CJ Amsterdam The Netherlands Contact information at: www.meertens.knaw.nl http://www.meertens.knaw.nl and www.douwezeldenrust.nl http://www.douwezeldenrust.nl --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 10:30:17 -0700 From: "Charles Faulhaber" Subject: RE: 27.30 geolocating & mapping culture In-Reply-To: <20130517052450.1742F3A3A@digitalhumanities.org> I would suggest that you take a look at the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (EDCAI) http://www.ecai.org/ Charles Faulhaber UC Berkeley On 13-05-15 11:26 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 24. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 07:49:43 -0700 (PDT) > From: Karl Grossner > Subject: Re: Humanist Digest, Vol 56, Issue 13 > > > I am very interested in the practice of "geolocating cultural products > (rituals, traditions, words, feasts/holidays, etc.)," particularly in categorizations of such activity. > > Can anyone give examples of where this has been done at regional, continental or global scale? > > Karl > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4E5E43A5F; Sat, 18 May 2013 07:50:12 +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 765C43A59; Sat, 18 May 2013 07:50:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 24D723A3A; Sat, 18 May 2013 07:50:02 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130518055002.24D723A3A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 07:50:02 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.35 techno-sciences & 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. 27, No. 35. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 11:15:31 +0200 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: Re: 27.31 techno-sciences & digital humanities In-Reply-To: <20130517052635.434243BF9@digitalhumanities.org> Le 17 mai 2013 à 07:26, Humanist Discussion Group a écrit : > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 31. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: marjorie.burghart@free.fr (4) > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.29 the techno-sciences? > > [2] From: drwender@aol.com (3) > Subject: Re: 27.29 the techno-sciences? > > [3] From: James Rovira (36) > Subject: Re: 27.29 the techno-sciences? > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 12:36:10 +0200 (CEST) > From: marjorie.burghart@free.fr > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.29 the techno-sciences? > In-Reply-To: <20130516084640.B6C343AED@digitalhumanities.org> > >> My sojourn among the roboticists recently provoked me to think of >> what might happen if an established technological area were to initiate >> a digital humanities department. This is not beyond the realm of possibility. > > Actually, this has already happened: the Swiss EPFL in Lausanne, a prestigious techno-science school, has had a Digital Humanities laboratory for a year or so: http://cdh.epfl.ch/digital > Thank you to Marjorie for this important reminder! Indeed, there is an emergent tradition in Switzerland to work from techno-sciences and from Humanities /Social Sciences around DH ideas, metholodologies and tools. We can signal the DHLab Basel, who works since several years in this sense (www.dhlab.unibas.ch), and also the common activities between the DHLab EPFL and the LADHUL (DH laboratory at the University of Lausanne), who share a common blog (dhlausanne.ch), as well as the co-organisation of the DH 2014. Claire Clivaz, Lausanne _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6D7AA3BF8; Sat, 18 May 2013 07:51:01 +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 030F03A93; Sat, 18 May 2013 07:50:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1C4DF3A10; Sat, 18 May 2013 07:50:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130518055051.1C4DF3A10@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 07:50:51 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.36 British academics' use of digital 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. 27, No. 36. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 13:06:51 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: British academics' use of digital tools Chronicle of Higher Education May 16, 2013 Survey Examines British Academics' Use of Digital Tools in Research and Teaching By Aisha Labi British scholars continue to rely largely on traditional channels of communication, including peer-reviewed journals and monographs, despite a growing emphasis on the use of social media and blogs for obtaining or disseminating scholarly information. They also still look primarily to their institutional libraries to provide them with the articles and books they use for research and teaching, even if they do not necessarily spend time in the physical buildings where the resources are housed. [for more see http://chronicle.com/article/Survey-Examines-British/139291/?cid=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 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 6E2113C13; Sat, 18 May 2013 07:55:27 +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 040F03A3A; Sat, 18 May 2013 07:55:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 71FED2DAB; Sat, 18 May 2013 07:55:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130518055517.71FED2DAB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 07:55:17 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.37 events: telecommunications; complex networks; annotation; programming; 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. 27, No. 37. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Maximilian Schich (34) Subject: CONF: Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks @ NetSci2013 [2] From: "Munson, Matthew" (30) Subject: 2013 DARIAH-DE International Digital Humanities Summer School [3] From: Wim Van-Mierlo (38) Subject: FW: Symposium on Scholarly Editing and Archival Research; Call for Papers -- Abstracts due 5/31/13; Conference 9/26/13 [4] From: Graeme Gooday (60) Subject: University of Leeds, Interpreting Telecommunications in the Great War: A workshop for museum interpreters, archivists and historians - Registration now open [5] From: Elisabeth Burr (134) Subject: DH-CASE 2013. Call for papers --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 02:00:29 -0500 From: Maximilian Schich Subject: CONF: Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks @ NetSci2013 Dear all, REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN at http://ahcn2013.eventbrite.com/for Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks -- 4th Leonardo satellite symposium at NetSci2013 on Tuesday, June 4, 2013 at DTU Copenhagen, Denmark. featuring keynotes by Denny Vrandec(ic' (Wikimedia Foundation, Germany), Paolo Ciuccarelli (DensityDesign, Italy), Scot Gresham-Lancaster (The Hub, USA), and contributions by Doron Goldfarb et al. (Austria), Emoke-Agnes Horvat et al. (Germany), Marnix van Berchum (The Netherlands), Bruno Mesz (Argentina), Santiago Ortiz (Colombia), Ruth Ahnert (UK), Thomas Lombardi (USA), and François-Joseph Lapointe (Canada). We had a new record acceptance rate of 14.5%. Attending the symposium is free of charge, but requires registration. Tickets are given out in a first come, first serve basis, to both NetSci2013 main conference attendees as well as external guests. Please be aware that registration MAY FILL UP FAST. Please also note that we partner with an associated evening event below. FOR THE FULL PROGRAMM and more information on our symposium, including the Book of Abstracts and an introductory video, please go to http://artshumanities.netsci2013.net http://artshumanities.netsci2013.net/ Right after our symposium at 19:00, Leonardo/OLATS and the Copenhagen Medical Museion partner to present László Barabási, François-Joseph Lapointe, Annamaria Carusi, and Jamie Allen to discuss "The Data Body on the Dissection Table". Refreshments will be provided. Please register separately at http://medm.us/databody PLEASE ALSO CHECK OUT OUR COMPANION WEBSITE with a collection of past abstracts, videos, links to our ongoing Special Section in Leonardo Journal, and our evolving eBook at MIT-Press athttp://ahcncompanion.info/ PLEASE SPREAD THE MESSAGE! Enthusiastic and curious to see you in Copenhagen, The Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks organizers, Maximilian Schich, Roger Malina, Isabel Meirelles, and Annick Bureaud artshumanities.netsci@gmail.com --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 11:04:41 +0200 From: "Munson, Matthew" Subject: 2013 DARIAH-DE International Digital Humanities Summer School Dear Humanists, The Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities at the University of Göttingen, Germany, is please to host the 2013 DARIAH-DE International Digital Humanities Summer School. This summer school will be a one-week crash course in using the scripting language Python and its Natural Language Toolkit to perform in-depth computational analysis of digital texts. The summer school will take place between August 19-23, 2013. The instructors will be Mike Kestemont http://www.mike-kestemont.org/ from the University of Antwerp and Lars Wieneke http://www.cvce.eu/le-cvce/equipe/lars_wieneke from the CVCE http://www.cvce.eu/ . The summer school is aimed primarily at Ph.D. and post-doctoral researchers and others with advanced knowledge of humanities research. The language of instruction and discussion will be English. More information on the summer school and information on how to apply can be found here: http://www.gcdh.de/en/events/calendar-view/2013-dariah-de-international-digit al-humanities-summer-school/. That is a long URL but hopefully one that will make Willard happy. We hope to hear from you soon! Best, Matt Munson --- Matthew Munson Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (GCDH) Papendiek 16 37073 Göttingen GERMANY +49 (0)551-39-10 997 www: http://www.gcdh.de/en/people/team/matthew_munson/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 08:29:52 +0000 From: Wim Van-Mierlo Subject: FW: Symposium on Scholarly Editing and Archival Research; Call for Papers -- Abstracts due 5/31/13; Conference 9/26/13 > From: lisamaruca@gmail.com [mailto:lisamaruca@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Lisa Maruca > Sent: 16 May 2013 20:27 > To: sharp-l@list.indiana.edu > Subject: [SHARP-L] Fwd: Symposium on Scholarly Editing and Archival Research; Call for Papers -- Abstracts due 5/31/13; Conference 9/26/13 Dear SHARPists, Please consider participating and attending the Wayne State University Symposium on Scholarly Editing and Archival Research. All are welcome. Full details are at the website: http://www.wsuscholarlyediting.org The call for papers is reprinted below. Abstracts are due May 31, 2013, and our conference will take place on Thursday, September 26, 2013 at the Walter P. Reuther Library. Our keynote speakers will be Peter Quartermain, editor of Robert Duncan's Collected Early Poems and Plays (2012), and Collected Later Poems and Plays (currently in production), and Martha Nell Smith, Founding Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland, College Park and a leading Emily Dickinson scholar. Full biographical statements for these wonderful speakers are available at the conference website. Please also feel free to forward this announcement in your academic networks. We anticipate having the program ready by July 15, 2013. Hope to see you there! Lisa Lisa Maruca Associate Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies Associate Professor Department of English 5057 Woodward Ave., Suite 9408 Wayne State University Detroit, MI 48202 313.577.7694 Call for Papers The Wayne State University Symposium on Scholarly Editing and Archival Research is an interdisciplinary conference inviting new perspectives on current practices in the editing and presentation of literary texts in all media. The symposium will take place at Wayne State University at the McGregor Memorial Conference Center on Thursday, September 26, 2013. All events are free and open to the public. In what ways do opportunities made possible by digital environments inform editorial choices for both screen and page? How has archival research been affected by digital tools? What new literary, hermeneutic, and scholarly projects are now possible? To what degree do new approaches and methods of editing texts challenge existing narratives of criticism and literary history? We invite abstracts of no more than 500 words on these subjects as well as the following broad topics: Literary publishing and branding Digital archives Archival research Scholarly editing Canons and canonicity Literary reception Textual aesthetics Digital poetics Please send your abstract, contact information, and a brief c.v. by May 31st to: Caroline Maun, Associate Professor Department of English Wayne State University caroline.maun@wayne.edu Or, use the form on the website to send in your materials. Be sure to indicate any audio visual needs you anticipate. All events are free and open to the public. We request registration of all attendees, available at the conference website. The Wayne State University Symposium on Scholarly Editing and Archival Research is supported by a Research Enhancement in the Arts and Humanities Grant from the Office of the Vice President for Research, the WSU Humanities Center Working Group on the History of the Book, and the Department of English at Wayne State University. --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 15:18:20 +0100 From: Graeme Gooday Subject: University of Leeds, Interpreting Telecommunications in the Great War: A workshop for museum interpreters, archivists and historians - Registration now open Interpreting Telecommunications in the Great War: A workshop for museum interpreters, archivists and historians Supported by the AHRC-funded project: Innovating in Combat: telecommunications and intellectual property in the First World War Centre for History & Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds, in partnership with the Museum of History of Science, University of Oxford Friday 28 June 2013 9am - 4.30pm Online registration now available at http://blogs.mhs.ox.ac.uk/innovatingincombat/events/workshop-28-june-registration/ Please note: advance registration is essential for this event. Programme 9.00-9.15: Arrivals, Coffee and Tea. 9.15-9.30: WELCOME Elizabeth Bruton and Graeme Gooday, University of Leeds Project overview including development of educational resources; introduction to project partners 9.30-11.00: RESEARCH Charlotte Connelly, Science Museum Recent research on the effects of wartime radio training on the later amateur radio movement Phil Judkins, University of Buckingham Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies Before Dawn: Air Defence and Telecommunications during World War One John Moyle and Graeme Gooday, University of Leeds Major Fuller and the Fortunes of War: The development of the Fullerphone during World War One Followed by 15 minutes discussion 10.30-11.00: Tea and coffee 11.00-1.00: EXHIBITIONS AND PLANNING Anne Locker, Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) archives General update on the IET archive's plans for the First World War centenary and some preliminary findings Charlotte Dando, Porthcurno Telegraph Museum, Cornwall Plans to rebuild a World War One memorial to those of the telegraph companies that gave their lives during the Great War Stephen Johnson, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford Plans for an exhibition about Henry Moseley and soldier-scientists in the First World War Kate Vigurs, Legacies of War, University of Leeds Overview of the Legacies of War project at the University of Leeds Adam Walsh, Royal Engineers Museum and Archives Royal Engineers Museum and Archives' plan for the World War One centenary David Hay, British Telecom (BT) archives BT archival sources have that are being digitised under BT archive's Coventry/TNA project launched and available online this summer. Claire Jones, University of Leeds HSTM Museum Public engagement experiences and how this might translate to WWI Followed by 15 minutes discussion 1.00-2.00: Lunch 2.00-3.30: ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION, chaired by Richard Noakes, University of Exeter 3.30-4.00: Tea and coffee 4.00-4.30: Closing remarks Please send all enquiries to Elizabeth Bruton E.m.bruton@leeds.ac.uk Graeme Gooday, Professor of the History of Science and Technology Deputy 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 - Elizabeth Bruton Postdoctoral Researcher, "Innovating in Combat: telecommunications and intellectual property in the First World War", University of Leeds and the Museum of History of Science, Oxford e: E.M.Bruton@leeds.ac.uk w: http://leeds.academia.edu/ElizabethBruton / http://twitter.com/lizbruton --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 16:55:02 +0200 From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: DH-CASE 2013. Call for papers 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 ---------- 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/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 771B65EDB; Sat, 18 May 2013 07:59:07 +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 C81A25EA9; Sat, 18 May 2013 07:58:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8CBC43BF8; Sat, 18 May 2013 07:58:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130518055856.8CBC43BF8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 07:58:56 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.38 pubs: editing & training of publishers cfp; Queen Victoria's Journals editathon X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 38. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Elizabeth McCarthy" (51) Subject: Queen Victoria's Journals Editathon [2] From: Maria Bonn (50) Subject: Call for papers: special issue of Journal of Electronic Publishing --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 11:26:33 +0100 From: "Elizabeth McCarthy" Subject: Queen Victoria's Journals Editathon Hi all- Just thought this might be of interest to some list members (see below), both subject-wise and in terms of engaging with Wikipedia. If you're not in the UK, you're welcome to participate virtually! Please share where appropriate, and feel free to get in touch directly with any questions. Liz Liz McCarthy Communications and Social Media Officer Bodleian Libraries Tel: 01865 277230 Working Days: Monday, Thursday, Friday afternoon Twitter: @bodleianlibs | Facebook: www.facebook.com/bodleianlibraries elizabeth.mccarthy@bodleian.ox.ac.uk Interested in Queen Victoria or Victorian history? Become a Wikipedia Editor for a day The Bodleian Libraries are organising a Wikipedia editathon focusing on the Queen Victoria's Journals online resource (www.queenvictoriasjournals.org ). The Libraries have been a part of a project to transcribe and digitise Queen Victoria's Journals, which detail household and family matters, as well as affairs of state, meetings with statesmen and other eminent figures and the literature of the day. The journals website will be made available for free global use for a limited time to coincide with the anniversary of Queen Victoria's birthday on 24 May. We are running an editing session in Oxford, bringing together contributors while also encouraging virtual editing for those outside the city. The session is intended to improve the coverage of individuals and events mentioned by Queen Victoria in her journals. The day will include a short talk and a tour through the online resource from the Queen Victoria's Journals project staff. To sign up and get more details please visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_University_of_Oxford /QueenVictoriasJournals or email communications@bodleian.ox.ac.uk. * Date: Friday 24 May 2013, 1pm-4pm * Venue: Training Room, Radcliffe Science Library, Oxford (directions http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/science/contact ) * Participants: All welcome! Experience is encouraged, but basic editing information will be available. * Registration: Please sign up at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_University_of_Oxford /QueenVictoriasJournals * Cost: Free! * Contacts: Any questions? Please contact communications@bodleian.ox.ac.uk --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 09:00:33 -0400 From: Maria Bonn Subject: Call for papers: special issue of Journal of Electronic Publishing The Journal of Electronic Publishing (JEP) (http://journal ofelectronicpublishing.org) is seeking submissions for a special issue on education and training for 21st century publishers. The special issue is scheduled for publication in late 2013. It will be edited by Maria Bonn, former Associate University Librarian for Publishing, University of Michigan, and contributing editor to JEP. The editor’s goal for the issue is to address questions such as: -What are the skills and areas of expertise necessary to succeed in contemporary publishing? -How does this skill set relate to the skill set required by earlier, print-only publishing? -Where are these skills best obtained (e.g., through “on the job” training or through pre-professional education)? -Where is the ideal location for pre-professional training? -How well do contemporary training programs prepare prospective publishing employees for the job market? JEP welcomes both formal research articles and personal perspectives. In the latter case, for this issue. the editor seeks articles representing the perspectives of those just entering the field and of hiring supervisors, as well as those engaged in publishing education. All JEP articles are reviewed by the issue editor, with the assistance of the editorial staff and the editorial board. Peer review for JEP articles is arranged at the request of article authors. Peer reviewed articles are clearly identified in the publication and the “peer reviewed publication” status is recorded in the article metadata. Article submissions are welcome any time, but the editor is attempting to secure commitments for the entire issue by July 31, 2013. Those who wish to discuss article ideas may submit queries to Maria directly at mbonn@umich.edu. Prospective articles may be submitted to jep-info@umich.edu. Please see submission guidelines at http://www.journalofelectronicpublishing.org/submit.html. About JEP: The Journal of Electronic Publishing (JEP) is a forum for research and discussion about contemporary publishing practices, and the impact of those practices upon users. Our contributors and readers are publishers, scholars, librarians, journalists, students, technologists, attorneys, and others with an interest in the methods and means of contemporary publishing. At its inception in January 1995, JEP carved out an important niche by recognizing that print communication was in the throes of significant change, and that digital communication would become an important—and in some cases predominant—means for transmitting published information. JEP aspires to document changes in publishing, and in some cases to stimulate and shape the direction of those changes. The articles present innovative ideas, best practices, and leading-edge thinking about all aspects of publishing, authorship, and readership. The editor and publisher are committed to presenting wide-ranging and diverse viewpoints on contemporary publishing practices, and to encouraging dialogue and understanding between key decision-makers in publishing and those who are affected by the decisions being made. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7504A3A0E; Sun, 19 May 2013 07:37:00 +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 668042DAB; Sun, 19 May 2013 07:36:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0B2022D8F; Sun, 19 May 2013 07:36:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130519053641.0B2022D8F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 07:36:40 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.39 British and German academics' use of digital tools X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 39. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 19:29:35 +0200 From: Thomas.Gloning@germanistik.uni-giessen.de Subject: 3. 27.36 British academics' use of digital tools In-Reply-To: > Chronicle of Higher Education > May 16, 2013 > > Survey Examines British Academics' Use of Digital Tools in Research and > Teaching > By Aisha Labi > > British scholars continue to rely largely on traditional channels of > communication, (...) Comments? > > Yours, > WM This is more or less what we found in an investigation on German research communities published here: http://geb.uni-giessen.de/geb/volltexte/2012/8539/ Bader, Anita; Fritz, Gerd; Gloning, Thomas: Digitale Wissenschaftskommunikation 2010-2011: Eine Online-Befragung. Gieߟen: GEB 2012. All best, Thomas _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7A2F43A24; Sun, 19 May 2013 07:38:14 +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 2DB883A0F; Sun, 19 May 2013 07:38:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 08DCD2DAB; Sun, 19 May 2013 07:38:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130519053804.08DCD2DAB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 07:38:03 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.40 geolocating & mapping 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 40. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 10:20:04 +0300 From: Corina Moldovan Subject: Re: 27.34 geolocating & mapping culture In-Reply-To: <20130518054908.ECCD92DAB@digitalhumanities.org> Thank you all for the suggestions, they are excellent. It is amazing how almost nothing was done till now in Romania in the Digital Humanities. I am thrilled about building the project and I hope I will have the opportunity to study further on this domain, maybe a PHD, although I already have one in Philology, which I teach at Cluj University in Transylvania. Academic teaching is still very classic here and learning more on DH maybe will open the possibility of a major change in the curricula. Our project is supported by a consortium of 2 universities and 2 software firms ( we intend to create smatphone applications too). I am looking forward for more ideas Yours Corina _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0C3AE3A75; Mon, 20 May 2013 07:11:58 +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 135CD39EC; Mon, 20 May 2013 07:11:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9D4992E04; Mon, 20 May 2013 07:11:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130520051138.9D4992E04@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 07:11:38 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.41 British and German academics' use of digital tools X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 41. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (61) Subject: Re: 3. 27.36 British academics' use of digital tools [2] From: Joris van Zundert (88) Subject: Re: 27.39 British and German academics' use of digital tools [3] From: John Levin (54) Subject: Re: 27.36 British academics' use of digital tools --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 06:57:27 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Re: 3. 27.36 British academics' use of digital tools In-Reply-To: <20130518192935.200771cu76r7wv84@webmail.hrz.uni-giessen.de> What gives me pause for thought is the implicit assumption of a moral imperative. Who asks what each medium is particularly good for rather than assuming we should move from one kind to another? But what makes the discussion complex is the interaction of two now simultaneous changes: the availability of various media, each with its own characteristics, and the radical increase of traditional publications available across the disciplines and the change in research practices that is following from that. Let me take up only the latter point. If exhaustive coverage is impossible in practice, then one turns to sampling. If one's research is lured into other disciplines by the likes of JSTOR et al, then to some degree, depending on the style of work and its aims, material from other disciplines will be used independently of the ruling consensus (to the degree there is one) in those other disciplines, which takes away a constraint. Then one is left with sampling governed only by the strength of the argument. I suppose that the adding-one-more-brick-to-the-wall understanding of what researchers do, the simplistic interpretation of standing on the shoulders of giants, if it ever made simple sense, no longer does. We speak, alas, so often like managers attempting to justify our sales strategy by the number of units sold. Even if this is required in order to satisfy our paymasters, can we not speak among ourselves like scholars? Can't this be (as children of multilingual parents say) our secret language? Comments? Yours, WM On 18/05/2013 18:29, Thomas.Gloning@germanistik.uni-giessen.de wrote: > >> Chronicle of Higher Education >> May 16, 2013 >> >> Survey Examines British Academics' Use of Digital Tools in Research and >> Teaching >> By Aisha Labi >> >> British scholars continue to rely largely on traditional channels of >> communication, (...) Comments? >> >> Yours, >> WM > > This is more or less what we found in an investigation on German > research communities published here: > > http://geb.uni-giessen.de/geb/volltexte/2012/8539/ > > Bader, Anita; Fritz, Gerd; Gloning, Thomas: Digitale > Wissenschaftskommunikation 2010-2011: Eine Online-Befragung. Gießen: > GEB 2012. > > All best, Thomas > > -- 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, 19 May 2013 11:02:38 +0200 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Re: 27.39 British and German academics' use of digital tools In-Reply-To: <20130519053641.0B2022D8F@digitalhumanities.org> Hi Willard, The German and UK report agree in much, and to me interestingly in any case on the point of academic risk and credit: "Dagegen gilt für viele Wissenschaftler die aktive Teilnahme an Diskussionen oder gar Kontroversen in digitalen Formaten (Mailinglists, Blogs, Open Peer Review) als wenig attraktiv, weil sie zeitintensiv und im Hinblick auf die Reputation auch risikoträchtig sein kann" sounds similar to "Teaching innovations seem to be left largely to the initiative of individual instructors, with just 15 percent reporting that their institution 'recognizes or rewards academic staff for taking the time to integrate new digital technology and pedagogies.'". Doing something out of the ordinary is risk full because it's not recognized and/or valued by the conventional means of rewarding and measuring academic output. Like I think Susan Schreibman said: for many it's hard to see how the engagement with digital information and means constitutes research. So, we're trying to teach dogs new tricks without biscuits, that's hard. In the English report the 'conservatism' monstrum rears its head again. The argument is usually something like: these academics are not using these wonderful analysis tools that are used by the cool new kids, they must be conservative. But in reality academics in the humanities are quite clever to judge that there still exists an enormous gap between current NLP/AI etc. tools and the critical and highly subtle hermeneutics we now use in e.g. history and literature research. Closing that gap is an exciting kind of research, but it doesn't yield production level tools yet. We're handing chiseling artists automated sledgehammers, that's destructive. 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. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 13:16:52 +0100 From: John Levin Subject: Re: 27.36 British academics' use of digital tools In-Reply-To: <20130518055051.1C4DF3A10@digitalhumanities.org> The report can be downloaded from: http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/5209/1/UK_Survey_of_Academics_2012_FINAL.pdf There is a blurb from JISC at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2013/05/jisc-rluk-ithaka-survey.aspx The most startling finding for me was: "Access limitations – While 86% of respondents report relying on their college or university library collections and subscriptions, 49% indicated that they would often like to use journal articles that are not in those collections. (Figure 19, page 37)" Certainly, I am often finding that my university doesn't have access to journals I need to see. This indicates that the current academic publishing model doesn't even work for academia. 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 5E9C33AA6; Mon, 20 May 2013 07:12:44 +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 EF46F3A5A; Mon, 20 May 2013 07:12:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 821C13A0C; Mon, 20 May 2013 07:12:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130520051233.821C13A0C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 07:12:33 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.42 geolocating & mapping 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 42. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 13:10:12 +0100 From: John Levin Subject: Re: 27.40 geolocating & mapping culture In-Reply-To: <20130519053804.08DCD2DAB@digitalhumanities.org> As an addendum to this thread on mapping, I've been compiling a list of academic, DH GIS projects: http://anterotesis.com/wordpress/dh-gis-projects/ Currently listing 98 projects; if anyone knows of any not listed, please do inform me. I'm writing an analysis of these projects, and the use of GIS in the digital humanities, but don't hold your breath waiting for it to be completed! 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 53A073AB9; Mon, 20 May 2013 07:13:17 +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 71C713A99; Mon, 20 May 2013 07:13:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4E03C3A75; Mon, 20 May 2013 07:13:08 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130520051308.4E03C3A75@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 07:13:08 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.43 new crowdsourcing/editing 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 43. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 17:35:12 +0000 From: "Schlitz, Stephanie" Subject: New Crowdsourcing/Editing Project I'm pleased to announce the launch of the Martha Berry Digital Archive (MBDA). An active, in-progress crowdsourcing project, MBDA enables participatory editing, community engagement, and citation of community member contributions. MBDA is built on and extends Omeka http://omeka.org . A very (very) lite technical overview can be found here; code for project-specific customizations and plugins is available on GitHub; and metadata is harvestable via OAI-PMH. The project is currently a Digital Library of Georgia http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/ (DLG) collection, and, through DLG, we anticipate MBDA will be accessible through the Digital Public Library of America as well. Please note that our work on MBDA is ongoing. We've quite a bit more to do, but we hope you'll visit the project at https://mbda.berry.edu and offer feedback. Your comments, suggestions, and participation are welcome and much appreciated. Please contact me (Stephanie Schlitz) at sschlitz@bloomu.edu to get in touch. 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 72F973AA6; Mon, 20 May 2013 07:14:08 +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 EAEC43A5A; Mon, 20 May 2013 07:13:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B69BD3A14; Mon, 20 May 2013 07:13:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130520051357.B69BD3A14@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 07:13:57 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.44 events: Reframing Popular Culture (London Seminar) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 44. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 21:32:38 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: London Seminar 23 May London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, Thursday 23 May, 17.30-19.30, institute of English Studies, Room 234, Senate House, University of London, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU Faith Lawrence (King’s College London): 'Reframing Popular Culture: Media Fannish Response From Slideshows to 'Mashups' The mash-up video rose to prominence as part of the web 2.0 remix ethos, but the roots of the phenomenon are much deeper. This talk will look at the history of "vidding" from its pre-digital origins in media fandom in the 1970s to highly technical works produced today. In doing so we will consider some of the significant contributions with the genre and look at how the narratives expressed in the works parallel and reflect on traditional literary tropes and motifs while offering and illustrating alternate readings. Examples will explore the multitude of ways the video creators - as audience - respond to, celebrate, deconstruct and reinterpret the narratives of popular culture across the decades and themselves in relation to them. Warning: this talk contains nudity/sexuality, violence, scenes which the viewer may find disturbing and 80s power ballads. Specific warnings will be given as appropriate during the course of the presentation. 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 523322D9E; Tue, 21 May 2013 07:17:52 +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 46FB22C95; Tue, 21 May 2013 07:17:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 879582CAD; Tue, 21 May 2013 07:17:39 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130521051739.879582CAD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 07:17:39 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.45 British and German academics' use of digital 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. 27, No. 45. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 10:38:21 +0100 From: Daniel Allington Subject: Re: 27.41 British and German academics' use of digital tools In-Reply-To: <20130520051138.9D4992E04@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard > > Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 06:57:27 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: Re: 3. 27.36 British academics' use of digital tools > In-Reply-To: <20130518192935.200771cu76r7wv84@webmail.hrz.uni-giessen.de> > > What gives me pause for thought is the implicit assumption of a moral > imperative. Who asks what each medium is particularly good for rather > than assuming we should move from one kind to another? But what makes > the discussion complex is the interaction of two now simultaneous > changes: the availability of various media, each with its own > characteristics, and the radical increase of traditional publications > available across the disciplines and the change in research practices > that is following from that. > Yes and yes. > Let me take up only the latter point. If exhaustive coverage is > impossible in practice, then one turns to sampling. If one's research is > lured into other disciplines by the likes of JSTOR et al, then to some > degree, depending on the style of work and its aims, material from other > disciplines will be used independently of the ruling consensus (to the > degree there is one) in those other disciplines, which takes away a > constraint. Absolutely. I remember an example from a book that came out a few years ago: the author gave an apparently definitive pronouncement on an area researched by a subdiscipline not his own, backing it up with a reference to a single article. What he didn't seem to have noticed was that - in recognition of how controversial that article was within its original academic context - it was followed in the physical edition of the journal issue in which it had appeared by response papers challenging many of its claims. Of course, one could read all of those challenges and still decide that the consensus was wrong, but this author took no account of them whatsoever, presumably not having come across them. I don't know for sure that he had encountered the article online, but it's an indication of what happens when one reads outside one's immediate area without making use of the more and less formal structures that exist to reflect how controversial or otherwise a particular statement actually is. There is a risk that this style of reading leads to academic works being viewed as free-floating, decontextualised collections of arguments, each of them capable of standing on its own. I wonder how many times I've misread articles by coming to them out of context in this way: parachuted by JSTOR into a conversation I hadn't been following, guided only by Google's hidden calculations with search terms and inward links. > ... > > We speak, alas, so often like managers attempting to justify our sales > strategy by the number of units sold. Even if this is required in order > to satisfy our paymasters, can we not speak among ourselves like > scholars? Can't this be (as children of multilingual parents say) our > secret language? > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM As you might expect, I can only agree: citations, downloads, unique hits, etc are clearly not the way we ought to value our own and one another's work. It's depressing enough to say 'this is four-star work', but 'this got 17 citations' and 'this was downloaded 38 times last month' are still more dismal forms of discourse. What you charmingly call 'our secret language' has to be protected from this sort of infiltration from above. I'm not entirely sure why, but my institutional repository circulates a regular 'top 20' of downloaded items (reminiscent of another kind of 'hits'), one year adding a top 20 of requested items as well. That time, I had the strange honour of having written the second most requested (not downloaded) item. It wasn't my best piece, and I'm not even sure it made sense outside the context of the edited collection I wrote it for. But it did have a trendy buzzword in the title. A repository probably needs to sell itself on numbers of downloads etc in order to justify its cost to the institution, but there's real danger in the temptation to appeal to the same sort of data in cases for promotion etc. best wishes Daniel Dr Daniel Allington Lecturer in English Language Studies Centre for Language and Communication The Open University www.danielallington.net -- 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 5CF8E3A28; Tue, 21 May 2013 07:19:37 +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 DABEB2DFB; Tue, 21 May 2013 07:19:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 995752CC7; Tue, 21 May 2013 07:19:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130521051927.995752CC7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 07:19:27 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.46 language in bondage X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 46. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 14:10:56 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: language in bondage Whether there exists a kinky computing doesn't matter. Camille Paglia's latest, "Scholars in Bondage: Dogma dominates studies of kink" (http://chronicle.com/article/Scholars-in-Bondage/139251/?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en), makes a point that I think we can all profit from, namely "provocative subjects... buried in a sludge of opaque theorizing... [and] squelched by the dreary protocols" of fashionable subjects. That bright light at the end of the dark tunnel is the antithesis coming at high speed. Just today I ran across a translation of Montaigne's Of the Education of Children and so found this description of the style of writing he most admired: > I want the substance to stand out, and so to fill the imagination of > the listener, that he will have no memory of the words. The speech I > love is a simple, natural speech, the same on paper as in the mouth; > a speech succulent and sinewy, brief and compressed, not so much > dainty and well-combed as vehement and brisk... rather difficult than > boring, remote from affectation, irregular, disconnected and bold; > each bit making a body in itself; not pedantic, not monkish, not > lawyer-like, but rather soldierly... 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 6F30F3A5A; Tue, 21 May 2013 07:20:58 +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 764873A0C; Tue, 21 May 2013 07:20:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 33CD82CDF; Tue, 21 May 2013 07:20:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130521052046.33CD82CDF@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 07:20:46 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.47 events: the material; a 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. 27, No. 47. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Cummings (48) Subject: Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School 2013 [2] From: Brian Rosenblum (67) Subject: Call For Papers Deadline June 1: Return to the Material, KU Digital Humanities Forum --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 16:21:49 +0100 From: James Cummings Subject: Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School 2013 Only a few weeks left to book! Places for this year's Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School are filling up already, so book your place soon! Visit http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2013/ for more information. If you are awaiting the results of local funding and want to to see whether your chosen workshop is almost full, email courses@it.ox.ac.uk to find out! ==== The Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS) is an annual event for anyone working in the Digital Humanities. This year's Summer School will be held on 8 - 12 July, at the University of Oxford. If you are a researcher, project manager, research assistant, or student of the Humanities, this is an opportunity for you to learn about the tools and methodology of digital humanities, 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. Visit http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2013/ for more information. With the Summer School's customisable schedule, you book on one of our five-day workshops, and supplement this by booking several guest lectures from experts in their fields. The main five-day workshops this year are: 1. Cultural Connections: exchanging knowledge and widening participation in the Humanities 2. How to do Digital Humanities: Discovery, Analysis and Collaboration 3. A Humanities Web of Data: publishing, linking and querying on the semantic web. 4. An Introduction to XML and the Text Encoding Initiative 5. An Introduction to XSLT for Digital Humanists 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 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. More details at: http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2013/ James Cummings, Director of DHOxSS -- Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings@it.ox.ac.uk Academic IT Services, University of Oxford --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 10:28:23 -0500 From: Brian Rosenblum Subject: Call For Papers Deadline June 1: Return to the Material, KU Digital Humanities Forum A reminder of the upcoming deadline for our Fall 2013 Digital Humanities Forum at the University of Kansas. Call For Papers submission deadline: June 1 2013 Digital Humanities Forum Return to the Material http://idrh.ku.edu/dhforum2013 University of Kansas September 12-14, 2013 * Thursday, September 12: Workshops * Friday, September 13: THATCamp Kansas * Saturday, September 14: Return to the Material conference Keynote speakers: Colin Allen, Indiana University Jentery Sayers, University of Victoria Whitney Trettien, Duke University With workshops by Colin Allen, Jentery Sayers, Whitney Trettien, Alex Gil, Matthew Jockers and others. 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; * New digital techniques in the making and exhibition of art; * 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. DH Forum best student paper award: Graduate students are encouraged to submit abstracts of papers or poster presentations. One student presentation will be selected for an award based on the quality, originality, clarity of the written abstract, along with its alignment with the DH Forum theme and expected future impact. The awardee will be presented with a check for $400 and award certificate at the conference. Students should identify themselves as such at the time of abstract submission to be considered for the award. For a paper to be eligible, at least fifty percent of the research reported in the paper must be performed by one or more student authors, and the student must be the primary presenter of the paper at the conference. Please submit abstracts of 500 words by June 1, 2013. For more information and to submit abstracts, please see: < http://idrh.ku.edu/dhforum2013> Questions may be directed to the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, idrh@ku.edu <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Brian Rosenblum Co-Director, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities Head, Center for Faculty Initiatives and Engagement 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 597023AD9; Tue, 21 May 2013 07:21:28 +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 0DA013A82; Tue, 21 May 2013 07:21:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 206FD3A82; Tue, 21 May 2013 07:21:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130521052118.206FD3A82@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 07:21:17 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.48 pubs: LLC 28.2 (June 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. 27, No. 48. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 14:44:32 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Literary and Linguistic Computing 28.2 (June 2013) Literary and Linguistic Computing Special Issue Digital Humanities 2011: Big Tent Digital Humanities Vol. 28, No. 2 June 2013 http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/28/2?etoc ----------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction ----------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction Katherine Walter 189 http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/28/2/189.extract.html?etoc ----------------------------------------------------------------- Original Articles ----------------------------------------------------------------- The text-image-link-editor: A tool for linking facsimiles and transcriptions, and image annotations Yahya Ahmed Ali Al-Hajj and Marc Wilhelm Küster 190-198 http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/28/2/190.abstract.html?etoc Challenging new views on familiar plotlines: A discussion of the use of XML in the development of a scholarly tool for literary pedagogy Monica Brown, Teresa Dobson, Dustin Grue, and Stan Ruecker 199-208 On the term ‘textÂ’ in digital humanities Paul Caton 209-220 The Tesserae Project: intertextual analysis of Latin poetry Neil Coffee, Jean-Pierre Koenig, Shakthi Poornima, Christopher W. Forstall, Roelant Ossewaarde, and Sarah L. Jacobson 221-228 Do birds of a feather really flock together, or how to choose training samples for authorship attribution Maciej Eder and Jan Rybicki 229-236 Reading practices and digital experiences: An investigation into secondary studentsÂ’ reading practices and XML-markup experiences of fiction Dustin Grue, Teresa M. Dobson, and Monica Brown 237-248 Documenting horizons of interpretation in philosophy Ernesto Priani Saisó, Leticia Flores Farfán, Isabel Galina, Rafael Gómez Choreño, and Marat Ocampo Gutiérrez de Velasco 249-256 Discovering land transaction relations from land deeds of Taiwan Shih-Pei Chen, Yu-Ming Huang, Jieh Hsiang, Hsieh-Chang Tu, Hou-Ieong Ho, and Ping-Yen Chen 257-270 Visualization of relationships among historical persons from Japanese historical documents Fuminori Kimura, Takahiko Osaki, Taro Tezuka, and Akira Maeda 271-278 Omeka in the classroom: The challenges of teaching material culture in a digital world Allison C. Marsh 279-282 Supporting exploratory text analysis in literature study Aditi Muralidharan and Marti A. Hearst 283-295 Towards a digital research environment for Buddhist studies Kiyonori Nagasaki, Toru Tomabechi, and Masahiro Shimoda 296-300 Interactive layout analysis, content extraction, and transcription of historical printed books using Pattern Redundancy Analysis Jean-Yves Ramel, Nicolas Sidère, and Frédéric Rayar 301-314 Automatic extraction of catalog data from digital images of historical manuscripts Roni Shweka, Yaacov Choueka, Lior Wolf, and Nachum Dershowitz 315-330 A trip around the world: Accommodating geographical, linguistic and cultural diversity in academic research teams Lynne Siemens and Elisabeth Burr 331-343 Layer on layer. ‘Computational archaeologyÂ’ in 15th-century Middle Dutch historiography Rombert J. Stapel 344-358 Names in novels: An experiment in computational stylistics Karina van Dalen-Oskam 359-370 -- 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 96DB43A4F; Tue, 21 May 2013 12:52:35 +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 3DD7F2DFB; Tue, 21 May 2013 12:52:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7982D2DB1; Tue, 21 May 2013 12:52:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130521105231.7982D2DB1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 12:52:31 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.49 Professor of Digital Humanities appointed 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 49. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 11:42:52 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Professor of Digital Humanities appointed at Western Sydney UWS appoints Australia's first Professor in Digital Humanities The University of Western Sydney has appointed Australia's first Professor in Digital Humanities. Professor Paul Arthur takes up the new position in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts. Professor Arthur will lead the Digital Humanities Research Group at the UWS Parramatta campus, a new group concerned with the intersection of computing and the humanities. "Professor Paul Arthur has been at the forefront on developing digital humanities in Australia, and UWS is very pleased that we have been able to appoint him to the inaugural chair in this field nationally," says Professor Peter Hutchings, Dean of the UWS School of Humanities and Communication Arts. "Humanities researchers are taking increasing advantage of digital resources, tools and methods to explore new and different kinds of research questions by drawing on the increasing large data sets that are part of contemporary life. The digital realm is also becoming a place for the preservation of fragile cultural heritage, and Professor Arthur and the Digital Humanities Research group will be at the forefront of this exciting new time for humanities researchers." Professor Arthur is inaugural President of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities, and a member of the steering committee of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations and executive council of centerNet, the international network of digital humanities centres. He also serves on the executive committee of the International Auto/Biography Association, the advisory board of the Australasian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres, and the project board of the Australian Government NeCTAR Super Science initiative. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Professor Arthur has over fifty publications in fields of history, literature, communication and cultural studies. Professor Arthur is currently the Deputy Director of the Australian National University's Centre for European Studies, a joint-funded special initiative of the European Commission and the ANU. Since 2010 Professor Arthur has been Deputy Director of the National Centre of Biography, ANU, and Deputy General Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography. He has held fellowships in Australia, Europe and North America. Professor Arthur is founding editor of the Anthem book series Scholarship in the Digital Age (Anthem Press, London and New York) and an editorial board member of LLC: The International Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (Oxford University Press). Professor Arthur's appointment and creation of the Research Group in Digital Humanities follow work since 2010 by Professors Willard McCarty and Harold Short in developing digital humanities at UWS. They have worked closely with colleagues not only in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts but also in the Institute of Culture and Society, the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics and more widely across the University. The initiative was begun by former Deputy Vice Chancellor Professor Wayne McKenna. -- 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 A09AE3B00; Wed, 22 May 2013 08:45:23 +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 0D22F3AEC; Wed, 22 May 2013 08:45:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 398A33AC4; Wed, 22 May 2013 08:45:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130522064513.398A33AC4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 08:45:13 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.50 essay 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. 27, No. 50. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 16:57:24 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Global Digital Humanities Essay Competition (Abstracts Due June 30, 2013) In-Reply-To: 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 BEE5F3AD9; Wed, 22 May 2013 08:49:28 +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 03A1C3AC1; Wed, 22 May 2013 08:49:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C11A83AC5; Wed, 22 May 2013 08:49:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130522064917.C11A83AC5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 08:49:17 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.51 events: libraries; filmic texts; showcase X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 51. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Stéfan Sinclair (27) Subject: Montreal DH Showcase 2013 [2] From: (23) Subject: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries [3] From: I-CHASS (15) Subject: Presentation May 23, 2013 | Filmic Texts, Future Texts: From Keywords to Keyframes --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 12:21:49 -0400 From: Stéfan Sinclair Subject: Montreal DH Showcase 2013 Dear colleagues, A last-minute reminder about an informal DH show-and-tell event at McGill featuring a lot of variety – please join us if you can! Montreal Digital Humanities Showcase 2013 Wednesday May 22nd from 1-5pm in Leacock 232 (McGill) Montreal has a vibrant and growing community of researchers exploring how digital technologies and methodologies are reshaping the humanities. They’re building tools, digitizing content, and pushing the boundaries of what it is to do humanities research in a digital world. The 2013 Showcase will highlight some of their work. Presentations begin at 1pm. Here’s our preliminary schedule: Welcome – Stéfan Sinclair (McGill) Scripting and Document Management – Daniel Simeone (McGill) Mapping Physician Immigration – David Wright, Gregory Marks & Johanna Bleecker (McGill) Digital Hume: Using textual analysis tools to mine an author’s canon of works – Greg Bouchard (McGill) Environmental Humanities Database – Veronica Poplawski (McGill) The McGill Library and Digital Humanities – Amy Buckland & Ed Bilodeau (McGill) Jean-Guy Meunier (UQaM) Foucault and Digital Research – Marc Djaballah (UQaM) Internships in Computer-Assisted Reading and Text Analysis – Louis Chartrand & Mohammed Chahid (UQaM) Painting Magritte with Words – Louis Chartrand (UQaM) ELVIS – Julie Cumming (McGill) Jo-Ann Levesque (McGill) Introducing the Virtual Textile Project – Catherine Bradley, Peter Davoust & Matthew Milner (McGill) Disseminating Humanities Data using RDF – Matthew Milner (McGill) Building a visualization tool for IRC logs analysis – Stéphane Couture (McGill) -- Stéfan Sinclair, Associate Professor of Digital Humanities Office 341, Languages, Literatures & Cultures, McGill University 688 Sherbrooke St. W, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 3R1 Tel. (1) 514-398-4400 x094950 http://stefansinclair.name/ (Twitter: @sgsinclair) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 03:31:54 +0300 From: Subject: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries Dear colleagues, It is a pleasure to announce you the Programme of the 5th QQML conference that is located at the conference website: http://www.isast.org/programplenarysession.html. We look forward to welcoming delegates, speakers and distinguished guests from 65 countries. Delegates have the opportunity to meet and interact with Library Researchers and Professionals and create networks which may lead to future collaborations and exchanges. See you in Rome, 4-7 June, 2013, 5th QQML! Anthi Katsirikou Librarian, PhD, MSc QQML Conference co-chair Director, University of Piraeus Library Coordinator of European Documentation Centers in Greece Adjunct Lecturer at TEI of Athens Member of the Board of the Association of Greek Librarians and Information Professionals http://www.isast.org/ http://www.isast.org Fax 0030 210 3630667 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 22:36:54 +0000 From: I-CHASS Subject: Presentation May 23, 2013 | Filmic Texts, Future Texts: From Keywords to Keyframes Presentation | Filmic Texts, Future Texts: From Keywords to Keyframes Virginia Kuhn, Associate Director, Institute for Multimedia Literacy, University of Southern California When: Thursday, May 23th at 3:00 pm Where: UIUC English Building 160 Abstract: Filmic media (aka video) is an increasingly ubiquitous mode of expression and communication brought about by the rise of consumer grade video cameras and other mobile devices (smart phones, iPads, flip cams) on the one hand, and improvements in graphics processing units for networked editing and cloud based video hosting on the other. These technologies allow both the recording and the dissemination of video in ways that are utterly unprecedented. However, we have yet to see its real potential. This presentation will focus on the radical potential of video and its implications for transforming research, scholarship and pedagogy. Bio: Virginia Kuhn serves as associate director of the Institute for Multimedia Literacy, and associate professor of cinema practice in the School of Cinematic Arts. She directs an undergraduate Honors program, oversees faculty in the IML Digital Studies minor and teaches a variety of graduate and undergraduate classes in new media, all of which marry theory and practice. Committed to helping shape open source tools for scholarship, she recently published the first article created in the authoring platform, Scalar. “Filmic Texts and the Rise of the Fifth Estate,” appeared in the International Journal of Learning and Media, she just completed editing her second peer-reviewed digital anthology titled, MoMLA: From Gallery to Webtext, and co-authored a chapter in Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Policies and Politics, which was published by the pioneering UK-based scholarly press, Open Book Publishers. Sponsors: The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) The Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts and Social Science (I-CHASS) The Image and Spatial Data Analysis Division (ISDA) ~~~ 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 ACD383BE9; Wed, 22 May 2013 08:51:03 +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 7F52E3AD9; Wed, 22 May 2013 08:50:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 73F103ACA; Wed, 22 May 2013 08:50:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130522065053.73F103ACA@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 08:50:53 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.52 pubs: new book series; Blackwell 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 52. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Susan Schreibman (22) Subject: Blackwell Companion to Digital Literary Studies [2] From: Willard McCarty (33) Subject: Open Book Publishers DH Series --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 14:14:16 +0100 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Blackwell Companion to Digital Literary Studies The editors of The Companion to Digital Literary Studies, first published by Blackwell in 2008, are pleased to announce that it has just been released in paperback. At $49.95, €36.00, and £29.99, it is now affordable for classroom use. Its 31 chapters -- ranging from ePhilology to e-Literature, from digital poetry to cybertextuality -- are as provocative and pertinent now as when the volume was first released. For further details, and for instructors to request an evaluation copy, please see http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118492277.html. Susan Schreibman and Ray Siemens -- 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, 21 May 2013 16:08:09 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Open Book Publishers DH Series Open Book Digital Humanities Series Open Book Publishers is proud to announce the launch of a Digital Humanities Series. The series is overseen by an international board of experts and its books subjected to rigorous peer review. Its objective is to encourage and support the development of experimental monographs, edited volumes and collections that extend the boundaries of the field and help to strengthen its interrelations with the other disciplines of the arts, humanities and beyond. We are also interested in introductory guides for non-specialists, best practices guides for practitioners and "state of the art" surveys. The Series will offer digital humanists a dedicated venue for high-quality, Open Access publication. Proposals in any area of the Digital Humanities are invited. For further details and instructions on how to submit please see http://www.openbookpublishers.com/section/29/1/digital-humanities Editorial Board Paul Arthur, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Julia Flanders, Gary Hall, Brett Hirsch, Matthew, L. Jockers, John Lavagnino, Willard McCarty, Roberto Rosselli del Turco and Elke Teich. Open Book Publishers Open Book is an independent academic publisher, run by scholars who are committed to making high-quality research available to readers around the world. We publish monographs and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and offer the academic excellence of a traditional press, with the speed, convenience and accessibility of digital publishing. All our books are available to read for free online. To date we have 30 books in print, over 215,000 visits to these books via the Web and readers from over 125 countries. See www.openbookpublishers.com for more information. ----- Dr. Alessandra Tosi Managing Director www.openbookpublishers.com View 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 143D63C12; Thu, 23 May 2013 09:11:46 +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 68B7A3BF9; Thu, 23 May 2013 09:11:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 013323BE9; Thu, 23 May 2013 09:11:34 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130523071135.013323BE9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 09:11:34 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.53 call for signatories: amicus brief on behalf 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. 27, No. 53. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 11:06:31 -0500 From: Matthew L.Jockers Subject: Call for Signatories in New AuthorsGuild v HathiTrust Amicus Brief on behalf of DH et. al. Dear Colleagues, We are writing to seek your support for our amicus brief in the Court of Appeals in Authors Guild v. Hathitrust. We believe that this case will have a dramatic effect on research in computer science to linguistics, history, literature and the digital humanities. Background In 2005, the Authors Guild, a lobby group with about 8,500 members including published authors, literary agents and lawyers, filed a class-action lawsuit claiming that Google’s library digitization project was a “massive copyright infringement”. A settlement was proposed in that case in 2008, modified after strenuous objections from academics, other author groups and several foreign governments in 2009 and rejected by the court in 2011. In September 2011, in a separate case, the Authors Guild sued several universities and the HathiTrust for participating in Google’s book-scanning project. On July 7, 2012 the Association for Computers and the Humanities and more than 60 scholars from disciplines ranging from law and computer science to linguistics, history and literature, filed an amicus curiae brief in Authors Guild v HathiTrust on behalf of the digital humanities. District Court Decision On October 10, 2012, Judge Baer (Southern District of New York) ruled against the Authors Guild and their fellow plaintiffs and held that the library digitization for uses such as text-mining are “transformative” as that term of art is used in copyright law and, onbalance, fair use (i.e., not copyright infringement). Judge Baer’s opinion cites our amicus brief, adopts one of our examples and appears to follow the basic structure of our legal argument. Appeal The Authors Guild is now appealing Judge Baer’s decision (on this and other grounds) and we would like your support in drafting a new brief for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Argument in a nutshell According to the U.S. Constitution, the purpose of copyright is “To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts”. Copyright lawshould not be an obstacle to statistical and computational analysis of the millions of books owned by university libraries. Copyright law has long recognized the distinction between protecting an author’s original expression and the public’s right to access the facts and ideas contained within that expression. That distinction must be maintained in the digital age so that library digitization, internet search and related non-expressive uses of written works remain legal. How you can help preserve the balance of copyright law (1) You can let us know that you would like to join our brief (we need your name and affiliation e.g. Associate Professor, Jane Doe, Springfield University). We would also like to add a one line description of any aspect of your work that is relevant to the brief, e.g. ___ Grant to study ___ in ____ literary corpus or a relevant publication. Please note that ours is not the only amicus brief being filed in this case. Jennifer Urban (U.C. Berkeley) will also be filing a brief on arguing that the plaintiffs do not represent the interests of academic authors who comprise a large proportion of the class. YOU CAN'T SIGN BOTH. Please consider endorsing whichever brief speaks most closely to your concerns as an academic. We need your name etc., by June 3, 2013. Please email matthewsag@gmail.com or enter your details directly via this online tool: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1dx9vP1VQtVRsLjlxVY9wv7UTKM8JC24JEaRAR96hLnI/viewform (2) You can point us toward easy to understand and compelling examples of the kind of research enabled by mass-digitization (we can't include all your wonderful work, but we would like to understand it better). (3) You can forward this email to other academics and Phd students. Thank you! Matthew Sag, Matthew Jockers and Jason Schultz *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1369239122_2013-05-22_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_31419.1.1.html http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1369239122_2013-05-22_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_31419.1.2.docx _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 90AAB5EB5; Thu, 23 May 2013 09:18:57 +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 8B68D3C0D; Thu, 23 May 2013 09:18:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E21ED3B00; Thu, 23 May 2013 09:18:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130523071843.E21ED3B00@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 09:18:43 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.54 events: archiving magazines; folk music; 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. 27, No. 54. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Peter van Kranenburg (31) Subject: 3rd International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis: Few days left to register. [2] From: Ray Siemens (21) Subject: Summer School in GIS for the Digital Humanities [3] From: Natalia Ermolaev (33) Subject: CFP Reminder: Remediating the Avant-Garde: Magazines and Digital Archives, Princeton (October 25-26, 2013) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 10:16:25 +0200 From: Peter van Kranenburg Subject: 3rd International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis: Few days left to register. This is a final reminder for the 3rd International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis that will take place in Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 6 and 7, 2013. The registration deadline is 26th of May. Please, consult the website for details about the procedure: http://www.elab-oralculture.nl/fma2013/ This workshop is an excellent opportunity to present and discuss ongoing research in the area of computational ethnomusicology. We aim at an intereseting event for both ethnomusicologists and music information scientists. We are very exited to announce a panel session on transcription with Kofi Agawu (Princeton University), Dániel P. Birá (University of Victoria), Olmo Cornelis (University College Ghent, Belgium), Emilia Gómez (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona), and Barbara Titus (Utrecht University), moderated by Ashley Burgoyne (University of Amsterdam). During this session traditional and computational transcription methods will meet. Dr. Emilia Gómez (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) will deliver the keynote talk about automatic transcription of ethnomusicological field recordings. For further details about the workshop and registration, please visit: 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, 22 May 2013 15:45:09 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Summer School in GIS for the Digital Humanities In-Reply-To: <3684C4F640915C4E8780EF8E3E0239ED196AFE@EX-1-MB0.lancs.local> > From: Gregory, Ian GIS for the Digital Humanities: Part of the Lancaster Summer School in Interdisciplinary Digital Methods Lancaster University, 15-18th July, 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 summer school, sponsored by the ERC’s Spatial Humanities: Texts, GIS, Places project and hosted as part of the Lancaster Summer School in Interdisciplinary Digital Methods provides an introduction to the use of GIS software aimed specifically at researchers from the humanities and arts. Outline syllabus: The course will provide an introduction to GIS software and how it can be applied to humanities research. 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. Participants are encouraged to bring their own data with them (as text files, spread sheets, databases, images, or whatever other format) so that we can investigate using it within GIS as part of the course. Who should come? This will be relevant to post-graduate students and early career academics who can subsequently develop these skills in their own research. This event will provide a detailed and intensive introduction to GIS software with the opportunity to work with your own data. The summer school 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? Tuition at the summer school is free and includes refreshments. All other costs must be borne by the participants. A list of possible accommodation is available from: http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/summerschool/travel.php. Please do not book this until your place on the summer school 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 Sunday 2nd of June. Please email a booking form (overleaf or at http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/summerschool/dh-gis-reg-form.rtf) to: I.Gregory@lancaster.ac.uk. For more details see of the Summer School see: http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/summerschool http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/summerschool/ or contact Ian Gregory at the above email address. Subsequent events will be advertised at: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/spatialhum. Professor of Digital Humanities Department of History Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4YT Tel: +44 (0)1524 594967 Email: I.Gregory@lancaster.ac.uk --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 20:08:04 +0000 From: Natalia Ermolaev Subject: CFP Reminder: Remediating the Avant-Garde: Magazines and Digital Archives, Princeton (October 25-26, 2013) In-Reply-To: <3684C4F640915C4E8780EF8E3E0239ED196AFE@EX-1-MB0.lancs.local> Reminder: Call for Papers due May 31 Remediating the Avant-Garde: Magazines and Digital Archives Princeton University October 25-26, 2013 The Blue Mountain Project at Princeton University is a a freely available electronic repository of art, music, and literary periodicals that both chronicle and embody the emergence of cultural modernity in the West. We are currently digitizing 34 titles published in Europe and the United States between 1850-1923, in French, German, English, Italian, Spanish, Czech, Russian, Polish, Finnish, and Danish. The Blue Mountain Project is seeking paper proposals for a two-day conference, to be held in Princeton, New Jersey on October 25th and 26th, 2013. The keynote speaker will be Johanna Drucker, Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. 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 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 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B2AB95EBC; Thu, 23 May 2013 09:20:03 +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 54E8A3C10; Thu, 23 May 2013 09:19:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B21963BF9; Thu, 23 May 2013 09:19:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130523071952.B21963BF9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 09:19:52 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.55 more for 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. 27, No. 55. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 08:14:22 -0400 From: Medical Heritage Library Subject: The Medical Heritage Library Welcomes a New Content Contributor: Medical Center Archives of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Good morning! Medical Center Archives of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell is pleased to become a contributor to the Medical Heritage Library. A digitization micro-grant from the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) has funded the digitization of historical annual reports from both the New York Hospital and the Lying-in Hospital of the City of New York, as well as announcements from the Weill Cornell Medical College, and the now-defunct Cornell University-New York Hospital School of Nursing. New York Hospital reports from 1834 to 1962, and Medical College announcements from 1898 through 1960 are already online. Reports from the Lying-in Hospital and announcements from the School of Nursing will be added soon. The New York Hospital (now NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell) was chartered in 1771. As the oldest hospital in New York City, its history is bound with the city’s history. The Annual Reports are thus an invaluable resource for studying the history of health care, as well as social history, treatment of immigrants and the poor, and the social and architectural development of New York City. Reports of the Lying-in Hospital illustrate the history of women’s health care, and document changes over time in practices surrounding labor and delivery. They are a resource for demographic studies, as the reports present aggregate data on details such as the national origins and occupations of patients. Weill Cornell Medical College has an equally rich heritage. Early faculty included prominent New York physicians such as Lewis Atterbury Stimson and Oliver Hazard Payne. It was among the first medical schools in the United States to admit women on an equal basis with men. The Medical College Announcements document developments and changes in medical education throughout the 20th century, such as those brought on by the Flexner Report of 1910, and the post-war expansion of bio-medical research. The School of Nursing was founded in 1877 as the New York Hospital Training School for Nurses. It became Cornell University-New York Hospital School of Nursing in 1942. Many of its faculty went on to become leaders in the field of nursing. The announcements are a resource for studying women’s history, the history of health care, and nursing education in New York. [This announcement was authored by Lisa Mix, Head of the Medical Center Archives at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.] Thank you! -Hanna ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 5FDD93AAB; Fri, 24 May 2013 08:50:02 +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 B999F3A29; Fri, 24 May 2013 08:49:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BCB9D3A15; Fri, 24 May 2013 08:49:50 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130524064950.BCB9D3A15@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 08:49:50 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.56 call for signatories: amicus brief on behalf 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. 27, No. 56. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 00:28:31 -0700 From: Daniel Boyarin Subject: Re: 27.53 call for signatories: amicus brief on behalf of digital humanities In-Reply-To: <20130523071135.013323BE9@digitalhumanities.org> I expect to join my colleague Prof. Urban in her brief. thanks db On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:11 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 53. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 11:06:31 -0500 > From: Matthew L.Jockers > Subject: Call for Signatories in New AuthorsGuild v HathiTrust > Amicus Brief on behalf of DH et. al. > > > > Dear Colleagues, > > We are writing to seek your support for our amicus brief in the Court of > Appeals in Authors Guild v. Hathitrust. We believe that this case will have > a dramatic effect on research in computer science to linguistics, history, > literature and the digital humanities. > > Background > > In 2005, the Authors Guild, a lobby group with about 8,500 members > including published authors, literary agents and lawyers, filed a > class-action lawsuit claiming that Google’s library digitization project > was a “massive copyright infringement”. A settlement was proposed in that > case in 2008, modified after strenuous objections from academics, other > author groups and several foreign governments in 2009 and rejected by the > court in 2011. > > In September 2011, in a separate case, the Authors Guild sued several > universities and the HathiTrust for participating in Google’s book-scanning > project. On July 7, 2012 the Association for Computers and the Humanities > and more than 60 scholars from disciplines ranging from law and computer > science to linguistics, history and literature, filed an amicus curiae > brief in Authors Guild v HathiTrust on behalf of the digital humanities. > > District Court Decision > > On October 10, 2012, Judge Baer (Southern District of New York) ruled > against the Authors Guild and their fellow plaintiffs and held that the > library digitization for uses such as text-mining are “transformative” as > that term of art is used in copyright law and, onbalance, fair use (i.e., > not copyright infringement). Judge Baer’s opinion cites our amicus brief, > adopts one of our examples and appears to follow the basic structure of our > legal argument. > > Appeal > > The Authors Guild is now appealing Judge Baer’s decision (on this and > other grounds) and we would like your support in drafting a new brief for > the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. > > Argument in a nutshell > > According to the U.S. Constitution, the purpose of copyright is “To > promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts”. Copyright lawshould not > be an obstacle to statistical and computational analysis of the millions of > books owned by university libraries. Copyright law has long recognized the > distinction between protecting an author’s original expression and the > public’s right to access the facts and ideas contained within that > expression. That distinction must be maintained in the digital age so that > library digitization, internet search and related non-expressive uses of > written works remain legal. > > How you can help preserve the balance of copyright law > > (1) You can let us know that you would like to join our brief (we need > your name and affiliation e.g. Associate Professor, Jane Doe, Springfield > University). We would also like to add a one line description of any aspect > of your work that is relevant to the brief, e.g. ___ Grant to study ___ in > ____ literary corpus or a relevant publication. > > Please note that ours is not the only amicus brief being filed in this > case. Jennifer Urban (U.C. Berkeley) will also be filing a brief on arguing > that the plaintiffs do not represent the interests of academic authors who > comprise a large proportion of the class. YOU CAN'T SIGN BOTH. Please > consider endorsing whichever brief speaks most closely to your concerns as > an academic. > > We need your name etc., by June 3, 2013. Please email matthewsag@gmail.comor enter your details directly via this online tool: > https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1dx9vP1VQtVRsLjlxVY9wv7UTKM8JC24JEaRAR96hLnI/viewform > > (2) You can point us toward easy to understand and compelling examples of > the kind of research enabled by mass-digitization (we can't include all > your wonderful work, but we would like to understand it better). > > (3) You can forward this email to other academics and Phd students. > > Thank you! > > Matthew Sag, Matthew Jockers and Jason Schultz > > *** Attachments: > > http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1369239122_2013-05-22_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_31419.1.1.html > > http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1369239122_2013-05-22_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_31419.1.2.docx > -- “The less people take thought seriously, the more they think in conformity with what the State wants” Deleuze _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9E0853AC1; Fri, 24 May 2013 08:51:40 +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 4D3433A40; Fri, 24 May 2013 08:51:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A31093A29; Fri, 24 May 2013 08:51:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130524065130.A31093A29@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 08:51:30 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.57 language in bondage X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 57. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 12:53:28 -0600 From: Daniel O'Donnell Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.46 language in bondage In-Reply-To: <20130521051927.995752CC7@digitalhumanities.org> Do you really think the antithesis is coming? I confess on my happy days, I think it is--and that DH in particular (or rather just H, but in a newly invigorated, digitally-enabled, and relevant form) is helping our disciplines recover from what I think has been 5 or 10 years of lethargy. But other times I have the impression we are still very tired as a field. Note that this is not actually an argument or complaint against faddish topics (or, to go even farther back) "theory": in fact I think engagement in these things has been exciting and promising. Where I find the tiredness, however, is in the sense I often get--especially from mid-career North American faculty members--that many people are going through the motions on topics they think they must engage with rather than want to. If I had a dime for every time I've been told by a post-doc, assistant prof, or associate that they are doing something they are not really all that interested in because they think it is what their tenure and promotion committees want to see I'd be able to fund some of their tenure lines myself. On 13-05-20 11:19 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 46. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 14:10:56 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: language in bondage > > Whether there exists a kinky computing doesn't matter. Camille Paglia's > latest, "Scholars in Bondage: Dogma dominates studies of kink" > (http://chronicle.com/article/Scholars-in-Bondage/139251/?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en), > makes a point that I think we can all profit from, namely "provocative > subjects... buried in a sludge of opaque theorizing... [and] squelched > by the dreary protocols" of fashionable subjects. > > That bright light at the end of the dark tunnel is the antithesis coming > at high speed. > > Just today I ran across a translation of Montaigne's Of the Education of > Children and so found this description of the style of writing he most > admired: > >> I want the substance to stand out, and so to fill the imagination of >> the listener, that he will have no memory of the words. The speech I >> love is a simple, natural speech, the same on paper as in the mouth; >> a speech succulent and sinewy, brief and compressed, not so much >> dainty and well-combed as vehement and brisk... rather difficult than >> boring, remote from affectation, irregular, disconnected and bold; >> each bit making a body in itself; not pedantic, not monkish, not >> lawyer-like, but rather soldierly... > > Yours, > WM -- --- 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 A99453AEF; Fri, 24 May 2013 08:52:32 +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 C99DB3AAB; Fri, 24 May 2013 08:52:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A3A4E3A7E; Fri, 24 May 2013 08:52:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130524065222.A3A4E3A7E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 08:52:22 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.58 medieval mss cataloguing with TEI? teaching Greek? 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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 (27) Subject: Fwd: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] Blended Learning for Classical Greek [2] From: "Charles Faulhaber" (10) Subject: Medieval Manuscript cataloguing projects using TEI P5 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 17:30:26 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Fwd: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] Blended Learning for Classical Greek -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] Blended Learning for Classical Greek > Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 16:55:17 +0100 > From: Rebecca Davis I received this request from a colleague in instructional technology at a small liberal arts college that is looking to move some work online to allow for more interaction in the face-to-face classroom (blended or hybrid learning): "I've been approached by one of our Classics profs about online tools appropriate for teaching Greek . . . any ideas or places you might point us? She's got a collaborator in a high school, who already has some material on Quia.com; she also pointed out that our students are already pretty good at finding flash card programs. What she's looking for, I think, are online grammar lessons and assessments." I haven't looked into this for a while. Any good resources I should recommend. I'm assuming she already knows about Perseus. I believe she is looking for material for introductory Greek. Thanks, Rebecca 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. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 12:26:31 -0700 From: "Charles Faulhaber" Subject: Medieval Manuscript cataloguing projects using TEI P5 Dear Colleagues, I would be grateful for any information about projects or institutions that are using the TEI P5 Manuscript Description guidelines for the cataloguing of medieval manuscripts. Many thanks, Charles Faulhaber The Bancroft Library U. of California, Berkeley cbf@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 D30E33BCB; Fri, 24 May 2013 08:52:58 +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 6A2753AFA; Fri, 24 May 2013 08:52:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8376E3AC9; Fri, 24 May 2013 08:52:50 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130524065250.8376E3AC9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 08:52:50 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.59 geolocating & mapping 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 59. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 17:13:10 +0800 From: Oliver Streiter Subject: Re: 27.42 geolocating & mapping culture In-Reply-To: <20130520051233.821C13A0C@digitalhumanities.org> Dear John, I am working on a project that tries to map Taiwan's tombs, the changes in inscriptions through time and the loss of tombs in recent times. Until now most work has been done on the place name inscription on tombstones. The project website is http://thakbong.dyndns.tv. Some of the maps we produced are in http://thakbong.dyndns.tv/webmaps/ . For an understanding of these maps, have a look at the publications at thakbong.dyndns.tv/publs/, e.g. thakbong.dyndns.tv/publs/hanoi2010.pdf Oliver 2013/5/20 Humanist Discussion Group > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 42. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 13:10:12 +0100 > From: John Levin > Subject: Re: 27.40 geolocating & mapping culture > In-Reply-To: <20130519053804.08DCD2DAB@digitalhumanities.org> > > > As an addendum to this thread on mapping, I've been compiling a list of > academic, DH GIS projects: > http://anterotesis.com/wordpress/dh-gis-projects/ > Currently listing 98 projects; if anyone knows of any not listed, please > do inform me. > > I'm writing an analysis of these projects, and the use of GIS in the > digital humanities, but don't hold your breath waiting for it to be > completed! > > 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 AF4FE3BCB; Fri, 24 May 2013 08:54:45 +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 2401B3AEF; Fri, 24 May 2013 08:54:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A35C13AD1; Fri, 24 May 2013 08:54:34 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130524065434.A35C13AD1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 08:54:34 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.60 Digital Humanities conference 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. 27, No. 60. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Katherine Walter (19) Subject: Digital Humanities 2013 early bird registration ends May 31 [2] From: Ray Siemens (18) Subject: Call For Proposals to Host Digital Humanities 2015 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 13:32:02 +0000 From: Katherine Walter Subject: Digital Humanities 2013 early bird registration ends May 31 Dear All, Early Bird registration for Digital Humanities 2013, a conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, will end next week on Friday, May 31, 11:59 p.m. CST. If you have not yet registered and are thinking of doing so, this might be a good time. Details regarding the conference and a link to registration are found at http://dh2013.unl.edu. This year's conference will be held at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Keynote speakers are: The Archivist of the United States, David Ferriero. The Archivist is the chief official overseeing the operation of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and is responsible for safeguarding and making available for study all the permanently valuable records of the federal government, including the original Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights. NARA is dedicated to preserving and providing access to a growing number of digitized documents. It is also one of the contributors to the Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) project, a project that will have significant impact on archives and users of archives. Previously, Ferriero served as the Andrew W. Mellon Director of the New York Public Libraries (NYPL). Among his responsibilities at the NYPL was development of the library's digital strategy, which currently encompasses partnerships with Google and Microsoft, a web site that reaches more than 25 million unique users annually, and a digital library of more than 750,000 images that may be accessed free of charge by any user around the world. Before joining the NYPL in 2004, Ferriero served in top positions at two of the nation's major academic libraries, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, and Duke University in Durham, NC. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in English literature from Northeastern University in Boston and a master's degree from the Simmons College of Library and Information Science, also in Boston. After serving in the Navy during the Vietnam War, he started in the humanities library at MIT, where he worked for 31 years, rising to associate director for public services and acting co-director of libraries. Isabel Galina. Isabel Galina is currently a researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas at the National University of Mexico (UNAM). With a background in English Literature and Electronic Publishing, her PhD research at University College London (UCL) was on the impact of electronic resources on scholarly communication and publishing. This led to a particular interest in new modes of scholarship and digital projects within the Humanities. At the UNAM she has been involved in numerous initiatives related to institutional repositories, digitization projects, electronic publishing and the use and visibility of digital resources. She is a founding member and current president of the Red de Humanidades Digitales (RedHD) which aims to promote and strengthen Digital Humanities with special emphasis on research and teaching in Spanish as well as the Latin American region in general. She is Associate Editor of Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC) and Honorary Research Fellow at the UCL Department of Information Studies. Willard McCarty. The Busa Award Lecture is being presented by Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing and Director of the Doctoral Programme in the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London, Professor in the Digital Humanities Research Group, University of Western Sydney and Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute (London). He is Editor of the British journal, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (2008-) and founding Editor of the online seminar Humanist (1987-). He is recipient of the Canadian Award for Outstanding Achievement, Computing in the Arts and Humanities (2005), and the Richard W. Lyman Award, National Humanities Center (2006). He is currently at work on Machines of Demanding Grace, a book concerned with the interrelation of the humanities and computing. He lectures occasionally in Europe, North America, and Australia. See www.mccarty.org.uk. We look forward to seeing you in Lincoln! All the best, Kay Walter Katherine L. Walter Co-Director, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities Professor and Chair, Digital Initiatives & Special Collections University of Nebraska-Lincoln 319 Love Library Lincoln, NE 68588-4100 USA kwalter1@unl.edu 402-472-3939 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 18:58:17 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Call For Proposals to Host Digital Humanities 2015 Call For Proposals to Host Digital Humanities 2015 Digital Humanities (DH) is the annual international conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (AHDO, http://www.adho.org), whose constituent organisations are ALLC: The European Association for Digital Humanities, the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities / Société canadienne des humanités numériques, the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities, CenterNet, and the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities. The next DH conference will be at the University of Nebraska in the United States, 16-19 July 2013 (http://dh2013.unl.edu http://dh2013.unl.edu/ ). DH2014 will be held at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. The committees of DH and its constituent organizations now invite proposals to host DH in 2015, following an earlier call for expressions of interest issued through ADHO's constituent organizations. Traditionally, the conference alternated between North America and Europe, and it will be held in the United States in 2013 and Switzerland in 2014. For 2015, we are particularly interested in proposals for hosting the conference in areas where there are developed or developing Digital Humanities communities or organizations. In any case, the local organizer must be a member of one of the ADHO constituent organizations (listed above). The conference normally attracts 300-500 attendees with 3-4 days of papers and posters. There are normally 3-5 parallel sessions per time slot, and a small number of plenary presentations. Meetings of the committees of the constituent organizations precede the conference, and lunchtime slots are normally used for member meetings of constituent organizations. The academic programme is selected and planned by an international Programme Committee appointed by ADHO constituent organizations. The local organizer at the host institution is responsible for the conference web site, provision of facilities, the production of a book of abstracts, a conference banquet, and any other social events that the local host thinks would be appropriate. The conference is entirely self-financed through conference fees and any other financial contributions that the local organizer is able to arrange. ADHO expects no payment from the local host in the event that the conference makes a profit, but no financial support is provided for the conference by ADHO or its constituent organizations, except in relation to the recipient of ADHO awards, such as named prizes or bursaries, and a modest incentive to ensure that the membership status of registrants is validated by the local host. In consultation with the Program Committee, the local organizer may invite other plenary speakers whose travel, subsistence and registration must be funded from the conference budget. The local organizer is expected to set (and verify) three levels of fees: members of ADHO constituent organizations, non-members, and students. The difference between the fee levels for members and non-members should be no less than the cost of an individual subscription to ADHO's main print journal, Literary and Linguistic Computing, because subscription to the journal is what qualifies an individual for the member rate. ADHO uses the conference management system Conftool, and the ADHO Conference Coordinating Committee provides support for this system, including access to data from previous conferences. Local organizers are required to use the Conftool system for registering participants, including participants in special events such as the banquet, but actual credit card payments are often processed outside Conftool, by the local organizer. Proposals should include · overview of facilities at the host institution · overview of local institutional engagement and support for the local organizer · possible arrangements for social events, to include the conference banquet · options for accommodation (with provisional costs) · travel information and advice · a provisional budget, with a provisional registration fee · options for payment (credit card, foreign currency etc) by participants Proposers must be prepared to give a short presentation and to answer questions at the ADHO Steering Committee meeting and Constituent Organisation meetings at the DH2013 conference in Lincoln, Nebraska USA in advance of DH2013. Budgets and other information about past conferences can be made available on request, for planning purposes. For further information, proposers are invited to discuss their plans informally with the Chair of the ADHO Conference Coordinating Committee, Ray Siemens (siemens[at]uvic.ca). Proposals should be shared in draft form with the Chair by early-June. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C20925EC8; Fri, 24 May 2013 08:57:06 +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 0F1393BCB; Fri, 24 May 2013 08:56:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 282293B00; Fri, 24 May 2013 08:56:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130524065656.282293B00@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 08:56:56 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.61 events: European data model; ancient spatial networks; wall-breaking X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 61. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Tom Brughmans (76) Subject: Hestia2 seminar: registration open [2] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (93) Subject: iSchools iConference [3] From: "Senseney, Megan Finn" (14) Subject: Registration open for JCDL 2013 Tutorial "The Europeana Data Model and Collections" --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 04:58:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Brughmans Subject: Hestia2 seminar: registration open Apologies for cross-posting The Hestia project is pleased to announce “HESTIA2: Exploring spatial networks through ancient sources”, a one-day seminar on spatial network analysis and linked data in Classical studies, archaeology and cultural heritage. The seminar will be held at The University of Southampton on 18 July. Registration for this event is free, but we do recommend registering as early as possible since the number of available places is limited. More information, including abstracts and registration, can be found via the following link: http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/hestia-2013/ We are looking forward to welcoming you to Southampton! Elton Barker, Stefan Bouzarovski, Leif Isaksen and Tom Brughmans ----- HESTIA2: Exploring spatial networks through ancient sources Spatial relationships appear throughout 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, spatial relationships become ever more difficult to disentangle. Network visualization and analysis allow us to address such spatial relationships explicitly and directly. This seminar aims to explore the potential of these innovative techniques for research in the higher education, public and cultural heritage sector. 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 initiative ‘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. Preliminary programme: 11:00                     Registration and coffee 11:30                     HESTIA-team                                 Welcome and introduction to HESTIA and HESTIA2 12:00                     Maximilian Schich (The University of Texas at Dallas)                                 Topography and Topology: Towards common ground in archaeological research 12:25                     Alex Godden (Hampshire County Council)                                 Historic Environment Records: New ways of looking for the past 12:50                     John Goodwin (Ordnance Survey)                                 Ordnance Survey and Linked Data 13:15                     Discussion 13:35                     Tea and coffee break 13:55                     Terhi Nurmikko (University of Southampton)                                 “To survey the land, he left his city” and other proverbs: Mapping ancient Mesopotamia from cuneiform inscriptions 14:20                     Kate Byrne (University of Edinburgh)                                 Geoparsing and spatial network analysis in the GAP projects 14:45                     Giorgio Uboldi (Politecnico di Milano)                                 Knot: an Interface for the Study of Social Networks in the Humanities 15:10                     Discussion 15:35                     Tea and coffee break 16:00                     Keith May (English Heritage)                                 Exploring the Use of Semantic Technologies for Cross-Search of Archaeological Grey Literature and Data 16:25                     Paul Cripps (University of Glamorgan)                                 GeoSemantic Technologies for Archaeological Resources --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 14:52:09 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: iSchools iConference On behalf of the iSchools iConference 2014 organising committee, please see below details of the conference and call for proposals. Julie McLeod (Prof) Information Sciences, Faculty of Engineering & Environment, Northumbria University, Room 043 Pandon Building | Camden Street, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 1XE, UK| t: +44 (0)191 227 3764 iSchool@Northumbria http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/informationsciences CFP: iConference 2014 | Breaking Down Walls: Culture-Context-Computing 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. We will begin accepting submissions in early summer. * 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 H. Sonnenwald, Professor, Chair in Information and Library Studies, 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 H. Sonnenwald, Professor, Chair in Information and Library Studies, 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 athttp://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 free of charge to conference participants. More at http://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 athttp://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 Program Committee: Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University Nicholas Belkin, Rutgers University John Bertot, University of Maryland College Park Wade Bishop, University of Tennessee Catherine Blake, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Pia Borlund, Copenhagen University Geoffrey C. Bowker, University of California, Irvine Nadia Caidi, University of Toronto Donald Case, University of Kentucky Chuanfu Chen, Wuhan University Andrew Clement, University of Toronto Sheila Corrall, University of Pittsburgh Kevin Crowston, Syracuse University / National Science Foundation Mats Dahlström, University of Borås Kristin Eschenfelder, University of Wisconsin-Madison Melanie Feinberg, The University of Texas at Austin Robert Glushko, University of California, Berkeley Elke Greifeneder, University of Copenhagen Jette Seiden Hyldegaard, University of Copenhagen Anita Komlodi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Christopher Lee, University of North Carolina Ulf Leser, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Dirk Lewandowksi, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences Bonnie Mak, University of Illinois Eric Meyers, University of British Columbia Karine Nahon, University of Washington Bonnie Nardi, UC Irvine Harri Oinas-Kukkonen, University of Oulu Gary M.Olson, University of California, Irvine Nils Pharo, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University Steve Sawyer, Syracuse University Kalpana Shankar, University College Dublin Jaime Snyder, Syracuse University Juliane Stiller, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Joseph T. Tennis, University of Washington Robert Villa, University of Sheffield More at http://iconference.ischools.org/iConference14/2014index/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 21:56:28 +0000 From: "Senseney, Megan Finn" Subject: Registration open for JCDL 2013 Tutorial "The Europeana Data Model and Collections" Registration is now open fro the JCDL 2013 tutorial "The Europeana Data Model and Collections", Monday, July 22, 9:00-12:00, Indianapolis, Indiana. This half-day tutorial provides a technical introduction to the Europeana Data Model and explores the role that collections play in adding value to digital libraries by 1) supporting the information seeking activities of system users, 2) allowing users to build and curate their own collections of resources, and 3) supporting administrative management of resources and metadata. Participants will gain a better understanding of conceptual data modeling, structured collection description, and collection metadata. The tutorial will conclude with a discussion of practitioners’ experience with items and collections in a digital library context and next steps for research on collection modeling and usage. Early bird registration deadline is Monday, May 27. For more registration details, please see the JCDL 2013 website: http://jcdl2013.org. For a complete programme and additional information about the tutorial, please visit http://bit.ly/JCDL2013-EDMTutorial. -- 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 D3CB45ED7; Fri, 24 May 2013 08:58:08 +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 942733C13; Fri, 24 May 2013 08:58:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BFFC83BEE; Fri, 24 May 2013 08:57:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130524065758.BFFC83BEE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 08:57:58 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.62 pubs: computational intelligence for NLP X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 62. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 09:41:25 +0000 From: Erik Cambria Subject: CFP: IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (Impact Factor: 3.368) Submissions are invited for an IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine special issue on Computational Intelligence for Natural Language Processing. For more/up-to-date info, please visit http://sentic.net/cinlp RATIONALE The textual information available on the Web can be broadly grouped into two main categories: facts and opinions. Facts are objective expressions about entities or events. Opinions are usually subjective expressions that describe people's sentiments, appraisals, or feelings towards such entities and events. Much of the existing research on textual information processing has been focused on mining and retrieval of factual information, e.g., text classification, text recognition, text clustering, and many other text mining and natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Little work had been done on the processing of opinions until only recently. One of the main reasons for the lack of studies on opinions is the fact that there was little opinionated text available before the recent passage from a read-only to a read-write Web. Before that, in fact, when people needed to make a decision, they typically asked for opinions from friends and family. Similarly, when organizations wanted to find the opinions or sentiments of the general public about their products and services, they had to specifically ask people by conducting opinion polls and surveys. However, with the advent of the Social Web, the way people express their views and opinions has dramatically changed. They can now post reviews of products at merchant sites and express their views on almost anything in Internet forums, discussion groups, and blogs. Such online word-of-mouth behavior represents new and measurable sources of information with many practical applications. Nonetheless, finding opinion sources and monitoring them can be a formidable task because there are a large number of diverse sources and each source may also have a huge volume of opinionated text. In many cases, in fact, opinions are hidden in long forum posts and blogs. It is extremely time-consuming for a human reader to find relevant sources, extract related sentences with opinions, read them, summarize them, and organize them into usable forms. Thus, automated opinion discovery and summarization systems are needed. Sentiment analysis grows out of this need: it is a very challenging NLP or text mining problem. Due to its tremendous value for practical applications, there has been an explosive growth of both research in academia and applications in the industry. All the sentiment analysis tasks, however, are very challenging. Our understanding and knowledge of the problem and its solution are still limited. The main reason is that it is a NLP task, and NLP has no easy problems. Another reason may be due to our popular ways of doing research. So far, in fact, researchers have relied a lot on traditional machine learning algorithms. Some of the most effective machine learning algorithms, however, produce no human understandable results. Apart from some superficial knowledge gained in the manual feature engineering process, in fact, such algorithms may achieve improved accuracy, but little about how and why is actually known. All such approaches, moreover, rely on syntactic structure of text, which is far from the way human mind processes natural language. TOPICS Articles are thus invited in area of computational intelligence for natural language processing and understanding. The broader context of the Special Issue comprehends artificial intelligence, knowledge representation and reasoning, data mining, artificial neural networks, evolutionary computation, and fuzzy logic. Topics include, but are not limited to: • Computational intelligence for big social data analysis • Biologically inspired opinion mining • Concept-level opinion and sentiment analysis • Computational intelligence for social media retrieval and analysis • Computational intelligence for social media marketing • Social network modeling, simulation, and visualization • Semantic multi-dimensional scaling for sentiment analysis • Computational intelligence for patient opinion mining • Sentic computing • Multilingual and multimodal sentiment analysis • Multimodal fusion for continuous interpretation of semantics • Computational intelligence for time-evolving sentiment tracking • Computational intelligence for cognitive agent-based computing • Human-agent, -computer, and -robot interaction • Domain adaptation for sentiment classification • Affective common-sense reasoning • Computational intelligence for user profiling and personalization • Computational intelligence for knowledge acquisition TIMEFRAME August 1st, 2013: Paper submission deadline September 1st, 2013: Notification of acceptance October 1st, 2013: Final manuscript due February, 2014: Publication SUBMISSION The maximum length for the manuscript is typically 25 pages in single column with double-spacing, including figures and references. Authors of papers should specify in the first page of their manuscripts corresponding author’s contact and up to 5 keywords. Submission should be made via email to one of the guest editors below. GUEST EDITORS • Erik Cambria, National University of Singapore (Singapore) • Bebo White, Stanford University (USA) • Tariq S. Durrani, Royal Society of Edinburgh (UK) • Newton Howard, MIT Media Laboratory (USA) _______________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 462865EB9; Sat, 25 May 2013 09:16:47 +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 147A25EAA; Sat, 25 May 2013 09:16:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 230BC3A84; Sat, 25 May 2013 09:16:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130525071645.230BC3A84@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 09:16:45 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.63 medieval mss cataloguing with TEI X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 63. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 17:21:30 +0100 From: "Da Rold, Orietta (Dr.)" Subject: Re: 27.58 medieval mss cataloguing with TEI? teaching Greek? In-Reply-To: <20130524065222.A3A4E3A7E@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Charles, The production and use of English manuscripts used a modified version of the guidelines. http://www.le.ac.uk/ee/em1060to1220/ templates here: http://www.le.ac.uk/english/em1060to1220/catalogue/templates.htm Best wishes, Orietta --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 12:26:31 -0700 From: "Charles Faulhaber" > Subject: Medieval Manuscript cataloguing projects using TEI P5 Dear Colleagues, I would be grateful for any information about projects or institutions that are using the TEI P5 Manuscript Description guidelines for the cataloguing of medieval manuscripts. Many thanks, Charles Faulhaber The Bancroft Library U. of California, Berkeley cbf@berkeley.edu ------ Dr Orietta Da Rold Director MA English Studies School of English University of Leicester University Road LE1 7RH Tel. +44 (0)116 252 2778 e-mail: odr1@le.ac.uk web: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/people/oriettadarold _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 671173BEB; Sat, 25 May 2013 09:22:09 +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 3180A3A84; Sat, 25 May 2013 09:22:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 368A22C7A; Sat, 25 May 2013 09:22:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130525072207.368A22C7A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 09:22:07 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.64 language in bondage X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 64. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 09:21:48 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: 27.57 language in bondage I believe Daniel (note below), that he'd be a beloved funder of tenure lines if he'd been given 10 cents, or the equivalent, by those who confessed they were working to others' expectations. But let us not confuse (as so many seem to have done) institutional pathologies and individuals' confusions with the set of intellectual disciplines we call the humanities. All the evidence I see (and I look hard every day) demonstrates that they are very healthy indeed -- a luxuriant if nearly impenetrable jungle of interrelated and, if we only understood how properly to do interdisciplinary research, cross-fertilising practices. I had an epiphanic moment in my Old English class in the first year of graduate school at Toronto which now comes to mind. We were reading Beowulf. I was struggling but thrilled down to my toes by the powerful, rough, magnificent poetry and the humanity to which it attested. The wonderful Angus Cameron was my professor. Sitting there in class, just before he arrived one day, I tuned in to my fellow students' conversations, their complaints about being forced to learn Old English, to read Beowulf etc etc. Some of them, one fellow in particular, were much better at it than I was. But I realised suddenly, or perhaps more accurately imagined with justification, that most of them did not want to be scholars at all. They wanted the jobs they imagined (with very little justification) would be theirs, the nice life, respect and so on and so forth. How prevalent, I wonder now, is that sort of attitude? Are there any idealists left? It's wrong, I think, to blame others for such ordinary confusions. They've just been listening to what their elders have been telling them. But these confusions attest to much more serious problems. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun pointed out in her contribution to "The Dark Side of the Digital Humanities" at the 2013 MLA convention (Google will find it) that the "blind embrace" of digital humanities and the consequent belief that "the problem facing our students and our profession is a lack of technical savvy rather than an economic system that undermines the future of our students" condemns us to a "cruel optimism" (Lauren Berlant's phrase & title of her book). Underneath all that, I think, is a great ignorance of what our disciplines are for and why a person would apprentice him- or herself to one of them with at best a very hard struggle in the job-market afterwards. Promising jobs in order to attract students and then pretending this is not a cruel double lie (no jobs, wrong reason) is, I think, close to criminal. Trying to bolster enrolments in English, History et al is cruelly cynical. Bandwagon DH is complicit. Popularity does indeed show the dark side. It sounds so much like high school (where, I admit, I was unpopular if noticed at all....). Let me propose another trope of the kind Daniel has used. If I had 10p for every book or article that I only wish I had time to read I'd join him in funding N American tenure lines. Whatever happened to the hunger for knowledge that has sustained so many? Comments? Yours,WM -------- Original Message -------- Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 57. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 12:53:28 -0600 From: Daniel O'Donnell _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (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 DE2F85EBB; Sat, 25 May 2013 09:23:17 +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 A35553AF1; Sat, 25 May 2013 09:23:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4CC7C2C92; Sat, 25 May 2013 09:23:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130525072316.4CC7C2C92@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 09:23:16 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.65 job at Arizona State: Director, DH Seed Lab 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. 27, No. 65. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 21:00:56 +0000 From: Daniel Gilfillan Subject: Arizona State University seeking Director of DH Seed Lab Arizona State University Director, Digital Humanities Seed Lab The Institute for Humanities Research (IHR) seeks an Administrative Professional to serve as Director of the Digital Humanities Seed Lab. The successful candidate will work closely with the IHR Director, Digital Humanities Advisory Board, and staff to conceptualize and implement an ASU-wide initiative on digital humanities research. The successful candidate will draw upon previous training/ experience in digital humanities and new media to build external networks, seek out and/or create funding opportunities, develop a strategic vision for building and managing digital programs and projects, and further the mission of humanities research at ASU. Anticipated start date is August 2013. Salary $45,000-$60,000, depending on experience. As director, the successful candidate will be expected to work directly with researchers to define, develop, and/or analyze project design, scope, and/or needs; evaluate existing and/or emerging tools and technologies to identify potential uses in humanities research at ASU; and collaborate with other ASU units/agencies to understand and apply various technology infrastructures to maximize resources and effectiveness. The successful candidate will also provide limited technical support for digital humanities research projects, including implementation of tools, technology, etc. to help researcher achieve goals; develop prototype demonstration projects for use by others; and provide training, group instruction or workshops as appropriate. Minimum Qualifications * Master's degree in a humanities field * Experience in working in interdisciplinary humanities environments * Demonstrated familiarity with current work in the digital humanities * Demonstrated record of effective project management * Strong written/oral communication skills Desired qualifications * PhD in a humanities field * Demonstrated experience developing and administering programs, events, and collaborative research projects * Understanding of the principles and practices of research and development in digital humanities * Experience with new media and technology applications for research and pedagogy in higher education * Experience working with diverse campus and public constituencies. * Ability to work in both PC and MAC environments * Experience managing grants * Working knowledge of content management systems (e.g. WordPress, Omeka, Drupal); data visualization tools and methods; relational databases, including design, ideally in the context of literary analysis; object-oriented design and coding, ideally in the context of visualizations of Humanities documents or social networks; programming languages (e.g. PHP, Python, Ruby); text-mining tools and methods; text-encoding and markup; GIS tools and methods To apply, submit a cover letter, CV/resume, and contact information for three references (name, email, phone number). Application materials should be submitted as a single PDF document via email only to Daniel Gilfillan, Search Chair >. Review of applications will begin on June 28, 2013, if not filled, every two weeks thereafter until the search is closed. ASU is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. See https://www.asu.edu/titleIX/. A background check is required for employment. ____________________________________________ Daniel Gilfillan, Ph.D. Acting Director, Institute for Humanities Research Associate Professor - German Studies/Information Literacy Affiliate Faculty - Film and Media Studies, Jewish Studies Arizona State University School of International Letters and Cultures PO Box 870202 Tempe, AZ 85287-0202 Office: 480-965-8245 FAX: 480-965-0135 Email: dgilfil@asu.edu http://www.public.asu.edu/~dgilfill/ Check out-- Pieces of Sound: German Experimental Radio Facebook: German Studies at Arizona 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 8693B5EBC; Sat, 25 May 2013 09:24:42 +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 47B325EAA; Sat, 25 May 2013 09:24:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 191393AF1; Sat, 25 May 2013 09:24:39 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130525072440.191393AF1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 09:24:39 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.66 events: digital history X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 66. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 16:55:51 +0100 From: Seth Denbo Subject: Digital History Seminar. From computers and history to digital history: a retrospective The next Digital History seminar will take place in the Bedford Room (G37, Ground floor, Senate House) and will also be live streamed at 5.15pm (BST) on 28 May 2013. See below for details of how to join in via the Web. From computers and history to digital history: a retrospective Panelists: Sir Roderick Floud (Gresham College), Robert Shoemaker (Sheffield), Don Spaeth (Glasgow) Historians were among the first humanities scholars to utilize computers as research tools, recognizing their value as early as the mid-1960s. Since that time, as the technology and the field have both evolved, computers have remained important tools for research, teaching and communication. With an ever greater breadth of scholarly activities for which computational tools are used, the Digital History Seminar has convened a panel the reflect on the ongoing dialogue between information technologies and their use in the discipline of history. The panel will be made up of pioneers in historical computing including Sir Roderick Floud (Gresham College), Robert Shoemaker (Sheffield) and Don Spaeth (Glasgow) who will discuss the past, present and future of digital history. Each of the panelists has played a significant role in the development of the use of computational methods for historical phenomena. They will collectively provide a fascinating picture of the shift from historical computing to digital history. Each panelist will speak for about 15 minutes on their use of computers and digital tools for historical research and teaching. The talks will be followed by a moderated discussion. Sir Roderick Floud is a distinguished professor of economic history and has been Provost of Gresham College since 2008. Previously he was Dean of the School of Advanced Study of which the IHR is a part, Provost of London Guildhall University and the first Vice-Chancellor of London Metropolitan University. Among many honors and fellowships he is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Society of Arts and the British Academy. He has published widely on topics as diverse as technological change, the use of IT in the study of history, the evolution of technical education and changes in human height, health and welfare. He was knighted in 2005. Robert Shoemaker is Professor of Eighteenth-Century British history at the University of Sheffield. He has published on the history of crime and criminal justice, gender, and violence. Along with Tim Hitchcock and Clive Emsley he is director of the Old Bailey Proceedings Online, a fully searchable edition of the entire run of published accounts of trials which took place at the Old Bailey from 1674 to 1913. This groundbreaking work was the first of a number of important primary source resources that Shoemaker and Hitchcock have created. In January 2011 he and Hitchcock were awarded the Longman-History Today Trustees Award, presented to a person, persons or organisation that has made a major contribution to history, for their work on the Old Bailey and London Lives projects. Don Spaeth is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Glasgow. His research focuses on the social history of early modern England and the application of computers to historical research and teaching. He is the author of The Church in Age of Danger as well as of various articles on historical and methodological topics. In the 1990s, he ran a series of externally-funded national computer-based initiatives, including the Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for History, Archaeology and Art History and, as director, the TLTP History Software Consortium, a consortium of eighty UK institutions. He is currently working on three research projects: on lay-clerical relations in Elizabethan England, scolding and gender relations, and the digitisation and analysis of Welsh Wills. To take part in the live stream visit History SPOT http://historyspot.org.uk on 28 May at 5.15pm and open up the pop out video, slide show, chat, and Twitter feed. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5116C5EFD; Mon, 27 May 2013 22:55:23 +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 F1D753AEC; Mon, 27 May 2013 22:55:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DB0203AEC; Mon, 27 May 2013 22:55:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130527205521.DB0203AEC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 22:55:21 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.67 digital serendipity? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 67. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 15:32:03 +0000 From: "Ingrid I. Satelmajer" Subject: Digital serendipity (I just sent this same question to SHARP, so apologies for any doubling.) Dear Humanists-- I'm writing a book about Bible digitization projects, and I was wondering if anyone might point me to information/thoughts on the subject of digital serendipity. Is there, for instance, a digital equivalent to the following account from one Bible distribution group?: A Bible gets thrown on a roof in a fit of rage. Several years later, during a time of great need, a storm comes along and knocks the Bible off the roof into the lap of the person who originally had it. Can something like that happen in the digital world? Hypotheticals, reading suggestions, counterexamples--all are very welcome. I've also been contacting computer programmers and digital project heads on the subject. Thanks very much for any help. All best, Ingrid Ingrid Satelmajer Lecturer University Honors Anne Arundel Hall University of Maryland, College Park College Park, MD _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1E3EF5F48; Mon, 27 May 2013 22:56:57 +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 E3ED13C0E; Mon, 27 May 2013 22:56:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9415A3C0E; Mon, 27 May 2013 22:56:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130527205655.9415A3C0E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 22:56:55 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.68 events: machine learning and 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. 27, No. 68. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 09:59:24 +0000 From: Eli Shtraikher Subject: TCE Conference 2013 - machine learning and big data Dear all, Guess this conference might interest you - The 3rd annual international TCE (Technion Computer Engineering) Conference http://tce.technion.ac.il/conference/tce-conference-2013 will take place at the Technion, Haifa on May 28-29, 2013. This year the conference will focus on machine learning and big data, including topics such as learning from huge datasets, streaming and handling massive amounts of data, finding structure, information mining and more. If you are planning to attend – join the community via bizzabo App to see and network with the rest of the attendees. See you there, Eli Shtraikher. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BCBCF5F4C; Tue, 28 May 2013 22:48:12 +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 8CF0B3BE9; Tue, 28 May 2013 22:48:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7BBDC3AD6; Tue, 28 May 2013 22:48:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130528204810.7BBDC3AD6@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 22:48:10 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.69 digital serendipity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 69. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: maurizio lana (50) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.67 digital serendipity? [2] From: Annette Geßner (16) Subject: Re: 27.67 digital serendipity? [3] From: John Zuern (73) Subject: Re: 27.67 digital serendipity? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 09:00:58 +0200 From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.67 digital serendipity? In-Reply-To: <20130527205521.DB0203AEC@digitalhumanities.org> Il 27/05/2013 22:55, Humanist Discussion Group ha scritto: > Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 15:32:03 +0000 > From: "Ingrid I. Satelmajer" > Subject: Digital serendipity > I'm writing a book about Bible digitization projects, and I was wondering if anyone might point me to information/thoughts on the subject of digital serendipity. > Is there, for instance, a digital equivalent to the following account from one Bible distribution group?: > A Bible gets thrown on a roof in a fit of rage. > Several years later, during a time of great need, a storm comes along and knocks the Bible off the roof into the lap of the person who originally had it. > Can something like that happen in the digital world? yes, i think: something like that can happen in the digital world. you save a file inadvertently putting it in the wrong folder, or giving it a mistyped name. what makes it impossible to find it later in a rational way. or you save the file to an external HD which you then put aside forgetting what it exactly contains. but that content which apparently was lost re-appears if you make a typo when you write the filename to search for, or if you do the search using a substring, or if you you browse that folder, or that HD, whichever the reason you have when you start browsing. but all these random mistakes and losses have probably nothing to do with formal, big, wide, projects ("Bible digitization projects") where you build protocols for files management which are intended to avoid that type of "lose now and casually find later if you're lucky" situations. best maurizio > Hypotheticals, reading suggestions, counterexamples--all are very welcome. I've also been contacting computer programmers and digital project heads on the subject. > > Thanks very much for any help. > > All best, > Ingrid > > Ingrid Satelmajer > Lecturer > University Honors > Anne Arundel Hall > University of Maryland, College Park > College Park, MD -- The knowledge gap between rich and poor is widening. I. H. Witten, D. Bainbridge, D. M. Nichols, How to build a digital library, p. 26 ------- 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 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 11:24:03 +0200 From: Annette Geßner Subject: Re: 27.67 digital serendipity? In-Reply-To: <20130527205521.DB0203AEC@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Ingrid, I am working in a subproject of eTRACES, where we try to detect biblical references in German literature automatically: http://etraces.e-humanities.net/project-partners/gcdh-etraces.html Although we know it's hard, we hope that the computer finds some results, we didn't expect or even look for before (serendipity). Two of our collegues here at Leipzig have written a paper about digital serendipity: Marco Büchler and Gregory Crane. Uncovering Serendipity from Historical Data. About Usage of Network Analysis in Humanities. In The Connected Past: People, Networks and Complexity in Archaeology and History, Oxford, UK, 04 2013. Oxford University Press. Hope this helps. Best, Annette --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 08:39:11 -1000 From: John Zuern Subject: Re: 27.67 digital serendipity? In-Reply-To: <20130527205521.DB0203AEC@digitalhumanities.org> Aloha Ingrid: I'm not sure if this is the kind of serendipity you mean, but your question made me think of the practice of *Däumeln* in the German Pietist tradition and all the other forms of sortilege that we can find in religious and cultural traditions in which privileged texts play a central role in moral life. The basic ability to do word searches in a digitized Bible would seem in some ways to optimize the practice of seeking answers to particular moral/spiritual questions in a divine text, insofar as the reader would essentially have the capacity to restrict the operations of chance by providing a scoping term applying to the reader's individual situation. One might imagine more elaborate sortilege engines and personalization schemes. Given your topic, you might be interested in the digitization project for the Hawaiian-language Bible http://baibala.org/ . John -- John David Zuern Associate Professor, Department of English Co-Editor, *Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly* Kuykendall 402 University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Honolulu, HI 96822 808-956-3019 fax: 808-956-3083 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 57B705F5E; Tue, 28 May 2013 22:49:32 +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 2AFE75F4C; Tue, 28 May 2013 22:49:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 05E6B5F48; Tue, 28 May 2013 22:49:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130528204930.05E6B5F48@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 22:49:29 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.70 medieval mss cataloguing with 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. 27, No. 70. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 15:25:29 +0200 From: Torsten Schassan Subject: Re: 27.58 medieval mss cataloguing with TEI? In-Reply-To: <20130524065222.A3A4E3A7E@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Charles, the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (HAB) is cataloguing in TEI P5. Find our materials here: http://diglib.hab.de/?db=mss Documentation, schemata, stylesheets are here: http://diglib.hab.de/rules/documentation TEI P5 serves as "exchange" format in Germany, used by Manuscripta Mediaevalia, though the DB itself has a data format of its own. The following projects/institutions (not complete list) are using TEI P5 as well: - e-codices (http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch) - Libri Sancti Kyliani digital, UB Würzburg (http://www.libri-kiliani.de) - Virtual scriptorium St. Matthias, Trier (http://stmatthias.uni-trier.de) Best, Torsten > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 12:26:31 -0700 > From: "Charles Faulhaber" > Subject: Medieval Manuscript cataloguing projects using TEI P5 > > > Dear Colleagues, > > I would be grateful for any information about projects or institutions that > are using the TEI P5 Manuscript Description guidelines for the cataloguing > of medieval manuscripts. > > Many thanks, > > Charles Faulhaber > The Bancroft Library > U. of California, Berkeley > cbf@berkeley.edu -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id EDB445F6A; Tue, 28 May 2013 22:51:39 +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 BC4405F4A; Tue, 28 May 2013 22:51:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A8C325F4C; Tue, 28 May 2013 22:51:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130528205138.A8C325F4C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 22:51:38 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.71 events: markup; critical views & experiences 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. 27, No. 71. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Sally Wyatt (5) Subject: cfp- eHg workshop Digital Humanities November 2013 [2] From: Tommie Usdin (19) Subject: Balisage 2013 Program Announced --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 16:23:14 +0200 From: Sally Wyatt Subject: cfp- eHg workshop Digital Humanities November 2013 Please find attached the call for papers for the 'Digital humanities: Critical views and experiences' workshop, organized by the e-Humanities Group, KNAW, to be held in Amsterdam on 14-15 November 2013. Deadline for abstracts is 16 June. Sally Wyatt *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1369751221_2013-05-28_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_17142.2.pdf --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 15:17:35 -0400 From: Tommie Usdin Subject: Balisage 2013 Program Announced Balisage: The Markup Conference 2013 Program Now Available Balisage is an annual conference devoted to the theory and practice of descriptive markup and related technologies for structuring and managing information. Participants typically include XML users, librarians, archivists, computer scientists, XSLT and XQuery programmers, implementers of XSLT and XQuery engines and other markup-related software, Topic-Map enthusiasts, semantic-Web evangelists, members of the working groups which define the specifications, academics, industrial researchers, representatives of governmental bodies and NGOs, industrial developers, practitioners, consultants, and the world's greatest concentration of markup theorists. Discussion is open, candid, and unashamedly technical. Major features of this year's program include several challenges to the fundamental infrastructure of XML; case studies from government, academia, and publishing; approaches to overlapping data structures; discussions of XML’s political fortunes; and technical papers on XML, XForms, XQuery, REST, XSLT, RDF, XSL-FO, XSD, the DOM, JSON, and XPath. Schedule at a Glance: http://www.balisage.net/2013/At-A-Glance.html Detailed Program: http://www.balisage.net/2013/Program.html I think this program is the strongest Balisage program to date. Please take a look. -- Tommie Usdin Chair, Balisage: The Markup Conference *** Note *** Many (most?) subscribers to Humanist are eligible for discount registration at Balisage. The TEI and Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations are co-sponsors, making members of either the TEI or any of the members ADHO eligible for discount registration. ====================================================================== 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7213F5F72; Tue, 28 May 2013 22:52:18 +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 3D18F5F6D; Tue, 28 May 2013 22:52:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8D3075F5A; Tue, 28 May 2013 22:52:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130528205216.8D3075F5A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 22:52:16 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.72 volunteers for peer-reviewing? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 72. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 14:27:23 +0000 From: "smc2013@labe.felk.cvut.cz" Subject: IEEE SMC 2013 - Call for PC members/reviewers Dear colleagues, The Program Committee of the IEEE SMC 2013 conference (http://www.smc2013.org/) has received twice as many submissions as expected. We are calling for additional PC members/reviewers for all the three tracks: 1) Cybernetics 2) Systems Science & Engineering 3) Human-Machine Systems We are kindly asking all potential volunteers to submit within 48 hours to holomas@labe.felk.cvut.cz the following: - CV - description of the fields of interest (2-4 lines) Please, be so kind and help enhance the quality of the evaluation process of the SMC 2013 Conference by your personal involvement!! On behalf of the PC Honghai Liu Vladimír Marik A Min Tjoa _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DA7BF5F74; Tue, 28 May 2013 22:52:48 +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 A91E85F6C; Tue, 28 May 2013 22:52:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 23BF45F6B; Tue, 28 May 2013 22:52:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130528205246.23BF45F6B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 22:52:46 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.73 an apology to 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 73. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 22:39:43 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: an apology to numbers Many here will enjoy Jon Volkmer's "A Humanist Apologizes to Numbers", in the Chronicle of Higher Education for 28 May, http://chronicle.com/article/A-Humanist-Apologizes-to/139421/?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&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 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C58335F72; Tue, 28 May 2013 22:54:21 +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 92EA05F6A; Tue, 28 May 2013 22:54:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 22ABC5F6A; Tue, 28 May 2013 22:54:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130528205420.22ABC5F6A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 22:54:20 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.74 an apology for a vanished 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. 27, No. 74. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 06:44:35 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: who wrote? Dear colleagues, When you send a message to Humanist the subject-line is crucial. If it's blank then the software Humanist uses cannot do anything with it, and if (as yesterday) I forget how to discover the e-mail address of the sender, then all I can do is to delete it. So, if you sent a message yesterday or the day before that has not appeared, this is the reason. Please resubmit and accept my apologies. The jetlag acquired in the process of getting to Humanist's physical home for the season, in Newtown, Sydney, has had its effects. Also, of course, its rewards -- the chance to help the new Director of the new Research Group in Digital Humanities at Western Sydney, Professor Paul Arthur, celebrate and get started! Please don't hesitate to complain if I get something else wrong in these first few days :-).... Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, Research Group in Digital Humanities, 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 04D8D5F73; Thu, 30 May 2013 02:22:23 +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 4EAA95F71; Thu, 30 May 2013 02:22:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AF8D05F68; Thu, 30 May 2013 02:22:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130530002221.AF8D05F68@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 02:22:21 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.75 digital serendipity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 75. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Martin Holmes (34) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.67 digital serendipity? [2] From: Ben Brumfield (87) Subject: Re: 27.67 digital serendipity? [3] From: Suzana Sukovic (187) Subject: Re: 27.69 digital serendipity [4] From: Alexander O'Connor (176) Subject: Re: 27.69 digital serendipity --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 14:55:18 -0700 From: Martin Holmes Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.67 digital serendipity? In-Reply-To: <20130527205521.DB0203AEC@digitalhumanities.org> On 13-05-27 01:55 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 15:32:03 +0000 From: "Ingrid I. Satelmajer" > Subject: Digital serendipity > > Is there, for instance, a digital equivalent to the following account > from one Bible distribution group?: > > A Bible gets thrown on a roof in a fit of rage. > > Several years later, during a time of great need, a storm comes along > and knocks the Bible off the roof into the lap of the person who > originally had it. > > Can something like that happen in the digital world? I have some data (my MPhil thesis and assorted research notes) on 5.25-inch floppy disks. I haven't been able to read them for decades. If one day I happened upon a machine which could read the disks, and was able to access a copy of the original software used to produce them and run it in a virtual machine of some kind, I'd suddenly have access to the data, and it might be quite interesting (for me, at least) to read my notes and see how my long-forgotten work developed. This sort of thing is increasingly common with the availability of virtual machine software. Sites such as http://www.vetusware.com/ make it possible to revive ancient software and get access to files long-inaccessible due to obsolescence. If you have some old WordStar files you haven't been able to read since 1987, install VirtualBox, set up a DOS VM, and install WordStar 4.0. (Of course, getting the data out is a whole different problem...) Cheers, Martin -- Martin Holmes University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (mholmes@uvic.ca) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 16:21:19 -0500 From: Ben Brumfield Subject: Re: 27.67 digital serendipity? In-Reply-To: <20130527205521.DB0203AEC@digitalhumanities.org> I think the serendipity you describe in your bible-on-the-roof example--or perhaps the serendipity of spotting just the right book on a shelf while you were looking for something else--is very possible in the digital age. I mentioned a story my crowdsourcing talk for the Society of Southwestern Archivists meeting last week ( http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com/2013/05/choosing-crowdsourced-transcription.html ) which I'd like to expand on: A few years ago, I started transcribing my great-great grandmother's diaries. (Developing a tool for this task was what introduced me to the digital humanities.) My goal was to research and producing an edition by enlisting the help of my family members, some of whom would know about the people mentioned, while others might offer perspective on the agricultural or domestic activities described, while yet others would simply be quick typists or tech-savvy indexers. Around January of this year, a new volunteer appeared. Nat Wooding--his name is relevant--has transcribed six months worth of entries, indexing terms and adding comments about frost dates, traveling salesmen, mental institutions, and difficult-to-read portions of the manuscript. (See the contributions by "Nathani" here and in subsequent pages: http://fromthepage.com/deed/list?collection_id=1 ) The volunteer is not related to the diarist, nor was he contacted by any of the family members I was hoping to enlist. So how did Nat Wooding discover the project? Through a "vanity search" -- he Googled his own name, and discovered transcripts mentioning a "Nat Wooding" who was the diarist's mail carrier. Reading the entries led him to conclude that the mail carrier was actually his great-uncle, and his namesake. I would call that serendipity. As I point out in the talk, it's a serendipity that can be engineered--or at least encouraged--by digitization practices which render material visible to search engines. But without search engines and digitization, I can't imagine how I could have found this particular volunteer to add his perspective to the edition, nor how Nat Wooding could have learned of privately-held diaries which mention the people, places, and times he's interested in. Ben Brumfield http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 10:18:40 +1000 From: Suzana Sukovic Subject: Re: 27.69 digital serendipity In-Reply-To: <20130528204810.7BBDC3AD6@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Ingrid, Serendipity is part of information discovery online. You may like to have a look at my chapter *E-texts in research projects in the humanities * http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/7261 Parts about netchaining and exploration have relevant bits and pieces. Best wishes, Suzana Dr Suzana Sukovic Research Associate, The University of Sydney Head of Learning Resource Centre St Vincent's College Locked Bag 2700 Potts Point, NSW, 1335 Tel: (02) 9368 1611 ext 215 Fax: (02) 9356 2118 http://www.stvincents.nsw.edu.au/ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 12:40:25 +0100 From: Alexander O'Connor Subject: Re: 27.69 digital serendipity In-Reply-To: <20130528204810.7BBDC3AD6@digitalhumanities.org> Serendipitous finding is what a huge amount of computer science research is focused on. The whole areas of recommender systems, social sharing and even much of what is personalised retrieval seek to help users be pleasantly surprised by their findings. I have an intuitive suspicion that a generally highly-rated item is a more useful recommendation than a specific one, in many cases. This has been observed with things like movies and books, where people are highly inconsistent in their ratings, and where their ratings of particular items can evolve or change over time. In those cases it can be easier to recommend 'citizen kane' to everyone who has not seen it, rather than trying to find a very specific result. Some (scattered) references that might hopefully be of interest: http://www.ercim.eu/publication/ws-proceedings/DelNoe01/3_Toms.pdf http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=864217&show=abstract http://www.pnas.org/content/107/10/4511.short -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 676F05F7E; Thu, 30 May 2013 02:23:03 +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 3A4E65F72; Thu, 30 May 2013 02:23:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 337705F73; Thu, 30 May 2013 02:23:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130530002301.337705F73@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 02:23:01 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.76 jobs at Manchester X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 76. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 13:10:23 +0100 From: David Kirby Subject: Two Research Associates in Science Communication Studies, University of Manchester Two Research Associates in Science Communication Studies, University of Manchester Applications are invited for two postdoctoral researchers to work on a Wellcome Trust funded project exploring the interactions between the biosciences, religion and entertainment media. These three year posts would suit scholars from Science Communication Studies, Science & Technology Studies, the History of Science, Technology or Medicine, or Science Fiction Studies. You will be actively involved with all aspects of the project and will be expected to develop publications closely related to the aims of the grant. You will also have the opportunity to engage in related independent research. Additionally, you will be actively engaged in other activities relevant to the project including the organization and realization of workshops and conferences. In addition, successful applications will be expected to participate in all activities as a member of the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. You must hold, or shortly complete, a PhD or equivalent in a relevant area and a commitment to postdoctoral research. Salary will be £29,541 to £36,298 per annum according to relevant experience. The closing date for applications is 30 June 2013. Informal enquiries can be made to Dr David Kirby, Senior Lecturer in Science Communication Studies: david.kirby@manchester.ac.uk Further details and the online application form can be found at: https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/DisplayJob.aspx?pageno=0&htmlpage=JobDisplay&Jobid=20922&txtKeywords=&chkCategory=962&lstRegion=&chkSalary=2203,2204&chksubject=&optMatch=Any&clientid=73&AttachedSAF=0 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 077945F7F; Thu, 30 May 2013 02:25:56 +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 CB6BB5F6A; Thu, 30 May 2013 02:25:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 57AF65F71; Thu, 30 May 2013 02:25:54 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130530002554.57AF65F71@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 02:25:54 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.77 events: Around the World; prosopography; 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. 27, No. 77. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (11) Subject: Alison Booth: A talk about Prosopography [2] From: Séamus Lawless (65) Subject: 2nd Call for Papers - ENRICH Workshop at SIGIR 2013 [3] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (7) Subject: Around the World Symposium on Digital Culture --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 10:45:54 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Alison Booth: A talk about Prosopography > From: "Bradley, John" > > Subject: Alison Booth: A talk about Prosopography > Date: 28 May 2013 17:07:03 BST Dear colleagues and friends: I thought you might be interested in the presentation by a colleague I know, Alison Booth, from the University of Virginia who will be visiting us at DDH/KCL on Tuesday, June 11th. Alison is a Professor of English, but has developed an interest in prosopography. She has kindly offered to give us a talk on her work, and I have arranged for this in the DDH seminar room (rm 212, 26-29 Drury Lane) at 2 pm on the 11th June. It is described below. If you have a colleague who might be interested, please feel free to pass the invitation on. Regards. ... John Bradley ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prosopography and Biographical Collections in Print: Names, Events, Nationality, and Other Puzzles In digital humanities, prosopography as a concept and method should be more widely acknowledged and applied in literary as well as historical studies. This workshop will present the Collective Biographies of Women project (CBW) and its innovative analysis of collections of short biographies of women published in English 1830-1950. The CBW database identifies 9500 persons represented in 13,000 versions in 1200 books; a stand-aside XML schema, Biographical Elements and Structure Schema (BESS), applies a controlled vocabulary to analyze these narratives, comparing versions of the same life or of diverse types. In the context of CBW's prosopographical study, this talk focuses on Alison Booth's current exploration of Italian women as a "documentary social network." Every prosopographer, studying any era, has encountered the problems of identifying an individual, disambiguating a name, determining dates or places. The analysis of biographical data presents quite a different challenge in a printed archive of collected life narratives than in studies that reconstruct historical persons, contemporary groups, and events from scarce or overlooked evidence. In the often anachronistic and eclectic networks of well-documented persons constructed by the published volumes, the fundamentals of a biographical database remain unstable in revealing ways. The famous women of the Renaissance who appear in Victorian collections go by many names (due to marriage, titles of nobility, genealogy, pseudonyms, translation), and may be termed "Italian" or "French" for different purposes (by language, geography, political boundaries in different eras). Victorians, who tended to advocate an independent and united Italy, also advocated progress for women through short collected biographies of women of various centuries and contexts united under the term and idea, Italy. Alison Booth, Professor of English at the University of Virginia, directs the Collective Biographies of Women project at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, with the support of an American Council of Learned Societies Digital Innovation Fellowship. Her research explores both the audience reception of authors and prosopography, that is, biographies of individuals in groups, in a transatlantic context. She is the author of Greatness Engendered: George Eliot and Virginia Woolf (Cornell, 1992) and How to Make It as a Woman: Collective Biographical History from Victoria to the Present (Chicago, 2004), and editor of Wuthering Heights (Longman) and Introduction to Literature (8th-10th editions, Norton). She is finishing a book on British and North American literary tourism, house museums, and biography entitled "Homes and Haunts." --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 06:56:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Séamus Lawless Subject: 2nd Call for Papers - ENRICH Workshop at SIGIR 2013 In-Reply-To: <1369217916.13817.YahooMailNeo@web142605.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> 2nd Call for Papers The First Workshop on the Exploration, Navigation and Retrieval of Information in Cultural Heritage - ENRICH 2013 http://www.cultura-strep.eu/events/enrich-2013/ To be held in conjunction with the 36th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference Workshop date: August 1st, 2013 Location: Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Submission deadline: 9th June 2013 ********************************************************************************************** ENRICH 2013 has three main goals:  - to discuss the challenges and opportunities in Information Retrieval research in the area of Cultural Heritage  - to encourage collaboration between researchers engaged in work in this specialist area of Information Retrieval, and to foster the formation of a research community  - to identify a set of actions which the community should undertake to progress research in this area   ********************************************************************************************** A key challenge facing the curators and providers of digital cultural heritage worldwide is to instigate, increase and enhance engagement with their collections. To achieve this, a fundamental change in the way these artefacts can be discovered, explored and contributed to by users and communities is required. Cultural heritage artefacts are digital representations of primary resources: manuscript collections, paintings, books, photographs etc. The text-based resources are often innately “noisy”, contain non-standard spelling, poor punctuation and obsolete grammar and word forms. The image-based resources often have limited associated metadata which describes the resources and their content. In addition, the information needs and tasks of cultural heritage users are often complex and diverse. This presents a specific set of challenges to traditional Information Retrieval (IR) techniques and approaches. This workshop will investigate the enhanced retrieval of, and interaction with, cultural heritage collections. We are interested in investigating innovative forms of personalised, multi-lingual IR, which can include:  - IR approaches tailored to cope with the inconsistencies which are common in cultural heritage collections.  - Content-aware retrieval approaches which respond to the entities and relationships contained within artefacts and across collections.   - Personalised IR and presentation.   - Community-aware IR approaches which respond to community activity, interest, contribution and experience.  Such new forms of enhanced IR require rigorous evaluation and validation using appropriate metrics, contrasting digital cultural heritage collections and diverse users and communities. This workshop welcomes submissions which investigate such evaluation, taking into account the specific requirements of the domain. The nature of cultural heritage resources means that content analysis in support of IR is of specific interest. This includes the automated normalisation of historical texts, the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) for entity extraction and metadata generation.  The ENRICH workshop aims to promote the exchange of ideas between researchers working on the theory and foundations of IR, cross and multi-lingual IR, personalised IR and recommender systems.  There are numerous research areas that can support such improved retrieval and exploration in the area of cultural heritage. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas:  - Multilingual semantic search   - Context-aware and semantic recommender systems   - Adaptation engines and algorithms for personalised multilingual IR   - User modeling and adaptation (e.g. creation and exploitation of individual or stereotypical user profiles)   - Content personalisation and personalised result presentation (e.g. beyond the ranked list)  - Domain modeling   - External knowledge resources for IR (e.g. ontologies)   - Evaluation methodologies and metrics for personalised multilingual IR   - Information Extraction, Data Mining and Natural Language Processing   - Social Network Analysis  *Submissions* We invite researchers to submit two categories of paper:  Long paper submissions should report on substantial contributions of lasting value. Each accepted long paper will be presented in a plenary session of the workshop program. The maximum length is 8 pages.  Short paper submissions should discuss exciting new work that is not yet mature enough for a long paper. The presentation may include the demonstration of a system. The maximum length is 4 pages. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the workshop. All submissions should be prepared according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Templates, as for all SIGIR submissions.  For your convenience, you can use the templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX that have been made available on the ACM  website: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates/ The ENRICH Workshop does not use blind reviews, so please include authors’ names and affiliations on your submission. All submissions will receive several independent reviews.  Submissions must be in PDF format and must be in English.  All papers must be submitted electronically before the 9th of June 2013 through the EasyChair submission page - https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=enrich2013 ENRICH 2013 will be hosted in the Long Room Hub, the Digital Arts and Humanities Research Institute of Trinity College Dublin - http://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/. The Long Room Hub is a signature building at the heart of the historic TCD campus. The institute takes its name from the Library's iconic ‘Long Room'. The Long Room Hub is the home of a number of major, EU funded, Digital Humanities research projects, which use the most advanced digital technologies for the democratization of knowledge and also explore new research questions, approaches and methodologies enabled by technological change. *Important Dates* Deadline for submission:9th June Notification of acceptance:28th June Camera-ready version of papers:8th July Workshop:1st August *Organizers* Prof. Séamus Lawless (School of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) seamus.lawless@scss.tcd.ie Prof. Maristella Agosti (Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy)  maristella.agosti@unipd.it Dr. Paul Clough (Information School, University of Sheffield, UK) p.d.clough@sheffield.ac.uk Prof. Owen Conlan (School of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)  owen.conlan@scss.tcd.ie   *Further Information* http://www.cultura-strep.eu/events/enrich-2013/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 14:12:09 -0600 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Around the World Symposium on Digital Culture In-Reply-To: <1369217916.13817.YahooMailNeo@web142605.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Dear colleagues, Please consider tuning tomorrow for any part of the Around the World Symposium on Digital Culture. This Symposium is an experiment in broadcasting a conference over the internet. Over the day we will have speakers from around the world including Brazil, Canada, USA, Nigeria, Japan, and Ireland. See the program of speakers at: http://aroundtheworld.ualberta.ca/?page_id=22 Listen in online. Tweet questions to speakers using #UofAworld Best, Geoffrey Rockwell _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 36F4B5F77; Thu, 30 May 2013 22:45:14 +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 08AA45ED7; Thu, 30 May 2013 22:45:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 01F383A8B; Thu, 30 May 2013 22:45:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130530204512.01F383A8B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 22:45:11 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.78 postdoc at Toronto: online communities 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. 27, No. 78. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 22:39:28 -0400 From: William Bowen Subject: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities, Online Communities (Toronto) Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities, Online Communities Iter (http://www.itergateway.org/) and the University of Toronto Scarborough are seeking a full-time postdoctoral fellow working in areas that bridge computation, digital humanities, and textual studies in a project related to Iter Community (http://community.itergateway.org/), an emerging digital platform to facilitate research and teaching in Medieval and Renaissance studies. The successful applicant will join an existing team of adjacent developers, research assistants, research partners, and postdoctoral fellows who share interests 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 those related to textual studies, digital humanities, and social networking, also including training or demonstrated experience working with a variety of digital humanities resources such as digital archives, scholarly editions, journals and monographs, and related areas. Organizational skills are essential. Interest and aptitude in research planning and management are an asset, as are technical skills pertinent to social networking environments. The ability to work in concert with our existing team is a critical requirement. This position includes salary that is competitive in the Canadian context, governed in part by funding agency practices and subject to budgetary approval. The position is located in Toronto and is available for September 2013, for a one-year term with the possibility of renewal. Applications comprising a brief cover letter, CV, and the names and contact information for three referees may be sent electronically to m.english.haskin@utoronto.ca (Margaret English-Haskin). Interviews may be conducted via Skype or in person, in Toronto or other venues as feasible. Review of applications begin 15 June 2013 and will continue until the position is filled. William R. Bowen, Chair Department of Arts, Culture and Media University of Toronto Scarborough 1265 Military Trail, H409A Toronto, Ontario, M1C 1A4 tel: 416 208-5116 fax: 416 287-7116 acm-chair@utsc.utoronto.ca -------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CB84A5F85; Thu, 30 May 2013 22:47:19 +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 9C0A05F81; Thu, 30 May 2013 22:47:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E3ECF5F73; Thu, 30 May 2013 22:47:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130530204717.E3ECF5F73@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 22:47:17 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.79 events: digital libraries; TEI; narratives in spatial 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. 27, No. 79. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Dixon, Simon N. (Dr.)" (25) Subject: Digital Humanities Seminar: Stuart Dunn, 1pm, 5 June [2] From: "Downie, J Stephen" (21) Subject: JCDL 2013 Early-Bird Registration Extension [3] From: Julia Flanders (13) Subject: Taking TEI Further: Teaching with TEI (extended deadline approaching) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 10:29:17 +0100 From: "Dixon, Simon N. (Dr.)" Subject: Digital Humanities Seminar: Stuart Dunn, 1pm, 5 June In-Reply-To: <7722595275A4DD4FA225B92CDBF174A101B0CE8F2BD5@EXC-MBX3.cfs.le.ac.uk> Dear Colleagues, For those of you within easy reach of Leicester, please see below details of our next Digital Humanities Seminar. If you can't make it in person, then we will be webcasting the session via the following link. https://connect.le.ac.uk/dhseminar5june2013/ All are welcome for what promises to be an excellent presentation. Best wishes, Simon Leicester Digital Humanities Seminars 5 June 2013, 1-2.15pm Library Seminar Room, 1st Floor, David Wilson Library Building Narratives in Spatial History: The Emergence of the Online Gazetteer in the Digital Humanities Dr Stuart Dunn, King's College, London Linked data is enabling ever more connected forms of digital scholarship. This talk will reflect on one particular aspect: the emergence of the digital gazetteer, and what it means to link spatial concepts in a digital environment. Well known community activities such as GeoNames have given us a context fo such development, now academia needs to forge a way forward for the development of this kind of infrastructure. From complex historical administrative hierarchies in the Survey of English Place-names, to contested and conflicting geographies in ancient Cyprus, the talk will highlight recent projects to develop sophisticated digital gazetteers, the problems they address, and the problems they do not. http://www2.le.ac.uk/library/services/digital-humanities/workshops-and-events-1/stuart-dunn-digital-exposure-of-english-place-names 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: Thu, 30 May 2013 15:55:38 +0000 From: "Downie, J Stephen" Subject: JCDL 2013 Early-Bird Registration Extension In-Reply-To: <7722595275A4DD4FA225B92CDBF174A101B0CE8F2BD5@EXC-MBX3.cfs.le.ac.uk> Dear Colleagues Early-bird registration for JCDL 2013 has been extended to June 5. Register online at http://www.regonline.com/JCDL2013. Rates available at http://jcdl2013.org/registration. The full program is available at http://jcdl2013.sched.org/. The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, organizational, and social issues. The theme for JCDL 2013 is "Digital Libraries at the Crossroads," in recognition of our location (Indiana is known as the Crossroads of America) and in recognition of the changes forthcoming from the age of mass digitization, big data, and the ever changing nature of scholarly communications. Program Highlights * 3 outstanding keynote speakers: Jill Cousins, Clifford Lynch, and David de Roure. More information at: http://jcdl2013.org/keynotespeakers; * 6 workshops covering topics such as data and software preservation, digital scholarship, research methods and artefacts preservation, web archiving, mining publications, and CURATEcamp. More information at http://jcdl2013.org/workshops; * 6 tutorials on topics including Europeana data model & collections, ResourceSync, Introduction to Digital Libraries, building collections with Greenstone, mining data semantics, and using open annotation. More information at http://jcdl2013.org/tutorials; * A diverse range of papers - 28 full papers and 22 short papers. More information at http://jcdl2013.org/papers; * And much more, including posters and demonstrations. More information at posters and demonstrations. Indianapolis is a wonderful conference city friendly to both walkers and cyclists, with many dining, entertainment, and sports options accessible from the downtown area. Check out the visitors guide developed for ACRL 2013: http://conference.acrl.org/indy-pages-163.php. More JCDL travel details are available at http://jcdl2013.org/travel. Cheers on behalf of the JCDL 2013 Team, 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 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 15:56:55 -0400 From: Julia Flanders Subject: Taking TEI Further: Teaching with TEI (extended deadline approaching) In-Reply-To: <7722595275A4DD4FA225B92CDBF174A101B0CE8F2BD5@EXC-MBX3.cfs.le.ac.uk> Please note the slightly extended deadline! Taking TEI Further: Teaching with TEI Brown University, August 21-23, 2013 Application deadline: June 5, 2013 **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? How can we effectively assess student work of this kind? 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6F52F5F88; Thu, 30 May 2013 22:48:42 +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 3EE9C5F83; Thu, 30 May 2013 22:48:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6EA395F7F; Thu, 30 May 2013 22:48:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130530204840.6EA395F7F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 22:48:40 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.80 digital serendipity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 80. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Matthew Kirschenbaum (82) Subject: Re: 27.75 digital serendipity [2] From: Willard McCarty (29) Subject: digital serendipity --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 21:55:28 -0400 From: Matthew Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 27.75 digital serendipity In-Reply-To: <20130530002221.AF8D05F68@digitalhumanities.org> I would quibble a bit with Martin's scenario in that I don't think that kind of preservation and data recovery is "serendipity," just good practices. There are controller cards and other technologies available for mating old school floppy drives to modern hardware, and institutional archives (as well as individuals) are making use of them on an increasingly routine basis. Martin, if you ever come by MITH, bring those disks and we'll see what we can do! Matt On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 75. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: Martin Holmes (34) > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.67 digital serendipity? > > [2] From: Ben Brumfield (87) > Subject: Re: 27.67 digital serendipity? > > [3] From: Suzana Sukovic (187) > Subject: Re: 27.69 digital serendipity > > [4] From: Alexander O'Connor (176) > Subject: Re: 27.69 digital serendipity > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 14:55:18 -0700 > From: Martin Holmes > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.67 digital serendipity? > In-Reply-To: <20130527205521.DB0203AEC@digitalhumanities.org> > > > On 13-05-27 01:55 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >> Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 15:32:03 +0000 From: "Ingrid I. Satelmajer" >> Subject: Digital serendipity >> >> Is there, for instance, a digital equivalent to the following account >> from one Bible distribution group?: >> >> A Bible gets thrown on a roof in a fit of rage. >> >> Several years later, during a time of great need, a storm comes along >> and knocks the Bible off the roof into the lap of the person who >> originally had it. >> >> Can something like that happen in the digital world? > > I have some data (my MPhil thesis and assorted research notes) on > 5.25-inch floppy disks. I haven't been able to read them for decades. If > one day I happened upon a machine which could read the disks, and was > able to access a copy of the original software used to produce them and > run it in a virtual machine of some kind, I'd suddenly have access to > the data, and it might be quite interesting (for me, at least) to read > my notes and see how my long-forgotten work developed. > > This sort of thing is increasingly common with the availability of > virtual machine software. Sites such as http://www.vetusware.com/ make > it possible to revive ancient software and get access to files > long-inaccessible due to obsolescence. If you have some old WordStar > files you haven't been able to read since 1987, install VirtualBox, set > up a DOS VM, and install WordStar 4.0. (Of course, getting the data out > is a whole different problem...) > > Cheers, > Martin > > -- > Martin Holmes > University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre > (mholmes@uvic.ca) > -- 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/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 06:43:57 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: digital serendipity In-Reply-To: <20130530002221.AF8D05F68@digitalhumanities.org> I don't know but suspect that there's a connection to be made (or which has been made) between serendipity, coincidence, causation and synchronicity. There's some interesting and worthy writings in this area in Knowledge and reflexivity: new frontiers in the sociology of knowledge, ed Steve Woolgar (London: Sage, 1988). Also note Persi Diaconis and Frederick Mosteller, "Methods for Studying Coincidences", Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 84, No. 408 (Dec., 1989), pp. 853-861; Hilary P. Dannenberg, "A Poetics of Coincidence in Narrative Fiction", Poetics Today 25.3 (Fall 2004), and by the same author, Coincidence and Counterfactuality: Plotting Time and Space in Narrative Fiction (Lincoln NB: Univ of Nebraska Press, 2008). But more to our point is the cross-over when in an artificially intelligent environment agents begin to relate more serendipitously than causally, when the environment becomes complex. This may be too much a product of early morning coffee, but I find myself wondering if, given that such an environment would be manipulable in an experimental way one could tune for serendipity? Also, closer to the ground, given Diaconis and Mosteller, whether serendipity is probabilistic and so approachable by computational means in somewhat the same way as literary style? If this makes sense to anyone here, please go at it. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, Research Group in Digital Humanities, 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4A9373B4F; Fri, 31 May 2013 22:13:59 +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 1DE723A5F; Fri, 31 May 2013 22:13:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 936013A29; Fri, 31 May 2013 22:13:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130531201356.936013A29@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 22:13:56 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.81 digital serendipity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 81. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Alexander O'Connor (58) Subject: Re: 27.80 digital serendipity [2] From: "Ingrid I. Satelmajer" (75) Subject: RE: 27.80 digital serendipity --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 10:02:20 +0100 From: Alexander O'Connor Subject: Re: 27.80 digital serendipity In-Reply-To: <20130530204840.6EA395F7F@digitalhumanities.org> In essence, this is the insight (as I understand it, at least) that Page (and Brin) had with google and the PageRank algorithm. Forgive me if I am explaining what is already known to the colloquium, but this is the model as I perceive it. PageRank considers the notion of a random walker who clicks links between pages. The graph of pages is converted into a set of probabilistic, serendipitous paths, and picks the strongest ones for the user. It's a sort of accelerated, probabilistic serendipity. I'm not familiar with the literary style approach, so this might be way off the mark. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank#Algorithm On 30 May 2013, at 21:48, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 06:43:57 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: digital serendipity > In-Reply-To: <20130530002221.AF8D05F68@digitalhumanities.org> > > I don't know but suspect that there's a connection to be made (or which > has been made) between serendipity, coincidence, causation and > synchronicity. There's some interesting and worthy writings in this area > in Knowledge and reflexivity: new frontiers in the sociology of > knowledge, ed Steve Woolgar (London: Sage, 1988). Also note Persi > Diaconis and Frederick Mosteller, "Methods for Studying Coincidences", > Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 84, No. 408 (Dec., > 1989), pp. 853-861; Hilary P. Dannenberg, "A Poetics of Coincidence in > Narrative Fiction", Poetics Today 25.3 (Fall 2004), and by the same > author, Coincidence and Counterfactuality: Plotting Time and Space in > Narrative Fiction (Lincoln NB: Univ of Nebraska Press, 2008). > > But more to our point is the cross-over when in an artificially > intelligent environment agents begin to relate more serendipitously than > causally, when the environment becomes complex. This may be too much a > product of early morning coffee, but I find myself wondering if, given > that such an environment would be manipulable in an experimental way one > could tune for serendipity? Also, closer to the ground, given Diaconis > and Mosteller, whether serendipity is probabilistic and so approachable > by computational means in somewhat the same way as literary style? > > If this makes sense to anyone here, please go at it. > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of > the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College > London; Professor, Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of > Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews > (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); > www.mccarty.org.uk/ -- Dr. Alexander O'Connor Knowledge & Data Engineering Group Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Alex.OConnor@scss.tcd.ie --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 17:48:50 +0000 From: "Ingrid I. Satelmajer" Subject: RE: 27.80 digital serendipity In-Reply-To: <20130530204840.6EA395F7F@digitalhumanities.org> I appreciate Matt's point, but I also think that Martin's example speaks to an element of durability that--although not addressed in my question about serendipity--is an important element in the original Bible-falls-off-the-roof example. But perhaps both of those elements comes through with a hypothetical sent to me before I posted the question: Someone saves a document (digital Bible) via an online storage system, deletes the document, and then rediscovers it at some point when that online storage system sends an automated message to her. (This seems different from but conversant with Maurizio Lana's example of lost and rediscovered files via typographical errors.) In any case, I've been sending individual messages to the people who have weighed in on this conversation, but let me also say my thanks now to the humanist collective (and to Matt, who pointed me to this group). I'm finding a lot to work with as I collate the separate examples sent and compile a rough bibliography--and will be happy to continue the conversation here and elsewhere. Best, Ingrid iis@umd.edu Ingrid Satelmajer Lecturer University Honors Anne Arundel Hall University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 21:55:28 -0400 > From: Matthew Kirschenbaum > Subject: Re: 27.75 digital serendipity > In-Reply-To: <20130530002221.AF8D05F68@digitalhumanities.org> > > I would quibble a bit with Martin's scenario in that I don't think > that kind of preservation and data recovery is "serendipity," just > good practices. There are controller cards and other technologies > available for mating old school floppy drives to modern hardware, and > institutional archives (as well as individuals) are making use of them > on an increasingly routine basis. Martin, if you ever come by MITH, > bring those disks and we'll see what we can do! Matt > > >> >> On 13-05-27 01:55 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >>> Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 15:32:03 +0000 From: "Ingrid I. Satelmajer" >>> Subject: Digital serendipity >>> >>> Is there, for instance, a digital equivalent to the following account >>> from one Bible distribution group?: >>> >>> A Bible gets thrown on a roof in a fit of rage. >>> >>> Several years later, during a time of great need, a storm comes along >>> and knocks the Bible off the roof into the lap of the person who >>> originally had it. >>> >>> Can something like that happen in the digital world? >> >> I have some data (my MPhil thesis and assorted research notes) on >> 5.25-inch floppy disks. I haven't been able to read them for decades. If >> one day I happened upon a machine which could read the disks, and was >> able to access a copy of the original software used to produce them and >> run it in a virtual machine of some kind, I'd suddenly have access to >> the data, and it might be quite interesting (for me, at least) to read >> my notes and see how my long-forgotten work developed. >> >> This sort of thing is increasingly common with the availability of >> virtual machine software. Sites such as http://www.vetusware.com/ make >> it possible to revive ancient software and get access to files >> long-inaccessible due to obsolescence. If you have some old WordStar >> files you haven't been able to read since 1987, install VirtualBox, set >> up a DOS VM, and install WordStar 4.0. (Of course, getting the data out >> is a whole different problem...) >> >> Cheers, >> Martin >> >> -- >> Martin Holmes >> University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre >> (mholmes@uvic.ca) >> > > -- > 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: 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,BAYES_00, 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 C15125F85; Fri, 31 May 2013 22:14:26 +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 8CA5F5F7F; Fri, 31 May 2013 22:14:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BB98D5F4C; Fri, 31 May 2013 22:14:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130531201424.BB98D5F4C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 22:14:24 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.82 robotics & 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. 27, No. 82. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 06:59:38 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: May 2013 HASTAC News I note in the latest HASTAC news the link made in person by Ruzena Bajcsy between robotics and digital humanities. In her acceptance speech for the 2013 IEEE Robotics and Automation Award at the recent conference in Karlsruhe, Professor Bajcsy admonished her audience of mostly much younger roboticists to look to the history of their field, to become aware of those who had gone before and done those things that made current work possible. An historical awareness in a technical field is a very good sign of an opening up to the humanities, I think. Yours, WM -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: May 2013 HASTAC News > Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 16:59:28 +0000 > From: HASTAC HASTAC Happenings [...] Happy Birthday, Ruzena RUZENA This month, our beloved Ruzena Bajcsy, one of the nation’s most distinguished engineers and a great friend and founding member of HASTAC, celebrates her 80th birthday. Ruzena is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and Director Emeritus of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) at the University of California, Berkeley, where she works on machine perception, robotics and artificial intelligence. Ruzena has more fire, imagination, originality, and youthful energy than most anyone and we will always be grateful for her leadership of HASTAC from its very beginning. She has served on our Steering Committee and is now a member of our Council of Advisors. Happy Birthday, Ruzena! _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 802F15F7F; Fri, 31 May 2013 22:17:04 +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 2FFEF5F84; Fri, 31 May 2013 22:17:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 51AF95F7E; Fri, 31 May 2013 22:17:02 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130531201702.51AF95F7E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 22:17:02 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.83 events: methods in libraries; archaeology of digital exhibitions 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="===============6308034086153278028==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============6308034086153278028== Content-Type: text/plain Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 83. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: (23) Subject: Programme of the 5th QQML Conference [2] From: Julianne Nyhan (3) Subject: Archaeology of the digital exhibition --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 04:45:23 +0300 From: Subject: Programme of the 5th QQML Conference 5th International Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries Dear Colleagues, Please find the revised program at the conference site: http://www.isast.org/programplenarysession.html. The revised book of abstracts will be published soon also. On behalf of the organizing committee I wish you a pleasant trip to Rome. Kind regards, See you in Rome, 4-7 June, 2013, 5th QQML! Anthi Katsirikou Librarian, PhD, MSc QQML Conference co-chair Director, University of Piraeus Library Coordinator of European Documentation Centers in Greece Adjunct Lecturer at TEI of Athens Member of the Board of the Association of Greek Librarians and Information Professionals http://www.isast.org/ http://www.isast.org Fax 0030 210 3630667 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 11:40:55 +0100 From: Julianne Nyhan Subject: Archaeology of the digital exhibition In-Reply-To: "The Lewis Residence by Frank Gehry (1985–1995), Peter Eisenman’s unrealized Biocentrum (1987), Chuck Hoberman’s Expanding Sphere (1992) and Shoei Yoh’s roof structures for Odawara (1991) and Galaxy Toyama (1992) Gymnasiums: four seminal projects that established bold new directions for architectural research by experimenting with novel digital tools. Curated by architect Greg Lynn, Archaeology of the Digital is conceived as an investigation into the foundations of digital architecture at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s. " http://www.cca.qc.ca/en/exhibitions/1964-archaeology-of-the-digital --===============6308034086153278028== 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 --===============6308034086153278028==-- Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0BF295F8D; Fri, 31 May 2013 22:18:19 +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 CE3F45F89; Fri, 31 May 2013 22:18:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 587A55F85; Fri, 31 May 2013 22:18:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130531201818.587A55F85@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 22:18:18 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.84 pubs: reconstruction of mss fragments X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 84. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 22:41:20 +0000 From: "Thomas.Gloning@germanistik.uni-giessen.de" Subject: Re: article on computer reconstruction of Genizah manuscriptfragments In-Reply-To: <34D0229C7C905743BEFD3509BC03FC910CC3D9AE@exmbt03.asurite.ad.asu.edu> Zitat von Monica Green : > Dear MEDMED-L Colleagues, > > There's a fascinating article in today's New York Times about a > project to reconstruct and reassemble manuscript fragments in Hebrew > and Judeo-Arabic from the Cairo Genizah collection: "The idea is to > harness technology to help reassemble more than 100,000 document > fragments collected across 1,000 years that reveal details of Jewish > life along the Mediterranean, including marriage, medicine and > mysticism." As one quoted scholar says, “I want from the computer to > give me something new, a new horizon, a new tool that was never > there before.” And that's what we seem to be getting! Here's the > link: > http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/27/world/middleeast/computers-piecing-together-jigsaw-of-jewish-lore.html > > The Times is, of course, only publicizing work that has been going > on for some time. For more details about computerized analyses of > the Genizah collection, you can find links to published studies > here: http://www.genizah.org/ProfessionalPapers.aspx > > Monica Green > Professor of History > School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies > Arizona State University > Tempe, AZ 85287-4302 > U.S.A. > monica.green@asu.edu > https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/384868 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7AE743B4F; Sun, 2 Jun 2013 23:31:45 +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 48428F21; Sun, 2 Jun 2013 23:31:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A78D03AE2; Sun, 2 Jun 2013 23:31:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130602213143.A78D03AE2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 23:31:43 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.85 events: culture & technology; perceptual audio coding X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 85. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Elisabeth Burr (207) Subject: ESU DH "Culture & Technology", 22 July - 2 August 2013 University of Leipzig [2] From: Alberto Pinto (37) Subject: PERCEPTUAL AUDIO CODING Workshop: Early Registration Extension --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2013 03:28:41 +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/ The application phase has been extended for 2 weeks and will now end the 15th of June 2013. Please note: applications for places are considered on a rolling basis. Only people who have been attributed a place by the expert evaluators can register for the Summer School. Only registered participants can apply for a bursary. 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/node/230. Accommodation: As two important fairs take place in Leipzig at the same time as the Summer School, people who are interested in taking part in the Summer School are strongly advised to book / apply for a place in one of the comfortable but reasonably prized hostels or student residences as early as possible. For more information see http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/accommodation. Certificate: Participation in the summer school and the Workload will be certified. The Workload of the participation in one workshop, all the lectures and project presentations, the poster session, and the panel session taken together corresponds to 5 ECTS-Points. Bursaries: 3 types of bursaries are available (see http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/245): * (1) bursaries for members of the following Eastern European partner universities of the University of Leipzig: Bulgaria Sofiski Uniwersitet Sw. Kliment Ochridski Poland Uniwersytet Wroc awski Uniwersytet Jagiellonski w Krakowie Rumania Universitatea Babe -Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca Russia Moskowski gosudarstwenny uniwersitet im. M. W. Lomonosowa Sankt-Peterburgski gosudarstwenny uniwersitet Kazanski gosudarstwenny uniwersitet Slovenia Univerza v Ljubljani Czech Republic Univerzita Karlova v Praze Ukraine Kiewski nazionalny uniwersitet im. Tarasa Schewtschenko Republic of Belarus Beloruski gosudarstvenny uniwersitet * (2) 1 bursary for a member of one of the following non-European partner universities of the University of Leipzig: Ethiopia Addis Ababa University Argentina Universidad Nacional de Cuyo - Mendoza Brazil Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro Chile Universidad de Chile Pontificia Universidad Católica Universidad de los Andes People's Republic of China Renmin University of China Tongji University Indonesia Gadjah Mada University State University of Jakarta / University of Brawijaya Israel Ben Gurion University The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Japan Waseda University Chiba University Canada Carleton University University of Alberta Cuba Universidad de La Habana Mexico Colegio de México, Mexico Peru Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima South Africa Universiteit Stellenbosch Syria Damascus University Tanzania University of Dar es Salaam United States of America University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama Binghamton University, State University of New York Kent State University, Ohio Ohio University, Athens, Ohio Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusets University of Houston, Texas Rice University, Texas University of Arizona, Tucson * (3) several bursaries for participants who are not members of the above partner universities of the University of Leipzig. 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. In all this the Summer School also aims at confronting the so-called Gender Divide, i.e. the under-representation of women in the domain of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Germany and Europe. But, instead of strengthening the hard sciences as such by following the way taken by so many measures which focus on the so-called STEM disciplines and try to convince women of the attractiveness and importance of Computer Science or Engineering, the Summer School relies on the challenges that the Humanities with their complex data and their wealth of women represent for Computer Science and Engineering and the further development of the latter, on the overcoming of the boarders between hard and soft sciences and on the integration of Humanities, Computer Science and Engineering. 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. Workshops (http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/226): * Computing Methods applied to DH: TEI-XML Markup and CSS/XSLT Rendering * Query in Text Corpora * Stylometry: Computer-Assisted Analysis of Literary Texts * Editing in the Digital Age: From Script, to Print, to Digital Page * 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. Lectures (http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/260): * Gregory Crane (Universität Leipzig, Germany / Tufts University Boston, USA): „Open Philology and a Global Dialogue among Civilizations“ * Ray Siemens (University of Victoria, Canada): „Perspectives on Knowledge Construction in the Humanities“ * Christof Schöch (Universität Würzburg, Germany): „Big? Long? Smart? Messy? Data in the Humanities“ * Manfred Thaller (Universität Köln, Germany): „Praising Imperfection: Why editions do not have to be finished“ * Jean Guy Meunier (Université du Québec à Montréal, Québec): „Reading and analyzing text in the digital world“ * Nicoletta Calzolari (CNR-ILC, Pisa, Italy): „Language resources and semantic web“ * Marco Büchler (Universität Leipzig, Germany): „Historical Text Re-use Detection: Behind the scene“ * Karina van Dalen-Oskam (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, The Hague, NL): „Helpful, Harmless or Heretical?“ Project presentations: 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. Panel discussion: The Summer School will feature a panel discussion devoted to the question "Humanities, Libraries and Computer Science - How to Manage the Synergies?" For all the other 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 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 11:44:24 +0200 From: Alberto Pinto Subject: PERCEPTUAL AUDIO CODING Workshop: Early Registration Extension Dear all, Early registration for CESMA Summer Workshop on Perceptual Audio Coding has been extended to Friday, June 14. Best wishes, Alberto Pinto ====================================================================== Call for Participation: First CESMA Summer Workshop on PERCEPTUAL AUDIO CODING Lecturers: Marina Bosi and Richard Goldberg (Stanford University and The Brattle Group) ====================================================================== CESMA: LUGANO - Switzerland - July 26-30, 2013 http://cesma.ch/corsi/summer-workshops/perceptual-audio-coding * EXTENDED EARLY REGISTRATION Deadline: Friday, June 14, 2013 * * INTRODUCTION * CESMA (European Center for Studies in Music and Acoustics) is pleased to announce a 5-day summer workshop on PERCEPTUAL AUDIO CODING taught by Marina Bosi and Richard Goldberg, leading experts in the field of audio and video coding. The ultimate goal is to provide students with a solid enough understanding of the major issues in the theory and implementation of perceptual audio coders that they are able to build their own simple audio codec. This workshop represents a synthesis of Bosi and Golberg's well established graduate course at Stanford University (now going into its 17th year) attracting students and professionals from all over the world. * THIS WORKSHOP IS INTENDED FOR * Musicians/composers interested in exploring widely used digital audio technology; Anyone looking to know more about media technology used in our every-day lives; Engineers/computer scientists/product designers interested in exploring the principles and practices of audio coding standards. * DESCRIPTION * Perceptual audio coders are used in many applications including Digital Radio and Television, Digital Sound on Film, Multimedia/Internet Audio, Portable Devices, and Electronic Music Distribution (EMD). This Workshop integrates digital signal processing, psychoacoustics, and programming to provide the basis for understanding and building perceptual audio coding systems. The first part of the workshop presents the basic principles underlying all the core components of a perceptual audio coding system. In the second part, design choices applied in state-of-the-art audio coding schemes, e.g. AC-3 (aka Dolby Digital); MPEG Layers I, II, and III (MP3); MPEG Advanced Audio Coding (AAC); MPEG-4 are presented; time permitting MPEG Surround and Unified Speech and Audio Coding (USAC) will be also discussed. In-class demonstrations will allow students to hear the quality of state-of-the-art implementations at varying data rates and they will be programming their own simple perceptual audio coder during the workshop. * WORKSHOP STRUCTURE * The workshop will consist of half-day lectures, half-day supervised lab sessions, and classroom exercises and discussions. In addition to addressing basic theory and implementations, classroom sessions will feature state-of-the-art audio coding demos. Participants are encouraged (but by no means required) to bring their own laptop computers. Knowledge of basic digital audio principles and programming experience is expected. The lab sessions will be carried out using Python -- a high level, easy-to-use programming language with syntax that will feel familiar to any programmer of C/C++, Java, or Visual Basic. (Prior Python programming experience is not required or expected.) * INSTRUCTORS * - Marina Bosi, Stanford University, CA, USA - Richard Goldberg, The Brattle Group, USA * TEXTBOOK * Marina Bosi, Richard E. Goldberg, Introduction to Digital Audio Coding and Standards, Springer, 2003. * VENUE * CESMA is located in the historical buildings of the collegiate church of Agno, on the shores of the Lake of Lugano, a peaceful location only a few minutes away from the city center by train. Lugano, the largest town in the region of Ticino, is not only Switzerland's third most important financial centre and a conference, banking and business centre, but also a town of parks and flowers, villas and sacred buildings. With Mediterranean flair, Lugano offers all the advantages of a world-class city, combined with the cachet of a small town. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% -- For technical inquiries please contact: Alberto Pinto Centro Europeo per gli Studi in Musica e Acustica Via Prada, 9 CH6982 Lugano-Agno, Switzerland Phone (CH): +41 77 496 40 94 Phone (IT): +39 345 060 4542 E-mail: apinto@cesma.ch URL: http://cesma.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0A1583C07; Sun, 2 Jun 2013 23:33:12 +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 CFFDF3B71; Sun, 2 Jun 2013 23:33:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 758CC3B4F; Sun, 2 Jun 2013 23:33:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130602213311.758CC3B4F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 23:33:11 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.86 pubs: history of the curly brace 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. 27, No. 86. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2013 08:43:45 +0100 From: Alexander O'Connor Subject: The History of the Curly Brace and other symbols in ASCII I thought this was an interesting piece of digital archaeology. *The Great Curly Brace Trace Chase by Bob Bemer* http://www.bobbemer.com/BRACES.HTM -- Dr. Alexander O'Connor Research Fellow CNGL Knowledge & Data Engineering Group School of Computer Science & Statistics Trinity College, Dublin _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id ADB8C5EF6; Tue, 4 Jun 2013 22:14:48 +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 7DDF83C08; Tue, 4 Jun 2013 22:14:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BD8393C08; Tue, 4 Jun 2013 22:14:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130604201446.BD8393C08@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 22:14:46 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.87 silo X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 87. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 12:18:21 -0400 From: Lucy Barber Subject: Re: 27.25 silo In-Reply-To: <20130516052639.235323B4F@digitalhumanities.org> In the late nineteenth century as larger "silos" were developed, people's attitudes to them varied depended on their place in the producer cycle. Grain distributors who owned silos paid farmers lower prices at harvest and then hoped to sell the grain at higher prices throughout the year. As a result, the American Populist Movement and cooperative movement sometimes created their own silos. And large farmers could build their own silos to also avoid having to sell at harvest time when the prices were lowest. An excellent but long book on this transformation is William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis. So I think like then, silos depend on the position of the producer, the distributor, and the consumer. As someone who is no longer associated with an academic institution, I like information that is available to me rather than behind a paywall, even though I know it is not free to create information or store it. At one point as a producer of a book, I liked that I got royalties, though now I would give them up if my publisher agreed to make it available for free (because the amount of royalties is so low not because I'm that generous). [usual caveat, that these are my personal views and not that of my employer, the U.S. National Archives) On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 1:26 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 25. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 11:38:18 -0400 > From: Daniel Griffin > Subject: Re: 27.22 partnerships, collaboration -- and words > In-Reply-To: <20130515053630.9933D3AC6@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Hello, > > I actually think I know the answer to this one! The word "silo" is derived > from the Greek word σιρὀς (*siros*; cf. *OED*), which is literally "a pit > (for storing grain)" (*LSJ*). This would be different, say, from the Greek > word θησαυρός (thesauros), which is "a treasure store", though occasionally > it can be used to mean something like a storehouse for grain (*LSJ*). The > idea of a "pit" versus a "storehouse" can illuminate (maybe) some of the > shades of meaning inherent in the two terms. > > That said, I believe that, when used of the academic disciplines, the term > ""silo" is used to indicate the act of putting something away indefinitely, > a "walling-off", if you will. The point of putting something into a silo is > to protect the grains from the elements; in this way, to silo off a > discipline is to not expose it to outside influences, or, more importantly, > not expose it to outside criticism. > > I cannot offer a better metaphor, unfortunately. If you wanted to keep the > food theme, something about "having a seat at the table" seems about right; > the "big tent" metaphor has already been used in other contexts. > > Best, > Daniel Griffin > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Daniel J. Griffin > PhD Candidate, James B. Duke Fellow > Humanities Writ Large Digital Humanities Assistant > Duke University, Department of Classical Studies > 233 Allen - Box 90103 > Durham, NC 27708-0103 > 734.657.5533 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 1:36 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < > willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 22. > > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > > > > > Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 12:20:47 +0100 > > From: Willard McCarty > > Subject: partnerships and collaboration > > > > > > Many here will be interested in William Pannapacker's "Cultivating > > Partnerships in the Digital Humanities", Chronicle of Higher Education > > for 13 May > > ( > > > http://chronicle.com/article/Cultivating-Partnerships-in/139161/?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en > > ). > > > > I admit to being curious about one of the newer bad words, "silo". > > I didn't grow up on a farm, so I have no gut-level sense of this > > structure for storing grain, but my understanding from books is > > that a silo is a kind of treasure-house where the wealth of the > > land is kept between harvest and distribution. I would think that > > discipline-as-silo is rather good and highly complimentary. But > > then for reasons I don't understand we seem quite easily and > > quickly to polarize words, to eliminate shades of meaning so > > that they're either entirely signs of approval or disapproval. Then, > > as with the word "open", they become shelters for all manner of > > quite shady meanings, e.g. "open" being open as long as you > > pay, and shut until you do. > > > > Couldn't we do with a number of philologically serious people to > > help improve the level of our discourse? > > > > 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/ -- Lucy Barber Deputy Executive Director National Historical Publications & Records Commission, National Archives 700 Pennsylvania Ave, Room 114 Washington, DC 20408 202-357-5306 FAX 202-357-5914 www.archives.gov/nhprc _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 495B05EFE; Tue, 4 Jun 2013 22:16:42 +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 232E95EBB; Tue, 4 Jun 2013 22:16:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B71B65EB5; Tue, 4 Jun 2013 22:16:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130604201640.B71B65EB5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 22:16:40 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.88 skills needed in 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. 27, No. 88. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 17:15:10 +0200 From: Olivier Le Deuff Subject: Survey about digital humanities and literacies Following the results (in french) of the survey “Who are you digital humanists?" http://blog.homo-numericus.net/article11138.html, it’s time to announce that our survey is online now. The survey is conducted in the context of the research project Humanlit (Digital Humanities and Literacies) funded by the ISCC http://www.iscc.cnrs.fr/%E2%80%8E. You have one month to answer. The survey will be closed at 3rd of July. Our goal is to examine the literacies and the skills needed in digital humanities projects. The results will be published on license CC0. This survey is for scholars. Another survey is planned for librarians. The survey in English version : http://www.megatopie.info/limesurvey/index.php/998655/lang-en And in French : http://www.megatopie.info/limesurvey/index.php/998655/lang-fr Best regards Olivier Le Deuff. Maître de conférences en SIC. / Assistant professor Laboratoire Mica. Université de Bordeaux 3. 0687653127. www.guidedesegares.info http://www.fypeditions.com/du-tag-au-like/ http://www.publie.net/fr/ebook/9782814504639/print-brain-technology http://www.fypeditions.com/la-formation-aux-cultures-numeriques/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 E9DA95F53; Tue, 4 Jun 2013 22:17:42 +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 9CBDF5F51; Tue, 4 Jun 2013 22:17:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 99A0F5EFE; Tue, 4 Jun 2013 22:17:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130604201740.99A0F5EFE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 22:17:40 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.89 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. 27, No. 89. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 10:48:07 +0100 From: Mark Hedges Subject: Research Associate position at King's College London Vacancy at King’s College London (Centre for e-Research, Department of Digital Humanities) Research Associate (Digital Preservation) – Ref: R6/AAV/502/13-JM King’s College London is seeking to recruit a Research Associate to work on the newly-funded EU FP7 project PERICLES (“Promoting and Enhancing Reuse of Information throughout the Content Lifecycle taking account of Evolving Semantics”), which has been funded as part of the EU’s Digital Preservation programme. More information about the project can be found at the project website http://pericles-project.eu/. The post holder will contribute to a range of the research activities of the project, and will work closely with research staff at King’s and at partner institutions. Key issues addressed by PERICLES include the capture of contextual information to support lifecycle management and preservation on the one hand, and re-use or re-interpretation of content on the other, as well as the facility to model and describe preservation processes, policies and infrastructures as they themselves evolve. The project will be addressing use cases from two quite different domains: on the one hand, digital artworks, such as interactive software-based installations, and other digital media from Tate's collections and archives ( http://www.tate.org.uk/); on the other hand, experimental scientific data originating from the International Space Station. This is an exciting opportunity for a talented researcher to make a major contribution to a high-profile and long-term research project in the field of digital preservation. The successful candidate will be expected to have excellent research skills in the field of digital preservation, or a related area such as data management, digital asset management, data analytics or information retrieval. In addition, they will have knowledge of lifecycle models and techniques for the management of digital material, software development skills, and knowledge of a range of computing technologies of relevance to preservation systems. The full-time appointment will be made within the Grade 6 scale, currently £31,331 to £36,298 per annum plus £2,323 per annum London Allowance. The post is fixed-term until 31 January 2017 The closing date for receipt of applications is 19 June 2013 For more information, and application details, see http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=13266. For an informal discussion of the post, please contact Mark Hedges via email at mark.hedges@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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B25DE5F57; Tue, 4 Jun 2013 22:22:36 +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 78B355F4E; Tue, 4 Jun 2013 22:22:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3A34E5F48; Tue, 4 Jun 2013 22:22:35 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130604202235.3A34E5F48@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 22:22:35 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.90 events: libraries; visibility networks; humanities in a digital age X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 90. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Senseney, Megan Finn" (42) Subject: JCDL 2013 registration deadline extended to June 5 [2] From: Simon Mahony (35) Subject: Digital Classicist seminar [3] From: Böhning,_Anna (15) Subject: cfp: Herrenhausen Conference (DIGITAL) HUMANITIES REVISITED -- CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 19:27:24 +0000 From: "Senseney, Megan Finn" Subject: JCDL 2013 registration deadline extended to June 5 In-Reply-To: <6FEEBCEA03E6E146A613342936F4403F79AA0BCC@CHIMBX1.ad.uillinois.edu> Early-bird registration for JCDL 2013 has been extended to June 5. Register online at http://www.regonline.com/JCDL2013. Rates available at http://jcdl2013.org/registration. The full program is available at http://jcdl2013.sched.org/. The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, organizational, and social issues, taking place in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA on July 22-26, 2013. The theme for JCDL 2013 is "Digital Libraries at the Crossroads," in recognition of our location (Indiana is known as the Crossroads of America) and in recognition of the changes forthcoming from the age of mass digitization, big data, and the ever changing nature of scholarly communications. Program Highlights: * 3 outstanding keynote speakers: Jill Cousins, Clifford Lynch, and David de Roure. More information at: http://jcdl2013.org/keynotespeakers; * 6 workshops covering topics such as data and software preservation, digital scholarship, research methods and artifacts preservation, web archiving, mining publications, and CURATEcamp. More information at http://jcdl2013.org/workshops; * 6 tutorials on topics including Europeana data model & collections, ResourceSync, Introduction to Digital Libraries, building collections with Greenstone, mining data semantics, and using open annotation. More information at http://jcdl2013.org/tutorials; * A diverse range of papers - 28 full papers and 22 short papers. More information at http://jcdl2013.org/papers; * And much more, including posters and demonstrations. More information at http://jcdl2013.org/posters-demonstrations. Indianapolis is a wonderful conference city friendly to both walkers and cyclists, with many dining, entertainment, and sports options accessible from the downtown area. Check out the visitors guide developed for ACRL 2013: http://conference.acrl.org/indy-pages-163.php. More JCDL travel details are available at http://jcdl2013.org/travel. -- 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/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 13:51:36 +0000 From: Simon Mahony Subject: Digital Classicist seminar In-Reply-To: <6FEEBCEA03E6E146A613342936F4403F79AA0BCC@CHIMBX1.ad.uillinois.edu> The first of this Summer's Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies seminars is this Friday. Tom Brughmans (University of Southampton) 'Exploring visibility networks in Iron Age and Roman Southern Spain with Exponential Random Graph Models' Friday June 7 at 16:30 Room G37, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Are lines of sight between Roman towns important for explaining their location? Through a case study on visibility patterns between urban settlements in Iron Age and Roman Southern Spain, this paper will discuss how Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGM) can help explore hypothetical past processes of interaction and site location. With these models the frequency of certain subnetworks in random networks and the empirically attested network is compared, to examine the probability that the subnetworks might have emerged through random processes. This paper will critically evaluate the potential and limitations of such an approach for archaeology. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. All are welcome The full 2013 programme is at http://digiclass.cch.kcl.ac.uk/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 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/people/simonmahony [1] www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/courses/mamsc [2] www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 12:39:03 +0000 From: Böhning,_Anna Subject: cfp: Herrenhausen Conference (DIGITAL) HUMANITIES REVISITED -- CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE In-Reply-To: <6FEEBCEA03E6E146A613342936F4403F79AA0BCC@CHIMBX1.ad.uillinois.edu> The Volkswagen Foundation’s Herrenhausen Conference on the topic of “(Digital) Humanities Revisited – Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Age” will take place from December 5-7, 2013 in Hanover, Germany. In times of digitization, internet, and mobile communication, the humanities can build on new, empirically driven methods to gain new insights. But what are the implications of this mode of knowledge production for the various disciplines subsumed under the term humanities, their methods and research objects, and for the role the humanities should and could play in society? We would be delighted if you joined the discussion – please save the date and the event in your calendar. Confirmed speakers include: Gregory Ralph Crane, University Leipzig / Iryna Gurevych, Technical University Darmstadt / Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law School / Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, University of Oxford / Lev Manovich, City University of New York / Jeffrey Schnapp, Harvard University / Eleanor Selfridge-Field, Stanford University You can find more information on the conference in the attached flyer and under www.volkswagenstiftung.de/digitalhumanities We cordially invite early career researchers to participate in our event. Therefore, the Volkswagen Foundation offers Travel Grants for young researchers who wish to attend the conference. The deadline for application is August 15, 2013. For more information on the application process, please visit www.volkswagenstiftung.de/digitalhumanities We would appreciate if you forwarded this Save-the-Date and the Call for Abstracts to all colleagues to whom this conference and / or the Travel Grants might be of interest. We do look forward to welcoming you to Hanover. Yours sincerely, Wilhelm Krull Secretary General Volkswagen Foundation *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1370376421_2013-06-04_boehning@volkswagenstiftung.de_19791.3.pdf http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1370376421_2013-06-04_boehning@volkswagenstiftung.de_19791.2.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4E0FB5F5D; Tue, 4 Jun 2013 22:24:35 +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 1C01F5F51; Tue, 4 Jun 2013 22:24:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 065B65F4E; Tue, 4 Jun 2013 22:24:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130604202433.065B65F4E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 22:24:32 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.91 pubs: style at the scale of the sentence; places as performances X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 91. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Stanislav Roudavski (9) Subject: Places as Performances [2] From: Willard McCarty (9) Subject: Literary Lab, Pamphlet 5 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 05:53:32 +0000 From: Stanislav Roudavski Subject: Places as Performances Just to let you know that my 2008 thesis, "Staging Places as Performances: Creative Strategies in Architecture" is now online in open access. Hope it is of interest. The abstract and the link to the file are below. http://www.academia.edu/3583432/Staging_Places_as_Performances_Creative_Strategies_for_Architecture --- This thesis is about creative strategies for staging places as performances. To remain viable in the rapidly changing technological and social context, architecture needs to extend its engagement with research, reappraise its fundamental goals and develop creative strategies adequate to new challenges. However, utilisation of research in design disciplines is still immature and the methodologies of this utilisation remain a matter of controversy and active debate. In particular, the potential of cross-pollination between designing and research requires further clarification. This thesis addresses this need by developing a methodological approach that combines participant observation and investigative designing. Utilising these methodologies, this thesis considers several case-studies, including interactive installations and virtual environments. Engagement with case-studies through participant observation and investigative designing in this thesis motivates a discussion that reinstates place as the focus of architectural practice. Existing discourse and practice in architecture often assume retrograde, romantic, essentialist and exclusionary understandings of places, for example as singular, bounded and static. By contrast, this thesis highlights an open and flexible vision of places as performances. Considering the possible roles of architectural designing in place-making, it suggests that architects cannot produce ready places but can engender placemaking performances and influence their growth with provocative, open and collaborative creative-design strategies. Having established the case for distributed, polyphonic, campaigning creativity in place-making, this thesis considers whether design computing can support its performative needs. Commonly, researchers and practitioners in architecture express concerns that design computing can hinder human creativity. By contrast, this thesis demonstrates that design computing can support distributed creativity by staging multiplicious, open, flexible, idea- and insight-generating participatory exchanges. In the process, this thesis considers interactive cinematography and procedural designing as place-making actions. This re-conceptualization demonstrates that design computing can usefully support creative place-making and sometimes be indispensable for its success. This thesis contributes to knowing by 1) utilising and presenting an unorthodox methodological approach to architectural research; 2) presenting an approach to understanding and making of places novel to the field of architecture; and 3) re-conceptualizing innovative design-computing as an important creative resource for placemaking. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 06:02:05 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Literary Lab, Pamphlet 5 The Literary Lab is happy to announce the completion of Pamphlet 5, "Style at the Scale of the Sentence," by Sarah Allison, Marissa Gemma, Ryan Heuser, Franco Moretti, Amir Tevel, and Irena Yamboliev. For the previous pamphlets, and the current projects of the Literary Lab, visit our website at http://litlab.stanford.edu/. Sincerely, Ryan Heuser Associate Director for Research Stanford Literary Lab _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CB97E5F6E; Tue, 4 Jun 2013 22:25:52 +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 9D97C5F69; Tue, 4 Jun 2013 22:25:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D76E85F60; Tue, 4 Jun 2013 22:25:50 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130604202550.D76E85F60@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 22:25:50 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.92 course in digital humanities & cultural 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. 27, No. 92. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 14:12:54 +0530 From: Amlan Dasgupta Subject: Post-Graduate Diploma Course in Digital Humanities and Cultural Informatics *COURSE DESCRIPTION* * * *The School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, announces the inauguration of a two-semester (one-year) Post Graduate Diploma in Digital Humanities and Cultural Informatics. The course will commence from late July, 2013. For details, please write to sctrdhci@gmail.com and visit our blog *http://sctrdhci.wordpress.com/ The course is being offered with financial support from the University Grants Commission, India, under its Innovative Programmes Scheme.** The Post-Graduate Diploma in Digital Humanities and Cultural Informatics will help students develop firstly, a critical sense of the problems of the humanities in an age of digital technology, and secondly, the analytical and practical skills to understand and apply computing to the source materials and problems of the humanities. With the proliferation of digital technology and its use in every field of cultural activity, there is a growing need to impart key skills in digital content management – creation, preservation, delivery and study – to individuals who will thereafter be in a position to use them in a wide variety of employment contexts. At the core of the programme is the attempt to use digital technology and computational methods to enhance the study of the imaginative variety of cultural expression. The challenge for the humanities is to use machine language and capacities to deal with cultural material that is not easily quantified or processed. By creating structured models out of the irregular and disparate data of the humanities, the students will learn to judge how the application of computing can be made to produce interesting results and also to learn how these analytical and practical processes can throw new light on the object of study. Of all institutions in India, Jadavpur University may be the best equipped to offer such a course, as it has a rare combination of a strong Faculty of Arts and an equally strong Faculty of Engineering and Technology, existing side by side. There is thus unique scope for a synergy of cultural and technological perspectives. Moreover, the university is located in the vibrant cultural centre of Kolkata, and can draw upon the collections, expertise and ambience of its many galleries, museums, libraries and archives, and its intensive programme of cultural activities.** For more about the School, please visit: http://www.jaduniv.edu.in/view_department.php?deptid=135 Our Online Tagore Variorum website is now functional: http://bichitra.jdvu.ac.in/index.php -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amlan Dasgupta Professor, Department of English Director, School of Cultural Texts and Records Jadavpur University Kolkata 700032, India +91-33-24146681 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E09F53AD4; Wed, 5 Jun 2013 23:23:20 +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 B0E282CBD; Wed, 5 Jun 2013 23:23:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A153D2C77; Wed, 5 Jun 2013 23:23:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130605212318.A153D2C77@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 23:23:18 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.93 skills in 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. 27, No. 93. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 15:06:18 +0100 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Re: 27.88 skills needed in projects? In-Reply-To: <20130604201640.B71B65EB5@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, et al I just wanted to point out, in the email sent to the list, the ominous sentence > This survey is for scholars. Another survey is planned for librarians. Working in an iSchool, and working closely with librarians in many aspects of my work in Digital Humanities, and seeing how many Librarians are actively promoting and engaging in Digital Humanities research, tools, and techniques, I think this is a dangerous and false distinction. In fact, I number my Librarian colleagues among the finest scholars I know. There are plenty of librarians on this list: rest assured your skills and input are appreciated as scholarly work. best wishes, Melissa ----------------- Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE CITP FHEA 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/ Twitter: @melissaterras _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A34BC3AF1; Wed, 5 Jun 2013 23:48:43 +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 73AE32DCC; Wed, 5 Jun 2013 23:48:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 23AC02D73; Wed, 5 Jun 2013 23:48:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130605214841.23AC02D73@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 23:48:41 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.94 jobs at Oulu and Leuven X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 94. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Elise Kärkkäinen (20) Subject: Positions in English Philology at Oulu University [2] From: Stefan Gradmann (19) Subject: FW: DH vacancy @ LeuvenArts --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 07:59:57 +0000 From: Elise Kärkkäinen Subject: Positions in English Philology at Oulu University The Faculty of Humanities, English Philology, at the University of Oulu, Finland, invites applications for the following three positions: Professor of English Philology, more specifically English Language and Interaction, starting 1 January 2014. Link to the advertisement: http://www.hallinto.oulu.fi/yhallint/kuulutus/31-05-13_professor_english_philology.pdf University Lecturer in English Philology, more specifically in English Language and Interaction, starting 1 September 2013. Link to the advertisement: http://www.hallinto.oulu.fi/yhallint/kuulutus/31-05-13_english_language_and_ineraction.pdf University Lecturer in English Philology, more specifically in Cultural Interaction, starting 1 September 2013. Link to the advertisement: http://www.hallinto.oulu.fi/yhallint/kuulutus/31-05-13_cultural_interaction.pdf >-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-< Elise Kärkkäinen Professor, Head of English Philology English Philology, Faculty of Humanities Box 1000 FIN-90014 University of Oulu FINLAND http://cc.oulu.fi/~elise/ tel. +358 29 4483283 >-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-< --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 18:57:10 +0000 From: Stefan Gradmann Subject: FW: DH vacancy @ LeuvenArts In-Reply-To: <99FA119F0191374D89A76338BBCA7AB90FB75E55@ICTS-S-MBX5.luna.kuleuven.be> Dear fellow humanists, KU Leuven has just officially published the Digital Humanities tenure track vacancy from the Arts Faculty which is complementing the more technically oriented vacancy published earlier this year by our computer science department. The job description can be found at https://icts.kuleuven.be/apps/jobsite/vacatures/52493650?lang=en and I hope we'll get lots of good candidates: Leuven is a fabulous place for humanities research, let us make it a prime place for the digital humanities agenda, too! And besides, Leuven is a great place to live in (having moved here only recently I should have some credibility in writing this). Apply massively! Best - Stefan Gradmann ____________________________________ 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: +32 479 609393 Email: stefan.gradmann@kuleuven.be Public Agenda at https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ps4cnq37a0gcqa38k2rmoq6nas%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Europe/Brussels ____________________________________ Je est un autre. (Arthur Rimbaud, Lettres du Voyant) ____________________________________ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4DEA53C0F; Wed, 5 Jun 2013 23:51:20 +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 1A41C3BA0; Wed, 5 Jun 2013 23:51:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id F13ED2DED; Wed, 5 Jun 2013 23:51:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130605215117.F13ED2DED@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 23:51:17 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.95 events: web archives 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. 27, No. 95. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 12:28:14 -0400 From: Seth Denbo Subject: Digital History Seminar -- Tuesday 11 June -- Web Archives: A New Class of Primary Source for Historians? Web Archives: A New Class of Primary Source for Historians? Peter Webster (British Library) and Richard Deswarte (University of East Anglia) This will be a joint session with the Archives and Society Seminar http://www.history.ac.uk/events/seminars/211 11 June 2013, 5.15pm GMT Bedford Room G37, Senate house, Ground floor (see below for details of the live stream) Abstract: When viewed in historical context, the speed at which the world wide web has become fundamental to the exchange of information is perhaps unprecedented. The Internet Archive began its work in archiving the web in 1996, and since then national libraries and other memory institutions have followed suit in archiving the web along national or thematic lines. However, whilst scholars of the web as a system have been quick to embrace archived web materials as the stuff of their scholarship, historians have been slower in thinking through the nature and possible uses of a new class of primary source. In April 2013 the six legal deposit libraries for the UK were granted powers to archive the whole of the UK web domain, in parallel with the historic right of legal deposit for print. As such, over time there will be a near-comprehensive archive of the UK web available for historical analysis, which will grow and grow in value as the span of time it covers lengthens. This paper introduces the JISC-funded AADDA (Analytical Access to the Domain Dark Archive) project. Led by the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) in partnership with the British Library and the University of Cambridge, AADDA seeks to demonstrate the value of longitudinal web archives by means of the JISC UK Web Domain Dataset. This dataset includes the holdings of the Internet Archive for the UK for the period 1996-2010, purchased by the JISC and placed in the care of the British Library. The project has brought together scholars from the humanities and social sciences in order to begin to imagine what scholarly enquiry with assets such as these would look like. Dr Peter Webster is web archiving and engagement and liaison manager for the British Library, and an historian of contemporary Britain. Dr Richard Deswarte is Research Associate in the School of History at UEA. He will speak about his AADDA project which examines how the Web Domain Dataset can be used to explore the rise of British Euroscepticism. He will highlight some of the digital approaches and wider research goals from his initial exploratory work using the archive. To join us on the live stream click on the podcast page of History SPOT http://historyspot.org.uk/podcasts and open up the pop out boxes on 11 June. Additional resources: The AADDA project blog http://domaindarkarchive.blogspot.co.uk/ The Digital History Seminar is co-sponsored by IHR Digital _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E80185EBA; Wed, 5 Jun 2013 23:54:14 +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 B686A3BA0; Wed, 5 Jun 2013 23:54:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A391B2D0F; Wed, 5 Jun 2013 23:54:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130605215413.A391B2D0F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 23:54:13 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.96 cfp for LLC: computational models of narrative X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 96. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:41:58 -0400 From: Mark Finlayson Subject: CfP: LLC Special Issue on Computational Models of Narrative (2nd call) 2nd 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, Koç 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 78D7F5EF6; Wed, 5 Jun 2013 23:56:07 +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 486C13BE2; Wed, 5 Jun 2013 23:56:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 724203BA0; Wed, 5 Jun 2013 23:56:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130605215605.724203BA0@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 23:56:05 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.97 skills, scholars and scholar-librarians X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 97. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:45:47 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: skills needed in projects: librarians Melissa Terras' note on librarians as scholars (Humanist 27.93) draws attention to an old problem: their status within universities, which I suspect is often in conflict with their scholarly inclinations and accomplishments. In some places the post of University or College Librarian is given to major scholars -- Robert Darnton at Harvard, David McKitterick at Trinity College Cambridge come to mind. In others librarians are appointed to academic positions and move into them without a ripple. In many others, however, librarian-scholars are not so well treated. For a time the situation of librarians at Toronto, where I had a non-academic appointment in a non-academic centre, seemed better than mine; e.g. sabbaticals were possible for them, not for me. How are things now? Digital humanities has a special and quite close relationship to librarianship, library and information science and related configurations. I would suppose that the closer digital humanities gets to collaborative research in lab-based projects the more like librarians' disciplinary practice it becomes. And there's the question of how service to others is integrated into an autonomous scholarly life. I suspect librarians could teach others quite a bit about that. Institutions are hard to change but not impossibly so. What would we like to aim at? What do librarian-scholars regard as desirable which is within the realm of possibility? How would the academic world be improved? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, Research Group in Digital Humanities, 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CD8DA3C09; Thu, 6 Jun 2013 22:09:03 +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 9DB172E76; Thu, 6 Jun 2013 22:09:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E809C2E76; Thu, 6 Jun 2013 22:09:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130606200901.E809C2E76@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 22:09:01 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.98 medieval mss cataloguing with 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. 27, No. 98. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 10:48:46 +0800 From: Toby Burrows Subject: RE: 27.70 medieval mss cataloguing with TEI In-Reply-To: <20130528204930.05E6B5F48@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Charles, The manuscript descriptions in the "Europa Inventa" catalogue of medieval manuscripts in Australia are based on the TEI P5 elements. But we converted them to database fields (PostgreSQL) and built a database search interface, rather than making them available as marked-up and searchable XML files. See: http://europa.arts.uwa.edu.au/manuscripts The database is also included in the University of Sheffield's "Manuscripts Online" service: http://www.manuscriptsonline.org/resources/ei/ Toby Burrows University of Western Australia -----Original Message----- > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 12:26:31 -0700 > From: "Charles Faulhaber" > Subject: Medieval Manuscript cataloguing projects using TEI > P5 > > > Dear Colleagues, > > I would be grateful for any information about projects or institutions > that are using the TEI P5 Manuscript Description guidelines for the > cataloguing of medieval manuscripts. > > Many thanks, > > Charles Faulhaber > The Bancroft Library > U. of California, Berkeley > cbf@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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 963A55EBB; Thu, 6 Jun 2013 22:14:12 +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 673783AB9; Thu, 6 Jun 2013 22:14:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AA1DD2E76; Thu, 6 Jun 2013 22:14:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130606201410.AA1DD2E76@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 22:14:10 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.99 skills, scholars and scholar-librarians X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 99. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Martin Mueller (94) Subject: Re: 27.97 skills, scholars and scholar-librarians [2] From: "Dalmau, Michelle Denise" (71) Subject: Re: 27.97 skills, scholars and scholar-librarians [3] From: Katherine Walter (16) Subject: skills, scholars and scholar-librarians --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 22:57:13 +0000 From: Martin Mueller Subject: Re: 27.97 skills, scholars and scholar-librarians In-Reply-To: <20130605215605.724203BA0@digitalhumanities.org> The best thing I've ever read on this very important topic is a paragraph in Jaroslav Pelikan's Idea of the University: a Reexamination (1992). He didn't have things digital in any particular way, but technological changes have made his words even more relevant. I talked about this in a keynote address to the Chicago DHCS last fall (https://scalablereading.northwestern.edu/2012/12/05/back-to-the-future-or- wanted-a-decade-of-high-tech-lower-criticism/) where I argued that in the future the 'tripod of cultural memory' will increasingly rest on collaborations between scholars, librarians and IT professionals with divisions of labour so close and overlapping that it will be hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. That calls for a lot of difficult readjustment on all sides. But here is Pelikan: "Just as the reexamination of the idea of the university implies new attention to university's definition of itself as a community in its teaching, so the definition of the university as a community of research requires significant reconsideration in the light of the "sisterly disposition" of the sciences toward one another. That applies in the first instance to those departments, agencies, and personnel of the university who usually stand outside the classroom but without whom research would halt. Because of its unique position among these as the heart of the university, the university library... must be seen as a collegial part of a total university network of support services for research, and the network must be seen as a free and responsible community if it is to be equal to the complexities that are faced by university-based research. Indeed, even such a term as "providers of support services" is becoming far too limited to describe both the skill and the knowledge required of those who hold such positions. Scholars and scientists in all fields have found that the older configurations of such services, according to which the principal investigator has the questions and the staff person provides answers, are no longer valid, if they ever were; as both the technological expertise and scholarly range necessary for research to grow, it is also for the formulation and refinement of the questions themselves that principal investigators have to turn to "staff", whom it is increasingly necessary – not as a matter of courtesy, much less a matter of condescension, but as a matter of justice and of accuracy -- to identify instead as colleagues in the research enterprise." On 6/5/13 3:56 PM, "Humanist Discussion Group" wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 97. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:45:47 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: skills needed in projects: librarians > >Melissa Terras' note on librarians as scholars (Humanist 27.93) draws >attention to an old problem: their status within universities, which I >suspect is often in conflict with their scholarly inclinations and >accomplishments. In some places the post of University or College >Librarian is given to major scholars -- Robert Darnton at Harvard, David >McKitterick at Trinity College Cambridge come to mind. In others >librarians are appointed to academic positions and move into them >without a ripple. In many others, however, librarian-scholars are not so >well treated. For a time the situation of librarians at Toronto, where I >had a non-academic appointment in a non-academic centre, seemed better >than mine; e.g. sabbaticals were possible for them, not for me. How are >things now? > >Digital humanities has a special and quite close relationship to >librarianship, library and information science and related >configurations. I would suppose that the closer digital humanities gets >to collaborative research in lab-based projects the more like >librarians' disciplinary practice it becomes. And there's the question >of how service to others is integrated into an autonomous scholarly >life. I suspect librarians could teach others quite a bit about that. > >Institutions are hard to change but not impossibly so. What would we >like to aim at? What do librarian-scholars regard as desirable which is >within the realm of possibility? How would the academic world be improved? > >Comments? > >Yours, >WM >-- >Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of >the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College >London; Professor, Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of >Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews >(www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); >www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 13:38:45 +0000 From: "Dalmau, Michelle Denise" Subject: Re: 27.97 skills, scholars and scholar-librarians In-Reply-To: <20130605215605.724203BA0@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, In the interest of full disclosure, I am a librarian :-). I appreciate both Melissa Terras' and your attention to this matter, because it is one I struggle with as a librarian-scholar, but I also understand that it can be problematic. Not all librarians are scholars, and, likewise, not all instructors/professors/lecturers etc. are scholars. Add to that, especially in the Digital Humanities, that research endeavors extend to all sorts of information and information technology professionals who partner and contribute to these digital research projects in critical ways, then the distinction of "scholar" becomes blurred. I think it is a noteworthy distinction, but I don't think it should be exclusionary. You end your post with several questions that I attempt to answer in a recent blog post I authored for the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) newly established and excellent blog, dh + lib, where the digital humanities and librarianship meet: . In that post I explore several themes that emerged from a DH and Libraries THATCamp I co-organized last November, which was held to explore and promote ways in which librarians AND library professionals can be and should be seen as experts, peers and scholars in the context of DH. I also link to lots of related and super smart posts by several of our DH colleagues (Bethany Nowviskie, Miriam Posner, Trevor Muñoz, etc.) who explore these issues more deeply. I encourage folks to have a look. Excelsior! --Michelle ----- Michelle Dalmau, Interim Head Digital Collections Services ----- Indiana University Herman B Wells Library 1320 East 10th Street, Rm W501 Bloomington, Indiana 47405 ----- Web: http://michelledalmau.com Twitter: @mdalmau --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 14:58:10 +0000 From: Katherine Walter Subject: skills, scholars and scholar-librarians In-Reply-To: <20130605215605.724203BA0@digitalhumanities.org> I think the directions to the survey are indicative of certain institutional biases, as opposed to how librarians are viewed in all institutions. In the United States, the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) provides guidelines regarding faculty status for librarians, and librarians in about one third of all Association of Research Libraries (ARL) are appointed as faculty. In spite of this, there is dissension even among librarians about whether faculty status is meaningful to the profession, as evident in Maureen Sullivan's recent remarks. My own opinion is similar to Melissa's. Academic librarians or information scientists know their own field(s) and potentially other fields as well, and should be treated accordingly. At my own university, librarians have faculty status and are deeply involved in institutional governance through Faculty Senate. Although we report to a dean of libraries (rather than a director), we do not have a School of Library and Information Science here. Librarians are expected to go through promotion and tenure as any faculty member would, and engage in research, teaching and serving on academic committees or within professional associations. Library faculty are eligible for research leaves (sabbaticals) and have the respect of colleagues in other disciplines at the university. This is a long way of saying that experiences can be very different depending upon the institution. Best, Kay 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5D8D55F53; Thu, 6 Jun 2013 22:17:24 +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 2CB445F4C; Thu, 6 Jun 2013 22:17:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4F7715F49; Thu, 6 Jun 2013 22:17:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130606201722.4F7715F49@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 22:17:22 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.100 on the cfp for LLC, computational models of narrative X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 100. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 22:09:23 +0000 From: Martin Mueller Subject: Re: 27.96 cfp for LLC: computational models of narrative In-Reply-To: <20130605215413.A391B2D0F@digitalhumanities.org> I read the below announcement with a mixture of amusement and annoyance. The study of narrative is a major concern of the discipline of Literary Studies (if it is a discipline). I am confident in predicting that few, if any, literary scholars will read any essay in this promised issue. But then, as Patrick Juola pointed out some time ago, practically nobody in the humanities at large reads anything in LLC.The literary scholars are partly at fault here. But what about the astonishing arrogance of a statement like "without computational modeling, the science of a complex human phenomenon such as narrative will never be successful"? If LLC aims at being "The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities" will it help the conversation between "digital humanists" (a term I abhor) and plain old humanists if a special issue on so fundamental topic as narrative takes such a narrow and aggressively possessive approach towards its topic? I am far from hostile to quantitative or computational approaches to the study of literature or other disciplines in the humanities. And I could understand a special issue of LLC that concerned itself with in a more modest note with the question how far computational approaches can take us towards a better understanding of narrative. But this is not the way to go for LLC, at least not if it wants to reach out to a wider audience. On 6/5/13 3:54 PM, "Humanist Discussion Group" wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 96. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:41:58 -0400 > From: Mark Finlayson > Subject: CfP: LLC Special Issue on Computational Models of >Narrative (2nd call) > > >2nd 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, Koç 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 >³Computational Models of Narrative². 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 field¹s 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_submi >ssion.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 60D595F53; Thu, 6 Jun 2013 22:24:45 +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 337FF3AC6; Thu, 6 Jun 2013 22:24:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 202EA3AB9; Thu, 6 Jun 2013 22:24:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130606202443.202EA3AB9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 22:24:43 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.101 events: heritage; 18C science & technology; palaeography; 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 101. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "S.J. Schaffer" (34) Subject: Digital Longitude launch event 18 July [2] From: "Brookes, Stewart" (37) Subject: DigiPal Symposium: Monday 16th September 2013 [3] From: Séamus Lawless (63) Subject: Final Call for Papers - ENRICH Workshop at SIGIR 2013 [4] From: Gabriele Civiliene (136) Subject: Re: Call for Papers: Innovative Information Technologies for Science, Business and Education IIT -- 2013, Vilnius, Lithuania --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 07:57:32 +0100 From: "S.J. Schaffer" Subject: Digital Longitude launch event 18 July Navigating 18th Century Science and Technology: the Board of Longitude Thursday, 18 July 2013 14:00 - 17:15 Location: SG1, Alison Richard Building, University of Cambridge Cambridge University Library holds the complete papers of the Board of Longitude through the eighteenth century until its abolition in 1828. This collection throws a vivid light on the role of the British state in encouraging invention and discovery, on the energetic culture of technical ingenuity in the long eighteenth century, and on many aspects of exploration and maritime travel in the Pacific Ocean and the Arctic. This meeting marks the online release of a digitised version of this archive and many related manuscript and printed materials of crucial importance for understanding the cultures of travel, invention and inquiry in the long eighteenth century. The project has been supported by JISC and forms part of the Cambridge Digital Library. This remarkable digital archive consolidates resources held at Cambridge University Library as well the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, together with detailed metadata and contextual resources to place the material within a rich intellectual framework. Speakers at the meeting will address the historic importance of the archive and of the Board of Longitude, as well as discussing important issues in digital humanities and the role of researchers in the production and interpretation of such digitised collections. The meeting will be followed at 17-30 at the Cambridge University Library by a reception and the official launch of the online collection. Confirmed speakers include: Tim Hitchcock (University of Hertfordshire) David Philip Miller (University of New South Wales) Larry Stewart (University of Saskatchewan) Nigel Thrift (University of Warwick) Sophie Waring (University of Cambridge) A provisional programme will be available soon. The event is free to attend but registration is required. Go online at http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2502/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 12:08:53 +0000 From: "Brookes, Stewart" Subject: DigiPal Symposium: Monday 16th September 2013 DigiPal One-Day Symposium Date: Monday 16th September 2013 Venue: King's College London, Strand Co-sponsor: Centre for Late Antique & Medieval studies, KCL Dear all, It is with great delight that the DigiPal team at the Department of Digital Humanities (King's College London), announce their third Symposium. We've built up a scholarly camaraderie over the last two years and much look forward to our annual opportunity to discuss and debate the computer-assisted study of medieval handwriting and manuscripts. Of course, we'll need some papers. So… ---How to propose a paper--- Papers of 20 minutes in length are invited on any aspect of digital approaches to the study of medieval handwriting and manuscripts. The topics below might help guide potential submissions: • terminology for describing handwriting • visualisation of manuscript evidence and data • meaning and mining in palaeography • automatic letter-form identification • methods for dating/localising script • crowd-sourcing in palaeography • the practical and theoretical consequences of the use of digital images • examples of research that would benefit from a Digital Humanities (or DigiPal) approach The above are only serving suggestions, so please don't feel limited to these topics. To propose a paper, please email a brief abstract (250 words max.) to digipal [at] kcl.ac.uk The deadline for the receipt of submissions is 10.23pm on Wednesday 3rd July 2013 ------------------------ What is DigiPal? ------------------------ For more information, please visit our website: digipal.eu or dive in at the deep end: http://www.digipal.eu/digipal/page/110/ -- Official DigiPal WARNING. The following may contain scenes of palaeography: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDrrz_ctVzs Dr Stewart J Brookes Research Associate Department of Digital Humanities King's College London --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 10:29:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Séamus Lawless Subject: Final Call for Papers - ENRICH Workshop at SIGIR 2013 In-Reply-To: <1369835767.21254.YahooMailNeo@web142605.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Final Call for Papers The First Workshop on the Exploration, Navigation and Retrieval of Information in Cultural Heritage - ENRICH 2013 http://www.cultura-strep.eu/events/enrich-2013/ To be held in conjunction with the 36th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference Workshop date: August 1st, 2013 Location: Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Submission deadline: 9th June 2013 **************************************************************************** ENRICH 2013 has three main goals:  - to discuss the challenges and opportunities in Information Retrieval research in the area of Cultural Heritage  - to encourage collaboration between researchers engaged in work in this specialist area of Information Retrieval, and to foster the formation of a research community  - to identify a set of actions which the community should undertake to progress research in this area   A key challenge facing the curators and providers of digital cultural heritage worldwide is to instigate, increase and enhance engagement with their collections. To achieve this, a fundamental change in the way these artefacts can be discovered, explored and contributed to by users and communities is required. Cultural heritage artefacts are digital representations of primary resources: manuscript collections, paintings, books, photographs etc. The text-based resources are often innately “noisy”, contain non-standard spelling, poor punctuation and obsolete grammar and word forms. The image-based resources often have limited associated metadata which describes the resources and their content. In addition, the information needs and tasks of cultural heritage users are often complex and diverse. This presents a specific set of challenges to traditional Information Retrieval (IR) techniques and approaches. This workshop will investigate the enhanced retrieval of, and interaction with, cultural heritage collections. We are interested in investigating innovative forms of personalised, multi-lingual IR, which can include  - IR approaches tailored to cope with the inconsistencies which are common in cultural heritage collections.  - Content-aware retrieval approaches which respond to the entities and relationships contained within artefacts and across collections.   - Personalised IR and presentation.   - Community-aware IR approaches which respond to community activity, interest, contribution and experience.  Such new forms of enhanced IR require rigorous evaluation and validation using appropriate metrics, contrasting digital cultural heritage collections and diverse users and communities. This workshop welcomes submissions which investigate such evaluation, taking into account the specific requirements of the domain. The nature of cultural heritage resources means that content analysis in support of IR is of specific interest. This includes the automated normalisation of historical texts, the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) for entity extraction and metadata generation.  The ENRICH workshop aims to promote the exchange of ideas between researchers working on the theory and foundations of IR, cross and multi-lingual IR, personalised IR and recommender systems.  There are numerous research areas that can support such improved retrieval and exploration in the area of cultural heritage. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas:  - Multilingual semantic search   - Context-aware and semantic recommender systems   - Adaptation engines and algorithms for personalised multilingual IR   - User modeling and adaptation (e.g. creation and exploitation of individual or stereotypical user profiles)   - Content personalisation and personalised result presentation (e.g. beyond the ranked list)  - Domain modeling   - External knowledge resources for IR (e.g. ontologies)   - Evaluation methodologies and metrics for personalised multilingual IR   - Information Extraction, Data Mining and Natural Language Processing   - Social Network Analysis  *Submissions* We invite researchers to submit two categories of paper:  Long paper submissions should report on substantial contributions of lasting value. Each accepted long paper will be presented in a plenary session of the workshop program. The maximum length is 8 pages.  Short paper submissions should discuss exciting new work that is not yet mature enough for a long paper. The presentation may include the demonstration of a system. The maximum length is 4 pages. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the workshop. Accepted papers will have the possibility to include a demonstration of novel applications as part of their presentation All submissions should be prepared according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Templates, as for all SIGIR submissions.  For your convenience, you can use the templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX that have been made available on the ACM  website: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates/ The ENRICH Workshop does not use blind reviews, so please include authors’ names and affiliations on your submission. All submissions will receive several independent reviews.  Submissions must be in PDF format and must be in English.  All papers must be submitted electronically before the 9th of June 2013 through the EasyChair submission page - https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=enrich2013 ENRICH 2013 will be hosted in the Long Room Hub, the Digital Arts and Humanities Research Institute of Trinity College Dublin - http://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/. The Long Room Hub is a signature building at the heart of the historic TCD campus. The institute takes its name from the Library's iconic ‘Long Room'. The Long Room Hub is the home of a number of major, EU funded, Digital Humanities research projects, which use the most advanced digital technologies for the democratization of knowledge and also explore new research questions, approaches and methodologies enabled by technological change. *Important Dates* Deadline for submission:9th June Notification of acceptance:28th June Camera-ready version of papers:8th July Workshop:1st August *Organizers* Prof. Séamus Lawless (School of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) seamus.lawless@scss.tcd.ie Prof. Maristella Agosti (Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy)  maristella.agosti@unipd.it Dr. Paul Clough (Information School, University of Sheffield, UK) p.d.clough@sheffield.ac.uk Prof. Owen Conlan (School of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)  owen.conlan@scss.tcd.ie   *Further Information* http://www.cultura-strep.eu/events/enrich-2013/ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 16:08:57 +0100 From: Gabriele Civiliene Subject: Re: Call for Papers: Innovative Information Technologies for Science, Business and Education IIT -- 2013, Vilnius, Lithuania In-Reply-To: CALL FOR PAPERS INNOVATIVE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR SCIENCE, BUSINESS AND EDUCATION, IIT – 2013 VILNIUS, LITHUANIA 14-16 November, 2013 Vilniaus verslo kolegija (Vilnius Business College) invites scholars and educators from across to explore and share their knowledge and ideas about local and global perspectives for digital education and research in the 6th annual conference Innovative Information Technologies for Science, Business and Education IIT – 2013. With a strong focus on digital components across a range of disciplines and issues, this is the first conference of this kind to take place in Lithuania. Our main objective is to promote and disseminate the innovative and state-of-the-art digital technologies and methodologies in scholarly research and pedagogy across the humanities, social, formal and applied sciences. We hope the event will appeal to a broad scholarly community to lead further discussion and to exchange knowledge and ideas within and across disciplines, institutions and borders. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS PER SECTION: SECTION 1. DIGITAL HUMANITIES (INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR LANGUAGES, TRANSLATION AND LIBRARIES) - Prof. Willard McCarty (Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, UK, and and Professor, Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney, Australia) - Dr. Martin Hewings (Freelance author and consultant, Cambridge university press, UK) - Dr. Øyvind Eide (Department for Digital Documentation, University of Oslo, Norway) - Assoc. Prof. Luc van Doorslaer (Centre for Translation Studies (CETRA), University of Leuven, Belgium) - Assoc. Prof. Peter Flynn (Department of Applied Language Studies, KU Leuven/Campus Antwerp, Belgium) - Dr. Luis Perez Gonzalez (Centre of Translation and Intercultural Studies (CTIS), Manchester University, UK) - Dr. Rebecca Tipton (Centre of Translation and Intercultural Studies (CTIS), Manchester University, UK) - Richard Gartner (Centre for e-Research, King's College, London, UK) - Janet Zmroczek (Head of European Studies, British Library, UK) - Anne Welsh (Department of Information Studies, University College of London, UK) SECTION 2: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR NATURAL AND COMPUTING SCIENCE - Prof. Habil. Dr. Yuri N. Shunin (ISMA University of Applied Sciences, Riga, Latvia) - Prof. Dr. Viktor Gopejenko (ISMA University of Applied Sciences, Riga, Latvia) - Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sergejus Ivanikovas (University of Educational Sciences, Vilnius, Lithuania) - Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kestutis Svirskas (Vilnius University, Lithuania) - Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dirk Tempelaar (Maastricht University, Netherland) SECTION 3. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT AND EDUCATION - Prof. Habil. Dr. Marga Zivetere (ISMA University of Applied Sciences, Riga, Latvia) - Prof. Dr. Tamara Lobanova- Shunina (ISMA University of Applied Sciences, Riga, Latvia) - Ildar Galikov (Vilnius Business College, Lithuania) We welcome oral presentations (15-min) as well as poster presentations on topics that include but are not limited to the following areas: SECTION 1. DIGITAL HUMANITIES (INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR LANGUAGES, TRANSLATION AND LIBRARIES) Sub-section 1A: Digital linguistics and literature: - experimental use of digital tools in linguistics and literary studies; - corpus stylistics; - linguistic annotation, guidelines, standards and software; - text encoding, data and metadata; - language processing tools; - text mining; - digital resources for literature; - machine& human reading combined; - IT in teaching and learning languages, literature and linguistics. Sub-section 1B: Translation Studies: - corpus-based translation studies; - machine translation and translation memories; - teaching and researching data for translation studies; - crowd-sourcing data for translation research; - conference interpreting technologies and training; - audio-visual translation: cultures, communities and technologies. Sub-section 1C: Digital librarianship: - digital archiving and preservation; - digital cataloguing and metadata; - digital-based resources for libraries; - digital library architecture and software; - digital library technical and quality standards. SECTION 2: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR NATURAL AND COMPUTING SCIENCE Sub-section 2A: IT - applied solutions: - advanced programming; - conceptual modeling and databases; - natural language processing; - formal analysis and design methods; - algorithms and applications; - bioinformatics; - IT applications for molecular/cluster modeling. Sub-section 2B: E-tools: - E-government; - Grid computing systems; - High-performance scientific computing; - Hardware and computer networks; - Security and privacy. SECTION 3. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT AND EDUCATION Sub-section 3A: Business process modeling: - innovations in management tools; - mathematical modeling and statistics for improving organizational ability; - business process modeling, analysis and design; - information and software systems engineering; - social data mining; - sentiment analysis. Sub-section 3B: Virtual learning: - collaborative learning; - curriculum content design and development; - web-based evaluation and assessment; - virtual learning environments and issues; - e-learning tools. IMPORTANT DATES Registration and proposal submission: - Early registration by 1 August 2013 - Late registration by 1 October 2013 Notification of acceptance two weeks after registration online. Conference proceedings will be issued as a separate publication in the journal Innovative Infotechnologies for Science, Business and Education, N1-2 (2014). The template of full paper is available at http://journal.kolegija.lt/?submissions. FEES Early registration: Students (PhD, MsSC, MA, MPhil) - € 50; Others - € 90 Late registration: Students (PhD, MsSC, MA, MPhil) - € 70; Others - € 120 The fee includes: Books of programme and abstracts, conference bag, 2 lunches, 4 coffee/tea breaks, 1 dinner on 14 November 2013. CONTACTS For further details please contact Ms. Deimante Vilcinskaite at email: deimante@kolegija.lt Vilnius Business College Kalvariju str., 125, LT-08221 Vilnius, Lithuania Phone/Fax: +370 5 2154884 email: infotechnologies@kolegija.lt website: conf.kolegija.lt http://www.kolegija.lt/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E08E95F6A; Thu, 6 Jun 2013 22:25:44 +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 BA50B5F60; Thu, 6 Jun 2013 22:25:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 681815F53; Thu, 6 Jun 2013 22:25:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130606202543.681815F53@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 22:25:43 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.102 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. 27, No. 102. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 15:09:12 +0000 From: Ram-Verlag Subject: Glottometrics 25, 2013 Just published: 2013 Glottometrics 25, 2013 ( ISSN 1617-8351) Contents: see attachment please. *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1370548921_2013-06-06_ram-verlag@t-online.de_13368.2.pdf Published by: RAM-Verlag. Glottometrics 25, 2013 is available as: Printed edition: 30.00 EUR plus PP CD-ROM-edition: 15.00 EUR plus PP Internet download (PDF-file):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.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 07:58:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Laval Hunsucker Subject: (Digital) greening of the humanities May I just quickly point out that the just-out 6 June issue of Times Higher Education contains, I notice, an opinion piece ( entitled "Green-eyed, no monster" ) by Gabriel Egan, director of the Centre for Textual Studies at De Montfort University, arguing "that the move to open access is desirable and inevitable for the arts as well as the sciences".  [ By "the arts" he here means, in accord with the not infrequent British usage, what many of us would normally call "the humanities", in general. ] Not unusually radical or visionary in formulation, but a strong plea, and one whose appearance some folks here might want to take note of, in any case.   - Laval Hunsucker   Breukelen, Nederland   7 June 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CB61D5F73; Fri, 7 Jun 2013 22:23:16 +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 9B86C5F5D; Fri, 7 Jun 2013 22:23:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 183BF3A9D; Fri, 7 Jun 2013 22:23:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130607202315.183BF3A9D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 22:23:15 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.104 events: collaborative annotation; historical networks; 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. 27, No. 104. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Marten_Düring (75) Subject: CfP: "The Future of Historical Network Research" 13-15 September at the University of Hamburg [2] From: Francesca Tomasi (79) Subject: Call for Papers DH-CASE 2013 - Extended deadlines and ACM conference proceedings [3] From: "Munson, Matthew" (13) Subject: 2013 DARIAH-DE International Digital Humanities Summer School --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 10:04:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Marten_Düring Subject: CfP: "The Future of Historical Network Research" 13-15 September at the University of Hamburg Dear all, I am very happy to announce our first conference titled "The Future of Historical Network Research" 13-15 September at the University of Hamburg. Our idea is to look back at what has been achieved over the last few years but also to ask what will be next. It's too early to officially announce but expect cool keynote speakers! Details below and on the conference website at: http:// conference.historicalnetworkresearch.org/ Please help us spread the word! With best wishes, Marten ----- Call for Papers The concepts and methods of social network analysis in historical research are no longer merely used as metaphors but are increasingly applied in practice. In the last decades several studies proved that formal methods derived from social network analysis can be fruitfully applied to selected bodies of historical data as well. This relational perspective on historical sources has helped historical research to gain an entirely new methodological vantage point. Historical Network Research today is a research method as well as an online and offline training framework and quickly growing research community. We are grateful for generous support from: NeDiMAH - Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities ESF - European Science Foundation CGG - Centrum f?r Globalisierung und Governance at the University of Hamburg When we began to apply network analysis to history, there were no suitable points of reference and hardly any previous work which successfully combined Social Network Analysis methods and source-criticism. Over the years we have developed an infrastructure for historians to engage in research on networks, to exchange ideas and to receive training. After eight workshops on Historical Network Research at locations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland it is time to look back at what has been achieved in the last years and to explore what might be next. For this first conference we therefore invite papers which integrate social network analysis methods and theories with historical research interests. Topics can cover any historical epoch and may include but are not limited to research on the topics below. Contributions from scholars in Computer Science, the Digital Humanities and related disciplines are welcome. Collective action Trade networks Credit networks Covert networks Spatial networks Dynamic networks Kinship networks Tools for the extraction of relational data from text Network extraction from metadata Semantic networks Tools for data visualisation and management Communication networks Transnational networks ... The papers will be organized as parts of the following four panels: Section I: "Information Visualisation" Section II: "Space and Time" Section III: "Linked Data and Ontological Methods" Section IV: Overlaps between Network Analysis in the Digital Humanities The conference will include keynotes by scholars in history, computational linguistics, semantic networks and data visualisation who will discuss their vision for the future of computer-assisted historical research. Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted via this registration form by 25 July 2013. Notifications of paper acceptance will be sent out by 5 August. Please do not hesitate to contact us at conference@historicalnetworkresearch.org for additional information. Conference website: http://conference.historicalnetworkresearch.org/ Linda von Keyserlingk, Milit?rhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr Florian Kerschbaumer, University of Klagenfurt Martin Stark, University of Hamburg Ulrich Eumann, NS Dokumentationszentrum K?ln Marten D?ring, Radboud University Nijmegen --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 12:30:07 +0200 From: Francesca Tomasi Subject: Call for Papers DH-CASE 2013 - Extended deadlines and ACM conference proceedings Call for Papers DH-CASE 2013: Collaborative Annotations in Shared Environments: metadata, vocabularies and techniques in the Digital Humanities (DH-CASE) News! Deadlines extended – Proceedings accepted for the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Venue: Workshop 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 15, and the deadline for the full paper is set to June 22, 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 will be published via the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (http://www.acm.org/publications/icp_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 (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). 4. Relevant Dates - Submission of abstract: June 15, 2013 - Submission of full paper: June 22, 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 fur 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 fur 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 program will be available on the workshop website: http://www.cs.unibo.it/dh-case/ Please forward to interested parties 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. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 12:54:38 +0000 From: "Munson, Matthew" Subject: 2013 DARIAH-DE International Digital Humanities Summer School Dear Humanists, We have had an excellent response to our call for applications to the 2013 DARIAH-DE International Digital Humanities Summer School. There are still a few spaces available and the application deadline is next Friday, June 14. You can find more information about the summer school and how to apply here: http://www.gcdh.de/en/events/calendar-view/2013-dariah-de-international-digital-humanities-summer-school/. Best, Matt --- Matthew Munson Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (GCDH) Papendiek 16 37073 Göttingen GERMANY +49 (0)551-39-10 997 www: http://www.gcdh.de/en/people/team/matthew_munson/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7A95E5F78; Fri, 7 Jun 2013 22:24:35 +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 46E2D5F73; Fri, 7 Jun 2013 22:24:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6839F5F5D; Fri, 7 Jun 2013 22:24:34 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130607202434.6839F5F5D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 22:24:34 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.105 pubs: cfp for digital labour, virtual work X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 105. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 23:08:55 +0000 From: Christian Fuchs Subject: CfP: Philosophers of the World Unite! Theorizing Digital Labour and Virtual Work: Definitions, Forms and Transformations CfP: Philosophers of the World Unite! Theorizing Digital Labour and Virtual Work: Definitions, Forms and Transformations Special issue of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique Download CfP: http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/CfP_DigitalLabour.pdf CfP: http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/announcement/view/14 Supported by COST Action IS1202 “Dynamics of Virtual Work”-Working Group 3 “Innovation and the Emergence of New Forms of Value Creation and New Economic Activities“ (http://dynamicsofvirtualwork.com, http://dynamicsofvirtualwork.com/wg3/), tripleC (http://www.triple-c.at): Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society. Editors: Marisol Sandoval, Christian Fuchs, Jernej A. Prodnik, Sebastian Sevignani, Thomas Allmer In 1845, Karl Marx (1845, 571) formulated in the 11th Feuerbach Thesis: “The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it”. Today, interpretation of the world has become an important form of labour that is expressed on and with the help of digital media. It has therefore become common to talk about digital labour and virtual work. Yet the changes that digital, social and mobile media bring about in the world of labour and work have thus far only been little theorized and theoretically interpreted. In order to change the information society to the better, we first have to interpret digital labour with the help of critical theories. Theorists of the world from different fields, backgrounds, interdisciplines, transdisciplines and disciplines have to unite for this collective philosophical task. The overall task of this special issue of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique is to gather contributions that help to an understanding of how to critically theorize digital labour, virtual work and related concepts. Theorizing digital labour requires us to provide grounded 1) definitions of digital labour and virtual work, 2) systematic distinctions and typologies of forms of digital labour and 3) theorizing the transformations that digital labour is undergoing. All submitted papers should be theoretical and profoundly engage with the meanings of various concepts. Rather than presenting case studies, papers should focus on fundamental theoretical concepts and discuss definitions. They can also explore the relations between concepts, the historical development of these concepts, typologies and the relevance of different theoretical approaches. The special issue is interested in theorizing the broader picture of digital labour. We welcome submissions that cover one or more of the following or related questions. 1) Concepts of Labour * How should concepts such of work and labour be defined and what are the implications of these definitions for understanding digital labour and virtual work? * Which theoretical or philosophical definitions of work and labour exist and which of them are meaningful for understanding virtual work and digital labour? * What is the difference between labour and digital labour? What is part of digital labour and what is not? Which online, offline, knowledge, physical, industrial, agricultural etc forms of work are part of it or not part of it? Is digital labour only knowledge labour that happens online or do we have to extend the concept to the offline realms and physical labour? Where is the demarcation line? Is digital labour also labour where digital technologies are of vast importance or not? Does digital labour involve the physical forms of work necessary for producing digital labour? * Is there a difference between 'work' and 'labour' and if so, how does it matter for the discussion of digital labour and virtual work? * What is the role of Karl Marx’ theory of labour and surplus value for understanding digital labour and virtual work? * Is the traditional distinction between the material base and superstructure in the realm of social media and digital labour still valid or does it become blurred or undermined? Are new information and communication technologies and social media, their production and use (n)either part of the base (n)or the superstructure or are they part of both? *If in the agricultural and industrial age land and nature have been the traditional objects of labour, how do the objects of labour and productive forces look like in the world of digital media and digital labour and how are these productive forces linked to class relations? * What is meant by concepts such as digital labour, telework, virtual work, cyberwork, immaterial labour, knowledge labour, creative work, cultural labour, communicative labour, informational work, digital craft, service work, prosumption, consumption work, online work, audience labour, playbour (play labour) in the context of digital media? How should they be defined? How are they related? How have they developed historically? How are these concepts related to the wider social context and the existing capitalist order? How can a systematic typology of the existing literature in this research field be constructed? Should any of these concepts be rejected? Why? Why not? Do any of these concepts especially matter? If so, why? * What is the etymological history of concepts such as work and labour in different languages and how have these concepts changed throughout history? Which of these historically different meanings are important for understanding digital labour and virtual work? * What are historically new aspects of digital labour, what are predecessors of digital work and which aspects of digital labour have parallels to the pre-digital era? * What is the role of the concept of value for understanding digital labour and virtual work as well as “immaterial” labour, affective labour, knowledge/communicative/information work etc in the context of digital media? 2) Forms of Labour * What is the role of agricultural, industrial, service and knowledge work in the world of digital labour and how are they related? How are different modes of production related to each other in the world of digital labour? * What are the important dimensions for constructing a typology of work that takes place in online spaces (e.g. crowdsourcing, online gambling, gold farming, turking, microwork, production of and trade with virtual items, clickwork etc)? * How can a typology of alternative forms of online work that rejects the profit logic be constructed (e.g. free software development, creative commons and copyleft publishing, Wikipedia collaboration, peer-production, open access publishing, file sharing etc)? * Which forms of labour are involved in the global value chain of digital media, how do they differ from each other and how are they related (e.g. mining, hardware assemblage, call centre work, software engineering, transport labour, prosumer labour, e-waste labour etc)? 3) Transformations of Labour * How can blurring boundaries between toil and play, labour and leisure time, the factory and society, production and consumption, public and private, the sphere of production and reproduction, economic value and social wealth in the realm of digital media be conceptualized? * What is the relationship between creativity, participation, do-it-yourself culture on the one hand and exploitation, alienation and/or emancipation on the other hand? * What is the role of the concepts of the working class and the proletariat for theorizing digital labour? * How would the concepts of digital work and digital labour look like in a post-capitalist society? Does the post-capitalist end of the working class also mean the end of and abolition of digital work? Or just the end of digital labour? What are the anthropologically constant and the historically variable dimensions of productive human activities? How should they be conceptualized and named? How are they related to the realm of digital media? Do concepts such as anti-work, zerowork, the abolition of work, post-work and the right to be lazy take the anthropological, creative and productive aspects of human life that are expressed on digital media into account? What are the elements of digital media activities that will continue to exist in a post-capitalist society? What are the historically continuous and discontinuous elements of digital labour? * What has historically been the role of communications – including digital communications – in labour transformations and in the construction of global labour chains (e.g. global division of labour and social interdependencies; the concept of collective worker / Gesamtarbeiter; socialization of labour etc.)? Deadlines: Abstract submission: July 31, 2013 All abstracts will be reviewed and decisions on acceptance/rejection will be communicated to the authors at the latest by the end of summer 2013. Full paper submission: January 15, 2014 Please submit article titles, author names and contact data and abstracts of 200-400 words to: Marisol Sandoval, marisol.sandoval@uti.at Marx, Karl. 1845. Theses on Feuerbach. In The German ideology, including Theses on Feuerbach and Introduction to the critique of political economy, 569-571. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. About the Editors Marisol Sandoval is Lecturer in Culture, Policy & Management at City University London. Christian Fuchs is Professor of Social Media at the University of Westminster and editor of tripleC. Jernej Amon Prodnik is PhD candidate at the University of Ljubljana’s Faculty of Social Sciences. Sebastian Sevignani is PhD candidate at the University of Salzburg's Faculty of Cultural & Social Sciences and a research associate in the Unified Theory of Information Research Group (UTI). Website: http://sevignani.uti.at Thomas Allmer is PhD candidate at the University of Salzburg and member of the Unified Theory of Information Research Group. Website: http://allmer.uti.at About the Journal: tripleC Editor: Christian Fuchs, University of Westminster tripleC (http://www.triple-c.at): Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society focuses on information society studies and studies of media, digital media, information and communication in society with a special interest in critical studies in these thematic areas. The journal has a special interest in disseminating articles that focus on the role of information (cognition/knowledge, communication, cooperation) in contemporary capitalist societies. For this task, articles should employ critical theories and/or empirical research inspired by critical theories and/or philosophy and ethics guided by critical thinking as well as relate the analysis to power structures and inequalities of capitalism, especially forms of stratification such as class, racist and other ideologies and capitalist patriarchy. tripleC is a transdisciplinary journal that is open to contributions from all disciplines and approaches that critically and with a focus on power structures analyze the role of cognition, communication, cooperation, information, media, digital media and communication in the information society. tripleC is indexed in the databases Communication and Mass Media Complete and Scopus. Its application for inclusion in Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) is under review/observation by ISI Thomson. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DF8845F83; Sat, 8 Jun 2013 23:37:53 +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 9B16A5F81; Sat, 8 Jun 2013 23:37:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 754155F79; Sat, 8 Jun 2013 23:37:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130608213751.754155F79@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2013 23:37:51 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.106 open access: Egan'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. 27, No. 106. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2013 08:56:11 +0100 From: John Levin Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.103 open access In-Reply-To: <20130607201800.1C2C75F5D@digitalhumanities.org> On 07/06/2013 21:18, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 103. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 07:58:28 -0700 (PDT) > From: Laval Hunsucker > Subject: (Digital) greening of the humanities > > May I just quickly point out that the just-out 6 June issue of Times > Higher Education contains, I notice, an opinion piece ( entitled > "Green-eyed, no monster" ) by Gabriel Egan, director of the > Centre for Textual Studies at De Montfort University, arguing > "that the move to open access is desirable and inevitable for the > arts as well as the sciences". [ By "the arts" he here means, in > accord with the not infrequent British usage, what many of us > would normally call "the humanities", in general. ] > > Not unusually radical or visionary in formulation, but a strong > plea, and one whose appearance some folks here might want to > take note of, in any case. > This article is online at: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/comment/opinion/green-open-access-can-work-for-the-humanities/2004323.article 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7F55C5F88; Sat, 8 Jun 2013 23:39:31 +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 525365F7D; Sat, 8 Jun 2013 23:39:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B11355F7C; Sat, 8 Jun 2013 23:39:28 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130608213928.B11355F7C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2013 23:39:28 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.107 on the cfp for computational models of narrative 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="===============4864285196604906911==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============4864285196604906911== Content-Type: text/plain Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 107. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2013 11:20:39 +0200 From: Jan Christoph Meister Subject: Re: 27.100 on the cfp for LLC, computational models of narrative In-Reply-To: <20130606201722.4F7715F49@digitalhumanities.org> As a literary scholar and narratologist I sympathize with Martin Mueller's criticism: sweeping statements such as Herbert Simon's proclamation 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" smack of disciplinary imperialism. As a Humanist one can only marvel at the simplistic notion of 'success' or at the unreflected notion of 'science' which the quote seems to portray. The fact that legions of Humanists make similarly uninformed (if not worse) statements about CS or "computers" cannot count as a valid excuse. But let us take a step back and consider three points. One, this is just a quote and we don't have the original context. Two, the context that we do have is a CfP that tries to highlight the orientation and impetus of an interdisciplinary exchange that might otherwise go unnoticed. This CfP expressly invites Humanists to respond to the claim; so a bit of polemic is rhetorically apt. Three, on a conceptual and methodological level Simon's claim (if indeed he made this claim) that "computational models are the proper lingua franca of the scientific study of narrative" is definitely worth discussing, particularly in our community. If this discussion takes place in LLC, and if indeed it turns out to become a philosophical discussion that foregrounds the conceptual and not just the technological potential of CS/DH approaches in traditional Humanities' themes, then the perceived (or real?) polemic will have served its purpose. The special edition of LLC which the CfP announces is in part a spin-off from a series of workshops on "Computational Modeling of Narrative" which Mark Finlayson and colleagues have been organizing twice; this year's third workshop will take place at Hamburg University 4-6 August. The workshop is co-hosted by Hamburg's Interdisciplinary Centre for Narratology, considered by many literary scholars as something of a 'lion's den' in (mostly non-computational) formalist and structuralist narrative study and theory. It would be great if the spirit of open minded interdisciplinary exchange between the Humanities and AI/CS that informs these workshops could also prevail and be communicated by an LLC special issue on the topic. Chris Meister Am 06.06.2013 22:17, schrieb Humanist Discussion Group: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 100. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 22:09:23 +0000 > From: Martin Mueller > Subject: Re: 27.96 cfp for LLC: computational models of narrative > In-Reply-To: <20130605215413.A391B2D0F@digitalhumanities.org> > > > I read the below announcement with a mixture of amusement and annoyance. The > study of narrative is a major concern of the discipline of Literary Studies > (if it is a discipline). I am confident in predicting that few, if any, > literary scholars will read any essay in this promised issue. But then, as > Patrick Juola pointed out some time ago, practically nobody in the > humanities at large reads anything in LLC.The literary scholars are partly > at fault here. But what about the astonishing arrogance of a statement like > "without computational modeling, the science of a complex human phenomenon > such as narrative will never be successful"? If LLC aims at being "The > Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities" will it help the > conversation between "digital humanists" (a term I abhor) and plain old > humanists if a special issue on so fundamental topic as narrative takes such > a narrow and aggressively possessive approach towards its topic? > > I am far from hostile to quantitative or computational approaches to the > study of literature or other disciplines in the humanities. And I could > understand a special issue of LLC that concerned itself with in a more > modest note with the question how far computational approaches can take us > towards a better understanding of narrative. > > But this is not the way to go for LLC, at least not if it wants to reach out > to a wider audience. > > On 6/5/13 3:54 PM, "Humanist Discussion Group" wrote: > >> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 96. >> Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London >> www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >> Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >> >> >> >> Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:41:58 -0400 >> From: Mark Finlayson >> Subject: CfP: LLC Special Issue on Computational Models of >> Narrative (2nd call) >> >> >> 2nd 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, Koç 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 >> ³Computational Models of Narrative². 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 field¹s 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_submi >> ssion.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. > --===============4864285196604906911== 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 --===============4864285196604906911==-- Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 201135F8C; Sat, 8 Jun 2013 23:42:01 +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 E4E175F89; Sat, 8 Jun 2013 23:42:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 497205F7D; Sat, 8 Jun 2013 23:41:59 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130608214159.497205F7D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2013 23:41:59 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.108 job at the National Library of Scotland X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 108. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2013 10:47:23 +0100 From: Leif Isaksen Subject: GIS Job @ National Library of Scotland There's a job at the NLS which may meet the skills profile and interests of folks on these lists Cheers L. ---- Web and GIS Developer This post occupies a central position in an AHRC funded project - Mapping Edinburgh's Social History: A Capital Digital Resource (MESH). The project aims to develop an interactive web-based atlas of, and mapping resource for Edinburgh. The post-holder must have excellent knowledge of, and experience in using open-source web-based GIS systems, web mapping APIs, and web scripting languages. In addition the post requires an ability to communicate effectively the design and presentation possibilities of the historical material submitted by team members. This appointment is tenable from 1 September 2013 for 36 months and is full time. Closing Date : 25 June 2013 Further details: https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.d isplay_form ---- Chris Fleet Senior Map Curator National Library of Scotland 159 Causewayside EDINBURGH EH9 1PH United Kingdom. Tel. 0131 623 3973 Fax. 0131 623 3971 E-mail: c.fleet@nls.uk Map Images website: http://maps.nls.uk [...] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 10:24:48 +0100 From: "Fleet, Christopher" _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 13CD13A96; Sun, 9 Jun 2013 22:35:48 +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 D30853A0C; Sun, 9 Jun 2013 22:35:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5C7C73A07; Sun, 9 Jun 2013 22:35:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130609203545.5C7C73A07@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 22:35:45 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.109 skills, scholars and scholar-librarians X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 109. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2013 20:36:25 -0400 From: Elliott Shore Subject: Re: 27.97 skills, scholars and scholar-librarians I am not a regular member of your list, but a colleague who is shared these posts with me. I had hoped that the digital humanities might help to function to repair a misapprehension in the academy that is a legacy of the still prevalent late 19th century notions: that what constitutes scholarship in the academy is exclusively the work of the professoriate. I imagine we can all agree that the production of knowledge does not belong solely to those with the privilege that comes with that role. The move towards interdisciplinarity started to acknowledge that the construction of those boundaries within faculty divisions needed to be breached, but it seems that it was only a half-way measure. It ignored the students, librarians and information technologists as members of that interdisciplinary community – it seems to have continued to reserve the exclusive rights of scholarship to the faculty. That we are still stuck in the academic world with all kinds of legacy thinking is not surprising – but this particular artifact seems strikingly out of place for digital humanists, whose work is by definition collaborative. -- Elliott Shore Executive Director Association of Research Libraries 21 Dupont Circle, NW Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036-1118 202-296-2296 (ext.110) 202-872-0884 fax elliott@arl.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9A32C3C07; Sun, 9 Jun 2013 22:36:49 +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 6627F3A96; Sun, 9 Jun 2013 22:36:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 92BFF3A6D; Sun, 9 Jun 2013 22:36:47 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130609203647.92BFF3A6D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 22:36:47 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.110 on the cfp for computational models of narrative X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 110. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2013 23:41:31 +0000 From: Martin Mueller Subject: Re: 27.107 on the cfp for computational models of narrative In-Reply-To: <20130608213928.B11355F7C@digitalhumanities.org> I fully concur with Chris Meister's remarks, and in particular with his desire for "open minded interdisciplinary exchange between the Humanities and AI/CS" about narratology and many other topics." On 6/8/13 3:39 PM, "Humanist Discussion Group" wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 107. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2013 11:20:39 +0200 > From: Jan Christoph Meister > Subject: Re: 27.100 on the cfp for LLC, computational models of >narrative > In-Reply-To: <20130606201722.4F7715F49@digitalhumanities.org> > > >As a literary scholar and narratologist I sympathize with Martin >Mueller's criticism: sweeping statements such as Herbert Simon's >proclamation 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" smack of disciplinary imperialism. As a Humanist one >can only marvel at the simplistic notion of 'success' or at the >unreflected notion of 'science' which the quote seems to portray. The >fact that legions of Humanists make similarly uninformed (if not worse) >statements about CS or "computers" cannot count as a valid excuse. > >But let us take a step back and consider three points. One, this is just >a quote and we don't have the original context. Two, the context that we >do have is a CfP that tries to highlight the orientation and impetus of >an interdisciplinary exchange that might otherwise go unnoticed. This >CfP expressly invites Humanists to respond to the claim; so a bit of >polemic is rhetorically apt. Three, on a conceptual and methodological >level Simon's claim (if indeed he made this claim) that "computational >models are the proper lingua franca of the scientific study of >narrative" is definitely worth discussing, particularly in our community. > >If this discussion takes place in LLC, and if indeed it turns out to >become a philosophical discussion that foregrounds the conceptual and >not just the technological potential of CS/DH approaches in traditional >Humanities' themes, then the perceived (or real?) polemic will have >served its purpose. The special edition of LLC which the CfP announces >is in part a spin-off from a series of workshops on "Computational >Modeling of Narrative" which Mark Finlayson and colleagues have been >organizing twice; this year's third workshop will take place at Hamburg >University 4-6 August. The workshop is co-hosted by Hamburg's >Interdisciplinary Centre for Narratology, considered by many literary >scholars as something of a 'lion's den' in (mostly non-computational) >formalist and structuralist narrative study and theory. It would be >great if the spirit of open minded interdisciplinary exchange between >the Humanities and AI/CS that informs these workshops could also prevail >and be communicated by an LLC special issue on the topic. > >Chris Meister _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4707B5F88; Sun, 9 Jun 2013 22:37:24 +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 156625F79; Sun, 9 Jun 2013 22:37:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0E5703C07; Sun, 9 Jun 2013 22:37:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130609203722.0E5703C07@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 22:37:21 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.111 events: cultural research X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 111. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 13:02:50 +0000 From: Sinai Rusinek Subject: FW: Conference "CULTURAL RESEARCH IN THE CONTEXT OF 'DIGITAL HUMANITIES'" In-Reply-To: International Conference CULTURAL RESEARCH IN THE CONTEXT OF «DIGITAL HUMANITIES» Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 3–5 October 2013 Whereas humanities can be described as the investigation of different forms of human experience, digital humanities with respect to the subject of research, represent the way humanistic research exists in the digital age providing novel possibilities for information storage, transfer and dissemination. Digital humanities can be seen as a synthesis of several major research areas and practical activities. Firstly, it is the use of digital technologies in human research, foremost to process large arrays of information, from ancient manuscript analysis («digital paleography») to the research of literary works and documents of various epochs («distant reading» or «digital reading» as referred to by Franco Moretti). These are digital means of space and time data visualization, that are able to depict the most diverse types of processes, for example, a city architectural history, ethnic groups translocations, language transformations and the geographical expansion of an artistic style. Secondly, DH are the new forms of accumulation and transfer of knowledge, and structuring of academic and educational societies. We currently live in the age of information, the so-called post-literate (M. MacLuhan) and post-print (R. Darnton) society. DH is the research of particular qualities of the new age, sociocultural consequences of digital technologies’ implementation and critical analysis of their potential and restrictions. Research and project activity within DH is necessarily interdisciplinary and collaborative. DH educational framework inspires new modes of thinking, combining the achievements of the IT and humanistic field. Thirdly, it is a format of creative work, journalism, enlightenment and interaction with cultural heritage: «digital art», new media, formation of digital libraries, archives, cultural heritage and museum collection databases, digital reconstructions involving the combined efforts of scholars and IT experts; this also includes issues with copyright and intellectual property. Digital humanities do not reject or replace traditional landscape of humanities, but become a superstructure over it. The border between scholars, who do not take the world of digital culture into consideration and those, who are already used to it, becomes clearer. The conference welcomes papers organized around the following topics: * Subject and methods of cultural research in the context of digital means of coding and de-coding information, new algorithms for information analysis and synthesis, and digital modeling technology; * Cultural history of digital technologies, ethics and esthetics of digital communications, network forms of interaction and the Internet; * Prospects of digitizing libraries, museums, archives, and cultural and natural heritage; * Digital technologies in research and the educational activity of cultural researchers; * Transformation of cultural research and humanities in the digital age, functioning of internet communities and periodicals; * Transformation of the essence and methods of humanitarian pedagogy in the digital age; challenges with new forms of cultural research disciplines; * Artistic practices and curator activity in the digital age. The conference will combine traditional and unconventional formats, including panels with paper discussions, workshops, presentations, and poster sessions. Publication: Conference materials will be published prior to the conference. Working languages of the conference are English and Russian. Participation in the conference is free of charge. To apply: * Send an application to dhconference2013@gmail.com with a copy to the chair coordinator nikiforova_lv@list.ru containing the title of the paper and your personal data (name, surname, institutional affiliation, telephone, and e-mail) by 15 June 2013. * You will be notified of your participation by 30 June 2013. * Participation in absentia is also available. * Full text (10000 to 40000 printed characters) should be sent before 15 August 2013, tables and illustrations may be attached if needed. Contacts: Address: 197046 Saint-Petersburg, rue Malaya Posadskaya, 26, room 304, Department of Theory and History of Culture Herzen University Organization Committee telephone: +7(812) 232-34-95 E-mail: dhconference2013@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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0CB2B5FAB; Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:56:40 +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 B94465FA4; Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:56:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 14FD32CC8; Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:56:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130610205630.14FD32CC8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:56:29 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.112 cfp for LLC on computational models of narrative X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 112. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2013 23:23:40 -0400 From: Mark Finlayson Subject: Re: 27.100 on the cfp for LLC, computational models of narrative Thanks, Martin and Chris, for starting a discussion on this. The hope of the Computational Models of Narrative venues is that computationalists and humanists (and many others besides) can engage, not as enemies, but as colleagues both focused on the same goal: advancing our understanding of narrative. Narrative is a complex, multifaceted phenomenon, touching diverse disciplines. There are many computationalists who work on narrative, desperate for engagement and guidance from humanists. Unfortunately, the computationalists all too often find their pleas rebuffed. Us computationalists, being a somewhat stubborn species, and refusing to be dissuaded, then muddle along as best we can. This produces work that is interesting to computationalists but often inadequate for humanists, leading to more disengagement between the two fields--a vicious cycle. I believe that both computationalists and humanists have something unique and important to bring to the study of narrative, and together we can accomplish something that neither discipline could accomplish alone. As with most interdisciplinary work, one major challenge is to find problems that are interesting to both parties. Because of the nascent state of our tools and understanding, computationalists often work at a level that holds little interest to humanists; humanists, on the other hand, work on problems that are often far too complex to model computationally anytime soon. What we need are humanists who can see the long-term potential of this collaboration, who are confident that we can find problems that are valuable to both sides, and are willing to engage with the computationalists to find those problems and tackle them. Regarding the statement that has raised some hackles: it is my own, not Simon's, but I did paraphrase Simon in its construction. My intention was to justify attention to computation viz-a-viz narrative, and to do it in a somewhat grandiose way that would stimulate thought. The intention was not to be polemic, narrow, aggressive, imperialistic, possessive, or exclusionary. I happen to believe the statement I made, and believe it should not be seen as a threat by humanists; but I understand others disagree, or partially agree but would like to clarify, qualify, or reformulate it. This is a valuable discussion that I think is important to have. I believe, with engagement from humanists, that the Computational Models of Narrative venues (workshop and LLC issue) are opportune places to have this discussion. Mark Finlayson markaf@mit.edu > Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2013 11:20:39 +0200 > From: Jan Christoph Meister > Subject: Re: 27.100 on the cfp for LLC, computational models of > narrative > > As a literary scholar and narratologist I sympathize with Martin > Mueller's criticism: sweeping statements such as Herbert Simon's > proclamation 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" smack of disciplinary imperialism. As > a Humanist one can only marvel at the simplistic notion of 'success' > or at the unreflected notion of 'science' which the quote seems to > portray. The fact that legions of Humanists make similarly > uninformed (if not worse) statements about CS or "computers" cannot > count as a valid excuse. > > But let us take a step back and consider three points. One, this is > just a quote and we don't have the original context. Two, the > context that we do have is a CfP that tries to highlight the > orientation and impetus of an interdisciplinary exchange that might > otherwise go unnoticed. This CfP expressly invites Humanists to > respond to the claim; so a bit of polemic is rhetorically apt. Three, > on a conceptual and methodological level Simon's claim (if indeed he > made this claim) that "computational models are the proper lingua > franca of the scientific study of narrative" is definitely worth > discussing, particularly in our community. > > If this discussion takes place in LLC, and if indeed it turns out to > become a philosophical discussion that foregrounds the conceptual > and not just the technological potential of CS/DH approaches in > traditional Humanities' themes, then the perceived (or real?) > polemic will have served its purpose. The special edition of LLC > which the CfP announces is in part a spin-off from a series of > workshops on "Computational Modeling of Narrative" which Mark > Finlayson and colleagues have been organizing twice; this year's > third workshop will take place at Hamburg University 4-6 August. The > workshop is co-hosted by Hamburg's Interdisciplinary Centre for > Narratology, considered by many literary scholars as something of a > 'lion's den' in (mostly non-computational) formalist and > structuralist narrative study and theory. It would be great if the > spirit of open minded interdisciplinary exchange between the > Humanities and AI/CS that informs these workshops could also prevail > and be communicated by an LLC special issue on the topic. > > Chris Meister > >> >> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 22:09:23 +0000 From: Martin Mueller >> Subject: Re: 27.96 cfp for LLC: >> computational models of narrative >> >> I read the below announcement with a mixture of amusement and >> annoyance. The study of narrative is a major concern of the >> discipline of Literary Studies (if it is a discipline). I am >> confident in predicting that few, if any, literary scholars will >> read any essay in this promised issue. But then, as Patrick Juola >> pointed out some time ago, practically nobody in the humanities at >> large reads anything in LLC.The literary scholars are partly at >> fault here. But what about the astonishing arrogance of a >> statement like "without computational modeling, the science of a >> complex human phenomenon such as narrative will never be >> successful"? If LLC aims at being "The Journal of Digital >> Scholarship in the Humanities" will it help the conversation >> between "digital humanists" (a term I abhor) and plain old >> humanists if a special issue on so fundamental topic as narrative >> takes such a narrow and aggressively possessive approach towards its >> topic? >> >> I am far from hostile to quantitative or computational approaches >> to the study of literature or other disciplines in the humanities. >> And I could understand a special issue of LLC that concerned >> itself with in a more modest note with the question how far >> computational approaches can take us towards a better understanding >> of narrative. >> >> But this is not the way to go for LLC, at least not if it wants to >> reach out to a wider audience. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 055A75FB5; Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:57:23 +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 9E7E85FAE; Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:57:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 26AC15FAD; Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:57:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130610205713.26AC15FAD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:57:13 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.113 DH2013 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. 27, No. 113. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:29:06 +0000 From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" Subject: ACH events at Digital Humanities 2013 The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) has planned a full array of activities and events for the upcoming Digital Humanities conference in Lincoln, Nebraska (July 16-19). We warmly invite you to participate! http://ach.org/activities-dh2013 * PLEASE ASK, DO TELL * As part of our longstanding mentoring program, ACH promotes connections among our members and friends. People wearing a green "Please ASK" sticker at DH 2013 may have advice to offer or know about an interesting DH opportunity. Please ask them! People wearing a blue "Do TELL" sticker will be looking for professional advice and/or job opportunities -- so if you have something to offer, don't be shy! Pick up your stickers at the registration tables in Lincoln. * ACH AGM, JOBS SLAM, & PEDAGOGY LIGHTNING TALKS * Join us for lunch at the ACH Annual General Meeting! Sure, there may be some sub-committee reports and even an important vote or two, but you haven't really experienced an AGM until you've been to our Jobs Slam! This is a lively event where prospective employees and employers have 30 seconds of floor-time to introduce themselves. Sign up: http://ach.org/jobs-slam-2013 Also planned for this year's ACH AGM is an open program of informal lightning talks on DH pedagogy. Do you have a student project or training model to share? Want to show your syllabus or describe a new way of thinking about DH education? Sign up: http://ach.org/lightning-talks-dh2013 The ACH annual general meeting will be held at lunchtime one day during the conference. See the DH 2013 program for details soon. * ACH NEWCOMERS' DINNERS * Join as as we forge a new tradition! Is this your first or second time at the Digital Humanities conference? Are you a newcomer to the DH community? Meet up with a small group of newbies and ACH old-timers at a local restaurant, to forge scholarly connections and friendships. For details and to register: http://goo.gl/IT9Ih ACH Newcomers' Dinners will be held the evening of Wednesday, 17 July. * ACH MENTORSHIP MIXER * This is a casual outing where all current participants in the ACH Mentoring program are invited to a local pub or bar to chat with one another. The first round of refreshments is on us! Learn more about our mentoring program: http://www.ach.org/mentoring This year, we'll meet at 7pm at the Starlite Lounge, Thursday July 18th (247 N 8th St, Suite 101, Lincoln NE 68508). Many thanks to all of the ACH officers and executive council members who are making these events possible (and most especially to Stéfan Sinclair, Vika Zafrin, Susan Brown, Brian Croxall, and Jeremy Boggs). For more information, and to join ACH: http://ach.org/activities-dh2013 We look forward to seeing you in Nebraska! -- Bethany Dr. Bethany Nowviskie 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id EB04B5FB8; Mon, 10 Jun 2013 23:00:09 +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 47B245FA4; Mon, 10 Jun 2013 23:00:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A8FB55FA9; Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:59:59 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130610205959.A8FB55FA9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:59:59 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.114 events: human-computer; Oxford summer school; THATCamp Buenos Aires X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 114. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Barbara Bordalejo (20) Subject: THATCamp Buenos Aires [2] From: James Cummings (48) Subject: 10 Days left to book: Digital.Humanities @ Oxford Summer School 2013 [3] From: Willard Mccarty (124) Subject: Fourth International Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction, Tourism and Cultural Heritage --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 19:08:41 -0400 From: Barbara Bordalejo Subject: THATCamp Buenos Aires Dear colleagues, Registration is open for THATCamp Buenos Aires. http://buenosaires2013.thatcamp.org/ You can follow us on Twitter @THATCampBaires or like us in Facebook http://www.facebook.com/ThatCampBuenosAires For those who cannot attend, we are organising a Google Hangout (you still need to register for it). Cheers, BB Estimados colegas, Están abiertas las inscripciones para THATCamp Buenos Aires http://buenosaires2013.thatcamp.org/ THATCamp Buenos Aires está pautado para el 22 de julio del año en curso. Pueden seguirnos en Twitter @THATCampBaires o en Facebook http://www.facebook.com/ThatCampBuenosAires También estamos organizando un Google hangout para los que no puedan asistir al evento. Para participar virtualmente deberán inscribirse como participantes indicando su interés en participar a distancia. Muchos saludos, BB --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:46:17 +0100 From: James Cummings Subject: 10 Days left to book: Digital.Humanities @ Oxford Summer School 2013 *Only 10 days left to book!* Places for this year's Digital.Humanities @ Oxford Summer School are filling up already, so book your place soon! Visit http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2013/ for more information. If you are awaiting the results of local funding and want to to see whether your chosen workshop is almost full, email courses@it.ox.ac.uk to find out! ==== The Digital.Humanities @ Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS) is an annual event for anyone working in the Digital Humanities. This year's Summer School will be held on 8 - 12 July, at the University of Oxford. If you are a researcher, project manager, research assistant, or student of the Humanities, this is an opportunity for you to learn about the tools and methodology of digital humanities, 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. Visit http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2013/ for more information. With the DHOxSS's customisable schedule, you book on one of our five-day workshops, and supplement this by booking several guest lectures from experts in their fields. The main five-day workshops this year are: 1. Cultural Connections: exchanging knowledge and widening participation in the Humanities 2. How to do Digital Humanities: Discovery, Analysis and Collaboration 3. A Humanities Web of Data: publishing, linking and querying on the semantic web. 4. An Introduction to XML and the Text Encoding Initiative 5. An Introduction to XSLT for Digital Humanists 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 historic Queen's College, Oxford! (Well worth it!) 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. More details at: http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2013/ James Cummings, Director of DHOxSS -- Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings@it.ox.ac.uk Academic IT Services, University of Oxford --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 18:36:20 +0000 From: Willard Mccarty Subject: Fourth International Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction, Tourism and Cultural Heritage In-Reply-To: <20130610183559.6166.qmail@webmaildh4.aruba.it> HCITOCH 2013 :: Fourth International Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction, Tourism and Cultural Heritage :: Call for Papers :: Rome, Italy :: September 26 - 27, 2013 :: AInCI :: International Association of Interactive Communication (Asociacion Internacional de la Comunicacion Interactiva) :: www.ainci.com ALAIPO :: Latin Association of Human-Computer Interaction (Asociacion Latina de Interaccion Persona Ordenador) :: www.alaipo.com :: :: Fourth International Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction, Tourism and Cultural Heritage (HCITOCH 2013): Strategies for a Creative Future with Computer Science, Quality Design and Communicability :: Rome, Italy :: September 26 - 27, 2013: :: http://www.alaipo.com/HCITOCH-2013/workshop_HCITOCH_2013.html :: HCITOCH 2013 will be composed of research presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations, doctoral consortium, demo session and poster presentations. :: Papers must be submitted following the instructions found on the submission of papers section. All accepted papers will be published in the respective conference proceedings (in printed book form, CD/DVD and magazine) by international and prestigious publishing houses in America and Europe: 1) Post-conference publishing book: "Advanced Research and Trends in New Technologies, Software, Human-Computer Interaction and Communicability". IGI Global: Hershey, Pennsylvania - USA 2) An academic CD proceedings version –not commercial (distribution in the room), with ISBN 978.88.96.471.23.4 and DOI: 10.978.8896471/234 3) The papers are will be submitted for indexation by EI COMPENDEX, INSPEC, THOMSON REUTERS and DBLP.UNI-TRIE.DE 4) Magazine in America / EU Very Important: The authors can present more than one paper with only one registration (maximum 3 papers). All contributions should be of high quality, originality, clarity, significance, impact and not published elsewhere or submitted for publication during the review period. In the current international workshop it is demonstrated how with a correct integration among professionals of formal and factual sciences interesting research lines in the following subjects Human-Computer Interaction, Tourism, Cultural Heritage, Quality Design, Communicability, Ubiquitous Computing and other computational areas are solicited on, but not limited to: :: Advances in Hypermedia Systems :: Archeological Sites Management :: Audio-visual Communication and Multimedia :: Blended Learning :: Character for Guided Tour and Behaviour Computer Animation :: Cognitive Models and Critical Design :: Communicability :: Computational Graphics :: Computer Aided Education (CAE) :: Computer Arts :: Computer-Aided Design (CAD) :: Cross-Cultural and Internationalization of Design :: Cultural Heritage and Social Networking :: Database Application Development :: Development of Research and Education in Heritage Conservation :: Digital Divide :: Digital Literacy Trainings :: Digitization for Preservation :: Distributed Computing and Networking :: E-book :: Eco-design :: E-commerce :: E-culture :: E-government :: Electronic Presentation, Publishing, and Digital Libraries :: Embedded Computing :: Emerging Technologies :: Emotional Design :: Ergonomics :: Future Challenges of Visualization Methods :: Human Factors and Computer Science :: Human-Computer Interaction :: Human-Robot Interaction :: Image Processing: Color Correction, Image Warping, Morphing and Painting :: Immersive Multimedia, Mixed Reality and Virtual Reality :: Indexing and Search Technique for Hypermedia Databases :: Information Technology and Communication for Regional Development :: Integration of Artificial Intelligence with other Technologies for the Tourism :: Intelligent and Adaptable Systems :: Interactive Systems for Cultural and Ecological Heritage :: Journalism On-line: Discursive Analysis :: Knowledge-Based Simulation :: Marketing, Tourism and Geospatial Information Systems :: Methodologies for Heuristic Evaluation of the Quality :: Microinformatics for Conservation and Promotion of Cultural Heritage :: Mobile Network Security :: Multimedia for Assessing Tourist Demand in World Heritage Sites :: Online Museum :: Open Source Software :: Photography and Illustration Digital :: Preservation and Image Restoration of Digital Culture :: Quality Attributes and Metrics for Interactive Systems :: Reusability of the Current Digital Archiving Solutions :: Role of Local Community and ICTs in Cultural Heritage Management :: Semiotics for Interactive Design :: Software Engineering :: Software Testing, Evaluation and Analysis Technologies :: Speech and Natural Language Interfaces :: Storytelling and Augmented Realities :: Tangible User Interfaces :: Technological and Economical Valuation of Natural and Cultural Heritage Resources :: Telecommunications and Marketing Models in the Museum as Distributed Network :: Teleworking :: Tourism Enterprise Information Systems and Intelligent Agents :: Tourism Technology Management :: Ubiquitous Computing :: Usability Engineering :: Video games :: Virtual Architecture and Hypergraphics :: Virtual Campus and Distance Education :: Virtual Simulation and Quality in Heritage and Historic Environments :: Virtual Travel Agencies :: Visitor and ICTs Impact Management for World Heritage Sites :: Visual Effects and Cinema Digital :: Visualization Tools and Systems for Simulation and Modeling :: Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 :: Web TV, 3D TV and Stereo Visualization :: Wireless and Mobile Computer Science [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DF0435FBD; Mon, 10 Jun 2013 23:01:08 +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 CA1365FB7; Mon, 10 Jun 2013 23:01:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id EAAD35FA9; Mon, 10 Jun 2013 23:00:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130610210058.EAAD35FA9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 23:00:58 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.115 pubs: Alan Turing; Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 38.1 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 115. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: S B Cooper (24) Subject: Book announcement: ALAN TURING - His Work and Impact [2] From: Willard McCarty (39) Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 38.1 (March 2013) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:36:37 +0000 From: S B Cooper Subject: Book announcement: ALAN TURING - His Work and Impact New book announcement: "ALAN TURING: His Work and Impact" - edited by S. Barry Cooper and Jan van Leeuwen http://store.elsevier.com/product.jsp?isbn=9780123869807 "The fact remains that everyone who taps at a keyboard, opening a spreadsheet or a word-processing program, is working on an incarnation of a Turing machine." -TIME Magazine In one accessible volume, this book presents the most significant original works from the 4-volume set of A.M Turing's collected works, along with key commentary from over 70 great scholarly leaders in the field, providing interested readers with unique insight into the context and significance of Turing's impact on mathematics, computing, computer science, informatics, morphogenesis, philosophy and the wider scientific world. This remarkable volume is an essential addition to any library, private or institutional. * See below for an engrossing article from Elsevier Connect on the book and its genesis: - New book spotlights Alan Turing, Nazi code-breaker and 'father of computer science' - Turing's work has influenced scholars in many fields; Editor Barry Cooper talks about compiling their commentary along with Turing's writing http://elsevierconnect.com/new-book-spotlights-alan-turing-nazi-code-breaker-and-father-of-computer-science/ http://bit.ly/11qVF66 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 06:49:30 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 38.1 (March 2013) Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 38.1 (March 2013) 1. Editorial Jarron, Matthew 1-11(11) 2. DArcy Thompsons Legacy in Contemporary Studies of Patterns and Morphology Hyde, Stephen T 12-34(23) 3. A Bridge between Science and Art? The Artistic Reception of On Growth and Form in Interwar Britain, c. 1930-42 Juler, Edward 35-48(14) 4. Portrait of a Polymath - A Visual Portrait of DArcy Thompson by Will Maclean Jarron, Matthew 49-51(3) 5. On Theme and Variation Randall-Page, Peter 52-62(11) 6. DArcy Thompsons On Growth and Form and the Concept of Dynamic Form in Postwar Avant-Garde Art Theory Kaniari, Assimina 63-73(11) 7. Hits, Misses and Close Calls: An Image Essay on Pattern Formation in On Growth and Form Ball, Philip 74-88(15) -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, Research Group in Digital Humanities, 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D9B433A60; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 03:00:19 +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 381443A03; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 03:00:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CAC9C2DFB; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 03:00:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130612010009.CAC9C2DFB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 03:00:09 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.116 computationalists and 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 116. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 07:18:24 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: computationalists and humanists It's good to have Mark Finlayson's commentary on the topic of Computational Models of Narrative in Humanist 27.112. I have only one small bone to pick: his distinction between computationalists and humanists. I wonder on which side of that divide digital humanists are supposed to be? As happens from time to time, last year I had the chance to have a number of very interesting discussions with a computer scientist (on the AI side of things), in which I attempted to demonstrate to him that us folks from digital humanities were not, as he kept saying, "soft". I wasn't trying to side with those who are "hard", which clearly he thought computer scientists were (not, by the way, physicist Richard Feynman's view of computer science at all), rather to do away with the old hard/soft sexist vocabulary of the now badly worn distinction between the sciences and the humanities. (To anyone with an eye for metaphor it's really difficult to believe that an academic in this 21st Century of ours would be talking of hard and soft except to his doctor :-), but I am here to tell you it happens!) But this is not to connect that vocabulary to Finlayson's note, not at all. My point is that again such a clear-cut division, however metaphorized, isn't helpful. As Natalia Cecire has written, the central problematic in humanities plus computing is that plus. Take it away, by placing the two on either side of a great divide, and you've lost the point of it all. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, Research Group in Digital Humanities, 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A0A363A99; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 03:00:53 +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 B024D3A6E; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 03:00:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 96C7A3A60; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 03:00:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130612010045.96C7A3A60@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 03:00:45 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.117 research grant available X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 117. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:19:52 +0200 From: maurizio lana Subject: research grant on geographical ontology dear all, the Università  del Piemonte Orientale - Vercelli at the address http://www.unipmn.it/Informazioni%20su/Ricerca%20Scientifica/Assegni%20di%20Ricerca/Bandi/default.aspx?systempath_index=5 has a call for 1 research grant (1 year, 19.000 euro pre-tax) for a person (less than 35 years old and PhD) which will work to the construction of a geographical ontology to be used in the annotation/markup of a latin texts corpus; moreover, she will participate to the development of the software prototype of the annotation working environment. the research project "geolat" has an interdisciplinary team which needs a person able to finalize the reflections and decision of the group about the geographical ontology, and to build/integrate the specific parts of ontology for latin texts with other already existing elsewhere. The candidate should have a solid background in computer science, computational ontologies and RDF, with no constraints on the domain where s/he got this knowledge: computer science, information engineering, or cognitive sciences. as an official document the call is written in italian, interested people can ask for explanations to m.lana@lett.unipmn.it best maurizio lana ------- 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BFB903AD4; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 03:03:04 +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 42A3D3A9A; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 03:02:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C5BCF3A6E; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 03:02:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130612010253.C5BCF3A6E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 03:02:53 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.118 events: visualising heritage; hackathon; CIDOC CRM X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 118. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Øyvind_Eide (89) Subject: CFP: Practical Experiences with CIDOC CRM and its Extensions (CRMEX) [2] From: Shawn Day (16) Subject: Hack the Lockout! This Saturday, 10am, Wood Quay Venue [3] From: Simon Mahony (34) Subject: Digital Classicist seminar --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 08:27:04 +0200 From: Øyvind_Eide Subject: CFP: Practical Experiences with CIDOC CRM and its Extensions (CRMEX) CALL FOR PAPERS Practical Experiences with CIDOC CRM and its Extensions (CRMEX) http://www.ontotext.com/CRMEX 26th September 2013 in Valetta, Malta A workshop affiliated with the 17th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2013) http://www.tpdl2013.info/ Background and Objectives The CIDOC CRM (international standard ISO 21127:2006) is a conceptual model and ontology with a fundamental role in many data integration efforts in the Digital Libraries and Cultural Heritage (CH) domain. It has spawned various CRM-compliant extensions, such as: - Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBRoo) for works and bibliographic data - CRM Digitization (CRMdig) for digitization and provenance - CRM for English Heritage (CRMEH) for archaeology - British Museum Ontology (BMO) for museum objects - Sharing Ancient Wisdoms (SAWS) for medieval gnomologia (collections of wise sayings) - PRESSoo, a FRBRoo extension for serial publications A number of data models, while not CRM-compliant, have been influenced by the CRM, e.g. the Europeana Data Model - EDM. At the same time, some people claim that the examples of practical working systems using CRM are few and far between. There are various difficulties facing wider CRM adoption and interoperation: - Because CRM allows many different ways of representing the same situation, CRM adopters in various CH areas need mapping guidelines and best practices to increase the chance of interoperation. - While RDF is the most viable CRM representation, there are various low-level RDF issues that are not standardized. Since RDF representation implies a certain implementation bias and still undergoes changes of good practice, CRM-SIG has been expecting good practices to emerge from people applying CRM in order to make recommendations The goal of this workshop is to describe and showcase systems using CRM at their core, exchange experience about the practical use of CRM, describe difficulties for the practical application of CRM, and share approaches for overcoming such difficulties. The ultimate objective of this workshop is to encourage the wider practical adoption of CRM. The workshop addresses important topics and is quite relevant to the topics of TPDL, given the following: - Libraries are opening more and more towards Linked Open Data and semantic technologies - Library holdings are often considered one part of CH, to be combined and complemented with data from other CH institutions (consider Europeana and similar national aggregation efforts). CRM is a foundational ontology that can provide a unifying ground for all CH domains - FRBRoo is a popular CRM extension with direct application in the library domain Topics The workshop invites papers that cover, but are not limited to, the following topics: - Software systems and similar developments using CRM - CRM repositories that aggregate large amounts of CRM RDF data - CRM-compliant extension ontologies and domain specializations. Principles for extending CRM - Best practices for representing specific situations from specific CH domains in CRM - Best practices, guidelines and detailed mappings from various metadata formats and various CH domains to CRM - Joint use of CRM and other popular ontologies. Principles for selecting constructs from different ontologies. - Querying, searching and faceted browsing of CRM repositories - Display, editing, annotation and cross-linking of CRM data - Reasoning with CRM data - Encountered mistakes in representing CRM data. CRM learning curve and didactic considerations - Shortcomings of CRM, recommendations for CRM evolution. Collaboration on CRM evolution, merging RDF standardization approaches, recommendations for collaborative approaches. - Performance and volumetric information about CRM-based systems - Evaluations of CRM adoption, usability of CRM-based systems, usage of specific CRM constructs Workshop Format The workshop will be a full day: - Up to 10 papers, presented in 25 minutes each plus 5 minutes for discussion. We expect a presentation to be submitted for each paper, and an author to present in person. - Up to 8 system demos and posters - A collaborative session of 1 hour, to draft common position paper and recommendations Submission instructions - The peer review process will be organized at EasyChair. Watch http://www.ontotext.com/CRMEX for news - Each paper will be reviewed by three reviewers, assigned by random choice. - Workshop proceedings will be published freely at CEUR WS. The authors are advised to use the LNCS format. - Accepted papers are expected to be submitted in camera-ready form a week before the workshop, so the proceedings can be ready for the workshop. - We expect authors to prepare and submit a presentation a day before the workshop. These presentations will also be included in the proceedings. - We also solicit Position Papers for the collaborative session (not refereed, up to 3 pages). Important dates - Paper submission deadline: Jul 27, 2013 - Paper acceptance notification: Aug 27, 2013 - Camera-ready version of accepted papers: September 20, 2013 - Presentations for accepted papers: September 24, 2013 - Position Papers (non-refereed): September 24, 2013 - Papers publication at CEUR-WS: September 24, 2013 - Workshop date: September 26, 2013 - Final proceedings publication: October 5, 2013 (including presentations and common position paper) Organizing Committee - Vladimir Alexiev, Ontotext, Bulgaria (vladimir.alexiev@ontotext.com). Workshop Chair - Vladimir Ivanov, Kazan Federal University, Russia (nomemm@gmail.com). Review Chair - Franco Niccolucci, University of Florence, Prato, Italy. Publication Chair - Christian-Emil Ore, University of Oslo, Norway. Authors Liaison - Guenther Goerz, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. Publicity Chair Program Committee - Christian-Emil Ore, Unit for Digital Documentation, University of Oslo, Norway - Ceri Binding, Hypermedia Research Unit, Hypermedia Research Unit; Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science; University of South Wales - Costis Dallas, Associate Professor, Director of Museum Studies, University of Toronto - Eero Hyvönen, Professor and Research Director, Semantic Computing Research Group, Department of Media Technology, Aalto University and University of Helsinki - Franco Niccolucci, Director, VAST-LAB, PIN, University of Florence, Prato, Italy (former: Professor at the Faculty of Architecture) - Guenther Goerz, lead, Digital Humanities group, Computer Science Department, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany - Kai Eckert, Postdoctoral Researcher, Research Group Data and Web Science, University of Mannheim - Keith May, Information Strategy Advisor, Strategic Planning & Management Division, English Heritage; Visiting Fellow, University of Glamorgan - Martin Doerr, Research Director, Center for Cultural Informatics, Information Systems Laboratory, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Greece - Michele Pasin, Information architect, Nature Publishing Group (formerly research associate, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College) - Øyvind Eide, Senior Analyst, Unit for Digital Documentation, University of Oslo, Norway - Panos Constantopoulos, Director of Information Systems and Databases Laboratory, Professor and Department Chairman of Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business; Digital Curation Unit, Institute for the Management of Information Systems, “Athena” Research Centre - Patrick Le Boeuf, Bibliothèque nationale de France - Rainer Simon, senior researcher, Digital Memory Engineering research group, Austrian Institute of Technology - Stefan Gradmann, Professor at Faculty of Arts, Director of the University Library, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - Trond Aalberg, Associate Professor, Data and Information Management group, Norwegian University of Science and Technology - Vladimir Alexiev, Lead, Data and Ontology Management group, Ontotext Corp, Bulgaria - Vladimir Ivanov, Senior research assistant, Computational Linguistics Laboratory, Kazan Federal University, Russia. Cultural Heritage Digitization Center of Tatarstan -- Kind regards Øyvind Eide Unit for Digital Documentation University of Oslo --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:13:51 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: Hack the Lockout! This Saturday, 10am, Wood Quay Venue > From: Danielle O'Donovan > > Date: 10 June 2013 13:00:03 IST > Subject: Hack the Lockout! This Saturday, 10am, Wood Quay Venue I'm working for the Irish Heritage Trust on the digital aspects of their Dublin Tenement Experience, which marks the centenary of the 1913 Lockout and offers interpretation of both tenement life and The Lockout. We are going to have a site powered by OMEKA but we hope to also make a mobile offering. We really have no budget for the latter so we are having a hackathon on Saturday, from 10-5 in Wood Quay. There is a JPEG of info at www.dublintenementexperience.com Thank you! Danielle -- Dr Danielle O'Donovan, 7a Avondale Park, Killiney, Co. Dublin, dodonova@tcd.ie odonovan.danielle@gmail.com 01 - 2855508 085 722 5648 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:52:46 +0000 From: Simon Mahony Subject: Digital Classicist seminar Announcing this week's seminar in the Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Summer seminars for 2013: Valeria Vitale (King’s College London) An Ontology for 3D Visualisation in Cultural Heritage Friday June 14 at 16:30 Room G37, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Behind each scholarly 3D visualisation is a thorough study of records, iconography, literary sources, artistic canons and precedents. However, this research process is seldom visible in the final outcome to either the general public or the academy. This paper suggests the use of an RDF ontology to describe 3D models, identify relationships, and connect them to their diverse related sources (photographs, GIS coordinates, academic literature, etc.). If such an ontology can be derived and applied it will optimise the documentation process, and further, allow 3D visualisations to join and enrich the growing network of linked digital resources to study the past. The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments. All are welcome The full 2013 programme is at http://digiclass.cch.kcl.ac.uk/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 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/people/simonmahony [1] www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/courses/mamsc [2] www.ucl.ac.uk/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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A63263AAA; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:13:13 +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 9E6192CC3; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:13:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 11C263A73; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:12:59 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130612201300.11C263A73@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:12:59 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.119 computationalists and 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. 27, No. 119. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 04:46:17 +0000 From: James Smithies Subject: RE: 27.116 computationalists and humanists This particular binary distinction has always interested me: when I was working in government IT I found some colleagues thought academic computer scientists were hopelessly 'soft'; when I worked in commercial IT I found colleagues who sneered at government IT workers for the same reason; now I'm back in the academic (digital) humanities this message has reminded that I'm probably considered one of the 'softest' of them all in some circles (if only as a subset of 'all academics'). Aside from reminding me how unreconstructed large portions of society are, it gladdens me to know that technology does nothing to alter basic human short-comings related to in-group politics. Regards, James Coordinator and Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities Assoc. Director, UC CEISMIC Digital Archive University of Canterbury Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha Private Bag 4800 Christchurch, New Zealand DDI: +64 3 364 2896 http://dh.canterbury.ac.nz http://www.ceismic.org.nz https://quakestudies.canterbury.ac.nz -----Original Message----- From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [mailto:humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 1:00 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9D7793B71; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:14:29 +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 234E93AB5; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:14:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4F0623AB5; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:14:14 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130612201414.4F0623AB5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:14:14 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.120 events: 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 120. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:59:41 +0000 From: Peter Robinson Subject: Social, Digital, Scholarly Editing conference program The program for this conference (Saskatoon July 11-13) is now available at https://ocs.usask.ca/conf/index.php/sdse/sdse13/schedConf/program. With a stellar cast of speakers, speaking to one of the hottest topics in both the digital humanities and in scholarly editing, this promises to be quite an occasion. There are still places available for anyone who wants to come to this conference: register soon! best wishes Peter Robinson Honorary Research Fellow, ITSEE, University of Birmingham, UK Bateman Professor of English 9 Campus Drive, University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon SK S7N 5A5, Canada _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CE8612DEF; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 22:52:07 +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 EFBEC2CD1; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 22:51:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 233BF2CD1; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 22:51:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130614205158.233BF2CD1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 22:51:58 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.121 computationalists and 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 121. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:20:24 -0400 From: Mark Finlayson Subject: Re: Humanist Digest, Vol 57, Issue 11 In-Reply-To: I suppose I was coming at the humanist/computationalist division merely as a practical matter: most of us were, at least originally, trained as one or the other. And historically the difference has been pretty clear. We clearly have not yet reached the point where those who can operate effortlessly on either side are so common as to make the distinction meaningless. But that is something to work toward, I think: a community of scholars who are truly children of both worlds. Mark _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E0B1B3A26; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 22:53:03 +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 8485B2DCD; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 22:52:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2DEAC2D8D; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 22:52:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130614205253.2DEAC2D8D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 22:52:53 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.122 events: women & community; document engineering X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 122. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Michael Piotrowski (28) Subject: ProDoc@DocEng -- Doctoral consortium deadline extension [2] From: Ray Siemens (58) Subject: CFP: The Fourth International MARGOT Conference --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:58:33 +0200 From: Michael Piotrowski Subject: ProDoc@DocEng -- Doctoral consortium deadline extension Just to let you know that the deadline for submissions to ProDoc@DocEng, the Doctoral Consortium to be held at the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng 2013), September 10-13 in Florence, Italy, has been extended to June 28. ProDoc@DocEng will take place during the Symposium and is an excellent opportunity for doctoral students to present their dissertation project and receive feedback from a panel of senior researchers as well as from the general audience. Doctoral students accepted for ProDoc@DocEng will be eligible to apply for Student Travel Awards to offset some of their travel expenses. You can find the Call for Submissions here: http://www.doceng2013.org/doctoral-consortium/call-for-submissions We would be grateful if you would forward this email to your colleagues and any students you feel might be interested in applying. Hope to see you all at DocEng 2013. Best regards, Tamir Hassan University of Konstanz, Germany Publicity Chair, DocEng 2013 -- 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/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:02:04 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: CFP: The Fourth International MARGOT Conference In-Reply-To: Call for Papers The Fourth International MARGOT Conference June 18-20, 2014 Barnard College, New York City Women and Community in the Ancien Régime: Traditional and New Media Scholarly Focus This three-day conference will feature research and teaching approaches that explore how women participated in and contributed to different kinds of community in medieval and early modern Europe. Conference sessions will feature presentations based on texts and images in traditional manuscript and print format, as well as work that employs new technology and media projects. The conference will be interdisciplinary, and will consider the function and importance of female communities in the natural and social sciences, religion, literature, history, music and fine arts. Presentation topics may explore women in: * Medical communities; midwifery * Religious communities and non-orthodox or heretical groups * Salons and académies * Women and the Republic of Letters * Epistolary communities * Literary circles * Artists’ and performing artists’ communities * Guilds * Oral communities; storytelling Resources and approaches used may include: * Print and Manuscript format * Digital resources of all kinds * Online publication of texts and images * Database design and creation * Material culture and artifacts * Film This conference is co-sponsored by the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. PROCEDURE FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSAL: We welcome three types of submissions: 1. Demonstrations/showcasing of existing projects which will include discussion of their creation and implementation for research and/or teaching 2. Abstracts for regular paper presentations 3. Proposals for entire sessions (including the names, titles, and abstracts of three/four presenters) Regular papers will last for 20 minutes, and will be followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Project demonstrations will last for 30 minutes followed by 15 minutes of discussion. We ask participants to include the following information in their proposal: 1. Paper or Session title 2. Session type – Regular or Project Demonstration 3. 250 word abstract 4. Contact information and bio paragraph The Committee will look at all the proposals and their compatibility with the sessions that are planned. As far as possible, we will try to avoid parallel sessions. The language of the Colloquium will be English. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: The deadline for submitting your proposal is October 1, 2013. Please submit proposals by e-mail to the conference committee: Prof. Laurie Postlewate: lpostlew@barnard.edu. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by October 15, 2013. Information about the conference, including registration, accommodation at negotiated favourable rates, will be provided early in 2014. We will periodically update information here. We look forward to your participation, The Conference Committee: * Christine McWebb (University of Waterloo) * Laurie Postlewate (Barnard College, Columbia University) * Catherine Dubeau (University of Waterloo) For more information, please see http://margot.uwaterloo.ca/conference-2014/ Christine McWebb Christine McWebb Director, Academic Programs Associate Professor for French University of Waterloo Stratford Campus 125 St. Patrick St Stratford, Ontario N5A 2L5 Canada Ph.: 519-888-4567x23008 Fax: 519-275-2771 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 024183A31; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 23:01:08 +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 9E94A39E0; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 23:00:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B5DD82CE8; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 23:00:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130614210056.B5DD82CE8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 23:00:56 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.123 thresholds? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 123. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 06:50:42 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: thresholds? For many years there's been an assertion travelling around that at a certain threshold computing systems become so quickly responsive that the user ceases to filter the questions he or she is asking and simply tries out whatever comes to mind. This has been discussed here before, but as far as I can recall the assertion has proven to be simply that, though one wonders how anything of the sort, how often experienced, could be proved. There seem to be other thresholds involving computing systems, e.g. in the resolution of images on screen, the weight of laptops and so on. But we have such an adaptive ability that I suspect the issues at play in human-computer interaction are very complex indeed. Early issues of Radio Times, for example, show adverts of televisions suggesting that images produced by the grainy, flickering, black-and-white screens made or could make people believe they were in the midst of the action depicted, e.g. in a film of the American Old West. Surely radio broadcasts of concerts were similar, however greater the measurable fidelity of a live performance might be. Once better technology comes along, suddenly (as with my recent acquisition of an iPad with "Retina" display), the older becomes perceptually far worse. I say "becomes" advisedly but am not sure of my ground. What do we learn from experiences like this? Where are we going with it? Clever circuitry in digital cameras now allows one to produce photo-realistically inferior images to evoke a former time, when photos resembled the degraded images. Is this simply nostalgia? When we live with robots of the sort depicted in the Swedish series "Real Humans" (Ąkta Människor -- watch it tonight, it's brilliant), will we turn away from them to clunky Robbies for aesthetic reasons? Does the rejection of the technically better have an element of fear to 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, Research Group in Digital Humanities, 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 01F8E2DEF; Sat, 15 Jun 2013 23:47:51 +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 BA0F12D05; Sat, 15 Jun 2013 23:47:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 503502CF6; Sat, 15 Jun 2013 23:47:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130615214741.503502CF6@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 23:47:41 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.124 computationalists and 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. 27, No. 124. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Bob Blair (86) Subject: Re: 27.116 computationalists and humanists [2] From: Marinella Testori (39) Subject: Re: 27.121 computationalists and humanists [3] From: Arianna Ciula (44) Subject: Re: 27.121 computationalists and humanists [4] From: Willard McCarty (40) Subject: computationalists and humanists --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 23:38:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Blair Subject: Re: 27.116 computationalists and humanists In-Reply-To: <20130612010009.CAC9C2DFB@digitalhumanities.org> It seems clear to me that "humanities plus computing" is a subset of "problem space plus tools". If you wish to use computational analysis to text, then you become adept at computation or you hire someone who is. Distinguishing 'hard' and 'soft' has little to do with it. Bob Blair --- On Tue, 6/11/13, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >         Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 07:18:24 +1000 >         From: Willard McCarty >         Subject: computationalists and humanists > > > It's good to have Mark Finlayson's commentary on the topic of > Computational Models of Narrative in Humanist 27.112. I have > only one small bone to pick: his distinction between > computationalists and humanists. I wonder on which side of that > divide digital humanists are supposed to be? > > As happens from time to time, last year I had the chance to > have a number of very interesting discussions with a computer > scientist (on the AI side of things), in which I attempted to demonstrate to > him that us folks from digital humanities were not, as he kept saying, > "soft". I wasn't trying to side with those who are "hard", which > clearly he thought computer scientists were (not, by the way, physicist > Richard Feynman's view of computer science at all), rather to do > away with the old hard/soft sexist vocabulary of the now badly worn > distinction between the sciences and the humanities. (To anyone with an > eye for metaphor it's really difficult to believe that an academic > in this 21st Century of ours would be talking of hard and soft except to > his doctor :-), but I am here to tell you it happens!) But this is not to > connect that vocabulary to Finlayson's note, not at all. My point is that > again such a clear-cut division, however metaphorized, isn't helpful. > > As Natalia Cecire has written, the central problematic in > humanities plus computing is that plus. Take it away, by placing the > two on either side of a great divide, and you've lost the point of it > all. > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 20:15:07 +0200 From: Marinella Testori Subject: Re: 27.121 computationalists and humanists In-Reply-To: <20130614205158.233BF2CD1@digitalhumanities.org> It is a crucial perspective indeed, Mark! In my personal work on historically-relevant sources, for many years I have looked for effective methods (*methods* before than* tools*) which could allow me to understand better the profound meaning of a text. Three years ago, I found in computational linguistics and, particularly, in *corpus* linguistics, a powerful joining link between traditional work on sources from a philological point of view and informatic outlook. According to me, this link is the language, which is the driving force of human history as well as the basic code of informatic technologies. Now I am a confirmed linguistic annotator without giving up my historical attitude. I am very interested in continuing to deepen this matter. Thank you for your attention! Marinella Testori 2013/6/14 Humanist Discussion Group > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 121. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:20:24 -0400 > From: Mark Finlayson > Subject: Re: Humanist Digest, Vol 57, Issue 11 > > > I suppose I was coming at the humanist/computationalist division merely > as a practical matter: most of us were, at least originally, trained as > one or the other. And historically the difference has been pretty clear. > > We clearly have not yet reached the point where those who can operate > effortlessly on either side are so common as to make the distinction > meaningless. But that is something to work toward, I think: a community > of scholars who are truly children of both worlds. > > Mark --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:27:40 +0200 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: Re: 27.121 computationalists and humanists In-Reply-To: <20130614205158.233BF2CD1@digitalhumanities.org> I wouldn't normally feel qualified to comment on this, but I attended recently a workshop (http://dhdhi.hypotheses.org/1704) where at some point somebody asked more or less this question: "when our Digital Humanities students ask wether they will have to choose between being humanists and being computationalists (I think she rather used the term 'technologists'), what do we tell them? will they have to choose at some point?". I didn't answer then, but her question made me think about my own experience. Before 'discovering' that the name 'digital humanist' existed (or rather was used by others), my identity of postgraduate student was a bit fragmented - I lived a sort of parallel identity - the humanists would define me as somebody that was doing some bizarre technical things and the 'real' computationalists would know me as a maverick humanist interested in technical and formalised stuff. I obviously didn't fit in any of their clubs, so finding a digital humanities community meant first of all to find an academic - but also social and individual - identity. All to say that names are important. Especially at some moments in time (life) when one needs a label. Arianna Ciula --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 07:37:19 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: computationalists and humanists In-Reply-To: <20130614205158.233BF2CD1@digitalhumanities.org> It seems to me that the essential distinction is between perspectives or ways of thinking and acting. This distinction becomes problematic when it is taken to be exclusively social. Having people who concentrate in one or the other keeps both strong within themselves, but the greater benefit, I'd argue, is created by those who can do both. Usually when we say "I am of two minds about that" we take the person simply to be undecided. I wonder if we digital humanists might think of ourselves as being perpetually undecided? This more generally is about becoming interdisciplinary. Stanley Fish argued (quite rightly, I think) that there is no neutral disciplinary standpoint. But what would one say historically speaking? Sociologist Steve Fuller argues for "deviant interdisciplinarity", i.e. which deviates from the social norm by rejecting the assumption that disciplines are natural kinds and then by striving to recover a lost unity of knowledge for which, as he says, the exfoliation of knowledge ruled by the great metaphor of the arbor scientiae is replaced by what Gillian Beer calls "open fields". This sounds at first like an Edenic myth, but I wonder. Think now like a humanist, now like a computationalist. Both camps will keep you honest, one hopes. I have done this for years. I suspect that there are many among us digital humanists who do this all the time despite having our hearts in one camp or the other. Is this a developmental stage, or are we digital humanists permanently agnostic? (Note, please, the name "digital humanities" grammatically subordinates the digital and so prejudices the answer. "Humanities computing" takes advantage of the ability in English to make a noun serve as an adjective while staying a noun, and it draws upon the participle/gerund ambiguity. But it seems I've lost this contest!) From a humanist's point of view perfect agnosticism will require of computing that it becomes *much* better than it is :-). What do the computationalists qua computationalists say about this? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, Research Group in Digital Humanities, 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BF08D3A29; Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:03:37 +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 4A2523125; Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:03:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BFD8A2E34; Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:03:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130616200327.BFD8A2E34@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:03:27 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.125 computationalists and humanists 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="===============6324506872871000776==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============6324506872871000776== Content-Type: text/plain Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 125. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:19:07 +0200 From: Jan Christoph Meister Subject: Re: 27.124 computationalists and humanists In-Reply-To: <20130615214741.503502CF6@digitalhumanities.org> Let me add just two quotes to Willard's collection. Both are by the same (German) author, and both date some 130 years before C.P. Snow, around 1820/1830. This is the first: "Ich kann ein Differentiale finden, und einen Vers machen; sind das nicht die beiden Enden der menschlichen Fähigkeit?" ("I can identify a differential, and I can make a verse; are these not the two peaks of human competence?") Against the backdrop of the new, evolving natural sciences and referring back to Leibniz' differential calculus as one of the most abstract mathematical break throughs, the German Romantic poet Heinrich von Kleist tries to uphold -- or rather, re-vitalize -- the Humanist idea of a unified culture of scientific knowledge and Arts, of a dialect of formal mathematical abstraction and subjective "verse" that merges representation and emotion. Moreover, Kleist already has the idea of declaring this holistic philosophical and epistemological stance as a potential methodology -- for him it is not just a personal vision. In another letter, he writes: "One could distinguish two classes of men: those who are capable of metaphors, and those who are capable of formulae. Those who are capable of both are too few; they do not form a class." The problems and hickups that we encounter in our interdisciplinary discourse among "computationalists" and "humanists" were thus reflected upon long before computers as we know them emerged (OK, the idea of a computer did of course already exist -- Leibniz again). So let's face it: technology really only plays a marginal role in this epistemological and methodological exchange and meeting/clashing of minds. What is more important, I believe, is the conceptual and functional distinction which we need to reflect over and over again.To me this distinction is demarcated by two fault lines. One, the methodological centre of gravity in the humanities is hermeneutics: trying to understand and interpret phenomena in terms of their relevance and impact on humanity, and analysing and modelling these phenomena as experiences that are historically contingent. And because of that, whatever we do and whatever knowledge (or nonsense) we produce in the Humanities is 'indexical' -- it points back at the interpreting subject and at the society that grapples with the phenomena at hand. To make matters even more complicated, that (perceived or real '€knowledge') influences the interpreting observer in a dynamic fashion. Now of course Heisenberg and Einstein formulated insights about the principle constraints of scientific observation that one can read as similar, at least in a somewhat metaphorical sense. But the natural sciences are not pulled towards a hermeneutic centre (what indeed are they being pulled towards? Logic per se? A Platonian worm hole?) I'm pretty certain that my (highly uninformed) musings about the nature of Higgs' particles will in my lifetime not produce any response in nature. Atoms don't really give a damn about whose observing them and for what purpose -- humans and human societies however do. In other words, though the late 19th century programmatic definition of "Geisteswissenschaften" by Dilthey and others and the forcefully declared dichotomy between the natural and the'moral'/human sciences may be outdated, but it's not irrelevant -- and so are other attempts (John Stuart Mill, Hegel, etc. etc..) at categorizing two ideal types (because that's what they really are; neither type has ever manifested itself in any science in its pure form) of methodology. The second fault line, as I perceive it, separates the terrain in terms of the concepts of discreteness and continuity. The former is the natural domain of the digital and binary logic -- segment phenomena, count them, find a useful metric, calculate them, model them numerically, etc. The latter is the prerogative of our human sensual and intellectual apparatus -- we can handle the fuzzy, the ambiguous, the contradictory, the speculative and under defined, and the more robust or consciously reflected our mind's 'home base', i.e. our sense of identity as a functional construct is, the better we can perform this task. We can decide to hear the melody, not the individual notes -- and we can decide to do the opposite as well. And those who do that often enough realize that it is this power of being able to switch our conceptual outlook at the world that, paradoxically as it may seem, stabilizes the core. Call it sublimation, call it dialectics -- if nothing else it's more fun! The lamented conflict between "computationalists" and "humanists" arises as soon as we become afraid of our own courage and shy away from jumping across these two fault lines. Let's cut through that fear. The task remains, as Kleist so aptly put it, to "become capable of both -- the metaphor and the formula, the verse and the calculus, the musical score as well as the melody and the tear." That's a borderline experience, no doubt, and those who prefer to pitch their tent in the comfortable centre of either laager don't run the risk of questioning their own philosophical, epistemological and ethical identity as easily as the 'Stalkers' (in the Tarkowskian sense). But thankfully, that's not the intellectual terrain where the evolving DH 'tribe' hunts and gathers. 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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 Smithies (134) Subject: Re: 27.125 computationalists and humanists [2] From: Amlan Dasgupta (118) Subject: Re: 27.125 computationalists and humanists [3] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (12) Subject: town and gown --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:26:25 +0000 From: James Smithies Subject: Re: 27.125 computationalists and humanists Wonderfully said, Chris. Your comment that "[t]he lamented conflict between "computationalists" and "humanists" arises as soon as we become afraid of our own courage and shy away from jumping across these two fault lines" reminds me of turning up for work with a technical Systems Analysis team, doctorate in History in hand, to find one of my new colleagues spoke 5 languages and was teaching himself ancient Greek, and another was a classical musician. I don't want to offer a misleading account, because prejudices against the humanities remain strong in some areas of the business / IT world I'm drawing my examples from, but generalisations often break down in the face of reality too. Too often, as well, we assume that it's only the humanists who want to jump the divide, which is not true. Some of my most intellectually satisfying conversations have been undertaken over lunch, in a large open IT office, lazily discussing the interface between computer science and the humanities. Talk to people who know their predicate logic, classical music, ancient Greek, .xml, and Java, and you soon realise that the distinctions we're discussing here obfuscate more than they illuminate. I'm supportive of disciplinary specialisation, but there's something to be said for spaces - like the digital humanities - where cross-fertilisation is encouraged. Regards, James On 17/06/13 8:03 AM, "Humanist Discussion Group" wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 125. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:19:07 +0200 > From: Jan Christoph Meister > Subject: Re: 27.124 computationalists and humanists > In-Reply-To: <20130615214741.503502CF6@digitalhumanities.org> > > >Let me add just two quotes to Willard's collection. Both are by the same >(German) author, and both date some 130 years before C.P. Snow, around >1820/1830. This is the first: > >"Ich kann ein Differentiale finden, und einen Vers machen; sind das >nicht die beiden Enden der menschlichen Fähigkeit?" ("I can identify a >differential, and I can make a verse; are these not the two peaks of >human competence?") > >Against the backdrop of the new, evolving natural sciences and referring >back to Leibniz' differential calculus as one of the most abstract >mathematical break throughs, the German Romantic poet Heinrich von >Kleist tries to uphold -- or rather, re-vitalize -- the Humanist idea of >a >unified culture of scientific knowledge and Arts, of a dialect of formal >mathematical abstraction and subjective "verse" that merges >representation and emotion. > >Moreover, Kleist already has the idea of declaring this holistic >philosophical and epistemological stance as a potential methodology -- >for him it is not just a personal vision. In another letter, he writes: >"One could distinguish two classes of men: those who are capable of >metaphors, and those who are capable of formulae. Those who are capable >of both are too few; they do not form a class." > >The problems and hickups that we encounter in our interdisciplinary >discourse among "computationalists" and "humanists" were thus reflected >upon long before computers as we know them emerged (OK, the idea of a >computer did of course already exist -- Leibniz again). So let's face it: >technology really only plays a marginal role in this epistemological and >methodological exchange and meeting/clashing of minds. > >What is more important, I believe, is the conceptual and functional >distinction which we need to reflect over and over again.To me this >distinction is demarcated by two fault lines. > >One, the methodological centre of gravity in the humanities is >hermeneutics: trying to understand and interpret phenomena in terms of >their relevance and impact on humanity, and analysing and modelling >these phenomena as experiences that are historically contingent. And >because of that, whatever we do and whatever knowledge (or nonsense) we >produce in the Humanities is 'indexical' -- it points back at the >interpreting subject and at the society that grapples with the phenomena >at hand. To make matters even more complicated, that (perceived or real >'€knowledge') influences the interpreting observer in a dynamic fashion. >Now of course Heisenberg and Einstein formulated insights about the >principle constraints of scientific observation that one can read as >similar, at least in a somewhat metaphorical sense. But the natural >sciences are not pulled towards a hermeneutic centre (what indeed are >they being pulled towards? Logic per se? A Platonian worm hole?) I'm >pretty certain that my (highly uninformed) musings about the nature of >Higgs' particles will in my lifetime not produce any response in >nature. Atoms don't really give a damn about whose observing them and >for what purpose -- humans and human societies however do. In other >words, though the late 19th century programmatic definition of >"Geisteswissenschaften" by Dilthey and others and the forcefully >declared dichotomy between the natural and the'moral'/human sciences >may be outdated, but it's not irrelevant -- and so are other attempts >(John Stuart Mill, Hegel, etc. etc..) at categorizing two ideal types >(because that's what they really are; neither type has ever manifested >itself in any science in its pure form) of methodology. > >The second fault line, as I perceive it, separates the terrain in terms >of the concepts of discreteness and continuity. The former is the >natural domain of the digital and binary logic -- segment phenomena, >count them, find a useful metric, calculate them, model them >numerically, etc. The latter is the prerogative of our human sensual and >intellectual apparatus -- we can handle the fuzzy, the ambiguous, the >contradictory, the speculative and under defined, and the more robust or >consciously reflected our mind's 'home base', i.e. our sense of identity >as a functional construct is, the better we can perform this task. We >can decide to hear the melody, not the individual notes -- and we can >decide to do the opposite as well. And those who do that often enough >realize that it is this power of being able to switch our conceptual >outlook at the world that, paradoxically as it may seem, stabilizes the >core. Call it sublimation, call it dialectics -- if nothing else it's >more >fun! > >The lamented conflict between "computationalists" and "humanists" arises >as soon as we become afraid of our own courage and shy away from jumping >across these two fault lines. Let's cut through that fear. The task >remains, as Kleist so aptly put it, to "become capable of both -- the >metaphor and the formula, the verse and the calculus, the musical score >as well as the melody and the tear." That's a borderline experience, no >doubt, and those who prefer to pitch their tent in the comfortable >centre of either laager don't run the risk of questioning their own >philosophical, epistemological and ethical identity as easily as the >'Stalkers' (in the Tarkowskian sense). But thankfully, that's not the >intellectual terrain where the evolving DH 'tribe' hunts and gathers. > >Chris --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:29:17 +0530 From: Amlan Dasgupta Subject: Re: 27.125 computationalists and humanists A rather hesitant offering to the debate from the point of view of the digital archivist here: http://humanitiesunderground.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/the-digital-object-of-desire/ criticism. etc most welcome. Amlan Das Gupta -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amlan Dasgupta Professor, Department of English Director, School of Cultural Texts and Records Jadavpur University Kolkata 700032, India +91-33-24146681 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:08:21 -0400 (EDT) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: town and gown Willard, I have been imagining the mapping of the computationist/humanist distinction onto a town/gown distribution.... Subscribers to Humanist might be interested in efforts to foster public appreciation for the work of Social Science and Humanities scholars. See this brief article in the Globe and Mail. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/education/academic-conference-brings-community-to-campus/article12437742/ Academic conference brings community to campus by James Bradshwo The Globe and Mail Published Friday, Jun. 07 2013. Enjoy. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 05C462D8D; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:11:21 +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 0C8242C5D; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:11:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CED39F92; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:11:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130617211112.CED39F92@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:11:12 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.127 events: summer school; digitization X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 127. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Elisabeth Burr (182) Subject: ESU DH "Culture & Technology", 22 July - 2 August 2013 University of Leipzig - deadline extenden [2] From: Shawn Day (10) Subject: AFF Digitisation in a Day Workshop --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:41:43 +0200 From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: ESU DH "Culture & Technology", 22 July - 2 August 2013 University of Leipzig - deadline extenden *"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/ Deadline for *application *extended to the *30th of June 2013*. *Please note*: applications for places are considered on a rolling basis. Only people who have been attributed a place by the expert evaluators can register for the Summer School. Only registered participants can apply for a bursary. 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/node/230. *Accommodation*: As two important fairs take place in Leipzig at the same time as the Summer School, people who are interested in taking part in the Summer School are strongly advised to book / apply for a place in one of the comfortable but reasonably prized hostels or student residences as early as possible. For more information see http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/accommodation. *Certificate*: Participation in the summer school and the Workload will be certified. The Workload of the participation in one workshop, all the lectures and project presentations, the poster session, and the panel session taken together corresponds to 5 ECTS-Points. *Bursaries: *3 types of bursaries are available (see http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/245): * (1) bursaries for members of the following Eastern European partner universities of the University of Leipzig: *Bulgaria* Sofiski Uniwersitet Sw. Kliment Ochridski *Poland* Uniwersytet Wroc awski Uniwersytet Jagiellonski w Krakowie *Rumania* Universitatea Babe -Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca *Russia* Moskowski gosudarstwenny uniwersitet im. M. W. Lomonosowa Sankt-Peterburgski gosudarstwenny uniwersitet Kazanski gosudarstwenny uniwersitet *Slovenia* Univerza v Ljubljani *Czech Republic *Univerzita Karlova v Praze *Ukraine *Kiewski nazionalny uniwersitet im. 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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. In all this the Summer School also aims at confronting the so-called /Gender Divide/, i.e. the under-representation of women in the domain of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Germany and Europe. But, instead of strengthening the/ hard sciences /as such by following the way taken by so many measures which focus on the so-called STEM disciplines and try to convince women of the attractiveness and importance of Computer Science or Engineering, the Summer School relies on the challenges that the Humanities with their complex data and their wealth of women represent for Computer Science and Engineering and the further development of the latter, on the overcoming of the boarders between /hard/ and /soft sciences/ and on the integration of Humanities, Computer Science and Engineering. 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. *Workshops *(http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/226): * Computing Methods applied to DH: TEI-XML Markup and CSS/XSLT Rendering * Query in Text Corpora * Stylometry: Computer-Assisted Analysis of Literary Texts * Editing in the Digital Age: From Script, to Print, to Digital Page * 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. *Lectures *(http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/260): * Gregory Crane (Universität Leipzig, Germany / Tufts University Boston, USA): "Open Philology and a Global Dialogue among Civilizations" * Ray Siemens (University of Victoria, Canada): "Perspectives on Knowledge Construction in the Humanities" * Christof Schäch (Universität Würzburg, Germany): "Big? Long? Smart? Messy? Data in the Humanities" * Manfred Thaller (Universität Käln, Germany): "Praising Imperfection: Why editions do not have to be finished" * Jean Guy Meunier (Université du Québec à  Montréal, Québec): "Reading and analyzing text in the digital world" * Nicoletta Calzolari (CNR-ILC, Pisa, Italy): "Language resources and semantic web" * Marco Büchler (Universität Leipzig, Germany): "Historical Text Re-use Detection: Behind the scene" * Karina van Dalen-Oskam (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, The Hague, NL): "Helpful, Harmless or Heretical?" *Project presentations: *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. *Panel discussion: *The Summer School will feature a panel discussion devoted to the question "Humanities, Libraries and Computer Science - How to Manage the Synergies and Antagonies?" For all the other 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.uni-leipzig.de/%7Eburr --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:06:42 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: AFF Digitisation in a Day Workshop Dear All, There are some final places remaining on the upcoming AFF Digitisation in a Day workshop on Wednesday. Please see the following link for more details: http://www.forasfeasa.ie/news/digitisation-day-19th-june. Anyone interested in attending the workshop should contact Gemma Middleton at aff.training@nuim.ie. 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id ED7DA2D9C; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:14:15 +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 DBEA92CDE; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:14:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CF0A1F86; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:14:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130617211405.CF0A1F86@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:14:05 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.128 pubs: BBC archive; CFPs for archaeology, interactive design X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 128. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard Mccarty (141) Subject: Call for Short Chapters :: Handbook Computational Science and Engineering Collection :: Blue Herons Editions (publisher of peer-reviewed) [2] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (21) Subject: BBC World Service Archive [3] From: Tom Brughmans (54) Subject: CFP 23 June special issue journal of archaeological method and theory: The Connected Past --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 20:31:14 +0000 From: Willard Mccarty Subject: Call for Short Chapters :: Handbook Computational Science and Engineering Collection :: Blue Herons Editions (publisher of peer-reviewed) In-Reply-To: <20130616203109.6104.qmail@webmaildh2.aruba.it> Call for Short Chapters :: Handbook Computational Science and Engineering Collection :: Blue Herons Editions (publisher of peer-reviewed) On an Edited Handbook to be Published by Blue Herons Editions (Computational Science and Engineering Collection) in 2013. Handbooks with high quality color printing. Title: "Scientific Computing, Communicability and Cultural Heritage: Future Trends in Software and Interactive Design" http://www.blueherons.net/home_en_14.html The proposal is expected to be 2 - 4 pages, submitted in .doc or .pdf format, composed of title, author(s) (name, affiliation, phone number, and e-mail address), extended abstract (background, related work, principal contributions, references and so on), table of contents, and contact author/s. All contributions should be of high originality, quality, clarity, significance, impact and not published elsewhere or submitted for publication during the review period. Main areas are solicited on, but not limited to (alphabetical order): :: Advances in Programming Languages and Techniques :: Applications of Mobile Geographical Information Systems :: Architectures, Networks and Systems for High-end Computing :: Artificial Intelligence :: Augmented Reality :: Broadcasting Networking Architectures :: Communicability and Usability Engineering :: Computational Folkloristics :: Computational Linguistics :: Computer Aided Design :: Computer Animation for Mixed Reality :: Computer Graphics :: Computer Science and Computer Engineering Curriculum :: Computer-Aided Manufacturing :: Computing in Nanotechnology :: Cultural and Natural Heritage :: Cyber Security :: Data and Knowledge Processing :: Data Management in the Cloud Computing :: Data Mining Tools and Software :: Database and Semantic Web Technologies :: Development of E-business and Applications :: Digital Libraries :: Digital Photography :: Discursive Analysis for Textual Information Online :: Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval :: Dynamic and Static Information for Scientific Visualization :: E-book :: E-commerce :: E-democracy :: E-entertainment :: E-health :: E-job :: E-journal :: E-tourism :: Emerging Technologies and Services for Users with Special Needs :: Empathy and Inference Theories for International Users :: Encryption Technologies :: Engines for Graphics and Virtual Reality :: Ethics and Aesthetics of the Interactive Contents Online and Off-line :: Face, Voice and Signature Recognition Systems for Security :: Geographical Information Systems :: Geometric and Volume Modelling in Computer Graphics :: Geospatial Data Management :: Green Computing :: Haptic Devices and Techniques :: Heuristic Evaluation Methods and Techniques :: Human and Social Factors in Computer Science :: Human-Computer Communication :: Human-Computer Interaction :: Hypermedia Documents and Authoring :: Hypermedia Sensory Interfaces and Smart Environments :: ICT and Globalization :: Image Formation Techniques Image Transfer in Wireless Sensor Networks :: Image-Based Modeling and Algorithms :: Information Visualization :: Innovation through Knowledge Transfer :: Innovative Technologies for Advertising Online :: Intelligent Agents and Tutoring Systems :: Intelligent User Interface :: Interactive Design :: Interactive Systems for Users with Special Needs :: Journalism On-line. Discursive Analysis :: Languages and Programming Techniques for Artificial Intelligence :: Legislation for New Technologies :: Local and Global Design for International Users :: Management Systems and Software :: Methodologies for Analysis, Design and Assessment of Interactive Systems :: Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning :: Mobile and Wireless Hypermedia Systems :: Models of Design for Multimedia Systems :: Multimedia Immersive Networked Environments :: Multimedia in Vehicular Networks :: Multimedia Programming :: New Media and Veracity of the Contents :: New Technologies in the Communicability Expansion Era :: Novel Interfaces and Cooperative Design Methods :: Online Museum :: Open-Source E-Learning Platforms :: Parallel Query Processing and Optimization :: Perceptual Factors in Auditory Coding, Speech Synthesis and Recognition :: Pervasive Computing :: Privacy and Security for Outsourcing :: Programming Models and Environments for Cloud, Cluster and Grid Computing :: Quality Metrics for Interactive Systems :: Quantum Computing :: Reputation Online and Cyber Attacks :: Robotics and Machine Vision :: Safety, Security and Privacy of the Information :: Satellite and Space Communication :: Science Journalism :: Scientific Information :: Scientific Publications :: Semiotics :: Social Impact of Culture in Interactive Design :: Software Architectures for Scientific Computing :: Software Quality :: Software Tools for Computer Graphics :: Strategies and Techniques for Software Testing :: Technological and Scientific Information Through New Media :: Technologies and Applications Emerging for Microinformatics Systems :: Telecommunications :: Tourism Technology Management :: Training and Evaluation Methodologies :: User-Centered Design :: Virtual Campus and E-learning :: Virtual Reality :: Visitor and ICTs Impact Management for World Heritage Sites :: Visual Effects and Computer-Generated Imagery :: Visualization Tools and Systems for Simulation and Modeling :: Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 :: Wireless and New Generation Media :: Wireless Modeling, Algorithms and Simulation Main editor: Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, PhD Editorial assistants: Mary Brie (La Valletta, Malta), Luisa Varela (Perpignan, France) and Donald Nilson (Oslo, Norway) Important Dates: :: Chapter Proposal Submission Deadline: Monday, June 24 :: Proposal Acceptance Due Date: one week, after the submission :: Full Chapter Submission Deadline: Monday, September 2 :: Planned Publishing Date: September 2013 P.S. In case you are not interested for this handbook, we would be grateful if you can pass on this information to another interested person you see fit. Thank you very much. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:52:57 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: BBC World Service Archive In-Reply-To: <20130616203109.6104.qmail@webmaildh2.aruba.it> I thought you might be interested in the experiment that BBC Research & Development is doing to put the BBC World Service radio archive online. The prototype website includes over 50,000 English-language radio programmes from the BBC World Service radio archive spanning the past 45 years, though not all are available to listen to due to rights considerations. You can explore the archive, listen to the programmes and help improve it by adding data. You need to register to use it, you can do so here: http://worldservice.prototyping.bbc.co.uk We are running this as an experiment into how to put large media archives online using a combination of algorithms and people. The original descriptive data for the archive was quite sparse so all the programmes have been categorised by a machine listening to the audio, and we are now asking people using the prototype to validate and improve this data to make it better for everyone. We think it could be a particularly valuable resource for university researchers in many areas so please send this on to any friends or colleagues who you think may find it useful or interesting. Best wishes Mark Mark Flashman, BBC Internet Research and Future Services Tel: 07739 300 304 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, 17 Jun 2013 05:41:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Brughmans Subject: CFP 23 June special issue journal of archaeological method and theory: The Connected Past In-Reply-To: <20130616203109.6104.qmail@webmaildh2.aruba.it> Hi all, This is a quick reminder of the 23rd June deadline for extended abstracts for The Connected Past special issue of the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. The call for submissions to this special issue is now open. So don’t hesitate any longer and send us that awesome networky paper you have been working on! As you can gather from the CFP below, we want to have a focused special issue with solid case studies that illustrate how network analysis can be useful in archaeology. However, we are really keen to publish really innovative approaches, things that have not been tried before by archaeological network analysts. We look forward to reading your abstracts! Looking forward to hearing from you, Tom, Anna, Fiona, Barbara  ---- CALL FOR PAPERS The Connected Past: critical and innovative approaches to networks inarchaeology A special issue of Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Edited by: Anna Collar, Tom Brughmans, Fiona Coward and Barbara Mills Over the last decade the number of published archaeological applications of network methods and theories has increased significantly. A number of research themes deserve further exploration, however. How do particular archaeological research contexts drive the selection and adaptation of formal network methods from the wide range of existing approaches? What is the role archaeological data can play in network methods? What are the decisions we are faced with when defining nodes and ties, and what assumptions underlie these definitions? How can our theoretical approaches be expressed through formal methods incorporating empirical data? Are network theories and methods compatible? How can materiality be incorporated within existing network approaches? How can we deal with long-term network evolution within archaeological research contexts? This special issue aims to illustrate through innovative and critical archaeological case studies that these problems can be overcome, and that by doing so the role of archaeological network analysis within the archaeologist’s toolbox will become better defined. This special issue invites well-developed archaeological case studies in which a network-based method is formulated as the best approach to an archaeological research question. A key conviction of this special issue is that theoretical and methodological concerns should be raised through practice. As such, papers are expected to either develop a critical and detailed archaeological analysis through commonly applied network-based approaches, or to illustrate how archaeological research contexts can require the development or adoption of innovative network techniques. Such a collection of case studies will illustrate that the network is not an end-product; it is a research perspective that allows one to ask and answer unique questions of archaeological relevance. Please send extended abstracts (1000 words) to connectedpast@soton.ac.uk by 23 June 2013. Notification of acceptance: July 2013. Submission of full papers for peer-review to guest editors: 22 September 2013. Submission of revised papers for peer-review to JAMT: 24 November 2013. Please note that the acceptance of extended abstracts and peer-review by guest editors is not a guarantee that the paper will be published in the special issue. Individual papers will have to successfully go through the JAMT peer-review process before publication can be guaranteed. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A48412DFB; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:34:17 +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 E2F992D87; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:34:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 74FD82D73; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:34:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130618203401.74FD82D73@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:34:01 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.129 computationalists and 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 129. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:10:51 +0100 From: Alexander O'Connor Subject: Re: 27.126 computationalists and humanists In-Reply-To: <20130617210523.50BE4F92@digitalhumanities.org> Hi All, Out of curiosity, and perhaps to ask a computationalist's questions, do we have an idea of the proportions of each constituency on this list? I am certainly an engineer / computer scientist by training and job, for one. Hope it's not crass self-promotion, but I wrote on this a while ago. https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/82853fb99fc8 Regards Alex-- Dr. Alexander O'Connor - Research Fellow - Knowledge & Data Engineering Group School of Computer Science & Statistics Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. On Monday 17 June 2013 at 22:05, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 126. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: James Smithies (134) > Subject: Re: 27.125 computationalists and humanists > > [2] From: Amlan Dasgupta (118) > Subject: Re: 27.125 computationalists and humanists > > [3] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (12) > Subject: town and gown > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:26:25 +0000 > From: James Smithies > Subject: Re: 27.125 computationalists and humanists > > Wonderfully said, Chris. Your comment that "[t]he lamented conflict > between "computationalists" and "humanists" arises > as soon as we become afraid of our own courage and shy away from jumping > across these two fault lines" reminds me of turning up for work with a > technical Systems Analysis team, doctorate in History in hand, to find one > of my new colleagues spoke 5 languages and was teaching himself ancient > Greek, and another was a classical musician. I don't want to offer a > misleading account, because prejudices against the humanities remain > strong in some areas of the business / IT world I'm drawing my examples > from, but generalisations often break down in the face of reality too. > > Too often, as well, we assume that it's only the humanists who want to > jump the divide, which is not true. Some of my most intellectually > satisfying conversations have been undertaken over lunch, in a large open > IT office, lazily discussing the interface between computer science and > the humanities. Talk to people who know their predicate logic, classical > music, ancient Greek, .xml, and Java, and you soon realise that the > distinctions we're discussing here obfuscate more than they illuminate. > I'm supportive of disciplinary specialisation, but there's something to be > said for spaces - like the digital humanities - where cross-fertilisation > is encouraged. > > Regards, > 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D2EDF39DA; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:34:52 +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 4BD612DA2; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:34:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6B2C12DFB; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:34:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130618203445.6B2C12DFB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:34:45 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.130 job at Nottingham X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 130. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:26:13 +0100 From: Erin Snyder Subject: Job: Research Fellow (Fixed-Term) at the University of Nottingham Job: Research Fellow (Fixed-Term) For information and to apply: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/jobs/currentvacancies/ref/ARTS12705 The Research Fellow will be part of the AHRC-funded project “CLiC Dickens – characterisation in the representation of speech and body language from a corpus stylistic perspective” under the direction of Professor Michaela Mahlberg and Professor Peter Stockwell. The post will be based in the Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics within the School of English ( http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cral). Candidates should have a first degree (or equivalent) in computer science, linguistics, language and literature, or other subject as appropriate and a PhD (or equivalent) in corpus linguistics (with emphasis on programming), computational linguistics or other subject as appropriate. They should also be able to demonstrate programming experience, experience in the development of (interactive) web interfaces and an interest in corpus linguistics and literature. The project will build on previous research that developed a prototype of the search program CLiC (Corpus Linguistics in Cheshire). The post holder will be responsible for the technical development of CLiC, assist Professor Mahlberg and Professor Stockwell with analytical tasks (with the aim to produce co-authored publications), act as main contact for an international end-user panel and will be involved in impact activities. The successful candidate will receive an induction that includes contributions from the University’s Web Technologies team. The interview process will include a short presentation on a task relevant to the post, and a formal interview. Informal enquiries may be addressed to Michaela Mahlberg ( michaela.mahlberg@nottingham.ac.uk) Please note that applications sent directly to this email address will not be accepted. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C373B2E76; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:36:42 +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 C417F2D8D; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:36:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 716142D87; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:36:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130618203633.716142D87@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:36:33 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.131 events: models of narrative; Greek 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. 27, No. 131. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: CIPG 2013 (31) Subject: "Palaeography and modern technology" session during the Colloque International de Paléographie grecque, Hamburg, September 2013 [2] From: Bernhard Fisseni (169) Subject: CfPart: Computational Models of Narrative 2013, Hamburg --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:17:13 +0200 From: CIPG 2013 Subject: "Palaeography and modern technology" session during the Colloque International de Paléographie grecque, Hamburg, September 2013 The conference day on Greek Palaeography and modern technology (Wolfenbüttel, Thursday, September 26, 2013) might perhaps be of particular interest to some on this list. We include the full conference announcement for your information: Registration for the next International Greek Palaeography Conference (CIPG) is now open. Hosted by the University of Hamburg (September 22-28, 2013), this conference offers more than 70 short papers covering a range of palaeographical topics including the use of information technology and materials science for the study of Greek manuscripts. Additional highlights include an exhibition of manuscripts from Northern German libraries and a visit to Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel. For a more detailed announcement, programme and registration information, please go to http://www.cipg.eu/2013 . Die Anmeldung zur nächsten Internationalen Konferenz für Griechische Paläographie (CIPG) ist eröffnet. Auf Einladung der Universität Hamburg wird vom 22. bis 28. September 2013 in mehr als 70 Kurzvorträgen paläographische Themen einschließlich der Nutzung von Informatik und Materialwissenschaft für die wissenschaftliche Erschließung griechischer Handschriften behandelt. Zusätzliche Höhepunkte sind eine Ausstellung norddeutscher Handschriften und der Besuch der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel. Ankündigungsdetails, das vorläufige Programm und Informationen zur Anmeldung finden Sie unter http://www.cipg.eu/2013 . Sincerely yours / Mit freundlichen Grüßen CIPG 2013 conference organisers -- Konferenzorganisatoren CIPG 2013 Institut für Griechische und Lateinische Philologie Von-Melle-Park 6 20146 Hamburg Tel.: 040/42838-4771 http://www.cipg.eu/2013 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:44:40 +0200 From: Bernhard Fisseni Subject: CfPart: Computational Models of Narrative 2013, Hamburg CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AND PROGRAMME ANNOUNCEMENT 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 Important Dates: 15 July 2013. On-line registration closes. 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 will have a special focus on the cognitive science of narrative. Although the workshop hosts papers that treat issues fundamental to the computational modeling and scientific understanding of narrative, this year we have a focus on narrative's cognitive, linguistic, or philosophical aspects. Both finished research and more tentative exploratory work will be presented. Proceedings Papers will be published in an electronic proceedings volume in the series OASIcs (Open Access Series in Informatics, Schloss Dagstuhl). Prizes The prize for the best student paper will be awarded to Graham Sack for his paper "Character Networks for Narrative Generation: Structural Balance Theory and the Emergence of Proto-Narratives". The prize for the best student paper on a cognitive science topic will be awarded to Angela Nyhout for her paper "Constructing spatial representations from narratives and non-narrative descriptions: Evidence from 7-year-olds". PRELIMINARY PROGRAM (Friday, 2 August 2013) 10:30-12:10 Pre-Workshop Event: CMN@CogSci Symposium "Computational and Cognitive Aspects of Narrative" as part of CogSci 2013 Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin Sunday, 4 August 2013 09:30-10:10 Registration 10:10-10:30 Opening with words by the two Deans of the Faculties 10:30-11:30 Richard Gerrig, Stony Brook University, USA: A Participatory Perspective on the Experience of Narrative Worlds 11:30-11:50 Break 11:50-12:10 Mehul Bhatt, Jakob Suchan and Carl Schultz: Cognitive Interpretation of Everyday Activities - Toward Perceptual Narrative Based Visuo-Spatial Scene Interpretation 12:10-12:30 Greg Lessard and Michael Levison: Narrative and Ethics 12:30-14:30 Lunch break 14:30-15:00 Charlotte Vlek, Henry Prakken, Silja Renooij and Bart Verheij: Representing and Evaluating Legal Narratives with Subscenarios in a Bayesian Network 15:00-15:30 Rossana Damiano and Antonio Lieto: Ontological representations of narratives: a case study on stories and actions 15:30-16:00 Break 16:00-16:30 Elektra Kypridemou and Loizos Michael: Narrative Similarity as Common Summary 16:30-16:50 Deborah Ninan and Odetunji Odejobi: Theoretical Issues in the Computational Modelling of Yoruba Narratives 16:50-17:20 Break 17:20-17:50 Moshe Shoshan: Narrativity And Textuality In The Study Of Stories 17:50-18:00 Special presentation: The Think Tank 19:30-22:30 Conference Dinner Monday, 5 August 2013 10:10-10:40 Alan Tapscott, Joaquim Colas, Ayman Moghnieh and Josep Blat: Writing Consistent Stories based on Structured Multi-Authored Narrative Spaces 10:40-11:10 Kenji Sagae, Andrew S. Gordon, Morteza Dehghani, Mike Metke, Jackie S. Kim, Sarah I. Gimbel, Christine Tipper, Jonas Kaplan and Mary Helen Immordino-Yang: A Data-Driven Approach for Classification of Subjectivity in Personal Narratives 11:10-11:30 Break 11:30-12:00 Nir Ofek, Sandor Daranyi and Lior Rokach: Linking Motif Sequences to Tale Type Families by Machine Learning 12:00-12:30 Erica Cosentino, Ines Adornetti and Francesco Ferretti: Processing Narrative Coherence: Towards a top-down model of discourse 12:30-14:30 Lunch break 14:30-14:50 Andrea Bolioli, Matteo Casu, Maurizio Lana and Renato Roda: Exploring the Betrothed Lovers 14:50-15:10 Bernhard Fisseni and Faith Lawrence: A Paradigm for Eliciting Story Variation 15:10-15:30 David Broniatowski and Valerie Reyna: Gist and Verbatim in Narrative Memory 15:30-16:30 Afternoon free discussion time 16:30-17:00 Mariet Theune, Thijs Alofs, Jeroen Linssen and Ivo Swartjes: Having one's cake and eating it too: Coherence of children's emergent narratives 17:00-17:30 Angela Nyhout and Daniela O'Neill: Constructing spatial representations from narratives and non-narrative descriptions: Evidence from 7-year-olds 17:30-17:50 Break 17:50-18:10 Fritz Breithaupt, Kevin Gardner and John Kruschke: The disappearance of moral choice in serially reproduced narratives 18:10-18:30 Khiet Truong, Gerben Westerhof, Sanne Lamers and Franciska de Jong: Emotional expression in oral history narratives: Comparing results of automated verbal and nonverbal analyses 18:30-18:50 Bernhard Fisseni, Aadil Kurji, Deniz Sarikaya and Mira Viehstaedt: Story Comparisons: Evidence from Film Reviews Tuesday, 6 August 2013 10:10-10:40 Steven Corman, Hunter Ball and Gene Brewer: Assessing Two-Mode Semantic Network Story Representations Using a False Memory Paradigm 10:40-11:10 Graham Sack: Character Networks for Narrative Generation: Structural Balance Theory and the Emergence of Proto-Narratives 11:10-11:30 Break 11:30-12:00 Nicolas Szilas and Urs Richle: A computational model of dramatic tension for interactive narrative 12:00-12:30 Julio Bahamon and R. Michael Young: CB-POCL: A Choice-Based Algorithm for Character Personality in Planning-based Narrative Generation 12:30-14:30 Lunch break 14:30-15:00 Antoine Saillenfest and Jean-Louis Dessalles: Using Unexpected Simplicity to Control Moral Judgments and Interest in Narratives 15:00-15:20 D. Fox Harrell, Dominic Kao and Chong-U Lim: Computationally Modeling Narratives of Social Group Membership with the Chimeria System 15:20-15:40 Break 15:40-16:10 Sigal Sina, Sarit Kraus and Avi Rosenfeld: Social Narrative Adaptation using Crowdsourcing 16:10-16:40 Pablo Gervas: Propp's Morphology of the Folk Tale as a Grammar for Generation 16:40-17:00 Break 17:00-18:00 Inderjeet Mani, Yahoo! Labs, USA: Plots as Summaries of Event Chains 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). _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0DF5E2D73; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:42:52 +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 94DD02CFD; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:42:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3852E2CAD; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:42:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130618204244.3852E2CAD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:42:44 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.132 pubs: distant reading, 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. 27, No. 132. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (14) Subject: distant reading, big data &c in the news [2] From: Patrick Durusau (25) Subject: Open Access is open access --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:38:28 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: distant reading, big data &c in the news Many here will be interested to read John Sunyer's lengthy review, "Big data meets the Bard", in the Financial Times for 15 June, http://tinyurl.com/mzrjwll. Sunyer interviews Franco Moretti, Matt Jockers and Melissa Terras. Comments on the review are welcome, of course. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); www.mccarty.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:34:09 -0400 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Open Access is open access Greetings! Peter Suber posted yesterday that his Open Access is now open access! PDF http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/9780262517638_Open_Access_PDF_Version.pdf HTML http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/openaccess/Suber_05_toc.html ePub http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/9780262517638_Open%20Access_ePUB_Version.epub and Mobi. http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/9780262517638_Open_Access_Mobi_Version.mobi Updates to be posted here: http://bit.ly/oa-book Enjoy! 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C67283A09; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:09:58 +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 EA85E2E1B; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:09:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7CDB32DE2; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:09:47 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130619200947.7CDB32DE2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:09:47 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.133 computationalists and 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. 27, No. 133. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:28:13 +0000 From: Martin Mueller Subject: Re: 27.125 computationalists and humanists In-Reply-To: <20130616200327.BFD8A2E34@digitalhumanities.org> A wonderful post, but Kleist was an outlier in more than one way and the odds of increasing the number of people who can do calculus and write verse is quite small. And coming from a somewhat different there is a colleague who once said something like "the problem of the Digital Humanities is that there are very few problems that humanists find useful and computer scientists find interesting." A lot of good projects have probably been done by folks from different parts of the aisle whose private views about the other are not necessarily printable. At a practical and institutional level, it may well be that good solutions will come from renegotiating traditional ways of dividing work among academic departments, libraries, and IT departments. Adenauer is supposed to have said "Man muss die Menschen nehmen wie sie kommen, denn es gibt keine anderen" or "you have to take people as they come because there are no others." And people as they come tend to be very much on one side or the other. So we need to find institutional solutions that make them work together in tolerable harmony. There is a charming quote about diplomatics in Wikipedia: Christopher Brooke a distinguished teacher of diplomatics, referred to the reputation of the discipline in 1970 as that of "a formidable and dismal science ... a kind of game played by a few scholars, most of them medievalists, harmless so long as it does not dominate or obscure historical enquiry; or, perhaps, most commonly of all, an aid to understanding of considerable use to scholars and research students if only they had time to spare from more serious pursuits". Quite a few of the current problems of DH are captured in that remark. And come to think of it, a lot of digital humanists started as medievalists. Martin Mueller Professor of English and Classics Northwestern University On 6/16/13 3:03 PM, "Humanist Discussion Group" wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 125. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:19:07 +0200 > From: Jan Christoph Meister > Subject: Re: 27.124 computationalists and humanists > In-Reply-To: <20130615214741.503502CF6@digitalhumanities.org> > > >Let me add just two quotes to Willard's collection. Both are by the same >(German) author, and both date some 130 years before C.P. Snow, around >1820/1830. This is the first: > >"Ich kann ein Differentiale finden, und einen Vers machen; sind das >nicht die beiden Enden der menschlichen Fähigkeit?" ("I can identify a >differential, and I can make a verse; are these not the two peaks of >human competence?") > >Against the backdrop of the new, evolving natural sciences and referring >back to Leibniz' differential calculus as one of the most abstract >mathematical break throughs, the German Romantic poet Heinrich von >Kleist tries to uphold -- or rather, re-vitalize -- the Humanist idea of >a >unified culture of scientific knowledge and Arts, of a dialect of formal >mathematical abstraction and subjective "verse" that merges >representation and emotion. > >Moreover, Kleist already has the idea of declaring this holistic >philosophical and epistemological stance as a potential methodology -- >for him it is not just a personal vision. In another letter, he writes: >"One could distinguish two classes of men: those who are capable of >metaphors, and those who are capable of formulae. Those who are capable >of both are too few; they do not form a class." > >The problems and hickups that we encounter in our interdisciplinary >discourse among "computationalists" and "humanists" were thus reflected >upon long before computers as we know them emerged (OK, the idea of a >computer did of course already exist -- Leibniz again). So let's face it: >technology really only plays a marginal role in this epistemological and >methodological exchange and meeting/clashing of minds. > >What is more important, I believe, is the conceptual and functional >distinction which we need to reflect over and over again.To me this >distinction is demarcated by two fault lines. > >One, the methodological centre of gravity in the humanities is >hermeneutics: trying to understand and interpret phenomena in terms of >their relevance and impact on humanity, and analysing and modelling >these phenomena as experiences that are historically contingent. And >because of that, whatever we do and whatever knowledge (or nonsense) we >produce in the Humanities is 'indexical' -- it points back at the >interpreting subject and at the society that grapples with the phenomena >at hand. To make matters even more complicated, that (perceived or real >'€knowledge') influences the interpreting observer in a dynamic fashion. >Now of course Heisenberg and Einstein formulated insights about the >principle constraints of scientific observation that one can read as >similar, at least in a somewhat metaphorical sense. But the natural >sciences are not pulled towards a hermeneutic centre (what indeed are >they being pulled towards? Logic per se? A Platonian worm hole?) I'm >pretty certain that my (highly uninformed) musings about the nature of >Higgs' particles will in my lifetime not produce any response in >nature. Atoms don't really give a damn about whose observing them and >for what purpose -- humans and human societies however do. In other >words, though the late 19th century programmatic definition of >"Geisteswissenschaften" by Dilthey and others and the forcefully >declared dichotomy between the natural and the'moral'/human sciences >may be outdated, but it's not irrelevant -- and so are other attempts >(John Stuart Mill, Hegel, etc. etc..) at categorizing two ideal types >(because that's what they really are; neither type has ever manifested >itself in any science in its pure form) of methodology. > >The second fault line, as I perceive it, separates the terrain in terms >of the concepts of discreteness and continuity. The former is the >natural domain of the digital and binary logic -- segment phenomena, >count them, find a useful metric, calculate them, model them >numerically, etc. The latter is the prerogative of our human sensual and >intellectual apparatus -- we can handle the fuzzy, the ambiguous, the >contradictory, the speculative and under defined, and the more robust or >consciously reflected our mind's 'home base', i.e. our sense of identity >as a functional construct is, the better we can perform this task. We >can decide to hear the melody, not the individual notes -- and we can >decide to do the opposite as well. And those who do that often enough >realize that it is this power of being able to switch our conceptual >outlook at the world that, paradoxically as it may seem, stabilizes the >core. Call it sublimation, call it dialectics -- if nothing else it's >more >fun! > >The lamented conflict between "computationalists" and "humanists" arises >as soon as we become afraid of our own courage and shy away from jumping >across these two fault lines. Let's cut through that fear. The task >remains, as Kleist so aptly put it, to "become capable of both -- the >metaphor and the formula, the verse and the calculus, the musical score >as well as the melody and the tear." That's a borderline experience, no >doubt, and those who prefer to pitch their tent in the comfortable >centre of either laager don't run the risk of questioning their own >philosophical, epistemological and ethical identity as easily as the >'Stalkers' (in the Tarkowskian sense). But thankfully, that's not the >intellectual terrain where the evolving DH 'tribe' hunts and gathers. > >Chris > >-- > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, T_FRT_COCK autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A0D783A23; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:10:43 +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 6835B39E0; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:10:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5A06B3125; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:10:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130619201033.5A06B3125@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:10:33 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.134 histories of institutional knowledge? 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. 27, No. 134. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:19:17 +0000 From: "De Kock, L, Prof " Subject: Histories of Institutional Knowledge projects? I am looking for examples of DH projects in curating and/or critiquing histories of institutional knowledge at particular institutions. My own institution is launching such a project and it is curious about examples in which a DH project has been designed around an institutional history of knowledge task. Can anyone help me to find such examples, should they exist? Leon de Kock Stellenbosch University South Africa _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B01323A26; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:11:50 +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 D93592EFE; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:11:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AA3F22EFE; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:11:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130619201141.AA3F22EFE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:11:41 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.135 job at Bloomsbury Publishing (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. 27, No. 135. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:10:46 +0000 From: "Scullard, Susan" Subject: Bloomsbury Publishing vacancy Dear All Please see the attached information about a job vacancy at Bloomsbury Publishing, Digital Development Department. Kind regards Susan --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Project Officer Department of Digital Humanities (Monday, Wednesday and Thursday) King’s College London 2nd Floor | 26-29 Drury Lane | London | WC2B 5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2931 Email: digitalhumanities@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/index.aspx *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1371631022_2013-06-19_susan.j.scullard@kcl.ac.uk_22688.1.2.txt http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1371631022_2013-06-19_susan.j.scullard@kcl.ac.uk_22688.2.docx _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 730AC3A3E; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:12:28 +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 5DCA13A26; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:12:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D041B3A28; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:12:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130619201218.D041B3A28@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:12:18 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.136 DH2013 news X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 136. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:16:11 +0000 From: Katherine Walter Subject: DH 2013 hotels and conference registration deadline Some very quick updates regarding the Digital Humanities 2013 conference: We have posted some more hotel options on the web site, as the room block at the conference hotel has filled. (There are still dorm rooms available.) If you are intending to register and have not yet done so, please register before 1 July 2013, 12 p.m. CDT as we need to provide firm numbers then to various service providers. The conference dates are: July 15-16 Pre-conference tutorials and workshops July 16, 5:30 p.m. Opening Keynote Address July 17-19 Conference proper July 20 Social Program Further details about the conference and a connection to registration are located at http://dh2013.unl.edu. We look forward seeing you 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AF6363A3E; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:17:03 +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 59A4639E0; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:16:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 514923125; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:16:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130619201653.514923125@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:16:53 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.137 events: digital humanities (Madrid); big data (Silicon Valley); publishing (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. 27, No. 137. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Simona Stoyanova (17) Subject: Strand Symposium on Digital Scholarship and ePublishing [2] From: igalina (28) Subject: DH event [3] From: Ray Siemens (6) Subject: "Big Humanities" CFP as part of 2013 IEEE Int'l Conference on Big Data --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:18:38 +0100 From: Simona Stoyanova Subject: Strand Symposium on Digital Scholarship and ePublishing Dear all, Here is the programme for this year's Strand Symposium on Digital Scholarship and ePublishing, to be held at King's College London on the 27th June. http://strandepublishingsymposium.eventbrite.co.uk/ Registration is free. Yours, Simona Stoyanova -- Simona Stoyanova Part-time Research Assistant Department of Digital Humanities King's College London Boris Karloff Building 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:39:19 +0000 From: igalina Subject: DH event Dear All, This DH event to be held in Thyssen Museum in Madrid this Friday may be of interest. I understand that it will be streamed live. Best wishes, Isabel ------ Dra. Isabel Galina Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas, UNAM igalina@unam.mx ________________________________ De: Elena Crespo [ecrespo@csev.org] Enviado: miércoles, 19 de junio de 2013 04:25 a.m. Para: igalina Asunto: Re: RV: humanidades digitales en el Thyssen Llega Learnovation Day IV: una reflexión sobre las Humanidades Digitales. -La cuarta edición tendrá lugar en el Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Tras el éxito de las tres primeras ediciones llega una nueva edición de Learnovation Day, esta vez, con una mirada genuina y diferente al mundo de las humanidades a través del prisma de la revolución digital. La iniciativa, organizada por el Centro Superior para la Enseñanza Virtual, (CSEV), es posible gracias al apoyo de la Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, (UNED), del portal de humanidades Liceus y, en esta oportunidad, delMuseo Thyssen-Bornemisza, sede del evento que se desarrollará el próximo día 21 de junio de 09h30 a 14h00 en su salón de actos. Siglo XXI, Internet, juegos, mundos virtuales, realidad aumentada, movilidad, smartphones, tablets, cloud, etc. Se pueden encontrar rastros de las nuevas tecnologías en todas partes. ¿En todas? ¿Responde el actual modelo educativo a estructuras actuales o a otras más propias de la revolución industrial? ¿Está adaptado a la nueva era digital e interconectada? ¿La revolución digital afecta por igual a todos los ámbitos culturales y educativos? ¿Qué ocurre en el caso de las humanidades? Para desvelar estas incógnitas, la jornada contará con las intervenciones de Jeffrey Schnapp, Jim Lawley, Helena Díez-Fuentes, Pilar Moreno, Baltasar Fernández Manjón, y Rufino Ferreras, quienes analizarán la unión entre humanidades y tecnología, ilustrando no sólo las últimas tendencias, sino ejemplos prácticos de lo que se puede llegar a conseguir. Jeffrey Schnapp es Director del Metalab de la Universidad de Harvard, Profesor de Lenguas Romances y Literatura en la Facultad de Artes y Ciencias y en el Departamento de Arquitectura en la Escuela de Diseño de la Universidad de Harvard. Además, es Co Director de Facultad en el Centro Berkman para Internet y Sociedad en la Universidad de Harvard. Es Doctor en Literatura Comparada por la Universidad de Stanford, Licenciado en Estudios Hispánicos por Vassar College. Jim Lawley es licenciado de la Universidad de Oxford (Lenguas Modernas), posee un Máster en Lingüística Inglesa Aplicada por la Universidad de Birmingham y un doctorado por la Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). Ha sido profesor en la UNED desde 1996, donde ahora es profesor titular, enseñando inglés, y corpus lingüísticos y diseño de materiales en el Máster en Lingüística Inglesa Aplicada de la UNED. Se especializa en el diseño de cursos y es autor y coautor de libros publicados por HarperCollins, Thomas Nelson, Pearson, Richmond y Cambridge University Press. Helena Díez-Fuentes, es socia fundadora y CEO de Touch of Classic, una startup especializada en la elaboración de aplicaciones ilustradas e interactivas para niños basadas en los clásicos universales. Abogado de formación, tras su paso por Bruselas donde se dedicó al Derecho Comunitario y del Medio Ambiente, se especializó en la elaboración de contenido editorial para diversos medios de comunicación internacionales en 14 países por todo el mundo. Pilar Moreno desarrolló su actividad hasta el año 2000 en el ámbito de las empresas del sector de los seguros, siendo miembro de distintas asociaciones profesionales y ocupando cargos de distinta responsabilidad en algunas de ellas. Master en Dirección y gestión de Corredurías de seguros y Perito judicial, complementa su formación con la Licenciatura de Humanidades en la Universidad de Alcalá de Henares y en 2001 funda el Portal de Humanidades Liceus.com, siendo Consejera Delegada de la Sociedad que lo gestiona, Liceus Servicios de gestión y Comunicación que, durante los últimos años ha desarrollado una editorial universitaria, una Biblioteca Virtual de Humanidades y el Centro de Formación Superior de Postgrado On-line. Baltasar Fernández Manjón es catedrático de universidad en la Facultad de Informática de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Es el director del grupo de investigación en e-learning e-UCM. Actualmente trabaja en la aplicación de los juegos y simulaciones en la enseñanza, en la utilización de analíticas para mejorar el aprendizaje y en como se pueden utilizar los estándares de e-learning para hacer mantenibles estos enfoques en distintos campos (e.g. campo médico). Además, participa en el Consejo Editorial de la publicación IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies (TLT), en el Consejo Editorial del Journal of Universal Computer Science. Rufino Ferreras es Responsable de Desarrollo Educativo del Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza de Madrid y Coordinador de EducaThyssen.org. Es licenciado en Pedagogía e Historia y experto en diseño de aplicaciones multimedia. Ha escrito varios libros sobre innovación educativa y museos, y colabora con varios grupos de investigación de varias universidades en especial en lo referente las nuevas narrativas educativas. Ha impartido cursos y conferencias en un gran número de lugares, entre ellos más de una docena de países, especialmente en Iberoamérica. Regístrate GRATIS aquí: http://www.learnovationday.org/index.php/es/registro www.learnovationday.org http://www.learnovationday.org www.csev.org http://www.csev.org --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:07:53 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: "Big Humanities" CFP as part of 2013 IEEE Int'l Conference on Big Data In-Reply-To: The Workshop on Big Humanities will be held in conjunction with the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2013), which will take place between 6-9 October 2013 in Silicon Valley, California, USA, and which provides a leading international forum for disseminating the latest research in the growing field of ³big data².² See details at http://hastac.org/opportunities/cfp-big-data-and-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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C397B3A54; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:18:10 +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 33FDC3A47; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:18:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B76E12C98; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:18:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130619201800.B76E12C98@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:18:00 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.138 pubs: Great Parchment Book X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 138. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:07:19 +0100 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Launch of the Great Parchment Book online Hi Everyone, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities and UCL Department of Computer Science have been involved in an imaging project which might be of interest to those on this list. The Great Parchment Book of the Honourable The Irish Society is a major survey from 1639 of all estates in Derry managed by the City of London. It represents a hugely important source for the City of London’s role in the Protestant colonisation and administration of Ulster. Damaged as the result of a fire at Guildhall in 1786, it has been unavailable to researchers for over 200 years. A partnership with the Department of Computer Science and the Centre for Digital Humanities at University College London (UCL) established a four year EngD in the Virtual Environments, Imaging and Visualisation programme in September 2010 (jointly funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and London Metropolitan Archives) with the intention of developing software to enable the manipulation (including virtual stretching and alignment) of digital images of the book rather than the object itself. The aim was to make the distorted text legible, and ideally to reconstitute the manuscript digitally. The project is nearing completion, and the website launched at the start of June at http://www.greatparchmentbook.org/ . A video on the home page explains more about the work: you can see the work of the UCL researchers involved (Dr Tim Weyrich, Dr Melissa Terras, and Kazim Pal) at 3.30, which shows the software developed to stretch and manipulate the images of the book to aid the transcribers in their task. best wishes, Melissa ----------------- Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE CITP FHEA 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/ Twitter: @melissaterras _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 04BBB3A5F; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:33:12 +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 7C4523A3E; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:33:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 422D33A26; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:33:02 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130619213302.422D33A26@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:33:02 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.139 format and experience in reading? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 139. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:06:23 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: reading experience Some ruminations on the book, if you will. Comments, esp offering insights which make better sense of the variety here contemplated, are most welcome. First a question: is there any reliable evidence for the relationship between the format of the inscribed surface and how the inscribed text is read and used? I suppose one could say that the unit of epigraphic writing is the large static rectangle read almost always from a fixed position, or like a modern billboard while passing. It does not move about and unlike the billboard is unlikely to be changed or moved in the lifetime of an individual. Is its actual function simply its presence? For handheld devices there are more options: the unit of the scroll is the column or page that moves past the reader; for the codex it's the opening that appears whole when the page is turned; and for the computer screen all three -- the fixed rectangle, the moving columns and the book opening. Among designers of digital displays of text, which is the favourite? My guess is for simple reading the scroll-like moving rectangle because it most neatly serves the continuous act. Thus the tablet machines -- Kindle, iPad etc. The codex, in the form of the display volume, especially in a series such as an encyclopaedia, was like the epigraphic stone, more there to assert authority than to be read. Impressively large collections of books in someone's house still serve that function, though it may not be primary to the owner. Where all our digital reading devices to my mind fail to equal the codex is paradoxically in functions of reference, where the technology is the most analytic. All that is on offer is word-search and the display of thumbnail images that allow the reader to look for the beginnings and ends of chapters and the like. There is nothing equivalent to the tactile overview (over-feel?). Of course the physical codex fails from our digital perspective because it does not allow us easily to find where someone said something, or not. If my own practices are any guide, the complementary nature of codex and digital device indicates we should be thinking (as we seem, alas, so seldom to do) in terms of both/and rather than either/or. There is a wonderful story of a learned mediaevalist, expert on St Augustine, who one day was approached by a PhD student who was going mad attempting to find out whether Augustine had ever written a particular sequence of words. (Anyone who has read Augustine in extenso will know how frustrating it is to look for a particular formulation of an Auguistinian kind of idea.) The student asked the professor the question. The professor went to his bookshelf where the collected works were kept, ran his finger along the volumes, came to a particular one, opened it, flipped the pages, ran his finger down the columns, then shut the book, put it back, turned to the student and said, "Yes". The professor was clearly old school. I very much doubt there are many of them left. I have the sense of a permanent change in our relationship to the written word. Edward S. Casey, in Remembering: A Phenomenological Study, argues that we have nearly obliterated human memory as once was by externalizing a poor idea of it. That there has been a loss can't, I think, be questioned, only explored. But the Spenglerian shape of the story he tells makes me think that the myth of a decline and fall has taken over. Surely we are not victims of a technological determinism. Surely human intelligence has moved on. But do we have any sense of what is has moved to? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, Research Group in Digital Humanities, 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9786E3A4D; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 22:03:08 +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 B5A9F3A31; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 22:03:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D12873A0E; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 22:02:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130620200258.D12873A0E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 22:02:58 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.140 computationalists and 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 140. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:24:10 +0800 From: Tim Finney Subject: Re: 27.133 computationalists and humanists In-Reply-To: <20130619200947.7CDB32DE2@digitalhumanities.org> Dear All, I reject the assertion that I am an outlier, but judge for yourself: An infinitesimal, it is said, isn't enough to do in your head; what you really need for that, is to consider old Fermat. Best, Tim Finney No fixed academic address On 06/20/2013 04:09 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 133. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:28:13 +0000 > From: Martin Mueller > Subject: Re: 27.125 computationalists and humanists > In-Reply-To: <20130616200327.BFD8A2E34@digitalhumanities.org> > > A wonderful post, but Kleist was an outlier in more than one way and the > odds of increasing the number of people who can do calculus and write > verse is quite small. And coming from a somewhat different there is a > colleague who once said something like "the problem of the Digital > Humanities is that there are very few problems that humanists find useful > and computer scientists find interesting." A lot of good projects have > probably been done by folks from different parts of the aisle whose > private views about the other are not necessarily printable. > > At a practical and institutional level, it may well be that good solutions > will come from renegotiating traditional ways of dividing work among > academic departments, libraries, and IT departments. Adenauer is supposed > to have said "Man muss die Menschen nehmen wie sie kommen, denn es gibt > keine anderen" or "you have to take people as they come because there are > no others." And people as they come tend to be very much on one side or > the other. So we need to find institutional solutions that make them work > together in tolerable harmony. > > There is a charming quote about diplomatics in Wikipedia: Christopher > Brooke a distinguished teacher of diplomatics, referred to the reputation > of the discipline in 1970 as that of "a formidable and dismal science ... > a kind of game played by a few scholars, most of them medievalists, > harmless so long as it does not dominate or obscure historical enquiry; > or, perhaps, most commonly of all, an aid to understanding of considerable > use to scholars and research students if only they had time to spare from > more serious pursuits". > > Quite a few of the current problems of DH are captured in that remark. And > come to think of it, a lot of digital humanists started as medievalists. > > > > > > Martin Mueller > > Professor of English and Classics > Northwestern 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BC5FC3A60; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 22:05:21 +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 6974F3A3E; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 22:05:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B4EA53A3A; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 22:05:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130620200510.B4EA53A3A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 22:05:10 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.141 history of markup? readings on 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 141. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Kimberly Tryka (12) Subject: looking for a reference [2] From: Michael Ullyot (15) Subject: Theorizing the Model --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:19:17 -0400 From: Kimberly Tryka Subject: looking for a reference Hello - I'm trying to track down a reference to a book chapter (maybe a journal article) that describes the evolution of markup in written text. What is clever about it is that as the text describes the changes, it also mimics what it is describing visually. So, something like: THEROMANSDIDNOTSEPARATETHEIRWO RDSORUSEPUNCTUATION-THEN-SOMEONE-GOT-THE-BRIGHT-IDEA-OF-WORD-SEPARATORS-And then someone came up with upper and lower case, and eventually there was punctuation added. (This is only a pale imitation.) Many thanks in advance to anyone can lead me to the reference. ---Kim Tryka --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:01:07 -0600 From: Michael Ullyot Subject: Theorizing the Model Dear all: I'd like to ask both a research and a teaching question, about the most productive *and* accessible theorizations of the Model in artistic, scientific, and in-between disciplines like ours. I'm teaching a course (this fall) in my university's interdisciplinary arts-and-science undergraduate program on the very broad theme of 'representation.' I'm comparing the relationships between scientific theories, artistic representations, and quantitative/tractable models of research objects (in any field) that make them computationally addressable. The question is this: which essays or articles would best introduce these advanced undergraduates to the third category? I ask Humanist readers because our own Willard McCarty's essay, "Modeling: a study in words and meanings" from *A companion to digital humanities* (2004), is cited in Matt Burton's "Joy of Topic Modeling" blog post last month < http://mcburton.net/blog/joy-of-tm/ >. This seems the natural place to start, but I wonder if readers have used other texts to induce intelligent non-specialists to join, or at least to grasp, our field. These are my other texts: * David Bohm, *On Creativity* * Virginia Woolf, *The Waves* (and Stephen Ramsay's work on the same) * Richard Dawkins, *The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing* With thanks, 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7E7C03A6E; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 22:06:47 +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 759813A54; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 22:06:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 535A93A4D; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 22:06:39 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130620200639.535A93A4D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 22:06:39 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.142 on reading: format; distance X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 142. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Mark Wolff (95) Subject: Re: 27.139 format and experience in reading? [2] From: Rick Frank (23) Subject: RE: 27.132 pubs: distant reading, open access --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:20:28 -0400 From: Mark Wolff Subject: Re: 27.139 format and experience in reading? In-Reply-To: <20130619213302.422D33A26@digitalhumanities.org> I think these ruminations are especially relevant to teaching US undergraduates today, the so-called Digital Natives who were born after 1992. Many of these students are quite comfortable using social media but they often struggle reading anything more than 140 characters. They have learned a technique of reading that is a hybrid of Google searches and high school textbooks. Given a reading assignment and a list of questions to guide them as they read, they are very good at scanning the text looking for relevant sections that answer the questions, reproducing oracular passages, and moving on. When queried in class about what they had read, they refer to their answers and think they have finished the task. They have trouble synthesizing different pieces of information into a coherent interpretative framework of their own. To teach these students, we need to make them aware of how they read when they read so that they can critically assess what they are doing with a text. One approach is to practice both close and distant reading with them and show how both methods of reading can complement each other. For many students, generating word lists and visualizations to look for patterns is an activity as alien as an explication de texte. Students often need to unlearn looking for an apparent answer (what Google provides) in order to question a text and what it can mean. I think we can productively teach students with the friction between the codex and the digital. mw On Jun 19, 2013, at 5:33 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 139. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:06:23 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: reading experience > > Some ruminations on the book, if you will. Comments, esp offering > insights which make better sense of the variety here contemplated, are > most welcome. > > First a question: is there any reliable evidence for the relationship > between the format of the inscribed surface and how the inscribed text > is read and used? I suppose one could say that the unit of epigraphic > writing is the large static rectangle read almost always from a fixed > position, or like a modern billboard while passing. It does not move > about and unlike the billboard is unlikely to be changed or moved in the > lifetime of an individual. Is its actual function simply its presence? > For handheld devices there are more options: the unit of the scroll is > the column or page that moves past the reader; for the codex it's the > opening that appears whole when the page is turned; and for the computer > screen all three -- the fixed rectangle, the moving columns and the book > opening. Among designers of digital displays of text, which is the > favourite? My guess is for simple reading the scroll-like moving > rectangle because it most neatly serves the continuous act. Thus the > tablet machines -- Kindle, iPad etc. > > The codex, in the form of the display volume, especially in a series > such as an encyclopaedia, was like the epigraphic stone, more there to > assert authority than to be read. Impressively large collections of > books in someone's house still serve that function, though it may not be > primary to the owner. > > Where all our digital reading devices to my mind fail to equal the codex > is paradoxically in functions of reference, where the technology is the > most analytic. All that is on offer is word-search and the display of > thumbnail images that allow the reader to look for the beginnings and > ends of chapters and the like. There is nothing equivalent to the > tactile overview (over-feel?). Of course the physical codex fails from > our digital perspective because it does not allow us easily to find > where someone said something, or not. > > If my own practices are any guide, the complementary nature of codex and > digital device indicates we should be thinking (as we seem, alas, so > seldom to do) in terms of both/and rather than either/or. > > There is a wonderful story of a learned mediaevalist, expert on St > Augustine, who one day was approached by a PhD student who was going mad > attempting to find out whether Augustine had ever written a particular > sequence of words. (Anyone who has read Augustine in extenso will know > how frustrating it is to look for a particular formulation of an > Auguistinian kind of idea.) The student asked the professor the > question. The professor went to his bookshelf where the collected works > were kept, ran his finger along the volumes, came to a particular one, > opened it, flipped the pages, ran his finger down the columns, then shut > the book, put it back, turned to the student and said, "Yes". > > The professor was clearly old school. I very much doubt there are many > of them left. I have the sense of a permanent change in our relationship > to the written word. Edward S. Casey, in Remembering: A Phenomenological > Study, argues that we have nearly obliterated human memory as once was > by externalizing a poor idea of it. That there has been a loss can't, I > think, be questioned, only explored. But the Spenglerian shape of the > story he tells makes me think that the myth of a decline and fall has > taken over. Surely we are not victims of a technological determinism. > Surely human intelligence has moved on. But do we have any sense of what > is has moved to? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of > the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College > London; Professor, Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of > Western Sydney; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews > (www.isr-journal.org); Editor, Humanist (dhhumanist.org); > www.mccarty.org.uk/ -- Mark B. Wolff Associate Professor of French Chair, Modern Languages One Hartwick Drive Hartwick College Oneonta, NY 13820 (607) 431-4615 http://bumppo.hartwick.edu/~mark/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 14:03:33 +0000 From: Rick Frank Subject: RE: 27.132 pubs: distant reading, open access In-Reply-To: <24186_1371588182_r5IKh14T028156_20130618204244.3852E2CAD@digitalhumanities.org> It was a very interesting review. I sit on both sides of the fence here. There is absolutely nothing wrong with mining literature for cultural significance (literary output analyzed as a reflection of the societies in which they were written) but that doesn't stop me from enjoying literature on its own and in isolation from it's political and sociological context (if indeed it has any). I think that while "big data" mining without reading the texts can supply interesting macro analyses of many sorts, it unfortunately loses it's flavour and the context from which it came. It is no longer literature, it is data. Just as macro economic analyses can trace the activities of countries and economies on a global scale, but tell us nothing about any individual's budget or lifestyle; so to with literary analysis without reading the texts. It's a trees and forest situation. Do you wish to nurture and watch one favorite tree grow from seed to maturity and witness the effects of time on it's shape and form, and perhaps see this one tree in it's context in that particular environment, or do you wish to study the rate of insect infestation on the forest as a whole. They are not the same things at all, but both have value. To read or not to read... __________________________________ Rick Frank CEO/President Dufferin Research North America: 2255 St. Laurent Blvd #115, Ottawa, ON. K1G 4K3 Tel: (613) 730-4664 **Currently in Europe**: Vojvodanskih brigada 28 Novi Sad, Vojvodina 21000, Srbija Skype: dufferinresearch +(381) (0) 69 630 534 _______________________________________ From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] on behalf of Humanist Discussion Group [willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk] Sent: June-18-13 10:42 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6FC123A8D; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 22:07:31 +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 51CFA3A6E; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 22:07:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BBB563A67; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 22:07:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130620200720.BBB563A67@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 22:07:20 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.143 job 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. 27, No. 143. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 15:24:47 +0100 From: jennifer edmond Subject: Digital History job at Trinity College Dublin *The CENDARI Project* is seeking to appoint a *Research Fellow in Digital History and Collections. *Based at Trinity College Dublin, the Fellow will contribute to the curation and collection of the historical resources that will form the basis of the CENDARI virtual research and enquiry environment. They should have a proven track record of expertise with both the methodologies of historical research in the digital age and with the practices of collection-holding institutions such as libraries and archives. The successful candidate will be expected to: · Work closely with the Project Coordinator, historians and library specialists within Trinity College Dublin, as well as the Berlin-based team leading the work-package on investigation and description of archives · Provide entries of content and descriptive information regarding relevant collections to the CENDARI digital platform · Liaise closely with archives and libraries to establish productive content sharing relationships, potentially negotiating and facilitating data sharing with CENDARI · Bring a technically informed perspective to the activities of the work-package on investigation and description of archives, and contribute to liaisons between various CENDARI work-packages · Contribute appropriately to the structure and content of the archival guide, once the format and coverage of these has been established · Liaise with other CENDARI team members as required for the delivery of the overall project · Other duties that will arise from time to time and as directed by the local Project Coordinator and work-package leadership Salary range for this post is €32,930-€37,750. Closing date for applications is 26 July, 2013. For further information on the position and the projects, please see: http://www.cendari.eu/job-opportunity-research-fellow-in-digital-history-and-collections/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 86EE83AA2; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 22:08:44 +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 DAFF03A75; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 22:08:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 506123A66; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 22:08:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130620200833.506123A66@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 22:08:33 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.144 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. 27, No. 144. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:02:27 +0200 From: Matteo Romanello Subject: CFP: Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin 2013/14 =============================================== Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin 2013/14: Call for Papers =============================================== (German version below) We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the second series of the Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin [1]. 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. It will run during the winter term of the academic year 2013/14. We invite submissions on any kind of research which employs digital methods, resources or technologies in an innovative way in order to enable a better or new understanding of the ancient world. We encourage contributions not only from Classics but also from the entire field of "Altertumswissenschaften", to include the ancient world at large, such as Egypt and the Near East. Abstracts, either in English or in German, of **300-500 words max.** (bibliographic references excluded) should be uploaded by **midnight (MET) on 01 September 2013** using the special submission form [3]. Themes may include digital editions, natural language processing, image processing and visualisation, linked data and the 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 facilitate the crossing of disciplinary boundaries and answering new research questions. Seminar content should be of interest both to classicists, ancient historians or archaeologists, as well as to 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 (18:00-19:30)** from October 2013 until February 2014 and will be hosted by the Excellence Cluster TOPOI in the TOPOI buildings in Dahlem and Mitte. The full programme, including the venue of each seminar, will be finalised and announced around mid-September. As with the first series, all seminars will be video recorded and we endeavour to provide accommodation for the speakers and contribute towards their travel expenses. There are plans to publish the proceedings as a special issue of the new open access publication from TOPOI [5]. [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/ [5] http://journal.topoi.org/ =============================================== Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin 2013/14: Call for Papers =============================================== Wir freuen uns, hiermit den Call for Papers für die zweite Reihe des Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin im Wintersemester 2013/14 bekanntgeben zu können. 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 in Berlin veranstaltet. Sie sind herzlich dazu eingeladen, Beiträge einzureichen, welche die innovative Anwendung moderner digitaler Methoden, Ressourcen und Techniken in den verschiedensten Bereichen der Altertumswissenschaften thematisieren. Vorschläge in deutscher oder englischer Sprache im Umfang von **300-500 Wörtern** (ohne bibliographische Angaben) können bis spätestens **Mitternacht (MET) am 1. September 2013** über die unten genannte Webseite hochgeladen werden [3]. Die Vorträge können beispielsweise folgende Themenbereiche adressieren: digitale Editionen, Technologien zur maschinellen Sprachverarbeitung, Bildverarbeitung und Visualisierung, Linked Data und Semantic Web, Open Access, Raum- und Netzwerk-Analyse sowie andere digitale oder statistische Methoden. Besonders werden dabei Vorschläge begrüßt, aus denen hervorgeht, wie dank der Anwendung digitaler Methoden fachübergreifende Fragen beantwortet werden können. Die im Seminar präsentierten Inhalte sollten sowohl Philologen, Historiker und Archäologen als auch Informationswissenschaftler und andere Personen mit wissenschaftlichem Interesse an den genannten Fragestellungen ansprechen. Die Seminare werden alle 14 Tage jeweils **dienstags um 18.00 - 19.30 Uhr** in den Räumen der TOPOI-Häuser in Dahlem oder Mitte stattfinden [4]. Das vollständige Programm wird voraussichtlich Mitte September bekannt gegeben werden. Wie im vergangenen Jahr sollen die Seminare aufgezeichnet und als Videos online bereitgestellt werden. Außerdem wird angestrebt, die Beiträge in einem Band der neuen Open Access Reihe von TOPOI zu veröffentlichen [5]. Die Vortragenden sollen so weit wie möglich bei der Finanzierung ihrer Reise- und Unterkunftskosten unterstützt werden. Nähere Informationen dazu werden bei der Veröffentlichung des Programms 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/ [5] http://journal.topoi.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4F8E23A0E; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 23:54:12 +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 21E7839E8; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 23:53:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6CE8139E8; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 23:53:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130621215353.6CE8139E8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 23:53:53 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.145 final cfp: digital humanities essay 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. 27, No. 145. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 19:35:09 -0600 From: Daniel O'Donnell Subject: Final Call: Global Digital Humanities Essay Competition (Abstracts Due June 30, 2013) **** Please Cross Post **** 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D95B93A5F; Sun, 23 Jun 2013 22:10:04 +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 32B8D2DC1; Sun, 23 Jun 2013 22:09:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CF5CCF91; Sun, 23 Jun 2013 22:09:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130623200953.CF5CCF91@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 22:09:53 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.146 pubs: virtual worlds X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 146. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 11:52:01 +0000 From: Tzafnat Shpak Subject: Arts - a new issue by the Journal of Virtual Worlds We are happy to announce the new publication of The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research: http://jvwresearch.org/ Volume 6, Number 2: Arts The editorial team: * Celeste Lovette Guichard, Savannah College of Art and Design * Laura Salciuviene, Lancaster University Management School, UK * Gary Hardee, University of Texas at Dallas, TX, USA This issue on Arts and Virtual Worlds features six exciting papers from artists and scholars on a variety of topics, each investigating at least one art medium (though often more) and its relevance to and within virtual worlds. You will find papers about music, television, storytelling along side avatar designs, real world assemblages and more artistic processes. JVWR continues to encourage this diverse approach as we explore and expand our field. Managing Editor Corner * Achieving Arete: Being the Best You Can Be Yesha Y. Sivan Issue Editors' Corner * Introduction: Arts in Virtual Worlds Celeste Lovette Guichard Peer Reviewed Research Papers * Art Medium Too: Avatar, Art, and Assemblages Christine Liao * Kromosomer – an Experience in Shared Creative Work and Expression Heidi Dahlsveen, Catarina Carneiro de Sousa * Museum Discovery Institute: Girls Designing in Cyberspace Suzanne Kolodziej, Margaret Corbit, Jennifer Wofford * Ten Possible States in the Age of 3D3C Art: The Contil Case Yesha Y. Sivan, Ilana Salama-Ortar, Gary M. Hardee, Omer Kaspi * Virtual World Television Products and Practices: Comparing Television Production in Second Life to Traditional Television Production CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, Pooky Amsterdam * Content Management for the Live Music Industry in Virtual Worlds: Challenges and Opportunities Marco Lüthy, Jean-Julien Aucouturier [...] Thankfully, Tzafnat Shpak Coordinating Editor Prof. Yesha Y. Sivan Managing Editor TheJVWR - The Journal of Virtual Worlds 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 719E03A3E; Mon, 24 Jun 2013 22:55:08 +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 C63B32DC1; Mon, 24 Jun 2013 22:55:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9796C2CDA; Mon, 24 Jun 2013 22:54:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130624205458.9796C2CDA@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 22:54:58 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.147 readings on 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. 27, No. 147. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 09:53:12 +0200 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Re: 27.141 history of markup? readings on modelling? In-Reply-To: <20130620200510.B4EA53A3A@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Michael, If you were looking for more concrete digital and/or computational models for topics, events, text, style, and narrative etc., there's a lot to go round and Wikipedia (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_model) is good companion for starting a dive into literature I think. A bit counter to "quantitative/tractable models of research objects" you may also be interested in chapters 9 and 10 of Handbook of Knowledge Representation. More specifically chapter 10 shows the potential for "qualitative computational models", which to me suggests a closer match to humanities modeling: - Forbus, Kenneth D. (2008), "Qualitative Modeling". In F. van Harmelen et al. (eds.), Handbook of Knowledge Representation. (p.361) - Struss, Peter (2008) Model-based Problem Solving, "Qualitative Modeling". In F. van Harmelen et al. (eds.), Handbook of Knowledge Representation. (p.395) For some background/rational as to why qualitative modeling and computability is of essence I think Johanna Drucker's Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display in DHQ ( http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/5/1/000091/000091.html) is still excellent. Modeling as part of the dynamic between humanities and computer science has been little studied to uncover its mechanisms and potentials. Althouh modeling arguably is applied in any DH project (and I'd argue in any decent research design actually), mostly DH modeling practices seem tacit and implicit. I think this is actually ground that remains to be covered, at least in (digital) humanities. That is: there are a lot of practices people apply for capturing, describing, and encoding topics, events, text etc.. These constitute concrete models, or model implementations, I guess. However there is not much explicit reflection on what constitutes modeling, or what a Model is for that matter. What do researchers assume modeling to be, what do they think it facilitates? Nor is there a lot of literature on multiple models for the same domain, and how models in such cases are confronted and compared to each other. There is even less, I suspect, on the analytic capabilities and underpinnings of various models applied in the humanities. And actually I'd be very interested in other people's views on this. Some (very) general pointers: - McCarty: “either a representation of something for purposes of study, or a design for realizing something new.” (Companion to Digital Humanities as you quote) - Minsky: “To an observer B, an object A* is a model of an object A to the extent that B can use A* to answer questions that interest him about A” (Minsky, Marvin L. (1995). Matter, Mind and Models.) - Root-Bernstein: "The point of modeling is to depict something real or imagined in actual or hypothetical terms in order to study its structure or function." (Robert Root-Bernstein and Michele Root-Bernstein (2003). Intuitive Tools for Innovative Thinking. In Larisa V. Shavinina (ed.), International Handbook on Innovation.) The last also has: "Modeling, as many practitioners have said, is like playing god, toying with reality in order to discover its unexpected properties." Best -- Joris On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 141. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: Kimberly Tryka > (12) > Subject: looking for a reference > > [2] From: Michael Ullyot > (15) > Subject: Theorizing the Model > > > [snip] > > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:01:07 -0600 > From: Michael Ullyot > Subject: Theorizing the Model > > Dear all: > > I'd like to ask both a research and a teaching question, about the most > productive *and* accessible theorizations of the Model in artistic, > scientific, and in-between disciplines like ours. > > I'm teaching a course (this fall) in my university's interdisciplinary > arts-and-science undergraduate program on the very broad theme of > 'representation.' I'm comparing the relationships between scientific > theories, artistic representations, and quantitative/tractable models of > research objects (in any field) that make them computationally addressable. > > The question is this: which essays or articles would best introduce these > advanced undergraduates to the third category? > > I ask Humanist readers because our own Willard McCarty's essay, "Modeling: > a study in words and meanings" from *A companion to digital humanities* > (2004), is cited in Matt Burton's "Joy of Topic Modeling" blog post last > month < http://mcburton.net/blog/joy-of-tm/ >. This seems the natural > place to start, but I wonder if readers have used other texts to induce > intelligent non-specialists to join, or at least to grasp, our field. > > These are my other texts: > * David Bohm, *On Creativity* > * Virginia Woolf, *The Waves* (and Stephen Ramsay's work on the same) > * Richard Dawkins, *The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing* > > With thanks, > 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 > -- Drs. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 16:38:35 -0400 From: Neil Fraistat Subject: Call for ADHO Special Interest Groups Dear all, The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites its members to propose a Special Interest Group (SIG). By forming a SIG, those with similar professional specialties, interests, and aptitudes can exchange ideas, stay current, and mobilize to pursue common goals across the boundaries of ADHO’s individual Constituent Organizations. For example, ADHO’s first SIG, Global Outlook::Digital Humanities http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/ (GO::DH), aims to reduce barriers to communication and collaboration “among researchers and students of the Digital Arts, Humanities, and Cultural Heritage sectors in High, Mid, and Low Income Economies” by promoting discovery, community-building, research, and advocacy. To propose a SIG, an elected or appointed contact person should submit a description of the group to ADHO’s Chair, currently Neil Fraistat . Please see the SIG protocolfor directions about producing the SIG proposal, a model proposal, and further information. If you will be attending DH 2013, we invite you to a SIG Slam, where those interested in starting a SIG can do one-minute pitches about them and meet with others who share their interests. The SIG Slam will take place during the joint ADHO/centerNet General Members meeting at lunchtime on Friday, July 19th. 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 879A43A84; Mon, 24 Jun 2013 22:57:19 +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 E21912E04; Mon, 24 Jun 2013 22:57:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 54A1F3A7E; Mon, 24 Jun 2013 22:57:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130624205710.54A1F3A7E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 22:57:10 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.149 events: network analysis for archaeologists and 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 149. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 07:49:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Brughmans Subject: The Connected Past: September Workshop Announcement Workshop Announcement: THE CONNECTED PAST: NETWORK ANALYSIS FOR ARCHAEOLOGISTS AND HISTORIANS Networks offer one of the newest and most exciting approaches to archaeological and historical data analysis, and over the last two years, the The Connected Past team has brought together scholars from across the globe to discuss their research, with a session at Birmingham TAG 2011, the Southampton conference in March 2012, a session at the SAAs in Hawaii in April this year, and a collaboration with HESTIA this coming July. http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/ But we're also aware that starting to do network analysis isn't always easy. It can be difficult to know which software to use, how to present data, what questions to ask, and what results really show. Because it's hard for researchers at all levels who are starting to think about network analysis, we are delighted to announce that we have put together a programme for a two-day practical workshop at the University of Southampton on 17-18 September 2013. THE CONNECTED PAST: NETWORKANALYSIS FOR ARCHAEOLOGISTS AND HISTORIANS Programme: Tuesday 17th September Morning: * Introduction to networks in archaeology and history * Preparing data for network analysis * network creation and visualisation Lunch * Archaeological and historical case studies * Round table discussion Reception at the Institute for Complex Systems Simulation Wednesday 18th September Morning: * Network analysis software * Analysing network structure Lunch * What method to use? * Geographical network techniques * Issues in archaeological and historical network analysis Tutors: * Andy Bevan (UCL) * Tom Brughmans (Southampton) * Anna Collar (McDonald Institute, Cambridge) * Fiona Coward (Bournemouth) * Marten Düring (Nijmegen) * Claire Lemercier (Sciences-Po, Paris) * Angus Mol (Leiden) The cost of the workshop is £20. PLACES ARE LIMITEDTO 20. To register your interest, please email connectedpast@soton.ac.uk with a short statement detailing why you want to participate. We will be in touch once the registration deadline (22nd July) has passed. http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/workshop-2013/ In addition, for those who want to overdose on networks, Southampton will also be hosting  the 12th Mathematics of Networks meeting: http://www.monmeetings.org/meeting12/ on 16th September. It’s very multi-disciplinary, with a focus on social science applications and the technical side of things.  Best wishes, Anna Collar, Tom Brughmans, and Fiona Coward The Connected Past: Networks in Archaeology & History 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C79943AA2; Mon, 24 Jun 2013 23:04:53 +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 67D8C3A84; Mon, 24 Jun 2013 23:04:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A11EA3A7B; Mon, 24 Jun 2013 23:04:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130624210443.A11EA3A7B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 23:04:43 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.150 is no one curious? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 150. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 06:51:15 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: unintentional, serendipitous research In the Chronicle of Higher Education for 23 June, Julio Alves writes in praise of "Unintentional Knowledge: What we find when we're not looking" (http://chronicle.com/article/Unintentional-Knowledge/139891/?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en). He documents the changes in library usage at his institution, from dependence on printed materials to online, but with that shift he notes increasing conformity of students' research to that which can be found by subject- (and presumably discipline-) specific searching. Happy accidents in the stacks -- going for one book and finding another, and another unexpectedly -- don't tend to happen any longer, he says. My experience with online searching, which I do every day of the week, every week of every year, is so much the opposite that I wonder at the cause of this conformity. When I was doing my doctoral research I knew to nose around in the English literature stacks, and those for classics and biblical studies, and so often did. I ventured out, e.g. into the social sciences, history et al when a title came up, but otherwise my prowlings were rather limited. (No wonder it took me 8 years to complete my degree....) Now the situation is much worse (better). I am often adrift in a vast ocean of digital stuff, blown this way and that by every promising trade wind that happens to blow. Frequently I am frantically trying not to be blown onto shores of fascinating new riches. I may sink with all the treasure I have loaded on board before I get a chance even to finger it. This is to say nothing about my profligacy of book-buying that is a direct consequence of digital serendipity. Amazon Prime, one-click option turned on, of course. In other words, I think an inculcated narrowness of mind is the problem, not our marvellous online resources. I think the disciplinary blinkers that Greg Dening thundered about are the problem. I think our professors are failing to understand that the times are not just changing now but have already done quite a lot of changing. And, perhaps most seriously of all, I think all the pernicious nonsense about universities training for jobs by giving students transferable skills has done deep damage. For shame, Paymasters! What do I need to read, boss? May I punch out now and go home to my telly, beer and chips? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, Research Group in Digital Humanities, 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9E99F3A66; Tue, 25 Jun 2013 22:06:45 +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 331133A68; Tue, 25 Jun 2013 22:06:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8A7763A0C; Tue, 25 Jun 2013 22:06:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130625200631.8A7763A0C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 22:06:31 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.151 curiosity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 151. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 16:25:20 -0500 From: Erik Hanson Subject: Re: 27.150 is no one curious? In-Reply-To: <20130624210443.A11EA3A7B@digitalhumanities.org> I wouldn't be surprised if, given the primacy of digital research, actually going to the physical library were often the result of frustrated searching (or over-browsing) elsewhere, such that research requests in person were occurring at that state of mind of "I need to find this and be done with it already. I've already wasted too much time surfing around and getting distracted by tangents on the internet." On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 150. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 06:51:15 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: unintentional, serendipitous research > > > In the Chronicle of Higher Education for 23 June, Julio Alves writes in > praise of "Unintentional Knowledge: What we find when we're not looking" > ( > http://chronicle.com/article/Unintentional-Knowledge/139891/?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en > ). > He documents the changes in library usage at his institution, from > dependence on printed materials to online, but with that shift he notes > increasing conformity of students' research to that which can be found > by subject- (and presumably discipline-) specific searching. Happy > accidents in the stacks -- going for one book and finding another, and > another unexpectedly -- don't tend to happen any longer, he says. > > My experience with online searching, which I do every day of the week, > every week of every year, is so much the opposite that I wonder at the > cause of this conformity. When I was doing my doctoral research I knew > to nose around in the English literature stacks, and those for classics > and biblical studies, and so often did. I ventured out, e.g. into the > social sciences, history et al when a title came up, but otherwise my > prowlings were rather limited. (No wonder it took me 8 years to complete > my degree....) Now the situation is much worse (better). I am often > adrift in a vast ocean of digital stuff, blown this way and that by every > promising trade wind that happens to blow. Frequently I am frantically > trying not to be blown onto shores of fascinating new riches. I may sink > with all the treasure I have loaded on board before I get a chance even > to finger it. > > This is to say nothing about my profligacy of book-buying that is a direct > consequence of digital serendipity. Amazon Prime, one-click option > turned on, of course. > > In other words, I think an inculcated narrowness of mind is the problem, > not our marvellous online resources. I think the disciplinary blinkers > that Greg Dening thundered about are the problem. I think our professors > are failing to understand that the times are not just changing now but > have already done quite a lot of changing. And, perhaps most seriously > of all, I think all the pernicious nonsense about universities training > for jobs by giving students transferable skills has done deep damage. > For shame, Paymasters! > > What do I need to read, boss? May I punch out now and go home to my > telly, beer and chips? > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of > the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College > London; Professor, Research Group in Digital Humanities, 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9E0713A96; Tue, 25 Jun 2013 22:07:52 +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 AB0EA3A7E; Tue, 25 Jun 2013 22:07:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D724D3A5F; Tue, 25 Jun 2013 22:07:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130625200742.D724D3A5F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 22:07:42 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.152 the academy, the internet, 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 152. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 10:43:45 +0200 From: Victoria Scott Subject: Academic Freedom, the Internet, and the Crisis in Higher Education in the Age of Mass Electronic Surveillance Hello! I am just beginning to do some research around this topic, and I am wondering if anyone might be able to suggest some readings. In short I am looking for the Humboldt of the Internet. All my best, Victoria H.F. Scott _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C11B53AA4; Tue, 25 Jun 2013 22:09:35 +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 655683A7B; Tue, 25 Jun 2013 22:09:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4A1C43A75; Tue, 25 Jun 2013 22:09:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130625200925.4A1C43A75@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 22:09:25 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.153 events: Early Modern drama in a digital environment 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. 27, No. 153. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 11:13:21 +0000 From: Jon Millington Subject: The Hilda Hulme Memorial Lecture: 2 July 2013 Tuesday 2 July 2013: 6.00pm in the Chancellor's Hall, Senate House The Hilda Hulme Memorial Lecture: ' "Shakespeare His Contemporaries": Exploring Early Modern Drama in a Digital Environment' by Professor Martin Mueller (Professor emeritus of English and Classics, Northwestern University, Illinois) Students of Early Modern Drama will occasionally look at the "original" text (if there is such a thing), but they will more often work with surrogates, partly because that is all they can get, but also because the surrogate's query potential may in some respects exceed that of the original: given unlimited access to a Shakespeare Folio I may for many purposes prefer to consult the Riverside Shakespeare. By the end of this decade a young person's first encounter with an Early Modern play is likely to be mediated through some digital tablet. What is the query potential of the digital surrogate, and what does it take to maximize it for "the greate variety of readers, from the most able to him that can but spell," to use the charming language of Shakespeare's first editors? This talk will focus on three interlocking aspects of this question: 1) curation and exploration as flip sides of the coin of working with digital data, 2) the potential for corpus-wide analysis or more extensive and rapid forms of contextualization, and 3) the promise of the digital medium to support collaboration and let individuals with different interests and talents contribute to the task of improving the texts over time. There are about 500 digital versions of plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries, and many of them could do with quite a bit of improvement. Free and open to the public, and followed by a wine reception. If you would like to attend please email: IESEvents@sas.ac.uk Jon Millington Events Officer Institute of English Studies University of London School of Advanced Study Room 239, 2nd Floor South Block Senate House Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Tel: +44 (0)20 7862 4859 Fax: +44 (0)20 7862 8720 Email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk http://ies.sas.ac.uk http://ies.sas.ac.uk/ The University of London is an exempt charity in England and Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (reg. no. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 18:49:18 +0000 From: I-CHASS Subject: Journal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities - Open Access The Journal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities Data mining, an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science, involves the methods at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning and database systems. The Journal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities is concerned with the intersection of computing and the disciplines of the humanities, with tools provided by computing such as data visualisation, information retrieval, statistics, text mining by publishing scholarly work beyond the traditional humanities. The journal includes a wide range of fields in its discipline to create a platform for the authors to make their contribution towards the journal and the editorial office promises a peer review process for the submitted manuscripts for the quality of publishing. Journal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities is an Open Access journal and aims to publish most complete and reliable source of information on the discoveries and current developments in the mode of original articles, review articles, case reports, short communications, etc. in all areas of the field and making them freely available through online without any restrictions or any other subscriptions to researchers worldwide. For more information and to submit an article visit: http://www.esciencecentral.org/journals/data-mining-digital-humanities.php ~~~ 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 857343AA9; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 22:10:42 +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 C38413AA4; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 22:10:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 429822DBC; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 22:10:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130626201012.429822DBC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 22:10:12 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.155 curiosity 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. 27, No. 155. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 10:48:55 -0400 From: "James R. Kelly" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 27.150 is no one curious? In-Reply-To: <20130624210443.A11EA3A7B@digitalhumanities.org> Willard, >From my perspective in an academic library, I would point to three aspects of the research process that tend to promote these undesirable effects: 1) some faculty members encourage (or require) the use of JSTOR and Project Muse as databases that will guarantee students access to peer-reviewed articles. The problem with this is that they miss out on a great amount of literature that could be of use but that hasn't--for one reason or another--been included in those resources. Were they to be steered to more broad-based tools such as the MLA International Bibliography, Historical Abstracts, or even Academic Search Premier, they would in all likelihood find the same articles but many more besides (and gain the bonus of having to exercise their developing information literacy skills in sorting out the wheat from the chaff); 2) discovery services tend to mix results (books, articles, audio visual materials) in a way that I find chaotic. Worse, in their mixing of online catalogs and databases they remove the ability to easily and intelligently restrict searches by using the purpose-designed features built into each individual database; 3) cataloging has historically underserved students and researchers in providing only minimal information about the books described. With the advent of technology, the cataloging records have begun to improve, chiefly through the addition of complete contents notes for monographic collections of essays and for chapter titles in monographs as well as by the use of summary notes that allow for a free-form description of the content thus adding real language to the stilted language provided by subject headings. Best, Jim Kelly James R. Kelly Humanities Research Services Librarian W.E.B. Du Bois Library University of Massachusetts 154 Hicks Way Amherst, MA 01003-9275 (413) 545-3981; (413) 577-1536 (fax) E-mail: jrkelly@library.umass.edu -----Original Message----- From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [mailto:humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 5:05 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B986E3AC0; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 22:16:27 +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 C53A03AA9; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 22:16:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D23893AA9; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 22:16:14 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130626201614.D23893AA9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 22:16:14 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.156 the academy, the internet, 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. 27, No. 156. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 10:46:02 +0900 From: Charles Muller Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.152 the academy, the internet, surveillance? In-Reply-To: <20130625200742.D724D3A5F@digitalhumanities.org> Victoria Scott wrote: > Subject: Academic Freedom, the Internet, and the Crisis in Higher Education in the Age of Mass Electronic Surveillance > > > Hello! > > I am just beginning to do some research around this topic, and I am > wondering if anyone might be able to suggest some readings. In short I am > looking for the Humboldt of the Internet. I suggest you take a look at Jaron Lanier's most recent work: "Who Owns the Future" http://www.amazon.com/Who-Owns-Future-Jaron-Lanier/dp/1451654960 You may know Jaron Lanier as the creator of the term "Virtual Reality" and one of the early Open Source figures. He doesn't believe that the current structure of the web is economically sustainable, and he has much to say about surveillance. For Lanier, the culprits are not the CIA/NSA, but Google, Yahoo Facebook, Microsoft (the operators of the "Siren Servers"), etc., themselves. 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7D6793ACB; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 22:18:22 +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 743543AAA; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 22:18:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 08E6C3AA9; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 22:18:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130626201807.08E6C3AA9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 22:18:06 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.157 ACH Microgrant winners X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 157. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 20:30:54 -0500 From: Noel Radley Subject: Re: 26.885 ACH microgrants! In-Reply-To: <20130317090628.59DBF2C8E@digitalhumanities.org> http://www.ach.org/ach-announces-microgrants-winners On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 4:06 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > 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. [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B07903A7E; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:16:48 +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 3EDED2E1B; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:16:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AB1FB2DE5; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:16:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130627201633.AB1FB2DE5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:16:33 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.158 last year's news: Microgrant winners X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 158. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" (47) Subject: Re: 27.157 ACH Microgrant winners [2] From: Susan Brown (43) Subject: Re: 27.157 ACH Microgrant winners --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 21:33:25 +0000 From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" Subject: Re: 27.157 ACH Microgrant winners In-Reply-To: <20130626201807.08E6C3AA9@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, Noel, and all -- The link posted by Noel Radley leads to last year's winners! Our ACH Microgrants committee, ably chaired by Susan Brown, plans to announce 2013 competition winners very shortly. Best regards, Bethany Nowviskie President, Association for Computers & the Humanities Bethany Nowviskie nowviskie.org | scholarslab.org | uvasci.org | ach.org --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 22:13:26 -0400 From: Susan Brown Subject: Re: 27.157 ACH Microgrant winners In-Reply-To: <20130626201807.08E6C3AA9@digitalhumanities.org> Thanks for the teaser! This is last year's microgrants announcement. The announcement of the 2013 Awards will be made shortly. Susan Brown sbrown@uoguelph.ca _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 B88743AA9; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:18:24 +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 C16DF3A7E; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:18:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 211462E1B; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:18:14 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130627201814.211462E1B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:18:14 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.159 job at Heidelberg; studentships 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. 27, No. 159. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (21) Subject: Doctoral studentships at York [2] From: "Arnold (HRA), Matthias" Subject: Position: Junior Research Group Leader in Digital Humanities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 09:23:19 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Doctoral studentships at York Three AHRC CDA Studentships offered Applications are invited for three AHRC CDA studentships commencing October 2013 on ‘Within the Walls’: Heritage Values and the Historic City One of these awards will be based in the Department of History (supervised by Dr Sarah Rees Jones), and a further two awards will be based in the Department of Archaeology (supervised by Dr John Schofield). The projects are in partnership with City of York Council. Using York’s unique position as a ‘heritage laboratory’, the three closely related projects will together make a critical assessment of contemporary heritage values as they relate to (1) the built environment and (2) the buried archaeological resource (both based in Archaeology) and (3) the archive (in History), in relation to national and international criteria on the one hand, and community-led views and values on the other. They will explore the complex relations that exist between heritage and community, and how these can be better aligned to serve contemporary society. As heritage becomes less expert-led, and more community driven, this critical assessment is timely as is realignment of the way heritage values are construed and applied in practice. Each award pays fees and an annual maintenance grant (currently £13,726 per year), with City of York Council contributing £2000 pa to project costs, including student research expenses. Application criteria The usual AHRC eligibility rules apply to these studentships, including having an appropriate masters degree by October 2013 and AHRC’s residential requirements. Timetable and application process Applications should be made online and will comprise: an application form incorporating a Personal Statement (which should specify which of the three PhD projects you are interested in, and a statement of how your research interests and experiences to date will contribute to the success of the project); a CV; two references; and two pieces of written work. The closing date is 19th July 2013. Interviews will be held in mid August 2013. Informal inquiries should be made to Dr Sarah Rees Jones (sarah.reesjones@york.ac.uk) or Dr John Schofield (john.schofield@york.ac.uk). Further information Further information can be found here: AHRC CDA Studentship 2013 (PDF , 321kb) 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, 27 Jun 2013 18:14:42 +0200 From: "Arnold (HRA), Matthias" Subject: Position: Junior Research Group Leader in Digital Humanities Hello Humanists, The Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context,” in cooperation with the “Heidelberg Graduate School for Mathematical and Computational Methods in the Sciences”, invites applications for the position of a Junior Research Group Leader in Digital Humanities (full-time post-doctoral position). The full announcement is available at http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/about-us/jobs/detail/m/junior-research-group-leader-in-digital-humanities.html With kind regards, Matthias Arnold Heidelberg Research Architecture - Visual Resources Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" Karl Jaspers Centre Voßstraße 2, Building 4400 Room 005b 69115 Heidelberg Phone: +49 - (0)6221 - 54 4094 Fax: +49 - (0)6221 - 54 4012 e-mail: arnold@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de twitter @matthias_arnold http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de http://tinyurl.com/matthias-arnold Geohash: http://geohash.org/u0y1jdz2x _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AC5CC3AC6; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:19:12 +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 5A0C13A82; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:19:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 285C93AB5; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:19:02 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130627201902.285C93AB5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:19:02 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.160 events: discourse and 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. 27, No. 160. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 14:44:34 +0000 From: "Jason Williams (MSR)" Subject: Final call for demonstrations : SIGDIAL 2013 CONFERENCE : 22-24 August 2013 : Metz, France 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 CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS The program committee of SigDial 2013 welcomes the submission of demonstration descriptions. Demonstrations will be presented in special sessions, separate from short paper presentations and poster sessions. Accepted demonstration submissions will be published in a dedicated section of the conference proceedings. Demo descriptions should be no longer than 3 pages, including references. Demo submissions should follow the two-column ACL 2013 format. We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style files tailored for the ACL 2013 conference. Submissions must conform to the official ACL 2013 style guidelines (http://acl2013.org/site/call.html), and they must be electronic in PDF. Submissions will not be anonymous. Demonstrations which have appeared (or will appear) elsewhere may be presented at SigDial, although this should be noted at the time of submission. Authors are encouraged to submit additional supportive material such as video clips or sound clips and examples of available resources for review purposes. Submission is electronic using paper submission software at https://www.softconf.com/d/sigdial2013/ IMPORTANT DATES Demo Paper Submission Deadline Tuesday, 2 July 2013 (23:59, GMT-11) Demo Paper Notification Wednesday, 10 July 2013 Final Demo Paper Due Wednesday, 24 July 2013 Conference Thursday-Saturday, 22-24 August 2013 (Thu morning - Saturday mid-day) Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to the technical program co-chairs at program-chairs[at]sigdial.org. SigdDial 2013 Technical Program Co-Chairs Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Jason D. Williams, Microsoft Research, 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B09703A75; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:28:37 +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 340872DD8; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:28:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8A3942DD8; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:28:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130627202827.8A3942DD8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:28:27 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.161 pubs: call for papers on digital curation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 161. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:24:32 +0200 From: Milena Dobreva Subject: Call for papers for a special issue on Digital Curation: Archival Science journal Digital Curation Call for Papers: Archival Science Digital curation involves the selection, maintenance, dissemination, preservation and adding value to digital assets. Examples of these activities include the development of repositories for digital resources, the creation and/or selection of digital assets; creation and management of metadata; file format identification and management, and provision for dissemination and access to digital assets. Digital curation is a multi-disciplinary area, which has the potential to yield much of relevance to the archival community. Accordingly, a special issue of Archival Science will be devoted to the theme of “Digital Curation”, guest edited by Wendy Duff, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto wendy.duff@utoronto.ca and Milena Dobreva, Library, Information and Archives Sciences Department, Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences, University of Malta, milena.dobreva@um.edu.mt. Questions about the special issue can be direct to Drs. Duff and Dobreva. Suggested topics for papers may include: · Theory of digital curation · Digital preservation methods · The role of genre in digital curation activities · Digital repositories · Standards and models for digital curation · Data reuse and user requirements for digital curation · Models for dissemination of digital assets · Cost models and business cases for digital curation · Digital curation education and training. Key Dates: Submission Deadline for completed papers: December 1 2013 Review Decisions will be made by: March 1 2014 Final Versions Due: May 1 2014 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Instructions for authors and paper formatting instructions can be found at: http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/journal/10502 Submissions should be made online via the Editorial Manager: http://www.editorialmanager.com/arcs/ (Please select article type “DigitalCuration”) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C41EE3A28; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:35:20 +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 054962E1B; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:35:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B15B32DE5; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:35:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130627203509.B15B32DE5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:35:09 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.162 robotics? the landscape 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. 27, No. 162. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Simpson, Grant Leyton" (19) Subject: Short survey about the DH landscape [2] From: Willard McCarty (16) Subject: robotics and digital humanities? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:26:59 +0000 From: "Simpson, Grant Leyton" Subject: Short survey about the DH landscape Dear Humanist Members, I am a member of the team involved in the research below. We would really appreciate it if you could spare a few minutes to take this short DH survey. https://iucsr.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_b7bKd3M1M491w4l Best, Grant --------------------------------------------------------- We invite you to respond to a short survey about the Digital Humanities (DH) landscape. Our research goal is to provide a widespread view of the connections among people, teams, institutions, and communication channels making up the DH field. To meet this goal, we’ve chosen a variety of communication channels from which to gather data that include, but are not limited to, DH centers, peer-reviewed DH projects, DH-relevant Tweets, DH-relevant journals, DH-related NEH grants awards, messages from the TEI-L and Humanist listservs, and DH syllabi. We would like your opinion about these DH-related resources and their relevance to your work. Preliminary results of this work will be presented at the DH2013 conference http://dh2013.unl.edu/ . This survey is conducted under a joint-funded research program (NSF, JISC, SSHRC), part of the Digging into Data http://www.diggingintodata.org/ initiative, led by Vincent Lariviere (Universite de Montreal, CA), Cassidy Sugimoto (Indiana University Bloomington, US), and Mike Thelwall (University of Wolverhampton, UK). The project—Cascades, Islands, Streams? Time, topic, and scholarly activities in humanities and social science research—investigates topic lifecycles across heterogeneous corpora. Your responses to the survey will remain confidential and be anonymized before reporting. Responding to the survey implies consent to participate and you may discontinue the survey at any time. There are neither direct risks nor direct benefits to participation in this survey. However, your responses will help to advance knowledge regarding the diverse communication channels used by the DH community. Please feel free to share this invitation with your colleagues in the DH field. To share with your colleagues, send them the following link: https://iucsr.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_b7bKd3M1M491w4l If you have any questions about this research or the survey feel free to contact me at tdbowman@indiana.edu. Thank you for taking the time to participate in this study. With kindest regards, Timothy D. Bowman Department of Information and Library Science http://ils.indiana.edu/ School of Informatics and Computing Indiana University 1320 E. 10th St., LI 011 Bloomington, IN 47405-3907 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 06:24:45 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: robotics and digital humanities? The interest in robotics stirred (at least in me) by the recent session of "Robotics Meets the Humanities" at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Karlsruhe leads me to this question: has anyone done research into this subject beyond the theoretical, speculative or reactive? (By "beyond" I mean in addition to, not better or worthier than.) Has anyone applied embodied robotics to research in the humanities? What might such research look like? What can we imagine? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, Research Group in Digital Humanities, 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5E7853A29; Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:12:41 +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 2360A2DCA; Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:12:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BF4222CF6; Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:12:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130628221230.BF4222CF6@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:12:30 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.163 readings on 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. 27, No. 163. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 12:02:17 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 27.147 readings on modelling In-Reply-To: <20130624205458.9796C2CDA@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, Michael and HUMANIST, Joris makes some excellent points. The most important point he makes is that modeling is central to DH and ubiquitous, but mostly implicit, and almost always poorly understood. That's the first thing to say: we are just starting to figure it out. An analogy might be the development of a cuisine. In early days there are practices, themes, recipes more or less codified, common ingredients and techniques, lots of lore, some theory and principles, and even a bit of chemistry. But there's nothing like a comprehensive overview anywhere about what cooking is and how French cuisine is similar to and different from Chinese -- to say nothing about what grilling has in common with baking, vs how it is different -- how both are "cooking" and yet they are very unlike, no one could or would mistake one for the other, and practitioners of each are keen to distinguish themselves from the other (even to the point that French chefs may sometimes consider themselves to have more in common with Chinese chefs than with French bakers). Cooking, of course, is way ahead of digital media in all this. To make it worse, in digital systems architecture and development generally and in DH especially, models are built out of ... models. It's models all the way down. (The data type primitives wired into the languages in which applications are developed are models too.) Indeed, one of the features of the layered architecture is that the designers of models at one level can be experts in the particular capabilities and affordances of the models out of which their own models are built, while paradoxically oblivious to their rationales and necessity (or lack thereof) -- not infrequently, quite deliberately so, for all that they (we) become religious about them. So one can design a template for a family of Microsoft Word documents without knowing the first thing about the application's data model or its underlying object model (as opposed to its user interface and feature set), and how they both enable and limit what can be done. Just so, TEI practitioners may take XML for granted -- for TEI, XML is an externality, and can (must) simply be assumed, which makes for difficulties in communicating with those whose modeling technology of choice is tabular data in spreadsheets, or relational databases, or interlinked networks of HTML/RDFa-encoded texts. Etc. For Michael, here are links to a couple of my own offerings in this area: "Three Questions and One Experiment": http://www.wendellpiez.com/resources/publications/ThreeQuestions-OneExperiment-slides.pdf. An informal overview of the problems of data modeling for DH, presented at the Brown University Workshop on Knowledge Organization and Data Modeling in the Humanities (March 2011). "How to Play XML: Markup Languages as Nomic Game". Paper at http://balisage.net/Proceedings/vol3/html/Piez01/BalisageVol3-Piez01.html, slides at http://www.wendellpiez.com/resources/publications/HowtoPlayXML-slides.pdf. About markup technologies specifically, but broad in its implications. Also very much worth a read, by Michael Sperberg-McQueen: "Runways, product differentiation, snap-together joints, airplane glue, and switches that really switch", at http://conferences.idealliance.org/extreme/html/2004/Sperberg-McQueen02/EML2004Sperberg-McQueen02.html. Best regards, Wendell On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 147. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 09:53:12 +0200 > From: Joris van Zundert > Subject: Re: 27.141 history of markup? readings on modelling? > In-Reply-To: <20130620200510.B4EA53A3A@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Dear Michael, > > If you were looking for more concrete digital and/or computational models > for topics, events, text, style, and narrative etc., there's a lot to go > round and Wikipedia (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_model) is good > companion for starting a dive into literature I think. > > A bit counter to "quantitative/tractable models of research objects" you > may also be interested in chapters 9 and 10 of Handbook of Knowledge > Representation. More specifically chapter 10 shows the potential for > "qualitative computational models", which to me suggests a closer match to > humanities modeling: > > - Forbus, Kenneth D. (2008), "Qualitative Modeling". In F. van Harmelen et > al. (eds.), Handbook of Knowledge Representation. (p.361) > > - Struss, Peter (2008) Model-based Problem Solving, "Qualitative Modeling". > In F. van Harmelen et al. (eds.), Handbook of Knowledge Representation. > (p.395) > > For some background/rational as to why qualitative modeling and > computability is of essence I think Johanna Drucker's Humanities Approaches > to Graphical Display in DHQ ( > http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/5/1/000091/000091.html) is still > excellent. > > Modeling as part of the dynamic between humanities and computer science has > been little studied to uncover its mechanisms and potentials. Althouh > modeling arguably is applied in any DH project (and I'd argue in any decent > research design actually), mostly DH modeling practices seem tacit and > implicit. > > I think this is actually ground that remains to be covered, at least in > (digital) humanities. That is: there are a lot of practices people apply > for capturing, describing, and encoding topics, events, text etc.. These > constitute concrete models, or model implementations, I guess. However > there is not much explicit reflection on what constitutes modeling, or what > a Model is for that matter. What do researchers assume modeling to be, what > do they think it facilitates? Nor is there a lot of literature on multiple > models for the same domain, and how models in such cases are confronted and > compared to each other. There is even less, I suspect, on the analytic > capabilities and underpinnings of various models applied in the humanities. > > And actually I'd be very interested in other people's views on this. > > Some (very) general pointers: > > - McCarty: “either a representation of something for purposes of study, or > a design for realizing something new.” > (Companion to Digital Humanities as you quote) > > - Minsky: “To an observer B, an object A* is a model of an object A to the > extent that B can use A* to answer questions that interest him about A” > (Minsky, Marvin L. (1995). Matter, Mind and Models.) > > - Root-Bernstein: "The point of modeling is to depict something real or > imagined in actual or hypothetical terms in order to study its structure or > function." (Robert Root-Bernstein and Michele Root-Bernstein (2003). > Intuitive Tools for Innovative Thinking. In Larisa V. Shavinina (ed.), > International Handbook on Innovation.) > > The last also has: "Modeling, as many practitioners have said, is like > playing god, toying with reality in order to discover its unexpected > properties." > > Best > -- Joris -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2FCEB3A7E; Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:13:28 +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 9CEE43A07; Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:13:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B880439EC; Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:13:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130628221317.B880439EC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:13:17 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.164 surveillance in 2011 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 164. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:14:53 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: surveillance For what could be done in 2011 see http://www.gigapixel.com/image/gigapan-canucks-g7.html and other examples from http://www.gigapixel.com/. WM -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, Research Group in Digital Humanities, 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 250CA3A7E; Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:14:03 +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 209503A82; Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:13:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 687B23A4C; Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:13:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130628221353.687B23A4C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:13:53 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.165 a linked open data SIG? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 165. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 16:42:29 +0100 From: Leif Isaksen Subject: Linked Open Data ADHO Special Interest Group? The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations(ADHO) have just put out a call for SIGs (see below) I'd be interested in starting one for Linked Open Data in DH and wondered if anyone else is thinking along the same lines? I should emphasise that my key interest here is in connectivity between independent online DH resources, rather than 'semantic/ontology modelling' per se (which might be worth setting up as a SIG in its own right?). The principal activities I'd personally like to see on it are a) different projects and resource curators reaching out to connect multilaterally b) identification of common controlled vocabularies, gazetteers and thesauri c) discussing best practice in SKOS, vocabulary management, semantic annotation In contrast, - nuanced scope-noting or development of specific RDF vocabularies/ontologies, and/or - closed interoperability projects would probably be best kept to another list/SIG. If anyone is interested then get in touch and we can organise a Hangout to thrash out a full proposal. If someone has already started one along these lines then please sign me up! All the best Leif PS Despite the wording of the SIG protocol I've had it confirmed that you don't need to be a member of an ADHO organisation to get involved. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Neil Fraistat Date: Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 9:51 PM _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 C31193A7E; Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:15:20 +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 B4D1F2CF5; Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:15:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 338FE2DCA; Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:15:11 +0200 (CEST) Subject: 27.166 jobs at Gttingen, Georgia Tech From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130628221511.338FE2DCA@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:15:11 +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. 27, No. 166. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Kraft, Gabriele" (17) Subject: Project manager position at Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanitites [2] From: Robin Wharton (23) Subject: Job Opening -- Instructional Technologist at Georgia Tech --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 09:59:07 +0000 From: "Kraft, Gabriele" Subject: Project manager position at Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanitites The Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (GCDH) has an opening for a full-time project manager for the Digital Humanities Research Collaboration, which is funded by the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony. Funding for this appointment runs until 31 March 2015 in the first instance. The Digital Humanities Research Collaboration aims to bring together national and international research infrastructures, universities and further research institutions in Lower Saxony to develop and show the benefit of Digital Humanities for the humanities and social sciences. The DH Research Collaboration focuses on three research fields: a) digital library and virtual museum; b) internet and society; c) infrastructure and education. The main tasks of this position will include the monitoring of project milestones, networking with project partners and further institutions in the Digital Humanities in Germany and beyond, coordinating and editing the proposal for the second project phase, integrating the research collaboration into the Göttingen Research Campus, PR work, planning and organisation of events. Applicants should hold a university degree or PhD in humanities or social sciences. Applicants should have experience in DH activities, deep understanding of technologies used in the DH field, experience in project management and proposal submission, organisational as well as German and English language skills. The University of Göttingen is an equal opportunities employer and places particular emphasis on fostering career opportunities for women. Qualified women are therefore strongly encouraged to apply as they are under-represented in this field. Disabled persons with equivalent aptitude will be favoured. Please send your application including a CV, covering letter and certificates (preferably by email in one PDF-file or by post) by 31 July 2013 to Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanitites, Papendiek 16, Heyne-Haus, D-37073 Göttingen, Germany, email: gerhard.lauer@phil.uni-goettingen.de. If you have any questions, please contact Prof. Dr. Gerhard Lauer (e-mail: gerhard.lauer@phil.uni-goettingen.de). Please be aware that we will retain your application documents for a period of 5 months, after which the documents will be destroyed. Application documents will only be returned to you if you provide a self-addressed envelope with adequate postage. For more information about the GCDH, please visit the website http://www.gcdh.de/en/ Gabriele Kraft Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (GCDH) Papendiek 16 D-37073 Göttingen Tel: 0049 551 39 20476 Email: gkraft@gcdh.de http://www.gcdh.de http://www.gcdh.de/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 13:44:53 +0000 From: Robin Wharton Subject: Job Opening -- Instructional Technologist at Georgia Tech Hello All, I am circulating the job listing below for a colleague. They are *very* interested in seeing applications from people working in digital humanities and pedagogy: Georgia Tech is looking for a dynamic professional who's passionate about designing engaging learning experiences, and fascinated with the role technology can play in changing the game. Our shared mission is to enhance teaching and learning, and we're looking for someone who's passionate about designing engaging learning experiences as well as the role technology can play in changing the game. The ideal candidate will be motivated to read widely in related fields such as cognitive psychology, HCI and New Media Studies, excited about exploring and experimenting with new tools, and then able to adapt these far-ranging insights into their work. A successful candidate will also be a superb communicator, able to converse fluently with subject matter experts in diverse disciplines. Responsibilities will include: • Design, conduct, evaluate, and improve professional development workshops and cohort programs for faculty interested in improving learning and designing and teaching effective technology-enhanced and hybrid/blended courses. • Serve as a consultant to faculty, helping to discover ways to improve and evaluate student learning, and employ technology judiciously. • Explore, research, evaluate, and advise on new and emerging technologies based on potential to improve and/or evaluate student learning. • Create and/or adapt professional development materials and resources (e.g. self-paced online modules) to provide hybrid and online professional development resources for faculty. • Expand the web presence of CETL and Ed Tech, including the main web site, blogging and social media. • Provide training workshops and end-user support to faculty for supported technologies. • Conduct and contribute to research studies evaluating the use of education technologies or other educational innovations and their impact on student learning outcomes. • Opportunity to teach courses as credentials, time and opportunity permit The minimum educational requirement for this position is a doctorate (or an expectation to earn a doctorate within six months of hire) in education, educational technology, instructional design, computer science, or a related field. Digital humanists are encouraged to apply. Salary will be commensurate with degrees earned and prior experience. You can find the full listing along with details about how to apply here: http://careers.insidehighered.com/georgia-institute-technology/instructional-technologist/job/490078. Best regards, Robin -- Robin Wharton, PhD Partner and Production Editor, Hybrid Pedagogy www.hybridpedagogy.com http://www.hybridpedagogy.com / www.robinwharton.com http://www.robinwharton.com @rswharton on Twitter _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 46E233A75; Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:20:54 +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 91FBA3A07; Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:20:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C600C39EC; Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:20:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130628222043.C600C39EC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:20:43 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.167 events: accessibility, privacy, intellectual property; consciousness X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 167. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: The Center for Consciousness Studies (152) Subject: Toward a Science of Consciousness 2014 - April 21-26 Tucson - Conference Announcement [2] From: Oya Yildirim Rieger (16) Subject: Institute for Internet Culture, Policy, and Law @ Cornell University --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 13:32:41 -0700 From: The Center for Consciousness Studies Subject: Toward a Science of Consciousness 2014 - April 21-26 Tucson - Conference Announcement Conference Announcement and Call for Abstracts Toward a Science of Consciousness 2014 April 21-26, 2014, Tucson, Arizona www.consciousness.arizona.edu The 20th Anniversary Conference Speakers will include : Ned Block, David Chalmers, Karl Deisseroth, Daniel Dennett, David Eagleman, Rebecca Goldstein, Stuart Hameroff, Christof Koch, Henry Markram, John Searle, Petra Stoerig, Giulio Tononi and many more. This conference marks the 20th anniversary of the first Tucson "Toward a Science of Consciousness" conference. Speakers will reflect on progress over the last 20 years and on challenges for the next 20 years, as well as presenting research from the leading edge of the science of consciousness. Toward a Science of Consciousness is an interdisciplinary conference known for rigorous and leading edge approaches to all aspects of the study of conscious experience. These aspects include neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, molecular biology, medicine, quantum physics, and cosmology as well as art, technology, and experiential and contemplative approaches. The conference is the largest and longest-running interdisciplinary gathering probing fundamental questions related to conscious experience. An estimated 700 participants from over 60 countries are due to take part. As in previous conferences, program sessions will include plenary and keynote talks, concurrent talks, posters, art/science demos and exhibits, pre-conference workshops, side trips, and social events in the Tucson tradition. Program Co-Chairs David Chalmers, Australian National University, New York University Stuart Hameroff, University of Arizona Conference Manager Abi Behar-Montefiore, Center for Consciousness Studies Assistant Director [...] Pre-Conference Workshop Proposals - TSC 2014 Proposals for pre-conference workshops are invited in all areas related to understanding conscious experience. Workshops provide in depth, detailed treatments of various methodologies, perspectives, reviews and approaches. Workshops may be solo presentations, or include two or more presenters. Please submit a 500 word (or less) abstract/summary and presenter information by email directly to center@u.arizona.edu The 2014 pre-conference workshops will be held in three 4- hour sessions 1) Monday April 21, 9 am to 1 pm 2) Monday April 21, 2 pm to 6 pm 3) Tuesday April 22, 9 am to 1 pm Main Conference Schedule Plenary sessions for the conference will run from 2pm on Tuesday April 22 through 1pm on Saturday April 26. Concurrent sessions will be held from 4:30-6:30pm on April 22, 23, and 25. Poster sessions will be held from 7-10pm on April 23 and 25. There will be a free afternoon April 24. Evening social events include a welcome reception April 22, the conference dinner April 24, the poetry slam April 25, and an "End of Consciousness" party April 26. 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This year's speakers include: * Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Scholarly Communication at the Modern Language Association, on accessibility and privacy issues * Lisa Sotto, Hunton & Williams, on information privacy and security on the global stage * Pamela Harris, John Cabot University in Rome, on Internet free speech from a cross-cultural perspective * Dan Goldstein, Counsel to the National Federation of the Blind, on accessibility and legal issues * Prue Adler, Senior Counsel for the Association of Research Libraries, on accessibility * Elisabetta Morani, John Cabot University in Rome, on international libraries of the future * Alan Fishel, Internet2 attorney for Net+ Services, on cloud services considerations * Pat McClary, Cornell University Associate Counsel, on contracting for cloud computing * Steve McDonald, General Counsel for the Rhode Island School of Design, on the latest intellectual property issues, including the Georgia State case wrap-up ICPL is an intimate intellectual environment. There are no concurrent or breakout sessions; everyone-speakers, facilitators, organizers, and participants-stays together for all sessions and activities. Organizers limit the number of participants to 50, allowing for meaningful, in-depth exploration of topics and the dynamic exchange of ideas and perspectives. Faculty, university administrators, academic librarians, and IT, legal, policy, and student life professionals are invited to debate, learn, and share ideas, experiences, and expertise during ICPL's three knowledge-packed days. For the full schedule, see icpl.cornell.edu/schedule. For more information or to register for ICPL 2013, visit icpl.cornell.edu, call 607.255.7259, or e-mail cusp@cornell.edu. Oya Y. Rieger Associate University Librarian Cornell 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 657DF3A82; Sun, 30 Jun 2013 01:06:06 +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 CF0BF3125; Sun, 30 Jun 2013 01:05:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3ECE83125; Sun, 30 Jun 2013 01:05:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130629230555.3ECE83125@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 01:05:55 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.168 collect job adverts? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 168. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 14:47:57 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: News: PhilJobs/APA Partnership Digital Humanities is not as well developed, institutionalised or populated as philosophy. But the following led me to think that a repository of job adverts in digital humanities would do good service for our community and those wanting to populate it. If the repository were to begin merely by extracting adverts from Humanist it would have a good stock for people to consult. Any volunteers? Yours, WM -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: News: PhilJobs/APA Partnership > Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 03:10:08 +0000 > From: PhilPapers Dear Willard, The PhilPapers Foundation and the American Philosophical Association are pleased to announce a new partnership that will enhance the Foundation's ability to support the development of PhilPapers and related services. Beginning this August, the APA’s Jobs for Philosophers will merge with PhilJobs to become PhilJobs: Jobs for Philosophers (PhilJobs: JFP). By bringing together the PhilJobs software platform with JFPÂ’s established presence, this partnership will create an online source for jobs in philosophy that is both comprehensive and user-friendly and gives job seekers confidence in fairness and equity in the hiring process. The new combined service will be tailored to both US and international job listings, making it the go-to site for those seeking professional employment in philosophy as well as for hiring institutions. PhilJobs: JFP will be free of charge for all job seekers. Job advertisements will be available at competitive rates on a sliding fee scale to appeal to all types of institutions and hiring searches. Further, PhilJobs: JFP aims to expand to provide additional services for both job seekers and hiring departments in future years. Jobs for Philosophers will be freely accessible to job seekers starting July 1, 2013 in anticipation of the transition to PhilJobs: JFP. The partnership between the PhilPapers Foundation and the APA will also extend to other initiatives. The APA will provide some financial support for PhilPapers as well as PhilPeople, an interactive, crowd-sourced, open directory of all philosophers in the English-speaking world under development by the Foundation. The APAÂ’s contribution will enable the PhilPapers Foundation to continue to maintain and expand its services for the community while evolving toward a sustainable funding model for the future. David Bourget David Chalmers Co-Directors, PhilPapers Click here to unsubscribe http://philpapers.org/profile/myforums_list.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 845DB3AB8; Sun, 30 Jun 2013 01:06:52 +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 6ED623A58; Sun, 30 Jun 2013 01:06:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C86843A50; Sun, 30 Jun 2013 01:06:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130629230641.C86843A50@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 01:06:41 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.169 essay competition deadline extended! X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 169. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 12:17:05 -0600 From: Daniel O'Donnell Subject: Global Digital Humanities Essay Competition: Deadline Extended to July 6, 1200 GMT. The Global Outlook::Digital Humanities Essay Contest Deadline has been extended until Noon GMT July 6, 2013. A description of the competition can be found below and at the GO::DH website: http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/global-outlookdigital-humanities-global-digital-humanities-essay-prize/ The deadline is being extended in recognition of the diverse nature of the target audience and to ensure that nobody is prevented from contributing due to infrastructure problems or late notice of the competition. Participants who have already made a submission but feel that they could profit from the extension are welcome to resubmit their work by the extended deadline, otherwise the original submission will be entered in the competition. In the case of multiple submissions from the same author, the committee will use the latest submission unless otherwise instructed. The adjudication would like to thank the many participants who have already made submissions to the competition. We are very much looking forward to reading your work! -dan P.S. We apparently forgot to list Word as an acceptable format for submission. This was an oversight on our part. The committee can consider files in Word format. ============================== Contest description Global Outlook :: Digital Humanities, The University of Lethbridge, Digital Studies/Le champ numérique, 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 567263AB8; Sun, 30 Jun 2013 01:08:18 +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 0107D3AA2; Sun, 30 Jun 2013 01:08:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 26E233A58; Sun, 30 Jun 2013 01:08:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130629230808.26E233A58@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 01:08:07 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.170 events: digital for medievalists at the Leeds Congress X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 170. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 09:01:07 +0200 From: "Center for Comparative Studies" Subject: Digital Sessions at the IMC Leeds Someone may be interested in the five (and more) "digital" sessions at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, which starts on Monday 1 July. You can consult the proogramme at https://imc.leeds.ac.uk/dbsql02/AQueryServlet?*context=IMC&*id=10&*formId=1&*requestType=query&conference=2013&*servletURI=https://imc.leeds.ac.uk/dbsql02/AQueryServlet Digital Pleasures, I: Pleasing the Paleographer? - Examples of Automatic Writer Identification [Session No: 530] Digital Pleasures, II: Tools for Dating and Describing Script [Session No: 630] Digital Pleasures, III: Diplomatics and Editorial Practices in the 21st Century [Session No: 730] Digital Pleasures, IV: Scholarly Editions, Data Formats, Data Exploitation [Session No: 1030] Digital Pleasures, V: Automated Text Recognition, Text Annotation, and Scholarly Edition in the 21st Century [Session No: 1130] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AC15D3A23; Sun, 30 Jun 2013 22:01:18 +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 B06D93A07; Sun, 30 Jun 2013 22:01:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DB7302E04; Sun, 30 Jun 2013 22:01:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130630200107.DB7302E04@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 22:01:07 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.171 pubs: Shakespearean Configurations X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 171. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 19:02:58 +0200 From: Jean-Christophe MAYER Subject: Shakespearean Configurations Dear List-Members, We hope some of you might be interested in the following volume, which has just been released and is freely accessible: Shakespearean Configurations, Early Modern Literary Studies Special Issue 21 (2013) Edited by Jean-Christophe Mayer, William H. Sherman, Stuart Sillars and Margaret Vasileiou With contribution from Dympna Carmel Callaghan (Syracuse University), Lori Anne Ferrell (Claremont University), Atsuhiko Hirota (University of Kyoto), Jeffrey Todd Knight (University of Washington), Agnes Lafont (University of Montpellier), Jean-Christophe Mayer (CNRS and University of Montpellier), Andrew Murphy (University of St. Andrews), Svenn-Arve Myklebost (University of Bergen), William H. Sherman (University of York, UK), Stuart Sillars (University of Bergen), Sarah Stanton (Cambridge University Press) Summary of contents: This collection takes a fresh look at configurations—and reconfigurations—of Shakespeare from the first quartos to the most recent incarnations. It offers new approaches for studying the packaging of the plays and poems through time, between cultures and across media. We have been prompted to explore the potential of the concept of configuration by two sweeping developments in Shakespeare Studies: the sustained attack on the idea of an authentic, original text produced by a single, isolated author; and a corresponding attention to the reformulation and assimilation of Shakespeare’s texts in cultures very different from the one in which they were created. These two areas (the one associated with Textual Scholarship and the other with Adaptation, Performance and Postcolonial Studies) have only recently begun to speak to each other, and together they pose a set of far-reaching questions which the essays gathered here seek to investigate. Freely accessible at: http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/si-21/00-Contents.htm CONTENTS: • Shakespearean Configurations: Introduction. [1] Jean-Christophe Mayer (CNRS and University of Montpellier), William H. Sherman (University of York, UK), Stuart Sillars (University of Bergen) • Configuring the Book. [2] Andrew Murphy (University of St. Andrews) • Publishing Shakespeare. [3] Sarah Stanton (Cambridge University Press) • Punctuation as Configuration; Or, How Many Sentences Are There In Sonnet 1? [4] William H. Sherman (University of York, UK) • Shakespeare and the Order of Books. [5] Jean-Christophe Mayer (French National Centre for Scientific Research and University of Montpellier) • Shakespeare in Bundles. [6] Jeffrey Todd Knight (University of Washington) • Updating Folios: Readers’ Reconfigurations and Customisations of Shakespeare. [7] Noriko Sumimoto (Meisei University) • Extra-illustrating Shakespeare. [8] Lori Anne Ferrell (Claremont University) • Thoughts on the Illustrated Edition. [9] Stuart Sillars (University of Bergen) • The Kingdoms of Lear in Tate and Shakespeare: A Restoration Reconfiguration of Archipelagic Kingdoms. [10] Atsuhiko Hirota (University of Kyoto) • Mythological Reconfigurations on the Contemporary Stage: Giving a New Voice to Philomela in Titus Andronicus. [11] Agnès Lafont (University of Montpellier) • Difference vs. Change: The Theory of Configuration. [12] Svenn-Arve Myklebost (University of Bergen) • Shakespearean Configurations: Afterword. [13] Dympna Carmel Callaghan (Syracuse University) With our best wishes, The Editors. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 272A03AC9; Mon, 1 Jul 2013 22:25:48 +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 A73493AB8; Mon, 1 Jul 2013 22:25:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id F00EA3AB8; Mon, 1 Jul 2013 22:25:35 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130701202535.F00EA3AB8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 22:25:35 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.172 collecting job adverts X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 172. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 23:23:35 -0400 From: Susan Brown Subject: Re: 27.168 collect job adverts? In-Reply-To: <20130629230555.3ECE83125@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, Matt Burton and Dave Lester created at Digital Humanities Job Archive, supported by an ACH Microgrant last year, to "consolidate and archive" DH job listings. The intention was not to list current jobs being offered but rather to gather and preserve position postings for future search or analysis. It's at http://jobs.lofhm.org/about/ I'm not sure of its status right now, but any new approach to pulling together current job listings, which I agree would be a wonderfully useful initiative, might want to consider pushing the listings into this archive. cheers, Susan Susan Brown sbrown@uoguelph.ca On 2013-06-29, at 7:05 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 168. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 14:47:57 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: News: PhilJobs/APA Partnership > > > Digital Humanities is not as well developed, institutionalised or > populated as philosophy. But the following led me to think that a > repository of job adverts in digital humanities would do good service > for our community and those wanting to populate it. If the repository > were to begin merely by extracting adverts from Humanist it would have a > good stock for people to consult. > > Any volunteers? > > 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D86E33ADD; Mon, 1 Jul 2013 22:27:11 +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 2BAA63AD1; Mon, 1 Jul 2013 22:27:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C415C3AC0; Mon, 1 Jul 2013 22:27:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130701202701.C415C3AC0@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 22:27:01 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.173 travel funding? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 173. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 20:33:02 +0000 From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" Subject: an ACH survey on travel funding Dear colleagues -- Please help inform decision-making at the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) by responding to this brief survey. We are interested in better understanding the financial support available to you for travel to digital humanities training and conference events: http://bit.ly/13g3nb0 With thanks, Bethany Nowviskie President, Association for Computers and the Humanities Bethany Nowviskie 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 242D53AE4; Mon, 1 Jul 2013 22:29:30 +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 CDF3C3AD9; Mon, 1 Jul 2013 22:29:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 058073AD1; Mon, 1 Jul 2013 22:29:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130701202920.058073AD1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 22:29:19 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.174 what matters? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 174. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 13:20:55 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: a thought-experiment This is inspired by the philosopher Norman Malcolm's, "The Conceivability of Mechanism", Philosophical Review 77.1 (1968): 45-72. I'm asking the question which follows by way of a thought-experiment both to stimulate discussion and to test whether I have understood what is at issue. Suppose that we observe a boy chasing after a ball. Ordinarily we would say that he is chasing the ball because he wants to retrieve it. Malcolm calls this a "purposive explanation". But suppose we are in possession of a comprehensive neurophysiological theory that has been shown in an overwhelming number of cases to work, and suppose that thanks to this theory and related technologies a technician is in fact controlling the boy's every movement, down to the last detail. Given this control, Malcolm has shown (or let us say for purposes of argument that he has shown it convincingly), we can no longer hold that the boy intended to run after the ball. Whatever it is that he intended, if anything at all, is irrelevant. Indeed, because of this irrelevance applied comprehensively, we can longer speak of human intentions. We clearly do not have such a theory or such technologies in place. But I think we can say correctly that many well funded researchers are working hard to bring both about, or more accurately, that the efforts of many such researchers sum to a trajectory aimed at achieving such a result. At the same time other researchers, working not from neurophysiology but from robotics, are equally hard at work trying to make a robot that we will mistake as that boy, which of course a technician will be able to control as in the thought-experiment. Determinism hovers over this situation. Here is Malcolm again > Determinism is a painful problem because it creates a severe tension > between two viewpoints, each of which is strongly attractive: one is > that the concepts of purpose, intention, and desire, of our ordinary > language, cannot be rendered void by scientific advance; the other is > that those concepts cannot prescribe limits to what it is possible > for empirical science to achieve. (p. 69) Is this not our dilemma, though we do not tend to encounter it in such a dramatic form? We want very badly to think that our cultural productions will always escape the net of technology; at the same time we have no evidence that AI, robotics et al will not finally nail everything down. We also have no evidence that it will. So what matters in this situation? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, Research Group in Digital Humanities, 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0EB2B3AE1; Mon, 1 Jul 2013 22:30:02 +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 A1BC23AE4; Mon, 1 Jul 2013 22:29:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 60AA43AD4; Mon, 1 Jul 2013 22:29:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130701202953.60AA43AD4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 22:29:53 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.175 the Developing Librarian 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 175. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 15:21:16 -0400 From: Alex Gil Subject: ALA listserv message In-Reply-To: Dear all, The Humanities and History team at Columbia is proud to announce our Developing Librarian Project, a 2 year professional development project in digital humanities. Our goal is to equip our team to become the consulting arm of the Digital Humanities Center at Columbia. In practical terms we are building a digital history of Morningside Heights (Columbia University's neighborhood) ourselves and retelling our experiences on a public blog. Feel free to contact us with any questions about the project. You can see the original announcement on the DH+Lib blog: http://acrl.ala.org/dh/2013/07/01/the-developing-librarian-project/ or, visit us directly at Breaking the Code: The Developing Librarian Project: http://www.developinglibrarian.org/ Best, The Humanities and History team Columbia University Libraries _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E082C3B4F; Mon, 1 Jul 2013 22:30:35 +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 122DA3AF7; Mon, 1 Jul 2013 22:30:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C1C163AC4; Mon, 1 Jul 2013 22:30:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130701203026.C1C163AC4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 22:30:25 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.176 events: TEI X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 176. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 12:37:02 +0200 From: Fabio Ciotti Subject: TEI Conference 2013: online registration open Dear Humanist members, we are pleased to announce that online registration for the TEI Conference and Members meeting 2013 has now opened. This year's TEI Conference is hosted at the University of Roma La Sapienza, Italy, with the support of AIUCD (Italian Association for Humanities Computing and Digital Cultures) and will take place from from 2 to 5 October. As usual the Conference is preceded by three days of workshops and tutorials from September 29 to October 2. This year’s theme is: The Linked TEI: Text Encoding in the Web. The programme includes keynote lectures by Allen Renear (professor and interim Dean at GSLIS) and Marie-Luce Demonet (professor of French Renaissance literature and director of the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Val de Loire), parallel sessions of papers, the annual TEI business meeting, a poster session/tools demonstration and slam, and special interest group (SIG) meetings. Details about the programme, as well as infos about accommodation and local attractions are available in the Conference website at http://digilab2.let.uniroma1.it/teiconf2013/. The rates and the online registration facilities are available at http://digilab2.let.uniroma1.it/teiconf2013/registration/ We hope to meet you all in Rome! Cordially, Fabio Ciotti & Gianfranco Crupi Local organizers TEI Conference 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 29FA83AD5; Mon, 1 Jul 2013 22:33:05 +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 BCBEC3AF7; Mon, 1 Jul 2013 22:32:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A01A33ACB; Mon, 1 Jul 2013 22:32:54 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130701203254.A01A33ACB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 22:32:54 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.177 pubs: computational intelligence for language cfp; Journal of Scholarly Publishing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 177. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Erik Cambria (54) Subject: CFP: IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (Impact Factor: 4.629) [2] From: UTP Journals (74) Subject: Now Available Online - Journal of Scholarly Publishing 44.4 July,2013 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 09:20:30 +0000 From: Erik Cambria Subject: CFP: IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (Impact Factor: 4.629) Submissions are invited for a special issue on Computational Intelligence for Natural Language Processing of IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, which now has a 4.629 impact factor . Deadline for submission is in one month from today, no extensions will be granted. For more/up-to-date info, please visit http://sentic.net/cinlp RATIONALE The textual information available on the Web can be broadly grouped into two main categories: facts and opinions. Facts are objective expressions about entities or events. Opinions are usually subjective expressions that describe people's sentiments, appraisals, or feelings towards such entities and events. Much of the existing research on textual information processing has been focused on mining and retrieval of factual information, e.g., text classification, text recognition, text clustering, and many other text mining and natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Little work had been done on the processing of opinions until only recently. One of the main reasons for the lack of studies on opinions is the fact that there was little opinionated text available before the recent passage from a read-only to a read-write Web. Before that, in fact, when people needed to make a decision, they typically asked for opinions from friends and family. Similarly, when organizations wanted to find the opinions or sentiments of the general public about their products and services, they had to specifically ask people by conducting opinion polls and surveys. However, with the advent of the Social Web, the way people express their views and opinions has dramatically changed. They can now post reviews of products at merchant sites and express their views on almost anything in Internet forums, discussion groups, and blogs. Such online word-of-mouth behavior represents new and measurable sources of information with many practical applications. Nonetheless, finding opinion sources and monitoring them can be a formidable task because there are a large number of diverse sources and each source may also have a huge volume of opinionated text. In many cases, in fact, opinions are hidden in long forum posts and blogs. It is extremely time-consuming for a human reader to find relevant sources, extract related sentences with opinions, read them, summarize them, and organize them into usable forms. Thus, automated opinion discovery and summarization systems are needed. Sentiment analysis grows out of this need: it is a very challenging NLP or text mining problem. Due to its tremendous value for practical applications, there has been an explosive growth of both research in academia and applications in the industry. All the sentiment analysis tasks, however, are very challenging. Our understanding and knowledge of the problem and its solution are still limited. The main reason is that it is a NLP task, and NLP has no easy problems. Another reason may be due to our popular ways of doing research. So far, in fact, researchers have relied a lot on traditional machine learning algorithms. Some of the most effective machine learning algorithms, however, produce no human understandable results. Apart from some superficial knowledge gained in the manual feature engineering process, in fact, such algorithms may achieve improved accuracy, but little about how and why is actually known. All such approaches, moreover, rely on syntactic structure of text, which is far from the way human mind processes natural language. TOPICS Articles are thus invited in area of computational intelligence for natural language processing and understanding. The broader context of the Special Issue comprehends artificial intelligence, knowledge representation and reasoning, data mining, artificial neural networks, evolutionary computation, and fuzzy logic. Topics include, but are not limited to: • Computational intelligence for big social data analysis • Biologically inspired opinion mining • Concept-level opinion and sentiment analysis • Computational intelligence for social media retrieval and analysis • Computational intelligence for social media marketing • Social network modeling, simulation, and visualization • Semantic multi-dimensional scaling for sentiment analysis • Computational intelligence for patient opinion mining • Sentic computing • Multilingual and multimodal sentiment analysis • Multimodal fusion for continuous interpretation of semantics • Computational intelligence for time-evolving sentiment tracking • Computational intelligence for cognitive agent-based computing • Human-agent, -computer, and -robot interaction • Domain adaptation for sentiment classification • Affective common-sense reasoning • Computational intelligence for user profiling and personalization • Computational intelligence for knowledge acquisition TIMEFRAME August 1st, 2013: Paper submission deadline September 1st, 2013: Notification of acceptance October 1st, 2013: Final manuscript due February, 2014: Publication SUBMISSION The maximum length for the manuscript is typically 25 pages in single column with double-spacing, including figures and references. Authors of papers should specify in the first page of their manuscripts corresponding author’s contact and up to 5 keywords. Submission should be made via email to one of the guest editors below. GUEST EDITORS • Erik Cambria, National University of Singapore (Singapore) • Bebo White, Stanford University (USA) • Tariq S. Durrani, Royal Society of Edinburgh (UK) • Newton Howard, MIT Media Laboratory (USA) _______________________________ 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: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 19:59:25 +0000 From: UTP Journals Subject: Now Available Online - Journal of Scholarly Publishing 44.4 July,2013 Now available online… Journal of Scholarly Publishing Volume 44, Number 4, July 2013 http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/j323n186m662/ This issue contains: Defining and Characterizing Open Peer Review: A Review of the Literature Emily Ford Changes in scholarly publishing have resulted in a move toward openness. To this end, new, open models of peer review are emerging. While the scholarly literature has examined and discussed open peer review, no established definition of it exists, nor are there uniform implementations of open peer review processes. This article examines the literature discussing open peer review, identifies common open peer review definitions, and describes eight common characteristics of open peer review: signed review, disclosed review, editor-mediated review, transparent review, crowd-sourced review, pre-publication review, synchronous review, and post-publication review. This article further discusses benefits and challenges to the scholarly publishing community posed by open peer review and concludes that open peer review can and should exist within the current scholarly publishing paradigm. DOI: 10.3138/jsp.44-4-001 http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/4n2254288181051v/?p=7148d5cffe9b4226bece3a903ca68886&pi=0 Is the E-Reader Mightier? Direct Publishing and Entry Barriers Jeremy D. Camacho First-time authors face a choice: Do they pursue traditional publication through major publishing houses, or do they instead utilize online direct publishing? This article examines that choice through the economic lens of entry barriers and considers which barriers block first-time writers from their interests, be they financial or otherwise. The barriers in traditional publishing include the agency process and the acceptance process. The barriers in direct publishing include limited promotion, limited market, and limited editing. This article determines that, more often than not, traditional publishing satisfies a first-time author's interests more so than direct publishing. DOI: 10.3138/jsp.44-4-002 http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/431701t725v16173/?p=7148d5cffe9b4226bece3a903ca68886&pi=1 Science and Yiddish Don't Mix: Really? Eli Maor Mention the word ‘Yiddish’ and images of literary works—novels and plays, short stories and drama, and works on Jewish history—instantly come to mind. But science? Certainly this was not a subject most East European Jews were interested in—or so we have been led to believe. It thus came to the author as a surprise that books on science have, indeed, been published in Yiddish, sometimes translated from other languages but just as often written originally in Yiddish. These works range from popular exposition of scientific subjects to full-length textbooks intended for use by elementary and secondary students at Jewish schools. The author's interest in this aspect of Yiddish books soon led him to collect them. What he found was a true eye opener. DOI: 10.3138/jsp.44-4-003 http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/413u874706364627/?p=7148d5cffe9b4226bece3a903ca68886&pi=2 Publishing in Educational Research Journals: Are Graduate Students Participating? Jordana Garbati, Boba Samuels Professional collaboration in academia is valued because it is believed to encourage the generation and synthesis of ideas, to enhance workplace environments, and to comprise a key element in mentoring practices. Collaboration in writing is often of two types: formal co-authorship or informal commentary on colleagues' work. Formal co-authorship is a topic that usually draws more attention for its problems and potential controversies than for its putative benefits. In our study, we examined professional academic co-authorship. Focusing on the field of education, we identified four research sub-fields (general education, educational psychology, language studies, and literacy studies) and analysed academic peer-reviewed journals from each of these sub-fields to establish how much collaboration exists in published articles. We then examined the extent to which graduate students are co-authors in these publications and what role this collaboration takes. Implications for collaboration with and between graduate students are discussed. DOI: 10.3138/jsp.44-4-004 http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/4624r8w222005615/?p=7148d5cffe9b4226bece3a903ca68886&pi=3 The Current State of Open Access in Journals Sponsored by the China Association for Science and Technology Ju-fang Shao, Hui-yun Shen, Si-long Zhang, et al. The open-access (OA) journals among the 1003 journals sponsored by the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) were identified. Information about the following aspects of the journals were collected and analysed: when each journal was established, its publication cycle, its system model, its region, its discipline, the time between an issue's publication and the posting of the online version, the number of issues that have been made OA, and length of time that it has had an OA policy. On the basis of these results, problems associated with OA journals sponsored by CAST were found and relevant approaches that can promote OA publication in China were recommended. DOI: 10.3138/jsp.44-4-005 http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/477065313258j116/?p=7148d5cffe9b4226bece3a903ca68886&pi=4 Auditing Social Science and Humanities Journals: The View of an Editor in a Malaysian Research University Radha M. K. Nambiar It is common practice for a university to have many journals located within different schools and faculties in order to help young researchers publish their work and gain confidence in their writing abilities. The focus of this paper is with the journals that are not listed in databases and cater only to academics within a school to serve as an avenue for publication. When the National University of Malaysia was accorded research university status recently, publications and research became an important indicator of the performance of the university. This led to a new demand for publications in indexed journals and for increasing citations. Hence, it was timely to conduct an ‘in-house evaluation’ of journals within the university, focusing particularly on the social sciences and humanities journals. An evaluation was conducted using the basic criteria for journals included in the database Scopus, and measures were then proposed to improve the journals. This exercise was meant to help the journals that had a long publishing history to rise to the challenges of being scholarly journals in an era of competitiveness, databases and indexes. DOI: 10.3138/jsp.44-4-006 http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/4176766546288558/?p=7148d5cffe9b4226bece3a903ca68886&pi=5 The Status of Peer-Reviewed Research in Sports and Recreation Management: A Critique of Current Practices N. Jonas Ohrberg When analysing the current practices in peer-reviewed research and scholarly publications in sports and recreation management, one is required to consider the purpose and audience of the research. The author of the present study suggests that there is a significant gap between the research community of scholars and the practitioners in sports and recreation management. The relationship that currently exists between the author of peer-reviewed works and the reader of the scholarly publications must be redefined. The review of the research and publication process will establish that the research and publication of scholarly manuscripts must be relevant to the daily practices and operations in the professions of sports and recreation management. DOI: 10.3138/jsp.44-4-007 http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/40u7760hl0466021/?p=7148d5cffe9b4226bece3a903ca68886&pi=6 THE TRANSOM The Visigoth Effect William W. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 12:03:00 -0500 From: Paul Fishwick Subject: Re: 27.174 what matters? In-Reply-To: <20130701202920.058073AD1@digitalhumanities.org> On Jul 1, 2013, at 3:29 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > > Determinism hovers over this situation. Here is Malcolm again > >> Determinism is a painful problem because it creates a severe tension >> between two viewpoints, each of which is strongly attractive: one is >> that the concepts of purpose, intention, and desire, of our ordinary >> language, cannot be rendered void by scientific advance; the other is >> that those concepts cannot prescribe limits to what it is possible >> for empirical science to achieve. (p. 69) > > Is this not our dilemma, though we do not tend to encounter it in such a > dramatic form? We want very badly to think that our cultural productions > will always escape the net of technology; at the same time we have no > evidence that AI, robotics et al will not finally nail everything down. > We also have no evidence that it will. > > So what matters in this situation? Willard: When you say that "we want very badly to think that our cultural productions will always escape the net of technology," we should analyze this, since I would say that not only can we not easily escape, but that technology defines our culture as a foundational component from the beginnings where we beat the bushes with sticks (the technology) to the computer. -paul Paul Fishwick, PhD Chair, ACM SIGSIM Distinguished Chair of Arts & Technology and Professor of Computer Science The University of Texas at Dallas Arts & Technology 800 West Campbell Road, AT10 Richardson, TX 75080-3021 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id EFA263AE4; Tue, 2 Jul 2013 22:40:04 +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 491053AC5; Tue, 2 Jul 2013 22:39:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 50F043AC5; Tue, 2 Jul 2013 22:39:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130702203952.50F043AC5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 22:39:52 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.179 events: narrative; 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. 27, No. 179. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Martin Wynne (66) Subject: Call for papers: CLARIN, Standards and the TEI [2] From: IDEA (78) Subject: Call for papers - In Medias Res: Uses of Narrative in English Language Studies / Kyrenia, North Cyprus --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 12:26:26 +0100 From: Martin Wynne Subject: Call for papers: CLARIN, Standards and the TEI Call for workshop papers CLARIN, STANDARDS AND THE TEI Pre-conference workshop at the Text Encoding Initiative Conference Rome, Monday 30th September 2013 Workshop website: http://www.clarin.eu/TEI-CLARIN-Workshop-2013 Conference website: http://digilab2.let.uniroma1.it/teiconf2013/ Address for submissions: martin.wynne@it.ox.ac.uk The keynote speaker for the workshop will be Dr. Alexander Geyken of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW). Timetable Call for papers issued: 28.6.13 Deadline for submissions: 31.7.13 Authors informed of acceptance of proposals: 14.8.13 Registration deadline for conference: to be confirmed (registration not yet open) Workshop date: 30.9.13 CLARIN is a pan-European initiative which aims to build a research infrastructure for language resources integrating numerous tools and resources in a distributed architecture, and which will respond to the needs of researchers across the humanities and social sciences. CLARIN is being built on open standards, but also with a recognition that standards and guidelines are only one part of a complex jigsaw which needs to be assembled to create reliable, durable and high quality services. The Text Encoding Initiative is a long-standing community which develops guidelines for the encoding of scholarly texts in XML, and works with associated technologies. This workshop aims to bring together those involved in these two sets of activities to share experiences and knowledge, and to find ways to work together productively in the next generation of infrastructure services. The organizing committee of this workshop invite proposals for presentations on topics which link together CLARIN and the TEI, including: - the role of the TEI in developing standards for CLARIN services, - technical issues in the integration of TEI-conformant resources or TEI-aware tools in CLARIN services, - barriers and problems with the deployment and linking of CLARIN and TEI technologies, - training, awareness and advocacy activities. Presenters will be asked not to simply present an overview of their work, but to focus on precisely how, why (or why not) TEI formats, guidelines and technologies are being deployed, and to go into some technical detail to do this. It is hoped that this will be only the start of promoting dialogue and collaboration between CLARIN and the TEI at many levels. One result would be an improved dialogue about the use of the TEI in higher-level initiatives to develop standards for the CLARIN architecture, but another would be enhanced engagement directly with the TEI community of developers and researchers in the many centres and institutions related to CLARIN. Format of proposals Proposals should be between 500 and 1000 words, in a text document, and should be sent to martin.wynne@it.ox.ac.uk. Proposals should contain a title and the names and affiliations of all authors. Full details of the call can be found at http://www.clarin.eu/TEI-CLARIN-Workshop-2013 -- Martin Wynne IT Services, University of Oxford Oxford e-Research Centre The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics Director of User Involvement, CLARIN ERIC Oxford e-Research Centre 7 Keble Road Oxford UK - OX1 3QP martin.wynne@it.ox.ac.uk --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 18:55:06 +0000 From: IDEA Subject: Call for papers - In Medias Res: Uses of Narrative in English Language Studies / Kyrenia, North Cyprus Call for papers In Medias Res: Uses of Narrative in English Language Studies International Interdisciplinary Conference Kyrenia, North Cyprus September, 26-27 2013 Conference Website: http://ideaenglish.org/conference Keynote Speakers Prof. Dr. Theodore Rodgers USA; Prof. Dr. Kutlay Yağmur Netherlands; Prof. Dr. Mehmet Demirezen Turkey; Bill Bowler UK International Departments of English Association (IDEA) is pleased to announce: In Medias Res: Uses of Narrative in English Language Studies, an international interdisciplinary conference for language teachers, translators and literary scholars to be held in Kyrenia in collaboration with Near East University, on September 26th and 27th, 2013. The symposium aims to discuss the narrative aspect of English Language Teaching in conjunction with Literary and Translation Studies. The narrative of “participating” in language studies is often non-linear, disjointed and disrupted. Every attempt to “read”, “teach,” “learn” or to “translate” has a different trajectory, with multiple points of departure, multiple story-lines and multiple potential endings. Individual narratives converge with preceding ones and are shaped by other participators, teachers, learners, researchers and writers. Each scholarly intersection results in an alternative narrative that would not otherwise be possible. In this sense, every textual beginning in language studies, be it in person, in the classroom or on paper, inevitably starts from a/the “middle”. By focusing on the issue of narrative, we seek to provide a forum for the investigation of the various dimensions of language teaching and learning practices within different cultural and social contexts. We also invite reflection on the ways in which narrative is addressed in various literary and cultural texts, past and present. By focusing this issue on identity, Inquire seeks to provide a forum for the investigation The conference aims to bring together scholars from all disciplines and intellectual orientations. Submissions may include, but are not limited to, an exploration of the following topics: narratology – communication studies - linguistics - subjecthood – semantics – pragmatics – speech acts – translation theory – language learning theories – language teaching methodology – teaching strategies and styles –innovative approaches – blended-hybrid instruction – discourse analysis –constructivism – sociolinguistics- semiotics – multilingualism. Please email your proposal, including a 300 word abstract (with title), institutional affiliation, a short biography (which should not exceed 100 words) and AV requirements to Dr. Asliye Dagman, Department of English Language and Literature, Near East University: a.dagman@ideaenglish.org. All papers presented at the conference will be considered for: 1) a monograph to be published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing; 2) online publication in a special proceedings issue of IJED (International Journal of English Departments) in April 2014, a peer reviewed journal. Deadline for submission of Abstracts by: August 02, 2013 Notification begins in early June for all abstracts received by the 1st of May and in early July for all abstracts received after this date. Before 1st September 2013:Non-Members: €130 Members and Students: €100 After 1st September 2013: Non-Members: €160 Members and Students: €120 Registration includes refreshments and lunch on Thursday and Friday. Full-board accommodation is available at Acapulco Resort & Convention & Spa for an additional €150 for both nights, payable to IDEA during registration. For further details please visit: http://www.acapulco.com.tr Please note that IDEA is a non-profit association dedicated to the study of English Language, Literature and Translation Studies. We regret to inform potential participants that we are not in a position to assist with conference travel or accommodation costs. Guidelines for Submissions The working language of the conference is English. Each participant will be allocated 20 minutes for presentation plus 10 minutes for questions and/or discussion. Endnotes and Bibliographic citations should follow the APA style. We welcome joint presentations, however, we ask that at least one of the authors is present at the convention. We enthusiastically encourage submissions from graduate students, as well as faculty. We look forward to reading your submissions. Warm wishes, Dr. Asliye Dagman Conference Website: http://ideaenglish.org/conference _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CDA373AF2; Tue, 2 Jul 2013 22:41:07 +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 C9E193AE2; Tue, 2 Jul 2013 22:40:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E75803AC5; Tue, 2 Jul 2013 22:40:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130702204058.E75803AC5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 22:40:58 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.180 funders? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 180. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 16:33:20 -0400 From: Alex Gil Subject: United States DH Funders list Hi all, I sent out a tweet a couple hours ago asking for volunteers to fill out a list of DH funders in the US. I was prompted by a question from a graduate student about funding sources. Apparently no such public list existed (that I know of). Well now we have one. Pass around and help us fill it out! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmgLcm5jfVhSdDZjRXBEN21sLXhKYnpQa2ZVSFQ2cWc#gid=2 Best, A. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E82673B4F; Tue, 2 Jul 2013 22:41:36 +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 9773B3AF2; Tue, 2 Jul 2013 22:41:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B362A3AEC; Tue, 2 Jul 2013 22:41:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130702204126.B362A3AEC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 22:41:26 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.181 pubs: massive data 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. 27, No. 181. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 06:33:19 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: new publication: Frontiers in Massive Data Analysis Frontiers in Massive Data Analysis National Academies Press (www.nap.edu) From Facebook to Google searches to bookmarking a webpage in our browsers, today's society has become one with an enormous amount of data. Some internet-based companies such as Yahoo! are even storing exabytes (10 to the 18 bytes) of data. Like these companies and the rest of the world, scientific communities are also generating large amounts of data-—mostly terabytes and in some cases near petabytes—from experiments, observations, and numerical simulation. However, the scientific community, along with defense enterprise, has been a leader in generating and using large data sets for many years. The issue that arises with this new type of large data is how to handle it—this includes sharing the data, enabling data security, working with different data formats and structures, dealing with the highly distributed data sources, and more. Frontiers in Massive Data Analysis presents the Committee on the Analysis of Massive Data's work to make sense of the current state of data analysis for mining of massive sets of data, to identify gaps in the current practice and to develop methods to fill these gaps. The committee thus examines the frontiers of research that is enabling the analysis of massive data which includes data representation and methods for including humans in the data-analysis loop. The report includes the committee's recommendations, details concerning types of data that build into massive data, and information on the seven computational giants of massive data analysis. For more: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=18374&utm_medium=etmail&utm_source=The%20National%20Academies%20Press&utm_campaign=NAP+mail+new+07.02.13&utm_content=Downloader&utm_term=allTopics -- Willard McCarty, FRAI / Professor of Humanities Computing & Director of the Doctoral Programme, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Professor, Research Group in Digital Humanities, 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D2E853AED; Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:26:10 +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 15D6D3AD4; Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:25:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0A6493AC6; Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:25:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130703202557.0A6493AC6@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:25:56 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.182 DH2013 news: call for Lightning Pedagogy Talks X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 182. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 22:44:36 -0400 From: Susan Brown Subject: Call for Lightning Pedagogy Talks To all colleagues planning to attend DH 2013 in Nebraska: We want to know your DH teaching tips and tricks! DH pedagogy is of keen interest to many, but we seldom have opportunities to share our best ideas about it, especially in person. To help address this sad situation, the ACH will host a round of Pedagogy Lightning Talks during its annual general meeting at the DH2013 Conference in Nebraska. We think we'll all be energized by a fast-moving series of very brief, informal talks devoted to a single exercise, classroom gambit, reading, assignment or project that — or a failure that is equally instructive. One Slide, One Minute: talks will be one minute long, and we will allow one slide. The slide can be simple--just your name, a short talk title or the name of your strategy, and contact information. Or you could include a screenshot that shows a site or tool or summarizes a strategy. No live web demos, due to time constraints, but you can use your slide to point to a screenshot or URL: we'll be posting the slides online for reference and for those who can't get to Nebraska. If you would like to present, please email your slide (in PowerPoint or Pages format) to secretary at ach-dot-org by July 12th. We will combine all the slides into one document and post them online, as well as project them at the AGM itself. Please consider sharing a great teaching strategy with us in Lincoln! Susan Brown sbrown@uoguelph.ca _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9C27A3B4D; Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:28:20 +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 AE1E43AEC; Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:28:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 167833AD5; Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:28:08 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130703202809.167833AD5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:28:08 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.183 jobs at Virginia and 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. 27, No. 183. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (14) Subject: Vacancy at History and Policy [2] From: Katina Rogers (58) Subject: Two UVa Scholars' Lab opportunities: Head of Scholars' Lab, & Head of Graduate Programs --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 12:06:13 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Vacancy at History and Policy History & Policy is hiring! H&P is seeking a Digital Communications Officer to support our long-term strategy to increase the influence of historians across the UK in public policy. The post holder will develop and deliver H&P's online and social media strategy, advance the website's functionality, and promote the project's activities and profile in Cambridge. S/he will be based in the Faculty of History at Cambridge University and collaborate closely with H&P's Public Affairs Office, which is based in the Institute of Contemporary British History at King's College London. For more information: http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/jobs/faculty-job-announcements 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, 3 Jul 2013 16:09:52 -0400 From: Katina Rogers Subject: Two UVa Scholars' Lab opportunities: Head of Scholars' Lab, & Head of Graduate Programs We are delighted to announce two exciting job opportunities at the Scholars’ Lab in the University of Virginia Library. Read on for more details! HEAD OF SCHOLARS’ LAB ( http://www.scholarslab.org/announcements/are-you-the-new-head-of-scholars-lab/ ) Are you an experienced digital humanities scholar-practitioner with a strong background in project management and public service? The University of Virginia Library seeks an energetic, adaptable leader for the digital consultation services and intellectual programming of our internationally-respected Scholars’ Lab. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, eager to work collaboratively with diverse faculty and staff, and able to muster and effectively communicate UVa Library’s deep resources for digital scholarship. This supervisory position is responsible for day-to-day operations in the Scholars’ Lab and, together with the heads of Graduate Programs and Research & Development, completes the leadership team reporting to the Director of Digital Research and Scholarship for UVa Library. The Head of the Scholars’ Lab should have a strong service ethic, broad technical knowledge, and ability to collaborate as a partner with faculty and graduate students, enabling next-generation digital scholarship in a library lab setting. He or she should also be able to take good advantage of the “20% time” afforded to all in the Department of Digital Research & Scholarship to pursue professional development and their own (often collaborative) research projects related to the mission of the Scholars’ Lab. This is a full-time, permanent managerial and professional staff position at UVa. For more details and to apply, visit the University of Virginia’s online employment website at http://bit.ly/1cS8xso. (You can also visit http://jobs.virginia.edu and search for posting number 0612479.) HEAD OF GRADUATE PROGRAMS (http://www.scholarslab.org/announcements/head-graduate-programs/) The University of Virginia Library is also seeking 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. For this position, 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 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. For full details, and to apply for the position, please see the official posting at http://bit.ly/19YQeWj. (You can also visit http://jobs.virginia.edu and search for posting number 0611761). Don’t miss these chances to work with our wonderful students and incredible Scholars’ Lab team! -- *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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BC97A3AEC; Thu, 4 Jul 2013 22:04:25 +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 51D633AE1; Thu, 4 Jul 2013 22:04:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B6AA93AA4; Thu, 4 Jul 2013 22:04:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130704200415.B6AA93AA4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 22:04:15 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.184 ACH Microgrant winners for 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. 27, No. 184. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 21:48:40 -0400 From: Susan Brown Subject: ACH 2013 Microgrants winners The Association for Computers and the Humanities is very pleased to announce the winners of our second Microgrants competition! The 2013 ACH Microgrants winners and projects are: Adeline Koh (Director of the Center for Digital Humanities and Assistant Professor of Literature, Richard Stockton College) and Roopika Risam (Assistant Professor of World Literature and English Education, Salem State University): “Digitizing Chinese Englishmen” Purdom Lindblad (College Librarian for Humanities and Digital Humanities, Virginia Tech), Andi Ogier (Data Science and Informatics Librarian in the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, Virginia Tech Libraries), and Quinn Warnick (Assistant Professor of digital rhetoric in the English Department, Virginia Tech): “dm4dh: Data Management for the Digital Humanities” Scott B. Weingart (Ph.D. student, School of Informatics, Indiana University): “Assessing Relevancy in DH”. For details, see the full announcement at: http://www.ach.org/ach-microgrants-winners-2013 Susan Brown sbrown@uoguelph.ca for the ACH Microgrants Committee: Jarom McDonald, Lisa Spiro, Vika Zafrin _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D17333B60; Thu, 4 Jul 2013 22:12:49 +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 6AA5C3AFA; Thu, 4 Jul 2013 22:12:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8B05D3AA4; Thu, 4 Jul 2013 22:12:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130704201238.8B05D3AA4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 22:12:38 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.185 Phototrails X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 185. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 16:41:50 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Visualizing 2.3 million Instagram photos from 13 global ciies - Phototrails project from softwarestudies.com New project from Software Studies Initiative: Phototrails (Phototrails.net) How do we explore social media's visual data which contains billions of photographs shared by hundreds of millions of contributors? What types of insights can we gain from analyzing this massive visual universe? Phototrails is a research project that uses media visualization techniques for exploring visual patterns, dynamics and structures in user-generated photos. Phototrails is a collaboration between Nadav Hochman (PhD student, History of Art and Architecture University of Pittsburgh),Lev Manovich (Professor, The Graduate Center, CUNY, and Director of Software Studies Initiative at Calit2), and Jay Chow (graduate of the Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts undergraduate program at UCSD). The team's findings are published in the July issue of First Monday (http://www.firstmonday.org), an open-access peer-reviewed journal. This is the first academic study to investigate Instagram's big visual data. The article analyzes and compares more than 2.3 million publicly shared Instagram photos from 13 cities such as New York, San Francisco, London and Tokyo. It also presents a detailed analysis of Instagram's interface. /Copyright © 2013 Software Studies Initiative, Calit2, All rights reserved./ Our mailing address is: Software Studies Initiative, Calit2 UCSD 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 47FBB3AFA; Thu, 4 Jul 2013 22:14:33 +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 1FFE13AEC; Thu, 4 Jul 2013 22:14:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CDCBA3AD5; Thu, 4 Jul 2013 22:14:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130704201422.CDCBA3AD5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 22:14:22 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.186 events: Digital Humanities Australasia; HathiTrust 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 186. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Senseney, Megan Finn" (22) Subject: Save the date! HTRC UnCamp, September 8-9, 2013 [2] From: Craig Bellamy (99) Subject: CFP: DIGITAL HUMANITIES AUSTRALASIA 2014: Expanding Horizons --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 21:55:32 +0000 From: "Senseney, Megan Finn" Subject: Save the date! HTRC UnCamp, September 8-9, 2013 In-Reply-To: <6FEEBCEA03E6E146A613342936F4403F79AD3A0C@CHIMBX1.ad.uillinois.edu> SAVE THE DATE! HathiTrust Research Center UnCamp A 1.5 Day Event September 8-9, 2013 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign http://illinois.edu/ I Hotel and Conference Center http://stayatthei.com/ Mark your calendars. HTRC is hosting its second annual HTRC UnCamp in September 2013 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 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. Who should attend? The HTRC UnCamp is targeted to the digital humanities tool developers, researchers and librarians of HathiTrust member institutions, and graduate students. Attendees will be asked for their input in planning sessions, so please 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. Additional information about the UnCamp will be posted to http://www.hathitrust.org/htrc_uncamp2013 as it becomes available. If you have questions or suggestions regarding the HTRC Uncamp please feel free to contact Megan Senseney, HTRC Project Coordinator, at mfsense2@illinois.edu or 217-244-5574. We look forward to seeing you in Champaign! -- 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/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 12:27:07 +1000 From: Craig Bellamy Subject: CFP: DIGITAL HUMANITIES AUSTRALASIA 2014: Expanding Horizons In-Reply-To: <6FEEBCEA03E6E146A613342936F4403F79AD3A0C@CHIMBX1.ad.uillinois.edu> Call for Papers, Posters and BoFs. DIGITAL HUMANITIES AUSTRALASIA 2014: Expanding Horizons The Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) is pleased to announce its second conference, to be held at The University of Western Australia, 18-21 March, 2014. The aim of DHA 2014 is to advance digital methods, tools and projects within humanities research and develop new critical perspectives. The conference will provide a supportive, interdisciplinary environment to explore and share new and advanced research within the digital humanities. The conference is sponsored by iVEC@UWA, The University of Western Australia, Edith Cowan University, Perth Convention Bureau, and the Australian Literature Westerly Centre, UWA. HIGHLIGHTS • CONFERENCE WEBSITE: http://dha2014.org • CALL FOR PROPOSALS CLOSES: 14 September 2013 • NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: 14 October 2013 • REGISTRATION NOW OPEN: http://payments.weboffice.uwa.edu.au/mech/DHA2014 PROPOSALS The conference will feature long and short papers, panels, posters and workshops, and informal ‘birds of a feather’ discussions. We invite proposals on all aspects of digital humanities, and especially encourage papers showcasing new research and developments in the field and/or responding to the conference themes. Proposals may focus on, but need not be limited to: 1. WORKING WITH TEXT such as; • Critical text editing and electronic editions • Digitisation, text encoding and analysis • Text mining in historical scholarship • Book history, and digitising the book • Computational stylistics and distant reading • Digital curation and archives for cultural materials 2. NEW MEDIA and the DIGITAL such as; • Computational approaches in new media and Internet studies • The digital in culture, creativity, arts, music, performance 3. METHODS, APPROACHES, USERS such as; • Crowd-sourcing scholarship in the humanities • Quantitative methods in humanities research • Code studies, and code in the humanities • Mapping and spatial visualisation • Human Computer Interaction (HCI) in digital humanities research • Gaming for learning, serious gaming, and game archiving • Archaeology using digital methods including marine archaeology 4. WORKING WITH DATA • Modelling humanities data • Linked Data and the humanities 5. BUILDING the DH COMMUNITY and PRESENCE • Measuring and valuing research in the digital humanities • Institutionalisation, interdisciplinarity and collaboration • Curriculum and pedagogy in the digital humanities • Virtual research environments in humanities research 6. INDIGENOUS AND CROSS-CULTURAL DIGITAL RESEARCH • Cross-cultural studies • International comparisons SUBMISSIONS Abstracts of no more than 600 words, together with a biography of no more than 100 words, should be submitted to the Program Committee by 14 September 2013. All proposals will be fully refereed. Proposals should be submitted via the online form at http://www.conftool.net/dha2014/ Please indicate whether you are proposing a poster, a short paper (10 mins + 5 mins questions), a long paper (25 mins + 5 mins questions), or birds of a feather session (60 mins). Proposals will be assessed in terms of alignment with the conference themes and the quality of research within these or related themes. Presenters will be notified of acceptance of their proposal on 14 October 2013. PROPOSAL TYPES 1. Poster presentations Poster presentations may include work-in-progress as well as demonstrations of computer technology, software and digital projects. A separate poster session will take place during one day of the conference, during which time presenters will need to be available to explain their work, share their ideas with other delegates, and answer questions. Presenters are encouraged to provide material and handouts with more detailed information and URLs. Poster guidelines are available on the conference website to help you prepare your poster. 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 25 minutes (plus 5 minutes for questions) and are intended for presenting substantial unpublished research and reporting on significant new digital resources or methodologies. 4. BoFs (Birds of a Feather sessions) are 60 minute sessions that should be used for guided discussions on one topic. BoFs are informal, open presentations for exploring key community issues and debates within the digital humanities. Do you have an issue to discuss or are unsure how to progress a tiopic? For example: • Digital humanities what are the risks and rewards? or • Digital humanities and computer science as an interdisciplinary challenge – where to from here? 60 minutes will be provided for each session. Each speaker will have a short time to present their points for discussion and the audience should also have an opportunity to comment (recommend allocation of up to 40% of the total time available). On behalf of the Program Committee Professor Hugh Craig, The University of Newcastle Dr Craig Bellamy, The University of Melbourne _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2FFB73AEC; Fri, 5 Jul 2013 22:57:11 +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 534BD3AE1; Fri, 5 Jul 2013 22:57:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0ED513AD5; Fri, 5 Jul 2013 22:56:59 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130705205700.0ED513AD5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 22:56:59 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.187 publisher's call for born-digital works X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 187. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 21:21:17 +0100 From: "James O'Sullivan" Subject: Publisher accepting born-digital works Dear all, I started a modest publishing project some months ago, and I am now looking to take some works of born-digital literature under the wing of my imprint, New Binary Press. My belief is that born digital works also benefit from having a publisher, to confirm that they have achieved a particular literary standard, and as a means of supporting their promotion and dissemination. Digital authors should not be *forced *to “self-publish”. By “digital literature”, I do not mean digital editions, but rather, as defined by N. Katherine Hayles, that which is “a first generation digital object created on a computer and (usually) meant to be read on a computer”. Submission details at http://newbinarypress.com/ All the best, 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/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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 339F63B99; Fri, 5 Jul 2013 23:00:39 +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 F41893B4D; Fri, 5 Jul 2013 23:00:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 889823AF7; Fri, 5 Jul 2013 23:00:28 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130705210028.889823AF7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 23:00:28 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.188 events: science & technology in contemporary British history; CIDOC/CRM X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 188. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Stephen Stead (27) Subject: Re: Linked Open Data ADHO Special Interest Group? [2] From: Peter Sutton (19) Subject: ICBH Summer Conference: Science and Technology in Contemporary British History --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 04:41:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Stephen Stead Subject: Re: Linked Open Data ADHO Special Interest Group? In-Reply-To: Michael Charno and myself are organizing the following workshop in Vienna as part of CHNT18 in November:- Belling the Cat: Making CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CRM) data available as Linked Open Data (LOD): A practical hands-on workshop of a complete solution using freeware Organizers: Stephen STEAD | Michael CHARNO, UK The mice meet in council to debate the problem of the new cat in the district. One suggests that a bell should be attached to the cat to give a warning. This is greeted with universal approval until someone asks “How?” Cultural Heritage Informatics specialists are often heard to say “just publish your CRM data as linked open data so that others can use it”, but how do we actually do that? This workshop aims to lead attendees through the process of taking an export of delimited text (ie. comma separated values) from their database, converting it to CRM compatible RDF triples and then making them available via a triple store for consumption by humans or machines as linked open data. The course will provide an introduction to linked open data and then will lead users through a cookbook of simple to follow techniques for creating and publishing it. All software used in the workshop will be freeware and runs on the free and open source operating system Linux. The software and operating system are uniquely capable of running on underpowered hardware, making deploying it simple even with limited support from an IT department or support services. The full set of software and guidelines will be available to attendees (if you bring a USB stick) This Workshop is supported by http://austria.emc.com/index.htm --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 11:21:47 +0100 From: Peter Sutton Subject: ICBH Summer Conference: Science and Technology in Contemporary British History In-Reply-To: "Science and Technology in Contemporary British History" Institute of Contemporary British History Summer Conference, 10-12 July 2013, King’s College London Speakers include: David Edgerton, Sally Horrocks, Abigail Wood, and scientists Peter Sanford & John Zarnecki. The Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture will be given on Thursday 11 July at 6pm by Joe Moran on ‘Vox Populi? The Recorded Voice and 20th Century British History’, followed by a reception. There will be an exhibition to accompany the conference including audio excerpts from our witness seminar archive on subjects such as Concorde, Skylark Sounding Rockets and North Sea Oil, and material from the King’s College Archive. See http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/ich/news/Conference2013.aspx for online booking and the full programme of speakers. Any problems please email icbhconference@gmail.com! Students/unwaged delegate fee: £10 per day or £25 for the three days; standard rate: £20 per day or £50 for three days. ---- Dr Peter Sutton KCL _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 366A63BF6; Fri, 5 Jul 2013 23:01:14 +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 925463BCB; Fri, 5 Jul 2013 23:01:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8681C3BA0; Fri, 5 Jul 2013 23:01:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130705210103.8681C3BA0@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 23:01:03 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.189 call for talks 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 189. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 11:20:31 +0100 From: Centre for e-Research Subject: Call for talk proposals: Centre for e-Research Seminar Series, Autumn 2013 Call for talk proposals: Centre for e-Research Seminar Series, Autumn 2013 The Centre for e-Research (CeRch) http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/index.aspx at the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London runs an interdisciplinary seminar programme on alternate Tuesday evenings during term time. We now invite proposals for presentations in the Autumn Term 2013 CeRch seminar series. Seminars can cover any topic within CeRch's areas of interest and expertise, including applied and theoretical papers and presentation of early results. See below for more details or visit the seminars web page http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/seminars/index.aspx . The call is open to all, including people at any stage in their academic career and those working outside academia, with the possibility to facilitate remote speakers. Seminars will be streamed live and published as online video after the event, unless the speaker requests otherwise. 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 to Anna Jordanous, via email to cerch@kcl.ac.uk by /Thursday 1st August 2013/. Seminars will take place on Tuesday 6.15pm-7.30pm, provisionally on 1st, 15th, 29th October, 12th, 26th November, 10th December 2013. Please indicate your availability for these dates in your submission email. We look forward to hearing from you. Regards, Anna Jordanous (CeRch) PS Apologies for any unwanted cross posting. Please do forward this to any people or groups you think may be interested. If you have any questions, please contact Anna Jordanous via the cerch@kcl.ac.uk email. --- *Centre for e-Research Seminar Series *The CeRch seminars provide a venue for discussion and engagment of a range of projects, applications, methods and theories spanning the Centre's academic interests in computing, library and archives research, digital culture, information science and digital scholarship. With viewpoints from many disciplines including the sciences, social sciences and humanities, the series' primary focus is to stimulate discussion and provide new and innovative insight into the design, development and use of digitally-based methods and technologies, especially where they interact with a range of other fields. Previous topics have included digital manuscript studies, visualisation, webometrics, computer art, motion data, and network analysis, among many others (details of recent seminars in this series can be seen at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/seminars/.) The series invites contributions for talks engaging with innovative e-research questions or applications. The series provides excellent networking opportunities, and will be of interest to anyone interested in debates around computing technologies. Seminars are held fortnightly on Tuesdays during term time at 6.15pm (unless otherwise stated) in the Anatomy Theatre & Museum, at King's College London, Strand Campus (http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/spaces/anatomy-museum.aspx). Seminars are followed by drinks and nibbles. /Twitter: @KingsCeRch hashtag: #cerchseminars/ -- Anna Jordanous Centre for e-Research, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, 26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C4C653B71; Sun, 7 Jul 2013 22:05:57 +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 1981A3AE1; Sun, 7 Jul 2013 22:05:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 669BA3AD5; Sun, 7 Jul 2013 22:05:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130707200546.669BA3AD5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 22:05:46 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.190 innovative & interactive applications for image databases? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 190. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 14:05:07 +0200 From: Jan Christoph Meister Subject: eFoto Hamburg: Request for information on innovative & interactive applications for image data bases eFoto is a new joint project of Hamburg University and the Department of Culture of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. The Department is currently building a substantial data base of digitalised images from various archives (museums, city building department, public history projects, libraries etc.) which our eFoto project aims to make accessible to citizens and researchers via the web. Our conceptual goal is to create the most participatory, collaborative and explorative "living culture" experience possible that will motivate users as well as providers of image data to become true stake holders and shapers of culture as a process, rather than just users of cultural content. We expect to have significant funds available for commissioning the development of applications. At current we are looking for anything from established, tried and tested best practice examples to the whackiest, most weird and wonderful ideas and applications, including of course social tagging, augmented reality & game based approaches, semantic network driven linking from image DBs to sound/video/text oriented DBs, recommender system apps, etc.. Pointers to relevant project sites and collections as well as classification and meta data schemes would also be greatly appreciated - and so would be any "wild dream app" that you can think of! In case you would prefer to respond off-list, please mail Mareike at mareike@hoeckendorff.com Many thanks! Chris *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1373112721_2013-07-06_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_20783.1.2.jpeg _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BA1103BF8; Sun, 7 Jul 2013 22:07:05 +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 C24AA3B99; Sun, 7 Jul 2013 22:06:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8F9F53B71; Sun, 7 Jul 2013 22:06:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130707200655.8F9F53B71@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 22:06:55 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.191 bursaries for the European Summer School (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. 27, No. 191. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2013 02:49:17 +0200 From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: ESU DH "Culture & Technology", 22 July - 2 August 2013 University of Leipzig - bursaries *"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 very happy to announce that thanks to a generous support from CLARIN-D we can now offer some travel / accommodation bursaries. To give interested people, who so far did not dare to apply because of financial reasons, a chance to do so now we extend the deadline for *applications to the 12**th of July 2013*. The 12th ad midnight the system will be definitely closed. *Please note*: applications for places and bursaries are considered on a rolling basis. Only people who have been attributed a place by the expert evaluators can register for the Summer School. Only registered participants can apply for a bursary. 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/node/230. *Accommodation*: As two important fairs take place in Leipzig at the same time as the Summer School, people who are interested in taking part in the Summer School are strongly advised to book / apply for a place in one of the comfortable but reasonably prized hostels or student residences as early as possible. For more information see http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/accommodation. *Certificate*: Participation in the summer school and the Workload will be certified. The Workload of the participation in one workshop, all the lectures and project presentations, the poster session, and the panel session taken together corresponds to 5 ECTS-Points. **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. In all this the Summer School also aims at confronting the so-called /Gender Divide/, i.e. the under-representation of women in the domain of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Germany and Europe. But, instead of strengthening the/ hard sciences /as such by following the way taken by so many measures which focus on the so-called STEM disciplines and try to convince women of the attractiveness and importance of Computer Science or Engineering, the Summer School relies on the challenges that the Humanities with their complex data and their wealth of women represent for Computer Science and Engineering and the further development of the latter, on the overcoming of the boarders between /hard/ and /soft sciences/ and on the integration of Humanities, Computer Science and Engineering. 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. *Workshops *(http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/226): * Computing Methods applied to DH: TEI-XML Markup and CSS/XSLT Rendering * Query in Text Corpora * Stylometry: Computer-Assisted Analysis of Literary Texts * Editing in the Digital Age: From Script, to Print, to Digital Page * 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. *Lectures *(http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/260): * Gregory Crane (Universität Leipzig, Germany / Tufts University Boston, USA): „Open Philology and a Global Dialogue among Civilizations“ * Ray Siemens (University of Victoria, Canada): „Perspectives on Knowledge Construction in the Humanities“ * Christof Schöch (Universität Würzburg, Germany): „Big? Long? Smart? Messy? Data in the Humanities“ * Manfred Thaller (Universität Köln, Germany): „Praising Imperfection: Why editions do not have to be finished“ * Jean Guy Meunier (Université du Québec à Montréal, Québec): „Reading and analyzing text in the digital world“ * Nicoletta Calzolari (CNR-ILC, Pisa, Italy): „Language resources and semantic web“ * Marco Büchler (Universität Leipzig, Germany): „Historical Text Re-use Detection: Behind the scene“ * Karina van Dalen-Oskam (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, The Hague, NL): „Helpful, Harmless or Heretical?“ *Project presentations: *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. *Panel discussion: *The Summer School will feature a panel discussion devoted to the question "Humanities, Libraries and Computer Science - How to Manage the Synergies and Antagonies?" For all the other 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.uni-leipzig.de/%7Eburr _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D18363BCB; Sun, 7 Jul 2013 22:38:44 +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 8303E3B8D; Sun, 7 Jul 2013 22:38:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 303513B4F; Sun, 7 Jul 2013 22:38:35 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130707203835.303513B4F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 22:38:35 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.192 Trilling's words? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 192. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 06:17:37 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Trilling's words This is a query about the actual source of a remembered quotation remembered to be from one of Lionel Trilling's essays. I'd be very grateful for an accurate pointer. It is something close to this: "Don't ask whether you like a book but whether the book likes you", and it likely occurs in the context of some of the great formidable people like Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Strindberg. In "On the teaching of modern literature", in Beyond Culture, Trilling remarks of the works he was teaching that, > [They] have been involved with me for a long time - I invert the > natural order not out of lack of modesty but taking the cue of W. H. > Auden's remark that a real book reads us. I have been read by Eliot's > poems and by Ulysses and by Remembrance of Things Past and by The > Castle for a good many years now, since early youth. Some of these > books at first rejected me; I bored them. But as I grew older and > they knew me better, they came to have more sympathy with me and to > understand my hidden meanings. Their nature is such that our > relationship has been very intimate. The quotation I am looking for is close to the above but this isn't it. Many thanks. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BCD523AE4; Mon, 8 Jul 2013 22:22:52 +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 8A8E63AD9; Mon, 8 Jul 2013 22:22:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 569A52D03; Mon, 8 Jul 2013 22:22:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130708202242.569A52D03@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 22:22:42 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.193 use of images: the Indian Memory 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 193. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 10:41:29 +0100 From: Padmini Ray Murray Subject: Re: 27.190 innovative & interactive applications for image databases? In-Reply-To: <20130707200546.669BA3AD5@digitalhumanities.org> You could take a look at the Indian Memory Project, a wonderful initiative run single-handedly by photographer Anusha Yadav: http://www.indianmemoryproject.com/. All best, Padmini --- Dr Padmini Ray Murray | Lecturer, Publishing Studies | Stirling Centre for International Publishing and Communication | Department of English Studies | Room B1, Pathfoot Building | University of Stirling | Stirling FK9 4LA, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1786 467514 | http://www.publishing.stir.ac.uk ________________________________________ On 7 Jul 2013, at 21:06, "Humanist Discussion Group" > wrote: Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 190. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 14:05:07 +0200 From: Jan Christoph Meister > Subject: eFoto Hamburg: Request for information on innovative & interactive applications for image data bases eFoto is a new joint project of Hamburg University and the Department of Culture of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. The Department is currently building a substantial data base of digitalised images from various archives (museums, city building department, public history projects, libraries etc.) which our eFoto project aims to make accessible to citizens and researchers via the web. Our conceptual goal is to create the most participatory, collaborative and explorative "living culture" experience possible that will motivate users as well as providers of image data to become true stake holders and shapers of culture as a process, rather than just users of cultural content. We expect to have significant funds available for commissioning the development of applications. At current we are looking for anything from established, tried and tested best practice examples to the whackiest, most weird and wonderful ideas and applications, including of course social tagging, augmented reality & game based approaches, semantic network driven linking from image DBs to sound/video/text oriented DBs, recommender system apps, etc.. Pointers to relevant project sites and collections as well as classification and meta data schemes would also be greatly appreciated - and so would be any "wild dream app" that you can think of! In case you would prefer to respond off-list, please mail Mareike at mareike@hoeckendorff.com Many thanks! Chris *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1373112721_2013-07-06_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_20783.1.2.jpeg _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B64313B99; Mon, 8 Jul 2013 22:24:23 +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 228893AC9; Mon, 8 Jul 2013 22:24:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8350A3AC9; Mon, 8 Jul 2013 22:24:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130708202412.8350A3AC9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 22:24:12 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.194 Europeana? Manifesto from young researchers? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 194. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Mareike Koenig (17) Subject: Young researchers in Digital Humanities: A Manifesto [2] From: Leif Isaksen (10) Subject: EuropeanaCloud Web Survey --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 11:00:38 +0200 From: Mareike Koenig Subject: Young researchers in Digital Humanities: A Manifesto On 10-11 June 2013 scholars and other members of the academic community met at the German Historical Institute in Paris to participate in the international conference "Research Conditions and Digital Humanities: What are the Prospects for the Next Generation? http://dhdhi.hypotheses.org/1704 ". The conference was preceded by an open "call to join the blogparade", that is to publish online contributions, in order to collectively and publicly prepare the event. The manifesto that has now been published, is the result of this process. It emphasises the most important aspects of the challenges and the most pressing institutional needs. You can find the text here: http://dhdhi.hypotheses.org/1855 To support the manifesto, please leave a comment and sign it. Feel free to leave additional comment and personal testimony in your messages. And please spread the word! Thank you, Mareike König Dr. Mareike König Bibliotheksleiterin / Leiterin Abteilung 19. Jahrhundert E-Mail: MKoenig@dhi-paris.fr Twitter: mareike2405 Durchwahl: +33 (0)1 44 54 51 62 ----------------------------------------------------- [cid:image001.jpg@01CE7BCA.3DF15740] Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris Institut historique allemand 8 rue du Parc-Royal, F-75003 Paris www.dhi-paris.fr http://www.dhi-paris.fr/ - www.facebook.com/dhi.paris - @dhiparis --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 17:02:50 +0100 From: Leif Isaksen Subject: EuropeanaCloud Web Survey Dear all, If you have a few spare minutes, please consider responding to the EuropeanaCloud Web Survey which will help facilitate access to Europeana and The European Library by getting a better understanding of how researchers interact with these important resources. http://surveys.dcu.gr/index.php/survey/index/sid/423471/newtest/Y/lang/en Best wishes Leif ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Agiati Benardou Date: Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 1:44 PM _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A88063BF8; Mon, 8 Jul 2013 22:24:56 +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 CB36F3BEB; Mon, 8 Jul 2013 22:24:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 12BE33BCB; Mon, 8 Jul 2013 22:24:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130708202447.12BE33BCB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 22:24:46 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.195 the 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. 27, No. 195. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 14:22:11 -0400 From: Dot Porter Subject: Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA) Launches In-Reply-To: We are pleased to announce that the MESA federated search is live at http://www.mesa-medieval.org The Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (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. Read about MESA, click through to the Advanced Search, create an account, add some tags, join in (or start) a discussion! Many thanks to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for funding, to the MESA Steering Committee for steering us through the implementation process, to our project partners for agreeing to have their projects and collections included in the first iteration of MESA, and to all the medievalists who have expressed support and interest through the last year. Any comments, thoughts, or criticism, please contact us at mesa.medieval@gmail.com. Most Sincerely, Tim Stinson and Dot Porter, MESA co-directors -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter@gmail.com Personal blog: dotporterdigital.org Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance: http://www.mesa-medieval.org MESA blog: http://mesamedieval.wordpress.com/ MESA on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MedievalElectronicScholarlyAlliance *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D099B3C08; Mon, 8 Jul 2013 22:27:31 +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 65C433BF9; Mon, 8 Jul 2013 22:27:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1FDD03AC9; Mon, 8 Jul 2013 22:27:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130708202721.1FDD03AC9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 22:27:21 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.196 events: ancient space; stylometry X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 196. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Munson, Matthew" (14) Subject: Stylometry with R Workshop, Sept. 23-25, 2013, Goettingen Centre for Digital Humanities [2] From: Tom Brughmans (80) Subject: Reminder: Hestia2 seminar 18 July --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 09:47:33 +0000 From: "Munson, Matthew" Subject: Stylometry with R Workshop, Sept. 23-25, 2013, Goettingen Centre for Digital Humanities Dear Humanists, The Goettingen Centre for Digital Humanities (http://www.gcdh.de/en/) is pleased to announce its next digital text analysis workshop, the 3-day workshop "Stylometry with R" on September 23-25, 2013, in Goettingen, Germany. The workshop will be given by Jan Rybicki and Maciej Eder (https://sites.google.com/site/computationalstylistics/). And best of all, generous funding from the 2013 ALLC (now EADH) Assisted Workshop programme has allowed us to waive any participation fee. You can find more information about this workshop at http://www.gcdh.de/en/events/calendar-view/stylometry-with-r-workshop/. For registration requests or questions, please contact Matt Munson at mmunson@gcdh.de. We look forward to seeing you in September in Goettingen! Best, Matt Munson --- Matthew Munson Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (GCDH) Papendiek 16 37073 Göttingen GERMANY +49 (0)551-39-10 997 www: http://www.gcdh.de/en/people/team/matthew_munson/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 05:11:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Brughmans Subject: Reminder: Hestia2 seminar 18 July This is a kind reminder of “HESTIA2: Exploring spatial networks through ancient sources”, a one-day seminar on spatial network analysis and linked data in Classical studies, archaeology and cultural heritage. There are still a few places available for this seminar, register soon via: http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/hestia-2013/ The seminar will be held at The University of Southampton on 18 July. Registration for this event is free, but we do recommend registering as early as possible since the number of available places is limited. More information, including abstracts and registration, can be found via the following link: http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/hestia-2013/ We are looking forward to welcoming you to Southampton! Elton Barker, Stefan Bouzarovski, Leif Isaksen and Tom Brughmans ----- HESTIA2: Exploring spatial networks through ancient sources Spatial relationships appear throughout 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, spatial relationships become ever more difficult to disentangle. Network visualization and analysis allow us to address such spatial relationships explicitly and directly. This seminar aims to explore the potential of these innovative techniques for research in the higher education, public and cultural heritage sectors. 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 initiative ‘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. Preliminary programme: 11:00                     Registration and coffee 11:30                     HESTIA-team                                 Welcome and introduction to HESTIA and HESTIA2 12:00                     Maximilian Schich (The University of Texas at Dallas)                                 Topography and Topology: Towards common ground in archaeological research 12:25                     Alex Godden (Hampshire County Council)                                 Historic Environment Records: New ways of looking for the past 12:50                     John Goodwin (Ordnance Survey)                                 Ordnance Survey and Linked Data 13:15                     Discussion 13:35                     Tea and coffee break 13:55                     Terhi Nurmikko (University of Southampton)                                 “To survey the land, he left his city” and other proverbs: Mapping ancient Mesopotamia from cuneiform inscriptions 14:20                     Kate Byrne (University of Edinburgh)                                 Geoparsing and spatial network analysis in the GAP projects 14:45                     Giorgio Uboldi (Politecnico di Milano)                                 Knot: an Interface for the Study of Social Networks in the Humanities 15:10                     Discussion 15:35                     Tea and coffee break 16:00                     Keith May (English Heritage)                                 Exploring the Use of Semantic Technologies for Cross-Search of Archaeological Grey Literature and Data 16:25                     Paul Cripps (University of Glamorgan)                                 GeoSemantic Technologies for Archaeological Resources _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AE74E5EB7; Mon, 8 Jul 2013 22:28:41 +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 E217E3C0D; Mon, 8 Jul 2013 22:28:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 70A133C02; Mon, 8 Jul 2013 22:28:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130708202831.70A133C02@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 22:28:31 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.197 pubs: art teaching; 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. 27, No. 197. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (19) Subject: Art Teaching for a New Age [2] From: Neil Coffee (24) Subject: DCA 2013 Conference Video --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 05:56:12 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Art Teaching for a New Age Sean T. Buffington, "Art Teaching for a New Age", Chronicle of Higher Education, 8 July 2013. (chronicle.com/article/Art-Teaching-for-a-New-Age/140117/?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en) In arts education, something profound is happening that will force us to rethink what and how we teach. Art making has changed radically in recent years. Artists have become increasingly interested in crossing disciplinary boundaries—choreographers use video, sculpture, and text; photographers create "paintings" with repurposed textiles. New technologies enable new kinds of work, like interactive performances with both live and Web-based components. International collaboration has become de rigueur. Art and design pervade the culture—witness popular television programs like Top Design, Ink Master, and—the granddaddy of them all—Project Runway. And policy makers and businesspeople have embraced at least the idea of the so-called creative economy, with cities rushing to establish arts districts, and business schools collaborating with design schools. [...] -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 10:05:04 -0400 From: Neil Coffee Subject: DCA 2013 Conference Video In-Reply-To: <003401ce7be1$b57254b0$2056fe10$@buffalo.edu> Dear list members, Video of the 2013 Digital Classics Association conference is now posted on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/TheTesseraeProject and accessible through the conference website http://classics.buffalo.edu/events/dcaconference/ , which has a program http://classics.buffalo.edu/events/dcaconference/program.shtml that can serve as a guide. Best wishes, Neil http://www.classics.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/neil_coffee/ Neil Coffee Associate Professor and Chair Department of Classics University at Buffalo, SUNY 338 MFAC Buffalo, NY 14261 (716) 645-0452 http://www.classics.buffalo.edu/ http://www.classics.buffalo.edu/ http://tesserae.caset.buffalo.edu/ http://tesserae.caset.buffalo.edu/ http://dca.drupalgardens.com/ http://dca.drupalgardens.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9C6453C07; Tue, 9 Jul 2013 23:03:54 +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 DE0893BE2; Tue, 9 Jul 2013 23:03:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 063E03BE2; Tue, 9 Jul 2013 23:03:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130709210341.063E03BE2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 23:03:40 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.198 use of images 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. 27, No. 198. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 06:06:35 -0700 (PDT) From: { brad brace } Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.193 use of images: the 12hr project In-Reply-To: <20130708202242.569A52D03@digitalhumanities.org> _ |__ __| | /_ |__ \| | | __| | | | (_) | | __/ (__| |_ __ | | | | | | __/ | |/ /_| | | | | _ | | | '_ \ / _ \ | | / /| '_ \| '__| The 12hr-ISBN-JPEG Project >>>> posted since 1994 <<<< _ | | | '_ \ / _ \ | | / /| '_ \| '__| -_ | | | |__ ___ | | ) | |__ _ __ _ | __ \ (_) | | "A compassionate observer, { brad brace } forges a personal aesthetic in these 12hr-images infused with blank-sadness and a sense of mystery. What makes them both new and significant is the fact that he organizes its contents in sequences, applying the principles of cinematographic montage to fixed images." Immaculate Perception: to be happy in gazing: with dead will, free from the grip and greed of selfishness -- cold and ashy-grey all over, but with intoxicated moon-eyes... Extraordinary Rendition. Manifest Destiny. Abyssal Plain. You begin to sense the byshadows that stretch from the awe of global dominance. How the intersecting systems help pull us apart, leaving us vague, drained, docile, soft in our inner discourse, willing to be shaped, to be overwhelmed -- easy retreats, half beliefs. Works of art are complex formal interventions within discursive traditions and their myriad filiations. These interventions are defined precisely by their incomparable capacity to trace the dynamics of historical process in paradoxical gestures of simultaneously prognostic and mnemonic temporalities. | __| | | | (_) | | __/ (__| |_ _ | | | '_ \ / _ \ | | / /| '_ \| '__| _| |__) | __ ___ _ ___ ___| |_ |_ ___/ '__/ _ \| |/ _ \/ __| __| |_| _ |_| \___/| |\___|\___|\__| _ _/ | _ |__/ > > > > Synopsis: The 12hr-ISBN-JPEG Project began December 30, 1994. A `round-the-clock posting of sequenced hypermodern imagery from { brad brace }. The hypermodern minimizes the familiar, the known, the recognizable; it suspends identity, relations and history. This discourse, far from determining the locus in which it speaks, is avoiding the ground on which it could find support. It is trying to operate a decentering that leaves no privilege to any center. The 12-hour ISBN JPEG Project ----------------------------- began December 30, 1994 Pointless Hypermodern Imagery... posted/mailed every 12 hours... a spectral, trajective alignment for the 00`s! A continuum of minimalist masks in the face of catastrophe; conjuring up transformative metaphors for the everyday... A poetic reversibility of exclusive events: visual haiku... A post-rhetorical, continuous, apparently random sequence of imagery... genuine gritty, greyscale... corruptable, compact, collectable and compelling convergence. The vernacular voluptuousness of the grey imminence: the art of making the other disappear. Continual visual impact; an optical drumming, sculpted in duration, on the endless present of the Net. An extension of the printed ISBN-Book (0-9690745) series... critically unassimilable... imagery is gradually acquired, selected and re-sequenced over time... ineluctable, vertiginous connections. The 12hr dialtone... [ see http://www.eskimo.com/~bbrace/netcom/books.txt ] KEYWORDS: >> Disconnected, disjunctive, distended, de-centered, de-composed, ambiguous, augmented, ambilavent, homogeneous, reckless, spontaneous... >> Multi-faceted mandala, meditative, metaphysical, oblique, obsessive, obscure, obdurate, unfocused-attention, all-inclusive ground: god... >> Promulgated, personal, permeable, prolonged, polymorphous, provocative, poetic, plural, perverse, potent, prophetic, pathological, pointless, private, peripheral, precocious, porous, placeholders... >> Robust, real, redundant, resplendent, revolutionary, redeeming... >> Emergent, evolving, eccentric, eclectic, egregious, eternal, exciting, entertaining, evasive, entropic, erotic, entrancing, enduring, ergodic, expansive, exhaustive, encyclopedic, enlinked, enlaced, enamoured... Every 12 hours, another!... view them, re-post `em, save `em, trade `em, print `em, even publish them... Here`s how: ~ Set www-links to -> http://www.eskimo.com/~bbrace/12hr.html -> http://bradbrace.net/12hr.html -> http://bbrace.net/12hr.html -> twitter, facebook, flickr, tumblr, posterous, delicious Look for the 12-hr-icon. Heavy traffic may require you to specify files more than once! Anarchie, Fetch, CuteFTP, TurboGopher... ~ Download from -> ftp.rdrop.com /pub/users/bbrace Download from -> ftp.eskimo.com /home/bbrace Download from -> hotline://artlyin.ftr.va.com.au Download from -> http://12hr.noemata.net/ * Remember to set tenex or binary. Get 12hr.jpeg ~ E-mail -> If you only have access to email, then you can use FTPmail to do essentially the same thing. Send a message with a body of 'help' to the server address nearest you: * ftpmail@ccc.uba.ar ftpmail@cs.uow.edu.au ftpmail@ftp.uni-stuttgart.de ftpmail@ftp.Dartmouth.edu ftpmail@ieunet.ie ftpmail@src.doc.ic.ac.uk ftpmail@archie.inesc.pt ftpmail@ftp.sun.ac.za ftpmail@ftp.sunet.se ftpmail@ftp.luth.se ftpmail@NCTUCCCA.edu.tw ftpmail@oak.oakland.edu ftpmail@sunsite.unc.edu ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com ftpmail@census.gov bitftp@plearn.bitnet bitftp@dearn.bitnet bitftp@vm.gmd.de bitftp@plearn.edu.pl bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu bitftp@pucc.bitnet * * ~ Mirror-sites requested! Archives too! The latest new jpeg will always be named, 12hr.jpeg Average size of images is only 45K. * Perl program to mirror ftp-sites/sub-directories: src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/packages/mirror * ~ Postings to usenet newsgroups: 12hr alt.12hr alt.binaries.pictures.12hr alt.binaries.pictures.misc alt.binaries.pictures.fine-art.misc * * Ask your system's news-administrator to carry these groups! (There are also usenet image browsers: TIFNY, PluckIt, Picture Agent, PictureView, Extractor97, NewsRover, Binary News Assistant, EasyNews) * * A secondary stream of the sequenced imagery is now uploaded/repeated: about a thousand scans behind for those missing earlier offerings. ~ This interminable, relentless (online) sequence of imagery began in earnest on December 30, 1994. The basic structure of the project has been over thirty years in the making. While the specific sequence of photographs has been presently orchestrated for many years` worth of 12-hour postings, I will undoubtedly be tempted to tweak the ongoing publication with additional new interjected imagery. Each 12-hour image is like the turning of a page; providing ample time for reflection, interruption, and assimilation. ~ The sites listed above also contain information on other cultural projects and sources. ~ A very low-volume, moderated mailing list for announcements and occasional commentary related to this project has been established. To subscribe to 12-list, simply send a message with the word "subscribe" in the Subject: field to 12-list-request@eskimo.com -- The image was to make nothing visible but their connection with one another by space and air, yet each surrounded by the unique aura that disengages every deeply seen image from the world of irrelevant relationships and calls forth a tremor of astonishment at its fateful necessity. Thus from artworks of dead masters, over-life-size strangeness whose names we do not know and do not wish to know, look out at us enigmatically as symbols of all being. -- Big Grey Bricks: This project also serves as a rehearsal for its culmination as a series of offset-printed volumes: each 800+ full-bleed pages (5x8"_300lpi), where the full integrated rhythm of greyscale-sequence can be more intricately resolved. I'd provide all design, prepress and production. The tonality of the imagery is important; these 12hr-jpegs scanned from film-prints are quick approximations for an institutionally unsupported outcome. -- This project remains untainted by corrupt corporate and glib government art-subsidies. Some opportunities still exist for financially assisting the publication of editions of large (33x46") prints; perhaps (Iris giclees) inkjet duotones or extended-black quadtones with diasec on dibond mount. Other supporters receive rare copies of the first three web-offset printed ISBN-Books. Contributions and requests for 12hr-email-subscriptions, can also be made at http://bradbrace.net/buy-into.html, or by mailed cheque/check: $5/mo $50/yr. Art-institutions must pay $12K for each image retained longer than 12 hours. Should this work be exhibited, the curator/administrators must be crammed naked in an open metal cage and mercilessly poked with sharp sticks for the duration of the installation. -- ISBN is International Standard Book Number. JPEG and GIF are types of image files. Get the text-file, 'pictures-faq' to learn how to view or translate these images. [http://www.eskimo.com/~bbrace/netcom/pictures -faq.html] -- (c) Credit appreciated. Copyleft 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id F15DA3C12; Tue, 9 Jul 2013 23:08:05 +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 98DA23BE2; Tue, 9 Jul 2013 23:07:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D69312E1B; Tue, 9 Jul 2013 23:07:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130709210755.D69312E1B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 23:07:55 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.199 job at Colorado-Boulder; replacement for Early Modern 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. 27, No. 199. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Lori Emerson (120) Subject: job opening: Digital Archivist at University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries [2] From: Giovanni Colavizza (11) Subject: SCSC Early Modern Digital Humanities - replacement --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 14:36:33 -0600 From: Lori Emerson Subject: job opening: Digital Archivist at University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries Dear all, I’m thrilled the University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries has decided to hire a Digital Archivist, hopefully one who will work with the Media Archaeology Lab (http://mediaarchaeologylab.com). Please apply or pass on this job description to any qualified individuals. The job posting is available below and here: http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/about/jobDigitalArchivist.htm yours, Lori Emerson ----- Digital Archivist The University of Colorado Boulder Libraries invites applications from innovative and creative individuals for the position of Digital Archivist. This is a tenure-stream faculty position reporting to the Director of Archives & Special Collections (ASC). Duties for this critical position include leading efforts to preserve, describe, and provide access to born-digital archival and special collections materials; developing processes for archiving and preserving born-digital materials including email, Web sites, social media, and other digital primary materials acquired on a variety of current or legacy formats such as tape, floppy disks, hard drives, and mobile devices; acquiring and maintaining legacy hardware and software that may be necessary for providing access to digital materials; developing and documenting procedures (and building infrastructure) for the acquisition of born-digital collections and electronic records and for the routine migration of materials to maintain formatting compatibility with Libraries IT software and hardware; providing digital program development, guidance in best practices for data management, training and development for library personnel and campus departments as needed; and delivering born-digital content to external discovery and delivery mechanisms in collaboration with specialists in cataloging and metadata, information technology, and scholarly communications. The digital archivist will serve as an expert in assessing digital content storage needs and will implement appropriate tools and procedures to accomplish these aims. The successful candidate will assist with the research and implementation of information architecture, coding standards, and emerging technologies as well as participate in the development of controlled vocabulary, metadata structures, and crosswalk of metadata to ArchivesSpace. The position includes significant responsibilities for research, creative work, and service in keeping with the tenure standards of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Requirements Please address each of these qualifications in your application materials: Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science from an ALA-accredited institution or equivalent advanced degree; Strong knowledge of forensic technologies utilized by the archival or cultural heritage communities for harvesting, managing, and preserving born-digital archival and manuscript material; Demonstrated problem solving skills; Knowledge of legal and ethical issues affecting digital archival and special collections objects; Knowledge of current trends, tools, and protocols in digital archiving and preservation; Understanding of principles and techniques for archiving of websites, email, social media, and other online primary sources; Familiarity with metadata standards relevant to the archival control of digital collection materials such as EAD, Dublin Core, MODS and PREMIS; Demonstrated ability to work independently and collaboratively; Excellent organizational skills and ability to plan, coordinate, and implement complex projects; Excellent oral and written communication skills; Potential for research, scholarly work, and professional achievement. Desirable qualifications At least two years of relevant experience in an archival repository or similar cultural setting, including working with born digital materials; Strong knowledge of XML and related technologies (especially XSLT, XSL-FO) and one or more relevant programming languages (Ruby, Python, Perl, etc.); Familiarity with OAIS standards, TRAC principles, and best practices in assessment of needs and development of workflows in digital preservation strategies; Familiarity with experimental media and/or digital humanities; Demonstrated supervisory success. Appointment and Salary: The successful candidate will be appointed as a full-time (12 month), tenure-stream faculty member. Depending upon professional experience and demonstrated accomplishments in scholarly activity, creative work, and service, appointment may be made at the senior instructor or assistant professor level. Benefits include 22 working days of vacation; 10 paid holidays; liberal sick leave; excellent University group health care plans; group life insurance; a variety of retirement/annuity plans; and support for scholarly/professional activities. Tenured faculty members are eligible for sabbatical leave. Application Process: Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. It is recommended that applications be submitted by July 15, 2013 in order to receive full consideration. Application must be made online at http://www.jobsatcu.com/postings/67062, and must include a letter of application specifically addressing qualifications for the position; CV or resume; and names with postal addresses, email, and telephone numbers of three references. Questions may be directed to Dylan Wiersma, Search Coordinator, at Dylan.Wiersma@Colorado.EDU. The full position description can be viewed at http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/about/jobDigitalArchivist. The candidates selected for this position must be able to meet eligibility requirements to work in the United States at the time the appointment is scheduled to begin. The University of Colorado is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building a diverse workforce. We encourage applications from women, racial and ethnic minorities, individuals with disabilities, and veterans. Alternative formats of this ad can be provided upon request for individuals with disabilities by contacting the ADA Coordinator at hr-ada@colorado.edu. In addition, the University of Colorado is committed to providing a safe and productive learning and living community. To achieve that goal, we conduct background investigations for all final applicants being considered for employment. Background investigations include reference checks, a criminal history record check, and, when appropriate, a financial and/or motor vehicle history. -- Lori Emerson Assistant Professor | Director, Media Archaeology Lab Department of English, University of Colorado at Boulder Hellems 101, 226 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0226 http://loriemerson.net --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 20:12:07 +0200 From: Giovanni Colavizza Subject: SCSC Early Modern Digital Humanities - replacement Dear all, I am looking for a replacement for my spot at the Sixteen Century Society and Conference (24-27 October, San Juan, Puerto Rico: http://www.sixteenthcentury.org/). Specifically, as part of a series of 5 panels: the title and argument is Early Modern Digital Humanities (see attached summary). Should you be interested, please get in touch with me or Dr. Colin Wilder ( WILDERCF@mailbox.sc.edu). Thanks! Giovanni *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1373393821_2013-07-09_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_17397.2.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E28F85EC8; Tue, 9 Jul 2013 23:08:52 +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 366845EB6; Tue, 9 Jul 2013 23:08:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B5DE43C09; Tue, 9 Jul 2013 23:08:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130709210842.B5DE43C09@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 23:08:42 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.200 DH2013 news: ADHO/centerNet AGM X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 200. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 11:45:30 -0400 From: Neil Fraistat Subject: ADHO/centerNet AGM at DH 2013 Dear all, ADHO http://www.adho.org/ and centerNet http://digitalhumanities.org/centernet/ invite all members of ADHO constituent organizations to attend a joint Annual General Meeting (AGM) as part of the Digital Humanities 2013 conference. The AGM will take place on Friday, July 19th from 12:00 - 1:30pm, with a focus on two new international DH initiatives, GO::DH and DH Commons. It will end with a “SIG Slam,” where those interested in starting an ADHO Special Interest Group will be able to give one-minute pitches and then meet in small groups with others interested in working with them. After a few business announcements, the session will begin with a presentation by Ryan Cordell and Isabel Galina, who along with Laurent Romary are the Co-Editors-in-Chief of centerNet’s new publication, DHCommons, an overlay journal for peer reviewing digital humanities projects that will launch in the coming year. Following Ryan and Isabel will be Dan O’Donnell and Alex Quinn, who will be presenting on Global Outlook:: Digital Humanities http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/ , ADHO’s first sponsored special interest group. The final 20 minutes of the AGM will feature ADHO’s first “SIG Slam.” Some potential SIGs already suggested include: DH and Libraries, DH and Linked Open Data, DH and Bioinformatics, DH and Postcolonialism, DH and Small Liberal Arts Colleges, DH and Social Justice, DH and Born Digital Preservation, and DH and Disability. There will be 50 box lunches available on a first come, first serve basis. We hope to see you there! 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id F2A305EF6; Tue, 9 Jul 2013 23:09:26 +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 A6A685EC8; Tue, 9 Jul 2013 23:09:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 57A275EC8; Tue, 9 Jul 2013 23:09:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130709210916.57A275EC8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 23:09:16 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.201 events: document engineering X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 201. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 11:55:20 +0200 From: Tamir Hassan Subject: DocEng 2013 - Registration now open ACM DocEng 2013 – Registration now open - Early Bird registration closes July 26. Registration is now open for DocEng 2013, the 13th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering being held in Florence, Italy, Sept. 10-13, 2013. Full details of the symposium including registration details are available at the conference website http://www.doceng2013.org The conference includes: * Three pre-conference workshops, held on Tuesday, September 10 * Two invited keynote addresses, to be given by acknowledged research leaders in the field. * A full technical program of submitted contributions – full and short papers, posters, demos. * A social event (to be announced) * The opportunity to meet and discuss with colleagues in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Please register soon – Early Bird registration, with reduced registration fees, is available until July 26. We look forward to meeting you at DocEng 2013. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent by Tamir Hassan Publicity Chair, DocEng 2013 University of Konstanz, 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AB30B3C0F; Wed, 10 Jul 2013 22:12:41 +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 5CED73B99; Wed, 10 Jul 2013 22:12:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 03B953C04; Wed, 10 Jul 2013 22:12:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130710201228.03B953C04@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 22:12:27 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.202 jobs at Amsterdam, Ryerson (Toronto) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 202. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Sally Wyatt (8) Subject: visiting fellowships in Computational Humanities, Amsterdam, deadline 1 November [2] From: Ray Siemens (83) Subject: Tier 2 CRCs in Big Data Analytics - Ryerson University --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 15:06:56 +0200 From: Sally Wyatt Subject: visiting fellowships in Computational Humanities, Amsterdam, deadline 1 November Visiting fellowships in Computational Humanities, based at the eHumanities Group, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Applications for 2014 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.knaw.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 1 November 2013. 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. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:28:26 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Tier 2 CRCs in Big Data Analytics - Ryerson University In-Reply-To: <244FC31DCC224B41B68E7204D0E06F15@LauraPC> From RyersonBigDataCRCs@lavernesmith.com Tier 2 Canada Research Chairs in Big Data Analytics Ryerson University invites applications for two Tier 2 Canada Research Chairs in Big Data Analytics: one focused on the technical aspects of Big Data, and one focused on applications and implications of Big Data in industry, government, health care, education and/or social services. Located in downtown Toronto, Ryerson University is Canada's leader in innovative, career-oriented education and a university clearly on the move. With a mission to serve societal need, and a long-standing commitment to engaging its community, Ryerson offers more than 100 undergraduate and graduate programs. Distinctly urban, culturally diverse and inclusive, the University has more than 38,900 students, including 2,300 master's and PhD students, nearly 2,700 faculty and staff, and more than 140,000 alumni worldwide. Research at Ryerson is on a trajectory of success and growth: externally funded research has doubled in the past four years. Ryerson has more than 125 innovative research centres, institutes, and labs across a wide range of disciplines, and it is home to 12 Canada Research Chairs. Guided by a bold Academic Plan and a recent Master Plan to revitalize the campus and surrounding neighbourhood, Ryerson is a comprehensive university with a significant profile in higher education, and a strong reputation with national business, government, community, and industrial leaders. For more information, please visit www.ryerson.ca. The Canada Research Chairs program was established by the Government of Canada to enable Canadian universities to achieve the highest levels of research excellence in the global, knowledge-based economy. Tier 2 Chairs have five year terms, renewable once, and are intended for exceptional emerging scholars (less than 10 years post-PhD) who have the acknowledged potential to lead their research field. Information about the CRC program can be found at www.chairs.gc.ca. Collecting, aggregating, analyzing, and interpreting today’s vast amounts of information is the challenge of Big Data, which is the focus of two new multidisciplinary Canada Research Chairs at Ryerson. Ryerson already has a number of scholars who are interfacing with industry to work on Big Data problems in a variety of disciplines including mathematics, computer science, engineering, science, information systems, business analytics, finance, marketing, social media, decision sciences, digital humanities, geographic information systems, policy, law and more. Ryerson is also a node of the High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory and home to the new Centre for Cloud and Context-Aware Computing, so opportunities for collaboration and the infrastructure to support those efforts are abundant. The new Canada Research Chairs will serve as a focal point for building capacity to use Big Data techniques to support research across disciplines and to inform curriculum development. Successful candidates will have original, innovative and high quality research programs that fit with an emphasis on Big Data analytics and Ryerson’s research themes and support Ryerson’s commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion in scholarship, pedagogy, and curriculum. For Ryerson University’s research strategy, please visit www.ryerson.ca/research/SRC%20Strategic%20Plan%202010-2013.pdf Areas of research for the technical aspects/challenges CRC may include distributed computing, algorithm development, integrated systems, network and database architecture, and storage. The applications CRC will research and utilize Big Data techniques to innovatively and creatively address the implications and applications of Big Data in industry, government, health care and/or social services. Both CRC holders will be well-established in terms of top tier publications and research funding, with the capacity to liaise with industry and create collaborative research programs within this highly cross-disciplinary field. Candidates will be appointed at the Assistant or Associate Professor rank and will likely be cross-appointed to various faculties on campus, including the Faculties of Science, Engineering and Architectural Science, Arts, and the Ted Rogers School of Management. The successful applicant will develop with Ryerson University the Canada Research Chair application for the October 2013 deadline, with the goal of joining the University in July 2014. Ryerson University is strongly committed to fostering diversity within our community. We welcome those who would contribute to the further diversification of our staff, our faculty and its scholarship including, but not limited to, women, visible minorities, Aboriginal people, persons with disabilities, and persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity. Please note that all qualified candidates are encouraged to apply, but applications from Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. Applications should include a letter of interest (incorporating a brief (1-2 page) five year research program plan and a record of teaching effectiveness), curriculum vitae, and the names of three references (who will not be contacted without consent of the candidate) and may be forwarded electronically, in confidence, until July 31st to: Laverne Smith & Associates Inc. 1 Yonge Street, Suite 1801 Toronto, Ontario M5E 1W7 RyersonBigDataCRCs@lavernesmith.com *** Attachments:http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1373486222_2013-07-10_siemens@uvic.ca_28444.2.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A96F95EBB; Wed, 10 Jul 2013 22:15:12 +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 3D5623C10; Wed, 10 Jul 2013 22:15:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DE5FF3C0F; Wed, 10 Jul 2013 22:15:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130710201501.DE5FF3C0F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 22:15:01 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.203 events: art history; epigraphy, archaeology, edition of Augustine; 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. 27, No. 203. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Gabriel Bodard (51) Subject: Digital Epigraphy and Archaeology *and* Towards a digital edition of Augustine (2 seminars) [2] From: "Green, Harriett E" (15) Subject: Hathi Trust Research Center focus groups at DH 2013 and JCDL 2013 [3] From: "Quinn, Kelly" (24) Subject: CFP: American Art History and Digital Scholarship: New Avenues of Exploration Nov 15-16 2013 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 12:52:44 +0100 From: Gabriel Bodard Subject: Digital Epigraphy and Archaeology *and* Towards a digital edition of Augustine (2 seminars) Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2013 Friday July 12 at 16:30 in room STB2, Stewart House, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU 16:30 Eleni Bozia (University of Florida) The Digital Epigraphy and Archaeology Project This presentation will introduce the Digital Epigraphy and Archaeology Project, a digital toolbox meant to assist individual epigraphists, archaeologists, institutions, and museums. Our project is an open-source, cross-platform web-application designed to facilitate the digital preservation, study, and electronic dissemination of ancient inscriptions and other archaeological artifacts. It allows epigraphists to digitize in 3D their squeezes using our novel cost-effective technique, which overcomes the limitations of the current methods. Also, it gives users the option to perform automatic morphological analysis and comparison between archaeological artifacts digitized in 3D, such as statues, coins, lamps, and vases. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 17:30 Greta Franzini (University College London) A Catalogue of Digital Editions: Towards a digital edition of Augustine’s De Civitate Dei ALL WELCOME The oldest surviving manuscript of St Augustine's De Civitate Dei dates back to the early fifth century, and most research on it predates the 1950s. Its much debated provenance and authorship, due to being contemporary with Augustine himself, are as intriguing as its rare palaeographical features and marginalia. I am creating a detailed catalogue of extant digital editions to examine best practice in the field of digital editions. Lessons from this catalogue will be presented to help scholars better understand the field of electronic editing, and further to inform the production of my electronic edition of De Civitate Dei. -------------------------------------------------------------------- The seminars 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 Charlotte.Tupman@kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at *http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2013.html* -- Dr Gabriel BODARD Researcher in Digital Epigraphy Digital Humanities King's College London Boris Karloff Building 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/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 18:32:56 +0000 From: "Green, Harriett E" Subject: Hathi Trust Research Center focus groups at DH 2013 and JCDL 2013 Dear colleagues, The HathiTrust Research Center will conduct hour-long focus groups at the upcoming DH 2013 and JCDL 2013 conferences. If you do research with large-scale, digital text corpora, we invite you to participate. Our goals are to: * Find out how researchers (like you!) collect things together for research purposes; and * Brainstorm researcher requirements (like yours!) for collecting HathiTrust items together for computational analysis. If you will be attending the DH or JCDL conferences and you are interested in these topics, please email Harriett Green (green19@illinois.edu) by *Monday, July 15, 2013* and indicate your preferred time for participation: Digital Humanities 2013, Lincoln, Nebraska July 16, 1:30-3:00 p.m. July 16, 3:30-5:00 p.m. Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2013, Indianapolis, Indiana July 23, 7:30-9:00 a.m. July 24, 7:30-9:00 a.m. The HTRC enables computational access for nonprofit and educational users to the HathiTrust corpus, a digital library of millions of books and other materials digitized by the Google Books project and other mass-digitization efforts. We are interested in understanding how researchers build and use digitized book and serials collections in the course of their research. Your participation will give you a chance to meet with others working in your field or related areas. We hope to use the results to help advance the research tools afforded by the HathiTrust Research Center. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 15:10:46 +0000 From: "Quinn, Kelly" Subject: CFP: American Art History and Digital Scholarship: New Avenues of Exploration Nov 15-16 2013 Call for Papers Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution American Art History and Digital Scholarship: New Avenues of Exploration November 15-16, 2013, Washington, DC The Archives of American Art announces an upcoming symposium, American Art History and Digital Scholarship: New Avenues of Exploration, to be held at the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture, in Washington, DC, on Friday, November 15, followed by a one-day workshop at the Archives of American Art on Saturday, November 16. We seek proposals for Friday’s presentations and applications for participation in Saturday’s moderated workshop. The purpose of the symposium is to convene scholars, archivists, librarians, graduate students, technical experts, and the public to consider American art history in a digital world. The symposium will examine ways to integrate digital tools and/or resources into the study of American art and to encourage collaboration. Conference organizers seek original, innovative scholarship from a variety of disciplines, institutions, and research centers. The symposium will assess the potential values and limitations of technical tools in digital humanities including crowdsourcing, high-resolution imaging and dynamic image presentation, mapping, visual recognition software, network analysis, topic modeling, and data mining. Are there particular digital tools and methods that will transform research? What new knowledge can be gained? The symposium will also consider future directions in the fields of art history and digital humanities so that research centers and archives can prepare for emerging research trends and questions. Additionally, the symposium may consider the creative potential of online publishing for presenting peer-reviewed scholarship in American art. Day One symposium will feature talks and panels by key thinkers and innovative practitioners who are currently using digital approaches to advance the study of American art. Papers may address the following topics: research practices and trends, tools and methods, pedagogy, publishing, and outreach. Proposals should include a 300-word abstract and a short CV and be sent via email to AAAsymposium@si.edu Deadline for submissions: August 15, 2013 Day Two workshop will be a moderated discussion on developing partnerships and projects in the field of American art. The success of new ventures in digital research depends on collaborations among archivists, scholars, teachers, students, and IT specialists. What can we learn from each other? Participants should apply via email at AAAsymposium@si.edu and submit a brief statement of interest about potential applications of digital research for American art history. Please include in your statement particular subject areas, methods, and/or projects that you would like to develop. Organizers may screen applications for Day Two to ensure a wide representation of specialties, subject areas, and institutions. Deadline for registration: September 30, 2013 Confirmed speakers will be required to submit a revised abstract by October 30, 2013. The symposium will be free and open to the public, webcast, and archived for later viewing. Schedule and materials will be posted to www.aaa.si.edu/symposium http://www.aaa.si.edu/symposium Funds for travel and accommodations are available for accepted speakers. This symposium is funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art. For more information about the symposium, please contact Kelly Quinn, Terra Foundation Project Manager for Online Scholarly and Educational Initiatives quinnk@si.edu. For more information about the Archives of American Art visit aaa.si.edu. Kelly Quinn Terra Foundation Project Manager for Online Scholarly and Educational Initiatives Archives of American Art Smithsonian Institution P. 202.633.7972 F. 202.633.7994 FedEx, UPS, and DHL deliveries: 750 9th Street, NW (at H) | Suite 2200 | Washington, DC 20001 U.S. Postal deliveries: PO Box 37012 | Victor Building, Suite 2200, MRC 937 | Washington, DC 20013-7012 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B253E3BA0; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 22:10:22 +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 A17CE3AF1; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 22:10:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 213A83AED; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 22:10:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130711201012.213A83AED@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 22:10:12 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.204 job at FuseBox (Brighton) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 204. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 14:50:29 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Researcher in residence The AHRC in partnership with Wired Sussex is looking to recruit a Knowledge Exchange Fellow to be based at the FuseBox, an exciting new business support initiative in Brighton. Developed from the AHRC funded Brighton Fuse project this is a unique opportunity for a suitably qualified researcher to become a fully embedded Researcher-in-Residence to help shape and deliver new models of business support and new approaches to co-creation, innovation and growth for the creative, digital and IT (CDIT) sector and to develop new methodologies of knowledge exchange between arts and humanities research and business. Full details are here http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/Funding-Opportunities/Pages/Knowledge-Exchange-Fellowship-FuseBox-Wired-Sussex.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D528D5EB6; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 22:14:57 +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 BD5B33B4D; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 22:14:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 188C13AF1; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 22:14:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130711201447.188C13AF1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 22:14:46 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.205 events: Leipzig Seminar cfp; Europeana Data Model; Kansas 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. 27, No. 205. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Senseney, Megan Finn" (14) Subject: JCDL 2013: "The Europeana Data Model and Collections" [2] From: Marco Büchler (42) Subject: [Request for Abstracts: 2013 Leipzig eHumanities Seminar] [3] From: Brian Rosenblum (28) Subject: Digital Humanities Forum: Return to the Material - Sept. 12- 14, 2013 - Registration now open --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 23:24:29 +0000 From: "Senseney, Megan Finn" Subject: JCDL 2013: "The Europeana Data Model and Collections" In-Reply-To: <6FEEBCEA03E6E146A613342936F4403F79AD6D37@CHIMBX1.ad.uillinois.edu> There is still time to register for the JCDL 2013 tutorial "The Europeana Data Model and Collections", Monday, July 22, 9:00-12:00, Indianapolis, Indiana. This half-day tutorial provides a technical introduction to the Europeana Data Model and explores the role that collections play in adding value to digital libraries by 1) supporting the information seeking activities of system users, 2) allowing users to build and curate their own collections of resources, and 3) supporting administrative management of resources and metadata. Participants will gain a better understanding of conceptual data modeling, structured collection description, and collection metadata. The tutorial will conclude with a discussion of practitioners’ experience with items and collections in a digital library context and next steps for research on collection modeling and usage. Early bird registration deadline is Monday, May 27. For more registration details, please see the JCDL 2013 website: http://jcdl2013.org. For a complete programme and additional information about the tutorial, please visit http://bit.ly/JCDL2013-EDMTutorial. -- 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/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 10:11:38 +0200 From: Marco Büchler Subject: [Request for Abstracts: 2013 Leipzig eHumanities Seminar] In-Reply-To: <6FEEBCEA03E6E146A613342936F4403F79AD6D37@CHIMBX1.ad.uillinois.edu> 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 (3:15 PM - 4:45 PM) from October until end of January at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science in Leipzig, Germany. All accepted papers will be published in an online volume. Furthermore, a small budget for travel cost reimbursements is available. Abstracts of no more than 1000 words should be sent by August, 15th, 2013* to seminar@e-humanities.net . Notifications and program announcements will be sent by the end of August. If you have any questions please contact at seminar@e-humanities.net. Seminar board (in alphabetical order):* * Marco Büchler (Natural Language Processing Group), * Elisabeth Burr (Digital Romance Linguistics), * Gregory Crane (Digital Classics, Digital Libraries), * Klaus-Peter Fähnrich (Super Computing Centre), * Christian Fandrych (German as a Foreign Language Group), * Sabine Griese (Medieval German Studies); * Gerhard Heyer (Natural Language Processing), * Gerik Scheuermann (Visualisation Group), * Ulrich Johannes Schneider (Cultural Studies, University Library). -- Marco Büchler Natural Language Processing Group Department of Computer Science University of Leipzig Augustusplatz 10/11 04109 Leipzig, Germany Room : P(aulinum)818 Phone : 0341 / 97-32257 eMail : mbuechler@e-humanities.net Web : http://www.e-humanities.net http://asv.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/ Profil : http://asv.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/staff/Marco_Büchler Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/marco.buechler LinkedIn : http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=15098543&trk=tab_pro Twitter : https://twitter.com/mabuechler ws-h --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:04:06 -0500 From: Brian Rosenblum Subject: Digital Humanities Forum: Return to the Material - Sept. 12-14, 2013 - Registration now open In-Reply-To: <6FEEBCEA03E6E146A613342936F4403F79AD6D37@CHIMBX1.ad.uillinois.edu> The Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Kansas is pleased to announce that registration is now open for our Fall 2013 Digital Humanities Forum, September 12-14, 2013. We are very excited about this year's schedule, which includes a number of established and emerging scholars who will be on hand for workshops, keynote talks, presentations on the theme of "Return to the Material," and our popular THATCamp Kansas. The three-day Forum features the following events: Thursday, September 12 & Friday, September 13 WORKSHOPS: A set of in-depth, hands on workshops on digital humanities tools and topics. Friday, September 13 THATCamp Kansas: An “unconference” for technologists and humanists, with conversations about topics defined on-site by the participants. Saturday, September 14 RETURN TO THE MATERIAL: A one-day program of panels and poster sessions showcasing digital humanities projects and research. KEYNOTE TALKS Colin Allen, Indiana University Jentery Sayers, University of Victoria Whitney Trettien, Duke University Please forward widely. The Forum is free to attend and open to participants at KU and beyond. (However, space is limited, especially for the workshops and THATCamp. Please register early but we ask that you register only if you know you will be able to attend.) Please see http://idrh.ku.edu/dhforum2013 for more details, including the full schedule and the registration form. Questions may be directed to the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, idrh@ku.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id EE1A93C0E; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 22:47:05 +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 825FE3BA0; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 22:46:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3A9063B99; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 22:46:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130711204653.3A9063B99@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 22:46:53 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.206 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. 27, No. 206. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 06:35:58 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: cfp: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 39.2 (June 2014) Call for submissions Interdisciplinary Science Reviews www.isr-journal.org ISR is a quarterly journal that 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. Most issues of ISR are thematic and commissioned in advance. Proposals for issues, which usually contain 6-8 articles of ca 6,000 words each, are welcome and should be sent to the Editor. Often a collection of worthy papers arises from a conference, colloquium or the like. Currently issues for 2015-16 are being planned. In addition ISR usually has one open issue per year for which individual submissions on any topic within the scope of the journal are welcome. This certainly includes articles on research in digital humanities. ISR 39.2 (June 2014) is the next open issue, for which submissions would be most welcome. Final material for this issue is due to the publisher in March 2014, so first drafts need to be ready for peer-reviewing by mid to late Autumn 2013. Enquiries are welcome. ISR dedicates space in each issue for book reviews. Please send any enquiries about book reviewing to ISR's Book Reviews Editor, Dr Paul Bohan Broderick . Yours, Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/) Editor, ISR _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6C7315EBA; Fri, 12 Jul 2013 22:01:40 +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 D37D93BA0; Fri, 12 Jul 2013 22:01:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 64BF33B99; Fri, 12 Jul 2013 22:01:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130712200125.64BF33B99@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 22:01:25 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.207 text-analysis for iOS X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 207. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 12:42:19 -0600 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Introducing Textal, a free Text Analysis app for iOS Hi folks, I just wanted to let you know that our iPhone app, Textal, is now up for download in the app store! Textal is a free smartphone app for iOS that allows users to analyze documents, web pages and tweet streams, exploring the relationships between words in the text via an intuitive word cloud interface. The app generates visualizations and statics that can be shared without effort, which makes it a fun and useful tool for both research and play, bridging the gap between text analysis and mobile computing. We also see it as a public engagement activity for Digital Humanities. You can read more at www.textal.org, and download Textal for free at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/textal/id646764497. We're also on twitter, at @textal. Textal was made by UCL Centre for Digital Humanities and the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis . We're gradually telling the world about it now - it would be really great if those of you with iPads or iPhones could try it out, and we look forward to your feedback. best, Melissa ----------------- Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE CITP FHEA 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/ Twitter: @melissaterras _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 1B9D75ED7; Fri, 12 Jul 2013 22:03:23 +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 9F0245EA9; Fri, 12 Jul 2013 22:03:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6C5FB3C0D; Fri, 12 Jul 2013 22:03:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130712200312.6C5FB3C0D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 22:03:12 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.208 funding for big data 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. 27, No. 208. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 10:01:39 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: AHRC Funding Opportunities in Big Data > From: "Heather Williams (AHRC)" > > Subject: AHRC Funding Opportunities in Big Data > Date: 12 July 2013 09:42:47 BST Dear Colleagues, The AHRC is pleased to announce two new funding opportunities in Big Data. Please feel free to forward to anyone you think may be interested. Digital Transformations Big Data Projects call The AHRC is pleased to invite proposals for projects to explore Big Data from an Arts and Humanities perspective. The AHRC has a total of £4m capital funding available under this call. This forms part of the Digital Transformations in the Arts and Humanities theme, and proposals must both compliment and add value to the core aims of the theme, and previous research funded through the theme. The call aims to address some of the challenges that arise from working with big data, as well as asking interesting questions of data, and producing innovative and creative assets for future Arts and Humanities research. As a main output, these research projects should produce a tangible asset that sustains beyond the life of the project. Funding for either smaller projects of up to £100k, or larger projects of up to £600k is available on a fEC basis, with the AHRC meeting around 80% of the fEC. Awards should last for a maximum of 15 months and will be expected to start on 1 January 2014 and finish by 31 March 2015. Further details and call Guidance document can be found on the AHRC website. If you have queries regarding this funding call please contact: Wendy Matcham, Portfolio Manager, wendy.matcham@ahrc.ac.uk Claire Spooner, Programme Co-ordinator, c.spooner@ahrc.ac.uk Digital R&D Fund for the Arts The Digital Research & Development Fund for the Arts is a partnership between, Arts Council England, the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA). The £7 million fund supports collaboration between organisations with arts projects, technology providers, and researchers that use digital technology to enhance audience reach and/or develop new business models for the arts sector. We have recognised that there are some important and emerging areas of interest in Big Data and data sharing for arts organisations. To address this we are issuing a separate Call within the R&D Fund for consortium projects, in the area of data sharing and Big Data specifically in the context of business model innovation. We are looking for applications from a partnership that involves a consortium of arts organisations, a technology partner and a research partner. Full details on the Digital R&D Fund and the new Big Data call can be found on the Fund’s website http://www.artsdigitalrnd.org.uk/ . If you have queries regarding this funding call please contact: Heather Williams, Knowledge Exchange Relationship Manager, h.williams@ahrc.ac.uk. Regards, Heather Williams Knowledge Exchange Relationship Manager Tel: 01793 41 6041 Email: h.williams@ahrc.ac.uk Arts and Humanities Research Council | Polaris House | North Star Avenue | Swindon | SN2 1UJ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 48C8B3BF7; Fri, 12 Jul 2013 22:52:28 +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 9A7DB3A17; Fri, 12 Jul 2013 22:52:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0C2823A09; Fri, 12 Jul 2013 22:52:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130712205218.0C2823A09@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 22:52:17 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.209 A universal translator? Then 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. 27, No. 209. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 06:39:41 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: A universal translator? Then what? I recently stumbled across a translation app for iOS, SayHi (free) and its big sister, TableTop ($1.99 AUS). Both of these connect to a server, which I suspect does most to all of the heavy lifting, i.e. voice-recognition, translation and rendering into whatever target language. But it is quick. I don't think you would want to depend on it for poetry, philosophical argument or other highly subtle use of language. But the developer's stated objective, of facilitating simple conversation in real time between, say, an English and a German speaker, seems to have been achieved. The idea is that you put your iPad on the table between the two of you, each taps the appropriate button in turn, speaks and then is translated in a man's or woman's voice, depending on a set preference. Impressive, I think. Let us say it works (as seems) well enough that people begin carrying their iPads around for the purpose. Let us say that digital technologies continue to progress, devices shrink in size and so on, let's say to the size of an earphone, or implant. All reasonable expectations? What then? I have read too many predictions of a universal brother/sisterhood brought about by some invention or other -- the telephone was one of these -- to think any fundamental human problem would be solved, but change as a result is certainly on the way. Only a matter of time. Now difference in language signals difference in culture. Remove the difference in language in such a way as SayHi hints at, what would we then have? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 30FC23A6D; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 02:49:15 +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 195F92D1D; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 02:49:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 470C42D0C; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 02:49:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130714004904.470C42D0C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 02:49:04 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.210 a universal translator X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 210. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (2) Subject: Re: 27.209 A universal translator? Then what? [2] From: Daniel Allington (52) Subject: Re: 27.209 A universal translator? Then what? [3] From: Mark Wolff (59) Subject: Re: 27.209 A universal translator? Then what? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 16:08:50 -0500 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: 27.209 A universal translator? Then what? In-Reply-To: <20130712205218.0C2823A09@digitalhumanities.org> Differences in language are never completely removed by translation. Jim --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 22:13:20 +0100 From: Daniel Allington Subject: Re: 27.209 A universal translator? Then what? In-Reply-To: <20130712205218.0C2823A09@digitalhumanities.org> Now difference in language signals difference in culture. Remove the difference in language in such a way as SayHi hints at, what would we then have? A very interesting question. I've been thinking about this since Microsoft's demonstration of what appeared to be a working English-Chinese realtime translator last year. Human translators, as we all know, translate cultures as well as languages; automatic translators just look for equivalent words and then arrange them according to syntactic rules. So in a world where automatic translation became more prevalent, I believe that separate cultures would continue to exist - they'd just rub up against each other in a different way. Yours, Daniel Dr Daniel Allington Lecturer in English Language Studies Centre for Language and Communication The Open University www.danielallington.net http://www.danielallington.net On 12 Jul 2013, at 21:52, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 209. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 06:39:41 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: A universal translator? Then what? I recently stumbled across a translation app for iOS, SayHi (free) and its big sister, TableTop ($1.99 AUS). Both of these connect to a server, which I suspect does most to all of the heavy lifting, i.e. voice-recognition, translation and rendering into whatever target language. But it is quick. I don't think you would want to depend on it for poetry, philosophical argument or other highly subtle use of language. But the developer's stated objective, of facilitating simple conversation in real time between, say, an English and a German speaker, seems to have been achieved. The idea is that you put your iPad on the table between the two of you, each taps the appropriate button in turn, speaks and then is translated in a man's or woman's voice, depending on a set preference. Impressive, I think. Let us say it works (as seems) well enough that people begin carrying their iPads around for the purpose. Let us say that digital technologies continue to progress, devices shrink in size and so on, let's say to the size of an earphone, or implant. All reasonable expectations? What then? I have read too many predictions of a universal brother/sisterhood brought about by some invention or other -- the telephone was one of these -- to think any fundamental human problem would be solved, but change as a result is certainly on the way. Only a matter of time. Now difference in language signals difference in culture. Remove the difference in language in such a way as SayHi hints at, what would we then have? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/ http://www.mccarty.org.uk/ ) --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 13:26:13 -0700 From: Mark Wolff Subject: Re: 27.209 A universal translator? Then what? In-Reply-To: <20130712205218.0C2823A09@digitalhumanities.org> The app is interesting in that in addition to producing computer voices that speak in two language, it generates a running bilingual transcript of the conversation, so both participants can read what was said and how it was translated. One could use the transcript as a teaching tool to show errors in translation. I wonder about the app's underlying design, however. There are at least 40 languages and dialects to choose from, and it is supposedly possible to translate from any one to any other. There are therefore 40!/(2!(40-2)!) = 780 possible pairings between languages, and from a programming perspective it would be a huge task to design protocols for each pairing. It is more likely that all communication is translated into a lingua franca first before being translated into the target language. I would suspect the lingua franca is English (although if anyone on this list who knows something about NLP and translation can explain what's going on differently, please do). The immediacy of the app belies the fact that all linguistic roads pass through one language. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but anyone who has played the game Telephone knows that the more a message has to be transmitted from one point to another, the more likely it will be corrupted. It would be interesting to see how the app works if neither participant spoke English. mw -- Mark B. Wolff Associate Professor of French Chair, Modern Languages One Hartwick Drive Hartwick College Oneonta, NY 13820 (607) 431-4615 http://bumppo.hartwick.edu/~mark/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DEE153A82; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 02:53:50 +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 8BAF22DBC; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 02:53:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5F7092D1D; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 02:53:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130714005340.5F7092D1D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 02:53:40 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.211 job at Munich X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 211. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 14:28:56 +0200 From: Stefan Baums Subject: Job at University of Munich Dear colleagues, the University of Munich has the following job opening for an experienced programmer in the project Buddhist Manuscripts from Gandhara: http://www.uni-muenchen.de/aktuelles/stellenangebote/technik/20130701131131.html http://www.en.gandhara.indologie.uni-muenchen.de/news/job_programmer_phd/index.html Please pass this on to anybody who might be interested. The application deadline is 31 July 2013. All best wishes, Stefan Baums -- Dr. Stefan Baums Institute for Indian and Tibetan Studies Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 125FF3A9A; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 02:54:44 +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 148693A84; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 02:54:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 362763A68; Sun, 14 Jul 2013 02:54:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130714005437.362763A68@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 02:54:37 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.212 hiatus 15-23 July X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 212. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 10:45:18 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: hiatus Humanist will be somewhat erratic for the next week. I'll be in transit to and from DH2013 and while there somewhat more distracted than usual. Normal service should resume after 23 July. Apologies for any inconvenience. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D71AC9DFE; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 13:38:06 +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 A06F12DB1; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 13:37:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 762CD2DD7; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 13:37:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130716113756.762CD2DD7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 13:37:56 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.213 a universal translator X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 213. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 13:10:32 +0000 From: "Lele, Amod" Subject: Re: 27.209 A universal translator? Then what? In-Reply-To: <20130712205218.0C2823A09@digitalhumanities.org> Regarding Willard's post, it seems to me that the differences in culture are exactly those differences carried into the language of philosophy and poetry. Dr. McCarty notes that one would not want to use translation software for these and other "highly subtle use of language"; and I think that point is inseparable from the point about differences in culture. Which is in a sense to say that SayHi or similar software does not really remove difference in language at that deeper level. Clearly such technology is highly useful and we should not underestimate that usefulness. But I do not think it will do anything to remove cultural difference. Indeed, one might speculate that as such software becomes more ubiquitous, it will make people more able to remain embedded in their mother tongues and avoid having to learn the lingua franca for practical communication, because the software will do it for them. In that way it might make cultural differences deeper. We have already seen over the past few decades how people have come to assert national and regional identities far more strongly in the face of a global economy that would seem to work by effacing them. Sincerely, Amod Lele. -- Amod Lele, PhD Educational Technologist, Information Services & Technology Visiting Researcher, Center for the Study of Asia Boston University Office: 617-358-6909 Mobile: 617-645-9857 lele@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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D76DD9E04; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 13:39:10 +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 7F8D79DFF; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 13:39:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7AFED2DD7; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 13:38:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130716113858.7AFED2DD7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 13:38:58 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.214 2,000 18C texts: first fruits X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 214. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 21:32:05 +0000 From: Martin Mueller Subject: Abbot MorphAdorner Collaboration The Abbot MorphAdorner collaboration The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities http://cdrh.unl.edu/ at the University of Nebraska and Northwestern University's Academic and Academic Research Technologies http://www.it.northwestern.edu/about/departments/at/ are pleased to announce the first fruits of a collaboration between the Abbot http://abbot.unl.edu/ and EEBO-MorphAdorner projects: the release of some 2,000 18th century texts from the TCP-ECCO collections in a TEI-P5 format and with linguistic annotation. More texts will follow shortly, subject to the access restrictions that will govern the use of TCP texts for the remainder of this decade. The Text Creation Partnership (TCP) collection currently consists of about 50,000 fully transcribed SGML texts from the first three centuries of English print culture. The collection will grow to approximately 75,000 volumes and will contain at least one copy of every book published before 1700 as well as substantial samples of 18th century texts published in the British Isles or North America. The ECCO-TCP texts are already in the public domain. The other texts will follow them between 2014 and 2015. The Evans texts will be released in June 2014, followed by a release of some 25,000 EEBO texts in 2015. It is a major goal of the Abbot and EEBO MorphAdorner collaboration to turn the TCP texts into the foundation for a "Book of English," defined as * a large, growing, collaboratively curated, and public domain corpus * of written English since its earliest modern form * with full bibliographical detail * and light but consistent structural and linguistic annotation Texts in the annotated TCP corpus will exist in more than one format so as to facilitate different uses to which they are likely to be put. In a first step, Abbot transforms the SGML source text into a TEI P5 XML format. Abbot, a software program designed by Brian Pytlik Zillig and Stephen Ramsay, can read arbitrary XML files and convert them into other XML formats or a shared format. Abbot generates its own set of conversion routines at runtime by reading an XML schema file and programmatically effecting the desired transformations. It is an excellent tool for creating an environment in which texts originating in separate projects can acquire a higher degree of interoperability. A prototype of Abbot was used in the MONK project to harmonize texts from several collections, including the TCP, Chadwyck-Healey's Nineteenth-Century Fiction, the Wright Archive of American novels 1851-1875, and Documenting the American South. This first transformation maintains all the typographical data recorded in the original SGML transcription, including long 's', printer's abbreviations, superscripts etc. In a second step MorphAdorner tokenizes this file. MorphAdorner http://morphadorner.northwestern.edu/ was developed by Philip R. Burns. It is a multi-purpose suite of NLP tools with special features for the tokenization, analysis, and annotation of historical corpora. The tokenization uses algorithms and heuristics specific to the practices of Early Modern print culture, wraps every word token in a element with a unique ID, and explicitly marks sentence boundaries. In the next step (conceptually different but merged in practice with the previous), some typographical features are removed from the tokenized text, but all such changes are recorded in a change log and may therefore be reversed. The changes aim at making it easier to manipulate the corpus with software tools that presuppose modern printing practices. They involve such things as replacing long 's' with plain 's', or resolving unambiguous printer's abbreviations and superscripts. The tokenized version of the text will be very useful to scholars who have an interest in original spelling editions and want to use the TCP transcriptions as a point of departure for projects that 'upcode' selected texts by comparing them with the page images and encoding typographical detail with greater precision. Unlike many other NLP programs, MorphAdorner treats tokenization and annotation as separate procedures. This means that in a second pass over a text (or part of it), you can compare results or protect manual corrections introduced in a first run. This makes it much easier to manage the progressive improvement of a corpus over time. MorphAdorner's annotations associate each token with a part-of-speech tag, a lemma or dictionary entry form of a word in its modern form, and a standardized spelling. For the TCP project MorphAdorner uses the NUPOS tag set developed by Martin Mueller. NUPOS accommodates the morphological variance of English from Chaucer to the present day within a single tag set that requires minimal compromise. A "MorphAdorned" file can be produced as a TEI-P5 file or as a "verticalized" file in which every token is a column in a table row whose other columns describe its lexical, structural, and grammatical properties. Both of these outputs are machine-actionable rather than human-readable. It is important to keep in in mind that the uses for annotation of this kind extend far beyond the discipline specific needs of linguists. Think of an "Abbotized" and "MorphAdorned" corpus as a second-generation digital library in which primary texts that form the documentary infrastructure for text-centric scholarly work are submitted to three cataloguing operations that create the potential for querying a corpus separately or in combination by criteria from 1. the top or bibliographical level of a document as a whole 2. the middle level of the discursive structure of each text 3. the bottom level of words and sentences. In a corpus that spans the orthographic and morphological variance of several centuries linguistic annotation serves both to articulate and erase difference, as when 'louyth' and 'gelosy' are mapped to 'love' and 'jealousy'. You can algorithmically or with very limited manual intervention create modern spelling editions of any text. You can also look for other instances of such abstract patterns as "soft, gentle, and low" or "handsome, clever, and rich." We hope that the text corpora created with Abbot and MorphAdorner will spur the development of easy-to-use search engines that will make it possible for scholars to find new ways of exploring historical corpora for thematic, stylistic or other purposes. The latest version of the Philologic search engine already processes MorphAdorned texts. MorphAdorner can also produce output for use by the Sketch engine and by BlackLab, a corpus retrieval engine based on Lucene. The prototype of a BlackLab search interface with ECCO texts is available at http://devadorner.northwestern.edu/corpussearch/ The tabular representation of Abbotized and MorphAdorned text creates an excellent basis for the collaborative curation of TCP corpora, especially the correction of several million incompletely or incorrectly transcribed words. In 2010 several undergraduates, supervised by Martin Mueller, fixed about 20,000 errors in some 280 non-Shakespearean TCP plays, using Annolex, a Web-based curation tool designed by Craig Berry. This summer five undergraduates will work with Mueller on a a similar project, called "Shakespeare His Contemporaries," using an improved version of Annolex and hoping to correct most of the wrongly or incompletely transcribed words in some 600 plays printed before 1660. The annotated ECCO files contain some known errors that will require modifying the training data in subsequent releases. In particular, upper-case occurrences of some words ('Case', 'Care') have been tagged as verbs when they are in fact nouns. The inconsistent capitalization of Early Modern English poses surprisingly difficult challenges. Abbot and EEBO-MorphAdorner were funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, as were the WordHoard and MONK projects in which much of the preliminary work was done. Additional funding for EEBO-MorphAdorner was provided by the Center for Library Inititatives at the CIC, the Ford Center for Global Citizenship at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, the Northwestern University Library, and Proquest. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C9FE19E0A; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 13:40:44 +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 C447D9E04; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 13:40:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 091463C10; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 13:40:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130716114034.091463C10@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 13:40:33 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.215 new open-access: Kline & Perdue's "A Guide to Documentary 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 215. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 09:41:29 +0000 From: Wim Van-Mierlo Subject: Open-access "Guide to Documentary Editing" [Cross-posted from SEDIT-L] -----Original Message----- > From: Scholarly Editing Forum [mailto:SEDIT-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU] On Behalf Of David Sewell > Sent: 15 July 2013 21:49 > Subject: [SEDIT-L] Open-access "Guide to Documentary Editing" Following agreement among the ADE Council, the UVA Press, and the book's authors, the online version of Kline & Perdue's "A Guide to Documentary Editing" (3rd edition) is now available to all as an open-access publicaton: http://gde.upress.virginia.edu Previously, access was tied to purchase of the print edition. (Which is still very much available: http://books.upress.virginia.edu/detail%2Fbooks%2Fgroup-3522.xml) Currently, contents of the online version are identical to those of the print edition, with the addition of a linked index and a search facility (ad-supported, but more versatile than Google's). David -- David Sewell, Editorial and Technical Manager ROTUNDA, The University of Virginia Press PO Box 400314, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4314 USA Email: dsewell@virginia.edu Tel: +1 434 924 9973 Web: http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 8B3AD2ECB; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:10:28 +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 51B812EC0; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:10:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BD7FB2EC2; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:10:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130717111017.BD7FB2EC2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:10:17 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.216 jobs: Digital Humanities Research Designer 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 216. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 13:30:08 +0000 From: Emily Rimland Subject: Faculty Search Announcement: Digital Humanities Research Designer, University Park In-Reply-To: <1575255774.9294937.1373651014801.JavaMail.root@psu.edu> Digital Humanities Research Designer The Pennsylvania State University Libraries The Penn State University Libraries in partnership with the College of the Liberal Arts seek a creative, forward-thinking scholar for the new position of Digital Humanities Research Designer. The Digital Humanities Research Designer will be familiar with a range of technologies and have direct experience bringing digital approaches to bear on research and teaching. The scholar in this position will work as an intellectual partner with faculty, students, and staff in the College of the Liberal Arts. The successful candidate will collaborate with humanities faculty and library colleagues to expand modes of humanistic research through emerging and existing technologies. In providing research project support and conducting workshops on the use of various tools, for example, the Digital Humanities Research Designer will be able to translate and share ideas and concepts effectively across diverse interdisciplinary audiences. The Digital Humanities Research Designer will maintain currency in the field and may pursue his or her own research to do so. The person in this position will engage in national and/or international initiatives or other professional activities promoting the development of a shared humanities research infrastructure. The Digital Humanities Research Designer will play a critical role in building services and programs to support the digital humanities at Penn State. This is a fixed-term (multi-year), non-tenure track, 3-year appointment based in the Publishing and Curation Services department within the University Libraries. It carries the rank of Assistant Librarian. The position reports to the Digital Content Strategist, but it will be jointly funded by the University Libraries and the College of the Liberal Arts. The University Libraries work in collaboration with multiple campus partners as part of a growing program in support for emerging digital scholarship needs. The Digital Humanities Research Designer appointment is part of Penn State’s “Humanities in a Digital Age” (HDA) initiative. HDA aims to enrich and promote rigorous cross-disciplinary humanities scholarship and research; open new opportunities for high caliber graduate placements in the humanities; and enhance the undergraduate experience by providing students access to, and support for, cutting-edge humanities research. The new services fostered by this initiative will help graduate students and faculty carry out digitally enriched scholarship in a wider range of fields. Working together, the Libraries and the College of Liberal Arts intend to build a community of practice for the digital humanities at Penn State through programming, services, and research collaborations. Responsibilities: * Works directly with researchers to provide project definition and analysis, such as project scope, requirements, specifications and/or design. * Evaluates existing tools and technologies, and investigates emerging technologies to identify potential uses in humanities research. Prototypes demonstration projects and/or implements tools for use by others. * Collaborates with colleagues in the Libraries, Liberal Arts, and Information Technology Services to help ensure harmony among various technology infrastructures and needs. * Provides limited technical support for digital humanities research projects, including implementation of tools, technology, etc. to help researchers achieve their goals. * Conducts training, group instruction, or workshops on topics related to digital humanities. * Collaborates within the Libraries and Liberal Arts on building community and promoting digital humanities tools and methods within the University. Required Qualifications: * Advanced degree in a humanities field. * Demonstrated proficiency/fluency with one or more technologies commonly used in digital humanities projects, such as database design and development, XML-encoding, GIS, data visualization, topic modeling, social network analysis, etc. * Experience using digital humanities tools and approaches in his or her own research. * Experience teaching or leading workshops on digital humanities tools and/or methods to faculty and students. * Experience working collaboratively with other scholars and/or with IT professionals on projects related to digital scholarship. * Excellent communication skills. * Strong service orientation. Desired Qualifications: * PhD in a humanities field. * Experience with development and management of projects, grants, and/or budgets. * Record of professional presentations and/or publication. Environment: Penn State, a land-grant institution, is a member of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), a consortium of the Big Ten universities plus the University of Chicago. Based on current Association for Research Libraries investment rankings, Penn State is now among the top ten research libraries in North America. A Penn State student survey completed in 2010 found overall student satisfaction with the Libraries to be at the top of its category. Collections exceed 5.8 million volumes, including more than 102,000 current serial subscriptions. The University Libraries are located at University Park and 22 other locations throughout Pennsylvania, and they serve approximately 6,000 faculty and 44,000 students at University Park, and more than 92,000 students system wide. The University Libraries work in collaboration with multiple campus partners as part of a growing program of support for emerging scholarly communications needs. These include the development of Publishing and Curation Services, which oversees user services for ScholarSphere, a service provided in collaboration with Information Technology Services. The College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State is home to more than 5200 undergraduates and 777 graduate students in twenty-one departments in the humanities and social sciences. It serves the entire University community through its extensive general education program in which typical Penn State undergraduate students take nearly one-third of their courses. With 11 of our programs placed in the top 25 percent of their respective disciplines in the recent National Research Council rankings, the College of the Liberal Arts has emerged as a one of the nation’s premier public research liberal arts colleges. The University Park campus is set in the State College metropolitan area, a university town located in the heart of central Pennsylvania. State College offers a vibrant community with outstanding recreational facilities, a low crime rate, and excellent public schools. The campus is within a half-day drive to Washington D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City, and Pittsburgh. The University Park Airport is served by three major carriers with flights to Washington, Philadelphia, and Detroit. For more information, please www.libraries.psu.edu and www.cbicc.org. Appointment Details: Excellent fringe benefits include liberal vacation, excellent insurance, state or TIAA/CREF retirement options, and educational privileges. Faculty in the University Libraries carrying the appointment of Fixed-Term, Multi-Year are afforded $1500 for professional development travel annually. Faculty may be asked to travel as official representatives of the Libraries to certain events and those trips are reimbursed at full cost within limits established by the University. Application Instructions: Send a letter of application, resume, and the names and contact information of three references to Search Committee, The Pennsylvania State University, Box DHRD-PSUA, 511 Paterno Library, University Park, PA 16802, or to lap225@psu.edu. Please be sure and reference Box DHRD-PSUA in the email subject line. Review of candidates will begin on August 31, 2013 and continue until the position is filled. Employment will require successful completion of background check(s) in accordance with University policies. Penn State is committed to affirmative action, equal opportunity, and the diversity of its workforce. Lindsey A. Harter Faculty Services and Training Coordinator, Libraries Human Resources The Pennsylvania State University - University Libraries 511 Paterno Library University Park, PA 16802 Telephone: 814-863-4949 Fax: 814-863-5592 -- http://about.me/erimland _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 76FE72ED3; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:11:43 +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 132462ECA; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:11:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6BE232EC5; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:11:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130717111130.6BE232EC5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:11:30 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.217 pubs: big data cfp; D-Lib for July/August X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 217. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Bonnie Wilson (44) Subject: The July/August 2013 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available. [2] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (51) Subject: Big Data: Call for papers --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 11:01:24 +0000 From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The July/August 2013 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available. Greetings: The July/August 2013 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains five articles. 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 Full English, an archive of traditional English folk music and dance tunes launched by the English Folk Dance and Song Society. The articles include: Rethinking the Digital Media Library for RIT's The Wallace Center By April Younglove, Rochester Institute of Technology Using Data Curation Profiles to Design the Datastar Dataset Registry By Sarah J. Wright, Wendy A. Kozlowski, Dianne Dietrich, Huda J. Khan, and Gail S. Steinhart, Cornell University; Leslie McIntosh, Washington University School of Medicine Drawing the Blueprint As We Build: Setting Up a Library-based Copyright and Permissions Service for MOOCs By Lauren Fowler and Kevin Smith, Duke University Libraries Model-Oriented Information Organization: Part 1, The Entity-Event Fabric By By Robert B. Allen, University of Tsukuba, Japan Model-Oriented Information Organization: Part 2, Discourse Relationships By Robert B. Allen, University of Tsukuba, Japan 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 July/August 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 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 20:25:19 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Big Data: Call for papers ‘Big data, open data, open source: Information and records management opportunities and challenges’ Records Management Journal - Special issue call for papers Guest Editor: Anne Thurston, International Director, IRMT (Information & Records Management Trust) The Records Management Journal invites submissions for a special issue focused on the opportunities and challenges of managing big data and open data. We welcome contributions about, but not limited to, the following themes: • The application of records management and archival theory to data management • Professional roles and skills: records manager, information manager, archivist, data scientist, data/information analyst • Systems design and infrastructure • Technologies and tools for access, analysis, use and re-use • Open source formats and approaches • Planning, management, resourcing • Context/ metadata capture • Data integrity / traceability to reliable sources • Data and accountability • Retention and preservation • User and organisational needs • Relationship of records, data and statistics • Legislative liability, rights, ownership and ethics • Data use and re-use for innovation, enterprise, economic growth and cultural development We are interested in different disciplinary perspectives from researchers, academics and practitioners. Submissions can be viewpoints, critical reviews, research, case studies or conceptual/philosophical papers. Submission Deadlines • Extended abstracts (more info below): 9th September 2013 • Abstracts accepted and authors notified: 20th September 2013 • Full paper submitted: 19 January 2014 • Review, revision and final acceptance: May 2014 Publication expected in August 2014 Submission Process Extended abstracts should be a 500 word version of the Records Management Journal’s structured abstract, using the headings described in the author guidelines (http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=rmj&PHPSESSID=dv5qj5pu3vi7klhdrjjmrsust5#14). Under the design/methodology/approach heading, please include the following as appropriate to the type of paper: • What is the approach to the topic if it is a theoretical or conceptual paper? Briefly outline existing knowledge and the value added by the paper compared to that. • What is the main research question and/or aim if it a research paper? What is the research strategy and the main method(s) used? • If the paper is a case study outline its scope and nature and the method of deriving conclusions. Please send your extended abstract to the Journal Editor: julie.mcleod@northumbria.ac.uk Full papers (for accepted abstracts) should be 3000-8000 words (excluding references) and should be prepared using the RMJ guidelines which can be read here: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=rmj. Papers will be reviewed following the journal’s standard double-blind peer review process. The Journal Editor is also happy to receive informal enquiries. Julie McLeod Editor, Records Management Journal www.emeraldinsight.com/rmj.htm Julie McLeod (Prof)| Professor in Records Management| Fellow of the IRMS Information Sciences, Faculty of Engineering & Environment | Northumbria University, Room 043 Pandon Building, Camden Street, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 1XE, UK| t: +44 191 227 3764 | e: julie.mcleod@northumbria.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B31542EDB; Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:12:50 +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 E846E2ED7; Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:12:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6E38F2ECD; Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:12:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130718111240.6E38F2ECD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:12:40 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.218 events: reading historical sources; 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. 27, No. 218. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Blanke, Tobias" (12) Subject: CfP Symposium DHLU 2013 "Reading historical sources in the digital age" (Luxembourg, 5-6 December 2013) [2] From: "Young, John K" (13) Subject: STS 2014 CFP --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:08:23 +0000 From: "Blanke, Tobias" Subject: CfP Symposium DHLU 2013 "Reading historical sources in the digital age" (Luxembourg, 5-6 December 2013) In-Reply-To: CALL FOR PAPERS Reading historical sources in the digital age 5-6 December 2013, Luxembourg The CVCE, together with the Jean Monnet Chair in History of European Integration (University of Luxembourg, FLSHASE) and its research programme ‘Digital Humanities Luxembourg’ — DIHULUX (research unit Identités-Politiques-Sociétés-Espaces (IPSE)) — and the University of Luxembourg’s Master’s in Contemporary European History, are pleased to organise the DHLU Symposium 2013. After the inaugural DHLU Symposium in 2009 that focused on ‘Contemporary history in the digital age’ and a second edition which tackled the methodological and theoretical implications of considering websites as primary sources (March 2012), this third edition will focus on the use of online thematic research corpora. Given that more and more sources for contemporary history are being made available online as digital research corpora — as on the CVCE’s site — and following on from the first two editions which examined the methods used to develop these sources, this third edition of Digital Humanities Luxembourg will focus on the various ways in which this material is used by humanities researchers, particularly contemporary historians and more specifically specialists in European integration. The Symposium will be structured around the following research clusters: -Distant/close reading - Data retrieval, analysis and visualisation -Community reading -Writing history and assessing scholarship Deadline for proposals is 20 August 2013. Further information can be found on the CVCE website: http://tinyurl.com/opl6d9e *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1374066721_2013-07-17_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_3663.2.pdf --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 19:58:46 +0000 From: "Young, John K" Subject: STS 2014 CFP In-Reply-To: [Forwarded from the STS list.] Dear members of the STS community, Attached please find the CFP for the 2014 STS conference, March 20-22 at the University of Washington campus in Seattle. The program co-chairs will be Jeffrey Todd Knight and Geoffrey Turnovsky, with proposals due by Nov. 1. I hope to see you in Seattle. Best, John John Young Professor of English Marshall University (304) 696-2349 youngj@marshall.edu http://muwww-new.marshall.edu/english/ *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1374097321_2013-07-17_youngj@marshall.edu_22560.2.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AB43B2EE1; Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:14:26 +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 A024F2ED7; Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:14:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9CE352ED3; Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:14:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130718111416.9CE352ED3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:14:16 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.219 courses in digital philology at Leipzig 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="===============1538263348089030697==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============1538263348089030697== Content-Type: text/plain Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 219. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 19:18:04 -0500 From: Gregory Crane Subject: New Courses on Digital Philology at the University of Leipzig In-Reply-To: <20130717111130.6BE232EC5@digitalhumanities.org> New Courses on Digital Philology at the University of Leipzig http://cts.dh.uni-leipzig.de/wo/courses/ *October 2013 – January 2014: /Overview of Digital Philology/ (5 credits)* *April --€“ July 2014: /Current Topics in Digital Philology/ (10 credits)* *[Please re-circulate]* *Research assistantships for enrolled students are available to students enrolled in these classes http://cts.dh.uni-leipzig.de/wo/job-opportunities/ * The Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig is developing a sequence of English-language courses on digital philology that will begin in the Wintersemester and Sommersemester of the 2013/2014 academic year. The courses may be taken in sequence or individually. We particularly encourage participation by graduate students, not only from Leipzig but from elsewhere in Europe and beyond, who are preparing to begin careers as researchers, teachers or library professionals. A semester or an academic year at Leipzig can help you transform your career and to acquire the skills by which you can flourish in an intensively network, profoundly global intellectual world. These courses are particularly unusual in that they are offered within a Computer Science department and provide students with an opportunity to connect more directly with experts in advanced technologies than is often feasible. Germany also is unusual in that Computer Science and the Humanities are both instances of /Wissenschaft/ --€” we do not face the boundaries between funding for research in the Humanities and in Computer Science that many in the English-speaking world face. If you wish to acquire the full range of skills needed for both teaching and research, these courses in this environment provide you with an excellent space in which to develop. *Note:* particularly promising students enrolled in these classes will have an opportunity to work as research assistants, where they can apply the skills that they acquire in their classes. We particularly encourage ambitious students from outside Leipzig to consider this option to help support their stay. An /Overview of Digital Philology/ (5 credits, Wintersemester) provides students with programming skills needed to work with text in a digital age. We particularly focus upon the integration of methods from computational and especially corpus linguistics, both of which fields are fundamental to the study of language and critical to all who wish to develop flourishing careers as teachers and researchers in philology. The course is organized so that students can also take /the Leipzig eHumanities Seminar/ (5 credits). In 2013, the course will focus particularly upon familiarizing students with XML and with the use of associated technologies (e.g., xslt, xquery). While students who have taken the Overview of Digital Philology will be able to build on their knowledge in developing course projects, the Sommersemester course, /Current Topics in Digital Philology/ (10 credits, Sommersemester), is open to anyone with advanced experience in either computer science or philology. Current Topics in Digital Philology provides a framework within which students of language from various backgrounds can develop projects informed by new advances in corpus and computational linguistics and in the digital humanities. In 2014, students will develop skills in the use of Python to work with richly annotated linguistic corpora and then use these skills in course projects. *Contact: teaching@e-humanities.net* [Please re-circulate] --===============1538263348089030697== 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 --===============1538263348089030697==-- Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 D63232EDF; Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:55:44 +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 525B92EDA; Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:55:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 888FA2EA9; Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:55:34 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130718115534.888FA2EA9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:55:34 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.220 PhD studentship at Trinity College Dublin X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities 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. 27, No. 220. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 12:48:05 +0100 From: Carl Vogel Subject: PhD research funding -- Computational Stylistics -- Trinity College Dublin PhD research funding -- Computational Stylistics -- Trinity College Dublin Funding is available for a research project at the intersection of machine learning, text analysis and dialogue analysis conducted within the Computational Linguistics Group (www.cs.tcd.ie/clg) of the Centre for Computing and Language Studies (www.scss.tcd.ie/ccls) in the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin (www.scss.tcd.ie). The funding covers EU-level tuition fees and a stipend of 16K euro per annum, and is aligned with the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL; www.cngl.ie). The funding may extend to three years, from September 2013. The successful candidate will have an excellent academic record (first class or II.1 primary degree) in cognitive science, linguistics, computer Science, or a related discipline. She or he will be highly motivated, with strong written and oral communication skills and will possess demonstrable proficiency in computer programming. English language certification is required of applicants for whom English is not a native language, the minimum requirements are: IELTS: 7.0+, TOEFL iBT: 100+, TOEFL pBT: 600+, CEF: C1+, or equivalent. Applicants will have to satisfy the general admission requirements for postgraduate research study at Trinity College Dublin (www.tcd.ie/Graduate_Studies/) The successful candidate will participate in the Structured PhD Programme within the School of Computer Science and Statistics (www.scss.tcd.ie/postgraduate/structuredphd/). The research will be supervised by Carl Vogel (www.scss.tcd.ie/~vogel), and the successful candidate will participate in research activities of the Computational Linguistics Group and CNGL, for example, the Dublin Computational Linguistics Research Seminar (www.cs.tcd.ie/clg/DCLRS). Prior to application for admission as a postgraduate research student, through the Graduate Studies office, as indicated above, to be considered for this funding, applications should be sent to Tricia Fowler (Tricia.Fowler@tcd.ie) in the form of: - an academic CV - an English language transcript of academic records - a research statement - three letters of reference with contact details of referrees. Fullest consideration will be given to applications that arrive before August 2, 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E895B2F06; Fri, 19 Jul 2013 14:12:05 +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 D680D2EE6; Fri, 19 Jul 2013 14:11:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 837C22EE2; Fri, 19 Jul 2013 14:11:50 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130719121150.837C22EE2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 14:11:50 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.221 events: public history; polytonic Greek X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 221. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Noiret, Serge" (47) Subject: CFP: International Federation for Public History Conference: Public History in a Digital World: The Revolution Reconsidered, Amsterdam, Thursday 23 October 2014 - Sat 25 October 2014 [2] From: Stuart Dunn (33) Subject: Digital Classicist seminar: An Integrated System For Generating And Correcting Polytonic Greek OCR --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:19:09 +0000 From: "Noiret, Serge" Subject: CFP: International Federation for Public History Conference: Public History in a Digital World: The Revolution Reconsidered, Amsterdam, Thursday 23 October 2014 - Sat 25 October 2014 International Federation for Public History Conference: Public History in a Digital World: The Revolution Reconsidered, Amsterdam, Thursday 23 October 2014 - Sat 25 October 2014 FIRST CALL for PROPOSALS Historical sources and narratives about the past infiltrate every corner of the web, from home-made digital media to online exhibitions, across social networks and in virtual museums. Digital tools have become essential for publics who preserve, present, discuss, and dispute history, and they will play a major role in the commemoration of the anniversary of WWI beginning in 2014. The possibilities of the digital world seem almost unlimited: never before have massive collections of a wide variety of historical materials been so accessible for large audiences across national and cultural borders. What's more, new genres such as blogs and virtual discussion boards have expanded the public possibilities of history online - for co-creating historical narratives as well as for communicating about the past with various audiences. Given all this, the digital turn should be especially significant for public historians, but have expectations been matched by activities? After two decades of digital revolution it is time to critically consider what digital media brings to Public History, and where Public History is headed in a digital world. This international conference, organized by the International Federation for Public History, will bring together experts, novices, and experimenters from all over the world to share insights, questions, and practices concerning the impact of the digital world on the theory and practice of Public History. Issues to consider include: · How revolutionary is the digital turn for the research and practice of Public History? · How are digital innovations changing Public History practices? · Are public historians critical enough towards the shortcomings of digital practices? · What "cool stuff" from the digital toolbox adds value to PH projects, teaching activities, etc? · Which digital strategies do not live up to the hype, and why? · Which audiences are public historians reaching and excluding with digital practices? · How are audiences involved and engaged through digital practices? · How are historical narratives changing under the influence of digital media and the internet? · How can digital Public History generate or inspire new ways of interacting with the public? · How does digital Public History relate to older forms and traditions of Public History? · What can we learn from a critical analysis of Digital Public History? Possible ideas for sessions include: · Audiences and involvement: Who are public historians reaching, and excluding, with digital public history? · Authorship and authority: Who is representing history on the web? · Narratives and storytelling: Which pasts are(n't) public historians telling on the web? · Integration: How do digital and analogue Public History relate? · Practices: How is the past presented in the digital realm? · Didactics: How do we teach digital Public History? · Analogue Public History: What is done best without the digital? · Communication: How can digital history 2.0 and Social Media foster the diffusion of Public history ? We welcome submissions from all areas, including public historians working in museums, archives, education, heritage management, consulting and public service, as well as newcomers to the field of Public History. Apart from individual papers and proposals for panel sessions, we encourage workshop proposals as well as poster or media presentations. The emphasis should be on critical analysis, not show and tell - submissions that investigate both the limits of public history in a digital world, as well as its opportunities, are especially welcomed. 250 word proposals are due by: January 31 2014 to ifphamsterdam2014@gmail.com Local Committee : Dr. Paul Knevel, Assistant Professor of History & Coordinator, MA in Public History, University of Amsterdam Dr. Manon Parry, Assistant Professor of Public History, University of Amsterdam Prof. dr. Kees Ribbens, Senior Researcher, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Dr. Serge Noiret, President, International Federation for Public History Program Committee: Dr. Fien Danniau/Dr. Bruno de Wever, Instituut voor Publieksgeschiedenis, University of Ghent, Belgium Dr. Jean-Pierre Morin, International Federation for Public History, Canada Dr. Manon Parry, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Dr. Hinke Piersma, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, The Netherlands Dr. Constance B. Schulz, University of South Carolina, USA Dr. Christine Gundermann/Dr. Irmgard Zündorf, Freie Universität, Germany Manon Parry, PhD Assistant Professor of Public History University of Amsterdam Department of History Spuistraat 134 | kamer 5.30 1012 VB Amsterdam | T +31.(0)20.525.8194 E-mail: M.S.Parry@uva.nl --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 15:31:17 +0100 From: Stuart Dunn Subject: Digital Classicist seminar: An Integrated System For Generating And Correcting Polytonic Greek OCR Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2013 Friday July 19 at 16:30 in room S264, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Federico Boschetti (Pisa) & Bruce Robertson (Mount Allison) An Integrated System For Generating And Correcting Polytonic Greek OCR ALL WELCOME The digital books revolution has left behind scholars working with ancient Greek: the most important impediments to digitizing polytonic Greek have been the lack of a high-quality optical character recognition for this script, especially under open-source licenses, and an assisted editor for polytonic Greek proof-reading. We present a integrated system that fills these critical gaps, making it possible for polytonic Greek texts to be digitized en masse by Rigaudon OCR, a complete suite of scripts, python code and data required for producing polytonic Greek OCR. The output provided by Rigaudon OCR is post-processed and piped to the CoPhiProofReader web application. 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 Charlotte.Tupman@kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2013.html -- --------------------------------- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 453B92F05; Fri, 19 Jul 2013 14:24:31 +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 810312EE6; Fri, 19 Jul 2013 14:24:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1C0372EE6; Fri, 19 Jul 2013 14:24:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130719122421.1C0372EE6@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 14:24:20 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.222 pubs: Memory 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. 27, No. 222. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 07:19:18 -0500 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Memory Machines Memory Machines: The Evolution of Hypertext (2013) Belinda Barnet Anthem Press See http://www.anthempress.com/pdf/9780857280602.pdf for more information. -- Willard McCarty (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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 08C992F03; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:07:25 +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 70A152EE9; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:07:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DD97A2ED6; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:07:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130720120715.DD97A2ED6@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:07:15 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.223 Memory 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 223. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 08:54:37 -0400 From: "Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven" Subject: totosy Re: 27.222 pubs: Memory Machines In-Reply-To: <20130719122421.1C0372EE6@digitalhumanities.org> this must be a joke…: $99 for a book, TODAY? no wonder the academic print publishing industry is becoming obsolete: "stupid is as stupid does…" totosy de zepetnek, steven phd professor purdue university & purdue university press http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/totosycv 1-781-729-1680 On Jul 19, 2013, at 8:24 am, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 222. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 07:19:18 -0500 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: Memory Machines > > Memory Machines: The Evolution of Hypertext (2013) > Belinda Barnet > Anthem Press > > See http://www.anthempress.com/pdf/9780857280602.pdf for more information. > > -- > Willard McCarty (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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 EAB0B2F06; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:10:11 +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 34F022EE5; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:10:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C04982EB2; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:10:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130720121000.C04982EB2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:10:00 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.224 PhD studentships & postdocs; grant applications; job at Davidson X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 224. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Franz Fischer (49) Subject: Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network (DiXiT) [2] From: C Cooper (36) Subject: Position announcement: Assistant Archivist, Davidson College (United States) [3] From: Lucy Barber (61) Subject: NHPRC Innovation in Archives and Documentary Editing Grants -- draft deadline approaching --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 17:46:52 +0200 From: Franz Fischer Subject: Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network (DiXiT) Dear Humanists, We are delighted to announce that the Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network (DiXiT) has been awarded a multi-million Euro European grant for investigating the creation and publication of digital scholarly editions. DiXiT is an international network of high-profile institutions from the public and the private sector offering a coordinated training and research programme for early stage researchers and experienced researchers in the multi-disciplinary skills, technologies, theories, and methods of digital scholarly editing. The programme includes twelve fellowships for early stage researchers (PhD students) for a period of three years, and five fellowships for experienced researchers (Post-Docs) for a period of 12 to 20 months. The positions will be widely advertised starting from the month of October. DiXiT will also organise six training events at various levels (camps & conventions), open to all DiXiT fellows as well as to other people that may be interested in the topics covered. The DiXiT network includes the following academic partners: -- University of Cologne (coordinator) - Germany -- University of Borås -€“ Sweden -- Huygens Institute (Huygens ING) -€“ The Netherlands -- King's College London - UK -- University of Antwerp -€“ Belgium -- University of Graz -€“ Austria -- Trinity College Dublin -€“ Ireland -- École des Haute Études en Sciences Sociales -€“ France -- Università  di Roma €œLa Sapienza -€“ Italy -- University of Oxford -€“ UK Private sector partners include software development companies, publishing houses and service providers. Moreover, DiXiT will closely collaborate with DARIAH, TEI-C, ESTS, Wikimedia, IDE, national libraries etc. DiXiT is funded under Marie Curie Actions within the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme. It runs from September 2013 until August 2017. Further details: http://dixit.uni-koeln.de -- 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/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 16:55:06 +0000 From: C Cooper Subject: Position announcement: Assistant Archivist, Davidson College (United States) Forwarding on behalf of my alma mater. Camille Cooper Associate Librarian Digital Humanities, English, and Performing Arts Clemson University Clemson SC 29631 Davidson College, a nationally recognized liberal arts college, invites applications for the position of Associate Archivist. As a new practitioner, and member of the Archives and Special Collections team, you will be mentored by professionally active senior team members with over 55 years of experience at Davidson as you help expand our digital projects and contribute to all facets of the department’s activities. Our library serves the information needs of a residential campus of 2,000 students. The College Archives and Special Collections include manuscripts, institutional records, college and local photographs, maps, oral histories and sound recordings, and rare books. We also implement the college’s records program. Members of the Archives and Special Collections team contribute to the college’s mission by supporting faculty and student research and enhance the curriculum with course-integrated instruction and project support. The Archives actively participate in Davidson’s digital studies initiative and have implemented a number of digital collections projects independently and as part of collaborations with curricular initiatives. Representative projects and digital collections may be viewed at the Archives and Special Collections website. The Associate Archivist, reporting to the Assistant Director for Discovery Systems and working under the additional guidance of the College Archivist, will participate in all aspects of the department’s efforts, primarily digital projects reference, collection processing, and outreach. Duties include: Creating online content, working with faculty, staff and students to define and implement projects involving the analysis and presentation of information using digital techniques including Geospatial Information Systems (GIS/Mapping) and data visualization. Supporting digital collection initiatives including the Institutional Repository, working with student organizationand engaging in other outreach activities to solicit content and raise awareness of archives and special collections services. Providing reference services: assisting researchers in navigating the collections through use of online finding aids and other resource materials, retrieving materials for researchers, assisting researchers with appropriate equipment, and maintaining subject files. Participating in collection arrangement and description: processing and describing collections, applying basic conservation procedures, and contributing to the digitization of the unique resources of the Davidson College Archives and Special Collections in support of research and the curriculum. Enhancing and supporting the archives and special collections websites and social media activities. Supervising student workers and volunteers and participating in departmental and library planning activities. Required Qualifications: The candidate should demonstrate excellent communication skills, as the Associate Archivist (AA) will have frequent contact with campus community and outside researchers. The candidate will also need effective time management strategies. The AA must balance multiple duties while also serving as the project coordinator and quality control advisor for volunteers and student workers. Candidate must be conversant with or willing to learn collections management, archival standards, cataloging, digital projects, conservation, institutional repositories, and electronic records management. The successful candidate will be a creative and resourceful recent graduate of an ALA-accredited MLS or Masters of Archival Studies program, who is dedicated to undergraduate education and student/faculty research. Desired Qualifications: · Knowledge of metadata standards including Dublin Core, MODS, and MARC · Understanding of HTML and XML · Familiarity with one or more digital project software environments that may include Wordpress or Omeka · Understanding of the Data Curation lifecycle · Familiarity with data visualization or GIS techniques and software · Willingness to work in a fast paced and ever changing environment and manage projects from start to conclusion To view further details and apply for this job please visit the Davidson College Career Site. Jill Gremmels the Leland M. Park Director of the Davidson College Library PO Box 7200 Davidson, NC 28035-7200 jigremmels@davidson.edu (704) 894-2160 fax: (704) 894-2625 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 17:02:16 -0400 From: Lucy Barber Subject: NHPRC Innovation in Archives and Documentary Editing Grants -- draft deadline approaching I want to remind archivists, digital humanist, documentary editors, and other people interested in those fields that the NHPRC will be accepting final grant application in the Innovation in Archives and Documentary Editing Grant category (maximum award $150,000, http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/announcement/innovation.html) on October 3, 2013. However, I highly encourage the submission of drafts or scheduling of conversations about ideas, preferably by August 1, but I will have availability at other times in August. An Overview: The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks projects that are exploring innovative methods to improve the preservation, public discovery, or use of historical records. Projects may also focus on techniques and tools that will improve the professional performance and effectiveness of those who work with such records, such as archivists, documentary editors, and records managers. Projects must anticipate results that will affect more than a single institution or a single state. Projects may focus on methods of working with records in any format, including born-digital records. Projects designed to publish historical records must focus on innovative methods of presenting archival records as primary sources. The Commission does not fund projects focused on artifacts or books. For a comprehensive list of the Commission's limitations on funding, please see What We Do and Do Not Fund http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/apply/eligibility.html ( http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/apply/eligibility.html). Applications that consist entirely of ineligible activities will not be considered. Applications will need to address the problem being addressed, the likely audiences for the solution, partners to test the solutions, and quantifiable performance metrics. Recent awards: *Simmons College* Boston, MA $102,602 To support a three-year project to develop training for municipal and county clerks in preserving the archival records under their care. This project will develop both in-person and on-line training for clerks and test it in Massachusetts with the cooperation of the Massachusetts State Archives and Board of Library Commissioners, and the Massachusetts Town and City Clerks Associations. *Stanford University* Stanford, CA $136,410 To support a two-year project to develop automated tools to help archivists process and appraise emails donated to special collections. Stanford also will develop related tools to enable researchers to discover information in email collections and for repositories to deliver that information. *University of Virginia* Charlottesville, VA $144,000 To support a digital-only documentary edition of the George Washington Financial Papers, focusing on his voluminous financial records, applying the tools and methods as well to the financial ledgers of Gouvernor Morris. *Historical Society of Pennsylvania* Philadelphia, PA $128,956 To support a two-year project to create new tools for annotating digital images so that users can discover and research them more effectively. -- Lucy Barber Deputy Executive Director National Historical Publications & Records Commission, National Archives 700 Pennsylvania Ave, Room 114 Washington, DC 20408 202-357-5306 FAX 202-357-5914 www.archives.gov/nhprc _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5B40A2EE9; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:10:42 +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 CC8BE2F07; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:10:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 731FC2F05; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:10:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130720121032.731FC2F05@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:10:32 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.225 events: linguistic annotation 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="===============1120480806609634151==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============1120480806609634151== Content-Type: text/plain Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 225. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 23:04:54 +0200 (CEST) From: Stefanie Dipper Subject: LAW VII and ID: call for participation Call for Participation: 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 Featuring papers on sparse annotations and error correction, comparison & evaluation, discourse and semantic annotations and novel annotation methods. The special theme this year is interoperability between diverse annotations and discourse, introducing a hands on shared task and discussion. For the full programme see below. August 8, 2013 8:45–9:00 Opening Remarks 9:00–9:40 Christopher Manning (invited talk): Improving the Linguistics of Linguistic Annotation: Opportunities and Limits 9:40–10:05 Ramy Eskander, Nizar Habash, Ann Bies, Seth Kulick and Mohamed Maamouri: Automatic Correction and Extension of Morphological Annotations 10:05–10:30 Marcel Bollmann: POS Tagging for Historical Texts with Sparse Training Data 10:30–11:00 Coffee break 11:00–11:07 Quy Nguyen, Ngan Nguyen and Yusuke Miyao: Utilizing State-of-the-art Parsers to Diagnose Problems in Treebank Annotation for a Less Resourced Language 11:07–11:14 Arne Skjærholt: Influence of preprocessing on dependency syntax annotation: speed and agreement 11:15–11:40 Yvette Graham, Timothy Baldwin, Alistair Moffat and Justin Zobel: Continuous Measurement Scales in Human Evaluation of Machine Translation 11:40–12:05 Rohan Ramanath, Monojit Choudhury and Kalika Bali: Entailment: An Effective Metric for Comparing and Evaluating Hierarchical and Non-hierarchical Annotation Schemes 12:05–12:30 Nathan Schneider, Brendan O’Connor, Naomi Saphra, David Bamman, Manaal Faruqui, Noah A. Smith, Chris Dyer and Jason Baldridge: A Framework for (Under)specifying Dependency Syntax without Overloading Annotators 12:30–14:00 Lunch 14:00–14:25 Cristina Bosco, Simonetta Montemagni and Maria Simi: Converting Italian Treebanks: Towards an Italian Stanford Dependency Treebank 14:25–14:50 Hen-Hsen Huang, Chi-Hsin Yu, Tai-Wei Chang, Cong-Kai Lin and Hsin-Hsi Chen: Analyses of the Association between Discourse Relation and Sentiment Polarity with a Chinese Human-Annotated Corpus 14:50–15:15 Claudiu Mihăilă, Georgios Kontonatsios, Riza Theresa Batista-Navarro, Paul Thompson, Ioannis Korkontzelos and Sophia Ananiadou: Towards a Better Understanding of Discourse: Integrating Multiple Discourse Annotation Perspectives Using UIMA (LAW VII and ID Challenge Award) 15:15–15:22 Rafal Rak and Sophia Ananiadou: Making UIMA Truly Interoperable with SPARQL 15:22–15:29 Arne Neumann, Nancy Ide and Manfred Stede: Importing MASC into the ANNIS linguistic database: A case study of mapping GrAF 15:30–16:00 Coffee break 16:00–18:00 Maria Lakata and Sampo Pyysalo: Introduction to the task and hands-on work August 9, 2013 9:00–9:25 Anna Nedoluzhko: Generic noun phrases and annotation of coreference and bridging relations in the Prague Dependency Treebank 9:25–9:50 Varada Kolhatkar, Heike Zinsmeister and Graeme Hirst: Annotating Anaphoric Shell Nouns with their Antecedents 9:50–10:15 Isin Demirsahin, Adnan Ozturel, Cem Bozsahin and Deniz Zeyrek: Applicative Structures and Immediate Discourse in the Turkish Discourse Bank 10:15–10:22 Gülşen Eryiğit, Fatih Samet Çetin, Meltem Yanık, Tanel Temel and Ä°lyas Çiçekli: TURKSENT: A Sentiment Annotation Tool for Social Media 10:22–10:29 Stephen Tratz, Douglas Briesch, Jamal Laoudi and Clare Voss: Tweet Conversation Annotation Tool with a Focus on an Arabic Dialect, Moroccan Darija 10:30–11:00 Coffee break 11:00–11:25 Yuka Tateisi, Yo Shidahara, Yusuke Miyao and Akiko Aizawa: Relation Annotation for Understanding Research Papers 11:25–11:50 Francis Bond, Shan Wang, Eshley Huini Gao, Hazel Shuwen Mok and Jeanette Yiwen Tan: Developing Parallel Sense-tagged Corpora with Wordnets 11:50–12:15 Itisree Jena, Riyaz Ahmad Bhat, Sambhav Jain and Dipti Misra Sharma: Animacy Annotation in the Hindi Treebank 12:15–12:22 Sophie Rosset, Cyril Grouin, Thomas Lavergne, Mohamed Ben Jannet, Jérémy Leixa, Olivier Galibert and Pierre Zweigenbaum: Automatic Named Entity Pre-annotation for Out-of-domain Human Annotation 12:22–12:29 Laura Banarescu, Claire Bonial, Shu Cai, Madalina Georgescu, Kira Griffitt, Ulf Hermjakob, Kevin Knight, Philipp Koehn, Martha Palmer and Nathan Schneider: Abstract Meaning Representation for Sembanking 12:30–14:00 Lunch 14:00–14:25 Rebecca J. Passonneau and Bob Carpenter: The Benefits of a Model of Annotation 14:25–14:50 Andreas Peldszus and Manfred Stede: Ranking the annotators: An agreement study on argumentation structure 14:50–15:15 Martin Tschirsich and Gerold Hintz: Leveraging Crowdsourcing for Paraphrase Recognition 15:15–15:40 Ryu Iida, Koh Mitsuda and Takenobu Tokunaga: Investigation of annotator’s behaviour using eye-tracking data 15:40–16:00 Coffee break 16:00–16:07 Marine Damiani and Delphine Battistelli: Enunciative and modal variations in newswire texts in French: From guideline to automatic annotation 16:07–16:14: Amália Mendes, Iris Hendrickx, Agostinho Salgueiro and Luciana Ávila: Annotating the Interaction between Focus and Modality: the case of exclusive particles 16:15–17:15 Posters and Demos 17:15–17:30 Concluding Remarks --===============1120480806609634151== 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 --===============1120480806609634151==-- Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id F1C292EF4; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:17:40 +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 B35362ED6; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:17:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6FD702EB2; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:17:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130720121729.6FD702EB2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:17:29 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.226 pubs: Methods in Philosophy of Design & Philosophy of Science 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. 27, No. 226. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 15:00:31 +0000 From: "M.Boon@utwente.nl" Subject: Call Special issue Methods in Philosophy of Design and Philosophy of Science Call for papers for Philosophy & Technology’s special issue METHODS IN PHILOSOPHY OF DESIGN AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE GUEST EDITOR Pieter Vermaas Philosophy Department, Delft University of Technology. Methods to do science as they emerged in the natural sciences and humanities have been an enduring topic of philosophical analysis and criticism, defining an on-going endeavour in philosophy of science. Methods to do design as developed in engineering and architecture have been considered in philosophy as well, yet in a more incidental manner, and without materialising a separate branch of philosophy of design. Still, it can be argued that a philosophy of design and its methods, in analogy to philosophy of science and its methods, is called for. For more see the following: *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1374255421_2013-07-19_m.boon@utwente.nl_9015.2.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2ED502F09; Sun, 21 Jul 2013 15:12:01 +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 8FF222EE8; Sun, 21 Jul 2013 15:11:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 54B8F2EDF; Sun, 21 Jul 2013 15:11:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130721131152.54B8F2EDF@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 15:11:52 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.227 memory 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 227. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (14) Subject: Re: 27.223 Memory Machines [2] From: Matthew Kirschenbaum (22) Subject: Re: 27.223 Memory Machines --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 08:57:27 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: 27.223 Memory Machines In-Reply-To: <20130720120715.DD97A2ED6@digitalhumanities.org> Dr. Totosy de Zepetnek -- You must know that prices for academic books are high because of very limited print runs and high quality (library quality) paper and binding. I'm annoyed with the prices too, but they're selling primarily to libraries. We might spend time thinking about alternative models? Jim R this must be a joke…: $99 for a book, TODAY? no wonder the academic print > publishing industry is becoming obsolete: "stupid is as stupid does…" > > totosy de zepetnek, steven phd professor > purdue university & purdue university press > http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/totosycv > 1-781-729-1680 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:09:34 -0400 From: Matthew Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 27.223 Memory Machines In-Reply-To: <20130720120715.DD97A2ED6@digitalhumanities.org> The book is also available for Kindle for $30. I recommend it. > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 222. > > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > > > > > Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 07:19:18 -0500 > > From: Willard McCarty > > Subject: Memory Machines > > > > Memory Machines: The Evolution of Hypertext (2013) > > Belinda Barnet > > Anthem Press > > > > See http://www.anthempress.com/pdf/9780857280602.pdf for more > information. > > > > -- > > Willard McCarty (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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 21ED32EDF; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 05:35:53 +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 C2FD02ED0; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 05:35:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C88A42EB3; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 05:35:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130723033538.C88A42EB3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 05:35:38 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.228 cost of books (was Memory Machines) 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="===============6760025363745976432==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============6760025363745976432== Content-Type: text/plain Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 228. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 08:20:29 +0200 From: Patrick Sahle Subject: Re: 27.227 memory machines In-Reply-To: <20130721131152.54B8F2EDF@digitalhumanities.org> James, > You must know that prices for academic books are high because of very > limited print runs and high quality (library quality) paper and binding. With our IDE series we have very limited print runs and very high quality (very nice thick paper, hard cover thread stitching binding) as well. For a 180 pages book as the one in question, we would come up with a price around 35€ to 39€ - and still have a reasonable profit marge (for some not for profit activities). I expect others could confirm such pricing. > I'm annoyed with the prices too, but they're selling primarily to > libraries. And that's a justification for the price? I must be missing the point here ... One point for me is: I'd really like to have that book and would buy it, at - let's say - 45$ ... Best, Patrick ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Book(s) out: 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/ (Secretary) B) DARIAH-DE (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities) http://de.dariah.eu/ (Researcher) C) Humanities Computer Science, University of Cologne http://www.hki.uni-koeln.de/ (Researcher) D) Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik http://www.i-d-e.de (Member) --===============6760025363745976432== 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 --===============6760025363745976432==-- Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1AA632F0A; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 05:36:54 +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 80D092EDA; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 05:36:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 33ED82ECE; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 05:36:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130723033643.33ED82ECE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 05:36:43 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.229 surveys: user-generated projects; practices in 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. 27, No. 229. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Stella Sylaiou (23) Subject: Crowdsourcing Cultural Heritage-Survey on user-generated content projects [2] From: Enrico Natale (14) Subject: Surveys about Research & Documentation Practices in History --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 19:06:37 +0300 From: Stella Sylaiou Subject: Crowdsourcing Cultural Heritage-Survey on user-generated content projects Are you a virtual volunteer in cultural organizations? Fill out the survey now! Cultural organizations are relying on your support, but not a lot of information is available about your expectations and characteristics, as well as the motivational factors that lead you to volunteer on-line for user-generated content projects of cultural organizations, such as museums, galleries, libraries, and archives. I am in the middle of my post-doc research about virtual volunteering and user-generated content projects in cultural heritage institutions at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and I’d love to get your feedback. The benefit of your participation in this survey is that cultural organizations will be provided with knowledge that may help them to significantly improve the experiences of virtual volunteers. It would be fantastic if you could complete the survey or pass it on to the appropriate person, and Tweet the link. It should only take about 10 minutes to complete and will close on Friday, August 23, 2013. To take the survey, go to the site listed below https://qtrial.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_51048eQTk8KhX5r I will be happy to send you a published copy of my research. For more information on virtual volunteering/ user-generated content projects/ crowdsourcing in cultural heritage, please contact me, Dr. Stella Sylaiou ( sylaiou@photo.topo.auth.gr). Thank you very much for your time and valuable contribution to the research! --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 12:28:04 +0200 From: Enrico Natale Subject: Surveys about Research & Documentation Practices in History Hi, I'm conducting a research about the changing methodologies and research practices in the historical sciences and I am therefore collecting Surveys about Digital Research and Documentation Practices among Historians and other Humanities scholars. Are you aware of such Surveys, whose results have been published and are available online ? Thank you very much for your help, Best Greetings from Switzerland, Enrico Natale infoclio.ch Hirschengraben 11 Postfach 6811 3001 Bern Tel: +41 31 311 75 72 @infoclio New: compas.infoclio.ch New: rousseauonline.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0DC832F0E; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 05:39:47 +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 3F3362F07; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 05:39:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 775A82EE3; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 05:39:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130723033938.775A82EE3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 05:39:38 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.230 jobs: postdocs at TAMU, Alabama; research programmer at Perseus X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 230. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Maura Ives" (80) Subject: Position Announcement: Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Humanities at IDHMC, Texas A&M [2] From: Lisa Cerrato (21) Subject: Job Opening at the Perseus Digital Library [3] From: Ray Siemens (39) Subject: DH Postdoc at University of Alabama --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 14:54:23 -0500 From: "Maura Ives" Subject: Position Announcement: Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Humanities at IDHMC, Texas A&M The Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture, in partnership with the College of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University, announces a postdoctoral research fellowship for the academic year 2013-2014 in the area of digital humanities. This position is in association with the Advanced Research Consortium (ARC) and 18thConnect. This is a one-year appointment sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts Strategic Planning Grant. The position will begin on September 1, 2013. Joining a team of faculty, alternate academic staff, and graduate students, our research associate will be immersed in the scholarly communication community. He or she will help organize academic peer review of digital projects, work with large humanities data sets, and become part of the discussion of humanities metadata standards. ARC is the umbrella organization for multiple digital research nodes, accessed through the web -NINES, 18thConnect, MESA - that contain resources spanning the bulk of existing Western documents, from medieval times to the early 20th-century. Each ARC node contains data about historical documents, scanned page images (with text transcriptions), scholarly research, and open-source teaching and research tools (Juxta, TypeWright). Our research associate will also be involved in the development and promotion of existing and future ARC applications, including Collex (a COLLections and Exhibits builder), Juxta, TypeWright, Aletheia Web, Cobre, and edition builder software. Our research associate will be expected to explore the implications of emerging humanities research paradigms through his or her own research as well as by working collaboratively with the IDHMC and ARC team to nurture and develop the future of ARC. We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow who can critically engage issues of scholarly communication in the academy, digital scholarship, and the improvement of metadata standards for humanities fields, while also managing projects and working collaboratively with a large team. The IDHMC expects our research fellow to continue to keep up with disciplinary research and digital humanities professionalization, and we will support these efforts with limited travel funding. Our research associate will share in a set of responsibilities that include the following: . Collaborate with ARC node teams at multiple institutions to aggregate and index period-specific metadata. . Assist the ARC team in negotiation with content providers, major institutions, and proprietary data holders. . Assist the ARC team in the maintenance and improvement of the ARC catalog (catalog.ar-c.org) and Solr indexer. Collaborate with the ARC project manager to design and develop structured training for new project managers. . Help to ensure the sustainability of the ARC organization by investigating and instigating an archive of ARC development and business. . Help to ensure the sustainability of all ARC nodes by researching and proposing solutions to untenable software. Evaluate metadata standards in the humanities community and participate in the proposal of new standards. . Help to manage the open-source efforts for COLLEX and other ARC-developed applications. . Coordinate outreach activities for ARC at major disciplinary conferences. . Coordinate outreach activities for ARC and the nodes through social media and blogging platforms. . Perform other duties as required. PhD in humanities or social sciences field required. Experience with digital humanities research methods required. Some project management experience preferred; experience in developing or working on an archive, metadata standards (preferably able to handle variations of Dublin Core metadata), and database and repository manipulation preferred. To apply for this job, please visit TAMU's JobPath website at https://jobpath.tamu.edu/postings/60037 For more information, please contact Laura Mandell, Director, IDHMC ( idhmc at tamu dot edu). --Maura Ives, Professor Associate Director, IDHMC Department of English Texas A&M University 349 LAAH Building 4227 TAMU College Station, TX 77843 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 11:16:16 -0400 From: Lisa Cerrato Subject: Job Opening at the Perseus Digital Library Dear listmembers, Please redistribute and repost! The Perseus Digital Library is now accepting applications for an Associate Research Programmer: http://sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdates/2013/07/22/job-opening-at-perseus-associate-research-programmer/ . The associate research programmer will play a key part in the development of the Perseids Platform for collaborative editing, learning and publication. This new project is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation under the direction of Perseus Associate Editor, Assistant Professor Marie-Claire Beaulieu. More on Perseids is here: http://sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdates/2013/07/16/mellon-funds-perseids-project/ Interested applicants are asked to visit the links above for further information. Follow up questions may be directed to lisa.cerrato@tufts.edu . Thank you! -- Lisa M. Cerrato Managing Editor Perseus Digital Library --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 20:17:33 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: DH Postdoc at University of Alabama In-Reply-To: On 2013-07-22 12:32 PM, "Drouin, Jennifer" wrote: > >The Alabama Digital Humanities Center at the University of Alabama >(http://www.lib.ua.edu/digitalhumanities) is pleased to invite >applications for a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in Digital >Humanities. The Alabama Digital Humanities Center (ADHC) is a vibrant and >dynamic community of over 80 faculty and staff members and a >collaborative workspace created and maintained by the University >Libraries. The post-doctoral fellow will hold a joint appointment in the >University Libraries and the English Department in the College of Arts & >Sciences. The fellowship offers the successful candidate support for >independent research combined with the opportunity to play a leadership >role in the expansion of the digital humanities community at the >University of Alabama. > >The successful candidate will begin the fellowship in August of 2013, >with a 24-month appointment through the end of the 2014-15 academic year. >The fellow will conduct his or her own research and work in conjunction >with the ADHC staff to promote and develop the digital humanities >community on campus. The fellow will deliver presentations on his or her >research and on digital humanities topics more generally to University of >Alabama faculty and will provide leadership in identifying, >understanding, and evaluating emerging technologies based on their >pedagogical, presentation, and research uses. > >The committee welcomes all applicants with an active research agenda in >English or a related discipline. The successful applicant will have >attained a Ph.D. by June 2013 and will bring an active research project >whose strong digital component could serve as a model for other faculty >at the University of Alabama. The applicant should demonstrate an ability >to engage broadly with digital humanities as an interdisciplinary >community of scholars. > >Candidates should consult the full position description posted at >http://www.lib.ua.edu/digitalhumanities/post-doc and then apply at >http://facultyjobs.ua.edu . Inquiries may be directed to Prof. Thomas C. >Wilson, Search Committee Chair, tcwilson@ua.edu. Review of applications >will begin July 24, 2013 and continue 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A1F8C2F1B; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 05:40:20 +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 C51AD2F11; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 05:40:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E79D82F0E; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 05:40:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130723034013.E79D82F0E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 05:40:13 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.231 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 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. 27, No. 231. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 01:31:50 +0300 From: Subject: Next 6th Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries Dear Colleagues, Thank you for your contribution to the success of the 5th QQML2013 in Rome. Following the Conference Committee decision the next 6th QQML2014 is scheduled to take place in Istanbul, Turkey (27-30 May 2014). Please update your calendar. We are editing and reviewing the conference papers for the QQML2013 conference proceedings. A significant number of selected papers will be included in Books and Journal issues. On behalf of the organizing committee I invite you to participate in the next QQML2014, Kind regards, Anthi Katsirikou Librarian, PhD, MSc QQML Conference co-chair Director, University of Piraeus Library Coordinator of European Documentation Centers in Greece Adjunct Lecturer at TEI of Athens Member of the Board of the Association of Greek Librarians and Information Professionals http://www.isast.org/ http://www.isast.org Fax 0030 210 3630667 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4CB022EF4; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 00:42:03 +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 99B952F1D; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 00:41:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BAB432EF4; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 00:41:50 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130723224150.BAB432EF4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 00:41:50 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.232 events: collaboration; HathiTrust 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 232. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Senseney, Megan Finn" (27) Subject: Registration now open! HTRC UnCamp, Sept. 8-9, 2013 [2] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (25) Subject: Conference call for papers: Making Connections - Collaboration in Research and Practice --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 19:45:24 +0000 From: "Senseney, Megan Finn" Subject: Registration now open! HTRC UnCamp, Sept. 8-9, 2013 REGISTRATION NOW OPEN - DUE AUG 31st! HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) UnCamp A 1.5 Day Event Sept 8-9, 2013 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign I Hotel and Conference Center 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 second annual HTRC UnCamp will be held in September 8-9, 2013 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 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. UnCamp will feature stellar keynote speakers including Matt Wilkens, who specializes in contemporary American fiction, and digital and computational literary studies at Notre Dame, and Christopher Warren, specialist in Renaissance literature as it relates to politics, law, international political thought, and intellectual history, at Carnegie Mellon. New this year is a Scholarly Communication Office Hours. The office hours is a pilot for user services: participants will have the option to sign up for individual consultation sessions with members of the UIUC library. Who should attend? The HTRC UnCamp is targeted to the digital humanities and informatics tool developers, researchers and librarians, and graduate students. Registration To make UnCamp as affordable as possible for you to attend, we have set registration at $100.00. Please visit https://www.eventville.com/catalog/eventregistration1.asp?eventid=1010536 to register. Registration is due by August 31, 2013. For more information: http://www.hathitrust.org/htrc_uncamp2013 If you have questions regarding the HTRC UnCamp please contact Megan Senseney, HTRC Project Coordinator:mfsense2@illinois.edu or 217-244-5574. Looking forward to seeing you in Champaign! -- 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/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 22:11:21 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Conference call for papers: Making Connections - Collaboration in Research and Practice > From: "Castle, Yvonne" > > Subject: Conference call for papers: Making Connections - Collaboration in Research and Practice > Date: 23 July 2013 15:33:53 BST Conference call for papers: Making Connections - Collaboration in Research and Practice National one-day conference that will be asking ‘What Happens When Cultural Institutions and Academics Collaborate?’ Facilitated by the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA) and Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) schemes (www.ahrc.ac.uk/Funding-Opportunities/Pages/Collaborative-Doctoral-Awards.aspx), cross-institutional partnerships have become an increasingly popular way of conductingresearch across a range of disciplines. This conference aims to critically explore the benefits, challenges and impact of collaborative research. Papers may explore the following: What research methods are useful in institutional research? How do you work with and read material culture? What arethe implications of being ‘embedded’ in a museum, gallery or cultural institution? How can researchers balance autonomy with collaboration? How can youtake your project beyond the thesis? How can you maintain collaborative relationships and begin new ones? Are the traditional boundaries betweendefinitions of academic and non-academic research still relevant? Papers will be welcomed from any stage of an AHRC CDA, or a collaborative PhD, as well as from early career researchers who have already completedtheir PhD. Abstracts submitted should be up to 250 words outlining papers 15-20 minutes in length. Proposals for posters can also be submitted to showcase collaborative work. Submission date closes 19 August 2013. For more details see http://makingconnectionsconference.wordpress.com/about/ The keynote speaker will be Dr Glenn Adamson, Head of Research at the V&A and tutor in History of Design at the Royal College of Art. Best wishes, Yvonne Yvonne Castle | Administrator King's Cultural Institute Somerset House East Wing King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS T: +44 (0)20 7848 7634 E: yvonne.castle@kcl.ac.uk W: www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/index.aspx Photo51 – from DNA to the brain Contemporary photography, sculpture and installation exploring the discovery of the structure of DNA and its resonance in contemporary brain science. 25 June – 27 July 2013, Inigo Rooms, Admission Free http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/whats-on _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1F9AC2F0F; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 00:43:33 +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 173872F1D; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 00:43:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D5CE92EE7; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 00:43:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130723224322.D5CE92EE7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 00:43:22 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.233 pubs: Contemporary History in the Digital Age X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 233. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 13:03:29 +0200 From: Frédéric_Clavert Subject: Contemporary history in the digital age / L'histoire contemporaine à l'ère Dear members, (sorry for cross-posting) I am pleased to announce that the book that I have co-edited with Serge Noiret (Florence) is now available (softcover and soon ebook): Clavert, F., Noiret, S. (2013). L'histoire contemporaine à l'ère numérique. Contemporary history in the digital age. Bruxelles: Peter Lang. 2013. "Digital practices in the field of history have become more and more widespread in recent decades, but contemporary historians have often tended to remain on the sidelines of this trend. This book, which covers a wide range of digital practices, tools and methods, will serve both as a solid grounding for historians keen to learn how information technology can be applied to contemporary history, and as a useful tool for researchers and lecturers who already have a degree of experience in this area. It will enable scholars to compare and further their practices in the area of digital humanities, providing a comprehensive vision of the emerging field of digital history." I thank all co-authors for their patience - and I know that a lot of them are reading [Humanist] Best wishes, Frédéric Clavert -- LabEx EHNE / Paris-Sorbonne Docteur en histoire contemporaine - http://www.clavert.net/ > Hjalmar Schacht, financier et diplomate - http://www.clavert.net/hjalmar-schacht-financier-et-diplomate-peter-lang/ > Les banquiers centraux dans la construction européenne - http://www.cairn.info/resume.php?ID_ARTICLE=HES_114_0003 > L'histoire contemporaine à l'ère numérique - http://www.clavert.net/lecture-des-sources-historiennes-a-lere-numerique/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 2707F2F0F; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 22:22:18 +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 353D42EE7; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 22:22:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 681EB2EE6; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 22:22:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130724202207.681EB2EE6@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 22:22:07 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.234 jobs: curator; specialist for person-data archive; for tagging of 17C 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. 27, No. 234. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Alexander Czmiel (12) Subject: Job opening: DH Specialist for Person Data Repository in Berlin [2] From: Colin Greenstreet (90) Subject: Looking for a digital humanities partner: tagging, annotation and linkage [3] From: Jochen Schneider (35) Subject: JOB: Digital Content Curator for East Asian Studies --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 12:12:47 +0200 From: Alexander Czmiel Subject: Job opening: DH Specialist for Person Data Repository in Berlin Dear Colleagues, The Person Data Repository at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities is looking for a Digital Humanities Specialist: http://www.bbaw.de/stellenangebote/2013/2013-07-10_Ausschreibung_wiMa_PDR.pdf More about the project: http://pdr.bbaw.de/english Best regards, Alexander Czmiel -- Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities "TELOTA - The electronic life of the Academy" Jaegerstrasse 22/23 Tel: +49-(0)30-20370-276 10117 Berlin - http://www.bbaw.de - http://www.telota.de --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 14:20:20 +0100 From: Colin Greenstreet Subject: Looking for a digital humanities partner: tagging, annotation and linkage Looking for a digital humanities partner The MarineLives project team is collaborating with the National Archives, Kew, and with the history department of Bath Spa University, to run an innovative project involving the collaborative tagging, annotation and linkage of mid-C17th Admiralty Court records. We are seeking an innovative digital humanities partner with good development capability to join us as a project and bid partner. The output will be a working proof of concept system, and a number of methodological and content related peer reviewed papers. The project partners plan, if successful in raising project funding, to hire and finance one or more PhD and/or post-doctoral students for a period of one to two years. There is the potential to fund one PhD/post-doc in early modern studies and one in digital humanities, or, perhaps more innovatively, to fund one or two PhDs or post-docs,who straddle the study of early modern history and digital humanities, with affiliations to two institutions. We would expect their supervisors or sponsors themselves to be involved in the project. We are looking for a digital humanities partner, who will assist us in exploring and developing our technological and process vision, and who is interested in working with us on the technological implementation of that vision in terms of code. You will be committed to open source data and well versed in the open annotation model. You will think outside normal tracks, and will take a strong interest in the theory and practice of the annotation and linkage of scientific digital literature, as well as being knowledgeable of digital scholarship approaches current in digital humanities Background to the proposed collaboration and criteria for partnership Exploratory discussions regarding digital humanities and technical partnership have been held with academics and departments at several UK and US universities, and these conversations continue. We are also interested in discussions with commercial companies active in archival systems, who have strong interests in large scale remote collaboration. Our immediate collaborative interest is to specify with our partners a proof of concept and grant application to explore the collaborative annotation and linkage of High Court of Admiralty documents in the late 1650s. The National Archives and Bath Spa University will be named partners in the collaboration and grant application(s), together with the social venture, MarineLives http://marinelives.org, as a project of *Connecting Primary Sources* (a new UK educational charity in formation). The National Archives, Kew, will contribute the documents, document preservation and document preparation, and will assist in digitisation. Bath Spa University will lead the early modern content aspects of the work, with Dr Alan Marshall, head of humanities at Bath Spa University, acting as the lead in partnership discussions, and coordinating the involvement of a number of Bath Spa academics who are involved in this project. Professor Elaine Chaluswill act as advisor to the Bath Spa team.. We suggest the endpoints of the proof of concept should be defined in terms of content excellence and insight derived from the approach; a tested prototype methodology, which can be refined as a result of the proof of concept; and pedagogical insights from the involvement of different target groups of annotators with differing academic and public history backgrounds. We suggest the proof of concept should build off methodologies and software developed and used by and in recent annotation projects conducted in Europe and the United States in both the digital humanities and the natural sciences communities (especially biomedicine). Our annotation proof of concept will build on the successful completion of the earlier MarineLives proof of concept for the collaborative transcription of HCA 13/71 (a volume of Admiralty Court depositions from the years 1655 and 1656). We would like to develop one or more digital humanities and technical partnerships over the next three months, and to submit one or more joint grant applications by end October 2013. There is potential to work on joint development of early modern digital history courses, for use at Bath Spa and other universities, to be firmly embedded in archival work, targeting undergraduate and graduate students, together with Bath Spa University, our content partner. There is potential to collaborate on the research (and writing) of academic papers, with MarineLives volunteers extending academic research capacity to our academic partners, together with Bath Spa University, our content partner. Take a look at two recent Shipping News blog entries on the National Archives tagging system, to sample our work and our perspectives. User perspective on social tagging. Shipping News blog article, July 18th, 2013 What’s in a name? Shipping News blog article, July 23rd, 2013 Documentation and contact: Click hereto download digital humanities and technical partnership document PDF Click here http://marinelives.org/contact-us.html to contact the MarineLives project team to discuss the contents of the above PDF Best wishes Colin Greenstreet, co-director, MarineLives --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 15:55:46 +0200 From: Jochen Schneider Subject: JOB: Digital Content Curator for East Asian Studies The Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) is seeking a Digital Content Curator Department III Artefacts and Action in Systems of Knowledge Accountable to: Director, Head of Library, Head of Information Technologies Responsible for: communicating with depositors and potential depositors, curating, organizing the uploading, and review of digital and material resources on the History of Science, East Asia; further development of dynamic infrastructure for content management. Tenure: A full time position with tenure, initially for 2 years. Pay Scale: TVöD E13/E14, roughly comparable to assistant/associate professor. (For further reference see http://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/tvoed/bund/) Job Summary: The digital-content-curator will organize the content collection of historical sources on East Asian science and technology in close collaboration with the director of Dep. III, the head of library and IT. The curator will liaise independently with depositors and suppliers. S/he will be central to the development of a content-management-system for the storage, analysis and representation of data of diverse formats (paper documents, objects, 2 and 3D imaging, audio, video etc and digital databases). Duties include communicating with agents and depositors, uploading, processing and evaluating data, corpus management, diagnosis of problems, preparing web-presentation, researching and compiling information and reports about deposits. The content-curator will support the members of the teams with content-related and technical collaboration across the archiving and retrieval workflow. Competency -Background in East Asian Studies, Library and/or Information Sciences. -Familiarity with historical sources on East Asia (digital and material), library categories and database/ data management projects. -Fluency in English and Chinese. Additional language skills are welcome. -Profound experience in independent and pro-active project management combined with a sense for team-work. -Ability to manage the complete project life-cycle of digital documentation materials, their use and analysis. -Proficiency in digital humanities working methods (Metadata standards, the application of semantic web technologies for the organization, ontologies). -Practical skills in the management of various data formats (texts, imagery, 3D), document encoding and processing, data management techniques (GIS etc), and media file formats. Experience with the hard sciences welcome. -Experience in software development and content-management systems. -Aptitude to create technical and training guidelines and documents. The MPIWG is an international, interdisciplinary institute. International experience is highly desirable. There are no formal teaching obligations. Administrative responsibilities are decided in consultation with the Director and shared with other members of the scholarly staff. The MPIWG provides excellent support for research, including travel funds. Scholars of all nationalities are welcome to apply; applications from women are especially welcomed. The Max-Planck-Society is committed to employing more handicapped individuals and encourages them to apply. If after reading through this document and visiting our website (see http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/research/projects/departmentSchaefer), you have further questions, please contact Prof. Dagmar Schäfer (dschaefer@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de). For administrative questions concerning the position and the Institute, please contact Ms. Claudia Paaß, Head of Administration (verwaltungsleitung@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de), or Mr. Jochen Schneider, Research Coordinator (jsr@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de). Your application should consist of a one page covering letter that addresses key selection criteria, a brief CV, and the names and contact details of three professional referees – ideally, as a single Word or PDF document with your name and the position title as the document’s name. Please also provide a work sample (link or reference welcome). Only electronic applications are accepted. Applications should be submitted no later than September 10, 2013, by 4 pm (MEZ) to Ms. Nuria Monn: bewerbung3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de. While all applications will be acknowledged by email, only shortlisted applicants will be contacted personally, and we appreciate your patience during this time. Candidates will be invited to a workshop and interview in the week 14-19 Oct. 2013. If you already know that you are unavailable at this time, you must make mention of this in your covering letter. Position remains open until filled. Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, D-14195 Berlin _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1B39B2F07; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 22:23:35 +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 D582D2EEA; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 22:23:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 18D282EEA; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 22:23:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130724202323.18D282EEA@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 22:23:22 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.235 events: data curation institute; teaching with Perseids X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 235. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Gabriel Bodard (34) Subject: Seminar: Teaching with the Perseids Platform [2] From: "Senseney, Megan Finn" (12) Subject: Now Accepting Application: Digital Humanities Data Curation Institute (Oct. 16-18 @ MITH) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 12:26:30 +0100 From: Gabriel Bodard Subject: Seminar: Teaching with the Perseids Platform Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2013 Friday July 26 at 16:30 in room G37, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Marie-Claire Beaulieu (Tufts) Teaching with the Perseids Platform: Tools and methods ALL WELCOME The Perseids online collaborative environment offers a new pedagogical model for Classics in which students participate directly in the creation of knowledge. This presentation will detail two uses cases of Perseids. The first use case, in which a class collaborates to edit, translate, and annotate documents offers students an occasion to step out of the traditional Classical canon to process materials such as manuscripts and inscriptions. The second use case, dynamic syllabi using managed resources, lets professors assign texts for students to read and annotate, design tests, and gather data for student evaluation. This use case will be demonstrated for a language class and a Classical Mythology course. 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 Charlotte.Tupman@kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2013.html -- Dr Gabriel BODARD Researcher in Digital Epigraphy Digital Humanities King's College London Boris Karloff Building 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/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 15:12:45 +0000 From: "Senseney, Megan Finn" Subject: Now Accepting Application: Digital Humanities Data Curation Institute (Oct. 16-18 @ MITH) Digital Humanities Data Curation, a series of three-day workshops, will provide a strong introductory grounding in data curation concepts and practices, focusing on the special issues and challenges of data curation in the humanities. Workshops are aimed at humanities researchers — whether traditional faculty or alternative (alt-ac) professionals — as well as librarians, archivists, cultural heritage specialists, other information professionals, and advanced graduate students. Applications are now being accepted for the second Digital Humanities Data Curation Institute workshop, to be held at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, University of Maryland, October 16-18, 2013. Visit the Institute website (http://dhcuration.org/institute) to complete an application by August 7. As the materials and analytical practices of humanities research become increasingly digital, the theoretical knowledge and practical skills of information science, librarianship, and archival science — which come together in the research, and practice of data curation — will become more vital to humanists. Carrying out computational research with digital materials requires that both scholars and information professionals understand how to manage and curate data over its entire lifetime of interest. At the least, individual scholars must be able to document their data curation strategies and evaluate those of collaborators and other purveyors of humanities data. More fully integrating data curation into digital research involves fluency with topics such as disciplinary research cultures, publication, information sharing, and reward practices, descriptive standards, metadata formats, and the technical characteristics of digital data. Organized by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), the Women Writers Project (WWP) at Brown University, and the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS) at GSLIS, this workshop series is generously funded by an Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Megan Senseney Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Phone: 217-244-5574 Email: mfsense2@illinois.edu Visit the website at http://dhcuration.org/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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0F7B32F24; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 22:26:10 +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 B07E82F1F; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 22:26:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4CBC32F0F; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 22:26:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130724202601.4CBC32F0F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 22:26:01 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.236 pubs: big data papers 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. 27, No. 236. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 06:09:57 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: IEEE Big Data Deadline Extension and Short Papers The deadline for submitting "IEEE Big Humanities Data" papers has been extended to Aug. 6, 2013. We are also encouraging submission of short papers (up to 4 pages) reporting work in progress. Please see: http://bighumanities.net/ Program Chairs: Mark Hedges, Centre for e-Research, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, UK. mark.hedges@kcl.ac.uk Tobias Blanke, King's College London, Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, UK. tobias.blanke@kcl.ac.uk Richard Marciano, Sustainable Archives and Leveraging Technologies (SALT) lab, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. richard_marciano@unc.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C4B5D2F1E; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 22:19:22 +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 460362F1C; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 22:19:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 27B162EC0; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 22:19:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130725201912.27B162EC0@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 22:19:12 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.237 events: methods & communications; mechanics, mechanisms, devices X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 237. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: jennifer edmond (85) Subject: cfp: "Downstream from the Digital Humanities: Digital methods and Scholarly Communications" [2] From: Erik van der Spek (121) Subject: 2nd CFP: Workshop on Mechanics, Mechanisms and Devices - IFIP ICEC 2013, Sao Paulo, Brazil --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 11:08:12 +0100 From: jennifer edmond Subject: cfp: "Downstream from the Digital Humanities: Digital methods and Scholarly Communications" Downstream from the Digital Humanities: Digital Methods and the Scholarly Communications Ecosystem A NeDimah Working Paper Meeting 15-16 May 2014, Zadar, Croatia Call for Participation While it is clear that some of the barriers to more widespread acceptance and proliferation of digital methods in humanities research are internal to the community, others are not. Scholars must make a calculated decision when choosing to embark on a digital project, not just about their research questions, their digital tools and methods, and how best to address or implement them, but about their careers, their institutions and their scholarly record. In spite of a general recognition of the value of digital scholarly outputs, many institutions and national systems still struggle to judge the merit of such outputs and credit their creators accordingly. Downstream from the Digital Humanities is envisioned as an opportunity to trace current debates in the digital humanities community and beyond around issues from publication to promotion back to their roots, to understand where the systemic changes in the scholarly communications landscape have been addressed, and where their impact is yet to be assimilated. As an initiative of the Scholarly Publication Working Group of the NeDiMAH network (www.nedimah.eu), we invite submissions of 3000-5000 words to be submitted as working papers, to be discussed at a meeting in Zadar (Croatia) on 15-16 May 2014. After a period for revision based on feedback from the meeting, authors will have the opportunity to submit articles for consideration in an edited volume. While abstracts of 750 words on any of the topics below will be welcomed for consideration, the list is by no means exclusive, and we are open to a very broad interpretation of the question of ‘downstream’ difficulties that arise due to the application of digital methods: - Digital humanities research enabled through the digital medium - Interdisciplinary aspects of modern scholarship and cross-disciplinary collaboration of scholars - The changing role and locus of ‘research gate keepers’ in supporting the outputs of new methodologies, and the unseen contributions of traditional publishers - Tracking usage and impact of publications - New forms of scholarly communication - Implications of and for the reliability and sustainability of digital objects - Questions of (open)access above and beyond the green/gold debate - Copyright laws and the meaning of ‘fair use’ in the digital age - New paradigms for the evaluation of scholarship driven by digital methods and the relationship between durable norms of scholarship (creation of knowledge, contribution to a community) and mutable semiotic and methodological systems? - ‘Impact’ as a force that is changing the relationship and hierarchies among different forms of scholarly communication (which we define as a message made available to an audience) and publication (which we define as works of scholarship that have undergone an acceptance process of some sort, usually in the form of peer review)? - Limitations of current citation practice - Systemic implications of the collaborative nature of digital projects For participants chosen from countries participating in the NeDimah network (see www.nedimah.eu for the list of participating countries), expenses to the meeting in Zadar, Croatia will be paid. It will not be possible to cover expenses for individuals whose abstracts have been accepted from other countries. Programme Committee Dr Jennifer Edmond, Trinity College Dublin, Chair Dr Franjo Pehar, University of Zadar, co-Chair Professor Susan Schreibman, Trinity Long Room Hub Associate Professor of Digital Humanities, Trinity College Dublin Timeline for submissions is as follows: Submission of a 750 word abstract to the WG programme committee: 13 September 2013 Notification of acceptance of proposals for inclusion: 30 September 2013 Submission of full written presentation to WG programme committee: 15 January 2014 Comments for authors from WGPC: 28 February 2014 Revised version submitted to WGPC: 30 March 2014 Circulation of working papers to other participants: 10 April 2014 Meeting: 15-16 May 2014 Revision for publication: est Summer 2014 Publication of papers: est late 2014. Enquiries should be sent to: Jennifer Edmond (edmondj@tcd.ie) -- 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: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 12:41:33 +0000 From: Erik van der Spek Subject: 2nd CFP: Workshop on Mechanics, Mechanisms and Devices - IFIP ICEC 2013, Sao Paulo, Brazil CALL FOR PAPERS Mechanics, Mechanisms & Devices: to Inform, Reflect & Change Behaviour, Oct15, 2013 http://seriousgames.sg/ICEC2013_WorkshopMechanics.php Workshop in conjunction with the IFIP 12th International Conference on Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2013, São Paulo, Brazil This workshop focuses on the design, development and evaluation of devices at the heart of gameplay and interaction - the mechanics, procedures, actions, mechanisms, systems, story and narrative, etc. - that provide messages,arguments, triggers, nudges and experience to inform and educate, encourage reflection and raise awareness, and to influence behaviour and for behaviour change. The workshop, co-located with IFIP ICEC 2013 12th InternationalConference on Entertainment Computing in São Paulo, Brazil, aims to bring together designers, developers, evaluators and researchers from industry and academia, and educators and interested participants to share, discuss and learn about the workshop topics. It will be composed of presentations, panels and breakout group discussion sessions to discuss and debate the topics of the workshop. Registration to the workshop is open through ICEC 2013 & SBGames 2013 websites. Application areas and purposes can typically be categorized as follows: • Health, Lifestyle & Well-being: influence/change behaviours to improve health & quality of life • Learning, Education and Raising Awareness • Social Change: persuade / influence behaviour to take action • Advertising and Marketing: shift/focus attention on services or brand &persuade behaviour Background and Related Work Government, commerce, marketing, health & well-being, energy efficiency andsustainability, etc. identify and use a plethora of non-interactive information-based devices including policies, legislation and campaigns in an attempt to persuade, influence or change behaviours. But is non-interactive information and awareness sufficient, or are other techniques and devices needed? Meanwhile, tertiary education increasingly supports the delivery of on-line subjects, courses and degrees, but should additional supportive and persuasive interactive approaches be harnessed to ensure effective and sustainable learning / education? Because of their motivational, entertaining, playful and engaging qualities, games, serious games and interactive and social media have an important role to play in this emerging arena to provide information, encourage reflection and to influence and change behaviour. We identify three main synergistic areas of focus for this workshop, mechanics, mechanisms and devices to: 1. learn, educate, inform or make aware 2. encourage reflection, contemplation or deliberation 3. persuade or influence behaviour change Games, interactive and social media, and associated communities that address aspects of these areas are numerous. For example, persuasive technology that is designed to change attitudes or behaviours through persuasion and social influence (e.g. B. J. Fogg), alternate reality games that tackle real-world problems by influencing people through positive psychology (e.g. JaneMcGonigal). Specific well-known examples include Brenda Brathwaite’s “Mechanic is the Message” series of analogue game works that capture and express “difficult emotions with a games mechanic”. Participants of her games not only learn about difficult topics in history, such as, the Middle Passage and slave trade (“The New World 2008)”, the Cromwellian Invasion of Ireland(“Síochán leat” aka “The Irish Game” 2009), and the Holocaust and the transportation of people to concentration camps (“Train 2009”),but through gameplay, are complicit in these difficult events that either emerge during the game or are revealed fully after the game. Hence, the associated difficult experiences and emotion continue after the game has finished. Experiences that resonate or linger following an encounter (gameplay, interaction) encourage reflection and potentially act as trigger for behaviour change. Other examples that aim to address aspects of these areas come from Ian Bogost’s game development company Persuasive Games that design games to represent arguments that aim to influence players to take action following gameplay. For example, Fatworld is a game that explores the relationships between obesity, nutrition, and socioeconomics in the USA; “CNN Planet in Peril: Animal” a game in which players try to save as many rare creatures from captivity as possible, and “Windfall” a game about building wind turbine farms to create clean energy efficiently. Because of the many crossovers and common features in all these approaches,one of the main aims of this workshop is to create a forum where interested participants can share, discuss and learn from past, on-going and future research and projects. Submission & Topics of Interest We invite the submission of 2-4 page position and theory papers, and papersthat describe on-going and original research and development work that contributes to the design, development and evaluation of mechanics, mechanisms& devices to provide information, encourage reflection and to influence and change behaviour. In particular, we seek submissions that focus on or address (but not restricted to) the following topics: • Mechanics/experience to inform or provide a message or argument • Character and role-play to enact / become complicit in historical, social and perhaps difficult events/scenarios • Techniques for embedding messages and arguments in interactive story • Entertaining and non-entertaining gameplay/interaction • Encourage reflection during and following an encounter (gameplay, interaction) • Experience that resonates or lingers following an encounter to encourage reflection and change behaviour • Advertising and Marketing – shift/focus attention on services or brand and persuade behaviour • Blended approaches using technology and non-technology, & in-game and off-game approaches • Gamification – applying gaming characteristics to non-gaming activities • Motivating and sustaining behaviour change Please send submissions and short 100 word biography to ICEC2013.MechanicsWorkshop (AT) gmail.com. Participants will be invited to submit extended papers for consideration for publication in a journal SI (tba). Important Dates July 30 - Submission Deadline August 30 - Notification of Acceptance October 15 – Workshop Organisers (in alphabetical order) Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge, BIBA, Bremen University, Germany. Sidney Fels, University of British Columbia, Canada. Christian Jones, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. Minhua Eunice Ma, Glasgow School of Art, UK. Rainer Malaka, Bremen University, Germany. Tim Marsh, James Cook University, Australia. Bonnie Nardi, University of California, Irvine, USA. Erik van der Spek, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. Contact us at: ICEC2013.MechanicsWorkshop (AT) gmail.com IFIP Technical Committee 14 on Entertainment Computing & Working Group 14.8 on Serious Games _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, BODY_ENHANCEMENT 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 5C4BC2F25; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 22:20:35 +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 E0B8EDD0; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 22:20:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AAEA62D17; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 22:20:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130725202025.AAEA62D17@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 22:20:25 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.238 pubs: Emily Dickinson's reading culture CFP; titles from Anthem Press X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 238. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jessica Beard (83) Subject: Dickinson Electronic Archives vol 3 CFP [2] From: Anthem Press (96) Subject: ANTHEM PRESS New Book Alerts -- Global Media & Communication Studies --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 17:23:23 +0000 From: Jessica Beard Subject: Dickinson Electronic Archives vol 3 CFP DEA2: CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR VOLUME 3 (2014) Emily Dickinson’s Reading Culture “For Poets/I have Keats/and Mr and Mrs Browning. For Prose/ Mr Ruskin/ Sir Thomas Browne and the Revelations.” ―Letter to T. W. Higginson, 25 April 1862 Why should we care what Emily Dickinson really read or about her relationship to reading, books, and authors? In Thomas Wentworth Higginson’s Atlantic article for “young contributors”―the article that prompted Dickinson’s account of her reading, oftcited, and her subsequent correspondence with Higginson―he noted: “For purposes of illustration and elucidation, and even for amplitude of vocabulary, wealth of accumulated materials is essential; and whether this wealth be won by reading or by experience makes no great difference.” For Dickinson, separated by location, situation, and temperament from the “wealth of… experience” that presumably characterized the lives of many professional writers, this counsel must have seemed pure balm. If she could write from the “wealth… won by reading,” then, as a dedicated reader, she would be on firm ground. Emily Dickinson’s reading provided a vital foundation for her writing. Dickinson’s reading is also significant on its own merits, however, as a practice that connected her directly and powerfully to a community of readers on both sides of the Atlantic. Dickinson’s reading has been on the critical agenda since 1966, when Jack Capps published Emily Dickinson’s Reading, 1836 1886; it was next taken up by Carlton Lowenberg in Emily Dickinson’s Textbooks (1986). Both Capps and Lowenberg were engaged bibliographers, documenting the worlds of books that Dickinson inhabited at home and at school. But as the idea of Dickinson’s circle has evolved, so has the idea of her reading culture. The recognition of reading’s role in Dickinson’s writing has led to an explosion of critical interest in this topic, as exemplified by the special issue on reading in the Emily Dickinson Journal (2010). As scholarship on nineteenthcentury reading practices, libraries, and book history has grown, a reconsideration of Dickinson as a reading writer and a reader is timely. Volume Three of the Dickinson Electronic Archives 2 will focus on Emily Dickinson’s reading culture. We invite proposals for works that examine topics such as: the circulation of works in manuscript and other informal patterns of reading and reception; the origins, development, and use of the Dickinson family libraries; reading in Amherst town and at Amherst College; transAtlantic publishers’ adaptations to a changing marketplace; intersections between women writers and readers; periodicals and subscribers in the mid to late nineteenth century; the response to particular books or periodicals among members of Dickinson’s circle. About the DEA 2: The Dickinson Electronic Archives 2 is a scholarly resource showcasing the possibility of interdisciplinary and collaborative research and exploring the potential of the digital environment to reveal new interpretive material, cultural, historical, and theoretical contexts. In doing so, the DEA2 opens a space of knowledge exchange for a networked world of scholars, students, and readers by offering a series of exhibitions on subjects of keen interest to readers of Emily Dickinson. Each exhibition will offer spaces for commentary that are of different sorts. At present the DEA2 offers a discussion forum, a space like that patrons inhabit as they walk through and talk about an exhibition, a space like that moviegoers inhabit when they stop for a nightcap or late night snack and discuss the movie just viewed. The DEA2 also offers Essays and Other Writings for every exhibition we offer. Contributions may take the form of essays, bibliographies, timelines, games, posters, or other genres, but should contain visual elements. Visual elements, in addition to appearing within their native contributions, will be assembled into a collective exhibition at the core of the volume. The deadline for proposals is September 15, 2013. Please send proposals of 5001000 words, with your contact information, by email attachment to the volume editor. Contributors whose proposals are accepted will be notified by November 1, 2013. Final contributions will be due March 31, 2014. The volume will be released in July 2014. Send questions and proposals to: Gabrielle Dean, PhD gnodean@jhu.edu Curator of Literary Rare Books & Manuscripts Johns Hopkins University 3400 North Charles Street Baltimore MD 21218 *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1374698221_2013-07-24_jbeard@ucsc.edu_11466.1.2.txt http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1374698221_2013-07-24_jbeard@ucsc.edu_11466.2.pdf -- ****************** Jessica Beard Doctoral Candidate UCSC Department of Literature http://www.emilydickinson.org/ http://uchumanitiesforum.org/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 03:19:02 +0100 From: Anthem Press Subject: ANTHEM PRESS New Book Alerts -- Global Media & Communication Studies Anthem Press Global Media and Communication Studies http://www.anthempress.com/ Anthem Press is an independent international publisher of academic, educational and reference works. 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It is of enormous value to historians considering journalism during the century in which British power and influence reached around the globe. Its concise annotations also offer an absorbing read for anyone interested in knowing how the Victorian-era press established journalism standards still widely accepted in the twenty-first century." €”Ross F. Collins, Professor of Communication, North Dakota State University Hardback | ISBN 9780857284396 | February 2012 | 712 Pages Recommend this title to your library (9) World Cinema and the Visual Arts Edited by David Gallagher This volume of essays combines analyses of two subjects of ongoing research in the field of humanities: world cinema and the visual arts. "€˜Ranging from Berlin to Shanghai and beyond, €˜World Cinema and the Visual Arts€™ is a whirlwind tour through an exhilarating landscape of new scholarship, much of it by young scholars. The perspectives are diverse and fresh. 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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 Gelbukh (CFP)" (29) Subject: CFP: MICAI 2013 - Artificial Intelligence - Springer LNAI + IEEE + journals - Mexico City: last reminder [2] From: "Brookes, Stewart" (46) Subject: Call for Papers: Kalamazoo 2014 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 08:28:53 +0000 From: "Alexander Gelbukh (CFP)" Subject: CFP: MICAI 2013 - Artificial Intelligence - Springer LNAI + IEEE + journals - Mexico City: last reminder MICAI-2013 12th Mexican International Conference on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE November 24 to 30, 2013 Publication: Springer LNAI (EI, ISI), IEEE, journals (ISI JCR) www.micai.org/2013 Submission: Abstracts NOW! PDF August 1 (ask us for late submissions) ** LATE SUBMISSIONS ARE OK WHILE THE SYSTEM IS OPEN ** Please register NOW your abstract, and upload PDF later == GENERAL INFORMATION Topics: all areas of Artificial Intelligence, research or applications. Workshops: Opinion Mining / Sentiment Analysis; Hybrid Int. Systems, & more. Tutorials. Doctoral Consortium. Best papers awards. Keynotes: - Newton Howard, MIT, USA: "Rethinking Artificial Intelligence" - Erik Cambria, NUS: "SenticNet: Helping Machines to Learn, Leverage, Love" - Maria Vargas-Vera, Chile: "Multi-Agent Ontology Mapping for the Semantic Web" - Amir Hussain, U. of Stirling, UK: "Towards Multi-modal Cognitive Systems" - Ildar Batyrshin, IMP, Mexico: "Time Series Shape Association Measures" == PROCEEDINGS Springer LNAI (EI, ISI); special issues of journals (including ISI JCR). Special session: IEEE CPS (anticipated). Workshops: see the respective calls for papers. == VENUE AND TOURS Venue: Mexico City. Cultural program and tours (tentative): Pre-Hispanic city of Teotihuacan, world's largest anthropology museum. == CALL FOR WORKSHOPS and TUTORIALS Submit your workshop or tutorial proposal, see the calls on the webpage. PLEASE CIRCULATE this CFP among your colleagues and students. We apologize if you receive multiple copies. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 15:48:23 +0000 From: "Brookes, Stewart" Subject: Call for Papers: Kalamazoo 2014 Call for Papers 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies Western Michigan University 8th-11th May 2014, Kalamazoo, MI Dear all, The DigiPal team (digipal.eu http://digipal.eu/ ) are delighted to invite submissions for the following sessions: "Digital Methods: Anglo-Saxon Manuscript Studies" "Digital Methods: Reading between the Lines of Medieval Manuscripts" To submit an abstract: read the session descriptions below, decide which session suits you best, and then send an abstract of a couple of hundred words or so (we won't count them, but try not to overdo it) to us by 15th September 2013: digipal@kcl.ac.uk And if you fill in a Participant Information Form, and send that too, we'd be very grateful. You can find the PIF here: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF Oh, and if for some curious reason we *don't* accept your abstract, never fear: any proposals we don't include will be sent to the Congress committee for consideration for general sessions. Looking forward to reading your abstract, Stewart --------------------------------------- SESSION DESCRIPTIONS ---------------------------------------- "Digital Methods: Anglo-Saxon Manuscript Studies" The aim of the papers in this session is to consider what twenty-first century technology might offer us in the study of the handwriting of the scribes who were producing charters, homilies, farming memoranda and other aspects of the written culture of Anglo-Saxon England. Utilising computer-based resources for the study of medieval handwriting, the papers will investigate the development of letter forms; the influence of scriptoria and the politics of writing style; the significance of scribal choices such as vernacular script in preference to, or alongside, Caroline letter forms; and whether text type can be said to determine the style of writing. "Digital Methods: Reading between the Lines of Medieval Manuscripts" Glosses and marginalia have been understudied, with nineteenth century editions often being relied upon in the absence of more recent work. In this session, the papers will ask whether the development of methodologies based in digital technologies affords us the opportunity to produce new work and new discoveries in this area. Areas explored will include the study and detection of scratched glosses; the relationship between so-called main text and writings in the margins; the hierarchy of scripts for glossing and annotation; and producing new edited texts. -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8C6F72F29; Sun, 28 Jul 2013 00:54:19 +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 34A212F1E; Sun, 28 Jul 2013 00:54:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7429E2F04; Sun, 28 Jul 2013 00:54:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130727225409.7429E2F04@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 00:54:09 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.240 events: mss 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 240. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 15:48:23 +0000 From: "Brookes, Stewart" Subject: Call for Papers: Kalamazoo 2014 Call for Papers 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies Western Michigan University 8th-11th May 2014, Kalamazoo, MI Dear all, The DigiPal team (digipal.eu http://digipal.eu/ ) are delighted to invite submissions for the following sessions: "Digital Methods: Anglo-Saxon Manuscript Studies" "Digital Methods: Reading between the Lines of Medieval Manuscripts" To submit an abstract: read the session descriptions below, decide which session suits you best, and then send an abstract of a couple of hundred words or so (we won't count them, but try not to overdo it) to us by 15th September 2013: digipal@kcl.ac.uk And if you fill in a Participant Information Form, and send that too, we'd be very grateful. You can find the PIF here: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF Oh, and if for some curious reason we *don't* accept your abstract, never fear: any proposals we don't include will be sent to the Congress committee for consideration for general sessions. Looking forward to reading your abstract, Stewart --------------------------------------- SESSION DESCRIPTIONS ---------------------------------------- "Digital Methods: Anglo-Saxon Manuscript Studies" The aim of the papers in this session is to consider what twenty-first century technology might offer us in the study of the handwriting of the scribes who were producing charters, homilies, farming memoranda and other aspects of the written culture of Anglo-Saxon England. Utilising computer-based resources for the study of medieval handwriting, the papers will investigate the development of letter forms; the influence of scriptoria and the politics of writing style; the significance of scribal choices such as vernacular script in preference to, or alongside, Caroline letter forms; and whether text type can be said to determine the style of writing. "Digital Methods: Reading between the Lines of Medieval Manuscripts" Glosses and marginalia have been understudied, with nineteenth century editions often being relied upon in the absence of more recent work. In this session, the papers will ask whether the development of methodologies based in digital technologies affords us the opportunity to produce new work and new discoveries in this area. Areas explored will include the study and detection of scratched glosses; the relationship between so-called main text and writings in the margins; the hierarchy of scripts for glossing and annotation; and producing new edited texts. -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 207A82F20; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 00:51:14 +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 0CA8A2F1B; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 00:51:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E49842F05; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 00:51:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130728225103.E49842F05@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 00:51:03 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.241 practices in 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. 27, No. 241. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 22:02:20 +0100 From: Seth Denbo Subject: Re: 27.229 surveys: user-generated projects; practices in history On the subject of surveys about changing research and documentation practices in history it's worth checking out the Ithaka S+R report "Supporting the Changing Research Practices of Historians" published late last year: http://www.sr.ithaka.org/research-publications/supporting-changing-research-practices-historians On 23 July 2013 04:36, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 229. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [2] From: Enrico Natale > (14) > Subject: Surveys about Research & Documentation Practices in > History > [...] > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 12:28:04 +0200 > From: Enrico Natale > Subject: Surveys about Research & Documentation Practices in > History > > > Hi, > > I'm conducting a research about the changing methodologies and research > practices in the historical sciences and I am therefore collecting Surveys > about Digital Research and Documentation Practices among Historians and > other Humanities scholars. > > Are you aware of such Surveys, whose results have been published and are > available online ? > > Thank you very much for your help, > > Best Greetings from Switzerland, > > Enrico Natale > infoclio.ch > Hirschengraben 11 > Postfach 6811 > 3001 Bern > Tel: +41 31 311 75 72 > @infoclio > > New: compas.infoclio.ch > New: rousseauonline.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B7D4F2F1F; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 00:51:48 +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 118DC2F26; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 00:51:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1E3252F20; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 00:51:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130728225138.1E3252F20@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 00:51:38 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.242 a remarkable call for 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 242. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 21:42:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Allane Sione Subject: Call for Papers [We often speak of the weakening, crossing, knocking down, ignoring disciplinary boundaries, but never before have I run across a journal with quite as broad a scope as this one. Food for thought about the dissolving away of disciplinary contexts? --WM] Call for Papers   International Journal of Business, Humanities and Technology ISSN 2162-1357 (Print), ISSN 2162-1381 (Online)   International Journal of Business, Humanities and Technology (IJBHT)is an open access, peer-reviewed and refereed multidisciplinary journal published by Center for Promoting Ideas (CPI), USA. The objective of IJBHT is to provide a forum for the publication of scientific articles in the fields of business, humanities and technology. In pursuit of this objective the journal not only publishes high quality research papers but also ensures that the published papers achieve broad international credibility.   The journal publishes research papers in the fields of management, business law, public responsibility and ethics, marketing theory and applications, business finance and investment, general business research, business and economics education, international business and economics, tourism and hospitality management, production/operations management, organizational behavior and theory, strategic management policy, social issues and public policy, management organization, statistics and econometrics, personnel and industrial relations, gender studies, cross cultural studies, entrepreneurship development, linguistics, library science, media studies, methodology, philosophy, political science, population Studies, psychology, public administration, sociology, social welfare, technology and Innovation, case studies, management information systems, information technology and so on.   The journal is published both in print and online versions.   IJBSS is indexed with and included in Cabell’s, EBSCO, Ulrich’s, IndexCopernicus Internationaland Gale. Moreover the journal is under the indexing process with ISI, ERIC, DOAJ, Scopus, and Econlit.   IJBHT publishes original papers, review papers, conceptual framework, analytical and simulation models, case studies, empirical research, technical notes, and book reviews. Special Issues devoted to important topics in business, humanities and technology will occasionally be published.   IJBHTis inviting papers for Vol. 3 No. 7 which is scheduled to be published on August 31, 2013.   Send your manuscript to the editor at editor@ijbhtnet.com, or editor.ijbht@hotmail.com   For more information, visit the official website of the journal www.ijbhtnet.com   With thanks,   Dr. Ronald M. Flower The Chief Editor International Journal of Business, Humanities and Technology Contact: editor@ijbhtnet.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=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLACK 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 2A0A72F27; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 21:55:49 +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 46F2A2DEF; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 21:55:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id EFB3B2DEF; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 21:55:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130729195538.EFB3B2DEF@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 21:55:38 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.243 a remarkable call for 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 243. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (29) Subject: Re: 27.242 a remarkable call for papers [2] From: Jonathan Rodgers (94) Subject: Re: 27.242 a remarkable call for papers [3] From: Michael Fraser (37) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.242 a remarkable call for papers [4] From: Daniel O'Donnell (86) Subject: Re: 27.242 a remarkable call for papers --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 19:11:40 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: 27.242 a remarkable call for papers In-Reply-To: <20130728225138.1E3252F20@digitalhumanities.org> It's a scam. They charge a $200 "publication fee" for authors published in their journals. I don't see why anyone should view this as anything but academic vanity publishing. http://www.ijbhtnet.com/index.php/submission-side.html This journal is part of a group of journals associated with the "Center for Promoting Ideas," which is unaffiliated with any college or university ( http://www.cpinet.info/). The Maryland Institute of Research is a similar organization with similarly run journals. May even be the same people working the same angles under a different name: http://www.miredu.org/publications But I haven't bothered to look. What I think we have here is a cohort of people trying to make money on publication fees for academic articles. Jim R On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > > [We often speak of the weakening, crossing, knocking down, ignoring > disciplinary boundaries, but never before have I run across a journal > with quite as broad a scope as this one. Food for thought about the > dissolving away of disciplinary contexts? --WM] > > Call for Papers > > International Journal > of Business, Humanities and Technology > ISSN 2162-1357 (Print), > ISSN 2162-1381 (Online) > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 21:21:28 -0400 From: Jonathan Rodgers Subject: Re: 27.242 a remarkable call for papers In-Reply-To: <20130728225138.1E3252F20@digitalhumanities.org> Caution! See: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ Beall’s List: Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers... -- Jonathan Rodgers Secretary-Treasurer, American Oriental Society Graduate Library, University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48109-1190 USA Email: jrodgers@umich.edu (734) 764-7555; FAX (734) 763-6743 AOS Home Page: http://www.umich.edu/~aos/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 06:16:12 +0100 From: Michael Fraser Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.242 a remarkable call for papers In-Reply-To: <20130728225138.1E3252F20@digitalhumanities.org> Readers may also be interested to know that the publisher of this journal appears on Jeffrey Beall's list of "Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers", http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ . Jeffrey's work also featured in a recent article on "the proliferation of online journals that will print seemingly anything for a fee", http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/health/for-scientists-an-exploding-world-of-pseudo-academia.html . Caveat auctor! Mike -- Dr Michael Fraser | Director of Infrastructure Services | IT Services | University of Oxford | 7-19 Banbury Road, Oxford | http://www.it.ox.ac.uk/ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 06:22:24 +0100 From: Daniel O'Donnell Subject: Re: 27.242 a remarkable call for papers In-Reply-To: <20130728225138.1E3252F20@digitalhumanities.org> Sounds to me like a predatory journal. https://chronicle.com/article/Predatory-Online-Journals/131047/ --- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 77EDB2F31; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 21:56:34 +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 C5E4C2F2C; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 21:56:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8F91E2F2B; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 21:56:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130729195627.8F91E2F2B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 21:56:27 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.244 critical 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. 27, No. 244. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 10:06:54 +0200 From: Victoria Scott Subject: Critical Digital Humanities Hello! Has anything substantial been written on the relationship between the digital humanities and the the current crisis in the humanities? Also does critical digital humanist studies exist? Maybe now it exists... -- Victoria H.F. Scott The Art History Guild _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 6C2542F2D; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 21:57:37 +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 8DF3D2F27; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 21:57:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A6D892F25; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 21:57:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130729195727.A6D892F25@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 21:57:27 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.245 job at Toronto Scarborough X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 245. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 15:24:43 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: U of Toronto - Digital Scholarship Coordinator In-Reply-To: <00a601ce8c6b$d60ae2b0$8220a810$@utsc.utoronto.ca> > From: Paulina Rousseau > Coordinator – Digital Scholarship Unit (Librarian III) Organization: University of Toronto Scarborough Library Category: Library (Academic) Job type: Full-time Description and duties: The University of Toronto Scarborough Library invites applications for a dynamic, highly-motivated person for a full-time permanent status stream position of Coordinator, Digital Scholarship Unit. The successful candidate will bring creativity and enthusiasm to this role that will strengthen the integration of the library into the teaching, learning and research activities at the University of Toronto Scarborough. The Digital Scholarship Unit (DSU) at the UTSC Library was established in 2010 with a mission to create, preserve, and provide access to digital collections that will inspire and facilitate research and knowledge creation for the purposes of teaching and learning. The DSU, with a staff of 5, seeks out projects that facilitate collaborations among scholars at UTSC and beyond, supporting experimentation and co-curricular pedagogy as well as open access initiatives, archival preservation mandates, and other initiatives. Reporting to the Chief Librarian, UTSC Library, the Coordinator, Digital Scholarship Unit provides leadership to a team of librarians and technical staff that supports faculty and students involved in digital scholarship initiatives at the UTSC campus, including special research collections and data for digital research. The incumbent will participate as a liaison librarian integrating library resources and services into teaching, learning and research activities. The incumbent will communicate and liaise with the campus’s new media initiatives and programs such as The Hub (Ideation + Experiential Learning Centre) and will collaborate with University of Toronto Libraries ITS department on matters pertaining to digital repositories and other initiatives. Qualifications: Required Qualifications •ALA accredited Master of Library or Information Science degree or equivalent education •3– 5 years’ experience in managing digital projects •Knowledge of digitization/metadata best practices •Supervisory experience •Outstanding communication, presentation and interpersonal skills, and be enthusiastic, persuasive, and highly effective in a variety of mediums •Ability to collaborate with diverse groups •Experience in project management Preferred Qualifications •Knowledge of rights management and scholarly communications •Experience with CMS such as ContentDM, Drupal, Fedora, Omeka, and web development tools such as PHP, MySQL, Java, XML •Experience in a liaison librarian role •Experience with digital repositories Compensation: Salary and appointment level are based on experience and qualifications. It is anticipated that this position will be filled at the Librarian III level. Librarian III: $78, 500 (Minimum) This is a permanent status stream position. Note: Librarians at the University of Toronto Scarborough Library are members of the University of Toronto Faculty Association Additional information : University of Toronto Scarborough: As a key campus of Canada's number one research-intensive university, the University of Toronto Scarborough offers a wide range of program options spanning the arts, sciences, management and teacher education, including unique programs that blend disciplines and provide opportunities to apply this knowledge outside the University. UTSC Library has a collection of approximately 400,000 print volumes and, as part of the University of Toronto Library System (ranked third in North America), access to the extensive electronic collections of the University. Learn more about the University of Toronto Scarborough Library: http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utsc/ Learn more about the University of Toronto Scarborough: http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/ Learn about the Policies for Librarians: http://www.hrandequity.utoronto.ca/about-hr-equity/policies-guidelines-a... Learn about the University of Toronto Faculty Association: http://www.utfa.org/ Application deadline: Aug 28 2013 How to apply: Please send letters of application, curriculum vitae and the names of three referees to Library Human Resources at utlhr@utoronto.ca or to Robarts Library, 130 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A5, or by fax to 416.946.5543. At least two of the referees should be supervisory. Please send a single electronic file (MS Word or pdf with a file name convention of Surname,FirstName -UTSCCoordinatorDSU to Library Human Resources at utlhr@utoronto.ca or to Robarts Library, 130 St. George St., Toronto, ON, M5S 1A5 or via fax to (416) 946-5543 by August 28, 2013. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Peter Stadler (24) Subject: Edirom-Summer-School 2013 [2] From: Maarten Bullynck (17) Subject: HaPoC 2013: Registration opens [3] From: Carla Basili (30) Subject: Scientific Information Policies in the Digital Age - Round Table "Young researchers in Digital Humanities: a Manifesto" [4] From: Ryan Cordell (49) Subject: Call for Participants: New Media in American Literary History Symposium, Northeastern Dec. 5-6 2013 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 10:47:35 +0200 From: Peter Stadler Subject: Edirom-Summer-School 2013 Dear colleagues, it's my pleasure to announce this year's Edirom-Summer-School 2013: Digital Humanities – Themen, Tools, Technologien 23–27 September Heinz-Nixdorf-Institut, University of Paderborn http://ess.uni-paderborn.de [website and language of instruction: German] This year, Musicology Seminar Detmold/Paderborn (University of Paderborn and Hochschule für Musik Detmold) is organising Edirom-Summer-School with the BMBF-funded project DARIAH-DE. Moreover, the program is enriched by courses from TextGrid, Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, Technische Universität Darmstadt (DH), and the Danish Centre for Music Publication in Copenhagen. The scope of course reaches from basic introductions to the markup standards of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI), across working with respective software tools for editorial or library purposes (TextGrid, Edirom, MerMEId), up to practice-oriented courses dealing with more advanced features of encoding manuscripts with TEI and/or MEI. The "Edirom-User-Forum" will give the opportunity of exchange between current and (potential) users of the Edirom Tools. This year, for the first time, we offer individual research consultancy sessions on "Digital Humanities" and especially "Digital Music Editions". Those interested, be it projects or individual scholars, can apply for a time slot with one of our staff members by submitting a short exposé. The complete program and further information on registration can be found on our website http://ess.uni-paderborn.de. Registration deadline is 30 August. Best regards, Peter Stadler -- Peter Stadler Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe Arbeitsstelle Detmold Gartenstr. 20 D-32756 Detmold Tel. +49 5231 975-665 Fax: +49 5231 975-668 stadler at weber-gesamtausgabe.de www.weber-gesamtausgabe.de --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 03:35:27 -0700 From: Maarten Bullynck Subject: HaPoC 2013: Registration opens Dear All, We are glad to bring you news on the 2nd Conference on the History and Philosophy of Computing (28-31 October, ENS Paris). First of all, we are glad to announce that registration for HaPoC 2013 is now open: http://hapoc2013.sciencesconf.org/registration/index Further, you will find that we updated the website of the conference. It now features our sponsoring institutes and institutions as well as the list of all accepted contributions. best regards, and hoping to see you in Paris, the organisers, Maarten Bullynck (Paris 8 & SPHERE) Jean-Baptiste Joinet (Lyon 3, IRPhil & CIRPHLES) History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC 2013, 28-31 October, Paris) http://hapoc2013.sciencesconf.org/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 18:19:49 +0200 From: Carla Basili Subject: Scientific Information Policies in the Digital Age - Round Table "Young researchers in Digital Humanities: a Manifesto" The Ceris Institute of the Italian National Research Council invites you to attend an International Seminar on Scientific Information Policies in the Digital Age: Enabling Factors and Barriers to Knowledge Sharing and Transfer At Aula Marconi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, piazzale A. Moro, 7 – Rome, Italy On Monday 16 September 2013 - from 10am to 4pm. The International Seminar is the third of a series of exploratory Seminars organised within the framework of the “Information Policies in Science (IPS)” project, launched by the Ceris Institute in 2009 with the main aim of understanding the impact on the Humanities of the complex set of Scientific Information Policies in place for Knowledge Sharing and Transfer. Enclosed the programme of the Seminar. A final round table will discuss the document "Young Researchers in Digital Humanities: A Manifesto" issued by the international Colloquium on Research Conditions and Digital Humanities organised by the German Historical Institute in Paris. For further information, please visit the IPS project website and the Seminar research rationale. ____________________________ Carla Basili Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Istituto Ceris sede di Roma via dei Taurini, 19 - 00185 Roma Tel. +39 06/4993 7846 Facs +39 06/4993 7808 http://www.ceris.cnr.it/Basili/ *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1375115221_2013-07-29_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_13823.1.1.html http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1375115221_2013-07-29_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_13823.1.2.pdf --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:11:17 -0400 From: Ryan Cordell Subject: Call for Participants: New Media in American Literary History Symposium, Northeastern Dec. 5-6 2013 New Media in American Literary History Interdisciplinary Symposium Northeastern University, December 5 & 6, 2013 Confirmed plenary panelists include: Elizabeth Maddock Dillon (Northeastern University), Ellen Gruber Garvey (New Jersey City University), Lisa Gitelman (New York University), and Meredith McGill (Rutgers University). We invite applicants for “New Media in American Literary History,” a symposium aimed at bringing together “digital” and “analog” scholars interested in the history of American print media to discuss common questions, challenges, and identify potential collaborations. Our goal is to bridge the gap between digital and more “traditional” disciplinary work. The conference will bring together scholars employing methodologies such as text mining, topic modeling, digital curation, and network analysis—in other words, “big humanities data”— into direct and productive dialogue with Americanist scholars, graduate students, and archivists employing well-established practices in book history, textual analysis, media studies, and critical bibliography in their work. We welcome applications from scholars and graduate students across the humanities and social sciences thinking through (but not limited to) the following questions: • What are the unexplored intersections (or ruptures) between digital and analog research methodologies in American studies? • How might considerations of new media (re)shape our view of American print history? • How can digital technology transform traditional methods of scholarly research focused on pre-digital primary sources in the humanities and social sciences? • Do these digital methodologies make new media research more accessible and all encompassing or do they create new biases and limited audiences? • What are the institutional, technological, social, or cultural barriers confronting scholars of new media in American literary history and what are possible solutions? This symposium will not be structured like a typical conference, with panels of papers followed by short Q-and-A sessions. Instead, we will organize the event around project demonstrations, roundtables, group dialogues, and master classes. Applicants should submit a C.V. and 250 word proposal that discusses how they might contribute to engaged discussions about the challenges, limitations, and potential intersections of digital humanities, book history, bibliography, and media studies. Submissions should be sent to Ryan Cordell and Rhae Lynn Barnes at r.cordell@neu.edu by August 9, 2013. The symposium will take place at Northeastern University December 5-6, 2013, and is sponsored through the Rare Book School’s Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography ( http://www.rarebookschool.org/fellowships/mellon/), the Northeastern University English Department (northeastern.edu/english/), the Northeastern University Humanities Center (http://www.northeastern.edu/humanities/), and the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks (http:nulab.neu.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B0B2E2F26; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 22:26:50 +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 DABF52EF4; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 22:26:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 030B22CC3; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 22:26:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130729202639.030B22CC3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 22:26:38 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.247 another case of remark-able expansiveness X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 247. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 06:18:29 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: another case of remark-able expansiveness In the latest online serving of The Chronicle of Higher Education, for 29 July, Mark Edmundson sets out to sketch a portrait of "The Ideal English Major", i.e. the American undergraduate who specialises in that discipline. See http://chronicle.com/article/The-Ideal-English-Major/140553/?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en for the full article. "The Ideal English Major" is a brave attempt to get to the fundamental goal of identifying with that discipline: "Becoming an English major means pursuing the most important subject of all -- being a human being." What I find remarkable about it in this context is its simultaneous expansiveness (looking outward from within a discipline and seeing the whole world) and blinkered view (not seeing that all other disciplines also afford such a view, but each a different one). It seems to me that one of the dangers for us is to develop in exactly the same way, seeing only our view of the whole intellectual world. This is not to say that English or any other of our predecessors is faulty in that respect. For one of them it is exactly how an expansive mind trained within the discipline will expand. But, it seems to me, we need to see the world at any one instant from our own centre and from that of whatever discipline we're then dealing with. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3314F2F33; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 23:56:08 +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 843DC2E18; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 23:55:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 65CC82EDF; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 23:55:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130730215557.65CC82EDF@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 23:55:57 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.248 critical 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. 27, No. 248. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Daniel O'Donnell (36) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.244 critical digital humanities? [2] From: Sinai Rusinek (8) Subject: RE: 27.244 critical digital humanities? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:43:42 +0100 From: Daniel O'Donnell Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.244 critical digital humanities? In-Reply-To: <20130729195627.8F91E2F2B@digitalhumanities.org> You should look generally at 4Humanities--which collects this kind of thing and is an action group based on the premise. The Praxis Network is also to a certain extent interested in the same issue. Cathy Davidson, Neil Fraistat, Alex Gil, Alan Liu, Geoffrey Rockwell, and I also recently proposed a project on the New Humanities to the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research along these lines. We are thinking of proposing a SSHRC partnership grant along similar lines this fall. Here's a link to the original (ultimately unsuccessful) proposal: http://dpod.kakelbont.ca/2013/07/19/the-new-humanities-the-place-and-practice-of-the-humanities-in-an-age-of-ubiquitous-networked-computing/ If you think that this is something you might be interested in, get in touch! On 13-07-29 08:56 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 244. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 10:06:54 +0200 > From: Victoria Scott > Subject: Critical Digital Humanities > > > Hello! Has anything substantial been written on the relationship between > the digital humanities and the the current crisis in the humanities? Also > does critical digital humanist studies exist? Maybe now it exists... > -- --- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada +1 403 393-2539 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 21:26:15 +0000 From: Sinai Rusinek Subject: RE: 27.244 critical digital humanities? In-Reply-To: <20130729195627.8F91E2F2B@digitalhumanities.org> Victoria, Yes they do now - see David Berry's last talk in the Bern Summer School: http://www.infoclio.ch/fr/node/41748 . The workshop he led also came out with this document: https://docs.google.com/a/mail.huji.ac.il/document/d/1A4MJ05qS0WhNlLdlozFV3q3Sjc2kum5GQ4lhFoNKcYU/edit?pli=1 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 308A52F3D; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 23:57:16 +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 17A0C2F39; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 23:57:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5D04A2F1F; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 23:57:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130730215704.5D04A2F1F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 23:57:04 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.249 job at Tasmania 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. 27, No. 249. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 00:33:02 +0000 From: Robert Clarke Subject: New Position: Prof./Assoc. Prof. in Digital Humanities, Faculty of Arts, University of Tasmania, Australia The University of Tasmania was founded in 1890 on the best of academic traditions that embrace excellence and commitment to free inquiry in the creation and application of knowledge. Ranked in the top 3 percent of universities worldwide and in the top 10 research universities in Australia, the University has a strong and distinctive Tasmanian identity which underpins teaching and research that is international in scope, vision and standards. Digital Humanities investigates the intersection of computing and humanities, in particular, how digital media affects the humanities disciplines in which they are used, and how humanities can contribute to computing and digital studies. The implications of this growing field are gaining relevance beyond the humanities and contribute to understanding globalization, mass information and social and cultural change. The University is seeking to appoint a Professor / Associate Professor to lead research, teaching and creative practice in digital humanities. The appointee will strengthen research leadership on the Launceston campuses, consolidate and grow existing research culture and facilitate interdisciplinary research with staff in the humanities, social sciences and other faculties. Candidates will have a PhD and an international reputation in a relevant humanities discipline with successful research collaborations using digital media, strong commitment to effective research training and demonstrated success in generating funding from a range of sources. Proven leadership and effective relationship management skills are considered essential. The appointment will be made at either Level E or Level D in line with Opening UTAS to Talent: The UTAS Academic. This continuing position is located in Launceston. Travel to other campuses is required. The closing date for applications is 11 October, 2013. To register early interest, please call Jandy Godfrey, Academic Search and Onboarding Manager, University of Tasmania on 61 3 6226 7879 or email jandy.godfrey@utas.edu.au. ________________________________ Dr Robert Clarke Lecturer | University of Tasmania | School of Humanities T + 61 3 6324 3032 | F + 61 3 6324 3652 | P Locked Bag 1340, University of Tasmania Launceston Tas 7250 | E Robert.Clarke@utas.edu.au | W www.utas.edu.au/humanities http://www.utas.edu.au/humanities ________________________________ --Boundary_(ID_9F6PxX5QS4aUIYJGZMsnYA) Content-id: Content-type: text/html; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
The University of Tasmania was founded in 1890 on the best of academic traditions that embrace excellence and commitment to free inquiry in the creation and application of knowledge. Ranked in the top 3 percent of universities worldwide and in the top 10 research universities in Australia, the University has a strong and distinctive Tasmanian identity which underpins teaching and research that is international in scope, vision and standards. 

Digital Humanities investigates the intersection of computing and humanities, in particular, how digital media affects the humanities disciplines in which they are used, and how humanities can contribute to computing and digital studies. The implications of this growing field are gaining relevance beyond the humanities and contribute to understanding globalization, mass information and social and cultural change. 

The University is seeking to appoint a Professor / Associate Professor to lead research, teaching and creative practice in digital humanities. The appointee will strengthen research leadership on the Launceston campuses, consolidate and grow existing research culture and facilitate interdisciplinary research with staff in the humanities, social sciences and other faculties.

Candidates will have a PhD and an international reputation in a relevant humanities discipline with successful research collaborations using digital media, strong commitment to effective research training and demonstrated success in generating funding from a range of sources. Proven leadership and effective relationship management skills are considered essential. 

The appointment will be made at either Level E or Level D in line with Opening UTAS to Talent: The UTAS Academic. This continuing position is located in Launceston. Travel to other campuses is required. 

The closing date for applications is 11 October, 2013. To register early interest, please call Jandy Godfrey, Academic Search and Onboarding Manager, University of Tasmania on 61 3 6226 7879 or email jandy.godfrey@utas.edu.au.

Dr Robert Clarke

Lecturer | University of Tasmania | School of Humanities


T + 61 3 6324 3032 | F + 61 3 6324 3652 | P Locked Bag 1340, University of Tasmania Launceston Tas 7250 | 

E Robert.Clarke@utas.edu.au | W www.utas.edu.au/humanities 


--Boundary_(ID_9F6PxX5QS4aUIYJGZMsnYA)-- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3B3852F40; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 23:58:32 +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 A43512F3C; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 23:58:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BFA622EDF; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 23:58:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130730215821.BFA622EDF@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 23:58:21 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.250 events: music information retrieval; 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. 27, No. 250. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Arianna Ciula (17) Subject: TEI Conference and Members Meeting 2013 - programme [2] From: "Downie, J Stephen" (30) Subject: MIREX 2013: Submission system is open --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 21:19:27 +0100 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: TEI Conference and Members Meeting 2013 - programme Dear all, The programme for the "TEI Conference and Members Meeting 2013The Linked TEI: Text Encoding in the Web" (October 2-5, Rome, Italy) is now available at http://digilab2.let.uniroma1.it/teiconf2013/program/ Tutorials and workshops are offered prior to the conference while Special Interest Groups activities will take place on Thursday 3 October ( http://digilab2.let.uniroma1.it/teiconf2013/program/sigactivity/). Soon each session in the programme will point to relevant abstracts. Information on keynotes has been available for a while at http://digilab2.let.uniroma1.it/teiconf2013/program/keynotes/ Registration (http://digilab2.let.uniroma1.it/teiconf2013/registration/) is filling up quickly, so please hurry up if - as we hope - you are interested to participate. For any queries, don't hesitate to contact us at meeting@tei-c.org Best regards, Arianna Ciula (Programme Committee Chair) and Fabio Ciotti (Local Organisation Committee Chair) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 21:07:35 +0000 From: "Downie, J Stephen" Subject: MIREX 2013: Submission system is open Dear Colleagues: The 2013 Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) submission system is now open! In response to feedback at ISMIR 2012, this year we have a new task distribution strategy. Many members of the MIREX community have volunteered to lead evaluation of submissions. The complete list of task leaders is available on the MIREX wiki (http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/2013:Task_Captains). Due to the proprietary nature of much of the data, the submission system, evaluation framework, and most of the datasets will continue to be hosted by IMIRSEL. IMPORTANT DATES: This year, we have a single deadline for all submissions. Submissions for all tasks are due by: 3 September 2013 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 2013 Team at . All task captains will be included on the MIREX mailing lists. BACKGROUND INFORMATION: http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/2013:Main_Page More information about each MIREX 2013 task can be found at the above URL. SUBMISSION STARTING POINT: http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/MIREX_2013_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 2013 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, NORMAL_HTTP_TO_IP,WEIRD_PORT autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 53D372F83; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 21:06:09 +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 33EAE2ED7; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 21:06:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3FB752E1B; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 21:05:59 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130731190559.3FB752E1B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 21:05:59 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.251 critical 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. 27, No. 251. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Tara McPherson (6) Subject: Re: 27.248 critical digital humanities [2] From: Domenico Fiormonte (15) Subject: Re: 27.248 critical digital humanities [3] From: { brad brace } (54) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.248 critical digital humanities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 15:12:25 -0700 From: Tara McPherson Subject: Re: 27.248 critical digital humanities You might also see Matt Gold's edited collection, Debates in the Digital Humanities, and its website: http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/ Also, there are various efforts underway such as TransformDH (http://transformdh.org/) and DHPoco (http://transformdh.org/). Best, Tara --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 09:37:29 +0200 From: Domenico Fiormonte Subject: Re: 27.248 critical digital humanities In-Reply-To: <20130730215557.65CC82EDF@digitalhumanities.org> >> Hello! Has anything substantial been written on the relationship between >> the digital humanities and the the current crisis in the humanities? Also >> does critical digital humanist studies exist? Maybe now it exists... Dear Victoria, although I'm not completely familiar with the Anglo-American use of the term "critical" (as this spans from the Frankfurt school up to Anthony Giddens, with a range of intermediate approaches), I think you might find useful some recent contributions by David Golumbia, Amelia Sanz, the DHPOCO web site, and myself: http://www.academia.edu/2263160/uncomputing_digital_culture_and_theory_blog_ http://dhpoco.org/ http://torrii.responsible-innovation.org.uk/resource-detail/1249 http://www.academia.edu/1932310/Towards_a_Cultural_Critique_of_Digital_Humanities http://claireclivaz.hypotheses.org/249 Hope this helps! 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SKYPE | bbbrace | registered linux user #323978 ~> I am not a victim coercion is natural I am a messenger freedom is artifical /:b _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLACK 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 05FF92F92; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 21:11:24 +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 60B5A2F83; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 21:11:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 971102F83; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 21:11:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130731191115.971102F83@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 21:11:15 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.252 events: digital subject; info policies; collaborative annotation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 252. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Francesca Tomasi (20) Subject: DH-CASE 2013, Florence - September 10th [2] From: Carla Basili (28) Subject: Scientific Information Policies in the Digital Age - International Seminar in Rome, 16 September 2013 [3] From: Koen Vermeir (239) Subject: CFP digital subject (II): scriptions --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 17:19:17 +0200 From: Francesca Tomasi Subject: DH-CASE 2013, Florence - September 10th DH-CASE 2013: Collaborative Annotations in Shared Environments: metadata, vocabularies and techniques in the Digital Humanities (DH-CASE) Venue: Workshop co-located with DocEng 2013, Florence Date: September 10th, 2013 Web page: http://www.cs.unibo.it/dh-case/ Registration: http://www.doceng2013.org/registration ------------------------------------------------------------------------- DH-CASE 2013 program is now finalized and registration is open. For any enquiry about the workshop, please contact the chairs: Francesca Tomasi, francesca.tomasi@unibo.it; Fabio Vitali, fabio.vitali@unibo.it Please forward to interested parties 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 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 18:15:10 +0200 From: Carla Basili Subject: Scientific Information Policies in the Digital Age - International Seminar in Rome, 16 September 2013 The Ceris Institute of the Italian National Research Council invites you to attend an International Seminar on Scientific Information Policies in the Digital Age: Enabling Factors and Barriers to Knowledge Sharing and Transfer At Aula Marconi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, piazzale A. Moro, 7 – Rome, Italy On Monday 16 September 2013 - from 10am to 4pm. The International Seminar is the third of a series of exploratory Seminars organised within the framework of the “Information Policies in Science (IPS)” project, launched by the Ceris Institute in 2009 with the main aim of understanding the impact on the Humanities of the complex set of Scientific Information Policies in place for Knowledge Sharing and Transfer. The programme of the Seminar is available at http://www.ceris.cnr.it/Basili/IPS_programme.pdf Attendance is free, however, for organizational purposes, it would be helpful if you could please register at http://tools.ceris.cnr.it/index.php?option=com_chronoforms&chronoform=IPS if you plan to attend. For further information, please visit the IPS project website at http://www.ceris.cnr.it/Basili/information_policies_in_science.htm and the Seminar research rationale at http://www.ceris.cnr.it/Basili/IPS_Announcement.pdf . ____________________________ Carla Basili Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Istituto Ceris sede di Roma via dei Taurini, 19 - 00185 Roma Tel. +39 06/4993 7846 Facs +39 06/4993 7808 http://www.ceris.cnr.it/Basili/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 17:49:14 +0200 From: Koen Vermeir Subject: CFP digital subject (II): scriptions In-Reply-To: International symposium: "The digital subject: In-scription, Ex-scription, Tele-scription" University of Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis, Archives nationales, November 18-21, 2013 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) This symposium is part of a long-term project, "The digital subject," endorsed by the LABEX Arts-H2H (http://www.labex-arts-h2h.fr/) and follows a first symposium on Hypermnesia held in 2012. We are exploring the ways in which digital tools, be they real or fictional, from Babbage to Internet, have altered our conception of the subject and its representations, affecting both its status and its attributes. We welcome contributions from the following fields : philosophy, literature, arts, archivistics, neurosciences, and the history of science and technology. The working languages will be French and English. Contributions may be submitted in either language and should not exceed 3000 characters. Please enclose a brief bio-bibliographical note. *Please submit your abstracts via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=digitalsubject2013* Do not forget to upload your document in PDF format. For further information, you may write to scriptions@univ-paris8.fr. Deadline for submissions: September 15, 2013. Contributors will be informed of the scientific committee's decision by October 1, 2013. Opening keynote by Mark Amerika: Nov. 18th, 8-10:30 PM at Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique Keynote Speakers : Jean-Luc Nancy, Bertrand Gervais (UQAM, Montréal), Wendy Chun (Brown University), Laurent Cohen (Salpêtrière INSERM). How is writing revisited by digital media? In what ways does the digital turn affect the three dimensions embedded in writing: the production of an artefact, the crafting of meaning and the advent of the subject? We aim at investigating this new field of research from a variety of points of view such as philosophy, arts, neurosciences and archiving and welcome contributions from researchers in all those fields. With digital technologies writing shifts from paper to a screen or a network of screens. But this is no move into a virtual world: writing is still a gesture, the body is still at writing, still acting under a set of constraints, just different ones. And that shift goes much further than a rewriting of rules. It entails transcribing, usually through digital duplicates or reencoding. It paves the way for what we might call tele-scription, writing at a remove via a technical device, exposing the fallacy of immediacy and introducing another strata of mediation in the process of writing. "Exscription passes through writing - and certainly not through the ecstasies of flesh or meaning. And so we have to write from a body that we neither have nor are, but where being is exscribed. If I write, this strange hand has already slipped into my writing hand." (Jean-Luc Nancy, Corpus, Richard A. Rand trans., New York, NY: Fordham UP, 2008, p.19). Writing ex-scribes. Works from another edge. Of course writing is about describing things or states of affairs but it also points to another dimension, that of exscription. Can digital tele-scription be viewed as a form of exscription, spacing out the subject as posited by Nancy or Derrida? Or is digital tele-scription to be understood in the light of the changes it introduces in our relationship to time, and from there on, explored as an entirely novel phenomenon? Will it bring about a radical upheaval of the relations between such notions as writing, technology, the body, the subject? Digital writing is a brand new world we are barely beginning to explore. See for instance all the second-thoughts of writing, the words crossed out, erased and overwritten, all the editing process which we now keep track of: our traces and drafts are no longer set in their ways but potentially continuously evolving. Will such an instability affect how the subject relates to the traces she leaves, the meanings she construes, her own definition of self? Digital media also revisits our distinction between the original and the copy: once digitized, the trace we inscribe may be reproduced ad libitum, much like a manuscript fans out through the production of fac-similes. That trace may also be augmented through tagging, commentaries and linking. Inscription is no longer the one-off act of a single author but a process entailing various forms of reencoding, transposing, adding, categorising, a whole array of human and technological interventions. Or take this emblematic sign of personal identity, the signature, and see how it is now interfaced and multiform. What used to be the most intimate, chosen mark of our self is now devolved to sets of electronic sequences, usually encoded, sometimes automatically generated, at times delegated, occasionally even produced without our prior knowledge. This is no trifling matter: will the subject, through these new technologies of self-inscription, turn into an avatar? What new interplay between the individual and the institutions (libraries, archives, universities) arises through this collective writing process? One may also consider the legal consequences for the atomised self, who finds herself encoded into binary data within the cloud, and whose history is archived and exposed publicly to an extent she may not control. How is tele-scription played out in fiction, in arts or in our daily activities (such as email)? Where does it come from? How and why was it established? What are its uses? And crucially, what does it change -if indeed it changes anything- in the relation of the subject and her body to writing? Could tele-scription renew our understanding of what constitutes a subject? In-scription then. Or re-inscription. While writing shifts to the screen, another major contemporary trend, fuelled by the advances of neuroscience and medical imagery, re-ascribes the advent of meaning to the body, more specifically to the brain which is to be made legible. Reading the mind by reading the brain, drawing from what we can now access in terms of neuronal activity, this is largely today's scientific agenda. A number of recent experiments in neuroscience focus on imagination and on how humans craft fiction. Some may try to catch what we do as we dream, or as we let our thoughts roam free; some intend to detect lie; some strive to build a "brain reading machine" which would ideally display on screen all that goes on inside our minds. It all rests upon the assumption that who the person really is, her intentions, the images she likes, her biases, even that part of her she may not be aware of, are inscribed in her brain, set into patterns we do not have direct access to but that a machine may read and decipher. What is happening in the field of neuroscience and how is it echoed in fiction? For fiction - literature, the cinema, philosophical thought experiments, all these traditions that largely pre-date neuroscience - provide us with the tools to explore the workings of the mind through the body of the subject. How can we make sense of this re-inscription, being contemporary to digital tele-scription? Tags: subject, self, brain, mind, digital technologies, writing, signature, annotation, imagery. Appel à contributions / Call for papers Colloque international :"Le sujet digital: in-scription, ex-scription, télé-scription" / International symposium : "The digital subject : in-scription, ex-scription, tele-scription" Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint Denis - Archives Nationales 18 novembre - 21 novembre 2013 Organisateurs : Pierre Cassou-Noguès (Département de philosophie, LLCP, SPHERE) Claire Larsonneur (Département d'études des pays anglophones, Le Texte Étranger, EA1569) Arnaud Regnauld (Département d'études des pays anglophones, CRLC, EA1569) Ce colloque s'inscrit dans un projet pluri-annuel Labex Arts H2H "le sujet digital" (http://www.labex-arts-h2h.fr/), dont il est le deuxième moment après le colloque Hypermnésie en 2012. Il s'agit d'explorer comment le développement réel ou imaginaire des machines numériques, de Babbage à Internet, modifie la conception du sujet et ses représentations, dans son statut comme dans ses attributs. Pluridisciplinaire, ce projet accueille des contributions des champs suivants : philosophie, littérature, archivistique, arts, histoire des sciences et techniques, neurosciences. Les langues utilisées seront le français et l'anglais. Les contributions peuvent être proposées dans l'une ou l'autre langue, en moins de 3000 signes, accompagnées d'une brève présentation biographique de l'auteur. Merci d'envoyer vos propositions via EasyChair : https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=digitalsubject2013 N'oubliez pas de télécharger le document au format PDF. Pour tout autre renseignement, merci de nous contacter à l'adresse suivante: scriptions@univ-paris8.fr Date limite de soumission des contributions : 15 septembre 2013 Réponse : 1er octobre 2013 Conférence d'ouverture de Mark Amerika le 18 novembre, 20h-22h30, Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique Conférences plénières de Jean-Luc Nancy, Bertrand Gervais (UQÀM, Montréal), Wendy Chun (Brown University), Laurent Cohen (Salpêtrière INSERM), James Williams Texte de l'appel : Comment le numérique recompose-t-il l'acte d'écriture, dans sa triple acception de production d'objet, de façonnement du sens et d'avènement du sujet ? Nous souhaitons explorer ce champ de recherche en mobilisant des points de vue aussi divers que la philosophie, les lettres, les neurosciences, l'archivistique. Le numérique déplace l'écriture, qui se trouve abstraite de son support initial, le papier disons, et développée sur un autre médium, un écran, un réseau d'écrans. Loin d'être dématérialisé, le geste d'écrire garde une matière, un corps pour ainsi dire. Il reste des contraintes à laquelle l'écriture est soumise, mais ce ne sont plus celles qui réglaient l'écriture d'avant. Et ce déplacement, qui suppose dans bien des cas une transcription (par duplication numérique ou réencodage), va bien au delà de celle-ci. Il ouvre la voie à ce que l'on pourrait nommer télé-scription, écriture à distance au travers d'un objet technique qui ouvre entre le corps et l'écrit une dimension irréductible et projette l'écrit dans un médium dont les règles sont autres. Introduisant une médiation supplémentaire, contredisant une fois de plus le mythe du rapport immédiat du sujet au sens. « L'excription passe par l'écriture - et certainement pas par des extases de la chair ou du sens. Il faut donc écrire, depuis ce corps que nous n'avons pas, et que nous ne sommes pas non plus : mais où l'être est excrit - Si j'écris, cette main étrangère est déjà glissée dans ma main qui écrit », notait Jean-Luc Nancy dans Corpus. L'écriture excrit. Elle possède un autre bord. Il y a des états de choses que l'on décrit mais un autre bord aussi où s'indique le sujet, le corps technique qui écrit. La télé-scription, dans le numérique, peut-elle être considérée comme un forme d'excription, d'espacement pour reprendre les termes de Jean-Luc Nancy et de Jacques Derrida ? Ou bien par les modifications qu'elle implique dans la temporalité notamment de l'écriture faut-il la poser à part et y voir un phénomène nouveau, transformant radicalement les relations entre les termes en question : écrit, corps, sujet, technique. Nous ne faisons que commencer à appréhender l'étendue des effets de ces nouvelles façons d'écrire. Prenons l'effacement possible des repentirs, ratures et hésitations, tout le travail de la reprise de l'énoncé qui introduit une instabilité des marques et des traces sans comparaison avec le papier : comment cette labilité du sens affecte-t'elle le rapport du sujet à l'empreinte qu'il laisse, au sens qu'il construit, à la définition de soi qu'il en déduit ? Le numérique recompose aussi en profondeur la distinction entre l'original et la copie : une fois numérisée, la trace inscrite (par exemple un manuscrit) peut être démultipliée par le jeu des fac-similés, mais aussi augmentée par un appareil d'annotations et d'étiquettes et mise en réseau. Plus exactement l'inscription s'ouvre à un processus de réencodage, des transpositions, d'ajouts et de catégorisation qui ne met plus en jeu un seul auteur mais une nébuleuse d'interventions humaines et machiniques à des titres divers. Que dire enfin de la signature, cette marque personnelle emblématique désormais interfacée, labile, reproductible à l'infini ? Passer de la graphie intime, choisie à des formes de signatures électroniques réduites à des séquences encodées, parfois prises en charge automatiquement, parfois déléguées, parfois suscitées à l'insu du signataire, n'est pas anodin. Pour le dire autrement, quid d'un sujet devenu avatar grâce aux nouvelles technologies de l'image de soi ? Quelle nouvelle configuration des rapports entre l'individu et les institutions (la librairie, l'archive, l'université) instaurent-elles ? Qu'advient-il du sujet juridique atomisé, encodé sous formes de données binaires dans le cloud, dans des archives accessibles au public selon des échelles variables, notamment en fonction des pays ? Téléscription donc dans la littérature, dans l'art, dans toutes sortes de pratiques quotidiennes (plus que quotidiennes, le courrier électronique par exemple). La téléscription sans doute, a une histoire. D'où vient-elle ? Pourquoi et comment s'est-elle développée ? À quoi sert-elle ? Et, surtout, que vient-elle changer (si elle change quoi que ce soit) dans le rapport du sujet, du corps, à l'écrit ? Inscription enfin. Ou réinscription. En même temps que l'écriture se transporte ainsi à l'écran, un autre mouvement illustré par les neurosciences réassigne le sujet à son corps (forcément) signifiant, et à son cerveau en particulier, qu'il s'agit de rendre lisible. Un certain nombre d'expériences récentes en neuroscience s'attaquent à l'imagination ou, disons, à la capacité humaine à élaborer des fictions, qu'il s'agisse de saisir nos rêves, un discours intérieur déconnecté de la réalité, ou de détecter nos mensonges ou, plus largement, d'élaborer (un but encore idéal) un lecteur du cerveau, capable d'afficher à l'écran les images qui nous passeraient par la tête. La réalité de la personne, ses intentions, les images qu'elle entretient, ses biais, ceux-là qu'elle peut ignorer, se trouverait inscrite dans son cerveau, en des caractères obscurs mais néanmoins lisibles par la machine, hors de portée du sujet. Que se joue-t'il donc entre les neurosciences et la fiction ? Ne faudrait-il pas finalement procéder à l'inverse et tenter d'éclairer les neurosciences par la fiction ? Il est possible en effet de chercher dans la fiction, la littérature, le cinéma ainsi que des expériences de pensée en philosophie, bien antérieures au neurosciences, toute une série d'antécédents à cette idée d'une capture de la vie mentale dans le corps du sujet (son cerveau, son larynx dont les mouvements exprimeraient une voix intérieure, etc.) ou d'étudier dans ces mêmes fictions l'élaboration d'une identification de la personne à son cerveau qui sous-tendrait alors les neurosciences. Comment comprendre cette ré-inscription concomitante à la téléscription contemporaine ? Mots clefs : sujet, cerveau, esprit, nouvelles technologies, écriture, signature, annotation, imagerie. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D06CC2F98; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 21:13:10 +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 EE8672F91; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 21:13:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8F0742F86; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 21:13:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130731191300.8F0742F86@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 21:13:00 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.253 postdocs & writing-up fellowships at MPIWG 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. 27, No. 253. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jochen Schneider (38) Subject: Two 3-Year Positions MPIWG Berlin [2] From: Jochen Schneider (32) Subject: "Writing-Up" Predoctoral Fellowship MPIWG Berlin --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 14:44:05 +0200 From: Jochen Schneider Subject: Two 3-Year Positions MPIWG Berlin The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (Department II; Director: Prof. Lorraine Daston) offers two three-year Research Scholar positions (to begin no later than 1 September 2014) to outstanding junior scholars. Candidates should hold a doctorate in the history of science or related field at the time the position begins and show evidence of scholarly promise in the form of publications or other achievements. A previous postdoctoral position is desirable but not essential. Research projects may concern any culture or historical period (including the present). Although projects must have a history of science component, both the human and natural sciences are included under that rubric and additional relevant disciplinary perspectives are welcome. Research projects within the following three main areas are sought: - Scientific archives (especially pre-1900) - Gender studies of science - Visual and/or material culture of science 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. Applications may however be submitted in German, English, or French. The position is primarily devoted to research, with no teaching and minimal administrative duties. It is ranked at the BAT IIa / TvöD E13 level in the German system, which roughly corresponds to that of Lecturer in Britain, Assistant Professor in North America, and Maître de conférences in France. Salary is set by both the position’s rank and individual factors; please address specific questions to Ms. Claudia Paass (paass@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de). 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), and names and addresses (preferably including email) of three referees who may be contacted and asked to submit letters if the candidate is among the finalists for the position to Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Abt. Personal/WiMi II Boltzmannstr. 22 14195 Berlin Germany (Electronic submission is also possible: rheld@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de) by October 1, 2013. Finalists for the position will be informed by December 2, 2013 and asked to come for an interview during the week of January 13, 2014 (travel expenses covered by the Institute). For questions concerning Department II and its research projects, please contact Dr. David Sepkoski (dsepkoski@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de); for administrative questions concerning the position and the Institute, please contact Mr. Jochen Schneider (jsr@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de). Scholars of all nationalities are welcome to apply; applications from women are especially welcomed. The Max Planck Society is committed to employing more handicapped individuals and encourages them to apply. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 14:30:59 +0200 From: Jochen Schneider Subject: "Writing-Up" Predoctoral Fellowship MPIWG Berlin The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (MPIWG), Department II (Director: Prof. Lorraine Daston), offers two six-month predoctoral fellowships for outstanding students in the final stage of completing their dissertations. The fellowships are open to doctoral candidates of all nationalitites and disciplines, except those who have already received three years of Max Planck Society predoctoral fellowship funding. Department II holds a bimonthly colloquium in English, and candidates are expected to be able to present and discuss their work and that of others in that language. Applications, however, may be submitted in German, French, or English. The fellowships run from 1 January 2014 to 30 June 2014. Applicants should submit the following materials: 1. Curriculum vitae and list of publications. 2. Brief (maximum 750 words) description of dissertation. 3. A letter of recommendation from the dissertation advisor endorsing the candidate and confirming that the dissertation will with high probability be completed within the term of the six-month fellowship. This letter may be sent separately. Applications should be sent by 1 October 2013 to: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Verwaltung – Predoc II Boltzmanstr. 22 14195 Berlin Germany Electronic submission is also possible: rheld@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de Project descriptions are to be found under http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/research/projects/department2 Questions concerning stipends and the MPIWG should be addressed to the MPIWG Research Coordinator, Jochen Schneider (jsr@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de). Contact in Department II: Dr. David Sepkoski, dsepkoski@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de Applications from women are especially welcomed. The Max Planck Society is committed to promoting more handicapped individuals and encourages them 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: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 05:57:51 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: (self)-enslavement: a critical digital humanities? In the Times Higher for 18 July, Fred Inglis asks the rhetorical question, "What if marketing-speak is not glib nonsense, but a poison at the heart of the university?" He answers in a long article,"Branded to Death" (http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/branded-to-death/2005732.fullarticle), beginning as follows: > The most abominable monster now threatening the intellectual health > and the integrity of pure enquiry as well as conscientious teaching > is the language of advertising, or better, the machinery of > propaganda. Any number of critics from within university walls have > warned the people at large and academics in particular of the way the > helots of advertising and the state police of propaganda bloat and > distort the language of thoughtful description, peddle with a > confident air generalisations without substance, and serenely > circulate orotund lies while ignoring their juniorsÂ’ rebuttals and > abuse. It is indicative that the only street job our hapless prime > minister ever had was as a public relations officer to a now-defunct > television company. Before we get too far into the thickets of trendy socio-cultural questions easy to pursue because they require no technical knowledge or the making of anything, and safe because we can do nothing about them (except to leave the academy altogether and join the picket-lines), perhaps we could consider what might be done to give some real meaning to the word "critical" in "critical digital humanities". Inglis identifies an evil in academic life. Is it so? If it is, as the evidence all around us suggests to me it is, then where does it cross our path, and what can we *as digital humanists* do about it? Where in our daily practice is the compromise with the devil negotiated? If, as seems to me, "critical" can actually have some meaning (as it did as a noun in "literary criticism"), then we are directed to what we actually do that makes us simultaneously of the humanities and distinct from the other disciplines. It directs us to practice -- not hacking as opposed to yacking but both together directed to a common end. A tricky business (as that last word betrays). Years ago a friend of mine in High Administration at Toronto explained to me that getting things done was all a matter of packaging. A gentler metaphor than "branding", with its smell of burning flesh and implications of slavery. But both are temptations away from critical practices, from reading, understanding, making. I suggest asking, what is the minimum we need to do what we want to do? What in the past has made the most difference? Isn't it being "critical" in the sense of "thoughtful" equipped with a sharp analytical edge? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3A29B2FA3; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 22:12:07 +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 1E6DC2F99; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 22:11:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D94A82F92; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 22:11:54 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130801201154.D94A82F92@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 22:11:54 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.255 branding & a critical 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. 27, No. 255. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 21:57:10 +1000 From: Craig Bellamy Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.254 branding and a critical digital humanities In-Reply-To: <20130731201403.3D0932F7A@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard and Humanist, Thanks for the link to the Higher Ed article and your critical addendum. You struck a cord, one that I have reflected upon at length of late. The broader issue of 'branding' is a problem of the academy everywhere; the particular University I am at promotes itself as 'number one' in this particular imagined geographical context; in an assumption that all universities are playing the same game. Plus this state's most proudly regional and parochial university promotes its self as 'Worldly', when, if one drives 1 hour West of Melbourne, common sense may tell you otherwise. If your question is where does the critical digital humanities intersect with branding, (and I suspect that this is a rhetorical question), I would say that the 'digital humanities' is rapidly becoming a brand in itself. I worry that all the investment that students and scholars have made in the field; who understand its core technologies and values, its intrepid interdisciplinarity, and its endearing contradictions, is not protected well enough. We don't protect its boundaries, nor its emerging merit structures, nor its research accountability structures well enough. Many believe that merit in some other field is merit in the DH, an EU notion of the DH, that is bound to fail because one of the member states hasn't paid its taxes. Sure, anyone can brand themselves a 'digital humanist' or historian, and they possible won't be arrested and sent to Tasmania. But still, if someone writes a dodgy history, they will confront a well-established, critical 'infrastructure' to insist they defend their thesis and their historical skill. I am not sure we have the same luxury in the DH, thus our 'brand' is in danger of being stolen by thieves, who may use it to not only undermine us, but the rest of the humanities in the process (ie. I already see a drift of the term 'digital humanities' into the realm of the well-oiled 'science propaganda' machine along with its crudely Modernist, deterministic agenda...and its seductive funding models). If you ask what we can do about it, perhaps fight fire with fire! Register 'Digital Humanities' as a brand and only allow its use under strict circumstances (and at a very high fee). Patent TEI, and even perhaps have a DH certification process, (like Plumbers do); ''a certified practising digital humanist' (also at a very high fee). Or change the name or even sell it for a very large sum and use the money to do some research. Sure I am being a gadfly, but if anyone can use the term 'digital humanities' for what ever purpose (and others will believe them), then the past 40 odd years of work in this field will be wasted. I respect those who have made a much larger and more sophisticated contribution to the field than I have (my opportunities have been limited), and I hope these people are also in a better position to certify the work of the DH much better than I am. Kind regards, Craig In the Times Higher for 18 July, Fred Inglis asks the rhetorical question, "What if marketing-speak is not glib nonsense, but a poison at the heart of the university?" He answers in a long article,"Branded to Death" (http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/branded-to-death/2005732.fullarticle), beginning as follows: > Before we get too far into the thickets of trendy socio-cultural > questions easy to pursue because they require no technical knowledge > or the making of anything, and safe because we can do nothing about > them (except to leave the academy altogether and join the > picket-lines), perhaps we could consider what might be done to give > some real meaning to the word "critical" in "critical digital > humanities". Inglis identifies an evil in academic life. Is it so? If > it is, as the evidence all around us suggests to me it is, then where > does it cross our path, and what can we *as digital humanists* do > about it? -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id EF0FD2FA4; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 22:25:08 +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 B25412F9B; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 22:24:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C77052F99; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 22:24:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130801202455.C77052F99@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 22:24:55 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.256 reviewing? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 256. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 06:29:50 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: reviewing Like many, I suppose, I read reviews of computing devices both before buying them and afterwards. It's the afters that I have often found the more informative. But what I've been mostly informed about is the difficulty of getting to the intention of a device's designers, of judging something on its own merits. Most often I find that (as the hackers say) my mileage differs, i.e. that the reviews are expressing little more than enthusiasms and/or annoyances. A reviewer will like a device or not like it, and that's about all one really learns. Lest this be taken merely as annoyance at the annoyances or enthusiasms of others, let's consider what's involved because of the complexity of these devices. I'm not sure if it's any different from reviewing books, say: as Lionel Trilling wrote in "On the teaching of modern literature", you may have to do some growing up before a book likes you. That is, aren't our devices becoming sufficiently complex as cultural expressions that the question to ask might be one of being or becoming like the persona that the device has been designed to match? Comments? Yours,WM-- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CF6422FA6; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 22:27:33 +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 687CB2FA4; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 22:27:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id F1C312F9B; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 22:27:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130801202723.F1C312F9B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 22:27:23 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.257 events: discourse & dialogue; machine-actionable prose X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 257. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Stuart Dunn (31) Subject: Digital Classicist Seminar: Scholarly reasoning and writing in an automatically assembled and tested digital library [2] From: Michael Strube (20) Subject: SIGDIAL 2013: Call for Participation --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 06:56:44 +0100 From: Stuart Dunn Subject: Digital Classicist Seminar: Scholarly reasoning and writing in an automatically assembled and tested digital library Neel Smith (Holy Cross): Scholarly reasoning and writing in an automatically assembled and tested digital library Friday August 2 at 16:30 in room G37, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Follow or discuss the seminar on Twitter at #DigiClass ALL WELCOME For more than 30 years, computer scientists have discussed "literate programming," an approach that treats computer programs as works of literature, as well as sources for machine instructions. I propose an approach to writing in the humanities that inverts that model, and treats scholarly prose as a source for machine-actionable citations, as well as a logical argument. I will draw illustrations from the Homer Multitext project, and will briefly survey how all of the information in its editorial work on Homeric manuscripts is translated into hundreds of thousands of RDF statements with citable URNs as their subject. 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 Charlotte.Tupman@kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2013.html --------------------------------- 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: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 13:55:47 +0000 From: Michael Strube Subject: SIGDIAL 2013: Call for Participation CALL FOR PARTICIPATION We invite you to join us at SIGDIAL 2013. 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 The conference includes formal, corpus-based, implementation and 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, and this year's program, please see the SIGDIAL 2013 website, http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference14/. 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. Contributions 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 CONFERENCE DATES Conference: Thursday-Saturday, 22-24 August 2013 (Thu morning - Saturday mid-day) [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CF75D2FA8; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 22:28:45 +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 2880E2FA7; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 22:28:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A945B2FA0; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 22:28:34 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130801202834.A945B2FA0@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 22:28:34 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.258 Open Syllabus Project: call for contributions X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 258. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 14:55:17 -0400 From: Alex Gil Subject: Open Syllabus Project Dear Humanist, The Open Syllabus Project http://opensyllabusproject.org/ is pleased to announce that it has received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to support its first year of development. The OSP’s mission is to build a large-scale online collection of syllabiand to build foundational tools for analyzing it, in order to advance scholarly inquiry, promote institutional cooperation, and foster pedagogical diversity. We believe that this critical mass of syllabi will stimulate new research tools, drive policy change, foster best practices, provide new metrics, and aid in the search, discovery, and the development of new course materials. Toward these ends we have assembled a team of scholars, librarians, administrators, open scholarship activists who can make this ambitious project a reality. We are lucky to have supporters in Dan Cohen’s Million Syllabus Archive http://www.dancohen.org/2011/03/30/a-million-syllabi/ , Harvard University’s Berkman Center and metaLab http://metalab.harvard.edu/ , Columbia’s American Assembly http://americanassembly.org/ , Butler Library and the English Department, University of Washington’s Project Information Literacy http://projectinfolit.org/ , and UNC’s Digital Innovation http://digitalinnovation.unc.edu/ group.` Now, we need your help. We have data, but we need more. Whether a few sheets or a few terabytes, please consider helping us to build this collective dataset. In return, release a rich dataset of metadata to the public, while protecting the original documents in a secure “research sandbox” environment. Talk to your administrators, share your university, college, departmental, or private collections. Let’s use the data we have to drive institutional change, to experiment, and to innovate in this area. We are also actively looking for researchers interested in natural language processing and archive architecture, and for students at all levels who can benefit from hands-on experience (and a modest compensation) working on a tough, real-world problem. Thanks to our funders we are able to support some initial rapid development, but the long-term success of the project depends on your participation. Visit us at opensyllabusproject.org to learn how to get involved and stay tuned for more developments. OSP 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CE2352FA8; Sun, 4 Aug 2013 22:18:36 +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 856792F0F; Sun, 4 Aug 2013 22:18:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CC9A82F9F; Sun, 4 Aug 2013 22:18:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130804201827.CC9A82F9F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2013 22:18:27 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.259 critical digital humanities; branding X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 259. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Dean Rehberger (116) Subject: Re: 27.255 branding & a critical digital humanities [2] From: Victoria Scott (28) Subject: What I mean by "critical" digital humanities [3] From: maurizio lana (22) Subject: Re: 27.254 branding and a critical digital humanities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 18:17:22 -0400 From: Dean Rehberger Subject: Re: 27.255 branding & a critical digital humanities In-Reply-To: <20130801201154.D94A82F92@digitalhumanities.org> This is not to agree or disagree but to take another path. As I was reading Inglis hyperbolic screed I kept trying to find the irony, some recognition of the class bound brand that has long been part of the UK higher education system. What Inglis is perhaps pointing out is the breakdown of brand. However, what bothers me most with articles like these is the callus disregard for our colleagues. Business, advertising, public relations are all legitimate spaces and places for majors at universities, with fine people doing wonderful academic and scholarly work. Frankly Inglis appears to me as whinger pointing to monsters at the gate that need to be banished so we can go back to work as normal (the monsters could never be us). But as you note we are not here to talk about this but as Craig raises, should we brand digital humanities, and as you note, should there be a critical digital humanities. I come at the digital humanities from a different bent having always partnered with libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions. Large collaborative projects with healthy doses of public engagement. While we (constantly) whing about the crises of the Humanities within the academy (the putative decline of majors), it has been a perfect storm outside of the academy for cultural institutions. Orchestras going bankrupt, museums shutting their doors, theaters turning off their lights. And it is here that people have done ingenious public relations work and rebranding, imaginative social media campaigns. There has been a long running evolution of museums and libraries moving from housing things to being active, vibrant, engaged parts of communities (both IRL and virtually). Brand can be an important and powerful tool, a way to keep doors open and cultural heritage accessible. So as Craig implies, should we brand digital humanities? I say yes, but not to protect it but to give it away. As Willard notes, should we have a critical digital humanities. By all means yes, but more important we need Engaged Digital Humanities, a digital humanities that will reach out to and work with multiple publics and institutions. The humanities do have a public relations problem. It is not being caused by monsters at the gate. It is us. We can sit in our silos and be critical or we can engage, play, occupy, captivate with the magic we make in the digital humanities. Best Dean ______________________ Dean Rehberger Michigan State University http://matrix.msu.edu rehberge@msu.edu deanreh@gmail.com Twitter: deanreh Aim: deanreh On Aug 1, 2013, at 4:11 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 255. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 21:57:10 +1000 > From: Craig Bellamy > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.254 branding and a critical digital humanities > In-Reply-To: <20130731201403.3D0932F7A@digitalhumanities.org> > > Dear Willard and Humanist, > > Thanks for the link to the Higher Ed article and your critical > addendum. You struck a cord, one that I have reflected upon at length > of late. The broader issue of 'branding' is a problem of the academy > everywhere; the particular University I am at promotes itself as 'number > one' in this particular imagined geographical context; in an assumption > that all universities are playing the same game. Plus this state's most > proudly regional and parochial university promotes its self as > 'Worldly', when, if one drives 1 hour West of Melbourne, common sense > may tell you otherwise. > > If your question is where does the critical digital humanities intersect > with branding, (and I suspect that this is a rhetorical question), I > would say that the 'digital humanities' is rapidly becoming a brand in > itself. I worry that all the investment that students and scholars have > made in the field; who understand its core technologies and values, its > intrepid interdisciplinarity, and its endearing contradictions, is not > protected well enough. We don't protect its boundaries, nor its emerging > merit structures, nor its research accountability structures well > enough. Many believe that merit in some other field is merit in the DH, > an EU notion of the DH, that is bound to fail because one of the member > states hasn't paid its taxes. > > Sure, anyone can brand themselves a 'digital humanist' or historian, and > they possible won't be arrested and sent to Tasmania. But still, if > someone writes a dodgy history, they will confront a well-established, > critical 'infrastructure' to insist they defend their thesis and their > historical skill. I am not sure we have the same luxury in the DH, thus > our 'brand' is in danger of being stolen by thieves, who may use it to > not only undermine us, but the rest of the humanities in the process > (ie. I already see a drift of the term 'digital humanities' into the > realm of the well-oiled 'science propaganda' machine along with its > crudely Modernist, deterministic agenda...and its seductive funding models). > > If you ask what we can do about it, perhaps fight fire with fire! > > Register 'Digital Humanities' as a brand and only allow its use under > strict circumstances (and at a very high fee). Patent TEI, and even > perhaps have a DH certification process, (like Plumbers do); ''a > certified practising digital humanist' (also at a very high fee). Or > change the name or even sell it for a very large sum and use the money > to do some research. Sure I am being a gadfly, but if anyone can use the > term 'digital humanities' for what ever purpose (and others will believe > them), then the past 40 odd years of work in this field will be wasted. > > I respect those who have made a much larger and more sophisticated > contribution to the field than I have (my opportunities have been > limited), and I hope these people are also in a better position to > certify the work of the DH much better than I am. > > Kind regards, > > Craig > > In the Times Higher for 18 July, Fred Inglis asks the rhetorical > question, "What if marketing-speak is not glib nonsense, but a poison at > the heart of the university?" He answers in a long article,"Branded to > Death" > (http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/branded-to-death/2005732.fullarticle), > beginning as follows: >> Before we get too far into the thickets of trendy socio-cultural >> questions easy to pursue because they require no technical knowledge >> or the making of anything, and safe because we can do nothing about >> them (except to leave the academy altogether and join the >> picket-lines), perhaps we could consider what might be done to give >> some real meaning to the word "critical" in "critical digital >> humanities". Inglis identifies an evil in academic life. Is it so? If >> it is, as the evidence all around us suggests to me it is, then where >> does it cross our path, and what can we *as digital humanists* do >> about it? > > -- > Dr Craig Bellamy > Research Fellow > ___________________________ > Computing and Information Systems > The University of Melbourne > Parkville, Melbourne, Australia > ___________________________ > w: craigbellamy.net --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 10:58:15 +0200 From: Victoria Scott Subject: What I mean by "critical" digital humanities In-Reply-To: <20130801201154.D94A82F92@digitalhumanities.org> Thank you to everyone for all their suggestions, I am at the digital humanities summer school in Leipzig, and applying for jobs at the same time so I have not had time to read them all yet but I will soon. I am working on a hunch...that the rise of centralized computerized administrative systems at universities is connected to the decline of academic freedoms in the Anglo-speaking world (and probably in other places too). This has been complicated even further by the whole NSA debacle...indicating that there might be several different kinds and levels of bureaucratic agencies, state and private, snooping around in our email. Scholars need privacy for open and free debate. Without it knowledge cannot be advanced. This problem could be solved if departments' email systems were truly private, and perhaps if they owned and controlled their own servers and had their own IT teams (maybe this is already the case in some places?...I just am unaware) We need to rebuild and re-entrench privacy in academia, and every where else too, and I think it has to happen at the level of hardware and software. I am new to the field of digital humanities (sort of) but it seems to me that, theoretically anyway, exactly because of their specialized sets of knowledge, digital humanists are in a privileged position to begin this movement. Or, at the very least, to begin discussing it. #jussayin Forza! And thank you again for all the suggestions, I am very much looking forward to reading them! vhfs -- *Victoria H.F. Scott * *The Art History Guild * --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 18:21:10 +0200 From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: 27.254 branding and a critical digital humanities In-Reply-To: <20130731201403.3D0932F7A@digitalhumanities.org> Il 31/07/2013 22:14, Humanist Discussion Group ha scritto: > Years ago a friend of mine in High Administration at Toronto explained > to me that getting things done was all a matter of packaging. nearly the same for many sources of research funding: you must package your proposal so that it be 'in line' with the expectations, presumptions, knowledge, etc. of your possible funding subject. the packaging activity con go from "making your research theme understandable to people" to "modifying/changing your theme in order to be able to package it in an attractive way". but for me the true problem is that we all go into these packaging activities mainly because we need funds for our research. _those funds that our institutions don't provide to us_. 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/ che cosa sono le digital humanities: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JqLst_VKCA ------- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 447E32FAD; Sun, 4 Aug 2013 22:22:26 +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 830DC2FA7; Sun, 4 Aug 2013 22:22:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9F0662FA1; Sun, 4 Aug 2013 22:22:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130804202216.9F0662FA1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2013 22:22:16 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.260 events: 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. 27, No. 260. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 20:26:48 +0000 From: "Brookes, Stewart" Subject: Registration Opens for DigiPal Symposium: Monday 16th September 2013... Date: Monday 16th September 2013 Event: DigiPal Symposium III Co-sponsor: Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, King's College London Location: King's College London, Strand WC2R 2LS Dear all, It is with great delight that the DigiPal team (Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London) announce that registration is open for the third DigiPal Symposium (list of speakers below). Attendance is free and open to all, but places are limited and so registration is essential. As we're celebrating the relaunch of our website and database, we're pleased to offer a *free* sandwich-style lunch to the first 80 participants who register. Who said there's no such thing as a "free lunch"? I guess those who dilly and dally before registering ;-) -------------------------- How do I register? -------------------------- To register, send an email to digipal [at] kcl.ac.uk http://kcl.ac.uk/ , including your details as you would like them to appear on your name badge. Registration is likely to close on Friday 6th September 2013. Of course, if you want to be in with a chance of the coveted free lunch, then we recommend registering as soon as possible. Oh, and do please let us know if you are vegetarian. Looking forward to seeing you in September, 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 -------------- Speakers -------------- Eleanor Anthony (University of Mississippi): "From the Archimedes’ Palimpsest to the Vercelli Book: Dual Correlation Pattern Recognition and Probabilistic Network Approaches to Palaeography in Damaged Manuscripts." Sarah Biggs and Julian Harrison (British Library): "Beyond the Reading Room: Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age" Samantha Blickhan (Royal Holloway, University of London): "Musical Perception and Digital Surrogates: On Using E-Resources for Teaching Early Music Notation" Stewart Brookes (King's College London): "So Long and Thanks for All the F-shaped 'y's" Vincent Christlein (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg): "A Letter Driven Writer Identification in Medieval Papal Charters" David Ganz (University of Notre Dame and University of Cambridge.): "'Polygraphism': the Scribe Who Can Write Several Scripts" Tony Harris (University of Cambridge): "Getting to the ‘Hart’ of the Matter – Digitally Speaking" Lambert Schomaker (University of Groningen): "Computer Methods for Handwriting Analysis" Peter Stokes (King's College London): "What is DigiPal, Really?" Dominique Stutzmann (French National Centre for Scientific Research): Automatic letter-form identification in the ORIFLAMMS project" Jacob Thaisen (University of Stavanger): "A Survey of Middle English Letter-Forms" Jean-Paul van Oosten (University of Groningen): "Word Image Retrieval from Historical Handwritten Document Collections: The Monk System" Tessa Webber (University of Cambridge): "The Analysis of Letters: Form, Shape and Stroke" _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2407D2FB2; Mon, 5 Aug 2013 22:23:48 +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 8CF702FAD; Mon, 5 Aug 2013 22:23:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8CDBC2FA5; Mon, 5 Aug 2013 22:23:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130805202336.8CDBC2FA5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 22:23:36 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.261 branding & a critical 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. 27, No. 261. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 22:31:01 +0000 From: James Smithies Subject: RE: 27.255 branding & a critical digital humanities I can't help but agree with the concern expressed, both in Humanist and elsewhere, about DH / Humanities Computing being swamped under the weight of its own success. I don't consider myself much more than a newcomer and am not sure what practical remedies should be implemented to mitigate the challenges there, but I would like to suggest that one of the best 'defenses' is likely to be intellectual. Despite having healthy and ineffably valuable connections with the GLAM sector, it strikes me that the current difficulties (if we choose to see them as such) stem from the academic side of our community. I work as an academic and am aware that the process of 'intellectual evolution' is competitive and at times - to mix the evolutionary metaphor with Hobbes - brutal. If DH is to 'survive' (I use the quotes to avoid creating an inappropriate sense of drama) in a manner consistent with the Humanities Computing tradition, the community needs to develop robust intellectual models capable of carving out and describing its intellectual and practical domains, and demonstrating that the DH Moment is productive of significant new contributions to knowledge. And by this I mean, rather too grandly perhaps, contributions that stand up next to the great thinkers of the arts and humanities tradition. No doubt this is what we mean when we posit the need for a 'critical DH'. I suppose I'm suggesting that, if DH is indeed swamped, it would be an intellectual moment as much as a political or administrative one. This is one of the grand challenges facing our generation of digital humanists, of course, and excellent work is already being done: negotiating a place in the 21st century academy, carving out an intellectual space where we can practice our arts, offering perspectives on the world other fields can't offer. Given our openness to new ideas and practices, an innately inter-disciplinary focus, and the pace of change, this isn't going to be easy. But the historian of ideas in me is fascinated by the challenge. Regards, James -----Original Message----- From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [mailto:humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: Friday, August 02, 2013 8:12 AM To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 8923F2FB8; Mon, 5 Aug 2013 22:25:04 +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 290602FB3; Mon, 5 Aug 2013 22:24:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7245C2FB2; Mon, 5 Aug 2013 22:24:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130805202456.7245C2FB2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 22:24:56 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.262 Serendip-o-matic X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 262. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 13:12:52 -0400 From: Brian Croxall Subject: The One Week | One Tool team announces Serendip-o-matic After five days and nights of intense collaboration, the One Week | One Tool digital humanities team has unveiled its web application: Serendip-o-matic http://serendipomatic.org/ . Unlike conventional search tools, this "serendipity engine" takes in any text, such as an article, song lyrics, or a bibliography. It then uses named-entity recognition to extract key terms, delivering similar results from the vast online collections of the Digital Public Library of America, Europeana, and Flickr Commons. Because Serendip-o-matic asks sources to speak for themselves, users can step back and discover connections they never knew existed. The team worked to re-create that moment when a friend recommends an amazing book, or a librarian suggests a new source. Serendip-o-matic is easy to use and freely available to the public. Software developers may expand and improve the open-source code, available on GitHub. The One Week | One Tool team has also prepared ways for additional archives, libraries, and museums to make their collections available to Serendip-o-matic. Please take a look at what we made and let the team know what you think—either via Twitter with the #owot hashtag or at serendipomatic@gmail.com. Just remember: it's not search, it's serendipity. Brian Croxall, on behalf of the OWOT team. -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B41E42FBA; Mon, 5 Aug 2013 22:25:51 +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 C9FE92FB8; Mon, 5 Aug 2013 22:25:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 958702FB5; Mon, 5 Aug 2013 22:25:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130805202543.958702FB5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 22:25:43 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.263 events: Chicago Digital Humanities 2013 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. 27, No. 263. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 18:57:49 +0000 From: "Jaskot, Paul" Subject: Call for Papers: Chicago Digital Humanities Conference, Dec 2013 To the list: For those in the Midwest or who might be interested, please consider this call for papers for the 8th annual digital humanities conference in Chicago (Dec. 6-8, 2013). Please note that the deadline for abstracts is September 15. Thanks for considering a contribution! http://chicagocolloquium.org/2013/07/2013-call-for-papers/ Yours, Paul Jaskot Paul B. Jaskot Professor of Art History Dept. of the History of Art & Architecture DePaul University 2315 N. Kenmore Ave. Chicago, IL 60614 http://las.depaul.edu/haa/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6A4C72FB2; Mon, 5 Aug 2013 23:09:25 +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 63AB62FAE; Mon, 5 Aug 2013 23:09:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 65D682F93; Mon, 5 Aug 2013 23:09:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130805210917.65D682F93@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 23:09:17 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.264 enumeration and 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 264. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 07:02:42 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: enumeration The philosopher Ian Hacking, continuing the work on psychodynamics published most prominently in Rewriting the Soul, has written an illuminating review of the 5th edition of DSM-5: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association), in the London Review of Books 35.18 for 8 August 2013. See under http://www.lrb.co.uk/ (the review is freely available). His primary criticism of DSM-5 is that "it is founded on a wrong appreciation of the nature of things", based on "the long-standing idea that, in our present state of knowledge, the recognised varieties of mental illness should neatly sort themselves into tidy blocks, in the way that plants and animals do". He details what happens when a rigid scheme is imposed on a reality that does not fit it, not with the objective of trying out that scheme to learn more about the reality (as we do in computational modelling) but in order to serve a huge and expensive bureaucratic enterprise. The grass-roots human consequences of imposing a scheme that must be used in the funding of mental health-care in the U.S. are horrendous. My interest here, which I recommend to your attention, is the craze for classificatory enumeration. Isn't it interesting that this should occur alongside -- I am *not* saying caused by -- the interpenetration of computing into all aspects of modern life? To me this suggests that one of the most important of our jobs as digital humanists is to make as clear as possible what modelling does, what it is for. Not answers but questions. Not toward the perfect fit but toward the telling misfit. What an amazingly difficult problem the psychiatrists have, dealing with a world in which the thing to be classified changes dynamically with the classificatory scheme. I think we have that problem at root in the dynamics of interpretation, but one step at a time. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8D7E22FC7; Tue, 6 Aug 2013 22:09:03 +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 542B82FC0; Tue, 6 Aug 2013 22:08:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id EAA542FBF; Tue, 6 Aug 2013 22:08:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130806200852.EAA542FBF@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2013 22:08:52 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.265 enumeration and 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 265. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 18:19:46 -0500 From: Paul Fishwick Subject: Re: 27.264 enumeration and modelling In-Reply-To: <20130805210917.65D682F93@digitalhumanities.org> Willard You have pushed my favorite button "modeling" which I imagine is also the favorite of many others as well. Some comments on your second paragraph: > My interest here, which I recommend to your attention, is the craze for > classificatory enumeration. Fermi noted "If I could remember all of these particles, I'd be a botanist." However, in fairness to botany, and more generally biology, the past 40 years or so have seen ever-increasing use of models (e.g., systems biology). And so, I would think the classification you mention is gradually replaced by a deeper understanding, with classifications still serving their purpose higher up the abstraction level of inquiry. > Isn't it interesting that this should occur > alongside -- I am *not* saying caused by -- the interpenetration of > computing into all aspects of modern life? To me this suggests that one > of the most important of our jobs as digital humanists is to make as > clear as possible what modelling does, what it is for. Not answers but > questions. What sorts of modeling comes to mind in your questions? I have many in my thoughts, but they may not be a match. > Not toward the perfect fit but toward the telling misfit. > What an amazingly difficult problem the psychiatrists have, dealing with > a world in which the thing to be classified changes dynamically with the > classificatory scheme. I think we have that problem at root in the > dynamics of interpretation, but one step at a time. The interpretation of what? -p On Aug 5, 2013, at 4:09 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 264. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 07:02:42 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: enumeration > > The philosopher Ian Hacking, continuing the work on psychodynamics > published most prominently in Rewriting the Soul, has written an > illuminating review of the 5th edition of DSM-5: Diagnostic and > Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric > Association), in the London Review of Books 35.18 for 8 August 2013. > See under http://www.lrb.co.uk/ (the review is freely available). His > primary criticism of DSM-5 is that "it is founded on a wrong > appreciation of the nature of things", based on "the long-standing idea > that, in our present state of knowledge, the recognised varieties of > mental illness should neatly sort themselves into tidy blocks, in the > way that plants and animals do". He details what happens when a rigid > scheme is imposed on a reality that does not fit it, not with the > objective of trying out that scheme to learn more about the reality (as > we do in computational modelling) but in order to serve a huge and > expensive bureaucratic enterprise. The grass-roots human consequences of > imposing a scheme that must be used in the funding of mental health-care > in the U.S. are horrendous. > > My interest here, which I recommend to your attention, is the craze for > classificatory enumeration. Isn't it interesting that this should occur > alongside -- I am *not* saying caused by -- the interpenetration of > computing into all aspects of modern life? To me this suggests that one > of the most important of our jobs as digital humanists is to make as > clear as possible what modelling does, what it is for. Not answers but > questions. Not toward the perfect fit but toward the telling misfit. > What an amazingly difficult problem the psychiatrists have, dealing with > a world in which the thing to be classified changes dynamically with the > classificatory scheme. I think we have that problem at root in the > dynamics of interpretation, but one step at a time. > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital > Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital > Humanities, University of Western Sydney Paul Fishwick, PhD Chair, ACM SIGSIM Distinguished Chair of Arts & Technology and Professor of Computer Science The University of Texas at Dallas Arts & Technology 800 West Campbell Road, AT10 Richardson, TX 75080-3021 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B0C652FC8; Tue, 6 Aug 2013 22:26:21 +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 8558F2FC2; Tue, 6 Aug 2013 22:26:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E3FED2FC1; Tue, 6 Aug 2013 22:26:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130806202611.E3FED2FC1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2013 22:26:11 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.266 iterative fitting of univariate discrete probability distribution X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 266. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 16:29:14 +0000 From: Ram-Verlag Subject: Iterative fitting of about 200 discrete probability distributions to any data The Altmann-Fitter is an interactive software for the iterative fitting of univariate discrete probability distributions to frequency data. It uses the Nelder-Mead Simplex Algorithm. In its present version it contains about 200 distributions and is one of the most voluminous collections of distributions at all. It aims at the analysis of data from all empirical domains, e.g. biology, economy, sociology, meteorology, ecology, linguistics, literary science, communication, technical sciences and production. It is indispensable for practitioners. Fitting is automatic, i.e. no initial estimators are necessary, and it improves iteratively. The goodness-of-fit test is performed by means of the chi-square test. A number of options and configurations enables the user to flexibly process data. Altmann Fitter runs under all Microsoft Windows® versions since Windows XP® and including Windows 8®. For best performance, the computer should be equipped with at least 512 MB of RAM. Different graphical outputs are available. The other attachment shows the register of all distributions Question/Ordersto: RAM-Verlag Or visit our web-site: http://www.ram-verlag.eu/software/ (here you find a demo version and an user guide – free download) 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=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 43FE12FCC; Tue, 6 Aug 2013 22:29:39 +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 37B042FC7; Tue, 6 Aug 2013 22:29:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 905AB2FC4; Tue, 6 Aug 2013 22:29:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130806202927.905AB2FC4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2013 22:29:27 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.267 events: data curation; sentiment elicitation; HASTAC 2014 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 267. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "HASTAC" (54) Subject: Save the Date: HASTAC 2014 Conference to be held April 24-27 in Lima, Peru [2] From: Erik Cambria (47) Subject: DEADLINE EXTENSION: 3rd IEEE ICDM Workshop on Sentiment Elicitation from Natural Text for Information Retrieval and Extraction (SENTIRE) [3] From: "Senseney, Megan Finn" (20) Subject: Reminder: Digital Humanities Data Curation Institute Applications Due TOMORROW (8/7) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 20:32:46 +0000 From: "HASTAC" Subject: Save the Date: HASTAC 2014 Conference to be held April 24-27 in Lima, Peru Save the Date: HASTAC 2014 Conference to be held April 24-27 in Lima, Peru : HASTAC Home [1] | Login [2] | Feedback [3] The Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC) is pleased to announce that its 2014 conference will be held in Lima, Peru, April 24-27, 2014. The conference will be hosted by the Peru Ministry of Culture. -- in collaboration with HASTAC, the Organization of American States (OAS), and several other key partnering institutions from North, Central, and South America. “We are honored and thrilled indeed that our next HASTAC international meeting will be in Lima,” says Cathy Davidson, HASTAC co-founder and John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English at Duke University. “We offer our sincere thanks to the Peru Ministry of Culture, the Organization of American States, and all of the other partners working together to make this happen. And special thanks to one of HASTAC’s founders, Kevin Franklin, and to Michael Simeone of the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts and Social Science [4] at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications [5], University of Illinois, for their work in helping to organize what we know will be an important event.” Updates about the conference will be posted at www.hastac.org [6] as soon as they are available. Past HASTAC conferences have been held in Toronto, Ontario; Ann Arbor, Mich.; Urbana-Champaign, Ill.; Irvine and Los Angeles, Calif.; and Durham, N.C. For more information about HASTAC conferences, visit www.hastac.org/about/conferences [7]. HASTAC is an international network of educators and digital visionaries committed to the creative development and critical understanding of new technologies in life, learning, and society. HASTAC is committed to innovative design, participatory learning, and critical thinking. To get involved, visit www.hastac.org [8].   -------- NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ALERT /HASTAC co-founder David Theo Goldberg would like to share the following message with the HASTAC community: / Dear friends, This week the U.S. House Appropriations Interior Subcommittee voted to cut funding to the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) by 49%. This funding cut would devastate the state humanities councils, and force the elimination of programs in thousands of communities across the nation. Click here to take action [9] and let your Congressperson know that you reject these cuts to the NEH. Best regards, David Theo Goldberg /Director, University of California Humanities Research Institute/ HASTAC 114 S. Buchanan Blvd, Bay 5 Box 90403 Durham, North Carolina 27708-0403 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2013 06:37:14 +0000 From: Erik Cambria Subject: DEADLINE EXTENSION: 3rd IEEE ICDM Workshop on Sentiment Elicitation from Natural Text for Information Retrieval and Extraction (SENTIRE) The deadline of the 3rd IEEE ICDM Workshop on Sentiment Elicitation from Natural Text for Information Retrieval and Extraction (SENTIRE) has been extended to 17th August. This year, ICDM SENTIRE will be held in Dallas on December 7th. For more information, please visit http://sentic.net/sentire RATIONALE Memory and data capacities double approximately every two years and, apparently, the Web is following the same rule. User-generated contents, in particular, are an ever-growing source of opinion and sentiments which are continuously spread worldwide through blogs, wikis, fora, chats and social networks. The distillation of knowledge from such sources is a key factor for applications in fields such as commerce, tourism, education and health, but the quantity and the nature of the contents they generate make it a very difficult task. Due to such challenging research problems and wide variety of practical applications, opinion mining and sentiment analysis have become very active research areas in the last decade. Our understanding and knowledge of the problem and its solution are still limited as natural language understanding techniques are still pretty weak. Most of current research in sentiment analysis, in fact, merely relies on machine learning algorithms. Such algorithms, despite most of them being very effective, produce no human understandable results such that we know little about how and why output values are obtained. All such approaches, moreover, rely on syntactical structure of text, which is far from the way human mind processes natural language. Next-generation opinion mining systems should employ techniques capable to better grasp the conceptual rules that govern sentiment and the clues that can convey these concepts from realization to verbalization in the human mind. TOPICS SENTIRE aims to provide an international forum for researchers in the field of 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 Web mining, AI, Semantic Web, information retrieval and natural language processing. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: • Sentiment identification & classification • Opinion and sentiment summarization & visualization • Explicit & latent semantic analysis for sentiment mining • Concept-level opinion and sentiment analysis • Sentic computing • Opinion and sentiment search & retrieval • Time evolving opinion & sentiment analysis • Semantic multidimensional scaling for sentiment analysis • Multidomain & cross-domain evaluation • Domain adaptation for sentiment classification • Multimodal sentiment analysis • Multimodal fusion for continuous interpretation of semantics • Multilingual sentiment analysis & re-use of knowledge bases • Knowledge base construction & integration with opinion analysis • Transfer learning of opinion & sentiment with knowledge bases • Sentiment corpora & annotation • Affective knowledge acquisition for sentiment analysis • Biologically inspired opinion mining • Sentiment topic detection & trend discovery • Big social data analysis • Social ranking • Social network analysis • Social media marketing • Comparative opinion analysis • Opinion spam detection TIMEFRAME • August 17th, 2013: Submission deadline • September 24th, 2013: Notification of acceptance • October 15th, 2013: Final manuscripts due • December 7th, 2013: Workshop date SUBMISSIONS AND PROCEEDINGS Authors are required to follow IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines. The paper length is limited to 10 pages, including references, diagrams, and appendices, if any. Each submitted paper will be evaluated by three PC members with respect to its novelty, significance, technical soundness, presentation, and experiments. Accepted papers will be published in IEEE ICDM 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. SPEAKER Carlo Strapparava is a senior researcher at FBK-irst (Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Istituto per la ricerca scientifica e Tecnologica) in the Human Language Technologies Unit. His research activity covers artificial intelligence, natural language processing, intelligent interfaces, human-computer interaction, cognitive science, knowledge-based systems, user models, adaptive hypermedia, lexical knowledge bases, word-sense disambiguation, affective computing and computational humour. He is the author of over 150 papers, published in scientific journals, book chapters and in conference proceedings. He played a key role in the definition and the development of many projects funded by European research programmes. He regularly serves in the program committees of the major NLP conferences (ACL, EMNLP, etc.). He was executive board member of SIGLEX, a Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2007-2010), Senseval (Evaluation Exercises for the Semantic Analysis of Text) organisation committee (2005-2010). On June 2011, he was awarded with a Google Research Award on Natural Language Processing, specifically on the computational treatment of creative language. KEYNOTE Dealing with creative language and in particular with affective, persuasive and even humorous language has often been considered outside the scope of computational linguistics. Nonetheless it is possible to exploit current NLP techniques starting some explorations about it. We briefly review some computational experiences about these genres. We will introduce techniques for dealing with emotional and witty language. Regarding persuasive language, we will explore the exploitation of extra-linguistic features (e.g. an audience-reaction tagged corpus of political speeches), for the analysis of discourse persuasiveness, We conclude the talk showing some explorations in the automatic recognition of deceptive language. ORGANIZERS • Erik Cambria, National University of Singapore (Singapore) • Bing Liu, University of Illinois at Chicago (USA) • Yunqing Xia, Tsinghua University (China) • Ping Chen, University of Houston-Downtown (USA) --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2013 18:46:45 +0000 From: "Senseney, Megan Finn" Subject: Reminder: Digital Humanities Data Curation Institute Applications Due TOMORROW (8/7) In-Reply-To: <6FEEBCEA03E6E146A613342936F4403F79B11897@CHIMBX1.ad.uillinois.edu> DEADLINE TOMORROW! Digital Humanities Data Curation Workshop #2 Apply by August 7, 2013 How to apply Applications are now being accepted for the workshop to be held October 16-18, 2013, at the University of Maryland in College Park, MD. Please visit the institute website (http://www.dhcuration.org/institute/apply/) to complete an application. The application deadline is August 7, 2013. Workshops are limited to 20 participants. Organized by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), the Women Writers Project (WWP), and the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS) at GSLIS, this workshop series is generously funded by an Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Support available Thanks to the support from the NEH, limited funding will be available to offset the cost of attending the institute workshops and will be awarded based on need. Subvention of travel and lodging costs will be handled via reimbursement. Participant costs include transportation, lodging, and food. There is no tuition fee to attend. Up to three people from a single institution may apply. More information Questions should be directed to Institute Coordinator Megan Senseney at mfsense2 [at] illinois.edu or (217) 244-5574. -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5144A2FCE; Tue, 6 Aug 2013 22:30:09 +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 B2ACD2FD0; Tue, 6 Aug 2013 22:30:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B12D12FCC; Tue, 6 Aug 2013 22:30:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130806203000.B12D12FCC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2013 22:30:00 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.268 an app-ified life? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 268. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 06:24:00 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: an app-ified life? In my previous note citing Ian Hacking's review of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, 5th edition, that the publisher, the American Psychiatric Association, has released the DSM-5 in the form of an app for iOS and Android devices (http://www.appi.org/Pages/DSM5Mobile.aspx). This, I think, would make a very good case for studying the affective if not effective differences between codex and digital publication. The next time you are on a bus or train, for example, observe the people who are deep into their mobile phones. Imagine one or perhaps some of them to be psychiatrists, or psychiatric patients, or potential ones, searching this app to find out what is the matter, watching the supporting videos etc. Given the potency of psycho-social classification on the classified (for which see Hacking's Rewriting the Soul), might we not be looking at a threshold effect? Yes, of course, books also can rewrite the soul, but as so much depends on the soul's conditioning, on the person's beliefs, I would think that an app-ified domain many believe to be a science, given the status science has in our society, would be in another league together, esp when accelerated by technological packaging. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 129952FC3; Wed, 7 Aug 2013 22:49:08 +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 1C83B2FBF; Wed, 7 Aug 2013 22:49:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5658F2F98; Wed, 7 Aug 2013 22:49:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130807204901.5658F2F98@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 22:49:01 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.269 events: digital history X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 269. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 08:15:12 +0000 From: "Tupman, Charlotte" Subject: Digital Classicist seminar: 'Insights in the World of Thucydides: The Hellespont Project as a research environment for Digital History' Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2013 Friday August 9 at 16:30 in room G37, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Agnes Thomas, Francesco Mambrini & Matteo Romanello (DAI, Berlin), 'Insights in the World of Thucydides: The Hellespont Project as a research environment for Digital History' ALL WELCOME The Hellespont Project aims to integrate two of the largest online collections for the study of Antiquity, the Perseus Digital Library and the Arachne archaeological database, in a dynamic digital research environment. Our case study is focused on a limited historical period, the 50 years in the history of Athens between the Persian Wars and the outburst of the Peloponnesian War (431 BCE), following the narration presented by Thucydides (1.89-118). Our goal is to create a “digital sourcebook” where the different sources (texts and images) are linked and enriched with linguistic, archaeological and historical annotation. 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 Charlotte.Tupman@kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2013.html -- Dr. Charlotte Tupman Project Research Associate & Study Abroad Tutor Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 7145 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 46B142FCE; Fri, 9 Aug 2013 00:50:15 +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 B96482FC7; Fri, 9 Aug 2013 00:50:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 92D962F9A; Fri, 9 Aug 2013 00:50:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130808225004.92D962F9A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 00:50:04 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.270 effects of virtual barbed wire? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 270. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 06:30:00 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: virtual barbed wire In a highly detailed history of barbed wire, in the London Review of Books 22.14 (20 July 2000), historian of mathematics Reviel Netz concludes that, > These divergent perspectives tend to obscure the fact that the > extension of the use of barbed wire from the control of animal to the > control of human movement was not a perverse but a natural > development of its capacities. At the basic level of pain – when > barbs meet flesh – animals and humans do not differ very much. A > species which enslaves another species puts itself at risk. Indeed, to put the matter more generally, the controller does more than put him- or herself at risk. The very act is damaging to both controller and controlled. The history of servitude demonstrates, I think, that in the mildest of circumstances (say the kind of noble house depicted in Downton Abbey or Gosford Park) both are infantalized. So my question, in the morally neutral circumstance of robots made to serve, are we infantalizing ourselves? If so, how far can we go with such a thought? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6028B2FD4; Fri, 9 Aug 2013 00:53:55 +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 9EBC82FCB; Fri, 9 Aug 2013 00:53:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5D5DF2EA7; Fri, 9 Aug 2013 00:53:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130808225344.5D5DF2EA7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 00:53:44 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.271 events: TEI; Leipzig eHumanities; ethics; code-speak X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 271. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Fabio Ciotti (17) Subject: TEI Conference 2013 programme on-line [2] From: Charles Ess (64) Subject: Deadline approaching: interdisciplinary faculty and PhD workshops - University of Oslo [3] From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" (11) Subject: "Speaking in Code" summit, UVa Library Scholars' Lab [4] From: Marco Büchler (43) Subject: [Final Call for Abstracts: 2013 Leipzig eHumanities Seminar- deadline Aug 15th] --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 00:10:07 +0200 From: Fabio Ciotti Subject: TEI Conference 2013 programme on-line Dear all, The programme for the "TEI Conference and Members Meeting 2013 (October 2-5, Rome, Italy) is now available at http://digilab2.let.uniroma1.it/teiconf2013/program/ Tutorials and workshops are offered prior to the conference while Special Interest Groups activities will take place on Thursday 3 October (http://digilab2.let.uniroma1.it/teiconf2013/program/sigactivity/). Soon each session in the programme will point to relevant abstracts. In the meantime, please take a look at the programme, plan your trip if you haven't yet and register! Registration (http://digilab2.let.uniroma1.it/teiconf2013/registration/) is filling up quickly and it will be a disappointment not to see you in Rome! For any queries, don't hesitate to contact us at meeting@tei-c.org Best regards, Arianna Ciula (Programme Committee Chair) and Fabio Ciotti (Local Organisation Committee Chair) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 08:34:42 +0000 From: Charles Ess Subject: Deadline approaching: interdisciplinary faculty and PhD workshops - University of Oslo Dear Humanists, Please cross-post and distribute as appropriate - with the note that the deadline for applications for participation in either the faculty and/or the PhD workshops is coming up: August 15, 2013. (Please see the website for further details.) 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. Looking forward to welcoming many of you to Oslo! Best in the meantime, Charles Ess 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: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 20:05:26 +0000 From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" Subject: "Speaking in Code" summit, UVa Library Scholars' Lab (Please excuse cross-posting, and help us get the word out about this opportunity for digital humanities software developers!) We’re pleased to announce that applications are open for "Speaking in Code," a 2-day, NEH-funded symposium and summit to be held at the UVa Library Scholars’ Lab in Charlottesville, Virginia this November 4th and 5th. http://codespeak.scholarslab.org/ "Speaking in Code" will bring together a small cohort of intermediate to advanced digital humanities software developers for two days of conversation and agenda-setting. Our goal will be to give voice to what is almost always tacitly expressed in DH development work: expert knowledge about the intellectual and interpretive dimensions of code-craft, and unspoken understandings about the relation of our labor and its products to ethics, scholarly method, and humanities theory. Over the course of two days, participants will: * reflect on and express, from developers’ own points of view, what is particular to the humanities and of scholarly significance in DH software development products and practices; * and collaboratively devise an action-oriented agenda to bridge the gaps in critical vocabulary and discourse norms that can frequently distance creators of humanities platforms or tools from the scholars who use and critique them. In addition to Scholars’ Lab staff (Jeremy Boggs, Wayne Graham, Eric Rochester, and Bethany Nowviskie), facilitators include Stephen Ramsay, William J. Turkel, Stéfan Sinclair, Hugh Cayless, and Tim Sherratt. A limited number of need-based travel bursaries are available to participants. The SLab particularly encourages and will prioritize participation of developers who are women, people of color, LGBTQ, or from other under-represented groups. See "You Are Welcome Here" for more info: http://codespeak.scholarslab.org/#inclusivity This will be the first focused meeting to address the implications of tacit knowledge exchange in digital humanities software development. Visit the Speaking in Code website to register your interest! Apply by September 12th for best consideration. Bethany Nowviskie nowviskie.org | scholarslab.org | uvasci.org | ach.org --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 17:56:45 +0200 From: Marco Büchler Subject: [Final Call for Abstracts: 2013 Leipzig eHumanities Seminar- deadline Aug 15th] The /Leipzig eHumanities Seminar/ established a 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 (3:15 PM - 4:45 PM)* from *October until end of January* at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science in Leipzig, Germany. All accepted papers will be published in an online volume. Furthermore, a small budget for travel cost reimbursements is available. Abstracts of no more than 1000 words should be sent by *August, 15th, 2013* to seminar@e-humanities.net . Notifications and program announcements will be sent by the *end of August*. If you have any questions please contact at seminar@e-humanities.net . * Seminar board (in alphabetical order):* * Marco Büchler (Natural Language Processing Group), * Elisabeth Burr (Digital Romance Linguistics), * Gregory Crane (Digital Classics, Digital Libraries), * Klaus-Peter Fähnrich (Super Computing Centre), * Christian Fandrych (German as a Foreign Language Group), * Sabine Griese (Medieval German Studies); * Gerhard Heyer (Natural Language Processing), * Gerik Scheuermann (Visualisation Group), * Ulrich Johannes Schneider (Cultural Studies, University Library). -- Marco Büchler Natural Language Processing Group Department of Computer Science University of Leipzig Augustusplatz 10/11 04109 Leipzig, Germany Room : P(aulinum)818 Phone : 0341 / 97-32257 eMail : mbuechler@e-humanities.net Web : http://www.e-humanities.net http://asv.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/ Profil : http://asv.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/staff/Marco_Büchler Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/marco.buechler LinkedIn : http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=15098543&trk=tab_pro Twitter : https://twitter.com/mabuechler ws-h _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5483E2FDA; Fri, 9 Aug 2013 00:55:15 +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 4774F2FD1; Fri, 9 Aug 2013 00:55:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6D9832F9A; Fri, 9 Aug 2013 00:55:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130808225505.6D9832F9A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 00:55:05 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.272 pubs: ISR 38.2 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. 27, No. 272. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 08:47:33 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 38.2 (June 2013) Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 38.2 (June 2013) www.isr-journal.org 1. Editorial 89-89(1) 2. Corrigendum 90-90(1) 3. The disciplining of scientific communities Bulpin, Kate; Molyneux-Hodgson, Susan 91-105(15) 4. Research on mediated suffering within social sciences: expert views on identifying a disciplinary home and research agenda Joye, Stijn 106-121(16) 5. On the Constituent Attributes of Software and Organizational Resilience Florio, Vincenzo De1 22-148(27) 6. Using Galant Schemata as Evidence for Universal Darwinism Jan, Steven 149-168(20) 7. Econometrics: an historical guide for the uninitiated Pollock, Stephen 169-186(18) 8. Reviews 187-194(8) -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id F3A022FD0; Sat, 10 Aug 2013 00:30:27 +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 5BCF52FC9; Sat, 10 Aug 2013 00:30:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6225E2F90; Sat, 10 Aug 2013 00:30:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130809223012.6225E2F90@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 00:30:12 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.273 PhD studentship at EPFL (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. 27, No. 273. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 09:08:31 +0200 From: Frederic Kaplan Subject: Open Ph.D position at EPFL Digital Humanities Lab Open Ph.D Position : Semantic extraction in large-scale databases of newspaper articles Website : http://dhlab.epfl.ch/page-88103-en.html Description of the project The Digital Humanities Laboratory (dhlab.epfl.ch) at EPFL works on several large-scale digitization projects. One of the lab’s major long-term goals is a fine-grained reconstruction of Switzerland based on news archives. As a first step, EPFL has concluded a collaboration with Le Temps, responsible for an archive containing a digital version of several of important newspapers of French speaking Switzerland – about 4 millions articles covering a 200 year period. We estimate that several billion pieces of spatiotemporal information can be extracted from this rich resource alone. Through text mining techniques, we will set up a process for extracting semantic information about places, people and events from the documents of these archives. The resulting large database of linked data, reconstructed from these disparate sources, could be used for instance to query the variety of events on a particular day, at a particular place, enriching historical understanding with a larger socioeconomic, political, cultural, and even meteorological context. The database could also be exploited for more complex services, such as the reconstruction of socio-biographical networks (a “Facebook” of the past). Each step of this process will take into account that journalists’ records could diverge from one another, intentionally or not and that information extracted from the database are intrinsically uncertain. A probabilistic framework will therefore be created to deal with such inconsistencies and uncertainties in order to reason about more plausible reconstructions of past events and manage the existence of alternative hypotheses. Creating a system capable of dealing with the intrinsic uncertainty of such historical records is an unsolved and challenging issue for this type of Digital Humanities projects. The information extracted will then be mapped into an historical large geographical information system. Relation between places, people and events will be mapped geographically (i.e. associated with georeferenced points, lines and polygons). The objective is to build a kind of “Google maps” of the past enabling to zoom into a particular region at a particular time and visualized different layer of information. It will also permit other forms of spatiotemporal visualization like dynamic representation of the biography of people. Requirements The ideal PhD candidates will have a background and interest in text mining and semantic web technologies, a strong Computer Science background, an interest for History and a good knowledge of French. Starting Date The position is available on Sept 1, 2013. To Apply Given the short starting date of this project, contact directly Prof. Frederic Kaplan by indicating your interest in this project and sending a CV (frederic.kaplan@epfl.ch). Information about the EPFL DHLAB. Digital Humanities is an interdisciplinary domain applying computational methods to conduct research in the humanities. The Digital Humanities Laboratory (DHLAB), founded in 2012 by professor Frédéric Kaplan develops new computational approaches for rediscovering the past and anticipating the future. Projects conducted at the lab range from building "Google maps of ancient places" to studying how algorithms transforms the way we write. Benefiting from EPFL's strong technological expertise, the DHLAB conducts research projects in collaboration with prestigious patrimonial institutions and museums, all over Europe. The lab's interdisciplinary team includes computational scientists, mathematicians, experts in geographical information systems and interaction designers - all with transdisciplinary backgrounds facilitating interaction with humanities's scholars from all disciplines. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 70E732FCE; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 00:14:21 +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 8CB4D2FA5; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 00:14:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id EF9D72F0D; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 00:14:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130811221411.EF9D72F0D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 00:14:11 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.274 the internet and freedoms X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 274. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 12:51:44 +0200 From: Victoria Scott Subject: Academic Freedoms in the Western World and Everywhere Else Too and the Rise of the Internet Hallo! I just wrote a very short article and I thought it might interest, but perhaps not..what do I know? :) https://sites.google.com/site/academicfreedoms/ All my best, Victoria -- *Victoria H.F. Scott *The Art History Guild * _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6C4B92FDA; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 00:15:11 +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 0F7062FD5; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 00:15:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7EB112FB6; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 00:15:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130811221501.7EB112FB6@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 00:15:01 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.275 cfp: Journal of Media Innovations X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 275. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 07:17:30 +0200 From: Charles Ess Subject: Final CFP: Inaugural Issue, Journal of Media Innovations (Open Access) Dear Humanists, Please distribute as appropriate: The Journal of Media Innovations Inaugural Issue - Spring 2014ŒResearching Media Innovations: Defining the Fields; Tracing Research Trajectories¹ The Journal of Media Innovations explores changes in the media and communication industries through innovation theories. It focuses on innovation in the following areas: § New media services § New players in the media landscape § New roles of users § New practices by existing media organizations Users of digital media are becoming increasingly more active as producers (and re-distributors) of content, contributing to new services, new social constellations and new business models.  Over the last decade a number of studies have focused on how Internet and mobile communication impact media services, business models and strategies, and user patterns.  The Journal of Media Innovations builds on this large body of research, and takes it one step further by explicitly integrating perspectives on the roles of media technology and innovation with perspectives on the roles users have in generating innovation and transformation in the media sector. Our inaugural issue aims to bring together articles that explore how interrelations between media technology and users contribute to driving innovation.  In doing so, we wish to collate and demarcate overviews of relevant fields, perspectives and trajectories for studying innovations in media.  The articles will also facilitate critical reflection of the social, economic and political implications of media innovations. Theoretical perspectives may be linked to any field within the humanities or social sciences. These include, but are not limited to: user perspectives; economic perspectives; product perspectives; regulatory perspectives; and, strategic and organisational perspectives. The Journal of Media Innovations is an Open Access journal published by Fritt (Frie tidskrifter fra UiO), using the Open Journal Systems.  Under this system, authors retain copyright of their work. Issue Coordinators Editor: Charles Ess Editorial Assistant: Karoline Andrea Ihlebæk Book Review Editor: Arne H. Krumsvik Publication Information: Deadline for Submission: 30th of September 2013; Publication Date: February 2014 Articles should be between 6,000 and 8,000 words in length.  All articles will be reviewed in a double-blind system.  For more information on Journal style and submission requirements, please see: Additional inquiries should be addressed to: Karoline A. Ihlebæk: k.a.ihlebak@media.uio.no With many thanks in advance, - charles 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: c.m.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, LOTS_OF_MONEY,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 D3AA82FE6; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 22:09:36 +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 DD7C72FE0; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 22:09:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2B0682FBF; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 22:09:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130812200927.2B0682FBF@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 22:09:27 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.276 job: Assoc. Editor, Mark Twain Project (Berkeley) 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="===============3279325552723467884==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============3279325552723467884== Content-Type: text/plain Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 276. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 09:48:58 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) From: "Sharon K. Goetz" Subject: job: Associate Editor, Mark Twain Project, UC Berkeley In-Reply-To: http://jobs.berkeley.edu/ ID 16451 Please visit the URL above to apply; the job description is included below: Application Review Date The First Review Date for this job is August 24, 2013. 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. Following a successful search in 2012, we seek an additional associate editor who is proficient in textual criticism, familiar with digital tools and strategies, and conversant with Mark Twain's texts and contexts. 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 as printed books by the Mark Twain Project and 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: $4,250.00 - $6,308.33 Annual: $51,000.00 - $75,700.00 For information on the comprehensive benefits package offered by the University visit: http://atyourservice.ucop.edu/forms_pubs/misc/benefits_of_belonging.pdf How to Apply Please submit your cover letter and resume as a single attachment at http://jobs.berkeley.edu/ (#16451, Writer/Editor 3) when applying. Equal Employment Opportunity The University of California, Berkeley is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. -- Digital Publications Manager, Mark Twain Papers & Project http://www.marktwainproject.org/ http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/MTP/ http://twitter.com/mtpo --===============3279325552723467884== 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 --===============3279325552723467884==-- Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BA5A22FE8; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 22:10:37 +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 713C52FE7; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 22:10:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 76B532FBF; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 22:10:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130812201030.76B532FBF@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 22:10:30 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.277 pubs: a digital Lydgate X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 277. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 15:52:54 +0100 From: Alexander Hay Subject: Re: A digital Lydgate Dear Humanists, Just to announce that the first draft of my interactive, online edition of Lydgate's /A Complaynte of a Lovers Lyfe/. https://googledrive.com/host/0B42Z0VK1z1X4YVNjRDBJWjczUTA/ At present, it works on browsers, including those on Android phones and tablets, but I hope to come up with optimised versions for both platforms soon. I've also only included the first 28 lines as a taster as I am keen to hear reader response before I proceed further. I am interested in feedback, and would like to use this as a basis for further research in this area. The code is, incidentally, published under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons licence, which means you can alter away as long as you give attribution, don't use it for commercial purposes and pass the licence on in turn. Hope you like it! Kind 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 47F842FEB; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 22:13:23 +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 B62EF2FE9; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 22:13:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 94C2F2FE2; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 22:13:14 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130812201314.94C2F2FE2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 22:13:14 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.278 enumeration and 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 278. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 06:08:12 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Re: 27.265 enumeration and modelling In-Reply-To: <64c58b616f524d40b3f452fe9eb7218a@AMXPRD0310HT001.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com> Dear Paul, In the following, Humanist 27.265, you've responded to my note on classification by querying what sort of modelling I had in mind, and what I meant by interpretation. I really meant no more or less than modelling cultural artefacts or expressions computationally, as when one marks up a text or constructs a shape-architecture and produces other shapes from it. I didn't have the distinction between modelling and simulation in mind but would be especially pleased if we went off on that tangent. By interpretation I meant any statement or even momentary thought by which an ambiguity is (partially) resolved -- including, I suppose, by metaphor. I hope the above is sufficiently full of holes to allow a breeze of conversation and argument to blow through it :-). Yours, W On 07/08/2013 06:08, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 265. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 18:19:46 -0500 > From: Paul Fishwick > Subject: Re: 27.264 enumeration and modelling > In-Reply-To:<20130805210917.65D682F93@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Willard > You have pushed my favorite button "modeling" which I imagine is > also the favorite of many others as well. Some comments on your > second paragraph: > >> My interest here, which I recommend to your attention, is the craze for >> classificatory enumeration. > > Fermi noted "If I could remember all of these particles, I'd be a botanist." > > However, in fairness to botany, and more generally biology, the past 40 > years or so have seen ever-increasing use of models (e.g., systems > biology). And so, I would think the classification you mention is gradually > replaced by a deeper understanding, with classifications still serving > their purpose higher up the abstraction level of inquiry. > >> Isn't it interesting that this should occur >> alongside -- I am *not* saying caused by -- the interpenetration of >> computing into all aspects of modern life? To me this suggests that one >> of the most important of our jobs as digital humanists is to make as >> clear as possible what modelling does, what it is for. Not answers but >> questions. > > What sorts of modeling comes to mind in your questions? I have many > in my thoughts, but they may not be a match. > >> Not toward the perfect fit but toward the telling misfit. >> What an amazingly difficult problem the psychiatrists have, dealing with >> a world in which the thing to be classified changes dynamically with the >> classificatory scheme. I think we have that problem at root in the >> dynamics of interpretation, but one step at a time. > > The interpretation of what? > > -p > > On Aug 5, 2013, at 4:09 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > >> >> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 264. >> Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London >> www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >> Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >> >> >> >> Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 07:02:42 +1000 >> From: Willard McCarty >> Subject: enumeration >> >> The philosopher Ian Hacking, continuing the work on psychodynamics >> published most prominently in Rewriting the Soul, has written an >> illuminating review of the 5th edition of DSM-5: Diagnostic and >> Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric >> Association), in the London Review of Books 35.18 for 8 August 2013. >> See under http://www.lrb.co.uk/ (the review is freely available). His >> primary criticism of DSM-5 is that "it is founded on a wrong >> appreciation of the nature of things", based on "the long-standing idea >> that, in our present state of knowledge, the recognised varieties of >> mental illness should neatly sort themselves into tidy blocks, in the >> way that plants and animals do". He details what happens when a rigid >> scheme is imposed on a reality that does not fit it, not with the >> objective of trying out that scheme to learn more about the reality (as >> we do in computational modelling) but in order to serve a huge and >> expensive bureaucratic enterprise. The grass-roots human consequences of >> imposing a scheme that must be used in the funding of mental health-care >> in the U.S. are horrendous. >> >> My interest here, which I recommend to your attention, is the craze for >> classificatory enumeration. Isn't it interesting that this should occur >> alongside -- I am *not* saying caused by -- the interpenetration of >> computing into all aspects of modern life? To me this suggests that one >> of the most important of our jobs as digital humanists is to make as >> clear as possible what modelling does, what it is for. Not answers but >> questions. Not toward the perfect fit but toward the telling misfit. >> What an amazingly difficult problem the psychiatrists have, dealing with >> a world in which the thing to be classified changes dynamically with the >> classificatory scheme. I think we have that problem at root in the >> dynamics of interpretation, but one step at a time. >> >> Comments? >> >> Yours, >> WM >> -- >> Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital >> Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital >> Humanities, University of Western Sydney > > > Paul Fishwick, PhD > Chair, ACM SIGSIM > Distinguished Chair of Arts& Technology and Professor of Computer Science > The University of Texas at Dallas > Arts& Technology > 800 West Campbell Road, AT10 > Richardson, TX 75080-3021 > > > > _______________________________________________ > List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php > Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php > > > -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 337C12FEB; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 22:47:32 +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 59D022F56; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 22:47:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3723F2DA8; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 22:47:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130813204721.3723F2DA8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 22:47:21 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.279 enumeration and 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 279. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 21:39:33 +0100 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: Re: 27.278 enumeration and modelling In-Reply-To: <20130812201314.94C2F2FE2@digitalhumanities.org> My favourite button too. The psychiatrist? don't we all? naming, enumariting, classifying just to reach another turn in the spiral - the problem comes when we are tempted to reify our constructions and forget they're just a leverage in the act of interpreting, scaffolding in fieri, they are to be overcome. Arianna Ciula Sent from my iPhone On 12 Aug 2013, at 21:13, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 278. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 06:08:12 +1000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: Re: 27.265 enumeration and modelling > In-Reply-To: <64c58b616f524d40b3f452fe9eb7218a@AMXPRD0310HT001.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com> > > Dear Paul, > > In the following, Humanist 27.265, you've responded to my note on > classification by querying what sort of modelling I had in mind, and > what I meant by interpretation. I really meant no more or less than > modelling cultural artefacts or expressions computationally, as when one > marks up a text or constructs a shape-architecture and produces other > shapes from it. I didn't have the distinction between modelling and > simulation in mind but would be especially pleased if we went off on > that tangent. By interpretation I meant any statement or even momentary > thought by which an ambiguity is (partially) resolved -- including, I > suppose, by metaphor. > > I hope the above is sufficiently full of holes to allow a breeze of > conversation and argument to blow through it :-). > > Yours, > W > > On 07/08/2013 06:08, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 265. >> Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London >> www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >> Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >> >> >> >> Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 18:19:46 -0500 >> From: Paul Fishwick >> Subject: Re: 27.264 enumeration and modelling >> In-Reply-To:<20130805210917.65D682F93@digitalhumanities.org> >> >> >> Willard >> You have pushed my favorite button "modeling" which I imagine is >> also the favorite of many others as well. Some comments on your >> second paragraph: >> >>> My interest here, which I recommend to your attention, is the craze for >>> classificatory enumeration. >> >> Fermi noted "If I could remember all of these particles, I'd be a botanist." >> >> However, in fairness to botany, and more generally biology, the past 40 >> years or so have seen ever-increasing use of models (e.g., systems >> biology). And so, I would think the classification you mention is gradually >> replaced by a deeper understanding, with classifications still serving >> their purpose higher up the abstraction level of inquiry. >> >>> Isn't it interesting that this should occur >>> alongside -- I am *not* saying caused by -- the interpenetration of >>> computing into all aspects of modern life? To me this suggests that one >>> of the most important of our jobs as digital humanists is to make as >>> clear as possible what modelling does, what it is for. Not answers but >>> questions. >> >> What sorts of modeling comes to mind in your questions? I have many >> in my thoughts, but they may not be a match. >> >>> Not toward the perfect fit but toward the telling misfit. >>> What an amazingly difficult problem the psychiatrists have, dealing with >>> a world in which the thing to be classified changes dynamically with the >>> classificatory scheme. I think we have that problem at root in the >>> dynamics of interpretation, but one step at a time. >> >> The interpretation of what? >> >> -p >> >> On Aug 5, 2013, at 4:09 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >> >>> >>> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 264. >>> Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London >>> www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >>> Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >>> >>> >>> >>> Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 07:02:42 +1000 >>> From: Willard McCarty >>> Subject: enumeration >>> >>> The philosopher Ian Hacking, continuing the work on psychodynamics >>> published most prominently in Rewriting the Soul, has written an >>> illuminating review of the 5th edition of DSM-5: Diagnostic and >>> Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric >>> Association), in the London Review of Books 35.18 for 8 August 2013. >>> See under http://www.lrb.co.uk/ (the review is freely available). His >>> primary criticism of DSM-5 is that "it is founded on a wrong >>> appreciation of the nature of things", based on "the long-standing idea >>> that, in our present state of knowledge, the recognised varieties of >>> mental illness should neatly sort themselves into tidy blocks, in the >>> way that plants and animals do". He details what happens when a rigid >>> scheme is imposed on a reality that does not fit it, not with the >>> objective of trying out that scheme to learn more about the reality (as >>> we do in computational modelling) but in order to serve a huge and >>> expensive bureaucratic enterprise. The grass-roots human consequences of >>> imposing a scheme that must be used in the funding of mental health-care >>> in the U.S. are horrendous. >>> >>> My interest here, which I recommend to your attention, is the craze for >>> classificatory enumeration. Isn't it interesting that this should occur >>> alongside -- I am *not* saying caused by -- the interpenetration of >>> computing into all aspects of modern life? To me this suggests that one >>> of the most important of our jobs as digital humanists is to make as >>> clear as possible what modelling does, what it is for. Not answers but >>> questions. Not toward the perfect fit but toward the telling misfit. >>> What an amazingly difficult problem the psychiatrists have, dealing with >>> a world in which the thing to be classified changes dynamically with the >>> classificatory scheme. I think we have that problem at root in the >>> dynamics of interpretation, but one step at a time. >>> >>> Comments? >>> >>> Yours, >>> WM >>> -- >>> Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital >>> Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital >>> Humanities, University of Western Sydney >> >> >> Paul Fishwick, PhD >> Chair, ACM SIGSIM >> Distinguished Chair of Arts& Technology and Professor of Computer Science >> The University of Texas at Dallas >> Arts& Technology >> 800 West Campbell Road, AT10 >> Richardson, TX 75080-3021 > > -- > Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital > Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital > Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E15112FF3; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 22:48:21 +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 D03E12FF0; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 22:48:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C539E2FEC; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 22:48:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130813204811.C539E2FEC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 22:48:11 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.280 the force of online 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. 27, No. 280. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 15:32:49 -0600 From: Daniel O'Donnell Subject: Examples of online publication driving Print on Demand and other long-form sales? Hi all, I'm in discussions with my press about a second edition of my edition of Cædmon's Hymn. I'm pushing for an open, on-line release of the text with Print-on-Demand and ePub sales from the site. Since the introduction has about 100k words, is frequently cited, and is available in part on Google Books already (ironically for a print-and-CD-ROM digital edition, Google just scanned the print copy), my argument is the following: 1) People who are really in the market for a 100k word book on a 9-line poem are going to want to buy a copy in a format they can annotate, read off line, and that is generally more pleasing on the eye than a standard web-page (you'd be surprised how many people have wanted a copy in the last 8 years!) 2) People who are prepared to put up with poorer-quality, long-form presentation because they can get it for free on-line are basically already being lost to the Google Books site 3) Putting the whole argument and text out on the web will help keep the book central to debates in the field, presumably increasing the number of people buying copies under argument 1 above. 4) Reprinting a book+CD-ROM digital text today captures the worst of all worlds: we miss the exposure on-line publication provides via search engines and we lock the most flexible format (the digital) in a medium that is increasingly difficult to use and is certainly not multi-platform. I can think of one somewhat parallel case that seems to show these arguments: Peter Baker's Introduction to Old English which, I am told, has sold very well through the years even though it has always been freely available on-line in a version that, if anything, is actually more feature-rich than the print copy. Does anybody know of any other examples? Some background: the edition was published in 2005 in a Print-and-CD-ROM, where the CD-ROM contained the full text of the print book and additional views, tools, and features. The edition itself has done better than you might think for a pretty long edition of a 9-line poem (I believe it sold through 3+ print runs) and it was runner up for MLA's best edition in 2007 (first medieval edition and I believe first digital to be so recognised). What I want to do now is publish a revised version of the contents of the CD-ROM to the web and offer POD copies and ePubs of the book content for sale from the site. My theory is that they are likely to sell for much the same reason the book sold in the first place: people use digital texts but given the choice they are still happy doing long-form reading in a format that is better suited to it that the browser. Any advice? Parallel examples? Other ideas? -dan -- --- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 787972FFA; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 22:49:03 +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 8023C2FE8; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 22:48:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 41ABD2FF1; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 22:48:54 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130813204854.41ABD2FF1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 22:48:54 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.281 events: 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. 27, No. 281. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 16:47:57 -0400 From: jeremy hunsinger Subject: cfp: CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF CULTURAL STUDIES January 16-19, 2014 CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF CULTURAL STUDIES / ASSOCIATION CANADIENNE des ÉTUDES CULTURELLES NATIONAL CONFERENCE 2014 January 16-19, 2014 Balsillie School of International Affairs Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Dispersions The Canadian Association of Cultural Studies invites proposals on all topics of relevance to cultural studies from both current and future members for its upcoming conference. The conference theme Dispersions encourages submissions devoted to exploring all forms of distributed culture. This may include papers that investigate dispersions of people, social groups and communities; flows of cultural objects and materialities; or the dispersion of cultural studies scholars (so often now housed in vulnerable departments) across disciplines. We are curious about the implications of these dispersions. Do they result in fugitives? Or new forms of belonging? Do they constitute new forms of culture? Hybridities? Transgressions? Alienations? Transformations? Sedimentations? What does it mean to scavenge cultural belonging in the context of cultural dispersion? Is culture atavised? Or preserved? We hope to open up discussion and critical reflection about culture in the context of fragmentation, convergence, and accumulation. We welcome papers that focus on (but are not limited to): * Explorations at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, religion, ethnicity, nationality * Critical interventions into concepts of the transnational, transcultural, multicultural * Examinations of unruly cultures, fugitive cultures, border cultures, diasporic cultures * Distributed art cultures and practices (aesthetics; new mediations, etc.) * Mobilities, immobilities, and constellations of flows * Co-constitutions of animal subjects and animal culture * Tensions between local and global cultures * Dispersions of the unconscious * Foodscapes and food cultures Submission Guidelines: Please submit electronically to cacs@wlu.ca an abstract (appended as a .doc or a .docx attachment) of no more than 300 words by Sept30, 2013. Please include with your proposal,a paper title, your name and affiliation, 5-8 keywords that represent the major foci of your proposal. Notifications will be sent out by Oct. 30, 2013. Early bird registration for the conference will open Nov. 1, 2013 at http://cacs-acec.ca/. Regular registration fees will apply after Dec. 1, 2013 Host/Location: This conference is hosted by Wilfrid Laurier University, located in Waterloo, Ontario (Canada). Waterloo is located in southwestern Ontario, approximately 110km from Toronto. The city is easily accessed from Toronto Pearson Airport. There are also direct flights into the Waterloo International Airport from Chicago, Ottawa, and Calgary (with connections to Vancouver, Edmonton, and other major western cities). VIA Rail service runs to the city from Montreal,Toronto and points west (Windsor, London, etc.). GO train and bus service also connects Waterloo to Toronto. WLU is one of Canada?s fastest growing universities and is home to a vibrant Faculty of Arts, which houses one of only a handful of dedicated Cultural Studies programs in the country. It is also home to several research groups and centres including the International Migration Research Centre, and is partnered with the think tank Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and the Balsillie School of International Affairs, where the conference will be located. As a city located in the heart of Canada?s ?Technology Triangle,? home to institutions ranging from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics to notable arts institutions including CAFKA (Contemporary Art Forum, Kitchener and Area) and The Museum, it is a place that often sees cultural production at the intersection of science, technology and the arts. Further information about Wilfrid Laurier University, and the Waterloo Region (including transportation and accommodation) will be available on our website; http://www.cacs-acec.ca/. Check back for updates. Jeremy Hunsinger Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. --Byron _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DD5472FB3; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:13:46 +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 94E472EAF; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:13:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0E1D62C7A; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:13:35 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130814201336.0E1D62C7A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:13:35 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.282 the force of online 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. 27, No. 282. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 21:58:23 +0100 From: Daniel Allington Subject: Re: 27.280 the force of online publication? In-Reply-To: <20130813204811.C539E2FEC@digitalhumanities.org> Dan I was talking to an editor at Bloomsbury / Continuum a couple of weeks ago, and he told me about a book he'd published where the text was also available as a free website. He told me that in his opinion, a publisher makes *books* (printed or electronic), and a website is something else, even if the words are the same. I can't remember the name of the book, but if I could, it would be a parallel example. It was in the field of digital culture. Outside of academia, there seems to be a trend in programming manuals, where the author publishes what is effectively the first draft on his or her website for free, then publishes the corrected text with a commercial publisher. Best wishes Daniel Dr Daniel Allington Lecturer in English Language Studies Centre for Language and Communication The Open University www.danielallington.net http://www.danielallington.net On 13 Aug 2013, at 21:48, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 280. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 15:32:49 -0600 From: Daniel O'Donnell > Subject: Examples of online publication driving Print on Demand and other long-form sales? Hi all, I'm in discussions with my press about a second edition of my edition of Cædmon's Hymn. I'm pushing for an open, on-line release of the text with Print-on-Demand and ePub sales from the site. Since the introduction has about 100k words, is frequently cited, and is available in part on Google Books already (ironically for a print-and-CD-ROM digital edition, Google just scanned the print copy), my argument is the following: 1) People who are really in the market for a 100k word book on a 9-line poem are going to want to buy a copy in a format they can annotate, read off line, and that is generally more pleasing on the eye than a standard web-page (you'd be surprised how many people have wanted a copy in the last 8 years!) 2) People who are prepared to put up with poorer-quality, long-form presentation because they can get it for free on-line are basically already being lost to the Google Books site 3) Putting the whole argument and text out on the web will help keep the book central to debates in the field, presumably increasing the number of people buying copies under argument 1 above. 4) Reprinting a book+CD-ROM digital text today captures the worst of all worlds: we miss the exposure on-line publication provides via search engines and we lock the most flexible format (the digital) in a medium that is increasingly difficult to use and is certainly not multi-platform. I can think of one somewhat parallel case that seems to show these arguments: Peter Baker's Introduction to Old English which, I am told, has sold very well through the years even though it has always been freely available on-line in a version that, if anything, is actually more feature-rich than the print copy. Does anybody know of any other examples? Some background: the edition was published in 2005 in a Print-and-CD-ROM, where the CD-ROM contained the full text of the print book and additional views, tools, and features. The edition itself has done better than you might think for a pretty long edition of a 9-line poem (I believe it sold through 3+ print runs) and it was runner up for MLA's best edition in 2007 (first medieval edition and I believe first digital to be so recognised). What I want to do now is publish a revised version of the contents of the CD-ROM to the web and offer POD copies and ePubs of the book content for sale from the site. My theory is that they are likely to sell for much the same reason the book sold in the first place: people use digital texts but given the choice they are still happy doing long-form reading in a format that is better suited to it that the browser. Any advice? Parallel examples? Other ideas? -dan -- --- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9C63C2FB8; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:16:50 +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 4ECE72F7C; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:16:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0295D2F7B; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:16:39 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130814201640.0295D2F7B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:16:39 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.283 enumeration and 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 283. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 19:11:13 -0400 From: Paul Fishwick Subject: Re: 27.279 enumeration and modelling In-Reply-To: <20130813204721.3723F2DA8@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard and Arianna: Thanks for commenting and asking questions. Here are some thoughts I have. My endless goal is to help see crossovers in modelling among different disciplines (mathematics, CS, arts, and humanities). Of course we all have different definitions, but there is also considerable room for collaboration and intersection among disciplines. 1. To Willard: You said (with my inserts): >> Dear Paul, >> >> In the following, Humanist 27.265, you've responded to my note on >> classification by querying what sort of modelling I had in mind, and >> what I meant by interpretation. I really meant no more or less than >> modelling cultural artefacts or expressions computationally, as when one >> marks up a text or constructs a shape-architecture and produces other >> shapes from it. I'd probably say that there are two broad categories of modelling from a scientific perspective: analytic vs. synthetic. What you are describing is synthetic -- where someone says "I have a model home" for example, and then uses this as a prototype for building other homes. It is generative in nature. The analytic case would be where model is "of" something rather than the generative "for" something. I have a queuing model of the Dallas North/South Parkway, for example. >> I didn't have the distinction between modelling and >> simulation in mind but would be especially pleased if we went off on >> that tangent. My own colleagues may differ with me on this, but I would classify modeling as language (e.g., Petri nets, state machines, data flow diagrams) for dynamic models. Geometric models might be B-Splines or BSP-Trees. Simulation, in contrast, is what one does with a model, or how the model interacts with its environment (including the human). According to this philosophy, models are 'executed' like programs, and we call this execution 'simulation'. >> By interpretation I meant any statement or even momentary >> thought by which an ambiguity is (partially) resolved -- including, I >> suppose, by metaphor. I understand this, in common practice for the humanist, to be an interpretation of narrative? I say this because one can also interpret Lisp code or a "steam engine." The engineer's concept of interpretation tends to be functional in orientation. There is considerable value in engaging humans in a way that allows them to explore functionality, aesthetics, and cultural semantics on an equal footing. One thing that worries me a little, and this may be a side discussion, or a completely separate one. And that is that scholarly activities should (ideally) include both synthetic and analytic. So, an interpretation of an object or narrative is analytic. However, the construction of a new interface or set of interacting objects is synthetic. In engineering, the novel synthetic modality is definitely a scholastic activity. Scholasticism is not limited to writing critiques (analysis). There is nothing wrong with "making" and "building." From an engineer's perspective, I find it peculiar that the academy tends to separate those who make from those who write--in the humanities. No such division exists in engineering--one is expected to be good at both. Make, build novel artifacts and then write about them. Thoughts on any of the above? If my last paragraph has hijacked the thread, we can start a new one. 2. Arianna: tell me more about reifying constructions - I find that reification is a natural component of metaphor creation, and so presents abstract information in a new light that may be more understandable. -paul >> >> I hope the above is sufficiently full of holes to allow a breeze of >> conversation and argument to blow through it :-). On Aug 13, 2013, at 4:47 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 279. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 21:39:33 +0100 > From: Arianna Ciula > Subject: Re: 27.278 enumeration and modelling > In-Reply-To: <20130812201314.94C2F2FE2@digitalhumanities.org> > > > My favourite button too. > > The psychiatrist? don't we all? naming, enumariting, classifying just to reach another turn in the spiral - the problem comes when we are tempted to reify our constructions and forget they're just a leverage in the act of interpreting, scaffolding in fieri, they are to be overcome. > > Arianna Ciula > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 12 Aug 2013, at 21:13, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > >> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 278. >> Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London >> www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >> Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >> >> >> >> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 06:08:12 +1000 >> From: Willard McCarty >> Subject: Re: 27.265 enumeration and modelling >> In-Reply-To: <64c58b616f524d40b3f452fe9eb7218a@AMXPRD0310HT001.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com> >> >> Dear Paul, >> >> In the following, Humanist 27.265, you've responded to my note on >> classification by querying what sort of modelling I had in mind, and >> what I meant by interpretation. I really meant no more or less than >> modelling cultural artefacts or expressions computationally, as when one >> marks up a text or constructs a shape-architecture and produces other >> shapes from it. I didn't have the distinction between modelling and >> simulation in mind but would be especially pleased if we went off on >> that tangent. By interpretation I meant any statement or even momentary >> thought by which an ambiguity is (partially) resolved -- including, I >> suppose, by metaphor. >> >> I hope the above is sufficiently full of holes to allow a breeze of >> conversation and argument to blow through it :-). >> >> Yours, >> W _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B4B4C2FE8; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:17:44 +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 08F022FE3; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:17:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 778EA2FAC; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:17:35 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130814201735.778EA2FAC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:17:35 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.284 audio and print X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 284. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 17:04:51 -0400 (EDT) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Audio and Print Willard A piece of interest to Humanist subscribers appeared in the Globe and Mail on August 7, 2013. It is by Alexandra Alter (Wall Street Journal Staff Writer) and is a reportage on how "The rise of audio books and e-books is changing the way people consume stories". It of course centres on Amazon's Audible service. It however has some interesting insights into e-book and audio books generally. Anyone who has dealt with the alignment between audio files and text will be intrigued by the development of syncing feature that allows readers to switch seamlessly between an e-book and a digital audio book. The article alerted me to a "nine-hour and 45-minute novelization of Macbeth". Audio books might be a field for digital humanities graduates seeking careers outside the academy. Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance to think is often to sort, to store and to shuffle: humble, embodied tasks _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3912D2FEC; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:19:10 +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 ABD892F7C; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:19:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D15A32FB3; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:19:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130814201900.D15A32FB3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:19:00 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.285 events: HathiTrust Research Center 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. 27, No. 285. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 22:38:19 +0000 From: "Senseney, Megan Finn" Subject: Register Now for HTRC UnCamp and Tell Us What You'd Like to See! *** Register now and help shape the agenda for HTRC UnCamp*** HTRC UnCamp The second annual HTRC UnCamp will be held in September 8-9, 2013 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 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. Keynote Speakers -- Matt Wilkens, University of Notre Dame -- Christopher Warren, Carnegie Mellon University What's new from last year? -- Expanded data API -- Improved user interface -- Personal account access -- Increased workset size -- New algorithms -- HTRC-enriched metadata -- 3.2 million volumes in HTRC Production -- Developmental access to HTRC Sandbox with a quarter million public domain volumes -- Research consulting through Scholarly Commons Office Hours pilot What's planned for the coming year? --Mellon funding for competitive mini-grants for prototyping projects Registration To make UnCamp as affordable as possible for you to attend, we have set registration at $100.00. Please visit https://www.eventville.com/catalog/eventregistration1.asp?eventid=1010536 to register. Registration is due by August 31, 2013. Agenda HTRC is seeking participant feedback! A rough agenda has been posted to http://www.hathitrust.org/htrc_uncamp2013 to give attendees a sense of what we've got planned, but we've kept several spaces open for attendee-driven session, birds-of-a-feather meetings, and breakout sessions. This is your event, so please help us finalize the agenda by sending your suggestions to htrc-uncamp-l@list.indiana.edu. 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. For travel information, agenda updates, and a complete lists of confirmed attendees, please visit: http://www.hathitrust.org/htrc_uncamp2013 If you have questions regarding the HTRC UnCamp please contact Megan Senseney, HTRC Project Coordinator: mfsense2@illinois.edu or 217-244-5574. Looking forward to seeing you in Champaign! -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5CEF52FF1; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:20:33 +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 4DCBB2FE3; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:20:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8422F2FC4; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:20:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130814202022.8422F2FC4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:20:22 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.286 online: videos & slides of Hestia 2 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 286. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 10:38:58 +0100 From: "Tom Brughmans" Subject: Videos Hestia 2 seminar Southampton Videos and slides of presentations at the seminar 'Hestia2: exploring spatial networks through ancient sources' held in Southampton on 18 July 2013 are now available on our website: http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/recorded-presentations/hestia2013-videos/ The Southampton Hestia2 seminar aimed to explore the potential of innovative spatial networks and linked data techniques for research and work in the higher education, public and cultural heritage sectors. It attracted an audience with diverse backgrounds and discussions really benefited from this. 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 initiative '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. More info on Hestia2, future seminars and online resources can be found on our new website: http://hestia.open.ac.uk/ Looking forward to seeing you at one of our future seminars! The Hestia team http://hestia.open.ac.uk/ 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 007CE2FF9; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:22:03 +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 126FE2FE8; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:21:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id EB3ED2FE3; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:21:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130814202156.EB3ED2FE3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:21:56 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.287 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. 27, No. 287. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 06:06:44 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: hiatus Dear colleagues, Humanist will be very quiet from this weekend until 27 August, during which time I will be travelling and for the majority of it beyond the reach of the internet. (There are still places on the planet where it does not reach, or reaches only with the help of equipment I cannot afford.) During this period messages sent to Humanist will simply accumulate, so you need not refrain from sending them. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BA37F3015; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 07:49:27 +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 BE2C2300E; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 07:49:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id EA181300D; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 07:49:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130827054917.EA181300D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 07:49:17 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.288 Humanist 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. 27, No. 288. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 06:19:54 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Humanist back online Dear colleagues, As you will shortly be able to tell in abundance, Humanist is now back online and on its normal schedule of early-morning North Hemispheric postings. Please do resume sending comments, questions, announcements &c. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DD37B3014; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:51:21 +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 3587C3008; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:51:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8F38B3006; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:51:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130827065105.8F38B3006@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:51:05 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.289 enumeration and modelling 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. 27, No. 289. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 15:10:46 +0100 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: Re: 27.283 enumeration and modelling In-Reply-To: <20130814201640.0295D2F7B@digitalhumanities.org> Sent from my iPhone On 14 Aug 2013, at 21:16, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 283. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 19:11:13 -0400 > From: Paul Fishwick > Subject: Re: 27.279 enumeration and modelling > In-Reply-To: <20130813204721.3723F2DA8@digitalhumanities.org> > > 2. Arianna: tell me more about reifying constructions - I find that reification > is a natural component of metaphor creation, and so presents abstract > information in a new light that may be more understandable. > Dear Paul, Absolutely. We need to create models - whether in our head or in the world out there, whether of or for something. I guess my appeal was more against idolising than reifying. Following Willard's thread on enumeration and classification, my metaphor was put forward against seeing these models as fixed vocabularies rather than dynamic languages. We need vocabularies too of course, but especially when such constructions are in the form of thoughts and not things, it is easier to loose detachment and pass them for truths or for the true reality. So the classification matrix, for instance, can take over what's being classified and trap it. Which is fine if we maintain a certain distance, if we know it's a model, it's to understand better and beyond, to grasp what can't be easily trapped. Hope I am making some sense here. Arianna > >>> >>> I hope the above is sufficiently full of holes to allow a breeze of >>> conversation and argument to blow through it :-). > > On Aug 13, 2013, at 4:47 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > >> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 279. >> Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London >> www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >> Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >> >> >> >> Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 21:39:33 +0100 >> From: Arianna Ciula >> Subject: Re: 27.278 enumeration and modelling >> In-Reply-To: <20130812201314.94C2F2FE2@digitalhumanities.org> >> >> >> My favourite button too. >> >> The psychiatrist? don't we all? naming, enumariting, classifying just to reach another turn in the spiral - the problem comes when we are tempted to reify our constructions and forget they're just a leverage in the act of interpreting, scaffolding in fieri, they are to be overcome. >> >> Arianna Ciula >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On 12 Aug 2013, at 21:13, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >> >>> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 278. >>> Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London >>> www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >>> Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >>> >>> >>> >>> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 06:08:12 +1000 >>> From: Willard McCarty >>> Subject: Re: 27.265 enumeration and modelling >>> In-Reply-To: <64c58b616f524d40b3f452fe9eb7218a@AMXPRD0310HT001.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com> >>> >>> Dear Paul, >>> >>> In the following, Humanist 27.265, you've responded to my note on >>> classification by querying what sort of modelling I had in mind, and >>> what I meant by interpretation. I really meant no more or less than >>> modelling cultural artefacts or expressions computationally, as when one >>> marks up a text or constructs a shape-architecture and produces other >>> shapes from it. I didn't have the distinction between modelling and >>> simulation in mind but would be especially pleased if we went off on >>> that tangent. By interpretation I meant any statement or even momentary >>> thought by which an ambiguity is (partially) resolved -- including, I >>> suppose, by metaphor. >>> >>> I hope the above is sufficiently full of holes to allow a breeze of >>> conversation and argument to blow through it :-). >>> >>> Yours, >>> W _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A86DE3011; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:51:47 +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 C21253015; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:51:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 842533015; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:51:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130827065138.842533015@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:51:38 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.290 NeDIMAH survey? intro books? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 290. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Shawn Day (16) Subject: NeDIMAH Survey of the Uses of Visualisation in the Digital Arts and Humanities [2] From: sree ganesh (5) Subject: intro books for digital humanities? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 07:49:34 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: NeDIMAH Survey of the Uses of Visualisation in the Digital Arts and Humanities Dear All, Thanks to those who have participated in the NeDIMAH Survey of the Uses of Visualisation in the Digital Arts and Humanities. This is a reminder that the organisers will soon be collating the results and would appreciate any input from those that can offer a few of their thoughts towards a better understanding of how visualisation is being employed in their own practice. In the Arts and Humanities 'everything is dynamic, attested, contested and researched'... digital tools and methods in the Arts and Humanities are evolving to address a variety of research questions in multiple domains.This questionnaire is designed to assess the use and the variety of Digital Methods in contemporary Arts and Humanities discourse. Thank you for taking the time to contribute. The survey is available at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/R3KNWG9 Many thanks, Shawn --------------------------------- Shawn Day Digital Humanities Observatory Royal Irish Academy Email: day.shawn@gmail.com Twitter: @iridium about.me/shawnday ------------------------------ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 09:27:10 +0300 From: sree ganesh Subject: intro books for digital humanities? In-Reply-To: <20130827054917.EA181300D@digitalhumanities.org> Hi All, Can any one suggest some good introductory books for digital humanities? -- Cheers, Sree Ganesh.T _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C3332301A; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:53:30 +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 5C14F3001; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:53:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 081493008; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:53:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130827065321.081493008@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:53:20 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.291 jobs, postdocs, grant X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 291. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Kim Yates (14) Subject: Mellon postdocs at Toronto [2] From: David Sewell (18) Subject: Job Announcement: Editorial and Technical Specialist, XML/metadata, University of Virginia Press [3] From: Susan Brown (18) Subject: Seeking Visualization Developer [4] From: maurizio lana (41) Subject: research grant for an ontologist --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 13:44:07 -0400 From: Kim Yates Subject: Mellon postdocs at Toronto The Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto seeks 3 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows for a two-year appointment 2014-2016 with research relevant to the 2014-15 theme: Humour, Play, and Games A distinctive human quality is our sense of humour, and our attraction to play and to games. Play is central to such fields as literature, music, poetry, art, and film. Humour can, of course, be very serious: a powerful critique, a source of strength to survive, a tool for building solidarity, and a means of drawing and redrawing limits. But humour also poses a challenge to the serious. Today, when scholarship needs to justify itself and time is money, what room is left for play and humour? Can they be justified along functional and economic lines (e.g. play is the seedbed of the genuinely new) or must we resist justification in the name of play itself? What is an old joke worth? Games can be both competitive and collaborative, and play is structured by the virtual spaces games create. Playing games and studying games fosters new modes of knowledge. This theme will allow all disciplines, those that have long-recognized the aesthetic importance of humour and play and those that traditionally have not, to intersect with new thinking about games, and so explore a full range of serious (and sometimes funny) play. Fellowships begin 1 July 2014. Eligibility: Ph.D. awarded between 1 July 2011 and 30 May 2014. Apply at www.humanities.utoronto.ca by 15 November 2013 1. userID registration 2. online application form (click Funding, select Postdoctoral Fellowships) 3. Uploads: a. letter of application explaining the link(s) between your research and the 2014-15 theme, outlining the research to be undertaken during the fellowship b. full curriculum vitae c. published work, dissertation chapter, or work in progress (approx. 30 pages) d. statement of teaching interests including course proposals. 4. Names and emails of 3 references Electronic applications submitted online only (no paper, faxes, or email submissions). --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 21:13:27 -0400 (EDT) From: David Sewell Subject: Job Announcement: Editorial and Technical Specialist, XML/metadata, University of Virginia Press The University of Virginia Press seeks to hire an Editorial and Technical Specialist within our Rotunda division (http://www.upress.virginia.edu/rotunda/), which publishes peer-reviewed born-digital scholarly works. The incumbent in this position will be working primarily on SAH Archipedia (http://sah-archipedia.org/), an ongoing reference work authored by the Society of Architectural Historians. Secondary duties will involve our Founding Era collections (http://www.upress.virginia.edu/rotunda/collections/american-founding-era/ and http://founders.archives.gov/) and other Rotunda publications. All our Rotunda publications are XML-based, usually deriving from TEI-encoded texts and delivered via a MarkLogic server. Work on Archipedia will involve processing new content (delivered as XML or transformed from other file types), doing validation and quality control, and adding or verifying the metadata connected with building entries (geospatial data, controlled subject vocabulary terms, event history, etc.), in collaboration with other Rotunda staff and SAH editors and volunteers. Incumbents who have or can acquire skills in Web development and XML programming will also participate in extending the functionality and feature set of SAH Archipedia. The successful candidate will have a solid background in digital humanities and/or digital library skills and projects. Experience with XML and XML editing is a requirement, and ideally with related programming technologies such as XSLT and XQuery; familiarity with geospatial metadata and GIS or geocoding applications highly desirable. Other relevant skills would include general Web development and programming (HTML/CSS, PHP, JavaScript, Drupal administration), database skills, and experience with metadata standards and controlled vocabularies such as the Getty AAT. The University of Virginia has a long tradition of excellence in the digital humanities and digital library work, hosting groups and projects such as the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, the Scholars' Lab, SHANTI, NINES, and the Rossetti Archive. Following is the text of the position description at UVA Human Resources (https://jobs.virginia.edu/ , "Search Postings" and search for Posting Number 0612615). ====== The University of Virginia Press is seeking to fill the position of Editorial and Technical Specialist for its Electronic Imprint. This position is responsible for technical editing and quality control of digital documents for the ROTUNDA imprint, and managing workflow of files received from authors and conversion vendors. It is also responsible for assisting with technical architecture and planning of ROTUNDA publications, and for development of tools and procedures to be used in production workflows and publications. For more information about the University of Virginia Press, please visit our website at http://www.upress.virginia.edu/. Our ROTUNDA imprint is described at http://www.upress.virginia.edu/rotunda/. This position is a restricted position. Continued employment in this position is contingent upon satisfactory performance and the availability of funding. To apply, applicants must complete a staff application through Jobs@ (https://jobs.virginia.edu), search for posting number 0612615 and electronically attach the following: a cover letter of interest, a resume and contact information for three references. ====== The University of Virginia Press and the University of Virginia welcome applications from women, minorities, veterans and persons with disabilities; we seek to build a culturally diverse intellectual environment and are committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity and to the principles of affirmative action in accordance with state and federal laws. -- David Sewell, Editorial and Technical Manager ROTUNDA, The University of Virginia Press PO Box 400314, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4314 USA Email: dsewell@virginia.edu Tel: +1 434 924 9973 Web: http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 10:35:11 -0400 From: Susan Brown Subject: Seeking Visualization Developer Description: Web-based Interactive Visualization Interface Developer Are you a clever and resourceful programmer with experience in developing web-based interactive visualizations? Do you want to join a team that's building innovative interfaces for exploring and better understanding large text collections? We're looking for a genius, we hope you're looking for us. Who: This is a collaboration between three large Canadian digital humanities projects: "Text Mining & Visualization for Literary History", "Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory" and the "Implementing New Knowledge Environments". You will be working under the primary supervision of Stéfan Sinclair. What: Develop a custom web-based network visualization interface using HTML5 (not Flash nor a Java applet) to explore large and complex XML-encoded texts and RDF datasets. We have working prototypes that are not web-based, and the work will primarily involve re-implementing those prototypes and tweaking their functionality. Where: The internets, though preference may be given to developers able to spend some time at one of the institutions of the projects, and in particular McGill University, University of Alberta or the University of Guelph. When: ASAP. The first visualization interface will be developed this fall (2013) with further projects likely to follow. Why: Because you're creative, you like a good challenge and you want to contribute to significant work in the digital humanities. If you're interested, please contact Stéfan Sinclair (sgsinclair at gmail dot com) as soon as possible. This job will remain open until it is filled. Candidates should have a portfolio of relevant work. Pay will be negotiated based on experience. We're more interested in relevant experience and diversity in the team than in degrees. ____________________________________________________________________________ Susan Brown Director, Orlando Project; Project Leader, Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory Professor Visiting Professor School of English and Theatre Studies English and Film Studies University of Guelph University of Alberta Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1 Canada Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E5 519-824-4120 x53266 (office) 780-492-7803 sbrown@uoguelph.ca susan.brown@ualberta.ca http://orlando.cambridge.org http://www.ualberta.ca/ORLANDO http://www.cwrc.ca --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 01:22:00 +0200 From: maurizio lana Subject: research grant for an ontologist Università  del Piemonte Orientale - Vercelli at the address http://www.unipmn.it/Informazioni%20su/Ricerca%20Scientifica/Assegni%20di%20Ricerca/Bandi/default.aspx?DisplayContentByLocator=15722,11274&compound=20722&opt=ao,rd,rh has a call for 1 research grant (1 year, 19.000€ pre-tax) for a person (less than 35 years old and PhD) which will work with geolat research team to the construction of a geographical ontology which will be used in the annotation/markup of a latin texts corpus; moreover, this person will participate to the setup of the software prototype of the annotation working environment. (NB: this link opens a higher level page; in order to access the text of the call you must click onto "bandi attivi/open fellowships"; and then onto "bando D.R. n. 378/2013 (id. 333)". with my apologies for the strange behavior of my university site.) geolat project (geography for latin literature), has three scopes: 1) building a global digital library of latin; 2) tagging every geographical name both recurring to existing resources and creating a geographical ontology for classical texts/world; 3) allowing scholars to access the geographically tagged texts through a geo/graphic interface. the interdisciplinary team needs a person able to finalize the decisions of the group about the geographical ontology, and to build/integrate the specific parts of ontology for latin texts with other already existing ontologies. the candidate should have a solid background in computer science, computational ontologies and RDF, with no constraints on the domain where s/he got this knowledge: computer science, information engineering, or cognitive sciences. the call is written in Italian language, interested people can ask for explanations to m.lana@lett.unipmn.it. _knowledge of Italian language is not requested_; good knowledge of English as interaction language is requested. residence in italy is not requested the call is /really open/ to anyone interested. should the grant appear not completely satisfactory, here the candidate can find a very advanced field of activity not so easily available elsewhere... all the best maurizio lana, director of geolat project ------- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D8D613020; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:57:54 +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 7B26F300A; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:57:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 37CA83008; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:57:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130827065744.37CA83008@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:57:44 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.292 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. 27, No. 292. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Andrew Shi-hwa Chen (106) Subject: CFP: Computer Culture (SWPACA Conference, February 19-22, 2014) [2] From: Marten_Düring (85) Subject: Conference programme: The Future of Historical Network Research 13-15 Sept, Hamburg, GER [3] From: Mark Hedges (7) Subject: CfP: SSH and big data workshop/EUDAT conference 2013 [4] From: Fabio Ciotti (17) Subject: Early registration to TEI Conference 2013 to close on 31 August [5] From: "Keralis, Spencer" (13) Subject: Digital Frontiers 2013 Conference & THATCamp, September 19- 21, Denton, TX [6] From: Albert Lloret (20) Subject: CFP - Manuscript Studies Across the Disciplines [7] From: Ken Goldberg (45) Subject: * Nov 6: The Uncanny Valley Revisited: A Tribute to Masahiro Mori [8] From: Gaël_Dias (98) Subject: 1st Workshop on Histoinformatics (Histoinformatics 2013) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 12:10:21 -0500 From: Andrew Shi-hwa Chen Subject: CFP: Computer Culture (SWPACA Conference, February 19-22, 2014) Computer Culture area 35th Annual Southwest Popular / American Culture Association Conference February 19-22, 2014 Hyatt Regency, Albuquerque, NM www.southwestpca.org http://www.swtxpca.org We are accepting papers and forming panels for the area of Computer Culture, as one of the many areas within the 35th annual conference of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA). The conference was formerly named the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association (SW/TX PCA/ACA). Computer is broadly defined as any computational device, whether smartphone or abacus, and any form of information technology, including the origins of concepts of interactive text which may predate computational devices as traditionally conceived. Culture is rooted in the concept of cultural meaning. We ask not just operational questions such as, "How do people communicate using computers?" but questions of meaning such as, "What does it mean when people communicate using computers instead of using pre-computer approaches to communication?" "Computer Culture" can be understood in a variety of ways: - the culture of the computer, that is, as computers interact with each other, what culture do they have of their own? - the culture around the computer, that is, (sub)cultures associated with the production, maintenance, use, and destruction of computers - the culture through the computer, that is, explicit treatment of how computer mediation influences cultural phenomena that exist or has existed in forms that did not involve computer mediation, and what these influences mean - the culture by the computer, that is, the ways in which new (sub)cultures or (sub)cultural phenomena have arisen because of computers and understandings of these given awareness of the nature and/or workings of computers Example questions associated with Computer Culture would include, but not be limited to: - What implications are there because of the powerfulness of (computer/information) technology ___ and are these implications beneficial, detrimental, inevitable, or avoidable? - What are the cultural origins of computers, computer/information technologies, and practices (such as ____) associated with them? What is the descriptive and prescriptive outlook for the conditions of those cultural forces associated with those cultural origins? - How do cultural forces (such as changes from one generation to the next, trends in education or society, or other cultural phenomena) impact (and are impacted by) computer/information technologies/market-forces, and what do these impacts (in either direction or both) mean? Paper topics might include (but are not limited to) those that address: - issues of (re)presentation through computers (Web site analysis and design), - methods of discourse involving computers (blogging, Twitter, social networks, viral video, live feeds), - theories focused on the relationship between computers and culture, - uses of computers in particular contexts and the impacts thereof (computers and pedagogy, online literary journals), - the relationship between computers and cultural forces (such as news, politics, and terrorism), - security/privacy/fraud and computers (online security issues, spam, scams, and hoaxes), - and others. While we will consider any relevant paper, we have a preference for those that involve transferable methodological approaches. This is an interdisciplinary conference, and other conference attendees would benefit from being able to adapt your research methods to their future research. Scholars, teachers, professionals, artists, and others interested in computer culture are encouraged to participate. Graduate students are also particularly welcome with award opportunities for the best graduate papers. More information about awards can be found at http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards/ Specifically, we would like to highlight the following award opportunities: - The "Computer Culture and Game Studies Award" - The "Heldrich-Dvorak Travel Fellowships" Given how papers may often fall into multiple categories, there may be other award opportunities listed at http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards/ which would be appropriate for your paper. (However, each presenter may only apply for one – not including the Travel Fellowships, which can be in addition.) If you wish to form your own panel, we would be glad to facilitate your needs. This conference is a presentation opportunity. For a publication opportunity, we encourage you to consider submitting your paper to the Southwest PCA/ACA’s new journal, Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, at http://journaldialogue.org/call-for-papers/ Please pass along this call to friends and colleagues. For consideration, submit 100-200 word abstracts and proposals for panels before Friday, November 1, 2013 to the conference’s electronic submission system which can be found at: http://conference2014.southwestpca.org/ If you have any questions, contact the Computer Culture area co-chairs, Andrew Chen (andrewsw@gmail.com) and Joseph Chaney (jchaney@iusb.edu). --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 14:12:28 +0200 From: Marten_Düring Subject: Conference programme: The Future of Historical Network Research 13-15 Sept, Hamburg, GER Dear all, pasted below you will find the programme for this year's Historical Network Research conference, 13-15 September at Hamburg University. PROGRAMME The concepts and methods of social network analysis in historical research are no longer merely used as metaphors but are increasingly applied in practice. In the last decades several studies proved that formal methods derived from social network analysis can be fruitfully applied to selected bodies of historical data as well. This relational perspective on historical sources has helped historical research to gain an entirely new methodological vantage point. Historical Network Research today is a research method as well as an online and offline training framework and quickly growing research community. When we began to apply network analysis to history, there were no suitable points of reference and hardly any previous work which successfully combined Social Network Analysis methods and source-criticism. Over the years we have developed an infrastructure for historians to engage in research on networks, to exchange ideas and to receive training. After eight workshops on Historical Network Research at locations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland it is time to look back at what has been achieved in the last years and to explore what might be next. For this first conference we have therefore invited papers which integrate social network analysis methods and theories with historical research interests. Friday, 13.9.2013 16:30: Arrival and Welcome The Future of Historical Network Research Keynote Session 17:00-17:20: Jana Diesner (USA): Of microscopes and telescopes in the humanities and social sciences 17:20-17:40: Charles van den Heuvel (Netherlands): The "Circulation of Knowledge and learned Practices" project 17:40-18:00: Robert Gramsch (Germany): The empire as a network of princes. Network analytical modeling of political action in the Middle Ages (presentation in German) 18:00-19:00: Discussion: Jana Diesner, Charles van den Heuvel, Robert Gramsch and Lothar Krempel Saturday, 14.9.2013 Section I: Case Studies “Information Conceptualisation and Visualisation” 9:00-9:30: Christophe Verbruggen/ Hans Blomme (Netherlands): Plotting the dynamics of collective action and social reform, 1855-1865 9:30-10:00: Sebastian Giessmann (Germany): Network Paradigms: From Textile Objects to Complex Networks 10:00-10:30: Yanan Sun (USA): Conceptualize History into “Dots and Lines:” Dynamic Network Analysis of the History of Chinoiserie-Architecture in Germany 10:30-11:00: Kimmo Elo (Finland): Network analysis and the intelligence cycle 11:00-11:30: Coffee Break Section II: Case Studies “Space and Time” 11:30-12:00 Martin Rheinheimer (Denmark): Regional networks of Northfrisian sailors at Amsterdam, Hamburg and Copenhagen 1750-1840 12:00-12:30 Anna Mitschele (Germany): Time and Space in Scottish Witch-hunting 1563-1736 12:30-13:00 Eberhard Crailsheim (Austria): European Merchant Networks in Seville (1580-1640) 13:00-14:30: Lunch 14:30-15:00 Wim Broekaert (Belgium): Recycling networks. The structure of the Italian business community on Delos 15:00-15:30 Christian Rollinger (Germany): Judicial networks in the later Roman republic 15:30-16:00 break Section III: Case Studies “Linked Data and Ontological Methods” 16:00-16:30 Pim van Bree/Geert Kessels (Netherlands): Trailblazing Meta Data: a diachronic and spatial research platform for object oriented analysis and visualisations 16:30-17:00 Matthis Krischel/Heiner Fangerau (Germany): A Social and Intellectual Network of 19th-century Scientists 17:00-17:30 Christine Fertig (Germany): Kinship networks and class building in rural Westphalia 19:00: Dinner Sunday, 15.9.2013 Section IV: Overlaps between Network Analysis in the Digital Humanities 9:30-10:00 Michael Kronenwett (Germany) Using different methods of collecting and analyzing social network data with a single software tool 10:00-10:30 Frederik Elwert (Germany): Social and semantic network analysis – examples from the history of religions 10:30-11:00 Julia Damerow/Erik Peirson (USA): A research system for network-based digital history of science 11:00-11:30 Maria Bostenaru Dan (Rumania): Spatial street network and urban traces around the Modernist boulevard in Bucharest 11:30-12:00: Final Discussion Please do not hesitate to contact us at conference@historicalnetworkresearch.org for additional information. Linda von Keyserlingk, Militärhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr Florian Kerschbaumer, University of Klagenfurt Martin Stark, University of Hamburg Ulrich Eumann, NS Dokumentationszentrum Köln Marten Düring, Centre virutel de la Connaissance sur l'Europe (CVCE) We are grateful for generous support from: NeDiMAH – Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities ESF – European Science Foundation CGG – Centrum for Globalisation and Governance at the University of Hamburg -- Dr. Marten Düring Digital Humanities Researcher Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE) www.cvce.eu / www.cubrikproject.eu Personal website, Historical Network Research --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 13:42:24 +0100 From: Mark Hedges Subject: CfP: SSH and big data workshop/EUDAT conference 2013 The EUDAT Conference in Rome in October 2013 has an associated workshop "SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES (SSH) TACKLE THE BIG DATA CHALLENGE". The workshop will take place on 28 October 2013. The workshop description may be found at http://eudat.eu/eudat-2nd-conference-workshops The workshop call for papers may be found at: http://eudat.eu/system/files/cfp-humanities-ws-v2.pdf --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 12:51:38 +0200 From: Fabio Ciotti Subject: Early registration to TEI Conference 2013 to close on 31 August Dear Humanists, early registration to TEI Conference 2013 in Roma (http://digilab2.let.uniroma1.it/teiconf2013/) is going to close on 31 August. After that date the registration fees will be as follows: - TEI subscribers and representatives of TEI member institutions and AIUCD members : €100 - Regular conference attendees (academic): € 150 - Non-academic / Commercial: € 250 - Currently enrolled students at institutions of higher education (ID required): € 20 The online registration facilities are available at http://digilab2.let.uniroma1.it/teiconf2013/registration/ So hurry up and register! Best regards, Arianna Ciula (Programme Committee Chair) and Fabio Ciotti (Local Organisation Committee Chair) --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 22:35:41 +0000 From: "Keralis, Spencer" Subject: Digital Frontiers 2013 Conference & THATCamp, September 19-21, Denton, TX Dear Colleagues: The University of North Texas Libraries, Digital Scholarship Co-Operative, The Portal to Texas History, and the Texas State Historical Association invite you to join us in Denton, Texas September 19-21, 2013 for the second annual Digital Frontiers Conference and THATCamp! This conference brings together the makers and users of digital resources for research and education for a unique conference experience. This year's conference features a Keynote Address by Trevor Muñoz (MITH, University of Maryland Libraries) and a Closing Address by Jeffrey Stoffer (Ak-Chin Indian Community Library), along with panels and paper sessions with scholars, students, archivists, librarians, community historians and genealogists, and a graduate student-organized THATCamp. Browse the complete conference schedule http://disco.unt.edu/df13_schedule . We understand that budgets are tight, so we're offering a tiered registration so you can pay what you're able to help support the conference. Registration http://disco.unt.edu/df13_registration for the conference is free for undergraduate and graduate students, and is open until September 13. THATCamp registration is separate, and is only $15, so feel free to register for both or either events. For more information on the conference, registration, lodging, and other logistics, please visit the Website http://disco.unt.edu/digitalfrontiers . Follow us on Twitter @DigiFront, or join our Facebook Group for updates and conversations. We hope to see you in Texas in September! Best Regards, Spencer D. C. Keralis Director for Digital Scholarship, Research Associate Professor UNT Digital Scholarship Co-Operative Sycamore Hall Suite 119/Office 121 spencer.keralis@unt.edu (940) 369-6884 DiSCo http://disco.unt.edu/ | @UNTDiSCo http://twitter.com/UNTDisco --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 22:36:36 +0000 From: Albert Lloret Subject: CFP - Manuscript Studies Across the Disciplines Dear Colleagues, I hope you are enjoying what’s left of the summer. Apologies for cross-posting; below I’m re-sending as a reminder the CFP for the panel sponsored by Digital Philology that Jeanette Patterson and I are organizing for the next International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo. Our deadline for receiving proposals is September 10. Please feel free to circulate it. Thank you. Best, Albert CALL FOR PAPERS - Manuscript Studies Across the Disciplines 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies Western Michigan University; May 8-11, 2014 Sponsored by Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures Organized by Albert Lloret (University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Jeanette Patterson (Princeton University) In line with one of the editorial mandates of Digital Philology, in this session, we seek to promote discussion around how manuscript research may be predicated upon effective cross-disciplinary work. We invite submissions that not only bring to light new discoveries about a particular manuscript, but also reach across disciplinary boundaries by asking broader methodological or theoretical questions, including but not limited to: • the materiality of the codex • the sociopolitical lives of books • border crossings: a manuscript that travels across geographical space, across social milieux or, more abstractly, across languages, genres, media or other categories • our digital engagement with medieval books Please send a 100-word abstract and Participant Information Form to Albert Lloret at lloret@spanport.umass.edu by September 10. Albert Lloret, PhD Managing Editor, Digital Philology Assistant Professor of Spanish and Catalan University of Massachusetts Amherst http://umass.academia.edu/AlbertLloret --[7]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:40:02 +0000 From: Ken Goldberg Subject: * Nov 6: The Uncanny Valley Revisited: A Tribute to Masahiro Mori Special Event: The Uncanny Valley Revisited: A Tribute to Masahiro Mori http://goldberg.berkeley.edu/art/uncanny-summit/ IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robots and Intelligent Systems (IROS) Tokyo International Exhibition Center, Nov 6, 1:30-3pm Masahiro Mori's influential 1970 article, Bukimi no Tani Gensho, describes a phenomenon where the appeal of animated beings undergoes a steep non-linearity as they become increasingly similar to humans. Subsequently labeled the "Uncanny Valley" as a reference to Sigmund Freud's 1916 essay on the Uncanny, the Uncanny Valley continues to have widespread influence in the fields of robotics, design, gaming, computer animation, art, and plastic surgery. For this special event, Emeritus Professor Mori will address an audience of international researchers in Robotics to comment on the thinking behind his article and how it has evolved over the past 40 years, followed by responses from a panel of roboticists and media theorists. Featured Speaker: Masahiro Mori, Prof. Emeritus, Tokyo Institute of Technology (simultaneous translation by Ms. Norri Kageki) Panelists: Masaki Fujihata, Tokyo U. of the Arts Hiroshi Ishiguro, Osaka U. David Hanson, Hanson Robotics Elizabeth Jochum, Aalborg U. Oussama Khatib, Stanford U. Peter Lunenfeld, UCLA Todd Murphey, Northwestern U. Daniela Rus, MIT Co-Chairs: Minoru Asada, Osaka U Ken Goldberg, UC Berkeley Special thanks to Hirochika Inoue and Shigeki Sugano and Erico Guizzo for help in organizing. ================ This event was motivated in part by the prior workshop: Art and Robots: Freud's Unheimlich and the Uncanny Valley An International Workshop at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Kongresszentrum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, May 10, 2013. Organized by Ken Goldberg, Heather Knight, and Pericle Salvini. http://uncannyvalley_icra2013.sssup.it This one-day workshop at the premier conference for robotics researchers brought together technologists, artists, and theorists to explore past and future relationships between art and robotics. Artworks involving robots have a rich and extensive history dating back to the ancient Greeks, through da Vinci, Jean Tinguely, Nam June Paik, Survival Research Labs, Jonathon Borofsky, and Stelarc. The workshop references Freud's 1919 aesthetic essay on E.T.A. Hoffman's 1816 horror tale The Sandman (which includes an automaton as a central character). Freud's term "Der Unheimliche" is usually translated as "The Uncanny". Freud's concept of the Uncanny is familiar in art history and has been applied to many novels, paintings, sculptures, and films. The term was later applied to a phenomenon noted by Masahiro Mori in 1970 where the human psychological experience of being unnerved by robots that are highly similar to humans. --[8]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 10:05:05 +0000 From: Gaël_Dias Subject: 1st Workshop on Histoinformatics (Histoinformatics 2013) 1st Workshop on Histoinformatics (Histoinformatics 2013) Held in conjunction with 5th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2013) 25 November 2013, Kyoto, Japan ---http://www.histoinformatics.org--- Paper submission deadline October 6, 2013 The 1st International Workshop on Histoinformatics aims at fostering the interaction between Computer Science and Historical Science towards "Computational History". This interdisciplinary initiative is a response to the growing popularity of Digital Humanities and an increased tendency to apply computer techniques for supporting and facilitating research in Humanities. Nowadays, due to the increasing activities in digitizing and opening historical sources, the Science of History can greatly benefit from the advances of Computer and Information sciences which consist of processing, organizing and making sense of data and information. As such, new Computer Science techniques can be applied to verify and validate historical assumptions based on text reasoning, image interpretation or memory understanding. Our objective is to provide for the two different research communities a place to meet and exchange ideas and to facilitate discussion. We hope the workshop will result in a survey of current problems and potential solutions, with particular focus on exploring opportunities for collaboration and interaction of researchers working on various subareas within Computer Science and History Sciences. The main topics of the workshop are that of supporting historical research and analysis through the application of Computer Science theories or technologies, analyzing and making use of historical texts, recreating past course of actions, analyzing collective memories, visualizing historical data, providing efficient access to large wealth of accumulated historical knowledge and so on. The detailed topics of expected paper submissions are (but not limited to): - Processing and text mining of historical documents - Analysis of longitudinal document collections - Search models in document archives and historical collections, associative search - Causal relationship discovery based on historical resources - Entity relationship extraction, detecting and resolving historical references in text - Computational linguistics for old texts - Digitizing and archiving - Modeling evolution of entities and relationships over time - Automatic multimedia document dating - Applications of artificial intelligence techniques to history - Simulating and recreating the past course of actions, social relations, motivations, figurations - Analysis of language change over time - Handling uncertain and fragmentary text and image data - Finding analogical entities - Entity linking in historical collections - Named entity detection in historical texts - Automatic biography generation - Mining Wikipedia for historical data - OCR and transcription of old texts - Effective interfaces for searching, browsing or visualizing historical data collections - Collective memory analysis - Studying and modeling forgetting and remembering processes - Vulgarization of History through new media - Probing the limits of Histoinformatics - Epistemologies in the Humanities and Computer Science Full paper submissions are limited to 14 pages, while short paper submissions should be less than 6 pages. Submissions should be sent in English in PDF via the submission website (see the website for link). They should be formatted according to Springer LNCS paper formatting guidelines. They must be original and have not been submitted for publication elsewhere. Submissions will be evaluated by at least three different reviewers from both computer and history science areas. The accepted papers will be published by Springer as post proceedings volume (to appear after the workshop). --------------------- ---Important Dates--- --------------------- - Paper submission deadline: October 6, 2013 - Notification of acceptance: October 25, 2013 - Camera ready copy deadline: November 5, 2013 - Workshop date: Nov 25, 2013 -------------------------- ---Organizing Committee--- -------------------------- - Adam Jatowt (Kyoto University, Japan) - Gael Dias (Normandie University, France) - Agostini-Ouafi Viviana (Normandie University, France) - Christian Gudehus (University of Flensburg, Germany) - Gunter Muhlberger (University of Innsbruck, Austria) -------------------------- ---Scientific Committee--- -------------------------- - Antal van Den Bosch (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) - Lindsey Dodd (University of Huddersfield, UK) - Antoine Doucet (Normandie University, France) - Marten During (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) - Nattiya Kanhabua (LS3 Research Center, Germany) - Tom Kenter (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) - Daan Odijk (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) - Denis Peschanski (Pantheon-Sorbonne University, France) - Shigeo Sugimoto (University of Tsukuba, Japan) - Nina Tahmasebi (LS3 Research Center, Germany) - William Turkel (University of Western Ontario, Canada) - To be extended. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DC0703024; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 09:00:06 +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 52EBB3017; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:59:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 023FC3016; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:59:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130827065957.023FC3016@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:59:56 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.293 pubs: data cleaning; practices in digital humanities; Getty Images; Kritikos X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 293. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Roueche, Charlotte" (15) Subject: GettyImages [2] From: Dean Rehberger (30) Subject: New Book Series on Practices in Digital Humanities [3] From: Seth van Hooland (14) Subject: Tutorial on data cleaning [4] From: Nicholas Ruiz III (25) Subject: Kritikos, V.10 July-August 2013 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 11:08:53 +0000 From: "Roueche, Charlotte" Subject: GettyImages The Getty Trust have just announced that they are publishing all their available digital images online: see http://www.getty.edu/about/opencontent.html. Of course this includes some very high quality classical materials: helpfully, they offer a chronological display Great news! Charlotte---------------------------- Professor Charlotte Roueché Centre for Hellenic Studies King's College London WC2R 2LS fax + 44 20.7848 2545 charlotte.roueche@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/chs --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 18:23:34 -0300 From: Dean Rehberger Subject: New Book Series on Practices in Digital Humanities We are delighted to let you know that our new book series, Practices in the Digital Humanities, is officially launching with a partnership between the University of Michigan Press and Matrix Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences. More details here: http://www.digitalculture.org/books/book-series/practices-in-the-digital-humanities/. As you know, the digital humanities is in a golden age, with many of us racing to build tools, create archives, manage projects, and create user experiences. Practices in the Digital Humanities will support this kind of work by providing best practices, models, case studies, and examples on how to build to standards, architect experiences, administer systems, manage projects, and build useful tools. Bringing together experts in digital humanities, this series will be written by DH scholars for DH scholars. These books will be situated as methods for digital humanities, and each book project will be peer reviewed. These book projects will include a printed book and various digital assets such as templates, code, videos, images, etc. Author's are free to host their materials outside of UM's servers, and we want to encourage using the most useful tools for outside repositories (i.e., github, flickr, you own site, etc.). In considering who might be best to publish such a series, we looked for a publisher that had a strong foundation in digital humanities, would understand the significance of our series, and would support new methods of licensing and open access.The University of Michigan Press is that publisher. Our new series is part of their Digital Cultural Books imprint. For more information about open access and other licensing options, please see their About page: http://www.digitalculture.org/about/ and their recent blog post about their new author's agreement: http://blog.press.umich.edu/2013/06/new-authors-agreement/. I'm certain you will find it as intriguing and forward-thinking as we did. Best, Liza (and Kathie) _________________________________________ Liza Potts, Ph.D. Michigan State University Senior Researcher at WIDE Research Director of User Experience Projects at MATRIX Assistant Professor Department of Writing, Rhetoric, & American Cultures 434 Farm Lane (Bessey Hall) Room 291, East Lansing, MI 48824 Gtalk: LKPotts | Skype: LKPotts | Twitter: LizaPotts http://www2.matrix.msu.edu/about/wide-matrix/ Best Dean _____________________________ Michigan State University Natural Science Building 288 Farm Lane, Room 409 East Lansing MI 48824-1120 Direct: 517.353.4969 Main: 517.355.9300 Fax 517.355.8363 http://matrix.msu.edu http://www.historyhacks.org rehberge@msu.edu deanreh@gmail.com aim: deanreh --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 09:32:04 +0200 From: Seth van Hooland Subject: Tutorial on data cleaning Dear all, Some of you might be interested in the data cleaning lesson Ruben Verborgh, Max De Wilde and myself just published on The Programming Historian website: http://programminghistorian.org/lessons/cleaning-data-with-openrefine Feel free to contact us with your comments. 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 --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 09:43:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Nicholas Ruiz III Subject: Kritikos, V.10 July-August 2013 Kritikos, V.10 July-August 2013 Whistleblower (for Edward Snowden)...(n.ruiz) I Wish I Was Nixon (for BHO)...(n.ruiz) 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 It is in the deserts of postmodernity where Baudrillard both found and left us. It is in these deserts that we become aware, as did Baudrillard and other poststructuralist thinkers, that theory precedes the world (there is nothing that can be said of the world that is not already framed by our approach to it). It is within Coulter's absolutely lucid exploration - and it goes without saying that the work of Jean Baudrillard should be recognized in such an appropriate revelation - that Baudrillard's thought is unveiled. About the Author Gerry Coulter is the founding editor of the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies He has received Bishop’s University’s highest award for teaching – the William and Nancy Turner Prize. Order now: Integral Reality by Robert Hassan and Nicholas Ruiz III http://intertheory.org/ir.html In this political, cultural and philosophical analysis, Hassan and Ruiz explore developing concepts of time, space and capital in relation to politics today. About the Authors Robert Hassan is a Media and Communications Research Fellow--University of Melbourne, Australia. His recent books include 27/7: Time and Temporality in the Network Society (Cambridge UP, 2007) and The New Media Theory Reader (Open UP, 2006) Nicholas Ruiz III, Ph.D was born in New York City in 1970. He is the author of The Metaphysics of Capital and America in Absentia. He is also the editor of Kritikos. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0C6C9300F; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 06:47:09 +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 960863006; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 06:47:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4F7602FDF; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 06:46:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130828044658.4F7602FDF@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 06:46:58 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.294 introductory books 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. 27, No. 294. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:24:30 -0700 From: Tara Mc Pherson Subject: Re: intro books? In-Reply-To: <20130827065138.842533015@digitalhumanities.org> I used the "classic" Blackwell Companion side-by-side with the newer Digital_Humanities volume from MIT this spring in a grad seminar. The books worked well together to map a series of tensions, debates and convergences across different versions of DH. Tara McPherson, USC School of Cinematic Arts Director, http://scalar.usc.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id EE24B3016; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 06:50:40 +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 53A8F300C; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 06:50:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0265B300A; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 06:50:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130828045030.0265B300A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 06:50:29 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.295 job at NYU X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 295. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 16:41:32 -0400 From: Tom Elliott Subject: Job: Senior Digital Humanities Web Developer/Architect The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) is seeking a full-time Senior Digital Humanities Web Developer/Architect. The job description and application instructions are online at NYU. See https://www.nyucareers.com/applicants/jsp/shared/position/JobDetails_css.jsp. Tom Elliott, Ph.D. Associate Director for Digital Programs and Senior Research Scholar Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (NYU) http://isaw.nyu.edu/people/staff/tom-elliott _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 288283019; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 06:52:20 +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 F31523009; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 06:52:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 26B3A300C; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 06:52:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130828045210.26B3A300C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 06:52:10 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.296 events: historical text corpora; digital and human X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 296. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Christian Thomas (52) Subject: Call for participation: DTA-Workshop on Historical Text Corpora, October 25th 2013 [2] From: Willard McCarty (17) Subject: digital and human --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 10:08:21 +0200 From: Christian Thomas Subject: Call for participation: DTA-Workshop on Historical Text Corpora, October 25th 2013 In-Reply-To: <50EC3757.30200@bbaw.de> Dear Humanists, with apologies for cross-posting, we would like to invite you to the third DTA-Workshop, to be held on October 25th 2013, at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jägerstr. 22/23, Berlin (Germany). ********************************** Title: Aufbau von Sprachressourcen am Beispiel des Deutschen Textarchivs Contact: Deutsches Textarchiv, www.deutschestextarchiv.de, dta@bbaw.de Please register until: September 30st, 2013 (no participation fee) For further information see: http://www.deutschestextarchiv.de/veranstaltungen/dtaworkshop3 Workshop language: German ********************************** Description: Zum Abschluss der zweiten Projektphase veranstaltet das DTA am 25. Oktober 2013 erneut einen Workshop zum Thema „Aufbau von Sprachressourcen am Beispiel des Deutschen Textarchivs“. Der Workshop vermittelt, auf welche Weise existierende oder neue Sprachressourcen mit den Hilfsmitteln des DTA aufbereitet oder erstellt werden können. Sprachressourcen, die gemäß den DTA-Richtlinien erarbeitet wurden, können im Verbund mit weiteren Korpora über das DTA sowie über die CLARIN-D-Infrastruktur vielfältig ausgewertet und einem größeren wissenschaftlichen Publikum zur Verfügung gestellt werden. Für eine unkomplizierte und verlustfreie Überführung der Daten in CLARIN-D-eigene Formate steht dabei im DTA ein Workflow zur Verfügung. Im Rahmen des Workshops werden zunächst die DTA-Richtlinien und Verfahren zur Transkription sowie zur Textstrukturierung/Annotation und Erfassung ausführlicher Metadaten gemäß dem DTA-Basisformat behandelt und eingeübt. Darüber hinaus werden Erfordernisse und Möglichkeiten der Qualitätssicherung im Vorfeld der Texterfassung sowie im Anschluss an die Volltext-Digitalisierung mithilfe der kollaborativen Qualitätssicherungsplatform DTAQ vermittelt. Schließlich werden Möglichkeiten der Arbeit mit den DTA-Korpora und ihrer wissenschaftlichen Auswertung vorgestellt. Der Workshop knüpft an die Erfahrungen des Kurationsprojekts 1 der CLARIN-D-Facharbeitsgruppe 1 und des DTA-Erweiterungsmoduls DTAE an. ********************************** 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, 27 Aug 2013 16:31:15 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: digital and human In-Reply-To: <50EC3757.30200@bbaw.de> On Thursday 17 October, 19.30-20.30, I am giving a lecture for the King's Arts and Humanities Research Institute's series Being | Human, "The Digital and the Human: Remembering the Future of Digital Humanities", in the Council Room, Strand. A panel discussion will follow. See http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2013-2014/Festival/digital-and-human.aspx for more information. All within range of London are welcome. The event is free but booking required, open from mid September. This series includes many worthy events, e.g. a lecture by Marina Warner, "Undead: Icons, Idols, Effigies", on 14 October. See http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/events.aspx for the entire series. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 241E63015; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 06:53:41 +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 B15993011; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 06:53:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AA724300F; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 06:53:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130828045330.AA724300F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 06:53:30 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.297 Mak named GSLIS Centennial Scholar 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. 27, No. 297. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 20:37:19 +0000 From: "Senseney, Megan Finn" Subject: Mak named GSLIS Centennial Scholar In-Reply-To: <6FEEBCEA03E6E146A613342936F4403F7FE4D66B@CHIMBX1.ad.uillinois.edu> The Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois is delighted to announce that Assistant Professor Bonnie Mak has been named the 2013-2014 GSLIS Centennial Scholar in recognition and support of her accomplishments and promising scholarship. Bonnie's research areas include the history of the book and the cultural production of knowledge, with a particular focus on the interplay between oral, scribal, printed, and digital cultures. Her book, How the Page Matters, in which she examines a fifteenth-century text as a manuscript, a printed work, and a digital edition, was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2011 and released in paperback the following year. Bonnie has also published on the notion of authenticity, especially as it relates to the preservation of archival records and the emerging field of digital forensics. While a 2012-2013 Faculty Fellow in the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH), Bonnie embarked upon her next book-length project, which offers a cultural history of digitizations. The GSLIS Centennial Scholar award will help her continue that work. It is our great pleasure to recognize and support Bonnie's scholarship with this award. The Centennial Scholar Award is endowed by alumni and friends of GSLIS. -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3114E300E; Thu, 29 Aug 2013 06:51:50 +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 1375E3006; Thu, 29 Aug 2013 06:51:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2AB862FF0; Thu, 29 Aug 2013 06:51:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130829045136.2AB862FF0@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 06:51:36 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.298 job with Europeana X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 298. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 10:33:02 +0000 From: "Tanner, Simon" Subject: Europeana Technical R&D Coordinator Dear friends, This job opening at Europeana came to my attention and I thought someone in our DH network of contacts might wish to know it was out there. Please share. http://pro.europeana.eu/about/current-openings?_itemsindexportlet_WAR_europeanaportlet_INSTANCE_Qo0K_itemId=1880494 “Are you a specialist in the research fields of Semantics and Metadata, and interested in the challenges of digital culture data? Would you like to contribute with your technical expertise to the R&D activities of Europeana? Then we might have the right job for you. As Technical R&D Coordinator you will be responsible to advise, communicate on and participate to Europeana's technical R&D activities.” All my best, Simon ____________________________________________ Simon Tanner Director of Digital Consultancy (KDCS) Deputy Head, Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Email: simon.tanner@kcl.ac.uk Phone: +44(0)7887-691716 (direct) Twitter: @SimonTanner DDH: www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh/ KDCS: www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk Blog: http://simon-tanner.blogspot.co.uk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 27CBB3016; Thu, 29 Aug 2013 06:53:10 +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 BD4723009; Thu, 29 Aug 2013 06:53:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 937012FFF; Thu, 29 Aug 2013 06:53:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130829045301.937012FFF@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 06:53:01 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.299 Zampolli and Fortier prizes; bursary 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. 27, No. 299. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 13:15:40 -0500 From: Lisa Spiro Subject: ADHO Announces Recipients of the Zampolli and Fortier Prizes The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) is pleased to announce that Dr. Raymond Siemens of the University of Victoria has won the 2014 Antonio Zampolli Prize and that Courtney Evans and Ben Jasnow of the University of Virginia have received the Paul Fortier prize for the best paper presented by young scholars at the 2013 Digital Humanities Conference. Recognizing a singular achievement in the digital humanities, the Zampolli Prize is named in honor of Professor Antonio Zampolli (1937-2003), who was a founding member of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), ALLC President from 1983-2003, and a leader in establishing the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and the TEI Consortium. ADHO awards the prize triennially; Siemens is only the second recipient. Siemens, Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria, won the award based on his leadership in establishing and running the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), a week-long educational program that explores the implications of computing technologies for teaching, research, and the creation, dissemination and preservation of knowledge. Launched in 2001, DHSI brings together faculty, staff, students and independent scholars in arts, libraries, humanities and archives for hands-on work, lectures and seminars in digital humanities (DH) and represents an outstanding achievement in teaching, mentorship, and community building. Neil Fraistat, Chair of ADHO’s Steering Committee, comments: “We are delighted to recognize Ray’s trail-blazing leadership in DH training, which is moving beyond DHSI itself to the formation of a world-wide training network, and we are deeply grateful for his long-term outstanding service to ADHO and the DH community overall.” Siemens will be presented with the award and give the Zampolli Prize lecture at the 2014 Digital Humanities conference, to be held in Lausanne, Switzerland. He will receive a 1000 GBP prize. In awarding the Fortier Prize, a group of experienced conference participants attended presentations by five finalists and selected Evans and Jasnow’s innovative work applying digital tools to the analysis of Homer. The prize pays tribute to Paul Fortier, who was the University Distinguished Professor of French at the University of Manitoba, Canada, a leader in digital humanities organizations, and an active supporter of young scholars. Evans and Jasnow, graduate students in classics at the University of Virginia, won the Fortier Prize for their paper “Homer’s Catalogue of Ships,” which uses mapping technologies to investigate whether a geographical principle informs Homer’s catalogue of ships in The Iliad. To quote some comments of the reviewers on the winning paper: "It was a lovely presentation, one that, to my mind, represents exactly what we would hope for in digital humanities work from young scholars. This paper was a very nice model of digital discovery in action." And: "The presenters gave us a lovely, imaginative, graphic, and visually well-designed presentation; a clear narrative arc rather than the standard "bullet-point" style; and tantalizing hypotheses for future work." As Rafael Alvarado noted of their work, which was done in collaboration with Dr. Jenny Strauss Clay and the University of Virginia’s Scholars’ Lab, “I am sure many human­ists out­side of the dig­i­tal human­i­ties, and not only clas­si­cists, will grasp both the method and its results, and will be inspired to ask inter­est­ing ques­tions of both Homer and the researchers on the basis of this under­stand­ing.” The winners will share a 500 GBP prize and are invited to publish their work in an ADHO journal. In addition, fourteen students or young scholars received bursary awards to support their participation in the Digital Humanities 2013 conference. Recipients of the bursary awards include: * Hamed M. Alhoori, Texas A&M University * Adam Anderson, Harvard University and David Bamman, Carnegie Mellon University * Drayton Callen Benner, University of Chicago * Alberto Campagnolo, University of the Arts, London * Alexandra Chassanoff, UNC Chapel Hill * Constance Crompton, UBC-Okanagan * Courtney Evans and Ben Jasnow, University of Virginia * Paul Matthew Gooding, University College London * Andrew Hankinson, McGill University * Simon Rowberry, University of Winchester * Graham Alexander Sack, Columbia University * Ayush Shrestha, Georgia State University * Dana Ryan Solomon, UC Santa Barbara * Lindsay Thomas, University of California, Santa Barbara The announcement of the Zampolli and Fortier Prizes was made during the closing ceremonies of the Digital Humanities 2013 conference, hosted in July at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. -- Lisa Spiro, Ph.D. ADHO Communications Officer Blog: http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/ Twitter: @lisaspiro Phone: 832-341-0380 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D8D813015; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 08:46:31 +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 D2595300D; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 08:46:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AC4D6300C; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 08:46:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130830064619.AC4D6300C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 08:46:19 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.300 ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships 2013-14 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. 27, No. 300. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 12:18:09 +0000 From: Bill Kretzschmar Subject: ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship 2013-2014 Members of Humanist may well be interested in the call for applications for this year's ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship. I am looking forward to using mine in the next year, and it makes a huge difference to have time like this reserved for research. [See http://www.acls.org/programs/digital/ for the details.] Bill ------------------ Bill Kretzschmar Harry and Jane Willson Professor in Humanities University of Georgia _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 62176301F; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 08:46:56 +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 677513015; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 08:46:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9ED3E3015; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 08:46:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130830064646.9ED3E3015@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 08:46:46 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.301 a publication dispute X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 301. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 14:56:27 -0400 From: Alex Gil Subject: JDH Peer-Review Discussion Hi all, In case you haven't seen this. An important and truly difficult debate is happening on social media channels around the Journal of Digital Humanities peer-review process. Here is the post that sparked the debate. http://www.adelinekoh.org/blog/2013/08/29/journalofdigitalhumanitie/ It is my sincere hope that as a community we can get beyond the growing pains that come with experimentation and diversification. I remain optimistic that the fires we touch are but the noblest of alchemies. Best, A. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BE7223016; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 09:13:24 +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 E1D4D3011; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 09:13:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 45EDA2FF2; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 09:13:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130830071315.45EDA2FF2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 09:13:15 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.302 what difference a kitchen computer? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 302. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 08:08:13 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the curious return of the kitchen computer Some time ago, in the house of friends in the New South Wales bush, I was introduced to the idea of a computer in the kitchen. I don't know to what extent they use the old desktop machine while cooking, but for looking things up during an ongoing discussion over the dinner table or in the sitting room, it seemed perfect. Then, later back home in London I began using my iPad for consulting recipes rather than printing them out. This iPad, whose role in my research has been usurped by a newer model, seemed perfect as a permanent fixture as my kitchen computer. I discovered that mounting brackets of various kinds are abundant, so as soon as the one I selected arrives, this old iPad will be installed as one. Somewhere along the line I ran across the Honeywell Kitchen Computer of the 1960s, described and discussed by Paul Atkinson, "The Curious Case of the Kitchen Computer: Products and Non-Products in Design History", Journal of Design History 23/2 (2010): 163-79. The iPad is a very different piece of kit, but the early sighting of an essential role for computing, in an environment where menus are essential, provides a good example of function before form. What are the differences made by a computer replacing a recipe book? I would think that the convenience, allowing a threshold to be crossed, of drawing upon recipes from around the world would have a considerable if subtle and slow effect. What others might there be? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E400F3030; Sat, 31 Aug 2013 10:07:35 +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 8854610FF; Sat, 31 Aug 2013 10:07:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9773B10FF; Sat, 31 Aug 2013 10:07:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130831080721.9773B10FF@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 10:07:21 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.303 kitchen computer X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 303. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Jan Rybicki" (88) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 27.302 what difference a kitchen computer? [2] From: Erik Hanson (55) Subject: Re: 27.302 what difference a kitchen computer? [3] From: marjorie.burghart@free.fr (7) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.302 what difference a kitchen computer? [4] From: Daniel O'Donnell (29) Subject: Re: 27.302 what difference a kitchen computer? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 10:39:58 +0200 From: "Jan Rybicki" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 27.302 what difference a kitchen computer? In-Reply-To: <20130830071315.45EDA2FF2@digitalhumanities.org> In fact, until quite recently, the desktop PC in my kitchen/dining room was the family's strongest computer and it still is the one with the greatest hard disk(s). But not for recipes: this is where all the family photos and films are stored, so that they can be viewed via network on the big TV screen (also in the kitchen/dining area), the only right way to look at photos made by today's multimegapixel digital camera. I would say that recipe-finding is that computer's fourth function rather than first or second (I'm taking the fifth and I refuse to say what that second is, but it's somehow connected with movies) or even third (Internet grocery shopping, since it's close to the fridge; usually even a smartphone is handier for recipes). In other words, our kitchen computer has adapted itself to the function of the kitchen/dining area: the place where the family come together (it is also interesting how our TV has completely lost its primary function of displaying live broadcasts). Yet I think our kitchen computers do not deserve that name yet. They only will when the prophesy comes true from one of my childhood favourites, a 1966 Polish book for kids by Zbigniew Przyrowski, "W krainie jutra" (In the land of tomorrow), a nicely illustrated depiction of everyday life in the near future (early 21st century); ironically, published in the drab and backward reality of Central-Eastern-European Communism, many of the illustrations showcase technical goodies already available in the degenerate West, such as gigantic microwave ovens. But there is a computer in the kitchen of the family in the book. BTW, the kitchen is round, and the mother - who else! - moves around it on a self-propelled stool. And she uses a computer to plan her meals AND shop; selected recipes are digitally converted into shopping lists and the ingredients find their way into the fridge (it is not exactly explained how); the computer then controls the various "electronic ovens" to boil, sautee or roast the products just right (again, the way they get from the fridge to the oven is unclear). It is interesting that it seems we have gone further in modifying gender roles than in digitizing cooking. And it is interesting how the incomplete digitization of the kitchen seems to reflect the incomplete digitization of the humanities. For good or bad. Best, Jan > -----Original Message----- > From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [mailto:humanist- > bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion > Group > Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 9:13 AM > To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > Subject: [Humanist] 27.302 what difference a kitchen computer? > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 302. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 08:08:13 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: the curious return of the kitchen computer > > Some time ago, in the house of friends in the New South Wales bush, I > was introduced to the idea of a computer in the kitchen. I don't know > to what extent they use the old desktop machine while cooking, but for > looking things up during an ongoing discussion over the dinner table or > in the sitting room, it seemed perfect. Then, later back home in London > I began using my iPad for consulting recipes rather than printing them > out. This iPad, whose role in my research has been usurped by a newer > model, seemed perfect as a permanent fixture as my kitchen computer. I > discovered that mounting brackets of various kinds are abundant, so as > soon as the one I selected arrives, this old iPad will be installed as > one. > > Somewhere along the line I ran across the Honeywell Kitchen Computer of > the 1960s, described and discussed by Paul Atkinson, "The Curious Case > of the Kitchen Computer: Products and Non-Products in Design History", > Journal of Design History 23/2 (2010): 163-79. The iPad is a very > different piece of kit, but the early sighting of an essential role for > computing, in an environment where menus are essential, provides a good > example of function before form. > > What are the differences made by a computer replacing a recipe book? I > would think that the convenience, allowing a threshold to be crossed, > of drawing upon recipes from around the world would have a considerable > if subtle and slow effect. What others might there be? > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital > Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital > Humanities, University of Western Sydney --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 06:29:13 -0500 From: Erik Hanson Subject: Re: 27.302 what difference a kitchen computer? In-Reply-To: <20130830071315.45EDA2FF2@digitalhumanities.org> Anecdotal evidence: We don't have a dedicated kitchen computer, though our apartment is small enough that our kitchenette is within arm's reach of three computers and a tablet, plus smart phones. What I've noticed is that our cook books tend to get annotated and otherwise near the marks of past use (the of grease spot, maybe some flour). Online recipes only get modified/personalized if we print them or otherwise save them in an editable format. If those online recipes aren't covered in some way, it can be really hard to remember enough information to find a particular recipe again -- the exception being when a recipe is associated with a celebrity chef. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 13:42:19 +0200 (CEST) From: marjorie.burghart@free.fr Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.302 what difference a kitchen computer? In-Reply-To: <20130830071315.45EDA2FF2@digitalhumanities.org> > What are the differences made by a computer replacing a recipe book? I wouldn't know, I've never really used recipe books. You might be interested to know that, at least in France (maybe because it's a cuisine-obsessed country?), there are already tablets specially designed for kitchen use. The first one was, I believe, the rather expensive Qooq: http://www.fnac.com/Tablette-QooQ-V2-10-1-LED-Rouge/a3679528/w-4 More recently, Archos launched a more reasonably priced ChefPad: http://www.01net.com/editorial/595503/chefpad-la-tablette-archos-pour-les-amateurs-de-cuisine/ Best regards, MB --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 10:57:08 -0400 From: Daniel O'Donnell Subject: Re: 27.302 what difference a kitchen computer? In-Reply-To: <20130830071315.45EDA2FF2@digitalhumanities.org> We've had a dedicated kitchen computer for years--maybe a decade. It initially had two purposes: showing family pictures when not being used (a continuous loop screensaver) and settling dinner table arguments about etymologies, historical facts, etc. Recipe look up actually came later (before we remodeled the kitchen, the computer was beside the table, not the cooking area). Now it has acquired two other functions: recipe lookup and homework station. The children do a lot of homework writing there, I write most of my blog posts there, and my wife and I both tend to use it for teleconferences. In terms of your question about impact, one we've seen for sure is generational. Out kitchen computer now sits right above the cookbook shelf. I was going to show my daughter (born 1999 and solely captured on digital cameras) how to cook something and told her to grab the Joy of Cooking to look it up. She asked why anybody would /print/ recipes. Although she sometimes pulls our leg on digital things, I think this time she was genuinely confused: it had simply not occurred to her that recipes might come in books. Have you seen the various holders for iPads in the Kitchen? A store near us sells ones in the shape of a hand. In two sizes: one for the iPad, the other for the iPhone. -- --- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 46A79303A; Sat, 31 Aug 2013 10:08:35 +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 149933032; Sat, 31 Aug 2013 10:08:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D239E3023; Sat, 31 Aug 2013 10:08:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130831080823.D239E3023@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 10:08:23 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.304 historical documents on project 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 304. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 13:01:13 -0600 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Historical Documents for Project Management Dear Humanists, Can anyone suggest interesting readings for a course on project management in the digital humanities. I am not looking so much for contemporary advice on how to manage projects - there is certainly plenty of that. I am looking for documents of historical importance in the evolution of our thinking about project management or documents important to the ways the digital humanities has come to think of itself as involved in projects. Some examples I have found include "The Mythical Man-Month" essay by Fred Brooks. Another is "The Project Manager" by Paul Gaddis which was published in 1959 in The Harvard Business Review. To be frank I would welcome any suggestions that are well written, accessible to graduate students, and which promote reflection on project management and its discourses. 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1017A303F; Sat, 31 Aug 2013 10:09:36 +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 9A4E63033; Sat, 31 Aug 2013 10:09:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 401EE3031; Sat, 31 Aug 2013 10:09:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130831080926.401EE3031@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 10:09:26 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.305 job at UW-Milwaukee X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 305. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 12:49:55 -0500 (CDT) From: Matthew Russell Subject: Digital Projects Specialist (UW-Milwaukee) position In-Reply-To: <1459771441.885248.1377884701580.JavaMail.root@uwm.edu> Dear DH friends- The UW-Milwaukee Library is looking for a Digital Projects Specialist to work within the Digitization department. As the description states, there will be very close ties to an emerging digital humanities initiative housed in the Libray and so an exciting opportunity to help develop a DH lab from the ground up: "UWM Libraries seeks an energetic, knowledgeable, and technologically capable individual to serve as a Digital Projects Specialist. This position supports resource and digital collection development in the Library’s Digitization Department. The department has been building digital collections drawn from the Library’s unique collections in Archives, Special Collections and the American Geographical Society Library since 2001. Going forward, the department will be developing tools and exploring new modes of discovery and interactivity, such as geographic discovery, contextual materials, and social tools, and working closely with campus initiatives in digital scholarship, including the digital humanities." https://jobs.uwm.edu/postings/15733 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2BA23303B; Sun, 1 Sep 2013 09:53:55 +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 557E6303F; Sun, 1 Sep 2013 09:53:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4654D2D16; Sun, 1 Sep 2013 09:53:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130901075341.4654D2D16@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2013 09:53:41 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.306 kitchen computer X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 306. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 09:27:39 -0400 From: "Dr. Robert Delius Royar PhD" Subject: Re: 27.303 kitchen computer In-Reply-To: <20130831080721.9773B10FF@digitalhumanities.org> On 31 Aug 2013, at 04:07, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 10:39:58 +0200 > From: "Jan Rybicki" > Subject: RE: [Humanist] 27.302 what difference a kitchen computer? > In-Reply-To: <20130830071315.45EDA2FF2@digitalhumanities.org> > ... > Yet I think our kitchen computers do not deserve that name yet. They only > will when the prophesy comes true from one of my childhood favourites, a > 1966 Polish book for kids by Zbigniew Przyrowski, "W krainie jutra" (In the > land of tomorrow), a nicely illustrated depiction of everyday life in the > near future (early 21st century); ironically, published in the drab and > backward reality of Central-Eastern-European Communism, many of the > illustrations showcase technical goodies already available in the degenerate > West, such as gigantic microwave ovens. But there is a computer in the > kitchen of the family in the book. BTW, the kitchen is round, and the mother > - who else! - moves around it on a self-propelled stool. And she uses a > computer to plan her meals AND shop; selected recipes are digitally > converted into shopping lists and the ingredients find their way into the > fridge (it is not exactly explained how); the computer then controls the > various "electronic ovens" to boil, sautee or roast the products just right > (again, the way they get from the fridge to the oven is unclear). > It is interesting that it seems we have gone further in modifying gender > roles than in digitizing cooking. I thought I had seen this Wikipedia article mentioned on this list, but perhaps it was in the New York Times Magazine's article about inventions that did not reach their apparent potential. The Honeywell Kitchen Computer H318 is described briefly on Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell_316. That article references one in Dr Dobb's http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/if-you-cant-stand-the-coding-stay-out-of/184404040 At http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/if-you-cant-stand-the-coding-stay-out-of/184404040#spec we find the 1969 specification. The first installation of a similar device (in an engineer's home) appears to be ca. 1966 (same Dr. Dobb's article). Note the links above likely wrapped oddly. Here they are in order on separate lines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell_316 http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/if-you-cant-stand-the-coding-stay-out-of/184404040 http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/if-you-cant-stand-the-coding-stay-out-of/184404040#spec -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4332E304F; Sun, 1 Sep 2013 09:55:44 +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 38BEE3049; Sun, 1 Sep 2013 09:55:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C8397303F; Sun, 1 Sep 2013 09:55:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130901075531.C8397303F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2013 09:55:31 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.307 historical documents on project 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 307. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Susan Ford (14) Subject: RE: 27.304 historical documents on project management? [2] From: "Alvarado, Rafael (rca2t)" (51) Subject: Re: 27.304 historical documents on project management? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 09:09:45 +0000 From: Susan Ford Subject: RE: 27.304 historical documents on project management? In-Reply-To: <20130831080823.D239E3023@digitalhumanities.org> "Parkinson's Law" by C Northcote Parkinson 1958 is important for (public) administration and hence project management. Wikipedia, at least, describes it as a best seller and I remember its being on the bookshelf of my father - a career public servant and earnest man - who recommended it to me (all his daughters ended up in the Public Service) saying that he did not think the principle had quite taken over in the APS yet. Edward Tufte "Visual Explanations" 1997 contains a devastating analysis of the sometimes pernicious effects of software on thinking, in this case of MS Powerpoitn on engineering presentations for the NASA 1986 Challenger project. Susan PhD candidate, Classics, Australian National University --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 14:11:53 +0000 From: "Alvarado, Rafael (rca2t)" Subject: Re: 27.304 historical documents on project management? In-Reply-To: <20130831080823.D239E3023@digitalhumanities.org> Geoff, I would consider selections from Eric Raymond's _The Cathedral and the Bazaar_ and Paul Graham's _Hackers and Painters_. Although these two collections are not about project management per se -- they speak more broadly to what I'd call the social organization of software development -- I think they would be nice additions to your syllabus, even if each is responsible for some cliched thinking about software development and the hacking life. Each author speaks to many of the same issues that face DH coders and coding projects, and I find them very sympathetic to the synthetic project that underlies the digital humanities. They are historically significant as well. Raf Rafael C. Alvarado, Ph.D. Associate Director, SHANTI University of Virginia Alderman Library, Room 323 434 982 1029 | rca2t@virginia.edu On 8/31/13 4:08 AM, "Humanist Discussion Group" wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 304. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 13:01:13 -0600 > From: Geoffrey Rockwell > Subject: Historical Documents for Project Management > >Dear Humanists, > >Can anyone suggest interesting readings for a course on project >management in the digital humanities. I am not looking so much for >contemporary advice on how to manage projects - there is certainly plenty >of that. I am looking for documents of historical importance in the >evolution of our thinking about project management or documents important >to the ways the digital humanities has come to think of itself as >involved in projects. > >Some examples I have found include "The Mythical Man-Month" essay by Fred >Brooks. Another is "The Project Manager" by Paul Gaddis which was >published in 1959 in The Harvard Business Review. > >To be frank I would welcome any suggestions that are well written, >accessible to graduate students, and which promote reflection on project >management and its discourses. > >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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5E8FB3046; Mon, 2 Sep 2013 07:44:13 +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 7A0EE3043; Mon, 2 Sep 2013 07:44:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 043BC303D; Mon, 2 Sep 2013 07:44:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130902054401.043BC303D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 07:44:00 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.308 historical documents on project 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 308. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Martin Mueller (122) Subject: Re: 27.307 historical documents on project management [2] From: James Smithies (7) Subject: RE: 27.304 historical documents on project management? [3] From: Alberto Santiago Martinez (111) Subject: Re: 27.307 historical documents on project management --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2013 17:04:04 +0000 From: Martin Mueller Subject: Re: 27.307 historical documents on project management In-Reply-To: <20130901075531.C8397303F@digitalhumanities.org> Perhaps Fawlty Towers should have a place in the bibliography of how (not) to manage projects. >> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 304. >> Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London >> www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >> Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >> >> >> >> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 13:01:13 -0600 >> From: Geoffrey Rockwell >> Subject: Historical Documents for Project Management >> >>Dear Humanists, >> >>Can anyone suggest interesting readings for a course on project >>management in the digital humanities. I am not looking so much for >>contemporary advice on how to manage projects - there is certainly plenty >>of that. I am looking for documents of historical importance in the >>evolution of our thinking about project management or documents important >>to the ways the digital humanities has come to think of itself as >>involved in projects. >> >>Some examples I have found include "The Mythical Man-Month" essay by Fred >>Brooks. Another is "The Project Manager" by Paul Gaddis which was >>published in 1959 in The Harvard Business Review. >> >>To be frank I would welcome any suggestions that are well written, >>accessible to graduate students, and which promote reflection on project >>management and its discourses. >> >>Yours, >> >>Geoffrey Rockwell --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2013 23:33:34 +0000 From: James Smithies Subject: RE: 27.304 historical documents on project management? In-Reply-To: <20130901075531.C8397303F@digitalhumanities.org> http://agilemanifesto.org/ is an important document. W. Edwards Deming's Out of the Crisis (1986) springs to mind, for its impact on contemporary (and perhaps especially neo-liberal) management generally, and various lean production methods imported into software development (including Agile). It isn't focused on project management per se, but provides important context. I could add that the tension between management methods like Deming's, which are tightly connected to the neoliberal economic model, and more 'democratic' models like Agile offer a world of interpretative opportunities. Questions like 'What implications are there in using management methods derived from Deming in an academic context?' and 'What project management methods are most appropriate to DH and why?' spring to mind, as does Alan Liu's The Laws of Cool. - James --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 04:05:54 +0000 From: Alberto Santiago Martinez Subject: Re: 27.307 historical documents on project management In-Reply-To: <20130901075531.C8397303F@digitalhumanities.org> The agile manifesto is from the 90s deffinitely impacted how digital projects are carried 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id ED5023053; Mon, 2 Sep 2013 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 76CE53046; Mon, 2 Sep 2013 07:44:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9418E304A; Mon, 2 Sep 2013 07:44:39 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130902054439.9418E304A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 07:44:39 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.309 events: palaeography 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. 27, No. 309. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2013 17:19:27 +0000 From: "Brookes, Stewart" Subject: Programme for DigiPal Symposium: Monday 16th September 2013 Dear all, The full programme for the DigiPal Symposium at King's College London is now online. This year's theme is the computer-assisted study of medieval manuscripts, and we have a range of papers covering language, manual and automatic script analysis, on-line curation, music notation, image retrieval and palaeography (of course!). Speakers include Sarah Biggs, David Ganz, Julian Harrison, Jane Roberts, Lambert Schomaker, Peter Stokes, Dominique Stutzmann and Tessa Webber. Places are disappearing rather rapidly, so if you'd like to attend, then please send an email to "digipal [at] kcl.ac.uk http://kcl.ac.uk/ ", including your details as you would like them to appear on your name badge. Oh, and do let us know if you are vegetarian. Full details here: http://digipal.eu/blog/programme2013/ Looking forward to seeing you later this month, Stewart Brookes and Peter Stokes -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D576A3059; Mon, 2 Sep 2013 07:46:04 +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 17A7C3055; Mon, 2 Sep 2013 07:46:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3A6C63049; Mon, 2 Sep 2013 07:45:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130902054558.3A6C63049@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 07:45:58 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.310 pubs: big data for social analysis 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. 27, No. 310. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2013 08:13:52 +0000 From: Erik Cambria Subject: CFP: Elsevier KBS special issue on Big Data for Social Analysis Submissions are invited for an Elsevier Knowledge-Based Systems special issue on Big Data for Social Analysis. RATIONALE The textual information available on the Web can be broadly grouped into two main categories: facts and opinions. Facts are objective expressions about entities or events. Opinions are usually subjective expressions that describe people's sentiments, appraisals, or feelings towards such entities and events. Much of the existing research on textual information processing has been focused on mining and retrieval of factual information, e.g., text classification, text recognition, text clustering, and many other text mining and natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Little work had been done on the processing of opinions until only recently. One of the main reasons for the lack of study on opinions is the fact that there was little opinionated text available before the recent passage from a read-only to a read-write Web. Before that, in fact, when people needed to make a decision, they typically asked for opinions from friends and family. Similarly, when organizations wanted to find the opinions or sentiments of the general public about their products and services, they had to specifically ask people by conducting opinion polls and surveys. However, with the advent of the Social Web, the way people express their views and opinions has dramatically changed. They can now post reviews of products at merchant sites and express their views on almost anything in Internet forums, discussion groups, and blogs. Such online word-of-mouth behavior represents new and measurable sources of information with many practical applications. Nonetheless, finding opinion sources and monitoring them can be a formidable task because there are a large number of diverse sources and each source may also have a huge volume of opinionated text. In many cases, in fact, opinions are hidden in long forum posts and blogs. It is extremely time-consuming for a human reader to find relevant sources, extract related sentences with opinions, read them, summarize them, and organize them into usable forms. Thus, automated opinion discovery and summarization systems are needed. Big social data analysis grows out of this need and it includes disciplines such as social network analysis, multimedia management, social media analytics, trend discovery, and opinion mining. The opportunity to capture the opinions of the general public about social events, political movements, company strategies, marketing campaigns, and product preferences, in particular, has raised growing interest both within the scientific community. All the opinion-mining tasks, however, are very challenging. Our understanding and knowledge of the problem and its solution are still limited. The main reason is that it is a NLP task, and NLP has no easy problems. Another reason may be due to our popular ways of doing research. So far, in fact, researchers have probably relied too much on traditional machine-learning algorithms. Some of the most effective machine-learning algorithms, in fact, produce no human understandable results such that, although they may achieve improved accuracy, little about how and why is known, apart from some superficial knowledge gained in the manual feature engineering process. All such approaches, moreover, rely on syntactical structure of text, which is far from the way human mind processes natural language. TOPICS Articles are thus invited in area of knowledge-based systems for big social data analysis. The broader context of the Special Issue comprehends artificial intelligence, knowledge representation and reasoning, natural language processing, and data mining. Topics include, but are not limited to: • Knowledge-based systems for big social data analysis • Biologically inspired opinion mining • Concept-level opinion and sentiment analysis • Knowledge-based systems for social media retrieval and analysis • Knowledge-based systems for social media marketing • Social network modeling, simulation, and visualization • Semantic multi-dimensional scaling for sentiment analysis • Knowledge-based systems for patient opinion mining • Sentic computing • Multilingual and multimodal sentiment analysis • Multimodal fusion for continuous interpretation of semantics • Knowledge-based systems for time-evolving sentiment tracking • Knowledge-based systems for cognitive agent-based computing • Human-agent, -computer, and -robot interaction • Domain adaptation for sentiment classification • Affective common-sense reasoning • Knowledge-based systems for user profiling and personalization The Special Issue also welcomes papers on specific application domains of knowledge-based systems for big social data analysis, e.g., influence networks, customer experience management, intelligent user interfaces, multimedia management, computer-mediated human-human communication, enterprise feedback management, surveillance, art. TIMEFRAME November 1st, 2013: Paper submission deadline December 1st, 2013: Notification of acceptance January 1st, 2013: Final manuscript due March/April, 2014: Publication SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS The Special Issue will consist of papers on novel methods and approaches that further develop and apply knowledge-based techniques in the context of natural language processing and big social data analysis. Some papers may survey various aspects of the topic. The balance between these will be adjusted to maximize the issue's impact. All articles are expected to successfully negotiate the standard review procedures for Elsevier Knowledge-Based Systems. Contributions are invited in the form of original high-quality research and review papers (preferably no more than 20 double line spaced manuscript pages, including tables and figures), following the formatting style for Elsevier. A submission that has already been published in conference proceedings has to be submitted as more than 45% update in comparison to the published version. The title page should not include name, affiliation, and e-mail address of the authors. All paper has to be submitted through thejournal electronic submission EES via the dedicated special issue. ORGANIZERS • Erik Cambria, National University of Singapore (Singapore) • Haixun Wang, Google Research (USA) • Bebo White, Stanford 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E8E583053; Tue, 3 Sep 2013 08:13:00 +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 2DD5B304A; Tue, 3 Sep 2013 08:12:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3FB473044; Tue, 3 Sep 2013 08:12:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130903061249.3FB473044@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 08:12:49 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.311 historical documents on project 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. 27, No. 311. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Seth van Hooland (47) Subject: Re: 27.308 historical documents on project management [2] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (17) Subject: Fawlty Towers --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 08:55:15 +0200 From: Seth van Hooland Subject: Re: 27.308 historical documents on project management In-Reply-To: <20130902054401.043BC303D@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Geoffrey, I have used "The management myth: why the experts keep getting it wrong" by Matthew Stewart as an easy to read eye-opener for my students on the topic of management and consultancy. Stewart combines a historical overview of management paradigms, combined with (often hilarious) examples of his own consultancy experiences. This short review puts it in a good context http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2009/10/12/091012crat_atlarge_lepore. 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 > > >>> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 304. >>> Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London >>> www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >>> Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >>> >>> >>> >>> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 13:01:13 -0600 >>> From: Geoffrey Rockwell >>> Subject: Historical Documents for Project Management >>> >>> Dear Humanists, >>> >>> Can anyone suggest interesting readings for a course on project >>> management in the digital humanities. I am not looking so much for >>> contemporary advice on how to manage projects - there is certainly plenty >>> of that. I am looking for documents of historical importance in the >>> evolution of our thinking about project management or documents important >>> to the ways the digital humanities has come to think of itself as >>> involved in projects. >>> >>> Some examples I have found include "The Mythical Man-Month" essay by Fred >>> Brooks. Another is "The Project Manager" by Paul Gaddis which was >>> published in 1959 in The Harvard Business Review. >>> >>> To be frank I would welcome any suggestions that are well written, >>> accessible to graduate students, and which promote reflection on project >>> management and its discourses. >>> >>> Yours, >>> >>> Geoffrey Rockwell --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 12:35:37 -0600 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Fawlty Towers In-Reply-To: <20130902054401.043BC303D@digitalhumanities.org> Martin Mueller mentioned that "Perhaps Fawlty Towers should have a place in the bibliography of how (not) to manage projects." I agree completely and I am reminded that John Cleese was one of the founders of Video Arts which has released some funny management videos starring Cleese, Ricky Gervais, Hugh Laurie and others. The problem with these is their cost, though bits have made it onto YouTube like an older clip from "Meetings Bloody Meetings" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWYnVt-umSA While I am at it and associating things, another work about information management is the 1957 movie "Desk Set" with Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn which deals with the introduction of computers into a research department of a broadcasting company. Here is my transcription of an exchange from the movie that touches on electronic texts: Richard Sumner (Tracy): The purpose of this machine, of course, is to free the worker… Bunny Watson (Hepburn): You can say that again… Sumner: ... to free the worker from the routine and repetitive tasks and liberate his time for more important work. For example, you see all those books there ... and the ones up there? Well, every fact in them has been fed into Emmy. What do you have there? Operator: This is Hamlet. Boss: That's Hamlet? Operator: Yes the entire text. Sumner: In code, of course ... Now these little cards create electronic impulses which are accepted and retained by the machine so that in the future, if anyone calls up and wants a quotation from Hamlet the research worker types it into the machine here, Emmi goes to work, and the answer comes out here. We might ask whether machines have freed academic workers and whether it freed them of their jobs too. How have computers changed the administration and staffing of the university? Note: Canadian readers may recognize Bunny Watson as the name of a CBC radio program that ran until 2006. The program was named after Hepburn's character Bunny Watson - a librarian who "associates many things with many things". Yours, by association, 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B6D5F305A; Tue, 3 Sep 2013 08:14:45 +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 2DFF03054; Tue, 3 Sep 2013 08:14:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4483F3052; Tue, 3 Sep 2013 08:14:35 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130903061435.4483F3052@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 08:14:35 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.312 events: quantum physics & consciousness X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 312. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 18:41:59 +0100 From: federica perazzini Subject: New Humanities Seminar Series: Quantum Physics' contribution to the idea of consciousness, a culturally in-between hypothesis Quantum Physics’ contribution to the idea of consciousness: a culturally in-between hypothesis The seminar will take place on Sept. 18th, room “Ignazio Ambrogio” at the University of Roma Tre (Via del Valco San Paolo). Works will be opened at 9.30 a.m. according to the following schedule: *Emilio Del Giudice*: Quantum Field Theory and the physics of living Matter. An hypothesis on psychic phenomena* * *Mauro Bergonzi*: Consciousness and Identity into Indian Philosophy *Massimo Marraffa*: Consciousness Remnants** Each talk will last about 30 min. After the break, a 20 minutes clip from Amit Goswami’s video “The Quantum Activist” (http://www.quantumactivist.com/) will be shown. Next, a plenary discussion session will be opened by Michele Lucantoni (researcher for the *New Humanities group*) and chaired by Domenico Fiormonte. The seminar will close around 1 p.m. Other participants to the discussion will be Paolo De Santis, Pier Luigi Luisi, Antonio Olivieri, Viola Padovani and all the members the *New Humanities*research group. Thinking about a sort of high road to investigate the phenomenon of consciousness is an enterprise that constraints those willing to face, with reliance, the finitude. The tools of classical science show a natural fragility when approaching a reality that lacks of material precise extents. In this way, the attempt to find out the object of consciousness transforms what actually allows such an operation - the experience of being conscious, which is also the objective of the study – into an organic and disembodied demonstration of any interest at all. The work of Amit Goswami and his interpretation of quantum mechanics seem to provide us with a revolutionary possibility for understanding and adequately theorizing the universe of human consciousness without renouncing to the methods of science corpus. Goswami’s speculations will be the starting point for a comparison between quantum physics, cognitive science and the great traditions of Eastern thought; these latter always engaged in developing rigorous paths of practices and reflections about the conscious existence. The protagonists of this new and unprecedented dialogue will be Emilio Del Giudice, Mauro Bergonzi and Massimo Marraffa. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AE9C8303D; Wed, 4 Sep 2013 07:11:25 +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 003CE2FFE; Wed, 4 Sep 2013 07:11:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2BF922FA1; Wed, 4 Sep 2013 07:11:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130904051112.2BF922FA1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 07:11:12 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.313 historical documents on project 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. 27, No. 313. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Joris van Zundert (29) Subject: Re: 27.311 historical documents on project management [2] From: Amanda French (48) Subject: Re: 27.308 historical documents on project management --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 12:09:52 +0200 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Re: 27.311 historical documents on project management In-Reply-To: <20130903061249.3FB473044@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Geoffrey, Just to add to what was said about the Agile Manifesto… That manifesto was a major backlash to the ubiquity of 'Waterfall' style project management methods rising in the 70s and 80s. 'Waterfall' being the illusion that projects will be nicely planned and managed in a single pass set of neat knowable steps towards a guaranteed result. Experience has it that no such projects nor planning exist. There is some proof that the popularity of waterfall models is actually due to a massive and critique-less misinterpretation of a paper by Winston Royce: "Managing Large Software Systems", Proceedings of IEEE Westcon, 1970. Craig Larman in "Agile & Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide" (Addison-Wesley, 2004) has an interesting account on that infamous misinterpretation, and does justice to Royce's actual inclination towards more flexible management principles (pp.102–107). 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. * --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 14:49:16 -0400 From: Amanda French Subject: Re: 27.308 historical documents on project management In-Reply-To: Hi Geoffrey et al., The project management workshop that Tom Scheinfeldt taught a few times at THATCamp has one of the most detailed set of collaborative notes taken in Google Docs that I've ever seen: "Project Management BootCamp," https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uofGfhCDpu2DK1bKstkEqyK2hwbV4PNy4S-PmfPIWvk/edit?usp=sharing See also a shorter and narrower document titled "The Four P's of Digital Project Outreach" written by CHNM's Sheila Brennan for the recent One Week One Tool institute: http://www.lotfortynine.org/2013/08/four-ps-of-digital-project-outreach/ When I was in college, I worked at a department store, and we were shown one of those John Cleese management videos, all about how to give good customer service. It has definitely stuck with me, and I wouldn't swear that it hasn't affected my work on THATCamp ... Cheers, Amanda Amanda L. French, Ph.D. http://amandafrench.net Email: amanda@amandafrench.net Cell: 720-530-7515 Twitter: @amandafrench Skype: amandafrenchphd AIM: habitrailgirl >> >> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 13:01:13 -0600 >> From: Geoffrey Rockwell >> Subject: Historical Documents for Project Management >> >> Dear Humanists, >> >> Can anyone suggest interesting readings for a course on project >> management in the digital humanities. I am not looking so much for >> contemporary advice on how to manage projects - there is certainly plenty >> of that. I am looking for documents of historical importance in the >> evolution of our thinking about project management or documents important >> to the ways the digital humanities has come to think of itself as >> involved in projects. >> >> Some examples I have found include "The Mythical Man-Month" essay by Fred >> Brooks. Another is "The Project Manager" by Paul Gaddis which was >> published in 1959 in The Harvard Business Review. >> >> To be frank I would welcome any suggestions that are well written, >> accessible to graduate students, and which promote reflection on project >> management and its discourses. >> >> 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6D2683056; Wed, 4 Sep 2013 07:13:03 +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 A0D463043; Wed, 4 Sep 2013 07:12:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 27D86302A; Wed, 4 Sep 2013 07:12:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130904051255.27D86302A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 07:12:55 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.314 job at Indiana-Perdue; European PhD studentships & postdocs X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 314. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Alexander O'Connor (27) Subject: Job Posting: Eduworks [2] From: "Kelly, Jason" (13) Subject: Job Announcement: Digital Humanities Position at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 08:58:24 +0100 From: Alexander O'Connor Subject: Job Posting: Eduworks Announcing 12 PhD and 2 postdoc position vacancies as part of the EU-Funded FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network: EDUWORKS Coordinated by the University of Amsterdam, the EDUWORKS consortium aims to train the next generation of social and information scientists. Successful applicants will work in an international and interdisciplinary (Human Resource Management-Organizational Behavior, Learning Analytics, Labour Economics, Lifelong Learning, Sociology of Occupations, and Knowledge Management) research environment aimed at generating expertise on the topic of micro-, meso-, and macro-level matching processes between individual skills, educational outcomes and job requirements. Basic information · Positions o 2 PhD positions in Human Resource Management-Organizational Behavior (University of Amsterdam) o 1 PhD position in Learning Analytics (University of Amsterdam) o 2 Postdoc positions in Sociology of Occupations (University of Amsterdam) o 2 PhD positions in Lifelong Learning (Trinity College Dublin) o 4 PhD positions in Labour Economics (Central European University/University of Salamanca) o 3 PhD positions in Knowledge Management (Corvinno/Corvinus University of Budapest/ University of Siegen) · Successful applicants will receive a competitive salary · For specific details and the online application form see www.eduworks-network.eu [1] APPLICATION DEADLINE: OCTOBER 15TH 2013 23:59 CENTRAL EUROPEAN TIME -- Dr. Alexander O'Connor Knowledge & Data Engineering Group Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Alex.OConnor@scss.tcd.ie --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 22:04:26 +0000 From: "Kelly, Jason" Subject: Job Announcement: Digital Humanities Position at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis IN-LART13013 Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) IU School of Liberal Arts Department of History Start date: August 1, 2014 Title: Assistant Professor of History (Digital Humanities) The Department of History at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) seeks a tenure-track assistant or associate professor in Digital Humanities, to begin August 1, 2014. We are looking for a scholar with a strong academic background in historical research. Period and area of specialization are open. Ph.D. required by August 1, 2014. The successful candidate’s research should integrate the theoretical perspectives and digital tools of the evolving field of digital humanities and demonstrate the potential to produce significant scholarship. While technical skills, such as programming or expertise in database design would be beneficial, we are looking for candidates who have a firm understanding of the critical application of digital tools, the desire to continuously develop their technical expertise, and the ability to collaborate with specialists across the disciplines in order to build digital humanities capacity on campus. The IUPUI campus as well as Indiana University offer significant research support opportunities for digital scholarship within and across disciplines. Teaching responsibilities include history survey courses and upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in digital humanities and the candidate’s fields of expertise. We seek a candidate interested in working with graduate students, the majority of which are in our nationally recognized MA Program in Public History. IUPUI is one of the Midwest’s premier urban universities, with more than 30,000 students enrolled on a campus adjacent to downtown Indianapolis. The entire metropolitan area counts nearly 1.8 million residents and hosts museums, historical organizations, libraries, archives, and government agencies (many within walking distance of campus). The department and the public history program enjoy long-standing partnerships with many of these organizations. Our nationally-ranked programs reflect our institution’s traditions in interdisciplinary cooperation, innovative thinking, and community partnerships. The successful candidate will join a department with a strong record of community engagement and public scholarship. Please send a letter of application, which includes evidence of digital scholarship, curriculum vitae, and three current letters of recommendation. Review of applications will begin on October 1, 2013, and will continue until the position is filled. Applications and letters of recommendation must be submitted electronically to the IUPUI Department of History, history@iupui.edu. IUPUI is an EEO/AA employer, M/F/D, and encourages applications from women and minority candidates. Individuals who require a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in the application process must provide sufficient advanced notice to Ms. Amy Schramm, 425 University Blvd., CA 504L, Indianapolis, IN 46202, (317) 274-5840. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7ABC73058; Wed, 4 Sep 2013 07:14:01 +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 39C76305C; Wed, 4 Sep 2013 07:13:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CADA93056; Wed, 4 Sep 2013 07:13:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130904051352.CADA93056@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 07:13:52 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.315 events: books and reading X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 315. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 01:37:47 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Event (NYU, 26-27 Sept) -- Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age: E/Merging Reading, Writing, and Research Practices Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age: E/Merging Reading, Writing, and Research Practices 26-27 September 2013. Humanities Initiative at New York University 20 Cooper Square, Fifth floor [at East 5th St] New York, NY 10003 Registration at http://www.regonline.ca/inke2013. Learn more about INKE at http://inke.ca. Digital technology is fundamentally altering the way we relate to writing, reading, and the human record itself. The pace of that change has created a gap between core social/cultural practices that depend on stable reading and writing environments and the new kinds of digital artefacts – electronic books being just one type of many – that must sustain those practices now and into the future. This gathering explores research foundations pertinent to understanding new practices and emerging media, specifically focusing on work in textual and extra-textual method, in itself and via exemplar, leading toward [1] theorizing the transmission of culture in pre- and post-electronic media, [2] documenting the facets of how people experience information as readers and writers, [3] designing new kinds of interfaces and artifacts that afford new reading abilities, [4] conceptualizing the issues necessary to provide information to these new reading and communicative environments, [5] reflecting on interdisciplinary team research strategies pertinent to work in the area, and beyond. Presentations and discussion address these and other issues in relation to emerging / transforming (digital) infrastructures, in regional, national, and international contexts. --- Draft Schedule --- Thursday 26 September Session 1, Plenary Session and Reception. 4.00pm-6.00 pm. 1. Lisa Gitelman (New York U) 2. Bob Stein (IF:Book) Friday 27 September Session 2, Plenary Session. 9.00am-10.30 pm. 3. Susan Brown (U Guelph) 4. Stan Ruecker (IIT Institute of Design) and Gerry Derksen (Winthrop U) Session 3, BoF-style: Reading, Writing. 10.45am-12.00pm. 1. “Readers Read, Readers Write: A Methodology for The Study of Reading Practices in Media Convergence.” Élika Ortega (U Western Ontario), Javier de la Rosa (U Western Ontario), and Juan Luis Suárez (U Western Ontario). 2. “Unlocking the digital crypt: An exploratory framework for cryptographic reading and writing.” Quinn DuPont (U Toronto). 3. “Ways of Reading, Models for Text, and the Usefulness of Dead People.” Yin Liu (U Saskatchewan). 4. “’In a book that all may read’: Contemplating E-pubs at the William Blake Archive.” Ashley Reed (UNC Chapel Hill). 5. “Reading what others read: Methods and consequences of mining annotations and scraping social media for what to read.” John Simpson (U Alberta) and the INKE Research Group. 6. “’All data is credit data’; or, on Close Reading as a Reciprocal Process in Digital Knowledge Environments.” John Hunter (Bucknell U). 7. “Insights and On-sites: Examining e-Book Usage Data in Ontario University Libraries.” Ravit H. David (U Toronto) and Klara Maidenberg (U Toronto). Session 4, BoF-style: Modeling, Prototyping. 1.30pm-2.45pm. 8. “Touch Here to Begin: Paper Interfaces and Legible Circuits.” Matthew Wizinsky (UIC Innovation Center). 9. "Re/collections: From Books to Blogs." Ethna D. Lay (Hofstra U). 10. “Situating the Topos (or Place) of Topic Modeling.” Collin Jennings (New York U). 11. “Exploding, Centralizing and Reimagining Critical Scholarship through the NewRadial Prototype.” Jon Saklofske (Acadia U) and the INKE Modeling and Prototyping team. 12. “Visualizing Knowledge Networks: The Glass Cast Prototype.” Ernesto Peña (U British Columbia), Teresa Dobson (U British Columbia), and the INKE Research Group. 13. “Prototyping Personas for Open, Networked Peer Review.” Nina Belojevic (U Victoria), Jentery Sayers (U Victoria), Alex Christie (U Victoria), and the INKE Research Group. 14. “The Pace of Academic Prototyping: The Case of the DTOC.” Nadine Adelaar (U Alberta), Susan Brown (U Guelph), Teresa Dobson (U British Columbia), Ruth Knechtel (U Alberta), Andrew MacDonald, (McMaster U), Brent Nelson (U Saskatchewan), Ernesto Peña (U British Columbia), Milena Radzikowska (Mount Royal U), Stan Ruecker (IIT Institute of Design), Geoff G. Roeder (U British Columbia), Stéfan Sinclair (McGill U), Jennifer Windsor (U Alberta), and the INKE Research Group. Session 5, BoF-style: Text, Crowd, Collaboration. 3.15pm-4.15pm. 15. “Capturing the Visual Interpretation of Non-Textual Information.” Milena Radzikowska (Mt Royal U). 16. “Curating Scholarly Commentary in the Age of Google.” Sarah Neville (West Virginia University). 17. “Crowdsourcing Literary Theory: The Brown Stocking and He Do the Police in Different Voices.” Adam Hammond (U Toronto), with Graeme Hirst (U Toronto) and Julian Brooke (U Toronto). 18. “Call and Response: The Social Edition in Community Context.” Constance Crompton (U British Columbia, Okanagan) and William Bowen (U Toronto Scarborough). 19. “Social Knowledge Creation and the Humanities.” Alyssa Arbuckle (U Victoria) and Matthew Hiebert (U Victoria), with Nina Belojevic, Shaun Wong, Ray Siemens, Alex Christie, Jon Saklofske, Jentery Sayers, Derek Siemens and the INKE and ETCL Research Groups. 20. "Building and Sustaining Long-term Collaboration – Lessons at the INKE Mid-way Mark." Lynne Siemens (U Victoria). Session 6: Closing. 4.15pm. 21. Ray Siemens (U Victoria) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2CA453060; Thu, 5 Sep 2013 07:09:09 +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 542B93055; Thu, 5 Sep 2013 07:09:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 380DA304B; Thu, 5 Sep 2013 07:08:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130905050858.380DA304B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 07:08:58 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.316 historical documents on project 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. 27, No. 316. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 15:04:12 -0500 From: Erik Hanson Subject: Re: 27.313 historical documents on project management In-Reply-To: <20130904051112.2BF922FA1@digitalhumanities.org> Conrad Weisert (http://www.idinews.com/CHW.html) has been involved in the conversation about how to manage software projects since he worked on OS/360. I got to know Mr. Weisert as he does PM training for universities and other institutions in Chicago. He's ... not enamored with notions such as Agile, but mostly, to my understanding, because he feels that "waterfall" is either a smear term or an expression that shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how folks had previously been trying to manage projects. Mr. Weisert wrote his thoughts on the subject down back in 2003 here: http://www.idinews.com/waterfall.html . Mr. Weisert also maintains a website with syllabi, etc., for his work at Loyola Chicago at http://webpages.cs.luc.edu/~cweisert/ . On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 12:11 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 313. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: Joris van Zundert > (29) > Subject: Re: 27.311 historical documents on project management > > [2] From: Amanda French > (48) > Subject: Re: 27.308 historical documents on project management > > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 12:09:52 +0200 > From: Joris van Zundert > Subject: Re: 27.311 historical documents on project management > In-Reply-To: <20130903061249.3FB473044@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Dear Geoffrey, > > Just to add to what was said about the Agile Manifesto… That manifesto was > a major backlash to the ubiquity of 'Waterfall' style project management > methods rising in the 70s and 80s. 'Waterfall' being the illusion that > projects will be nicely planned and managed in a single pass set of > neat knowable steps towards a guaranteed result. Experience has it that > no such projects nor planning exist. > > There is some proof that the popularity of waterfall models is actually due > to a massive and critique-less misinterpretation of a paper by Winston > Royce: "Managing Large Software Systems", Proceedings of IEEE Westcon, > 1970. Craig Larman in "Agile & Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide" > (Addison-Wesley, 2004) has an interesting account on that infamous > misinterpretation, and does justice to Royce's actual inclination towards > more flexible management principles (pp.102–107). > > 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 211A23067; Thu, 5 Sep 2013 07:10:32 +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 0C2F3305C; Thu, 5 Sep 2013 07:10:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 72B3B3056; Thu, 5 Sep 2013 07:10:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130905051021.72B3B3056@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 07:10:21 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.317 design and beliefs X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 317. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 10:39:55 -0400 (EDT) From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Design Culture and beliefs about technology In-Reply-To: <20130904051112.2BF922FA1@digitalhumanities.org> Willard Given the recent thread on project management, subscribers to Humanist may be interested in a related topic about design culture posted by Anne Galloway. The following observations are particularly acute. http://www.designculturelab.org/2013/03/31/5-things-about-ubiquitous-computing-that-make-me-nervous/ 1. Technological determinism & defeatism Or, the cultural belief that technological development and progress is inevitable, and we have to adapt. 2. Technological solutionism Or, the cultural belief that technology is the best solution to life'’s problems. 3. Quantification imperatives Or, the cultural belief that everything can and should be measured in numbers, and that everyday life would be better if all our decisions were based on these data. 4. Connection & sharing imperatives Or, the cultural belief that everyday life would be better if more information was transmissible and accessible to people. 5. Convenience & efficiency imperatives Or, the cultural belief that people would be better off if there were more technologies to make daily life more convenient, and common tasks more efficient. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 071D1304A; Fri, 6 Sep 2013 09:37:36 +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 6A4BA3031; Fri, 6 Sep 2013 09:37:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BE8E13019; Fri, 6 Sep 2013 09:37:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130906073726.BE8E13019@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 09:37:26 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.318 call for proposals: DH2014 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 318. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 11:41:08 +0100 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Call for Proposals for Digital Humanities 2014 Call for Proposals Digital Humanities 2014 (English version - other languages available at http://dh2014.org/call-for-paper/ Paper/Poster/Panel deadline: 11:59pm GMT on Friday, November 1st 2013 Workshop proposal deadline: 11:59pm GMT on Friday, 21st February 2014 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 2013. Presenters will be notified of acceptance by 7th February 2014. Workshop and pre-conference tutorial proposals are due at midnight GMT on 21st February 2014, with notice of acceptance by 17th March 2014. An electronic submission form will be available on the conference site at the beginning of October 2013: http://dh2014.org/. 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 Melissa Terras m.terras@ucl.ac.uk. 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) http://dh2014.org/call-for-paper/practical-information-for-workshops-and-tutorials-organization/ • 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 2014 (“Digital Cultural Empowerment”) will take place in Lausanne, a picturesque city of 330,000 people located on the shores of Lake of Geneva (Lac Léman) in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, 60 km northeast of Geneva, and 225 km southwest of Zurich. Situated in a wine-growing region, Lausanne is known for its medieval centre and Cathedral, scenery, and vibrant cultural scene. The conference is locally hosted by the University of Lausanne and the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. The two institutions share a vast and green campus by the Lake, and together host more than 20,000 students and approximately 800 professors. Each institution has its own Digital Humanities laboratory: The DHLAB (http://dhlab.epfl.ch) and the LADHUL (http://www.unil.ch/ladhul). They have conducted collaborative interdisciplinary research in this area for several years. 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 • Chair: Melissa Terras (EADH) • Vice Chair: Deb Verhoeven (aaDH) • John Bradley (EADH) • Jieh Hsiang (Centernet) • Jane Hunter (aaDH) • Aimée Morrison (CSDH/SCHN) • Dan O’Donnell (CSDH/SCHN) • Sarah Potvin (Centernet) • James Smithies (aaDH) • Takafumi Suzuki (JADH), • Tomoji Tabata (EADH) • Toru Tomabechi (JADH) • Glen Worthey (ACH) • Vika Zafrin (ACH) • Outgoing Chair: Bethany Nowviskie (ACH) ----------------- Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE CITP FHEA 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/ Twitter: @melissaterras _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2792B305E; Sat, 7 Sep 2013 08:04:17 +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 D7028302B; Sat, 7 Sep 2013 08:04:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 20284302A; Sat, 7 Sep 2013 08:03:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130907060359.20284302A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 08:03:58 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.319 job at Groningen X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 319. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 13:09:50 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: assistant professor, Groningen Assistant Professor Communication and Information Studies (1,0 fte) (213190E) http://www.rug.nl/about-us/work-with-us/job-opportunities/english-job-vacancies Organisation Since its foundation in 1614, the University of Groningen has enjoyed an international reputation as a dynamic and innovative center of higher education offering high-quality teaching and research. Balanced study and career paths in a wide variety of disciplines encourage the 27,000 students and researchers to develop their own individual talents. As one of the best research universities in Europe, joining forces with prestigious partner universities and networks, the University of Groningen is truly an international place of knowledge. Job description The faculty is looking for an Assistant Professor in the area of Computer communication (60% teaching, 40% research). Computer communication is one of the programmes of the Master Communication and Information Sciences. Computer communication focuses on the interaction between humans and computers, as well as the interaction between humans and organizations by means of computers. Qualifications The candidate must: have a PhD in Computer communication or a related field have experience both in teaching and research be able to teach in the Bachelor programme (courses like Introduction to computer communication, web design and social media) be able to teach in the Master programme Computer communication, including supervision of Master theses be an active researcher in the areas of Discourse, Communication and Computational linguistics be in possession of a Basic Teaching Qualification (BKO) or is prepared to acquire this qualification within a reasonable timeframe have good management capacities and organisational skills be willing to take up residence in or near Groningen. Conditions of employment The University of Groningen offers a salary dependent on qualifications and work experience of between € 3,259 and € 5,070 (CAO-NU, scale 11-12) gross per month for a full-time position. The appointment will initially be for one year. Before the end of the temporary appointment, there will be an assessment of performance based on established criteria including research and teaching qualifications. A positive appraisal will lead to a permanent position. Application You may apply for this position before 23 September 2013 Dutch local time by means of the application form (click on "Apply" below on the advertisement on the universities website). Interviews will be planned in the first week of October. Information For information you can contact: Dr G.J.M. van Noord, +31 50 3637811, g.j.m.van.noord@rug.nl Ms. C. Mast, +31 50 3635855, c.mast@rug.nl [Posted at the request of Professor John Nerbonne, j.nerbonne@rug.nl.] -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0ADD53063; Sat, 7 Sep 2013 08:04:32 +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 B69663056; Sat, 7 Sep 2013 08:04:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 92B2E304B; Sat, 7 Sep 2013 08:04:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130907060422.92B2E304B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 08:04:22 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.320 call for submissions: 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 320. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 10:50:53 -0500 From: Amanda Gailey Subject: CFP: Scholarly Editing This is just a brief reminder that there is still time if you wish to submit to *Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing* for the 2014 issue. We will continue to receive submissions for essays on the theory and practice of scholarly editing until *October 7, 2013*. Please see the full call for papers below. Thanks, Amanda Gailey and Andrew Jewell Co-editors, *Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing *(www.scholarlyediting.org) Essays *Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing* welcomes submissions of articles discussing any aspect of the theory or practice of editing, print or digital. Please send submissions via email to the editors and include the following information in the body of your email: 1) Names, contact information, and institutional affiliations of all authors; 2) Title of the article; and 3) Filename of article. Please omit all identifying information from the article itself. Send proposals as Rich Text Format (RTF), MS Word, or PDF; if you wish to include image files or other addenda, please send all as a single zip archive. For questions of style and citation format, please consult the current edition of The Chicago Manual of Style. Please, no simultaneous submissions. Feel free to contact us if you have questions. -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 EF0B83056; Sat, 7 Sep 2013 10:31:50 +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 9B774301F; Sat, 7 Sep 2013 10:31:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 03B823006; Sat, 7 Sep 2013 10:31:40 +0200 (CEST) Subject: 27.321 jobs: Dr yvind Eide to Passau From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130907083141.03B823006@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 10:31:40 +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. 27, No. 321. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 09:23:00 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Dr Øyvind Eide to Passau Public congratulations are due to Dr ؘyvind Eide for his appointment to the position of "Lecturer and research associate" (with the rank of 'Akademischer Rat') at Universität Passau. Dr Eide completed his PhD at the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, late last year, with a highly regarded dissertation entitled "The area told as a story: An inquiry into the relationship between verbal and map-based expressions of geographical information". He joins Team DH@Passau under the direction of Prof. Dr. Malte Rehbein; see http://www.phil.uni-passau.de/rehbein for details. Also joining the team in Passau are Gábor Mihály Tóth, who is currently finishing his PhD in history at Oxford University, and PhD students in Digital Humanities. Ordinarily, of course, someone gaining an academic appointment shortly after completing the doctorate would not be remarkable. But digital humanities is new as a fully academic discipline, so celebrations are in order even by those who do not know ؘyvind personally. I also must add that if you are aware of other such stories you are welcome to post the news here. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8D5E9305D; Sun, 8 Sep 2013 11:05:51 +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 24A2F3061; Sun, 8 Sep 2013 11:05:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B3265305C; Sun, 8 Sep 2013 11:05:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130908090538.B3265305C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 11:05:38 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.322 events: diplomatics; DH & CS; information design X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 322. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Georg Vogeler (37) Subject: Digital Diplomatics 2013, Paris 14-16 Nov [2] From: Darzentas Jenny (14) Subject: Information Design Summer School -Syros, The Cyclades Islands, Greece - Sept 30th-Oct 4th 2013 [3] From: "Jaskot, Paul" (17) Subject: Call for Papers: 8th Annual Chicago DH Conference (deadline extended) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 18:08:06 +0200 From: Georg Vogeler Subject: Digital Diplomatics 2013, Paris 14-16 Nov Dear list members, dealing with documents in a computerized age opens the interpretation of what "diplomatics" could be. The third edition of the "Digital Diplomatics" conference, to be held in Paris, Nov. 14-16, 2013 at the new building of the Archives Nationales de France asks therefore What is Diplomatics in a digital environment? It has put up a three days program with internaional speakers in nine fields: - Global Diplomatics - Evidence as a Juridical and a Diplomatic Concept - Can the whole meaning of a document be digitally conveyed? - Diplomatics of Digitally Born Archives - Digital Corpora: from Charters to Web archives - The Use of Complex Technology in Diplomatic Analysis - Diplomatic Visualization - Teaching Diplomatics - Methods of critical analysis of digital documents which you can find the detailed program at http://www.cei.lmu.de/digdipl13/program If you're interested in participating please register at http://www.cei.lmu.de/digdipl13/registration The participation is free of charge. We're looking forward to meet you! Georg Vogeler (on behalf of the program committee) -- ------------------------------------- Dr. Georg Vogeler Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung in den Geisteswissenschaften Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz Merangasse 70 - A-8010 Graz Tel. +43 (0)316 380 - 8033 http://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik e.V. http://www.i-d-e.de Association Palæographique Internationale - Culture . Ecriture . Société (APICES) http://www.palaeographia.org/apices/apices.htm International Center for Archival Research ICARus http://www.icar-us.eu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 19:38:12 +0300 From: Darzentas Jenny Subject: Information Design Summer School -Syros, The Cyclades Islands, Greece - Sept 30th-Oct 4th 2013 We have still a 3 places available for our summer school on Information Design https://infodesign2013.pns.aegean.gr/ "Come to Syros, Greece for a week of expert tuition and deep discussions on Information Design -how to make complex information easier to understand, all while savouring late summer warmth. The summer school is being organised by the University of the Aegean, with the participation of the Simplification Centre, London, UK, and the International Institute of Information Design (IIID) Modern life is saturated with complex information and data. For information to have the most impact, it must be easy to find, simple to use and instant to understand. In short, information needs to be designed. Information design has developed as a specialist field, with a growing research literature and critical tradition. However, specialist education and training in information design is hard to find and many people come to it from another aspect of design or some other profession entirely. As a result, people who want to develop their expertise can find themselves isolated, without access to expert help, and often without like-minded colleagues. Enticed? Intrigued? For more information please see our website https://infodesign2013.pns.aegean.gr/ or contact: jennyd@aegean.gr Jenny Darzentas University of the Aegean Dept of Product and Systems Design Engineering Ermoupolis, Syros Greece www.syros.aegean.gr --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 19:04:58 +0000 From: "Jaskot, Paul" Subject: Call for Papers: 8th Annual Chicago DH Conference (deadline extended) 8th Annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science DePaul University, Chicago IL December 5-7, 2013 CALL FOR PAPERS The 8th Annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science will take place December 5-7, 2013, on the Lincoln Park Campus of DePaul University. The conference will consist of panels, roundtables, or other kinds of sessions proposed by scholars relating to recent issues and advances in the digital humanities. We are excited as well to welcome as our keynote speaker Prof. Michael Chwe from the Department of Political Science at University of California Los Angeles. Prof. Chwe is the author, most recently, of Jane Austen, Game Theorist (Princeton University Press, 2013). Interested scholars are invited to present proposals for individual papers, entire panels or roundtable sessions by September 27, 2013 (extended deadline). Panels will consist of three papers and a commentator/moderator, although other formats are possible. Panel proposals should include a title and brief description of the session as a whole (300 words or less), along with paper titles and abstracts (300 words or less) of all panelists. Short-form CVs (1-2 pages, including institutional affiliation and contact information) should also be attached. Proposals for individual papers will also be considered and are encouraged. All proposals should be sent by email to BOTH of the Program Co-Chairs for the conference: Professor Robin Burke (rburke@cs.depaul.edu), and Professor Paul B. Jaskot (pjaskot@depaul.edu). Applicants will be informed regarding inclusion on the conference program by October 11, 2013. Registration will be free. Participants and other interested scholars may register beginning in Fall 2013. At that point, information on the venue, detailed program, local arrangements for hotels and other pertinent information will also be available at the DHCS website (http://chicagocolloquium.org/ ). We are very excited about coming together again for an outstanding program. We hope to have as many fields and subject areas represented as possible, and encourage you to start thinking now of putting together sessions, submitting individual papers, or possible workshops for consideration. (Please note that on the original call for papers that the conference dates were off by one day. The correct dates of the conference are December 5-7, 2013.) Paul B. Jaskot Professor of Art History Dept. of the History of Art & Architecture DePaul University 2315 N. Kenmore Ave. Chicago, IL 60614 http://las.depaul.edu/haa/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 559453067; Sun, 8 Sep 2013 11:06:34 +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 07813305F; Sun, 8 Sep 2013 11:06:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 77CC83063; Sun, 8 Sep 2013 11:06:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20130908090622.77CC83063@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 11:06:22 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.323 call for proposals: Practices 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 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. 27, No. 323. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 01:53:31 +0000 From: "Gossett, Katherine [ENGL]" Subject: New Book Series on Practices in Digital Humanities Dear all, I believe the Humanist list was on a much deserved vacation when the announcement for this new book series was sent out. Please consider submitting a proposal! We are delighted to let you know that our new book series, Practices in the Digital Humanities, is officially launching with a partnership between the University of Michigan Press and Matrix Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences. More details here: http://www.digitalculture.org/books/book-series/practices-in-the-digital-humanities/. As you know, the digital humanities is in a golden age, with many of us racing to build tools, create archives, manage projects, and create user experiences. Practices in the Digital Humanities will support this kind of work by providing best practices, models, case studies, and examples on how to build to standards, architect experiences, administer systems, manage projects, and build useful tools. Bringing together experts in digital humanities, this series will be written by DH scholars for DH scholars. These books will be situated as methods for digital humanities, and each book project will be peer reviewed. These book projects will include a printed book (no more than 100 pages) and various digital assets such as templates, code, videos, images, etc. Author's are free to host their materials outside of UM's servers, and we want to encourage using the most useful tools for outside repositories (i.e., github, flickr, you own site, etc.). In considering who might be best to publish such a series, we looked for a publisher that had a strong foundation in digital humanities, would understand the significance of our series, and would support new methods of licensing and open access.The University of Michigan Press is that publisher. Our new series is part of their Digital Cultural Books imprint. For more information about open access and other licensing options, please see their About page: http://www.digitalculture.org/about/ and their recent blog post about their new author's agreement: http://blog.press.umich.edu/2013/06/new-authors-agreement/. I'm certain you will find it as intriguing and forward-thinking as we did. Best, Kathie (and Liza) _____________________________ Kathie Gossett, PhD Asst. Professor of Digital Humanities Director, Professional Communication Internship Program Department of English, Iowa State University kgossett@iastate.edu (515) 294-7460 http://www.kathiegossett.com Twittter/Skype: gossettphd _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 19DCC3067; Mon, 9 Sep 2013 07:19:49 +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 89A1D305E; Mon, 9 Sep 2013 07:19:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 916CA305F; Mon, 9 Sep 2013 07:19:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130909051936.916CA305F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 07:19:36 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.324 pubs: Elizabeth's language X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 324. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 12:18:23 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Elizabeth's language Those interested in corpus analytics will be glad to know of the following new publication of the Philological Society (UK): Mel Evans, The Language of Queen Elizabeth I: A Sociolinguistic Perspective on Royal Style and Identity. Publications of the Philological Society, 46. Oxford: John Wiley and Blackwell, 2013. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DD32A3080; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 07:20:37 +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 ED4653063; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 07:20:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id EB6913060; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 07:20:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130910052025.EB6913060@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 07:20:25 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.325 jobs in Luxembourg X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 325. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 16:25:01 +0200 From: lars wieneke Subject: Two job openings at the CVCE in Luxembourg Dear colleagues, I'd like to bring to your attention two job openings at the CVCE in Luxembourg: 1. Head of Information & Technology (M/F), full-time, permanent contract http://www.cvce.eu/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=110f21fd-af67-4711-b489-53c7795f9827&groupId=10136 2. Digital Humanities Lab Coordinator — Head of Unit (M/F), full-time, permanent contract http://www.cvce.eu/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=da270d06-3f25-42a5-8af0-551562b050f1&groupId=10136 Have a look at http://www.cvce.eu/jobs for more information about the application process. All the best, - Lars Wieneke _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6DBE43086; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 07:25:54 +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 CBB06306B; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 07:25:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2EFE93060; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 07:25:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130910052544.2EFE93060@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 07:25:44 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.326 new Centre for Digital Philosophy X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 326. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 02:05:04 +0000 From: PhilPapers Subject: News: New Centre for Digital Philosophy Dear Willard, We are glad to announce the official launch of the Centre for Digital Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. The Centre will be based in the Department of Philosophy at Western. David Bourget will head the Centre. David Chalmers will be associate director. CDP will advance research and education in philosophy through digital means. In particular, it will continue the development of PhilPapers, PhilEvents, PhilJobs, and other Phil* projects we have initiated. CDP will also support projects that aim to advance our understanding of philosophy and philosophical problems through technology or technology-centric methods. There are possibilities for PhD studentships and postdocs for individuals pursuing relevant research. The Centre also needs Perl and Groovy programmers. CDP's initial partners include the American Philosophical Association, the Rotman Institute of Philosophy, the Institute of Philosophy at the University of London, the Australian National University, and other units at Western. For more information, please visit the Centre's web page: http://cdp.uwo.ca Please note that access to PhilPapers may be briefly disrupted in the coming days as we move our operations to new servers at Western. We appreciate your patience. David Bourget David Chalmers Co-Directors, PhilPapers Click here to unsubscribe http://philpapers.org/profile/myforums_list.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BA881307C; Wed, 11 Sep 2013 07:58:49 +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 5FD83305E; Wed, 11 Sep 2013 07:58:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A40BA305B; Wed, 11 Sep 2013 07:58:39 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130911055839.A40BA305B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 07:58:39 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.327 pubs: memory (co-evolutionary); 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. 27, No. 327. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 06:48:24 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: books: memory; big data Two books to draw to your attention. (1) Belinda Barnet, Memory Machines: The Evolution of Hypertext (London: Anthem, 2013). I've only begun to read this book, but already from Chapter 1, "Technical Evolution", it's clear that the book is worth several candles. As some here will know, the term "evolution" has been used rather sloppily to describe how machines develop over time, "co-evolution" how we and our machines do it together. Barnet's meditations on this term, with the help of palaeobiologist Niles Eldredge (who worked up the idea of "punctuated equilibrium" with Stephen Jay Gould as an alternative to gradualism in evolution), is a major contribution on our thinking about what's happening to us now, and what's always been happening since we started inventing tools. (2) Frontiers in Massive Data Analysis (Washington DC: National Academies Press, 2013), downloadable from http://www.nap.edu/download.php?record_id=18374. Also just encountered. It would appear that unsurprisingly the humanities are not considered, but here, also unsurprisingly, we can learn from the sciences. This following, for example, caught my eye: > It is natural to be optimistic about the prospects.... However, such > optimism must be tempered by an understanding of the major > difficulties that arise in attempting to achieve the envisioned > goals. In part, these difficulties are those familiar from > implementations of large-scale databases—finding and mitigating > bottlenecks.... But the challenges for massive data go beyond the > storage, indexing, and querying that have been the province of > classical database systems (and classical search engines) and, > instead, hinge on the ambitious goal of inference. Inference is the > problem of turning data into knowledge, where knowledge often is > expressed in terms of entities that are not present in the data per > se but are present in models that one uses to interpret the data. > Statistical rigor is necessary to justify the inferential leap from > data to knowledge, and many difficulties arise in attempting to bring > statistical principles to bear on massive data. Overlooking this > foundation may yield results that are not useful at best, or harmful > at worst. In any discussion of massive data and inference, it is > essential to be aware that it is quite possible to turn data into > something resembling knowledge when actually it is not. Moreover, it > can be quite difficult to know that this has happened. > > Indeed, many issues impinge on the quality of inference. A major one > is that of “sampling bias.” .... Another major issue is “provenance.” > Many systems involve layers of inference, where “data” are not the > original observations but are the products of an inferential > procedure of some kind.... Finally, there is the major issue of > controlling error rates when many hypotheses are being considered. > Indeed, massive data sets generally involve growth not merely in the > number of individuals represented (the “rows” of the database) but > also in the number of descriptors of those individuals (the “columns” > of the database). Moreover, we are often interested in the predictive > ability associated with combinations of the descriptors; this can > lead to exponential growth in the number of hypotheses considered, > with severe consequences for error rates. That is, a naive appeal to > a “law of large numbers” for massive data is unlikely to be > justified; if anything, the perils associated with statistical > fluctuations may actually increase as data sets grow in size. While > the field of statistics has developed tools that can address such > issues in principle, in the context of massive data care must be > taken with all such tools for two main reasons: (1) all statistical > tools are based on assumptions about characteristics of the data set > and the way it was sampled, and those assumptions may be violated in > the process of assembling massive data sets; and (2) tools for > assessing errors of procedures, and for diagnostics, are themselves > computational procedures that may be computationally infeasible as > data sets move into the massive scale. Comments are most welcome. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 91C093087; Wed, 11 Sep 2013 08:01:17 +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 99C243083; Wed, 11 Sep 2013 08:01:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E3FEA3060; Wed, 11 Sep 2013 08:01:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130911060105.E3FEA3060@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 08:01:05 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.328 jobs at Surrey, 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. 27, No. 328. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Dean Rehberger (22) Subject: Digital Social Science and Humanities Specialist [2] From: Christine Hine (91) Subject: Visiting International Fellowship in social research methods at Surrey --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 09:30:46 -0400 From: Dean Rehberger Subject: Digital Social Science and Humanities Specialist Fixed term faculty or specialist Term: One year, renewable based on available funding and job performance Draft Job Advertisement: Digital Social Science and Humanities Specialist The Department of History at Michigan State University is seeking a specialist in Digital Social Science and Humanities to coordinate its new digital initiative, LEADR (Lab for the Education and Advancement in Digital Research). The successful candidate will have knowledge of digital research methods and tools; experience developing collaborative research projects; strong oral and written communications skills; expertise with website development and design; and the ability to work with students and faculty members. The full time, annual year position is renewable annually, contingent upon funding and job performance. Salary is commensurate with experience. Travel and research budget negotiable. LEADR is a joint, forward-looking, student-centered venture of MSU History and Matrix. The cutting-edge lab will be housed in Old Horticulture Hall, home of the MSU History Department. It will be a place for History and other MSU undergraduate and graduate students to develop innovative digital and web-based projects in collaboration with other students, faculty, and the digital humanities specialist who manages the lab. Duties • Establishing and managing LEADR; • Working with students and faculty members on digital research projects; • Working with Matrix and History faculty and students on grant applications; • Managing graduate and undergraduate lab employees; • Working with faculty to develop curriculum around LEADR; • Working with faculty to develop undergraduate internships around LEADR. • If the successful applicant has a PhD in History, which is not a requirement, the job could involve offering an undergraduate course. Preferred Qualifications • Advanced degree (MA, PhD or ABD in a PhD program) in digital humanities, social sciences, library information, history or other humanities fields; • Knowledge of data mining and data visualization research and tools; • Knowledge of website or software development methodologies and applications. To Apply Applicants must apply at www.jobs.msu.edu. Job #8340. There you will receive instructions about uploading a cover letter, CV and three confidential letters of recommendation. In addition, email a cover letter and link to a website containing your CV and links to projects you have been involved with to walterh@msu.edu, rehberge@msu.edu and alegi@msu.edu. Review of applications will begin on October 15 and continue until a hire is made. Salary: $40K-$60K, annual year Michigan State University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Applications from women and members of minority groups are strongly encouraged. Persons with disabilities have the right to request and receive reasonable accommodation. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 09:43:38 +0100 From: Christine Hine Subject: Visiting International Fellowship in social research methods at Surrey VISITING INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP in social research methods for visits in calendar year 2014 http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/research/vif.htm The Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom, has established a Visiting International Fellowship (VIF) to foster the development of sociological research methods. Between one and three Fellowships are awarded by competition each year. Applicants for the Fellowship will be established scholars in social science with a track record in a field of social research methodology. They will normally hold, or recently have held, an established academic appointment in social science. The Fellowship committee regrets that it cannot consider applications from candidates seeking training or the updating of methodological skills. The VIF is intended for established scholars who are normally at least 5 years post doctorate. Former VIF holders include: David Morgan (Portland State), David De Vaus (La Trobe), Ed Brent (Missouri), Norman Blaikie (Emeritus, Universiti Sains Malaysia), Irwin Deutscher (Akron), Edith de Leeuw (Utrecht), Seppo Laaksonen (Helsinki), Luis Antunes (Lisbon), Ming Yan (Beijing), Cesar Cisneros (Mexico), Tom W Smith (Chicago), Bob Belli (Lincoln), Jin-Kyu Jung (Grand Forks), Carl Roberts (Iowa), Warren Thorngate (Ottawa), Linda Williams (Massachusetts Lowell) and Gerd Wagner (Germany). The awards are open to those who would value the opportunity to advance methodological understanding, for example by reflecting on methods used in previous empirical research, by validating existing or new methodological procedures, or by reviewing and synthesising methodological approaches. 'Methods' may be interpreted widely, to include, for example, statistical techniques and conversation and discourse analysis. Proposals for collaborative research with members of the Department of Sociology are especially welcome. Applications from female and ethnic minority candidates are particularly encouraged. An award of £2,500 will be made as a contribution towards travel and subsistence expenses incurred in holding the Fellowship. It is expected that VIF award-holders will normally be on paid leave of absence from their employment. Award-holders should be prepared to visit the Department on one or two occasions during the academic year with a duration of about one month in total. VIFs will become honorary Research Fellows of the University of Surrey and be entitled to use the University Library and make use of University facilities. The holder of a Fellowship is usually permanently resident outside the United Kingdom. The Department of Sociology at Surrey is a centre of methodological expertise and specialises in research methods for the application of social research to contemporary society. It promotes high methodological standards and new developments in methodology for the social science research community. The Department is the home of CAQDAS , an internationally acclaimed centre for Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software, and is well known for its work on the secondary analysis of large data sets, and work on online research methods. Other methodological specialisms include the computer simulation of social phenomena (CRESS ) and cross-national comparison. The Department publishes the quarterly Social Research Update online and houses the office of the journal Sociological Research Online . Applications should be sent by email to Louise Jones, VIF Administrator, Email: l.jones@surrey.ac.uk Applications must be received by Monday 30th September 2013 for visits during the calendar year 2014. Applications must be made on the application form posted on the VIF website noted below. Application forms should be submitted by email as an attachment. Decisions will be made and notified by the end of November 2013. The application form and more information about the Visiting International Fellowship, and the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey, are available at: http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/research/vif.htm VIF Convener: Professor Sara Arber (email: S.Arber@surrey.ac.uk ) VIF Administrator: Louise Jones (email: l.jones@surrey.ac.uk ) Head of Department: Professor Rachel Brooks Department of Sociology University of Surrey Guildford Surrey GU2 7XH United Kingdom Tel: +44(0)1483 689365 Fax: +44(0)1483 689551 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 630DA3090; Wed, 11 Sep 2013 08:01:51 +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 102583091; Wed, 11 Sep 2013 08:01:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 579543093; Wed, 11 Sep 2013 08:01:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130911060136.579543093@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 08:01:36 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.329 farewell from the DHO (Dublin) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 329. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 09:30:40 +0000 From: Shawn Day Subject: Goodbye and Thanks As of August 30, 2013 the activities of Digital Humanities Observatory have ceased. Over the past five years, the Digital Humanities Observatory (http://dho.ie) has been a crucial component of the Humanities Serving Irish Society initiative funded under PRTLI 4. The DHO has carried out an extensive programme of lectures, workshops, summer schools, symposia and public lectures. These have been eagerly received and we have hopefully contributed to raising the level of digital humanities scholarship amongst Irish scholars, enhancing skills and reputations not just in Ireland, but also in Europe and around the world. We have developed and deployed creative, and innovative digital platforms such as DHO:Discovery (http://discovery.dho.ie) and DHO:DRAPIer (http://dho.ie/drapier) that have embraced the needs of HSIS scholars and established a strong and respected Irish position in the Digital Humanities leading to Irish participation in exciting new European initiatives such as DARIAH. In an effort to explore the possibilities of Digital Humanities online, and in collaboration with our HSIS partners, we have also built many cutting-edge digital editions and catalogues such as Saint Patrick's Confessio Hyperstack (http://www.confessio.ie/), the Doegen Records Web Archive (http://dho.ie/doegen/) and Reading East (http://www.ucd.ie/readingeast/). In the immediate term the assets of the DHO will be maintained directly by the RIA. Please use the contact form http://dho.ie/contact (http://dho.ie/contact) should you need to be in touch with the those maintaining the DHO assets. Strong Irish engagement and participation in European projects is one of the many testaments to the success of the DHO and of the HSIS consortium. In the future the newly formed Irish Humanities Alliance (https://www.ria.ie/about/our-work/policy/irish-humanities-alliance.aspx) will be fulfilling a role of humanities advocacy on behalf of Irish higher education institutions. The investment in HSIS and the DHO has put Irish humanities scholars in a solid position to continue to grow this valuable community and allow it to flourish in the future. On behalf of DHO staff present and past I wish you all the best and thank you for the tremendous spirit of collaboration that we have enjoyed together, Best Regards, Shawn Day --------------------------------- Shawn Day Email: day.shawn@gmail.com Twitter: @iridium about.me/shawnday _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A35F3306E; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 07:44:17 +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 3615A3054; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 07:44:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 20DE2304A; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 07:44:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130912054404.20DE2304A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 07:44:03 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.330 farewell to the DHO X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 330. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 07:44:14 +0100 From: "James O'Sullivan" Subject: Re: 27.329 farewell from the DHO (Dublin) In-Reply-To: <20130911060136.579543093@digitalhumanities.org> As part of Ireland's first cohort of Digital Arts & Humanities PhD candidates, I'd like to reiterate those sentiments expressed by Shawn. The DHO has always supported our activities, from introductory workshops in various subjects to the more serious "behind-the-scenes" work. A great loss to DH scholarship in an Irish context. On 11 Sep 2013 07:01, "Humanist Discussion Group" < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 329. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 09:30:40 +0000 > From: Shawn Day > Subject: Goodbye and Thanks > > > As of August 30, 2013 the activities of Digital Humanities Observatory > have ceased. > > Over the past five years, the Digital Humanities Observatory ( > http://dho.ie) has been a crucial component of the Humanities Serving > Irish Society initiative funded under PRTLI 4. The DHO has carried out an > extensive programme of lectures, workshops, summer schools, symposia and > public lectures. These have been eagerly received and we have hopefully > contributed to raising the level of digital humanities scholarship amongst > Irish scholars, enhancing skills and reputations not just in Ireland, but > also in Europe and around the world. We have developed and deployed > creative, and innovative digital platforms such as DHO:Discovery ( > http://discovery.dho.ie) and DHO:DRAPIer (http://dho.ie/drapier) that > have embraced the needs of HSIS scholars and established a strong and > respected Irish position in the Digital Humanities leading to Irish > participation in exciting new European initiatives such as DARIAH. In an > effort to explore the possibilities of Digital Humanities online, and in co > llaboration with our HSIS partners, we have also built many cutting-edge > digital editions and catalogues such as Saint Patrick's Confessio > Hyperstack (http://www.confessio.ie/), the Doegen Records Web Archive ( > http://dho.ie/doegen/) and Reading East (http://www.ucd.ie/readingeast/). > > In the immediate term the assets of the DHO will be maintained directly by > the RIA. Please use the contact form http://dho.ie/contact ( > http://dho.ie/contact) should you need to be in touch with the those > maintaining the DHO assets. > > Strong Irish engagement and participation in European projects is one of > the many testaments to the success of the DHO and of the HSIS consortium. > In the future the newly formed Irish Humanities Alliance ( > https://www.ria.ie/about/our-work/policy/irish-humanities-alliance.aspx) > will be fulfilling a role of humanities advocacy on behalf of Irish higher > education institutions. The investment in HSIS and the DHO has put Irish > humanities scholars in a solid position to continue to grow this valuable > community and allow it to flourish in the future. > > On behalf of DHO staff present and past I wish you all the best and thank > you for the tremendous spirit of collaboration that we have enjoyed > together, > > Best Regards, > > Shawn Day > > --------------------------------- > Shawn Day > Email: day.shawn@gmail.com > Twitter: @iridium > about.me/shawnday _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 631633059; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 07:44:53 +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 BED6E3057; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 07:44:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0B6463052; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 07:44:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130912054445.0B6463052@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 07:44:44 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.331 comparing 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 331. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 15:15:53 +0200 From: "Dr. Hartmut Krech" Subject: Comparison of writers' corpora In-Reply-To: <20130911060136.579543093@digitalhumanities.org> Only meant to answer a personal question that is puzzling my mind -- could somebody please refer me to a resource comparing authors' output in the form of words (or even thematic units) contained in their lifetime corpora, writers and philosophers, European and non-European, past and present alike? I wonder if this is a question that could have been asked only after the digitization of texts was feasible to a great extent. Any suggestions (especially to online resources) are welcome. 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CF2313090; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 07:45:35 +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 4C0D5307D; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 07:45:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E46DF3059; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 07:45:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130912054526.E46DF3059@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 07:45:26 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.332 events: techno-scientific knowledge X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 332. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 10:42:01 +0200 From: Alfred Nordmann Subject: CFP: Modes of Technoscientific Knowledge (Winter school in the French Alps, Jan. 2014) WinterSchool: Modes of Technoscientific Knowledge Dates: 19-25 January, 2014 Location: Chalet Giersch, Manigod, France Organization: Université Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne, Technische Universität Darmstadt, French-German ANR-DFG project GOTO (www.goto-objects.eu), BiCoDa Alliance (www.bicoda.info). Following the “practical turn” in history of science and science studies in the late decades of the 20th century, a “thing turn” has occurred in the philosophy of science and technology. Epistemology scholars are more and more concerned with “thing knowledge” rather than with theoretical representations (Baird 2004). The technological dimension of science is no longer to be seen as a mere mediation between mind and reality for the sake of theoretical representation, theory-testing or practical application. “Epistemic things” and “experimental systems” (Rheinberger 1997), models and simulations (Morrison & Morgan 1999, Varenne 2007) and other technological artifacts are reconsidered as indispensable partners in the making of scientific knowledge. But how are we to identify and conceptualize the epistemic roles of technology in technoscientific research? This PhD and advanced graduate winter school seeks to explore the epistemology of technoscientific knowledge on the basis of a number of case studies ranging from recent technosciences such as nanotechnology or synthetic biology, to more traditional ones, such as chemistry, pharmacy or metallurgy. The purpose is to disentangle the historical, sociological, anthropological and philosophical implications of the epistemology of technoscience. Along with stimulating topics, the school offers above all a convivial place of exchange between PhD students and more advanced scholars from various countries. Lecturers: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Univ. Paris 1 Sorbonne); Alfred Nordmann (Technische Univ. Darmstadt); Astrid Schwarz (University of Basel); Sacha Loeve (Univ.Paris 1 Sorbonne); Xavier Guchet (Univ. Paris 1 Sorbonne) ; Cyrus Mody (Rice University); Anne-Françoise Schmid (Ecole des Mines Paris); Jean-Pierre Llored (Free Univ. of Bruxelles); Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (H. Prof. MPIWG Berlin - to be confirmed). Participation: The school welcomes PhD and advanced graduate students interested in addressing these issues from philosophy, STS, cultural studies, anthropology, and related fields (other backgrounds such as physics, chemistry or biology are also welcome).Each participant should propose a technoscientific “object” or case study (even a programmatic one) and contribute an approximately 10-page paper by December 15, 2013. A reader of texts will be distributed well in advance of the course. Please direct expressions of interest to Sacha Loeve (sacha.loeve@univ-paris1.fr). An initial short abstract will be due on October 15, 2013. For more information (flyer, more detailed description) go to www.goto-objects.eu Sacha Loeve (and Alfred Nordmann) -- 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 serieswww.pickeringchatto.com/technoscience * Office for Interdisciplinary NanoTechnologyStudieswww.nanobuero.de * Genesis and Ontology of Technoscientific Objectswww.goto-objects.eu * Interdisziplinärer Studienschwerpunktwww.cisp.tu-darmstadt.de/nag Homepagewww.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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 482E33058; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:42:43 +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 7CFD43038; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:42:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 465DC2D78; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:42:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130913074232.465DC2D78@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:42:32 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.333 comparing corpora; farewell to the DHO X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 333. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jan Rybicki (44) Subject: Re: 27.331 comparing corpora? [2] From: Mary Galvin (22) Subject: Re: 27.330 farewell to the DHO --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 10:49:58 +0200 From: Jan Rybicki Subject: Re: 27.331 comparing corpora? In-Reply-To: <20130912054445.0B6463052@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Hartmut, You can compare any texts you want (and can obtain in plain text, html or xml) using "stylo", our suite of tools for R, downloadable at https://sites.google.com/site/computationalstylistics/home. Do not be afraid of R's famous steep learning curve: we work by GUI! Best, Jan Rybicki 2013/9/12 Humanist Discussion Group > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 331. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 15:15:53 +0200 > From: "Dr. Hartmut Krech" > Subject: Comparison of writers' corpora > In-Reply-To: <20130911060136.579543093@digitalhumanities.org> > > Only meant to answer a personal question that is puzzling my > mind -- could somebody please refer me to a resource > comparing authors' output in the form of words (or even > thematic units) contained in their lifetime corpora, writers > and philosophers, European and non-European, past and > present alike? I wonder if this is a question that could > have been asked only after the digitization of texts was > feasible to a great extent. Any suggestions (especially to > online resources) are welcome. 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 > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 17:19:25 +0100 From: Mary Galvin Subject: Re: 27.330 farewell to the DHO In-Reply-To: <20130912054404.20DE2304A@digitalhumanities.org> Hear, hear! On 12 September 2013 06:44, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 330. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 07:44:14 +0100 > From: "James O'Sullivan" > Subject: Re: 27.329 farewell from the DHO (Dublin) > In-Reply-To: <20130911060136.579543093@digitalhumanities.org> > > > As part of Ireland's first cohort of Digital Arts & Humanities PhD > candidates, I'd like to reiterate those sentiments expressed by Shawn. The > DHO has always supported our activities, from introductory workshops in > various subjects to the more serious "behind-the-scenes" work. A great loss > to DH scholarship in an Irish context. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3074F308B; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:44:01 +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 65947307D; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:43:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3ED96306A; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:43:50 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130913074350.3ED96306A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:43:50 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.334 taxonomy of activities & objects? tools, interaction, methods? 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: agiati benardou (25) Subject: Europeana Cloud Web Survey [2] From: "Munson, Matthew" (23) Subject: Taxonomy of Scholarly Activities and Objects --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 09:28:02 +0300 From: agiati benardou Subject: Europeana Cloud Web Survey Dear colleagues, It is with pleasure that we share with you the Web Survey we designed towards the understanding of the use of tools, the interaction with content and the research methods employed by Humanities and Social Sciences researchers, with particular emphasis on Europeana and TEL material. I would like to kindly ask you to respond to the questionnaire, as well as circulate it was widely as possible to your community and other networks you may be involved in. Also, please share away on Twitter, Facebook, or any other tool you may be using. Please bear in mind that the Web Survey will remain active until the *end of September*. http://surveys.dcu.gr/index.php/survey/index/sid/423471/newtest/Y/lang/en We are looking forward to your responses,With best wishes and thanks, Agiatis Benardou, Europeana Cloud http://pro.europeana.eu/web/europeana-cloud WP1 leader -- Agiatis Benardou, MA, MSc, PhD Research Associate Digital Curation Unit http://www.dcu.gr/ R.C. "Athena", Institute for the Management of Information Systems Postal Address: Artemidos 6 & Epidavrou GR-151 25 Maroussi, Greece Tel: (+30) 210 6875428, Fax: (+30) 210 6856804 Email: a.benardou@dcu.gr --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 07:01:58 +0000 From: "Munson, Matthew" Subject: Taxonomy of Scholarly Activities and Objects Dear Humanists, DARIAH, DiRT, and DHCommons, as a first step in their international effort to produce a registry of digital humanities resources (e.g., projects, people, institutions, methods, tools, educational resources) has produced a draft of a taxonomy of scholarly activities and objects that will act as the back-end to this proposed registry. This taxonomy has been developed for use by more than just our joint project, however, being developed for use by any community-driven site or project that aims to make information relevant to digital humanities more easily discoverable. The taxonomy is expected to be particularly useful to endeavors aiming to collect information on digital humanities tools, methods, projects, or readings. The initial partners that have committed to adopting the taxonomy are DARIAH’s Zotero-based bibliography, the DiRT (Digital Research Tools) directory, and centerNet’s DHCommons project directory. DARIAH-EU has also committed to using this taxonomy as a basis for further development into a more complex ontology of digital scholarly methods, ensuring the continued updating and existence of the work presented here. In order to make this taxonomy as widely useful as possible, we hope to collect broad input from the community. To this end, we are asking you for your input. A draft of the taxonomy exists as a Google Doc here: http://bit.ly/17UsWiU. Anyone with this link can comment on the document. Please leave comments in the document itself, or email the taxonomy coordinators listed at the end of this email. Feedback will be open until Friday, September 27th. After that point, the coordinators will review and incorporate comments, with the goal of putting the taxonomy in place on DiRT, DHCommons, and DARIAH’s Zotero bibliography in early October. This already usable taxonomy will then be further developed into a full-blown ontology by the NeDiMAH project in Europe and maintained beyond that time by DARIAH. We are not trying to produce the mother of all ontologies. Instead, we are trying to produce something that is useful, that can be updated easily, and that will be maintained for many years. If you are interested in having your voice heard in this endeavor, please take a few minutes to read through the document and give us your input. On behalf of all the coordinators in this project, I would like to thank you in advance for your input. Feel free at any time to email any or all of us with any questions you may have. Best, Matt Munson Coordinators: Luise Borek, borek@linglit.tu-darmstadt.de Quinn Dombrowski, quinnd@berkeley.edu Matthew Munson, mmunson@gcdh.de Jody Perkins, perkintj@miamioh.edu Christof Schöch, christof.schoech@uni-wuerzburg.de --- Matthew Munson Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (GCDH) Papendiek 16 37073 Göttingen GERMANY +49 (0)551-39-10 997 www: http://www.gcdh.de/en/people/team/matthew_munson/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 34BB93096; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:44:35 +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 06AC73091; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:44:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 52CF73090; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:44:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130913074424.52CF73090@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:44:24 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.335 job 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. 27, No. 335. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 09:55:56 -0400 From: Kathleen Fitzpatrick Subject: Hiring: Senior web developer, Modern Language Association *Senior Web Developer, Modern Language Association http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/39656/senior-web-developer-modern-language-association * The MLA is excited to announce a new position with the responsibility for building new connections between databases, a CMS, and an expanding array of Web publications and communication portals. This developer will be working with both the IT and the production teams to design and build a more flexible and modular infrastructure using APIs. This is an extraordinary opportunity to help shape a communication platform for the leading membership association in the humanities. MLA staff members collaborate across departments and workgroups to redefine our Web presence and refine applications and services to better serve members and the scholarly community. The person in this role must be able to communicate and collaborate effectively with a diverse set of colleagues as well as out-of-house vendors and designers to develop optimal experiences for users. *Skills & Requirements* - three years of designing, creating, and managing Web applications - PHP application development - API building and development - strong command of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, including responsive design and cross-browser compatibility - knowledge of SQL and relational database design - outstanding interpersonal skills and intellectual curiosity Bonus skills - Experience with Linux server administration and large-scale CMSs *About Modern Language Association* - intellectually stimulating work environment - competitive salary - generous vacation and sick time - flexible work hours - 403(b) retirement plan - individual health and dental plans are offered with no shared premium cost In 2013 the Modern Language Association of America launched *MLA Commons*, a social media platform to expand the opportunities for its members to communicate their teaching experiences and collaborate on scholarly research. The MLA has an annual convention, works with related organizations, and sustains one of the finest publishing programs in the humanities. Apply at http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/39656/senior-web-developer-modern-language-association . -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5F7FD309D; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:46:54 +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 A95C8308B; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:46:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 21A873083; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:46:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130913074643.21A873083@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:46:43 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.336 on doing something in an unfavourable 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. 27, No. 336. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 11:35:02 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: on giving up Pascal Junod, "a bilingual blog about cryptography, information security, science, geekness and others", has published a letter of resignation from a doctoral student at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne that, I think, is worth our attention. See http://crypto.junod.info/2013/09/09/an-aspiring-scientists-frustration-with-modern-day-academia-a-resignation/ for the full letter. Th author, whose name has been withheld by the contributor to the blog, lists the following frustrations that have proven fatal to pursuit of the degree. These are: (1) Academia: It's Not Science, It's Business (2) Academia: Work Hard, Young Padawan, So That One Day You Too May Manage! (3) Academia: The Backwards Mentality (4) Academia: Where Originality Will Hurt You (5) Academia: The Black Hole of Bandwagon Research (6) Academia: Statistics Galore! (7) Academia: The Violent Land of Giant Egos (8) Academia: The Greatest Trick It Ever Pulled was Convincing the World That It was Necessary It's not difficult to recognize manifestations of a world-wide cultural disease, in some of these points more, in some less for digital humanities. It's easy, because it takes no critical thought, either to agree wholeheartedly with the above or to dismiss the criticisms. Taking ownership of the problems which have led to this list is, I think, the challenge we might try to live up to. Were I this student's supervisor I'd be talking about disciplines as starting-points, love of the subject as the only reason for doing a PhD and a critical understanding of the pernicious blather of our managerialised institutions. There still are moments with scholarship and with students, actually many of them, when I think that all of what is wrong is made right, is justified. And these are inspirations to act, not just to glow in a state of grace while it lasts. Act how, for digital humanities in particular? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 925B330A6; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:47:33 +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 31DC530A0; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:47:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5E95030A0; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:47:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130913074723.5E95030A0@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:47:23 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.337 a GeoHumanities SIG X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 337. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 08:49:57 -0500 From: Lisa Spiro Subject: ADHO Announces New GeoHumanities SIG ADHO Announces New GeoHumanities Special Interest Group The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) is pleased to announce the formation of a new ADHO http://adho.org/sigs Special Interest Group, http://www.geohumanities.org GeoHumanities. The vision for the GeoHumanities SIG began at the DH2013 conference in Lincoln, where a number of panels and papers addressed questions of place and geographic connections and contexts. The intent of the SIG is to be inclusive of spatial, spatial-temporal and ‘placial’ perspectives, and the Geo-prefix for its name reflects geography’s traditional attention to all of these. The goals of the GeoHumanities SIG are to create a venue for pooling knowledge and best practices for relevant existing digital tools and methods, to foster the collaborative development of shared resources and new tools and extensions to geospatial software, and to keep humanist scholars at large informed about the possibilities and inherent pitfalls in their use. To that end, a web site (www.geohumanities.org), twitter account (@GeoHum_SIG ) and listserv for the GeoHumanities SIG have been created to encourage and facilitate communication among members. Please consider subscribing to the listserv to stay informed as the SIG gets underway (subscribe at http://lists.lists.digitalhumanities.org/mailman/listinfo/geohumsig). A copy of the proposal as approved by the ADHO steering committee is available at http://geohumanities.org/docs/GeoHumanitiesSIG_4Aug13.pdf. It was co-authored by Kathy Weimer (Texas A&M University) and Karl Grossner (Stanford) and co-signed by 15 individuals from 12 institutions in 4 countries. The SIG encourages additional members from all fields and all regions of the globe, and it is in the process of establishing a small steering committee. Joining the SIG is a simple process. You can begin by visiting http://geohumanities.org. All interested members are welcome to contribute ideas and help shape the SIG for shared benefit. -- Lisa Spiro, Ph.D. ADHO Communications Officer Blog: http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/ Twitter: @lisaspiro Phone: 832-341-0380 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 51E803091; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:55:39 +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 66CD8306E; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:55:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7E8883058; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:55:28 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130913075528.7E8883058@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:55:28 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.338 events: sustainability for historians; memory; methods & communication; CS and 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. 27, No. 338. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Adam Crymble (68) Subject: cfp: sustainability for history [2] From: "Catherine O'Brien" (93) Subject: Downstream from the Digital Humanities: Digital Methods and the Scholarly Communications Ecosystem, A NeDimah Working Paper Meeting [3] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (35) Subject: Cheltenham Festival: on memory [4] From: "Jaskot, Paul" (17) Subject: Call for Papers: 8th Annual Chicago DH Conference (deadline extended) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 08:21:40 +0100 From: Adam Crymble Subject: cfp: sustainability for history Applications open for Five Solutions: Digital Sustainability for Historians Five Solutions to What? Historical scholarship is increasingly digital; and yet we do not have an agreed form of best practices for ensuring that digital scholarship lasts. *Five Solutions* is looking for five scholars able to outline a solution to the issues of sustainability now facing historians. This one day workshop asks participants to give a 15 http://www.blogger.com/null minute presentation outlining practical solutions to one of five challenges, with the resources and expertise of an ordinary working historian in mind. These presentations will form the basis for a one day workshop on practical strategies for digital sustainability. The presentations can be based on your own experience and ideas, or can be taken on as a research project. We will work with all participants to ensure that the final presentations are both technically workable and illustrated with the most appropriate datasets. Accepted participants will each receive a *£350 honorarium.** The Five Themes The following five themes are designed to get you started, but if you have other ideas, we’d love to hear about it. Each theme should be approached with the ordinary working historian in mind. 1. Preserving research data for the future 2. Curating an enduring professional online persona 3. Paying project costs after the money runs out 4. Capturing and documenting the expertise of temporary staff 5. Strategies for working together on larger projects Who Should Apply? We’re looking for people with passion. Scholars old or young, university students of any level, librarians, archivists, developers, designers, system administrators, or anyone who considers themselves a historian at heart. No specific qualifications or prior experience required - just an interest in helping academia find solutions to organizational and technological challenges facing the sustainability of our digital projects. What do I have to do? Figure out a solution, of course! Once you’ve come up with your solution, you’ll share your work in two ways: 1. A 15-minute presentation of your solution at a one-day conference in London, UK on the *28th of November 2013 *at the Institute of Historical Research. 2. A 1500-2000 word peer-reviewed tutorial outlining your solution to be published in the *spring of 2014* in the *Programming Historian 2 *and distributed as part of ‘IHR Digital’. All tutorials will be peer-reviewed and released under a Creative Commons CC-BY license. Participants will have the full support of an editor at the *Programming Historian 2* who will provide guidance for writing an effective, practical tutorial. Evidence of previous work with technical writing or a willingness to learn, as well as a strong command of the English language are a bonus. How do I apply? By *8 October 2013* send a two-page C.V. and a brief email to adam.crymble@kcl.ac.uk (subject line: Five Solutions) addressing the following questions: 1. What theme would you like to tackle? (Use one of our suggestions or come up with your own.) 2. Give us an idea of how you plan to solve this issue, or where you intend to look for a solution (max 200 words) 3. What skills or experiences make you the ideal person for the task? We apologize in advance, but we are limited to five scholars. * Our funding restrictions allow honorariums for UK-based participants only, though we are happy to receive applications from those abroad who have access to their own travel funding and who would like to participate. *Supported by:* * The Software Sustainability Institute * AHRC Theme Leader Fellowship for its Digital Transformations Theme * The Institute of Historical Research * The Programming Historian Adam Crymble adam.crymble@kcl.ac.uk --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 10:14:53 +0100 From: "Catherine O'Brien" Subject: Downstream from the Digital Humanities: Digital Methods and the Scholarly Communications Ecosystem, A NeDimah Working Paper Meeting Downstream from the Digital Humanities: Digital Methods and the Scholarly Communications Ecosystem A NeDimah Working Paper Meeting 15-16 May 2014, Zadar, Croatia Call for Participation While it is clear that some of the barriers to more widespread acceptance and proliferation of digital methods in humanities research are internal to the community, others are not. Scholars must make a calculated decision when choosing to embark on a digital project, not just about their research questions, their digital tools and methods, and how best to address or implement them, but about their careers, their institutions and their scholarly record. In spite of a general recognition of the value of digital scholarly outputs, many institutions and national systems still struggle to judge the merit of such outputs and credit their creators accordingly. Downstream from the Digital Humanities is envisioned as an opportunity to trace current debates in the digital humanities community and beyond around issues from publication to promotion back to their roots, to understand where the systemic changes in the scholarly communications landscape have been addressed, and where their impact is yet to be assimilated. As an initiative of the Scholarly Publication Working Group of the NeDiMAH network (www.nedimah.eu), we invite submissions of 3000-5000 words to be submitted as working papers, to be discussed at a meeting in Zadar (Croatia) on 15-16 May 2014. After a period for revision based on feedback from the meeting, authors will have the opportunity to submit articles for consideration in an edited volume. While abstracts of 750 words on any of the topics below will be welcomed for consideration, the list is by no means exclusive, and we are open to a very broad interpretation of the question of ‘downstream’ difficulties that arise due to the application of digital methods: - Digital humanities research enabled through the digital medium - Interdisciplinary aspects of modern scholarship and cross-disciplinary collaboration of scholars - The changing role and locus of ‘research gate keepers’ in supporting the outputs of new methodologies, and the unseen contributions of traditional publishers - Tracking usage and impact of publications - New forms of scholarly communication - Implications of and for the reliability and sustainability of digital objects - Questions of (open)access above and beyond the green/gold debate - Copyright laws and the meaning of ‘fair use’ in the digital age - New paradigms for the evaluation of scholarship driven by digital methods and the relationship between durable norms of scholarship (creation of knowledge, contribution to a community) and mutable semiotic and methodological systems? - ‘Impact’ as a force that is changing the relationship and hierarchies among different forms of scholarly communication (which we define as a message made available to an audience) and publication (which we define as works of scholarship that have undergone an acceptance process of some sort, usually in the form of peer review)? - Limitations of current citation practice - Systemic implications of the collaborative nature of digital projects For participants chosen from countries participating in the NeDimah network (see www.nedimah.eu for the list of participating countries), expenses to the meeting in Zadar, Croatia will be paid. It will not be possible to cover expenses for individuals whose abstracts have been accepted from other countries. Programme Committee Dr Jennifer Edmond, title, Trinity College Dublin, Chair Dr Franjo Pehar, University of Zadar, co-Chair Professor Susan Schreibman, Trinity Long Room Hub Associate Professor of Digital Humanities, Trinity College Dublin Timeline for submissions is as follows: Submission of a 750 word abstract to the WG programme committee: 13 September 2013 Notification of acceptance of proposals for inclusion: 30 September 2013 Submission of full written presentation to WG programme committee: 15 January 2014 Comments for authors from WGPC: 28 February 2014 Revised version submitted to WGPC: 30 March 2014 Circulation of working papers to other participants: 10 April 2014 Meeting: 15-16 May 2014 Revision for publication: est Summer 2014 Publication of papers: est late 2014. Enquiries should be sent to: Jennifer Edmond (edmondj@tcd.ie) -- Catherine O'Brien CENDARI Communications Officer Trinity Long Room Hub Trinity College Dublin Ireland +353 (0)1 896 4274 www.cendari.eu Innovation Academy Programme Administrator Trinity College Dublin 3 Foster Place Dublin 2, Ireland +353 (0)1 896 4366 www.innovationacademy.ie --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 22:19:28 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Cheltenham Festival: on memory Dear Willard, The AHRC is a principal partner of Cheltenham Festivals over the coming year.. This is the first year of the partnership, and AHRC are very pleased to be holding a series of events where AHRC funded academics will be presenting alongside fiction writers on some of our key areas of interest. The events are: Friday 4th October, 16.00 – 17.00, Re-wired: Memory in the Digital Age Friday 4th October, 18.30 – 19.30, AS Byatt Saturday 5th October, 16.00 – 17.15, Memory, Prediction and the Invisible Future Sunday 6th October, 12.00 – 13.00, Life in the Trenches Sunday 6th October, 14.00 – 15.00, Empire, Memory and Us Wednesday 9th October, 19.00 – 20.00, Climate Change and the Art of Memory Thursday 10th October, 14.00 – 15.00, The Proust Phenomenon Thursday 10th October, 11.15 – 11.45 & 12.30 – 13.00, The Proust Experiment Sunday 13th October, 12.00 – 13.00, Translating China Further information about each event can be found here: http://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature/. 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 --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 22:33:08 +0000 From: "Jaskot, Paul" Subject: Call for Papers: 8th Annual Chicago DH Conference (deadline extended) In-Reply-To: <794964BCC6881C4CAE932254778D33905E9EC594@XMBPRD01.dpu.depaul.edu> 8th Annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science DePaul University, Chicago IL December 5-7, 2013 CALL FOR PAPERS The 8th Annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science will take place December 5-7, 2013, on the Lincoln Park Campus of DePaul University. The conference will consist of panels, roundtables, or other kinds of sessions proposed by scholars relating to recent issues and advances in the digital humanities. We are excited as well to welcome as our keynote speaker Prof. Michael Chwe from the Department of Political Science at University of California Los Angeles. Prof. Chwe is the author, most recently, of Jane Austen, Game Theorist (Princeton University Press, 2013). Interested scholars are invited to present proposals for individual papers, entire panels or roundtable sessions by September 27, 2013 (extended deadline). Panels will consist of three papers and a commentator/moderator, although other formats are possible. Panel proposals should include a title and brief description of the session as a whole (300 words or less), along with paper titles and abstracts (300 words or less) of all panelists. Short-form CVs (1-2 pages, including institutional affiliation and contact information) should also be attached. Proposals for individual papers will also be considered and are encouraged. All proposals should be sent by email to BOTH of the Program Co-Chairs for the conference: Professor Robin Burke (rburke@cs.depaul.edu), and Professor Paul B. Jaskot (pjaskot@depaul.edu). Applicants will be informed regarding inclusion on the conference program by October 11, 2013. Registration will be free. Participants and other interested scholars may register beginning in Fall 2013. At that point, information on the venue, detailed program, local arrangements for hotels and other pertinent information will also be available at the DHCS website (http://chicagocolloquium.org/ ). We are very excited about coming together again for an outstanding program. We hope to have as many fields and subject areas represented as possible, and encourage you to start thinking now of putting together sessions, submitting individual papers, or possible workshops for consideration. (Please note that on the original call for papers that the conference dates were off by one day. The correct dates of the conference are December 5-7, 2013.) Paul B. Jaskot Professor of Art History Dept. of the History of Art & Architecture DePaul University 2315 N. Kenmore Ave. Chicago, IL 60614 http://las.depaul.edu/haa/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 38C9530A1; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:59:06 +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 8B97C3093; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:58:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9530C3083; Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:58:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130913075855.9530C3083@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:58:55 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.339 pubs: literacy; intermediality; modelling; representing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 339. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Computational Philosophy Lab (19) Subject: publications on modelling, representing [2] From: "Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven" (3) Subject: new work re digital humanities: literacy; intermediality --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 10:14:50 +0000 From: Computational Philosophy Lab Subject: publications on modelling, representing In-Reply-To: <52318717.4080706@unipv.it> Lorenzo Magnani (ed.) Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology Theoretical and Cognitive Issues Series: SAPERE Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, Vol. 8, 2014, XII, 639 p. 79 illus., 4 illus. in color. http://www.springer.com/philosophy/epistemology+and+philosophy+of+science/book/978-3-642-37427-2 Papers by Tversky, Woods, Thagard, Sinha, Portides, Johansen Liz, Tamas, Pecere, Pereir, Furlan, Tweney, Ghins, Heeffer, Gauderis Schwartz, Rangoni, Bertolotti, Luis Moniz Pereira, Amigoni, Fraanseen, Vasquez, Liz, Pauwels, Shelley, Cao Dongming, Magnani, Park, Jetli, Ippoliti, Callaway, Oh, Ata, Queiroz, Drago, Dellantonio, White ******************************************************************* Special Issue of the Logic Journal of the IGPL Formal Representations in Model-Based Reasoning and Abduction Papers by Angius, Pizzi, Aliseda, Bianchi, Casadio, Caterina, Cevolani, Nepomuceno, Sakama, Magnani already online http://jigpal.oxfordjournals.org/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 10:14:15 -0400 From: "Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven" Subject: new work re digital humanities: literacy; intermediality In-Reply-To: <52318717.4080706@unipv.it> Announcement re new work in digital humanities: 1) Thematic Issue Literacy and Society, Culture, Media, and Education. Ed. Kris Rutten and Geert Vandermeersche. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 15.3 (2013): http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol15/iss3/ 2) Digital Humanities and the Study of Intermediality in Comparative Cultural Studies. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. West Lafayette: Purdue Scholarly Publishing Services, 2013. ISBN 10:1612493157 ISBN 13:9781612493152 383 pages, bibliography, index http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/titles/format/9781626710023 US$39.95 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6AA843087; Sat, 14 Sep 2013 12:08:31 +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 E4B363057; Sat, 14 Sep 2013 12:08:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 44C5F3055; Sat, 14 Sep 2013 12:08:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130914100818.44C5F3055@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 12:08:18 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.340 comparing 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 340. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 12:22:24 -0400 From: Alex Gil Subject: Re: 27.333 comparing corpora; farewell to the DHO In-Reply-To: <20130913074232.465DC2D78@digitalhumanities.org> Hi Hartmut, what do you mean by comparing? Are you looking for differences in almost similar texts?: http://www.juxtacommons.org/home/index http://collatex.sourceforge.net/ Are you looking for clusters of repetition? http://artfl-project.uchicago.edu/content/pair http://superfastmatch.org/#1 Stylo is for stylometrics, (I'm not sure if it can do cluster recognition and output it in a way that's useful so I apologize in advance), which allows you to study the similarities in style in a corpus, not necessarily textual sequences or lack-thereof. 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4B3A63094; Sat, 14 Sep 2013 12:11:32 +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 902163091; Sat, 14 Sep 2013 12:11:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A5E52306B; Sat, 14 Sep 2013 12:11:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130914101121.A5E52306B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 12:11:21 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.341 what can we learn from the DHO's disappearance? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 341. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 12:44:40 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: disappearance of the DHO I'm almost certainly not the only one to wonder why it is that institutional units of digital humanities have for decades failed to last. Several greats of the past (e.g. Oxford, Bergen, Toronto, Princeton-Rutgers) and many smaller, more local centres have come and gone. Some of us have talked about organizing a session for one of the DH conferences to unearth and discuss the reasons. Since these reasons would involve living persons and academic politics the issues are sensitive. But surely this should not put us off the trail of a rather important question for the survival of new centres today. Alan Liu has asked, "Where is the cultural criticism in digital humanities?" Perhaps some variety of cultural criticism should be applied to the question of the DHO. What can we learn from its disappearance? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 4CDC13096; Sat, 14 Sep 2013 12:12:28 +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 3BCE43095; Sat, 14 Sep 2013 12:12:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9DD493094; Sat, 14 Sep 2013 12:12:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130914101218.9DD493094@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 12:12:18 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.342 events: architectural 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. 27, No. 342. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 18:12:46 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Architectural Records Conference 2-Day Architectural Records Conference in London Archiving the Digital: Current Efforts to Preserve Design Records 17 October, Royal Institute of British Architects, 66 Portland Place, W1B 1AD, 10:00 – 16:30 18 October, John McAslan + Partners Offices, 7-9 William Road, NW1 3ER, 10:00 – 16:00 Please join us for this conference co-organised by the British Architectural Library and the Victoria & Albert Museum that will bring together noted UK and international experts including the Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal), National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), and Cité de l’architecture (Paris) who are tackling the shared problem of managing long-term access to digital design records including CAD, BIM, and 3D modelling. Day one, speakers will assess the current challenges facing offices and collecting institutions and outline current best practices to preserve and share these records as well as suggesting continued collaborations to manage the lack of open-source software and non-proprietary formats. Day two features site visits to the office of John McAslan + Partners and Central Saint Martins King’s Cross to discover how practitioners and students create and maintain their designs in the virtual environment. For full programme details please visit: www.architecture.com/archivingthedigital Costs: 17 October: Students £20 (Proof of ID may be needed upon entry), RIBA Members £40, Non Members £60 18 October: Students £20 (Proof of ID may be needed upon entry), RIBA Members £40, Non Members £60 Advanced booking is essential _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D943C3096; Sun, 15 Sep 2013 09:44:59 +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 67E223093; Sun, 15 Sep 2013 09:44:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 05594308E; Sun, 15 Sep 2013 09:44:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130915074442.05594308E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 09:44:41 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.343 learning from the DHO X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 343. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Joris van Zundert (58) Subject: Re: 27.341 what can we learn from the DHO's disappearance? [2] From: "Jim O'Donnell" (48) Subject: Re: 27.341 what can we learn from the DHO's disappearance? [3] From: Jacque Wernimont (49) Subject: Re: 27.341 what can we learn from the DHO's disappearance? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 12:26:57 +0200 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Re: 27.341 what can we learn from the DHO's disappearance? In-Reply-To: <20130914101121.A5E52306B@digitalhumanities.org> I know this is the extremely easy take, but still: isn't this as simple as initial funding running out? Weren't most centres based on one off funding for 4 or 5 years, with institutional hand waiving about further funding if etc.? The question then is: why were many centres not able to transfer to a sustainable business model? I can't blame them. Humanities based researchers and professionals are not exactly power money people able to pay, nor afforded by their home institutions to pay the contributions needed to sustain e.g. training curricula, digital data archiving, e-publications. Best --Joris On Saturday, September 14, 2013, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 341. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 12:44:40 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > > > Subject: disappearance of the DHO > > I'm almost certainly not the only one to wonder why it is that > institutional units of digital humanities have for decades failed to > last. Several greats of the past (e.g. Oxford, Bergen, Toronto, > Princeton-Rutgers) and many smaller, more local centres have come and > gone. Some of us have talked about organizing a session for one of the > DH conferences to unearth and discuss the reasons. Since these reasons > would involve living persons and academic politics the issues are > sensitive. But surely this should not put us off the trail of a rather > important question for the survival of new centres today. > > Alan Liu has asked, "Where is the cultural criticism in digital > humanities?" > Perhaps some variety of cultural criticism should be applied to the > question of the DHO. What can we learn from its disappearance? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital > Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital > Humanities, University of Western Sydney -- 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: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 08:58:45 -0400 From: "Jim O'Donnell" Subject: Re: 27.341 what can we learn from the DHO's disappearance? In-Reply-To: <20130914101121.A5E52306B@digitalhumanities.org> So make the case for the DHO. For the list, then, a canvass: what are the three or five most significant works of original scholarship produced in the digital humanities? That is to say, works of original research or criticism that have made a difference to the way scholars working in the field and those influenced by them beyond the field know or think about some domain of humanistic inquiry. Where is the Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets or Renaissance Self-Fashioning or Surprised by Sin or Poetic Closure or Edel's Henry James or Epistemology of the Closet or Syme's Roman Revolution or Brown's Through the Eye of a Needle or Worldly Goods or Proust's Lesbianism or Voyagers to the West or The Mediterranean or The Corrupting Sea, as begotten and made in the domain of digital humanities? Second question: is my first question a fair question to ask? Jim O'Donnell --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 15:29:29 -0700 From: Jacque Wernimont Subject: Re: 27.341 what can we learn from the DHO's disappearance? In-Reply-To: <20130914101121.A5E52306B@digitalhumanities.org> Willard, I think this is a great question and certainly one that came up for me when I read the news. We're in the process of envisioning a center for the Claremont Consortium and our conversations often entail long-term planning processes. I sometimes find myself wondering if we need to be creating something that will last forever (or even for a long while). Is there no way that Kathleen Fitzpatrick's notion of planned obsolescence might be helpful even when thinking about institutional structures? It seems more difficult to imagine asking various funding sources for support for something designed to end, but I also think it's a useful thought experiment, if nothing else. I'm eager to hear the thoughts of others as well. Warmly, Jacqueline _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B39513099; Mon, 16 Sep 2013 07:20:25 +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 EA5873093; Mon, 16 Sep 2013 07:20:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3143F3092; Mon, 16 Sep 2013 07:20:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130916052015.3143F3092@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 07:20:15 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.344 learning from the DHO X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 344. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (29) Subject: obsolescence? [2] From: David Zeitlyn (31) Subject: 27.341 what can we learn from the DHO's disappearance? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 09:00:24 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: obsolescence? To Jacque Wernimont's question about planned obsolescence of a centre for digital humanities, I'd suggest that whether designed to be permanent (i.e. to last for a long time) or obsolescent, such a centre should have reason behind it, and that this reason should be discussed. If the former, then we put forth a continuing role, which for an academic entity would suggest a discipline on equal footing with the rest or an essential service that no one could ever perform on their own or would want to. (This is to ignore the strong argument I would make against the whole idea of a digital humanities service.) If the latter, then a specific goal would seem to be in sight, like teaching a child how to ride a bicycle. But in the case of computing, the bicycle is always changing, and riding it always suggesting new designs that have to be worked out. And I would wonder, what are the politics involved? What are the motivations that are not being articulated? What are the strategies designed for what ends? As far as running out of money is concerned, how often is this a simple affair, as when on a very strict household budget, down to whether to heat or to eat, the pocket is empty? How often is it a matter of not having money *for this sort of thing*? How often is it a statement, in effect, that the centre has failed to persuade enough people that it is worth supporting? And if that's the case, then we're back at the question of why it failed. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 11:48:18 +0100 From: David Zeitlyn Subject: 27.341 what can we learn from the DHO's disappearance? In-Reply-To: <8cd57198-ed11-4646-88e4-40100171097d@HUB01.ad.oak.ox.ac.uk> Thinking in the longer term perhaps winning the argument means disappearance in the sense that DH (people/ approaches) are no longer in ghettos or silos (aka "Centres") but become mainstream and hence vanish (disperse, difuse (pick a metaphor)) into academic departments without needing a badge or label. X is doing research on topic Y, they are using methods Z.…. If Z involves SGML and corpora, or large scale phonetic analysis using sound samples from online news broadcasts rather than traditional methods we say yippee there is a DH person. But we hope they can /will be able to stand independently the world. So perhaps the end of DHO -type centres is a sign of developing maturity? I may be being far too optimistic, and looking through rose tinted spectacles (but then I live on Rose Hill) 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=lYK4auAAAAAJæ ORCID Researcher id 0000-0001-5853-7351 Scopus Author ID 6602478625 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_RED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CDAD930A2; Mon, 16 Sep 2013 07:21:03 +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 7A52F309D; Mon, 16 Sep 2013 07:20:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 29A51309A; Mon, 16 Sep 2013 07:20:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130916052053.29A51309A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 07:20:53 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.345 doing something in an unfavourable 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. 27, No. 345. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 21:12:02 +0200 From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.336 on doing something in an unfavourable world In-Reply-To: <20130913074643.21A873083@digitalhumanities.org> Il 13/09/2013 09:46, Humanist Discussion Group ha scritto: > Pascal Junod, "a bilingual blog about cryptography, information > security, science, geekness and others", has published a letter of > resignation from a doctoral student at the École Polytechnique Fédérale > de Lausanne that, I think, is worth our attention. See > http://crypto.junod.info/2013/09/09/an-aspiring-scientists-frustration-with-modern-day-academia-a-resignation/ > for the full letter. it's always risky to speak about the choices of another person. so what i would like to say is about research in general, globally. the letter of the anonymous is only a cue. point 1: research is not easy. point 2:research is a social affair; as every social affair you must contract what you want with other people you have beside you. the society of science, with all of its defects, is that who brought to you every tool, every piece of knowledge, despite those defects we all know very well not only in theory but by experience. point 3: in research a person grows and growing mean that one becomes more and more able, strong, knowldgeable. when you start you feel strong but you aren't so strong, really. facing all these situations (and others too) can lead to frustration, it's true. but we are not babies ...frustrated by frustration: we are adults who struggle with frustration to achieve what we want. every great scientist could have said - more or less - of his time scientists the same things of the anonymous. but they went on and gave us the fruits of heir struggles: new theories, wider knowledge. others instead, despite their struggle, failed and died without recognition of their value. but we now recognize it. research is a wild roguery, so be prepared to it. best maurizio -- Camminare camminare scarpe rotte eppure andare Camminare camminare non curarsi di inciampare Con lo zaino o nudi nati gambe in spalla e poi sudare Camminare camminare per la voglia di scoprire turnèr mai indrèe! (Modena City Ramblers, Camminare, 2011) ------- 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/ che cosa sono le digital humanities: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JqLst_VKCA ------- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B3AAD311B; Mon, 16 Sep 2013 07:22:02 +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 04F0D30A2; Mon, 16 Sep 2013 07:21:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B734D30A2; Mon, 16 Sep 2013 07:21:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130916052152.B734D30A2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 07:21:52 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.346 events: Digital Humanities Australasia 2014 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 346. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 22:13:17 +1000 From: Craig Bellamy Subject: (Extended) CFP: DIGITAL HUMANITIES AUSTRALASIA 2014: Expanding Horizons Dear Humanist. The CFP for DHA2014 has been extended another 2 weeks until September 30. There are still bursaries for ECRs and graduate students available) __________________________________________ Call for Papers, Posters and BoFs. DIGITAL HUMANITIES AUSTRALASIA 2014: Expanding Horizons The Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) is pleased to announce its second conference, to be held at The University of Western Australia, 18-21 March, 2014. The aim of DHA 2014 is to advance digital methods, tools and projects within humanities research and develop new critical perspectives. The conference will provide a supportive, interdisciplinary environment to explore and share new and advanced research within the digital humanities. The conference is sponsored by iVEC@UWA, The University of Western Australia, Edith Cowan University, Perth Convention Bureau, and the Australian Literature Westerly Centre, UWA. HIGHLIGHTS • CONFERENCE WEBSITE: http://dha2014.org • CALL FOR PROPOSALS CLOSES: 30 September 2013 • NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: 30 October 2013 • REGISTRATION NOW OPEN: http://payments.weboffice.uwa.edu.au/mech/DHA2014 PROPOSALS The conference will feature long and short papers, panels, posters and workshops, and informal ‘birds of a feather’ discussions. We invite proposals on all aspects of digital humanities, and especially encourage papers showcasing new research and developments in the field and/or responding to the conference themes. Proposals may focus on, but need not be limited to: 1. WORKING WITH TEXT such as; • Critical text editing and electronic editions • Digitisation, text encoding and analysis • Text mining in historical scholarship • Book history, and digitising the book • Computational stylistics and distant reading • Digital curation and archives for cultural materials 2. NEW MEDIA and the DIGITAL such as; • Computational approaches in new media and Internet studies • The digital in culture, creativity, arts, music, performance 3. METHODS, APPROACHES, USERS such as; • Crowd-sourcing scholarship in the humanities • Quantitative methods in humanities research • Code studies, and code in the humanities • Mapping and spatial visualisation • Human Computer Interaction (HCI) in digital humanities research • Gaming for learning, serious gaming, and game archiving • Archaeology using digital methods including marine archaeology 4. WORKING WITH DATA • Modelling humanities data • Linked Data and the humanities 5. BUILDING the DH COMMUNITY and PRESENCE • Measuring and valuing research in the digital humanities • Institutionalisation, interdisciplinarity and collaboration • Curriculum and pedagogy in the digital humanities • Virtual research environments in humanities research 6. INDIGENOUS AND CROSS-CULTURAL DIGITAL RESEARCH • Cross-cultural studies • International comparisons SUBMISSIONS Abstracts of no more than 600 words, together with a biography of no more than 100 words, should be submitted to the Program Committee by 14 September 2013. All proposals will be fully refereed. Proposals should be submitted via the online form at http://www.conftool.net/dha2014/ Please indicate whether you are proposing a poster, a short paper (10 mins + 5 mins questions), a long paper (25 mins + 5 mins questions), or birds of a feather session (60 mins). Proposals will be assessed in terms of alignment with the conference themes and the quality of research within these or related themes. Presenters will be notified of acceptance of their proposal on 14 October 2013. PROPOSAL TYPES 1. Poster presentations Poster presentations may include work-in-progress as well as demonstrations of computer technology, software and digital projects. A separate poster session will take place during one day of the conference, during which time presenters will need to be available to explain their work, share their ideas with other delegates, and answer questions. Presenters are encouraged to provide material and handouts with more detailed information and URLs. Poster guidelines are available on the conference website to help you prepare your poster. 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 25 minutes (plus 5 minutes for questions) and are intended for presenting substantial unpublished research and reporting on significant new digital resources or methodologies. 4. BoFs (Birds of a Feather sessions) are 60 minute sessions that should be used for guided discussions on one topic. BoFs are informal, open presentations for exploring key community issues and debates within the digital humanities. Do you have an issue to discuss or are unsure how to progress a tiopic? For example: • Digital humanities what are the risks and rewards? or • Digital humanities and computer science as an interdisciplinary challenge – where to from here? 60 minutes will be provided for each session. Each speaker will have a short time to present their points for discussion and the audience should also have an opportunity to comment (recommend allocation of up to 40% of the total time available). On behalf of the Program Committee Professor Hugh Craig, The University of Newcastle Dr Craig Bellamy, The University of Melbourne _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 660E33072; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 07:31:36 +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 22DA63069; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 07:31:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0281B3068; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 07:31:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130917053124.0281B3068@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 07:31:23 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.347 learning from the DHO X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 347. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Martin Wynne (28) Subject: Re: 27.341 what can we learn from the DHO's disappearance? [2] From: Dean Rehberger (119) Subject: Re: 27.344 learning from the DHO --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 12:55:33 +0100 From: Martin Wynne Subject: Re: 27.341 what can we learn from the DHO's disappearance? In-Reply-To: <20130914101121.A5E52306B@digitalhumanities.org> I'm pleased to report that news of the demise of the digital humanities in Oxford is premature. I'm sure that Willard is referring to the institutional changes some years ago which meant that we no longer had anything called a Humanities Computing Unit in the Oxford University Computing Services department (itself now also renamed 'IT Services'). The key staff, services and activities remained, however, and we do now have 'Digital Humanities at Oxford' (http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/), which is not a centre, but an overview of a wide range of activities contributed to by the Oxford e-Research Centre, the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), the Bodleian Library, IT Services and, most importantly, researchers in many faculties. The aim is to support these researchers so that they can make an impact and operate more effectively within their respective departments and disciplines, to facilitate inter-disciplinary research, and to provide a showcase so that the large amount of digital activity across the University can be accessed via a single portal. Like my colleague David Zeitlyn, who has already contributed to the discussion, I hope to measure the long-term success of the "digital humanities" at Oxford by the extent of the fading away of DH centres and the obsolescence of the term. -- Martin Wynne IT Services, University of Oxford Oxford e-Research Centre The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics Director of User Involvement, CLARIN ERIC martin.wynne@it.ox.ac.uk --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 17:38:48 -0400 From: Dean Rehberger Subject: Re: 27.344 learning from the DHO In-Reply-To: <20130916052015.3143F3092@digitalhumanities.org> I don't think this is a particular problem of DH but the fate of many small academic units that are usually start and run through the enthusiasm of one or two faculty members (centres, programs, units, journals). I have seen many different things close down DH centers. Faculty members leave or move up the food chain, or return to their departments. Administrations change and/or change focus. Initial funding is not renewed. Corrosive battles erupt. Things fall apart. When asked to council new centres, it is best to run lean at first, build a sustainability plan, monitor strengths and build networks. The first wave of DH centers (at least in the states) tended to have key faculty members (with strong vision and cornerstone projects) but the ones that continue to survive for the long haul seem to have strong networks of faculty and administrative buy-in from across the campus. Best Dean ______________________ Dean Rehberger Michigan State University http://matrix.msu.edu rehberge@msu.edu deanreh@gmail.com Twitter: deanreh Aim: deanreh _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 025573073; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 07:32:17 +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 A1E793075; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 07:32:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C2FD3306C; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 07:32:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130917053207.C2FD3306C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 07:32:07 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.348 scholarships 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. 27, No. 348. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 00:31:37 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: SHARP Tuition Scholarships @ DHSI SHARP @ Digital Humanities Summer Institute At its 2013 meeting in Philadelphia, the Executive Committee of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) agreed to continue its sponsorship of 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 2-6 June 2014. For details of the courses, please see here http://dhsi.org/ . Applications are to be made through the DHSI site here 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://www.sharpweb.org/#DHSI _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 62032307C; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 07:33:20 +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 302213074; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 07:33:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9EB133073; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 07:33:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130917053310.9EB133073@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 07:33:10 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.349 grant for scholarly worksets X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 349. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 16:19:12 +0000 From: "Senseney, Megan Finn" Subject: HathiTrust Research Center awarded grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a grant in the amount of $437,000 to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in partnership with Indiana University for an exciting new project in the HathiTrust Research Center. The “Workset Creation for Scholarly Analysis: Prototyping Project” (WCSA) project will be directed by HTRC Co-director and GSLIS Associate Dean for Research J. Stephen Downie, GSLIS-affiliated faculty member and Professor of Library Administration Timothy Cole, and Beth Plale of Indiana University. Requirements for creating scholarly worksets are becoming increasingly sophisticated and complex, both as humanities scholarship has become more interdisciplinary and as it has become more digital. Developing the ability to slice through the massive HathiTrust corpus and to construct the precise set of materials needed for a particular scholarly investigation will open exciting new opportunities for conducting research with digital content in the humanities and beyond. Given the unprecedented size and scope of the HathiTrust corpus—in conjunction with the HTRC’s unique computational access to copyrighted materials—this project will engage scholars in designing tools for exploring, locating, and analyzing content from the HathiTrust so they can conduct computational scholarship at scale, based on meaningful worksets. In an effort to increase community participation in HTRC and engagement with the HathiTrust corpus, the HTRC will release an open, competitive Request for Proposals in November 2013 with the intent to fund four prototyping projects that will build tools for enriching and augmenting metadata for the HathiTrust corpus. Throughout the project, the HTRC will also work closely with the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS) to develop a set of formal data models that will be used to capture and integrate the outputs of the funded prototyping projects with the larger HathiTrust corpus. -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7395A3088; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 07:35:37 +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 DE6093067; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 07:35:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9CE0C3077; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 07:35:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130917053526.9CE0C3077@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 07:35:26 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.350 events: DHSI 2014; intellectual networks; seminars 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. 27, No. 350. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Anna Jordanous (52) Subject: Autumn CeRch seminars at King's College London [2] From: Sinai Rusinek (12) Subject: call for participants: Computer Technologies for the Historical Research of Intellectual Networks [3] From: Ray Siemens (23) Subject: 2014's Digital Humanities Summer Institute (2-6 June 2014, U Victoria) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 16:26:04 +0100 From: Anna Jordanous Subject: Autumn CeRch seminars at King's College London In-Reply-To: <5236DF1E.102@kcl.ac.uk> Hello all, we are pleased to announce an exciting and varied range of talks this autumn at the Centre of e-Research (CeRch) seminar series. Our first speaker (Tuesday 1st October) is Daniel Allington, from the Open University, on "Network analytic approaches to the production and propagation of literary and artistic value". All the seminars are listed at the bottom of this email and more details are available at**http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/seminars/2013-14.aspx. Seminars are held fortnightly on *Tuesdays* during term time at*6.15pm ** * (unless otherwise stated) in the*Anatomy Museum Space, at King's ** **College London, Strand Campus* (http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/spaces/anatomy-museum.aspx). Most seminars will also be streamed live and published as online video after the event.Twitter: @KingsCeRch hashtag: #cerchseminars The series provides excellent networking opportunities, and will be of interest to anyone interested in innovation and debates around digitally-based methods and computational technologies, especially where they interact with a range of other fields. Seminars are followed by drinks and nibbles. Hope to see you there, Anna Jordanous ---- Talks for the autumn semester's CeRch seminar series: > 1st October: Daniel Allington, Open University > *Network analytic approaches to the production and propagation of > literary and artistic value* > > 15th October: Kristen Schuster, University of Missouri, Columbia > *Linking Images and Text in Digital Editions of Vetusta Monumenta* > > 29th October: Gard Jenset and Barbara McGillivray, University of > Oxford/University of Bergen/Oxford University Press > *Thinking Big: escaping the Small Data fallacy in Historical Linguistics* > > 12th November: Carl Smith and Pierre-Francois Gerard, London > Metropolitan University/Goldsmiths > *Using Spatial Cognition to Improve Knowledge Construction* > > 26th November: CENDARI visiting researchers > *Title tbc* > > 10th December: Brian Reffin Smith, Collège de ’Pataphysique, Paris > *Détournement of applications as a creative tool (lecture/performance)* > -- Dr Anna Jordanous Research Associate Centre for e-Research Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1988 www:http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/people/jordanous --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 16:26:24 +0000 From: Sinai Rusinek Subject: call for participants: Computer Technologies for the Historical Research of Intellectual Networks In-Reply-To: <5236DF1E.102@kcl.ac.uk> Dear all, A few more places are available at our workshop, Computer Technologies for the Historical Research of Intellectual Networks , forthcoming October 6th-9th in Jerusalem. In the workshop, sponsored by the National Library of Israel in the framework of the “Innovative Technologies in the Humanities” series, and by the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, leading international scholars will present digital humanities projects that combine intellectual history and network visualization technologies, and will teach the tools and methods that have been developed for them. A pre-circulated list of background reading will prepare the participants for the unique opportunity to test and explore some of the recently developed technological tools by themselves, with the close, hands-on guidance of international experts on the subject. The participants will have the chance to explore open-access tools, experiment with datasets from several case studies and, finally, connect with the thriving international community of historical network research. to the program http://www.thedigin.org/workshop-program/ Keynote speaker: Prof. Howard Hotson, University of Oxford Invited Lecturers: Glen Worthey, Stanford University; Scott Weingart, Indiana University; Marten Düring, Radboud University Nijmegen; and Hannah Marcus, Stanford University Organizers: Arie Dubnov, Stanford University and Haifa University; Sinai Rusinek, The Polonsky Academy at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute More on the lecturers Researchers and advanced graduate students from all fields of the humanities are invited to apply. Please send a short bio and shortly describe your background, interest and any relevant research questions or projects (past, present and future) to dincunabula@gmail.com or sinair@vanleer.org.il The workshop is offered free of charge. We are sorry that we cannot help with funding travel or accomodation! --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 16:20:37 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: 2014's Digital Humanities Summer Institute (2-6 June 2014, U Victoria) In-Reply-To: <5236DF1E.102@kcl.ac.uk> [from the Digital Humanities Summer Institute] DHSI 2014 2-6 June 2014 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 anticipated 2014 offerings over the summer. We're very pleased at the response we've received already in relation to our offerings for 2014, 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. We had so many good ideas that -- even as we added more courses for 2014 (hitting a total of 27, before we ran out of rooms) -- we couldn't facilitate all of the excellent suggestions this year ... so please look also to 2015 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, and also look for an announcement of some DHSI activities at the Canadian Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences at Brock University. At the moment, preparations for 2014 are already humming along in Victoria, and our 'quiet' launch of our registration over the weekend has resulted in courses beginning to fill ... even a bit ahead of anticipated schedule. As in the past: 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 Innovation Lab @ VIU Cowichan and Vancouver Island University, the Simon Fraser University Library, the Simpson Center for the Humanities at University of Washington, the College of Arts at University of Guelph, Centre for Digital Humanities in the Department of English at Ryerson University, English at North Carolina State University, Hamilton College DHi, Bucknell University, Texas A&M University, the Editing Modernism in Canada (EMiC) project, Modernist Versions Project (MVP), NINES, the Cultural Evolution of Religion Research Consortium, the Advanced Research Consortium (ARC), the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory / Le Collaboratoire scientifique des écrits du Canada (CWRC/CSÉC), 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), the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP), and the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC), and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). All of us in the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL) are so very 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 2014 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, Aimée Morrison (U Waterloo) and Alex Gil (Columbia U) -- as well as our DHSI Colloquium, lunchtime unconference sessions, birds-of-a-feather gatherings, and much more! - To register for a 2014 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 at 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 720E93092; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 07:36:40 +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 66786307B; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 07:36:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2B9DB307B; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 07:36:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130917053630.2B9DB307B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 07:36:30 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.351 pubs: James Merrill; e-lit and cyberculture X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 351. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Davis, Shannon" (33) Subject: New Exhibit! The James Merrill Digital Archive [2] From: "Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven" (13) Subject: cfp: "New Work on Electronic Literature and Cyberculture" --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:45:26 +0000 From: "Davis, Shannon" Subject: New Exhibit! The James Merrill Digital Archive In-Reply-To: <52371826.1060804@mccarty.org.uk> The James Merrill Digital Archive When the late American poet James Merrill first accepted Mona Van Duyn’s personal invitation to make Washington University in St. Louis the home for his literary papers in 1964, neither Merrill nor Van Duyn, who was helping build the Modern Literature Collection, could have guessed just how extensive and significant his manuscripts would become. Nearly a half-century later, as interest in Merrill’s legacy continues to grow, a new digital archive is now providing convenient access to a cross section of the artist’s work. The James Merrill Digital Archive illumines the intriguing work that led to Merrill’s “Book of Ephraim,” a series of poems first published in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Divine Comedies in 1976 and the first installment of his apocalyptic epic The Changing Light at Sandover in 1982. The result of collaboration among staff from Washington University Libraries’ Manuscript and Digital Library Services units, the English department, and students and staff in the Humanities Digital Workshop on campus, the archive can be viewed at digital.wustl.edu/jamesmerrillarchive/. The occult was central to all of Merrill’s later work, including “The Book of Ephraim” that is the current focus of the James Merrill Digital Archive. As the poet himself puts it, the poem distills “a Thousand and One Evenings Spent / With David Jackson at the Ouija Board / In Touch with Ephraim Our Familiar Spirit.” The new website brings within easy digital reach hundreds of transcripts resulting from the many Ouija sessions Merrill and his partner conducted using a teacup and simple board, along with drafts of “The Book of Ephraim,” bearing witness to a complex creative process. The preceding selection was taken from an article about the newly launched James Merrill Digital Archive, written by Evie Hemphill. Read the entire article at http://wulibraries.typepad.com/whatsnew/2013/09/newly-launched-james-merril l-digital-archive.html. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 16:19:55 -0400 From: "Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven" Subject: cfp: "New Work on Electronic Literature and Cyberculture" In-Reply-To: <20130914101218.9DD493094@digitalhumanities.org> Papers are invited for a special issue entitled "New Work on Electronic Literature and Cyberculture." Ed. Maya Zalbidea Paniagua (Universidad La Salle Madrid), Mark Marino (University of Southern California), and Asunción López Varela-Azcárate (Universidad Complutense Madrid). CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 16.5 (2014): http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb. The theme of the special issue is in the context of digital humanities about critical, social, philosophical, gender, and pedagogical aspects of electronic literature, digital art, and cyberculture. Please submit papers in 6000-7000 words to Maya Zalbidea at mzalbidea@lasallecampus.esby 31 December 2013. Of particular interest are papers on digital humanities in general and including cybertext/hypertext theory and application, hypertext fiction (flash fiction, e-poetry, digital storytelling, online graphic novels, etc.), game studies and net and video art, and gender, identity, race, and sexuality in cyberspace. For the style of the journal consult http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/clcwebstyleguide. Articles published in the journal are double-blind peer reviewed and indexed in the Thomson Reuters ISI Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Scopus, etc. Call for papers: Papers are invited for publication in a thematic issue entitled "New Work in Ecocriticism." Ed. Simon C. Estok (Sungkyunkwan University) and Murali Sivaramakrishnan (Pondicherry University). CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 16.4 (December 2014): http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb. Ecocriticism has evolved into full-fledged critical theory and practice in multi-, inter-, and transcultural scholarship with its own conceptual tools of reference and theoretical frameworks. Papers are invited about aspects of nature and the environment in the contexts of culture, literature, the visual and other arts, media, communication, etc. Articles in the journal are minimum 6000 and maximum 7000 words: for the style of the journal consult http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/clcwebstyleguide. Please submit papers by 31 January 2014 to Simon C. Estok at estok@skku.edu and Murali Sivaramakrishnan at murali.eng@pondiuni.edu.in. Articles published in the journal are double-blind peer reviewed and indexed in the MLA International Bibliography, the Thomson Reuters ISI Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Scopus, etc. thanks and best, totosy de zepetnek, steven phd professor purdue university & purdue university press http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/totosycv * editor, clcweb: comparative literature and culture http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/ * series editor, purdue books in comparative cultural studies http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/series/comparative-cultural-studies & http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/seriespurdueccs 8 sunset road, winchester, massachusetts 01890 usa 781-729-1680 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A87BC309E; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:14:56 +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 0CA183088; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:14:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0CC2B3088; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:14:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130918061444.0CC2B3088@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:14:43 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.352 standing up for our discipline X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 352. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 05:45:19 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Standing Up for Our Discipline Among the pieces of bureaucratic flotsam and jetsam which mean that increasingly academic departments are not places where anyone can hope to pursue a life of the mind, an item which particularly struck Willard and myself was a survey by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (one would almost rather work for Wernham-Hogg than imagine working for a body such as HESA). For the first time, HESA is attempting to capture subject expertise of UK academics and it is proposed to add this information to league tables published in newspapers. We won't discuss the value of league tables, but, since the relevant Vice-Principal asked very nicely, we will try and fill out the survey. Whereupon we find that the categories developed by the great minds in HESA do not include anything that could conceivably be interpreted as Digital Humanities. There is something called 'Mass Communication and Documentation' which is apparently meant to cover culture and media studies and library science of various types. Documentation doesn't seem at all an appropriate term for the type of manuscript studies I have produced, and anyone who has read Raymond Williams must jib at the use of the term 'mass' in relate to media and cultural studies. There is no category for Digital Humanities, although the Research Excellence Framework (a truly Orwellian formulation if ever there was one) documentation does pick DH out as a distinct area of activity and MLA has recently issued a subject breakdown which mentions DH as a separate subject area, comparable to say Italian Literature (which also raises a lot of issues, so we won't go into that). So, Willard and I write protesting about this apparent bureaucratic oversight, and the matter is referred to HESA. The response is: 'We suggest that it could be coded under one of I – Computer Sciences, due to lack of a bespoke code for Digital Humanities perhaps go back to the department and see which of these codes might apply as closely as possible to the course. As far as we are informed there is no plan to revisit the JACS code for the moment.'. While I am all for building a closer dialogue with Computer Science, it would seem absurd to suggest that my limited coding skills were added to a computer science ranking. The expertise we want flagged up in King's is that of digital humanities. We want a bespoke code. I'm feeling very bruised about this at the moment, because of the difficulties of negotiating where a Digital Humanities return most effectively sits in the REF. The REF documentation does mention Digital Humanities, but it forms part of Unit of Assessment 36, which covers everything from Cultural Studies to Information Science, so how a return is most effectively positioned in the UoA is a difficult tactical matter. The pragmatic decisions we are having to make in exercises such as the REF are having a profound effect on our discipline which deserves more discussion. REF is unavoidable because of the funding imperatives, but tick box exercises such as the HESA Survey can be confronted, because they are really very pointless. Surely, at some point, if we are to affirm a belief that we represent an intellectual field of endeavour comparable in stature to other academic disciplines, we need to start more systematically protesting at pieces of everyday thoughtlessness, such as this survey. Many academic staff in the UK are being asked to complete the HESA staff survey by early October. I have suggested to Digital Humanities academics in King's that they should refuse to complete the survey, and have written to all the relevant higher-ups to explain why. I would like to suggest via Humanist that other UK academics who regard themselves as working in Digital Humanities should do the same. We need to start more consistently standing up for our discipline. 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 989303120; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:18:01 +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 C3303308C; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:17:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 55B23308A; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:17:48 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130918061748.55B23308A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:17:48 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.353 jobs at Lausanne, Waterloo, Keene 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. 27, No. 353. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Claire Clivaz (25) Subject: Two Information Systems positions in Lausanne (CH) [2] From: Ray Siemens (16) Subject: Assistant Professor position in Legal Studies/Digital Media [3] From: Emily Robins Sharpe (38) Subject: Academic Technology Librarian - Job Description --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 17:48:21 +0200 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: Two Information Systems positions in Lausanne (CH) HEC Lausanne, The Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Lausanne (http://www.hec.unil.ch), invites applications for Two Positions as Full or Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Information Systems - Big Data and/or Analytics, - Human-Centered Computing and/or Human-Computer Interaction Starting on August 1st, 2014 or on a mutually agreed date. The new professors will be part of the Information Systems department of HEC Lausanne. Applicants must hold a PhD in information systems or a related discipline. We seek applicants with a proven ability to publish in leading international journals and with a strong research and teaching background. Rank of appointment will depend on candidate experience and accomplishments. Please note that fluency in English and French is required; a two-year adaptation period is envisaged to acquire the required language skills. One position should strengthen our research activities and our Master program in Information Systems in the area of Big Data and/or Analytics, the other in Human-Centered Computing and/or Human-Computer Interaction. In order to create synergies, applicants should be interested in linking their research with other management disciplines and/or Digital Humanities. Applicants should have the capacity to attract research funds and to contribute to executive education programs in information systems. A job description is available at: www.hec.unil.ch/candidatures Applications should be submitted online using the above link by October 31, 2013. Please fill in the electronic application form, and upload curriculum vitae, cover letter, samples of scholarly work, and the names and the names and addresses of three references. Additional information may be obtained from Professor Christine Legner, Director, Department of Information Systems, HEC Lausanne, christine.legner@unil.ch. Prof. Christine Legner HEC Lausanne, Université de Lausanne Internef, bureau 127.3 CH-1015 Lausanne tel +41 21 692 3432 email Christine.legner@unil.ch --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 15:27:14 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Assistant Professor position in Legal Studies/Digital Media In-Reply-To: <0145D3BBE6493D46A695392D347CC9D36E1387BF@connmbx> > From: Christine McWebb > > Date: Tuesday, 17 September, 2013 7:05 AM Assistant Professor, Law, Security and Society The Department of Sociology and Legal Studies invites applications for a new tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level, beginning July 1, 2014. The successful candidate’s primary teaching responsibilities will be in the Legal Studies program at the University of Waterloo and the academic programs at the Stratford Campus of the University of Waterloo (http://stratfordcampus.uwaterloo.ca). Legal Studies is an interdisciplinary undergraduate degree program focused on analyzing the law as a social institution and its effects from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including sociology, history, philosophy, economics, and criminology. The University of Waterloo Stratford Campus currently offers two academic programs: the Bachelor of Global Business and Digital Arts and the Master of Digital Experience Innovation. Both the Legal Studies and Stratford programs are innovative and popular programs, and they are growing rapidly. Applicants should have a PhD in either sociology, legal studies, the law, or another relevant discipline (e.g., Science and Technology Studies). Duties include research, teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and supervising graduate students. Candidates are expected to have an active research program with an emphasis on the socio-legal uses and effects of digital media in governance, security, and the development of social policies more generally (e.g., biometrics, surveillance, data mining and intelligence, cybercrime, privacy, intellectual property, social activism, border security, mobility and migration). The salary range is commensurate with qualifications and experience. The closing date for applications is November 15, 2013. Send your letter of application, curriculum vitae and the full contact information for three references to Lorne L. Dawson, Chair, Department of Sociology and Legal Studies, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave. West, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. The University of Waterloo encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including women, members of visible minorities, native peoples, and persons with disabilities. Christine McWebb Director, Academic Programs Associate Professor for French University of Waterloo Stratford Campus 125 St. Patrick St Stratford, Ontario N5A 2L5 Canada Ph.: 519-888-4567x23008 Fax: 519-275-2771 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:48:55 +0000 From: Emily Robins Sharpe Subject: Academic Technology Librarian - Job Description In-Reply-To: <0145D3BBE6493D46A695392D347CC9D36E1387BF@connmbx> Academic Technology Librarian Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Position Mason Library The Mason Library at Keene State College is seeking applications for an Academic Technology Librarian to provide leadership in identifying, implementing, and maintaining instructional technologies and resources to improve teaching and learning effectiveness in the Mason Library. Under the administrative review of the Dean of the Library, the Academic Technology Librarian establishes strategic relationships and instructional programs to support student-created productions and participation in the changing information environment, collaborates with others to enhance usability and reach of digital collections and other materials and increase awareness in copyright, Open Access, and other scholarly communication issues. The successful candidate will be broadly focused and flexible in order to adjust their range of responsibilities to meet evolving campus needs. All library faculty serve as a liaison to a number of disciplines, provide information literacy instruction, and monitor collection development in those areas. We are committed to diversity and multiculturalism, and strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a desire to help the College’s ongoing efforts to provide opportunities to help students become responsible global citizens. Specific Responsibilities: ● Leads the implementation, assessment, and maintenance of instructional technologies related to information literacy instruction and high-tech library services to support student learning and scholarly communication, including training library colleagues (e.g. usability testing, virtual reference, social media tools, mobile computing, audio/video media technologies, web tutorials, online learning modules, and other library digital initiatives). ● Collaborates with the archivist and others to preserve, organize, and distribute the Library’s digitized and born-digital material and teach its use in undergraduate research; facilitates the deposit of faculty and student scholarly output into the College’s institutional repository. ● Provides guidance and instruction in fair use and copyright regarding media creation and use in the classroom, Open Access, and other scholarly communication issues. ● Collaborates with the Library Systems department on technology initiatives within the library. ● Works with faculty, staff, and students on digital publishing and digital scholarship methods. ● Develops and supports technology-rich learning spaces ● Participates in campus wide information technology initiatives as appropriate and collaborates with Center for Engagement Learning & Teaching (CELT). In addition to the above responsibilities: Library Faculty Responsibilities: ● Teaches course-related/integrated library instruction classes for assigned subject areas, as well as high-enrollment introductory classes. ● Participates in the design and development of the library’s course-integrated instruction program in collaboration with the Information Literacy Librarian ● Produces and updates library instructional aids, including resources pages on the library web site, in designated subject areas. ● Instructs patrons in locating and using the resources and services of the library. ● Participates in reference service including weekend rotation. ● Selects and evaluates library material in liaison subject areas in collaboration with library and discipline faculty and the Head of Collection Development. ● Engages in professional development and scholarly activities. ● Participates in library and campus-wide committees and meetings. ● Supervises student staff when applicable. Qualifications Required: Master's degree in library science from an ALA-accredited institution by time of appointment; demonstrated experience or coursework in teaching and assessing information literacy, and/or media fluency with student learning outcomes; experience or coursework in the use of instructional technologies; experience or coursework directly related to institutional repositories; ability to work both independently and collegially in a rapidly changing environment; proven organizational, problem solving, negotiating, interpersonal and communication skills; commitment to continuous professional development, specifically as it relates to the responsibilities of this position. Additional Desirable Qualifications: experience providing instruction and guidance regarding scholarly communications, copyright, and fair use in an academic setting; experience leading and managing technology initiatives in an academic setting and with digitization, metadata schemes, common digital scholarship tools and methods; experience with audio and video production; additional advanced degree in Instructional Technology or related discipline; evidence of professional involvement; academic library experience. This position has all responsibilities associated with faculty rank and tenure and will be hired at the rank of Assistant Professor with a starting salary of $61,720. Application: Apply online at https://jobs.usnh.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=53697 Applicants should be prepared to upload the following documents when applying online: * Letter of application addressing the required and desirable qualifications * Curriculum Vitae * Teaching Philosophy (300 words or less) * Contact information for three references Application Deadline: Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled or otherwise closed at the college’s discretion. Keene State College is located in the scenic Monadnock region of Southwest New Hampshire, and is an affiliate of the University System of New Hampshire. For more information about Keene State College, Mason Library, the University System of New Hampshire, and the Keene community, visit: http://www.keene.edu/, http://www.keene.edu/library/, http://www.usnh.edu/ or http://www.ci.keene.nh.us The College is a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges, a national alliance of leading liberal arts colleges in the public sector and is accredited by NEASC, and its education and music programs are accredited by NCATE and NASM respectively. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: JD Fleming (29) Subject: CFP Scientiae Vienna 2014 [2] From: "Mellor, Felicity" (25) Subject: CfP: Silences in the History and Communication of Science --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 08:09:59 -0700 From: JD Fleming Subject: CFP Scientiae Vienna 2014 In-Reply-To: Scientiae 2014 University of Vienna, 23-25 April 2014 Keynote Speakers: Thomas Wallnig (University of Vienna) and Howard Hotson (University of Oxford) CALL FOR PAPERS The deadline for all abstracts is 15 October 2013 Paper and panel proposals are once again invited for Scientiae 2014, the third annual conference on the emergent knowledge practices of the early modern period (ca. 1450-1750). The conference will take place on the 23-25 April 2014 at the University of Vienna in Austria, building upon the success of Scientiae 2012 (Simon Fraser University) and Scientiae 2013 (Warwick), each of which brought together more than 100 scholars from around the world. The premise of this conference is that knowledge during the period of the Scientific Revolution was inherently interdisciplinary, involving complex mixtures of practices and objects which had yet to be separated into their modern “scientific” hierarchies. Our approach, subsequently, needs to be equally wide-ranging, involving Biblical exegesis, art theory, logic, and literary humanism; as well as natural philosophy, alchemy, occult practices, and trade knowledge. Attention is also given to mapping intellectual geographies through the tools of the digital humanities. Scientiae is intended for scholars working in any area of early-modern intellectual culture, but is centred around the emergence of modern natural science. The conference offers a forum for the dissemination of research, acts as a catalyst for new investigations, and is open to scholars of all levels. Topics may include, but are not limited to: · Intellectual geography: networks, intellectual history, and the digital humanities. · Theological origins and implications of the new sciences. · Interpretations of nature and the scriptures. · Antiquarianism and the emergence of modern science. · The impact of images on the formation of early modern knowledge. · Genealogies of “reason”, “utility”, and “knowledge”. · Humanism and the Scientific Revolution. · Paracelsianism, Neoplatonism, and alchemy more generally. · Interactions between the new sciences, magic and demonology. · The history of health and medicine. · Morality and the character of the natural world. · Early modern conceptions of, and practices surrounding, intellectual property. · Poetry and the natural sciences. · The development of novel approaches to cosmology and anthropology. · Botany: between natural history, art, and antiquarianism. · Music: between mathematics, religion, and medicine. · The relationship between early modern literature and knowledge. · Advances or reversals of logic and/or dialectic. Abstracts for individual papers of 25 minutes should be between 250 and 350 words in length. For panel sessions of 1 hour and 45 minutes, a list of speakers (with affiliations), as well as a 500-word abstract, is required. Roundtable discussions or other formats may be accepted at the discretion of the organizing committee. All applicants are also required to submit a brief biography of 150 words of less. Abstracts must be submitted through our online submission form . If you have any questions, please contact the conference convenor, Vittoria Feola ( vittoria.feola@meduniwien.ac.at ). The 2014 conference will be held in the Juridicum at the University of Vienna, a modern conference building which is part of the ancient University of Vienna, founded in 1365. The conference will take place in the historic city centre of one of Europe’s most beautiful capitals, easy to reach by plane and train. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 12:32:15 +0000 From: "Mellor, Felicity" Subject: CfP: Silences in the History and Communication of Science In-Reply-To: REMINDER: The deadline for this call for papers is Monday 30th September. The Silences of Science: Silences in the History and Communication of Science A one day conference at Imperial College London, Tuesday 17th December 2013. Call for papers Silence is often construed negatively, as a lack, an absence. Yet silences carry meaning. They can be strategic and directed at particular audiences; they can be fiercely contested or completely overlooked. Silence is not only oppressive but also generative, playing a key role in creative and intellectual processes. Conversely, speech, whilst seeming to facilitate open communication, can serve to mask important silences or can replace the quietude necessary for insightful thought with thoughtless babble. Despite a currently dominant rhetoric that assumes that openness in science is an inherent good, science - and its communication - depends as much on discontinuities, on barriers and lacunae, as it does on the free flow of information. This conference will bring together STS scholars and Science Communication Studies scholars to explore both the positive and negative features of silence in scientific practice and the communication of science. Keynote: 'The Sounds of Silencing' by Professor Brian Rappert, Exeter University, author of Experimental Secrets. Possible topics include: - Media silences in the reporting of science. - The silencing of specific groups in public controversies about science. - Tacit knowledge as silent performance. - Withdrawals and periods of creative silence in the history of science. - Silent subjects in scientific research. - Laboratory secrets, scientific competition and the silencing of science - Institutionalised secrecy in scientific practice. - Laboratory design and the creation of silent spaces. - Interdisciplinary silence and the limits of collaboration. - Anonymous/pseudonymous authorship. - The negative impacts of impact, public engagement, FoI and other instruments of openness on scientists. ... and much much more! There is no conference fee. We hope to be able to make a contribution to UK travel costs for PhD students and independent researchers based outside London who have papers accepted. Deadline for proposals: Monday 30th September We invite proposals for talks of 15-20 minutes. Please email an abstract of not more than 300 words, including your name, institution and email address, to Felicity Mellor at f.mellor@imperial.ac.uk. Please put 'Silence CfP submission' in the subject line of your email. The Silences of Science Research Network is supported by the AHRC. This conference is the second of three meetings. The first was an interdisciplinary workshop, co-funded by the Wellcome Collection, which explored the roles and meanings of silence in a range of different practices and disciplines, from music and religion to feminist studies and oral history. The third event will be a day-long conference aimed at scientists, science policy specialists and science communication practitioners, to be held at Imperial College next spring. Further details about the research network can be found here: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/humanities/sciencecommunicationgroup/research/silencesofscience _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 34CE039E2; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:20:21 +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 1369E30A9; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:20:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B1310309D; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:20:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130918062009.B1310309D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:20:09 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.355 pubs: D-Lib 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. 27, No. 355. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 12:32:41 +0000 From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The September/October 2013 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available Greetings: The September/October 2013 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue is a special issue featuring selected papers from the 2nd International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications, with guest editors Petr Knoth and Zdenek Zdrahal, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University; and Nuno Freire and Markus Muhr, The European Library, Europeana. The issue also contains a report on the 2013 Open Repositories Conference. 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 Digital Public Library of America. The articles include: A Real-time Heuristic-based Unsupervised Method for Name Disambiguation in Digital Libraries By Muhammad Imran, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Doha, Qatar; Syed Zeeshan Haider Gillani and Maurizio Marchese, University of Trento, Trento, Italy Extraction of References Using Layout and Formatting Information from Scientific Articles By Roman Kern, Knowledge Technologies Institute, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria and Stefan Klampfl, Know-Center, Graz, Austria Bringing Order to Digital Libraries: From Keyphrase Extraction to Index Term Assignment By Nicolai Erbs, Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab, Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Iryna Gurevych, Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab, Technische Universitat Darmstadt and German Institute for Educational Research and Educational Information, and Marc Rittberger, German Institute for Educational Research and Educational Information Exploring Research Trends with Rexplore By Francesco Osborne and Enrico Motta, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University Multi-year Content Analysis of User Facility Related Publications By Robert M. Patton, Christopher G. Stahl, Jayson B. Hines, Thomas E. Potok, Jack C. Wells, Oak Ridge National Laboratory 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 September/October 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4CF703120; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 09:30:00 +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 252023095; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 09:29:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E9A4A3092; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 09:29:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130919072949.E9A4A3092@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 09:29:49 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.356 events: magazines & 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. 27, No. 356. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 21:29:17 -0400 From: Natalia Ermolaev Subject: Conference: "Remediating the Avant-Garde: Magazines and Digital Archives " (Princeton, October 25-26) Remediating the Avant-Garde: Magazines and Digital Archives Princeton University October 25-26, 2013 This interdisciplinary conference will explore the conceptual and practical ground where traditional area studies, art history, 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 in new ways, both as builders of digital resources and as scholars and teachers of avant-garde periodicals. Details about the conference & registration can be found on the conference website: http://bluemountain.princeton.edu/conference Conference speakers: Keynote: "Radical Remediation" Johanna Drucker (Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies, Department of Information Studies, UCLA) Panel 1: Representing the Avant-Garde Magazine Chair: Milan Hughston (Chief of Library and Museum Archives, MoMA) Discussant: Nicholas Sawicki (Art History, Lehigh University) 1. Kurt Beals (German, Washington University in St. Louis) "The Universal and the Particular in the Avant-Garde Archive" 2. Jonathan Baillehache (French, University of Georgia) "What User Interface for the Digitization of the Avant-Garde? The Dematerialization of El Lissitzky" 3. Sophie Seita (Comparative Literature, Univ. of London/Columbia University) "'What is "291"?' The Little Magazine as Fetish, and the Archival Pilgrimage of the Critic" 4. Max Koss (Art History, University of Chicago) "Losing Touch: The Digital PAN" Panel 2: Navigating Avant-Garde Collections, Systems and Networks Chair: Sandra Ludig Brooke (Librarian, Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology) Discussant: Andrew Goldstone (English, Rutgers University) 1. Hanno Biber (Institute for Corpus Linguistics and Text Technology, Austrian Academy of Sciences) "The AAC-FACKEL, a Digital Edition of the Satirical Journal 'Die Fackel'" 2. Gayle Rogers (English, University of Pittsburgh) "The Spanish Morgue and the Emergence of International Modernism" 3. Thomas Crombez (Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp/University of Antwerp) "Digitizing Artist Periodicals: New Methodologies from the Digital Humanities for Analyzing Artist Networks" Panel 3: Analyzing and Teaching the Digital Archive Chair: Brad Evans (English, Rutgers University) Discussant: Adam McKible (English, John Jay College) 1. Semyon Khokhlov (English, University of Notre Dame) "Modernism from a Distance: Data-Mining the Little Review" 2. Jeffrey Drouin (English, University of Tulsa) "Digital Pedagogy: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Teaching Modernist Periodicals" 3. Suzanne Churchill (English, Davidson College) "The Digital Database: A Sustainable Model of Student, Staff, and Faculty Collaboration" ***** This conference is organized by the Blue Mountain Project at Princeton University, a a freely available electronic repository of art, music, and literary periodicals that both chronicle and embody the emergence of cultural modernity in the West. We are currently digitizing 34 titles published in Europe and the United States between 1850-1923, in French, German, English, Italian, Spanish, Czech, Russian, Polish, Finnish, and Danish. This conference is being made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6639D30A9; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 10:05:47 +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 24F90309E; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 10:05:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 64CCB3088; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 10:05:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130919080537.64CCB3088@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 10:05:37 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.357 great works 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. 27, No. 357. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 08:57:44 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: an important question Recently on Humanist, in response to the discussion concerning the Digital Humanities Observatory's closure, Jim O'Donnell asked "where the great works of scholarship in DH are and whether it's a fair question yet to ask for them". I know we'd like the answer to be a long list of books. Some of us would very much like our own to be on that list. But I think that the most truthful word in Jim's question is that "yet". I think, purified of self-regard and shunning the bandwagon, we should be wanting an answer made in full knowledge of what the phrase "great works of scholarship" refers to when someone who knows what that means for the humanities utters it. And wanting that, we should be very slow to push forward much of anything written to date. To indicate the proper measure I am fond of quoting Clifford Geertz's agonized statement for anthropology, in "Thick Description" (1973), "We are reduced to insinuating theories because we lack the power to state them." I also have in mind the rush of joyous energy when cognitive psychologists, such as George Miller, came upon computational language and for an all-too-brief time thought that they had been given that power of speech at long last. (See Plans and the Structure of Behavior to feel that rush of excitement.) As you'll know if you've followed the history, Miller et al discovered soon after that what they wanted to say couldn't be said in computational language after all. I think we lack the power of speech for digital humanities. I think we need to be patient with ourselves -- and keep trying, trying hard, to acquire it. And -- very important this is -- avoid the cant, the hype, however flattering. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6638E39DA; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:03:05 +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 B65A5309E; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:02:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3393330A9; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:02:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130920070258.3393330A9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:02:57 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.358 great works 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. 27, No. 358. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (74) Subject: Re: 27.357 great works of scholarship? [2] From: "Jim O'Donnell" (82) Subject: Re: 27.357 great works of scholarship? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 09:16:51 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Re: 27.357 great works of scholarship? In-Reply-To: <20130919080537.64CCB3088@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, I think we already have great works of scholarship in the Digital Humanities. I was closely involved in it, but the scholarly aspects of it were really the work of Kevin Kiernan, so I would unhesitatingly point to Electronic Beowulf as a great work of scholarship. I would also argue that the Calendar of Fine Rolls of Henry III and such prosoprographical works produced here in King's as the Prosoprography of Anglo-Saxo England are works of great scholarship. They are fundamental for the study of their respective subject areas, embody profound learning, and have changed the way in which we view our subject areas. They are of course in digital form, which mean that the way in which they have expressed their scholarship is different to what I was brought up with, but surely that it is to be expected. More complicated is where digital work has fed great scholarship. For example, The Canterbury Tales project has achieved its objective of revolutionising our understanding early Chaucer manuscripts, but it did not achieve it in the way it stated at the beginning of the project. The process of structured reading of the manuscripts involved in transcribing them encouraged a complete rethinking of their contents, and paved the way for Linne Mooney's identification of the Hengwrt scribe. The various published works of such members of the Canterbury Tales project team such as Estelle Stubbs, Simon Horobin, Orietta da Rold and Michael Pidd represent collectively a major contribution not only to Chaucer studies but to our understanding of medieval English literature. It isn't a straightforward monograph publication, but a more complex process. 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 19 Sep 2013, at 09:05, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 357. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 08:57:44 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: an important question > > Recently on Humanist, in response to the discussion concerning the > Digital Humanities Observatory's closure, Jim O'Donnell asked "where the > great works of scholarship in DH are and whether it's a fair question > yet to ask for them". > > I know we'd like the answer to be a long list of books. Some of us would > very much like our own to be on that list. But I think that the most > truthful word in Jim's question is that "yet". I think, purified of > self-regard and shunning the bandwagon, we should be wanting an answer > made in full knowledge of what the phrase "great works of scholarship" > refers to when someone who knows what that means for the humanities > utters it. And wanting that, we should be very slow to push forward much > of anything written to date. > > To indicate the proper measure I am fond of quoting Clifford Geertz's > agonized statement for anthropology, in "Thick Description" (1973), "We > are reduced to insinuating theories because we lack the power to state > them." I also have in mind the rush of joyous energy when cognitive > psychologists, such as George Miller, came upon computational language > and for an all-too-brief time thought that they had been given that > power of speech at long last. (See Plans and the Structure of Behavior > to feel that rush of excitement.) As you'll know if you've followed the > history, Miller et al discovered soon after that what they wanted to say > couldn't be said in computational language after all. > > I think we lack the power of speech for digital humanities. I think we > need to be patient with ourselves -- and keep trying, trying hard, to > acquire it. And -- very important this is -- avoid the cant, the hype, > however flattering. > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital > Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital > Humanities, University of Western Sydney --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 08:47:14 -0400 From: "Jim O'Donnell" Subject: Re: 27.357 great works of scholarship? In-Reply-To: <20130919080537.64CCB3088@digitalhumanities.org> Willard, thanks for this exactly-on-point response. My reason for asking after the "great works of scholarship" arises from my years in higher administration in ambitious institutions. If in a contested environment I seek resources for an undertaking, I must make my case. There are many ways to make the case for DH, no question, and I've probably made most of them, or at least all the ones I know and can think of. But the argument that we are developing tools and methods and resources that will at some future date make fresh new scholarly discovery possible is inherently weaker than the argument that we are working in an area that has the following definite achievements, achievements intelligible to a psychologist dean, a theologian provost, a physician president, and a board consisting of Very Rich People. And it is not that we are in competition just with Traditional Humanities, but rather with the engineering school and the business school and the performing arts department, all of whom have crisp high concept answers to the "show us what you've accomplished" question. So to take my question and Willard's answer, I think I would summarize that the inquiry after great works is arguably not an entirely fair question, but it is an inevitable one that we have to face. I propose that as a *partial* explanation for the initial symptoms presenting, viz. the impermanence of DHO initiatives. Jim O'Donnell _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AE4E63A01; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:12:31 +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 0EBAA39DA; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:12:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6477930A9; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:12:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130920071220.6477930A9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:12:20 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.359 jobs at South Carolina; the Dance Heritage 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. 27, No. 359. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Doug Reside (59) Subject: Job at the Dance Heritage Coalition [2] From: "GAVIN, MICHAEL" (18) Subject: DH job opening at South Carolina --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 06:50:07 -0400 From: Doug Reside Subject: Job at the Dance Heritage Coalition Part-Time Technology Manager for Digital Projects The Dance Heritage Coalition (DHC), a nonprofit organization that saves and shares dance legacy materials, seeks a part-time Manager for Digital Projects. The Manager will be directly involved with the DHC’s Dance Preservation and Digitization Project (DPDP) in partnership with the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC), an initiative that has been funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation since 2002. The DPDP, formerly known as the Secure Media Network, is a multi-pronged project that includes archival-quality digital preservation of seminal dance-related moving images, search functions for a collection of dance-related moving image records, a secure collection of streamable media, searchable finding aids, and more. The media currently preserved and made available through the pilot version (http://archive.danceheritage.org) come from moving image material that has been digitized by either BAVC or preservation technicians at the DHC’s digitization hubs. This site also serves as a union catalog for descriptive metadata contributed by DHC members. Responsibilities:  Serve as lead manager for DPDP  Supervise work of technicians and coordinate with partners for effective collaboration  Track and evaluate deliverables; handle obstacles with output from digitization hubs and input into database  Advise on technology options and issues  Advise on possible partners and stakeholders and help to cultivate relationships  Assist in the organization of a “technology summit” on DPDP  Serve as a liaison between technical contractors and user communities  Identify and define project goal's and evaluation criteria.  Provide guidance for grant applications  Write and edit project documents such as concept notes, work plans, scopes of work, memoranda of understanding, progress reports, meeting reports, trip reports and other project documents as required Requirements:  project management experience  familiarity with databases and metadata best practices  familiarity with a variety of platforms and technologies (e.g., Archivematica, Islandora, Collective Access, PBCore) – must be comfortable conversing with developers and programmers  experience with meeting complex technical assistance requirements  demonstrated experience and ability to manage relationships and partnerships with clients and stakeholders, including ability to facilitate participatory discussion  proactive, self-starter with the ability to work independently and in teams in a collegial and collaborative manner  strong writing and editing skills  ability to prioritize task assignments and use resources effectively and efficiently; sense of urgency toward timely completion of scheduled deliverables  ability and willingness to perform other job-related duties as assigned Screening begins immediately. Location negotiable, but Washington DC preferred. Compensation and hours negotiable depending on qualifications. Search process has begun; open till filled. Deadline for strongest consideration: October 11, 2013. Submit by email (subject line: Digital Project Manager) a letter of application, resume or c.v., and list of references to kbell@danceheritage.org. All applications will be acknowledged. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 17:35:53 +0000 From: "GAVIN, MICHAEL" Subject: DH job opening at South Carolina Assistant Professorship in Digital Humanities (tenure-track) University of South Carolina [I have been asked by Professor Michael Gavin, Department of English, to circulate the following job advert. He advises me that the net is being cast as widely as possible and that "the search might be even more open than the final wording of the ad suggests. We're just looking for the best, most exciting work out there." Older members of this community may recall the leading work done at South Carolina by Robert Oakman (English and Computer Science) many years ago, including the International Conference on Computers and the Humanities in 1987, at which the beginnings of Humanist were conceived. --WM] The Department of English Language & Literature at the University of South Carolina (http://artsandsciences.sc.edu/engl/) invites applications for a tenure-track, Assistant Professorship in Digital Humanities (Open Literary Field). The search is open to all fields within English studies and all approaches to digital humanities though we have a particular interest in digital work in the areas of topic modeling, social network analysis, or mapping. To apply, please send CV, letter of interest, writing sample, and at least three confidential letters of recommendation (which may be sent either electronically through Interfolio [strongly preferred] or in hard copy) to: William E. Rivers, Chair, Department of English, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208. For full consideration, application materials must be received no later than November 1. 2013. The Department of English Language and Literature features a strong and flexible undergraduate major and graduate degrees in literature, composition and rhetoric, creative writing, and speech communication. Our diverse faculty includes internationally-known scholars in English and American literature, African American studies, composition and rhetoric, history of authorship and publishing, literary theory, linguistics, communication studies, film, and creative writing. The University of South Carolina's main campus is located in the state capital, close to the mountains and the coast. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has designated the University of South Carolina as one of only 73 public and 32 private academic institutions with “very high research activity” and also lists USC as having strong focus on community engagement. The University has over 31,000 students on the main campus (and over 46,000 students system-wide), more than 350 degree programs, and a nationally-ranked library system that includes one of the nation’s largest public film archives. The University of South Carolina is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. The University of South Carolina does not discriminate in educational or employment opportunities or decisions for qualified persons on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, or veteran status. https://apply.interfolio.com/22319 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 521693A01; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:13:02 +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 D1D54309E; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:12:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D59C339D8; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:12:54 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130920071254.D59C339D8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:12:54 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.360 events: literature and 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. 27, No. 360. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 14:38:31 +0100 From: Sharon Ruston Subject: BSLS Conference 2014 The ninth annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at the University of Surrey, Guildford, on 10-12 April 2014. Keynote speakers will include Professor Bernard Lightman (York University, Toronto) and Professor Mary Orr (University of Southampton). The conference will finish with an opportunity to visit Down House, the home of Charles Darwin, on the afternoon of Saturday 12 April. The BSLS invites proposals for twenty-minute papers, or panels of three papers, on any subjects within the field of literature and science. This year the organisers would particularly welcome proposals addressing links between science and European and world literatures, and proposals for papers or panels on teaching literature and science. However, the BSLS remains committed to supporting and showcasing work on all aspects of literature and science. Proposals of no more than 250 words, together with the name and institutional affiliation of the speaker, should be sent in the body of messages (not in attachments) to Gregory Tate (g.tate@surrey.ac.uk). Proposals for panels should include a separate proposal for each paper. The closing date for submissions is Friday 6 December 2013. The conference fee will be waived for two graduate students in exchange for written reports on the conference, to be published in the BSLS Newsletter. If you are interested in being selected for one of these awards, please mention this when sending in your proposal. To qualify you will need to be registered for a postgraduate degree at the time of the conference. Accommodation: please note that those attending the conference will need to make their own arrangements for accommodation. Information on local hotels will shortly be made available on the conference website. Membership: conference delegates will need to register as members of the BSLS (annual membership: £25 waged / £10 unwaged). It will be possible to join the BSLS when registering for the conference online. For further information and updates about the conference, please contact Gregory Tate (g.tate@surrey.ac.uk) or visit the conference website at http://tinyurl.com/pp6ubz5. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, BODY_ENHANCEMENT 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 067B93A09; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:14:00 +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 6FDEB3122; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:13:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 79FA539DA; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:13:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130920071351.79FA539DA@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:13:51 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.361 call for proposals: Dickinson Electronic 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. 27, No. 361. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 17:23:23 +0000 From: Jessica Beard Subject: Dickinson Electronic Archives vol 3 CFP DEA2: CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR VOLUME 3 (2014) Emily Dickinson’s Reading Culture “For Poets I have Keats and Mr and Mrs Browning. For Prose Mr Ruskin, Sir Thomas Browne and the Revelations.” ―Letter to T. W. Higginson, 25 April 1862 Why should we care what Emily Dickinson really read or about her relationship to reading, books, and authors? In Thomas Wentworth Higginson’s Atlantic article for “young contributors”―the article that prompted Dickinson’s account of her reading, oft cited, and her subsequent correspondence with Higginson―he noted: “For purposes of illustration and elucidation, and even for amplitude of vocabulary, wealth of accumulated materials is essential; and whether this wealth be won by reading or by experience makes no great difference.” For Dickinson, separated by location, situation, and temperament from the “wealth of… experience” that presumably characterized the lives of many professional writers, this counsel must have seemed pure balm. If she could write from the “wealth… won by reading,” then, as a dedicated reader, she would be on firm ground. Emily Dickinson’s reading provided a vital foundation for her writing. Dickinson’s reading is also significant on its own merits, however, as a practice that connected her directly and powerfully to a community of readers on both sides of the Atlantic. Dickinson’s reading has been on the critical agenda since 1966, when Jack Capps published Emily Dickinson’s Reading, 1836 1886; it was next taken up by Carlton Lowenberg in Emily Dickinson’s Textbooks (1986). Both Capps and Lowenberg were engaged bibliographers, documenting the worlds of books that Dickinson inhabited at home and at school. But as the idea of Dickinson’s circle has evolved, so has the idea of her reading culture. The recognition of reading’s role in Dickinson’s writing has led to an explosion of critical interest in this topic, as exemplified by the special issue on reading in the Emily Dickinson Journal (2010). As scholarship on nineteenthcentury reading practices, libraries, and book history has grown, a reconsideration of Dickinson as a reading writer and a reader is timely. Volume Three of the Dickinson Electronic Archives 2 will focus on Emily Dickinson’s reading culture. We invite proposals for works that examine topics such as: the circulation of works in manuscript and other informal patterns of reading and reception; the origins, development, and use of the Dickinson family libraries; reading in Amherst town and at Amherst College; transAtlantic publishers’ adaptations to a changing marketplace; intersections between women writers and readers; periodicals and subscribers in the mid to late nineteenth century; the response to particular books or periodicals among members of Dickinson’s circle. About the DEA 2: The Dickinson Electronic Archives 2 is a scholarly resource showcasing the possibility of interdisciplinary and collaborative research and exploring the potential of the digital environment to reveal new interpretive material, cultural, historical, and theoretical contexts. In doing so, the DEA2 opens a space of knowledge exchange for a networked world of scholars, students, and readers by offering a series of exhibitions on subjects of keen interest to readers of Emily Dickinson. Each exhibition will offer spaces for commentary that are of different sorts. At present the DEA2 offers a discussion forum, a space like that patrons inhabit as they walk through and talk about an exhibition, a space like that moviegoers inhabit when they stop for a nightcap or late night snack and discuss the movie just viewed. The DEA2 also offers Essays and Other Writings for every exhibition we offer. Contributions may take the form of essays, bibliographies, timelines, games, posters, or other genres, but should contain visual elements. Visual elements, in addition to appearing within their native contributions, will be assembled into a collective exhibition at the core of the volume. The deadline for proposals is September 15, 2013. Please send proposals of 5001000 words, with your contact information, by email attachment to the volume editor. Contributors whose proposals are accepted will be notified by November 1, 2013. Final contributions will be due March 31, 2014. The volume will be released in July 2014. Send questions and proposals to: Gabrielle Dean, PhD gnodean@jhu.edu Curator of Literary Rare Books & Manuscripts Johns Hopkins University 3400 North Charles Street Baltimore MD 21218 -- ****************** Jessica Beard Doctoral Candidate UCSC Department of Literature http://www.emilydickinson.org/ http://uchumanitiesforum.org http://uchumanitiesforum.org/ / *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1374698221_2013-07-24_jbeard@ucsc.edu_11466.1.2.txt http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1374698221_2013-07-24_jbeard@ucsc.edu_11466.2.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 51B7B3A09; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:15:00 +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 00E253A14; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:14:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5974D39D4; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:14:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130920071451.5974D39D4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:14:51 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.362 pubs: Digitised Mss to Europeana X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 362. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 10:18:56 +0200 From: Sam Leon Subject: Digitised Manuscripts to Europeana, September 2013 Dear All, We are pleased to be able to send you the DM2E http://dm2e.eu newsletter for June-August 2013 attached to this email. It contains news and updates about the project, including: •* A write-up of the DM2E Digital Humanities Conference “The Web as Literature”* *• A new screencast for the DM2E semantic annotation tool, Pundit* *• News on Pundit's success at the LODLAM Challenge* *• News on the DM2E Data Model* *• Progress of the Open Humanities Awards projects* *• Updates on the the DM2E community of open culture evangelists* *• A summary of DM2E presentations and publications from the last 3 months* If you have any questions about the content of the newsletter or would like to know more about any aspect of the project, do not hesitate to contact dm2e@okfn.org. -- Sam Leon Project Manager | skype: samedleon | @Noel_Mas The Open Knowledge Foundation http://okfn.org/ Empowering through Open Knowledge http://okfn.org/ | @okfn http://twitter.com/OKFN | OKF on Facebook | Blog http://blog.okfn.org/ | Newsletter *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1379578921_2013-09-19_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_8946.2.docx _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2C4A33084; Sun, 22 Sep 2013 10:14:19 +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 3AEDE306C; Sun, 22 Sep 2013 10:14:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8E84D3052; Sun, 22 Sep 2013 10:14:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130922081405.8E84D3052@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 10:14:05 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.363 great works 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. 27, No. 363. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: AMELIA DEL ROSARIO SANZ CABRERIZO (170) Subject: Re: 27.358 great works of scholarship [2] From: Willard McCarty (50) Subject: resources as scholarship [3] From: "Jim O'Donnell" (13) Subject: DH again --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:11:56 +0200 From: AMELIA DEL ROSARIO SANZ CABRERIZO Subject: Re: 27.358 great works of scholarship In-Reply-To: <20130920070258.3393330A9@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Andrew, Could you please give me more precisions about "The Canterbury Tales project has achieved its objective of revolutionising our understanding early Chaucer manuscripts, but it did not achieve it in the way it stated at the beginning of the project."? This is a core question! Thank you! Amelia Sanz Complutense University of Madrid > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 09:16:51 +0000 > From: "Prescott, Andrew" > Subject: Re: 27.357 great works of scholarship? > In-Reply-To: <20130919080537.64CCB3088@digitalhumanities.org> > > Dear Willard, > > I think we already have great works of scholarship in the Digital > Humanities. I was closely involved in it, but the scholarly aspects of it > were really the work of Kevin Kiernan, so I would unhesitatingly point to > Electronic Beowulf as a great work of scholarship. I would also argue that > the Calendar of Fine Rolls of Henry III and such prosoprographical works > produced here in King's as the Prosoprography of Anglo-Saxo England are > works of great scholarship. They are fundamental for the study of their > respective subject areas, embody profound learning, and have changed the > way in which we view our subject areas. They are of course in digital form, > which mean that the way in which they have expressed their scholarship is > different to what I was brought up with, but surely that it is to be > expected. > > More complicated is where digital work has fed great scholarship. For > example, The Canterbury Tales project has achieved its objective of > revolutionising our understanding early Chaucer manuscripts, but it did not > achieve it in the way it stated at the beginning of the project. The > process of structured reading of the manuscripts involved in transcribing > them encouraged a complete rethinking of their contents, and paved the way > for Linne Mooney's identification of the Hengwrt scribe. The various > published works of such members of the Canterbury Tales project team such > as Estelle Stubbs, Simon Horobin, Orietta da Rold and Michael Pidd > represent collectively a major contribution not only to Chaucer studies but > to our understanding of medieval English literature. It isn't a > straightforward monograph publication, but a more complex process. > > 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: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:09:13 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: resources as scholarship In-Reply-To: <20130920070258.3393330A9@digitalhumanities.org> In his reply to my deliberately provocative note on Jim O'Donnell's question of great works, Andrew Prescott cited a number of major resources that have been created in the last few years. I want now to bring into question whether, or more accurately, in what sense resources can be works of scholarship. Textual editors will be among the very first to grab their swords and rush out into the field to challenge such a provocative call. Among the authorities they are likely to cite, or Goliaths they are likely to bring with them, will be, I'd suppose, Jerome McGann, who in Radiant Textuality describes the Kane-Donaldson Piers Plowman as a primary theoretical statement, i.e. something that communicates the work which went into it, which reveals enough of that work to be judged a "great work of scholarship". Looking at the edition, or any traditional printed edition, one can understand how the work could be judged. Everything, or enough, is laid bare. I recall a mathematics dissertation at my undergraduate institution, Reed, the substance of which consisted of ca 1/2 page -- a few lines of equations ending with the word "behold!" Laconic, it's true, but everything was there to be read and understood. In Memory Machines: The Evolution of Hypertext (read it tonight!), Belinda Barnet describes Vannevar Bush's analogue computing devices, principally the Differential Analyzer. Famously Bush preferred analogue devices because what they did was entirely open to view. One could learn the calculus directly from the machine that did it with gears and wheels. "Watching the Analyzer work did more than just teach people the calculus. It also taught people what might be possible for mechanical calculation -- for analogue computers" (p. 16). Watch and learn! Digital machines, and the software written for them, are otherwise. Software is a kind of text (a very strange kind of text), but in a complex system you cannot know what it will do by reading the code. It's effectively a black box. Can a black box be a great work of scholarship? How can we *know* a complex resource for humanities scholarship, a black box containing numerous black boxes, is itself a great work of scholarship? From the testimony of many users? From their unsubstantiated opinions? How is the critical thought that went into it legible? How do we know what choices were made? In discussing Douglas Englebart's work, Barnett describes the great demo at which he finally was able to persuade the community of engineers and computer scientists that his ideas were worth the candle. (It's on YouTube, I think.) To replace the formula "publish or perish" with "demo or die" suggests a shift from one kind of intellectual culture to another. But in digital humanities we try to have both in one. Again, as Natalia Cecire said, the "plus" in "humanities plus computing" is where the really interesting problems lie. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 18:31:22 -0400 From: "Jim O'Donnell" Subject: DH again In-Reply-To: <20130920070258.3393330A9@digitalhumanities.org> An offline suggestion from a wise head lists these projects as answering my question ("where are the works arising from DH with high cultural prestige?") Here is the list you asked for: http://www.corpusthomisticum.org/ http://dante.dartmouth.edu/ http://codexsinaiticus.org/en/codex/ http://cdli.ucla.edu/ I know and admire all of these, but just as the one asking questions here, I will press the question again: how do we so impress on senior administrators the value of these and similar future projects that they are inspired to commit resources? Jim O'Donnell _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 54DC13090; Sun, 22 Sep 2013 10:18:37 +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 E12A53086; Sun, 22 Sep 2013 10:18:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0953D3084; Sun, 22 Sep 2013 10:18:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130922081826.0953D3084@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 10:18:25 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.365 comparing corpora: published 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. 27, No. 365. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 16:10:00 +0200 From: "Dr. Hartmut Krech" Subject: Re: 27.340 comparing corpora In-Reply-To: <20130914100818.44C5F3055@digitalhumanities.org> Thanks to Jan Rybicki and Alex Gil for directing my attention to Stylo, Juxta and ARTFL. All of these are valuable tools of computational text analysis. As such, they are in line with the general research objective of "discovering" some hidden or implicit quality of a given text. Even the attribution of an anonymous text to a certain author follows this "detective" plot. In pre-digital times, such qualities of texts were hardly noticeable, if only by intuition. My query actually aimed at completed and published studies comparing the quantitative and qualitative dimensions of entire corpora, say Einstein's total "out-put" as compared to Goethe's "Werke," the literary production of the French encyclopedists as compared to the writings of the American transcendentalists, etc. How much needs to be written to make a point clear or to make an impression? Which point and what impression upon whom? And how about those writers who were silenced, e.g. the numerical and thematic proportions of their published to their unpublished opera. At that point, text typology rather than text aesthetics may come into play, as it has become a known fact that all digitizable utterances of any one person may become subject to text-analytical tools. Perhaps not a value judgment, but a simple consideration may become relevant here, namely, if a certain utterance was, at least potentially, made with a view to the rest of humanity. I feel that this human perspective basically constitutes a "work" of art or science as opposed to aggregatable data. To attribute casual utterances to certain individuals does not appear to be a wise strategy in my eyes, if sensible communication is intended. And it should always be intended. By the way and slightly off-topic: The British physician Hugh Doherty, a disciple of Fourier's, seems to have been the first to distinguish preconscious, subconscious, unconscious, and "fully conscious" domains of experience in humans "so that experience means nothing more than consciousness" (1871, 2). I wonder if and how Doherty's "organic" philosophy may be regarded as an early forerunner or alternative to modern "digital" philosophy. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:26:47 +0100 From: Ann Gow Subject: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer vacany at HATII The Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute at the University of Glasgow is building on its innovative research and teaching program in information management and data curation. We seek a creative, forward-thinking leader to join our team and work collectively to catalyze this growth. The individual will have a strong commitment to excellence in both research and teaching and be excited by and able to thrive in a diverse, intellectually stimulating, multi-disciplinary environment. Recently designated one of only three iSchools in the UK, the post holder will work to establish links with other iSchools in the UK and internationally. Scholars from all areas of library and information science, information management, digital humanities and related fields are welcomed. Specializations of particular interest include the following with an emphasis on curation, management and reuse of data in the context of institutional settings such as cultural heritage organizations, museums, libraries and archives: The details of the post and how to apply can be found here: http://www22.i-grasp.com/fe/tpl_glasgow01.asp?s=4A515F4E5A565B1A&jobid=69746,5648985812&key=120137686&c=89564665659847&pagestamp=seskcjixyufyytpgwt ********************* Head of Subject, HATII 11 University Gardens University of Glasgow tel:+(0)141 330 5997 Skype:ann.gow @hatii_glasgow www.gla.ac.uk/subjects/informationstudies/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3F6CA3A0C; Sun, 22 Sep 2013 10:20:42 +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 638D739D3; Sun, 22 Sep 2013 10:20:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1300B309C; Sun, 22 Sep 2013 10:20:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130922082031.1300B309C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 10:20:30 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.367 digital challenge: New Variorum Shakespeare X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 367. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 08:22:47 -0400 From: Kathleen Fitzpatrick Subject: The New Variorum Shakespeare Digital Challenge: The Second Round The MLA Committee on the New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare (NVS) is sponsoring its second digital challenge to find the most innovative and compelling uses of the data contained in one of the NVS editions. This year the MLA is making available the XML files and schema for two volumes, The Winter’s Tale and The Comedy of Errors, under a Creative Commons BY-NC 3.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ . Scholars can freely download the XML files and schema from GitHub: https://github.com/mlaa/nvs-challenge. The committee seeks entries featuring new means of displaying, representing, and exploring this data in the most exciting API, interface, visualization, or data-mining project. It is especially interested in entries that combine the NVS data with another Shakespearian project, such as Folger Digital Texts, Internet Shakespeare Editions, or Open Source Shakespeare. The goal is to see the possibilities of the NVS in digital form and, in particular, the innovations in scholarly research that might be enabled by opening up the NVS’s code. Projects will thus be judged both on the quality of the interface they provide for the NVS and on the insights produced by the mash-up. The deadline for entries is 1 August 2014. The committee will assess the submissions and select the winner no later than 15 September 2014. The prize of $500 and an award certificate will be given at the 2015 MLA convention in Vancouver. Entries may be sent to nvs@mla.org. For more information about the NVS Digital Challenge, please see http://www.mla.org/nvs_challenge. Questions should be addressed to Kathleen Fitzpatrick, director of scholarly communication, at kfitzpatrick@mla.org. For more information about our partner projects, please contact Michael Best (mbest1@uvic.ca), of Internet Shakespeare Editions, or Eric Johnson ( eric.johnson@folger.edu), of Open Source Shakespeare and Folger Digital Texts. Please note that our partners are available to answer questions about the resources, not to provide technical support. -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 491893122; Sun, 22 Sep 2013 10:24:00 +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 47AFC309E; Sun, 22 Sep 2013 10:23:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 228DE307C; Sun, 22 Sep 2013 10:23:47 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130922082347.228DE307C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 10:23:47 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.368 events: sustainability; libraries; future of the humanities & social 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. 27, No. 368. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "marija dalbello" (134) Subject: cfp: Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2014 (Zadar, Croatia) [2] From: Marin Dacos (342) Subject: Horizons for social sciences and humanities : OpenEdition contribution [3] From: Ray Siemens (20) Subject: Ithaka S+R sustainability course -- applications open --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 17:33:34 -0400 (EDT) From: "marija dalbello" Subject: cfp: Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2014 (Zadar, Croatia) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE (LIDA) 2014 Zadar, Croatia, 16–20 June 2014 University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia (http://www.unizd.hr/hr-hr/english/aboutus.aspx) Full information at: http://ozk.unizd.hr/lida/ Email: lida@unizd.hr Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) is a biennial international conference that focuses on the transformation of libraries and information services in the digital environment. In recognition of evolving online and social technological influences that present both challenges and opportunities, “ASSESSMENT” is the theme for LIDA 2014. The conference theme is divided into two parts. The first part addresses advances in qualitative assessment methods and practices and the second part covers assessment methods involving alternative metrics based on social media and a wider array of communicative activities, commonly referred to as “altmetrics.” LIDA 2014 brings together researchers, educators, and practitioners from all over the world in a forum for personal exchanges, discussions, and learning, made memorable by being held in an enchanting and spectacularly beautiful city on the shore of the Adriatic Sea. LIDA 2014 Theme: ASSESSING LIBRARIES AND LIBRARY USERS AND USE Part I: Qualitative methods in assessing libraries, users, & use: applications, results. Contributions (types described below) are invited covering the following and related topics: • New methodological developments and practical applications in qualitative assessments of libraries and information systems; • Application of qualitative methods to the study of library users and use; • Studies using a variety of qualitative methods, such as observations, surveys, interviews, focus groups, case studies, cultural studies, oral history, grounded theory, document studies, Delphi studies and others; • Qualitative study of a variety of library user groups or potential users: by generation, by role or occupation, by level of education and technological literacy, and others • Assessment of library services in a variety of e-services, such as information literacy programs, e-learning, distance education, e-scholarship and others; • Practical transformations in library services as a result of assessment; • Emergence of new library visions and missions related to users and their reflection in new services as a result of assessment; • Discussion about general issues resulting from assessments: How are we to understand new or transformed library services in their own right? In relation to traditional library services and values? Part II: Altmetrics - new methods in assessing scholarly communication and libraries: issues, applications, results. Contributions (types described below) are invited covering the following and related topics: • Methodological developments and practical applications in altmetric assessments of scholarly communication, including caveats; • Related criteria for altmetrics, such as [articles, concepts, ideas] viewed, downloaded, reused, adapted, shared, bookmarked, commented upon; • Results from altmetric studies related to scholarly communication and evaluation; • Methodological and practical applications in the use of altmetrics in libraries and information systems; • Effects of social media on libraries and information systems of all kinds; • Criteria and metrics for assessing library employment of social media; • Results from studies of use of social media in libraries, particularly involving any kind of assessment; • Changes in libraries’ use of social media; • Discussion about general issues: How can and should libraries use social media? How are libraries and information systems to respond to the ever growing importance of social media in society? What are opportunities and challenges? Types of contributions Invited are the following types of contributions: 1. Papers: scholarly studies and reports on research and practice that will be presented at the conference and included in the published proceedings. The proceedings will be published in print and on the LIDA web site. 2. Posters: short graphic presentations on research studies, advances, examples, or preliminary work that will be presented in a special poster session. Awards will be given for Best Poster and Best Student Poster. 3. Demonstrations: live examples of working projects, services, interfaces, commercial products, or developments-in-progress that will be presented during the conference in specialized facilities or presented in special demonstration sessions. 4. Workshops: two to four-hour sessions that will be tutorial and educational in nature. Workshops will be presented before and after the main part of the conference and will require separate fees, to be shared with workshop organizers. 5. PhD Forum: short presentations by Ph.D. students, particularly as related to their dissertation, in a session organized by the European Chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (EC/ASIST); responses will be provided by a panel of educators at this forum. Submissions: Instructions for all submissions and author guidelines are provided at LIDA 2014 site http://ozk.unizd.hr/lida/. All submissions will be refereed. Important dates: Papers and posters: an extended abstract by 15 January 2014. Acceptance decision: announced by 10 February 2014. Full papers and poster summaries for Proceedings: by 15 April 2014. Workshops: a short proposal by 31 January 2014. Demonstrations: a proposal by 1 March 2014. PhD Forum: dissertation proposal or research description by 1 March 2014. Conference contact information Conference co-directors: TATJANA APARAC-JELUSIC, Ph.D., Department of Information Science, University of Zadar; Zadar, Croatia; taparac@unizd.hr (also for general correspondence) TEFKO SARACEVIC, Ph.D., School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University; New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA tefkos@rutgers.edu Program chairs: For part I: DAVID BAWDEN, Ph.D., Centre for Information Science, City University London, London, UK. db@soi.city.ac.uk For part II: BLAISE CRONIN, Ph.D., D.S.Sc., School of Informatics & Computing, Indiana University, Indiana, USA. bcronin@indiana.edu Venue Zadar is one of the enchanting cities on the Adriatic coast, rich in history. It still preserves a very old network of narrow and charming city streets, as well as a Roman forum dating back to the first century AD. In addition, the Zadar region is one of unparalleled natural beauty that includes two national parks. On the Adriatic Sea is the Kornati National Park, an unusual and colorful group of some 100 small islands. The National Park Paklenica is also close by, for those who enjoy exploring a more mountainous terrain. Croatia is a great tourist destination of unspoiled beauty. -- Marija Dalbello, Ph.D. Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Library & Info Science Director, Ph.D. Program School of Communication and Information 4 Huntington Street Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-1071 Voice: 848.932.8785 FAX: 732.932.6916 Internet: dalbello@rutgers.edu http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/directory/dalbello/index.html *Winner of 2012 Emerald Literati Award http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?show=abstract&articleid=1921933 *Visible Writings: Cultures, Forms, Readings http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/acatalog/Visible_Writings.html --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 14:40:18 -0500 From: Marin Dacos Subject: Horizons for social sciences and humanities : OpenEdition contribution Dear all, You will find here the official contribution of OpenEdition to the Vilnius european conference about the future of Social sciences and humanities. Pierre Mounier (deputy director of OpenEdition) and Dasa Radovic (International cooperation manager), will be there and hope to meet you and to discuss with you about these important topics. Please post any comments here : http://oep.hypotheses.org/1228 Best regards, Marin Dacos [image: Vilnius at dusk]The 23rd and 24th of september, the lithuanian presidency of the European Council is organizing at Vilnius a conference about the social sciences and humanities in the new “Horizon 2020″ research framework. To prepare the conference, a consultation has been set up before the summer, calling for the research community in Europe to send written contributions to the organizers. Serving the research communities in humanities and social sciences for almost 15 years for their digital communication and dissemination needs in open access, OpenEdition proposed the contribution published below. The organizers of the conference announced having received more than 300 contributions so far, and 400 participants from all over Europe will attend the conference. It is a huge pleasure for OpenEdition team to see such a vibrant and proactive community in Europe willing to think collectively the future of humanities and social sciences and their essential contribution to a better society. Pierre Mounier, deputy director and Dasa Radovic, international development manager of OpenEdition will attend the conference. - About the Vilnius conference : http://horizons.mruni.eu/ - About the Lithuanian presidency of the european council : http://www.eu2013.lt/en/ - About the Horizon 2020 program : http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/ - About OpenEdition : http://openedition.org - Contact : contact@openedition.org - Download the PDF version of OpenEdition contribution : OpenEdition-SSH-contribution *OpenEdition contribution to Consultation on the state of the Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH) in Europe* *Please indicate your position: e.g. individual researcher, representative of research institution, representative of association, …. and your fields of research!* OpenEdition http://www.openedition.org is a european initiative to promote the online publication and digital distribution of open access research in the humanities and social sciences, encompassing all disciplines. Open Edition has four multi-lingual distribution platforms of international scope: - *Revues.org* http://www.revues.org : founded in 1999, Revues.org distributes over 350 journals in all disciplines of the humanities and social sciences in fourteen languages, which represents over 100,000 open access articles. - *Calenda* http://calenda.org is an announcement platform for the humanities and social sciences posting announcements for seminars, conferences, calls for contributions and employment opportunities. 22000 notices have been published on Calenda since its creation in 2000. - *Hypotheses* http://hypotheses.org is a research blog platform for the humanities and social sciences. Hypotheses presents an innovative mode of communicating research results. The platform features all the advantages of social media and is monitored by the academic community assuring the excellence of its research credentials. It encourages interactions between researchers and society by enabling instant, two-way exchange concerning knowledge communicated in an easily appropriable format. Today Hypotheses hosts over 600 blogs publishing in over 10 languages. French-, English-, German-, Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking researchers make intensive use of the platform to exchange and distribute information about research progress or the latest developments in their field in real time. - *OpenEdition Books* http://books.openedition.org enables the distribution of book collections on open access. Opened in February 2013, the platform hosts over thirty publishers in the humanities and university presses based in several European countries. Between now and 2020, 16,000 books will eventually be published online. OpenEdition is supported by the CNRS, EHESS, Université d’Aix-Marseille, Université d’Avignon, the French Research Ministry and the Bibliothèque Scientifique Numérique national research infrastructure. Open Edition is a partner to the Max Weber Foundation in Bonn, the Uned in Madrid, The Gubelkian Foundation in Lisbon and member of Dariah. OpenEdition received funding from French national research agency within the framework of their Facilities of Excellence future investment program. It is a partner in the Intertextes european project and was granted Google financing for the development of the digital humanities. *HSS research is often conducted in discipline-defined contexts. This may be an obstacle in a problem-driven research environment (“challenges of society”). Can you give examples of how your own research area has been involved in (a) opening up to other research fields, (b) translating findings and/or methods to or from other academic fields, (c) contributing to the emergence of new, cross-disciplinary fields, and/or (d) transcending fields of academic research with its results and insights?* Over the course of the last 15 years, the development of digital publication has enabled the creation of new, exclusively online journals, very often on open access. Such editorial creation is essential to academic life in HSS disciplines as it encourages the emergence of new focuses for research, in a multidisciplinary perspective. Of the 350 journals distributed by Revues.org, over 130 are considered to be “multidisciplinary” http://www.openedition.org/6749 . Very often they are journals focusing on geographical or cultural areas, exploring a region of the world via research from different disciplines. The*Nuevo Mundo* journal http://nuevomundo.revues.org , for example, deals with Latin America from several angles. The journal attracts a large readership (over 60,000 visits per month), and the journal is an important source of information for understanding this region of the world. The same applies to EJTS: *European Journal of Turkish Studies* http://ejts.revues.org but also other journals dealing with important themes or research subjects: *Genre, Sexualité et Société* journal http://gss.revues.org , for example, combines the perspectives of sociologists, anthropologists, as well as geographers to tackle the gender issues of the French Presidential elections or the social construction of homosexuality. There are also *Midas*, < http://midas.revues.org>, based in Portugal, an interdisciplinary journal dealing with museums, and *Vertigo*, http://vertigo.revues.org , a Canadian journal specializing in the environment sciences. On another hand, blogs and research notebooks provide greater fluidity as a digital publishing tool, providing lighter, faster communication abilities. Their form enables a non-academic readership to study academic research results in real time, stay abreast of the current state of their field, or instantly access explanatory elements related to a current topic. Here are some examples of blog posts related to H2020 key topics, published in french on the Hypotheses platform : - *Food* - *Health* - *Aging* - *Climate change* - *Transport* *The research agendas of HSS disciplines are highly varied. What are the broad research questions, new methodological or theoretical developments, or generally new approaches that are high on your own research agenda? Which ones are high on the research agenda of your field? Where do you see potential contributions to societal relevance?* The main issue facing the humanities and social sciences in the years to come is the mobilization of digital technologies in the development of research. This new research field, the “digital humanities”, has undergone exponential growth and promises to deeply change the disciplines in its field. Those involved generally agree that it is a field that is vast and presents itself in many forms[1] and affects many dimensions of research: - the relationship to sources, which are now digitized, or natively digital. Digital technologies enable researchers to explore, exploit and represent their sources in a very different way to the past. “Distant reading”[2] and data visualization practices based on the development of the “big data” paradigm[3] are a sign of this evolution. The digital humanities has become a new methodological proposition in the humanities and social sciences where modeling activities[4] play a central role. - the rapid evolution of academic communication via the social media. Traditional forms of publication, research monographs and scholarly journals are complemented and sometimes rivalled by other forms of communication, like blogs, wikis and social networks, which respond to new needs: speed, openness, and interactivity. The whole ecosystem of academic communication has been turned upside down. The development of new evaluation practices, like open peer review, open peer commentary or altmetrics are signs of a repositioning of selection practices for the categorizing and appropriation of research results[5]. The development of the digital humanities presents an historical opportunity for the humanities and social sciences to review their relationship to the whole of society and to bring responses to its needs: the first step here is to make available large sections of its cultural heritage on open access in the form of digital manuscripts, the photographs of historical and artistic productions, 3D representations of archaeological monuments, videos of social practices, and oral or musical corpuses[6]. Computer analysis and modeling of large corpuses of data enables the production of new approaches to social and cultural phenomena. This knowledge can have important repercussions for industry, in linguistics for example, with the development of areas such as automatic language processing and automatic translation applications (Systran is a good example) or in sociology where the analysis of social networks has led to the development of industrial applications relating to the exploitation of Web data (Linkfluence is another one). Finally, open access publication practices via the intermediary of online journals, blogs, wikis and other social media enables the whole of society in the diversity of its components (professional, associative, teaching, and non-academic) to benefit from the latest research results and developments in knowledge but also to contact researchers directly according to the focus of their studies. Theories relating the interpenetration of research and society have long been developed, whether in a global sense, in the sociology of science[7], but also in a more applied way within different disciplinary fields, with public history. These decades-old theories take on a new dimension through the possibilities offered by Internet and social web practices. Supported by digital history, public history for example has seen rapid growth through projects as diverse as the documentary enhancement of a photographic archive dating from the Second World War[8] or the constitution of a multimedia archive based on the 11 September attacks[9]. *“Horizon 2020”will provide new opportunities for the HSS to contribute to new research on “challenges of society”. How could your field potentially contribution to this? Please specify the “societal challenge/s” most likely to emanate from your research community, and suggest fruitful developments in this process, if possible.* Our sector of activity has a major contribution to play in the resolution of “major challenges of society” essentially by distributing open access publications likely to enlighten decision makers in their actions by supplying quality information and relevant analysis. This implies significant support work in terms of software engineering, IT administration, referencing, indexing and publishing. The major challenges facing the sector are twofold: - The construction of solid economic models for the distribution of open access publications in digital formats. While in its recent recommendation[10], the European Commission acknowledges the importance of open access publications and recommends its member states to implement national policies in this area, it does not provide a specific model for implementing its recommendation in the humanities and social sciences. Indeed, most debates concerning open access in Europe and on other continents relate to the publication of STM rather than HSS articles, and there is barely any mention of HSS books. This is the case for the “Finch report”[11] which deliberately excludes books from its scope. Oapen’s report in March 2010[12] underlines the diversity, eclecticism and fragility of economic models in Europe. Since, experiments and initiatives have been developed, but their results are yet to be confirmed and dominant models adapted to the special situation of humanities and social sciences publishing are yet to emerge. - The formation of academic digital libraries reaching critical mass on a european level and offering optimized access to research results by socio-economic actors working in these areas. Repository-harvesting services such as Driver have an important role to play but are insufficient to ensure the visibility of european HSS publication in an international environment. With platforms such as Jstor (over 2000 journals), the United States has a head-start over existing european platforms, ensuring an immediate advantage in terms of intensity of use and visibility in the research space. In the area of online publication, as in other fields, the network effect is powerful and reinforces itself over time. The bandwagon effect has not yet been reached, which means there is still room to manoeuvre but we must not hang around. *Do you foresee (or have you experienced) obstacles that may prevent you and your research community from making contributions to the “major challenges of society” approach? Please provide specific details.* The main obstacles come from excessive disciplinary specialization, the persistence of publication models inherited from printing and the deployment of highly restrictive evaluation systems. These three aspects are related. The list of “closed” publications, for example, (the list of journals in which an article has to be published in order for it to be taken into account) are organized along disciplinary lines, to the disadvantage of multidisciplinary journals, or journals that explore a single research subject through methodologies from several disciplines. The most prestigious journals that make up the majority of these lists are also often the oldest, based on traditional publishing structures and generally dependent on print-based distribution. These publication lists, therefore, effectively “petrify” the academic publishing landscape and discourage the creation of new works. However, the emergence of new subjects for research, new approaches and new paradigms, is often channeled through new creations in the humanities and social sciences. In a flexible environment, in perpetual motion, where knowledge and skills relating to emerging issues need to be mobilized quickly, the traditional publication models, based on printing, perpetuated by prestigious established publications form an important barrier. *In order to foster a more integrative approach that would also benefit HSS research communities, what would you consider the most important incentives that “Horizon 2020” could provide?* Horizon 2020 should offer the chance to offer a “new deal” for the humanities and social sciences. Since their “golden age” in the 60s and 70s, these disciplines have been progressively marginalized to the benefit of science and technology. The humanities and social sciences are now constrained to defend their turf, pleading for the protection of their unique quality in a world governed by logic foreign to their make-up. This sidesteps the real issue. The humanities and social sciences have a role to claim at the heart of the construction of contemporary societies. Several recently published texts relate to this claim. We might refer to the “Manifesto for Social Sciences” in Europe, published by C. Calhoun and M. Wieviorka in the new *Socio* journal[13] but also more recently, to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Commission on the Humanities & Social Sciences report, “The Heart of the Matter”[14] Sometimes viewed as a threat to the humanities and social sciences, the digital revolution affects many areas of activity and should be considered as an opportunity for these disciplines, for at least three reasons: - Because digital technologies release the ability these disciplines have to analyze social logic and interpret cultural logic, thus to produce new knowledge about man and society in new proportions. - Because the development of Internet now enables them to distribute the knowledge they produce to everyone, without restrictions, and thus to influence the evolution of society itself, from the micro-social level of individual decision making to the macro-social level of public debate. - Because the new collaborative practices enabled by these technologies lead the humanities and social sciences to implicate communities of interest in the co-production of knowledge and not only in their consumption, thus building productive, reflexive forms of interaction between the academic disciplines and society. The Horizon 2020 program should provide a framework for the humanities and social sciences, under the banner of the “digital humanities”, to make this possible. To this end, three measures should be taken: - There has to be *financing for the development of cyber-infrastructures at the european level to give research teams the means, tools and services to mobilize the digital technologies they need*. The directions laid out in the ESFRI road map should be followed and developed as a lever for the HSS. - There has to be *financing research programs relating to the digital humanities, which especially evaluate the epistemological impact of digital technologies on the humanities and social sciences*. Europe’s latency in this respect, especially in relation to the USA, has to be rectified, both in terms of publications and participation in associations, forums and international networks in the field. - There has to be *support for the development of platforms with an international scope in the field of academic publication*. We should aim at providing the european community of researchers in the humanities and social sciences with leaders in the digital distribution of research results in a highly competitive area. This should entail considerable investment into R&D enabling them to offer innovative and effective academic information services. The development of long-term economic models for open access publication should also receive support, in particular to encourage a diversity of models adapted to the specific nature of each discipline. Finally, special attention should be paid to publication languages, the diversity of which cannot be reduced by the domination of a single language, both in the multilingual european context and due to the special status that language possesses in the research process even in the humanities and social sciences. ------------------------------ [1] P. Svenson, “Beyond the big tent”, in M. Gold (ed.) *Debates in the Digital Humanities*, University of Minnesota Press, 2012 < http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/text/22> [2] F. Moretti. *Graphs, Maps, Trees*. London: Verso, 2005 [3] Jb. Michel and al. “Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books”.*Science* 331, no. 6014 (14 January 2011): 176‑182. doi:10.1126/science.1199644 [4] W. McCarty, *Humanities Computing*, Plagrave, 2005 [5] F. Casati, and al.. “Liquid Publications: Scientific Publications meet the Web”. Departmental Technical Report. University of Trento, December 2007.http://eprints.biblio.unitn.it/1313/ [6] “Our Cultural Commonwealth”: The report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences. (New York: ACLS, 2006) [7] B. Latour, Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987. [8] P. Peccatte, “PhotosNormandie a cinq ans – un bilan en forme de FAQ”. *Déjà vu*, 27 January 2012. http://culturevisuelle.org/dejavu/1097 [9] http://911digitalarchive.org/ For a complete panorama of public and digital history, see: Noiret, Serge. “La digital history: histoire et mémoire à la portée de tous” in Mounier, Pierre. *Read/Write Book 2 Une introduction aux humanités numériques*. Marseille OpenEdition Press, 2012. (pp. 151-177) Web. http://books.openedition.org/oep/258 . [10] http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/recommendation-access-and-preservation-scientific-information_fr.pdf [11] http://www.researchinfonet.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Finch-Group-report-FINAL-VERSION.pdf [12] J. Adema “Overview of Open Access models for ebooks in Humanities and social sciences” http://project.oapen.org/index.php/news/34-new-oapen-report-overview-of-open-access-models-for-ebooks-in-the-humanities-and-social-sciences [13] http://socio.hypotheses.org/147 [14] http://www.humanitiescommission.org/_pdf/hss_report.pdf -- Marin Dacos - http://www.openedition.org Director - Centre for Open Electronic Publishing - CNRS - EHESS - Aix-Marseille Université (AMU) - Université d'Avignon OpenEdition is now a Facility of Excellence http://www.openedition.org/10221?lang=en * *(Equipex) *Nouvelle adresse postale :* OpenEdition - 38 Rue Frédéric Joliot Curie - F - 13013 Marseille Cedex 20 Tél : 04 13 55 03 40 Tél. direct : 04 13 55 03 39 Fax : 04 13 55 03 41 Skype : marin.dacos - Google hangout : marin.dacos@openedition.org Twitter [FR] : http://twitter.com/marindacos Twitter [EN] : http://twitter.com/openmarin --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 00:13:34 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Ithaka S+R sustainability course -- applications open In-Reply-To: [from the DHSI mailing list] Ithaka S+R is about to launch a new training course starting in January 2014, Sustaining Digital Resources, specifically designed for leaders of digital projects who are developing sustainability plans for the digital resources they have created. This is not a highly technical course, but rather encourages participants to define the longer-range goals for their projects, to identify the communities they hope to reach, and to think about a range of ways they can assemble the financial and non-financial support they believe they will need. The course will bring together 20 individuals to work on their own project plans in collaboration with experts and peers, over the course of several months. Many PIs will have well-established projects already, but project leaders at any stage are encouraged to apply. Further information is here: http://www.sr.ithaka.org/content/sustaining-digital-resources%E2%80%94training-course The application, due September 30, is here: http://surveys.ithaka.org/SE/?SID=SV_e9WjJeGwGKPUW4l If anyone has questions, I can be reached at nancy.maron@ithaka.org, and at my desk at 212-500-2349. With best wishes, Nancy Nancy Maron Program Director, Sustainability and Scholarly Communications Ithaka S+R ______________ Nancy L. Maron ITHAKA S+R T 212.500.2349 F 212.500.2366 nancy.maron@ithaka.org Ithaka S+R (www.ithaka.org/ithaka-s-r http://www.ithaka.org/ithaka-s-r ) is a strategic consulting and research service that focuses on the transformation of scholarship and teaching in an online environment, with the goal of identifying the critical issues facing our community and acting as a catalyst for change. Ithaka S+R is part of ITHAKA (www.ithaka.org), a not-for-profit organization that also includes JSTOR (www.jstor.org http://www.jstor.org/ ) and Portico (www.portico.org). _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5FF25309E; Mon, 23 Sep 2013 09:39:56 +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 729693099; Mon, 23 Sep 2013 09:39:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8C8513084; Mon, 23 Sep 2013 09:39:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130923073945.8C8513084@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 09:39:45 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.369 great works 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. 27, No. 369. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Daniel Rianno (176) Subject: Re: 27.363 great works of scholarship [2] From: Tara Andrews (50) Subject: Re: 27.363 great works of scholarship [3] From: "Fishwick, Paul" (75) Subject: Resources as Scholarship ? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 10:35:01 +0200 From: Daniel Rianno Subject: Re: 27.363 great works of scholarship In-Reply-To: <20130922081405.8E84D3052@digitalhumanities.org> I think an item clearly missing from the list of "works arising from DH with high cultural prestige" is http://insaph.kcl.ac.uk/index.html 2013/9/22 Humanist Discussion Group : > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 363. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: AMELIA DEL ROSARIO SANZ CABRERIZO (170) > Subject: Re: 27.358 great works of scholarship > > [2] From: Willard McCarty (50) > Subject: resources as scholarship > > [3] From: "Jim O'Donnell" (13) > Subject: DH again > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:11:56 +0200 > From: AMELIA DEL ROSARIO SANZ CABRERIZO > Subject: Re: 27.358 great works of scholarship > In-Reply-To: <20130920070258.3393330A9@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Dear Andrew, > > Could you please give me more precisions about "The Canterbury Tales > project has achieved its objective of revolutionising our understanding > early Chaucer manuscripts, but it did not achieve it in the way it stated > at the beginning of the project."? > This is a core question! > Thank you! > > Amelia Sanz > Complutense University of Madrid > >> --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 09:16:51 +0000 >> From: "Prescott, Andrew" >> Subject: Re: 27.357 great works of scholarship? >> In-Reply-To: <20130919080537.64CCB3088@digitalhumanities.org> >> >> Dear Willard, >> >> I think we already have great works of scholarship in the Digital >> Humanities. I was closely involved in it, but the scholarly aspects of it >> were really the work of Kevin Kiernan, so I would unhesitatingly point to >> Electronic Beowulf as a great work of scholarship. I would also argue that >> the Calendar of Fine Rolls of Henry III and such prosoprographical works >> produced here in King's as the Prosoprography of Anglo-Saxo England are >> works of great scholarship. They are fundamental for the study of their >> respective subject areas, embody profound learning, and have changed the >> way in which we view our subject areas. They are of course in digital form, >> which mean that the way in which they have expressed their scholarship is >> different to what I was brought up with, but surely that it is to be >> expected. >> >> More complicated is where digital work has fed great scholarship. For >> example, The Canterbury Tales project has achieved its objective of >> revolutionising our understanding early Chaucer manuscripts, but it did not >> achieve it in the way it stated at the beginning of the project. The >> process of structured reading of the manuscripts involved in transcribing >> them encouraged a complete rethinking of their contents, and paved the way >> for Linne Mooney's identification of the Hengwrt scribe. The various >> published works of such members of the Canterbury Tales project team such >> as Estelle Stubbs, Simon Horobin, Orietta da Rold and Michael Pidd >> represent collectively a major contribution not only to Chaucer studies but >> to our understanding of medieval English literature. It isn't a >> straightforward monograph publication, but a more complex process. >> >> 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: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 11:32:48 +0200 From: Tara Andrews Subject: Re: 27.363 great works of scholarship In-Reply-To: <20130922081405.8E84D3052@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, I was a little surprised to read what seems like a self-contradictory assertion: that software source code, unlike mathematics, cannot be understood by humans. On the one hand you state: On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > I recall a mathematics dissertation at my undergraduate institution, > Reed, the substance of which consisted of ca 1/2 page -- a few lines of > equations ending with the word "behold!" Laconic, it's true, but > everything was there to be read and understood. On the other hand: > Digital machines, and the software written for them, are otherwise. > Software is a kind of text (a very strange kind of text), but in a > complex system you cannot know what it will do by reading the code. It's > effectively a black box. Can a black box be a great work of scholarship? > How can we *know* a complex resource for humanities scholarship, a black > box containing numerous black boxes, is itself a great work of > scholarship? From the testimony of many users? From their > unsubstantiated opinions? How is the critical thought that went into it > legible? How do we know what choices were made? What puzzles me is how we can accuse software of being a black box whose actions we cannot predict, while accepting that mathematics is not. Everything is indeed there to be read and understood, in both cases! It is simply that software is also there to be set into motion. Complex software systems can indeed have surprising side effects that are not at first glance obvious, but then again, so can mathematical systems—there are some wonderful examples from the work on set theory in the 19th century and the great questions of the very internal consistency of mathematics in the 20th that, appropriately enough, could be said to have given rise to computing. It's this very fact—that there are things about mathematics that we have not yet discovered or realized—that gives the field reason to continue its research, after all. I admit that I have been a little mystified for some time now about this resolve among some humanists that code cannot be understood, that it must be taken on faith (or rejected in principle). To me it suggests a deliberate and almost belligerent helplessness, as if these elements of the humanities are saying "We will acknowledge that mathematics is not to be argued with, whether or not we are competent to follow the equations. But set those equations into motion—write code—and we will cry foul!" Best wishes, -tara -- Tara L Andrews Assistenzprofessorin in Digital Humanities Universität Bern, Institut für Klassische Philologie Länggassstrasse 49, CH-3000 Bern 9 Büro: Gesellschaftsstrasse 2, 237C tel +41 31 631 34 49 / fax +41 31 631 44 86 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 18:18:10 +0000 From: "Fishwick, Paul" Subject: Resources as Scholarship ? In-Reply-To: <20130922081405.8E84D3052@digitalhumanities.org> Willard: I enjoyed your post, which I include below for reference. Collectively, we need to be careful about referring to computing only as a "resource." If it is seen purely as a resource, then presumably Computer Science is then viewed as "programming," and one hires programmers in DH to "create tools." Computing does indeed provide resources for humanities scholarship, but likewise, the humanities provide cultural, historical, artistic, and philosophical resources for computer science. Computing consists of a rich cultural history stemming from early physical automata, to Bush's Analyzer, to discrete mathematics where, discrete automata are covered (the continuous variety generally has a home in systems science/engineering where Bush's mechanical marvel lives on with theoretical continuity). Learning how to think in terms of computing provides a wealth of information for humanities scholarship. I do not see this wealth being celebrated in DH, likewise, I do not see enough cultural and historical exploration in Computer Science. So, this is a two-way street and we have a serious two-way problem. But discussions such as this one represent excellent places to house the discussion and the debates. If humanists see key hurdles to jump in making the two-way street a possibility, I'd like to hear them. Perhaps, this is a good start. -paul Paul Fishwick, PhD Chair, ACM SIGSIM Distinguished Chair of Arts & Technology and Professor of Computer Science Director, Creative Automata Laboratory The University of Texas at Dallas Arts & Technology 800 West Campbell Road, AT10 Richardson, TX 75080-3021 Home: utdallas.edu/atec/fishwick http://utdallas.edu/atec/fishwick Blog: creative-automata.com http://creative-automata.com ......... In his reply to my deliberately provocative note on Jim O'Donnell's question of great works, Andrew Prescott cited a number of major resources that have been created in the last few years. I want now to bring into question whether, or more accurately, in what sense resources can be works of scholarship. Textual editors will be among the very first to grab their swords and rush out into the field to challenge such a provocative call. Among the authorities they are likely to cite, or Goliaths they are likely to bring with them, will be, I'd suppose, Jerome McGann, who in Radiant Textuality describes the Kane-Donaldson Piers Plowman as a primary theoretical statement, i.e. something that communicates the work which went into it, which reveals enough of that work to be judged a "great work of scholarship". Looking at the edition, or any traditional printed edition, one can understand how the work could be judged. Everything, or enough, is laid bare. I recall a mathematics dissertation at my undergraduate institution, Reed, the substance of which consisted of ca 1/2 page -- a few lines of equations ending with the word "behold!" Laconic, it's true, but everything was there to be read and understood. In Memory Machines: The Evolution of Hypertext (read it tonight!), Belinda Barnet describes Vannevar Bush's analogue computing devices, principally the Differential Analyzer. Famously Bush preferred analogue devices because what they did was entirely open to view. One could learn the calculus directly from the machine that did it with gears and wheels. "Watching the Analyzer work did more than just teach people the calculus. It also taught people what might be possible for mechanical calculation -- for analogue computers" (p. 16). Watch and learn! Digital machines, and the software written for them, are otherwise. Software is a kind of text (a very strange kind of text), but in a complex system you cannot know what it will do by reading the code. It's effectively a black box. Can a black box be a great work of scholarship? How can we *know* a complex resource for humanities scholarship, a black box containing numerous black boxes, is itself a great work of scholarship? From the testimony of many users? From their unsubstantiated opinions? How is the critical thought that went into it legible? How do we know what choices were made? In discussing Douglas Englebart's work, Barnett describes the great demo at which he finally was able to persuade the community of engineers and computer scientists that his ideas were worth the candle. (It's on YouTube, I think.) To replace the formula "publish or perish" with "demo or die" suggests a shift from one kind of intellectual culture to another. But in digital humanities we try to have both in one. Again, as Natalia Cecire said, the "plus" in "humanities plus computing" is where the really interesting problems lie. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0BA59309A; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 09:54:01 +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 D64BF3086; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 09:53:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 50D8E306C; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 09:53:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130924075351.50D8E306C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 09:53:51 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.370 great works 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. 27, No. 370. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 10:18:36 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: great works and black boxes In response to Tara Andrews about software systems as black boxes, and so their impenetrability to inspection: I wasn't saying that code could not be understood by reading it. Clearly it can. As a youth writing Fortran and assembler language for some big machines I spent many hours reading and sometimes understanding code. But when software systems grew beyond the ability of any one person to hold the whole thing in mind -- around the time when the DEC-10 operating system was superseded, I'd guess -- then I suspect that we could no longer say that such systems could be known for what they might do, however legible individual components might be. The distinction I was drawing with mathematics was one between code that states ("x equals 1") and code that commands something be done ("set x equal to 1"). When the balance of a work shifts from the former to the latter, and becomes complex in the technical sense, then we have to refigure how we understand and judge it, yes? I was asking from the perspective of a scholarly user of a large online system, how can he or she tell what it is doing? How could anyone know whether such a system is a great work of scholarship -- as opposed, say, to a great resource with which to do scholarship but which itself is not a work of scholarship, or which puts its critical, scholarly work beyond the inspection of the user? Let's consider, say, a scholarly edition of a work, such as an edition of the glosses to Martianus Capella, De nuptiis, recently published in the Corpus Christianorum series. This edition, I happen to know, was critically compiled from 25 widely distributed mss, involving considerable travel and then detailed work over several years. In practical terms no one except the editor, or very, very few other scholars, will ever see all 25 mss, until all the libraries holding these mss digitize them. (Don't hold your breath.) So how does a reviewer tell that the new edition is a great work of scholarship, if it is? The editor, since she knew what she was doing, worried about this, and so made sure that the prose introduction on the mss was as complete and thorough as possible, that the Latin was correct, that every possible clue was provided, all of what she had learned about the mss from examining them and her reasoning processes explained. The publishing house, Brepols, made sure no turned stone was left undescribed. Still, of course, much remains necessarily hidden from the sight of the rest of us, but the amount of explanation is quite astonishing. What do the makers of our great works of digital scholarship analogously do to allow them to be as thoroughly known? I'm not saying our works of digital scholarship, great or otherwise, fail in this regard. Rather I was trying to get us beyond making unsubstantiated claims of greatness. I was saying in effect, you cannot tell a book by its cover, then (to follow the metaphor) asking how far beyond the cover -- and table of contents and index -- can we get with an online system as it is presented to the ordinary user? A good software review will tell us whether the thing does as advertised, and it will also make informed judgments as to whether the design fits the purpose. Doesn't saying that a system is a great work of scholarship reach considerably further than that? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 012BF30A4; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 09:56:20 +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 84B2A309A; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 09:56:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6562C3099; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 09:56:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130924075610.6562C3099@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 09:56:10 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.371 job at Dalhousie X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 371. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 21:02:13 -0300 From: Keith Lawson Subject: Job at Dalhousie, Halifax Nova Scotia School of Information Management Dalhousie University Lecturer (term position) The Dalhousie School of Information Management (SIM) invites applications for a three-year term appointment at the level of Lecturer commencing no later than July 1, 2014. The School offers two graduate programs and contributes to a collaboratively-delivered undergraduate program. At the graduate level, SIM provides the American Library Association-accredited Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS) program, and the mid-career online Master of Information Management (MIM) program. At the undergraduate level, the School provides core and elective courses in the Bachelor of Management program, notably in the Knowledge Management major. The School is part of the interdisciplinary Faculty of Management, with the Schools of Business Administration, Public Administration, Resource and Environmental Studies, and the Marine Affairs Program. The Faculty of Management has a commitment to values-based management with a focus on sustainability, and getting things done. We seek an additional colleague who will contribute to, and thrive in, this environment. Information about the School may be found at http://sim.management.dal.ca Requirements for a successful candidate: • MLIS or equivalent degree related to information management. A PhD (completed or in progress) related to information management, will be an asset. • Experience teaching at the graduate level is required. Experience in undergraduate teaching, as well as with online tools and pedagogy, will be an asset. • Professional experience in the private or public sectors as a qualified information management professional will be an asset. • Research experience relating to the private or public sector will be an asset. The successful candidate will contribute to the School’s research agenda. The candidate will have prior professional and instructional experience relevant for teaching core or elective courses in at least two of the School’s programs in the following areas: • Enterprise information management • Organization of information (e.g., metadata, taxonomies, ontologies) • Data management: curation, preservation, and visualization • Information risk management • New and emerging media All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. Dalhousie University is an Employment Equity/Affirmative Action employer. The University encourages applications from qualified Aboriginal people, persons with a disability, racially visible persons and women. Deadline for applications: October 30, 2013 Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, a statement of teaching and research interests, and three confidential letters of reference (forwarded under separate cover from the referees) to: Chair, Appointments, Promotion, and Tenure Committee C/O Administrative Assistant School of Information Management Kenneth C. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 19:42:17 +0000 From: Gaël Dias Subject: Second Call - Workshop on Histoinformatics 1st Workshop on Histoinformatics (Histoinformatics 2013)- Held in conjunction with 5th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2013), 25 November 2013, Kyoto, Japan ---http://www.histoinformatics.org--- Paper submission deadline October 6, 2013 The length of short papers extended to 10 pages! The 1st International Workshop on Histoinformatics aims at fostering the interaction between Computer Science and Historical Science towards "Computational History". This interdisciplinary initiative is a response to the growing popularity of Digital Humanities and an increased tendency to apply computer techniques for supporting and facilitating research in Humanities. Nowadays, due to the increasing activities in digitizing and opening historical sources, the Science of History can greatly benefit from the advances of Computer and Information sciences which consist of processing, organizing and making sense of data and information. As such, new Computer Science techniques can be applied to verify and validate historical assumptions based on text reasoning, image interpretation or memory understanding. Our objective is to provide for the two different research communities a place to meet and exchange ideas and to facilitate discussion. We hope the workshop will result in a survey of current problems and potential solutions, with particular focus on exploring opportunities for collaboration and interaction of researchers working on various subareas within Computer Science and History Sciences. The main topics of the workshop are that of supporting historical research and analysis through the application of Computer Science theories or technologies, analyzing and making use of historical texts, recreating past course of actions, analyzing collective memories, visualizing historical data, providing efficient access to large wealth of accumulated historical knowledge and so on. The detailed topics of expected paper submissions are (but not limited to): - Processing and text mining of historical documents- Analysis of longitudinal document collections - Search models in document archives and historical collections, associative search - Causal relationship discovery based on historical resources - Entity relationship extraction, detecting and resolving historical references in text - Computational linguistics for old texts - Digitizing and archiving - Modeling evolution of entities and relationships over time - Automatic multimedia document dating - Applications of artificial intelligence techniques to history - Simulating and recreating the past course of actions, social relations, motivations, figurations - Analysis of language change over time - Handling uncertain and fragmentary text and image data - Finding analogical entities - Entity linking in historical collections - Named entity detection in historical texts - Automatic biography generation - Mining Wikipedia for historical data - OCR and transcription of old texts - Effective interfaces for searching, browsing or visualizing historical data collections - Collective memory analysis - Studying and modeling forgetting and remembering processes - Vulgarization of History through new media - Probing the limits of Histoinformatics - Epistemologies in the Humanities and Computer Science Full paper submissions are limited to 14 pages, while short paper submissions should be less than 10 pages (extended). Submissions should be sent in English in PDF via the submission website (see the website for link). They should be formatted according to Springer LNCS paper formatting guidelines. They must be original and have not been submitted for publication elsewhere. Submissions will be evaluated by at least three different reviewers from both computer and history science areas. The accepted papers will be published by Springer as post proceedings volume (to appear after the workshop). --------------------- ---Important dates--- --------------------- - Paper submission deadline: October 6, 2013 - Notification of acceptance: October 25, 2013 - Camera ready copy deadline: November 5, 2013 - Workshop date: Nov 25, 2013 ------------------ ---Invited Talk--- ------------------ Speaker: Prof. Antal van Den Bosch (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) -------------------------- ---Organizing Committee--- -------------------------- - Adam Jatowt (Kyoto University, Japan) - Gael Dias (Normandie University, France) - Agostini-Ouafi Viviana (Normandie University, France) - Christian Gudehus (University of Flensburg, Germany) - Gunter Muhlberger (University of Innsbruck, Austria) -------------------------- ---Scientific Committee--- -------------------------- - Robert Allen (Drexel University, USA) - Antal van Den Bosch (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) - Lindsey Dodd (University of Huddersfield, UK) - Antoine Doucet (Normandie University, France) - Alexis Drogoul (Institute of Research for Development, France) - Marten During (Centre virtuel de la connaissance sur l'Europe (CVCE), Luxemburg) - Frederick Gibbs (University of New Mexico, USA) - Pedro Rangel Henriques (Minho University, Portugal)) - Nattiya Kanhabua (LS3 Research Center, Germany) - Tom Kenter (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) - Mike Kestemont (University of Antwerp, Belgium) - Alexander Korb (University of Leicester, UK) - Andrea Nanetti (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) - Daan Odijk (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) - Denis Peschanski (Pantheon-Sorbonne University, France) - Malte Rehbein (University of Passau, Germany) - Marc Spaniol (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany) - Shigeo Sugimoto (University of Tsukuba, Japan) - Nina Tahmasebi (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) - William Turkel (University of Western Ontario, Canada) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Gaël Harry Dias | Full Professor (PhD, HDR) Human Language Technology Team | Head of HULTECH Team GREYC - CNRS UMR 6072 | [http://dias.users.greyc.fr] University of Caen Basse-Normandie | [gael.dias@unicaen.fr] Campus Côte de Nacre | [Tel: +33 (0)2 31 56 74 87] F-14032 Caen Cedex FRANCE | [Fax: +33 (0)2 31 56 73 30] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2731B30A5; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 10:08:21 +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 6AAC7309A; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 10:08:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B49853099; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 10:08:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130924080810.B49853099@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 10:08:10 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.373 pubs: additions to Lexicons of Early Modern English X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 373. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 18:07:56 +0000 From: UTP Journals Subject: Recent additions to Lexicons of Early Modern English Recently added to Lexicons of Early Modern English - http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/ § Robert Cawdrey, A Table Alphabetical, Containing and Teaching the Understanding of Hard Usual English Words (1617) § Jean de La Quintinie, The Complete Gardener (1693) § Anonymous, The Great Herbal (1526) § Claude Hollyband, A Dictionarie French and English (1593) § Richard Benese, The Manner of Measuring (1537) § Edward Hatton, The Merchant's Magazine Dictionary of Merchandise and Trade (1699) Coming soon to LEME § John Thorie, The Theatre of the Earth (1601) § Richard Head, The English Rogue (1665) § John Rider, Bibliotheca Scholastica(1589) § Latin-English dictionary § Guy Miege, A New Dictionary, French and English (1677) § Sir Thomas Blount, Nomo-Lexikon(1670) § Henry Hexham, A Copious English and Netherdutch Dictionary(1641-42) § Joshua Poole, English Parnassus(1657) Lexicons of Early Modern English is a growing historical database offering scholars unprecedented access to early books and manuscripts documenting the growth and development of the English language. With more than 600,000 word-entries from 184 monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and linguistic treatises, encyclopedic and other lexical works from the beginning of printing in England to 1702, as well as tools updated annually, LEME sets the standard for modern linguistic research on the English language. Use Modern Techniques to Research Early Modern English! 184 searchable lexicons 139 fully analyzed lexicons 618,477 total word entries 398,128 fully analyzed word entries 60,891 total English modern headwords LEME provides exciting opportunities for research for historians of the English language. More than a half-million word-entries devised by contemporary speakers of early modern English describe the meaning of words, and their equivalents in languages such as French, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and other tongues encountered then in Europe, America, and Asia. University of Toronto Press Journals 5201 Dufferin St., Toronto, ON, Canada M3H 5T8 Tel: (416) 667-7810 Fax: (416) 667-7881 journals@utpress.utoronto.ca www.utpjournals.com/leme http://www.utpjournals.com/leme http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/ posted by T Hawkins _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1DABC306D; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 05:43:51 +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 D8EC9306A; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 05:43:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C77073058; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 05:43:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130925034340.C77073058@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 05:43:40 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.374 great works 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. 27, No. 374. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 23:23:59 -0400 From: Paul Fishwick Subject: Re: 27.370 great works of scholarship In-Reply-To: <20130924075351.50D8E306C@digitalhumanities.org> Willard: Some questions and comments below. On Sep 24, 2013, at 3:53 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 370. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 10:18:36 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: great works and black boxes > > > In response to Tara Andrews about software systems as black boxes, and so > their impenetrability to inspection: Text can be impenetrable to inspection: ancient scrolls that may be partially decayed or fragmented and, so, require interpretive skills, good knowledge of the history of the period, and technology to assist in this complex process. This is not my area, but such reconstructions and interpretations of past societies are fascinating. > I wasn't saying that code could not be > understood by reading it. Clearly it can. As a youth writing Fortran and > assembler language for some big machines I spent many hours reading and > sometimes understanding code. But when software systems grew beyond the > ability of any one person to hold the whole thing in mind -- around the time > when the DEC-10 operating system was superseded, I'd guess -- then I > suspect that we could no longer say that such systems could be known for > what they might do, however legible individual components might be. The > distinction I was drawing with mathematics was one between code that states > ("x equals 1") and code that commands something be done ("set x equal to > 1"). When the balance of a work shifts from the former to the latter, and > becomes complex in the technical sense, then we have to refigure how we > understand and judge it, yes? > > I was asking from the perspective of a scholarly user of a large online > system, how can he or she tell what it is doing? How could anyone know > whether such a system is a great work of scholarship -- as opposed, say, to > a great resource with which to do scholarship but which itself is not a work > of scholarship, or which puts its critical, scholarly work beyond the > inspection of the user? Instead of a user asking what a system is doing, shouldn't we be treating all media on the same level playing field, and instead, asking about the array of experiences obtained through the media? It is the experiences that are important, and different media and technologies can create vastly different experiences (e.g., an immersive experience like Dear Esther vs. a hard-bound book). The word "scholar" appears throughout your post. Can you give me a definition? I can find dictionary definitions, but I wonder if "scholar" is being biased toward the written word rather than media in general (diagrams, illustrations, text, video, etc)? Without the written word, we would be in deep trouble, especially in these emails; however, I hope that we are not suggesting that "scholarly" = "text-only product creation" ? scholars in science and engineering make products but also use text and diagrams to make the case that these products provide originality and novelty. Surely, Digital Humanities is afforded similar freedom? What does having to look deeply at the innards of software or platforms have to do with scholarly research any more than understanding the precise chemistry required to form sheets of paper. Let us measure, and celebrate, the human experience, not the physical medium unless that too is novel and original, in which case it should also fall under the umbrella of scholarly activity. > > Let's consider, say, a scholarly edition of a work, such as an edition of > the glosses to Martianus Capella, De nuptiis, recently published in the > Corpus Christianorum series. This edition, I happen to know, was critically > compiled from 25 widely distributed mss, involving considerable travel and > then detailed work over several years. In practical terms no one except the > editor, or very, very few other scholars, will ever see all 25 mss, until > all the libraries holding these mss digitize them. (Don't hold your breath.) > So how does a reviewer tell that the new edition is a great work of > scholarship, if it is? Peer review? > The editor, since she knew what she was doing, > worried about this, and so made sure that the prose introduction Is the "scholarly edition" limited to prose? > on the mss > was as complete and thorough as possible, that the Latin was correct, that > every possible clue was provided, all of what she had learned about the mss > from examining them and her reasoning processes explained. The publishing > house, Brepols, made sure no turned stone was left undescribed. Still, of > course, much remains necessarily hidden from the sight of the rest of us, > but the amount of explanation is quite astonishing. > > What do the makers of our great works of digital scholarship analogously do > to allow them to be as thoroughly known? Presumably, they entice humans who experience the work in novel and original ways. Therein lies the research -- in the creation of those experiences. > > I'm not saying our works of digital scholarship, great or otherwise, fail in > this regard. Rather I was trying to get us beyond making unsubstantiated > claims of greatness. What is an unsubstantiated claim of greatness? Do you have examples? > I was saying in effect, you cannot tell a book by its > cover, then (to follow the metaphor) asking how far beyond the cover -- and > table of contents and index -- can we get with an online system as it is > presented to the ordinary user? -paul PS. Let me know if I am totally off the mark. I am simply not understanding the metaphor as described. > A good software review will tell us whether > the thing does as advertised, and it will also make informed judgments as to > whether the design fits the purpose. Doesn't saying that a system is a great > work of scholarship reach considerably further than that? > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital > Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital > Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 23F043070; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 05:44:56 +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 8DEB73069; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 05:44:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id EBFEC306C; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 05:44:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130925034444.EBFEC306C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 05:44:44 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.375 Panels at conferences? Polish poetry? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 375. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Alun Edwards (8) Subject: Polish poetry [2] From: John Simpson (10) Subject: Where are the panels? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 13:03:59 +0000 From: Alun Edwards Subject: Polish poetry Dear all, At the First World War Poetry Digital Archive we are working with a British schools poetry project (whose figurehead is the former poet laureate Andrew Motion). We are researching online resources from the First World War Poetry Digital Archive, Europeana 1914-1918 and other sources, which can be presented online for school teachers to use. As there is a growing Polish population in British schools, we are trying to discover if there are war poets or poems from the First World War which are recognised as "Polish", using the quote marks because until the end of the war Poland didn't regain its independence. Formerly the territory was part of the Prussian, Russian and Austrian empires. I'm aware of Nikolay Gumilev, but not really any of his works, is he regarded as a Polish writer? Many thanks for all pointers, Ally -- Alun Edwards, Project Manager alun.edwards@it.ox.ac.uk Education Enhancement team, Academic IT Services at University of Oxford // Europeana 1914-1918 www.europeana1914-1918.eu/ | RunCoCo: How to Run a Community Collection Online http://runcoco.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ | The Great War Archive www.thegreatwararchive.com/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 08:56:25 -0600 From: John Simpson Subject: Where are the panels? Dear Humanist Subscribers, After attending just over a year's worth of DH or DH-esque conferences---most of which have been top notch and both a joy and an intellectual boon to attend---I can't help but notice something of an absence in terms of the program line ups. Where are the panels? Don't get me wrong, we have things that we call panels (I've been on a few myself) and they are important and relevant and need to continue but these are of a very different character than what it seems (at least to me) that a panel should be. What do we have instead of panels? We have two things: super-papers and themed presentation blocks. The super-paper happens when we bring together presenters, mostly from the same institution, mostly from the same project, and mostly of the same mind. While this could result in many things, what it seems to result in almost every time is a block of time that allows each of the presenters a longer time to speak (and more space to write) than they would if they had all submitted a single regular track paper. These are wonderful opportunities to explore large projects with much to contribute to the community but a panel they are not even though this seems to be increasingly what we are calling a panel. About as often, we call panels what I consider to be themed presentation blocks. Themed presentation blocks are like super-papers but without the common project underlying the papers presented. The presenters each get time to speak and show their slides and there is some small time for questioning. While this can turn into what I would consider a panel what it usually amounts to is an experience that closely resembles any other presentation block except there is clear overlap by the panelists along the common theme. These blocks are valuable---especially for anyone with a target interest in a general area (semantic web, image analysis, etc.)---but they are not panels. What does a panel look like? I think it can take many forms, but at the core they take as principle motivation three things: salient/relevant/timely/contestable topics or themes; discussion about the topic by the panelists; a sustained opportunity for the audience to participate with the panelists in building the discussion. It is the last two things that what are usually called panels seem to lack. With these three principles as a guide a template panel might look like a group of subject matter experts with different views/backgrounds/skills/interests on some relevant topic gathered together to discuss that topic with the assistance of a moderator/host. Each panel member gets a very short time to outline their position/background and then the panel is opened to them to discuss the issue back and forth. After a time the floor is opened to probing questions from the audience. While we might hope for a solution, what is more likely (if such a panel is done right) is clarity around the issue at a whole, what the sides and relevant factors are, and an important discussion-based contribution to an ongoing discussion in the broader community. In some ways, a panel would be a lot like Humanist except with the benefit of real-time face-to-face interaction. In this light what both the super-papers and the themed presentation blocks lack is the sustained cross-talk amongst the panelists while working through a contestable topic/question. So, I guess my question to the community is this: is there agreement that effort to (re)introduce panels (or at the very least discussion panels) is warranted and relevant? If so, how might we go about realizing this at the events we organize given that current conference adjudication and academic review practices put primacy on contributions that are much more paper-like than what I am suggesting here? With thanks for any contributions to this topic that you take the time to make, -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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 31DB93076; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 05:46:25 +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 348873069; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 05:46:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A15073064; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 05:46:14 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130925034614.A15073064@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 05:46:14 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.376 jobs at Michigan State, DuraSpace X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 376. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Tanner, Simon" (58) Subject: POSITION AVAILABLE: VIVO Project Director at DuraSpace [2] From: "A. Sean Pue" (35) Subject: DH Specialist Position at Michigan State University --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 08:54:51 +0000 From: "Tanner, Simon" Subject: POSITION AVAILABLE: VIVO Project Director at DuraSpace Sept. 23, 2013 Contact: jobs@duraspace.org Read it online: http://duraspace.org/jobs Project Director, VIVO DuraSpace is seeking a dynamic and entrepreneurial Project Director for the open source VIVO project (www.vivoweb.org), a world-wide community focused on creating software tools, ontologies, and services. The VIVO Project Director will have the opportunity to play a major role in a collaborative movement that will shape the future of research. VIVO is an open source semantic web application for integrating and sharing information about researchers and their activities and outputs at a single institution while supporting discovery of related work and expertise across a distributed network of institutions. The VIVO Project Director is a new, full-time position. The Project Director, accountable to the VIVO Executive Committee and employed by DuraSpace, will lead the VIVO community in accomplishing its goals by fulfilling the following responsibilities: Primary Responsibilities Provide strategic vision ● Work closely with the international VIVO community to develop and articulate amstrategic vision for VIVO, conveying its value and impact ● Guide the VIVO community in the development of near-term and long-term strategic goals ● Help develop and gain support and participation among stakeholders for a business model that will sustain the work of the VIVO project ● Actively promote VIVO and the wider cause of research discovery and access to the international scholarly community and other key stakeholders ● Be an effective spokesperson for the project through outreach, public speaking, and advocacy. Oversee operations ● Build and oversee a dynamic and effective core team, augmented by contributors from collaborating institutions, government agencies, and commercial enterprises ● Oversee projects and staff to ensure timely implementation of products and services ● Plan and manage budgets, fundraising, and business operations such as managed services providing revenue for the project. Provide regular status and financial reports to the executive team, DuraSpace, and sponsors. Fund raising is especially important at this stage of VIVO’s evolution ● Seek out and engage in collaborations that will leverage resources and expertise for the advancement of the project. Community Management ● International outreach to institutions, government organizations, sponsors, funding agencies, and others ● With the Executive Committee and DuraSpace, solicit new institutional and corporate sponsors as well as providers of services to the VIVO community ● Help recruit new adopters and contributors. Oversee Software Projects ● Help project leads to gather requirements, understand use cases, plan successful projects ● Help prioritize work ● Substantially contribute to and articulate the vision for the VIVO software and ontology and related applications ● Help establish and communicate the long-term roadmap. Marketing and Communications ● Key role in developing marketing strategy and materials for the project ● Key role in communications with stakeholders, contributors, sponsors, partners, service providers, etc. ● Coordinate representation for VIVO community at key conferences and workshops. Skills and Competencies Required ● A Masters degree with at least 7-10 years of progressively increasing responsibility in a research discipline and/or business, or equivalent work experience ● Experience working with technology project teams; ability to communicate effectively with technical staff ● Excellent management skills and demonstrated success managing teams working in disparate locations ● Entrepreneurial skills, especially the ability to successfully promote innovative concepts and enroll stakeholders in new solutions ● Strong ability to think and act strategically, and demonstrated success at bringing concepts to realization ● Able to communicate effectively both in person and virtually using a variety of media and technologies. Preferred ● Experience working with VIVO ● Experience in the areas of research discovery, collaboration, and open access ● Experience communicating with an international community of users, stakeholders, sponsors, and partners ● Analytical skills in crafting successful funding and business models for innovative projects ● Fund raising skills in a non-profit domain. DuraSpace (duraspace.org) is a small not-for-profit organization providing leadership and innovation for open source technologies that promote durable, persistent access to our digital culture. We collaborate with academic, scientific, cultural, and technology communities by supporting projects and creating services to help ensure that current and future generations may discover and access our collective digital heritage. DuraSpace is an equal opportunity employer. Non-traditional applicants are welcome. We offer health and retirement benefits. Salary is commensurate with experience. We are headquartered in the Boston MA area, but most of our employees work virtually and are located around the USA. We are a true believer in the virtual office and use a variety of online tools to facilitate our ability to work as a collaborative and collegial team. Extensive travel is expected for this position, both within the US and internationally. To Apply: A cover letter is required for consideration for this position and should be attached as the first page of your resume. The cover letter should address your specific interest in the position, include your salary requirements, and outline skills and experience that directly relate to this position. Please email the cover letter and resume tovivojobs@duraspace.org. -- Carol Minton Morris DuraSpace Director of Marketing and Communications cmmorris@DuraSpace.org Skype: carolmintonmorris 607 592-3135 Twitter@DuraSpace Twitter@DuraCloud http://DuraSpace.org --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:02:35 -0400 From: "A. Sean Pue" Subject: DH Specialist Position at Michigan State University In-Reply-To: <20130920071220.6477930A9@digitalhumanities.org> Digital Humanities Specialist http://go.cal.msu.edu/dhspecialist The College of Arts and Letters at Michigan State University seeks a dynamic and creative full-time hire for the new position of Digital Humanities Specialist. The Digital Humanities Specialist is responsible for curriculum development, research support, and teaching in the area of digital humanities (DH). The successful candidate will work in a creative team atmosphere and will provide input and guidance to faculty and units in the college on digital humanities courses, research projects, co-curricular opportunities, and community engagement projects. This person will play a critical role in supporting and expanding DH research and pedagogy at MSU. This is a 12 month, one-year, fixed-term position based in the Academic Technology Office at the College of Arts and Letters. The Digital Humanities Specialist will be responsible for consulting with faculty on pedagogies for digital humanities work and creating new DH offerings, will assist and participate in grant seeking, along with developing and managing funded projects; will develop and teach workshops on a variety of DH and technology focused areas in the humanities; and will coordinate internal and external DH-focused events. Excellent writing and communication skills are required, along with strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects at once. The successful candidate will have a proven track record of scholarly work in the arts and humanities, involving digital technologies, tools, techniques, and research methods. Responsibilities: • Work in partnership with faculty and students to support academic research, effective instruction methods, and creative initiatives through the use of information resources and technology. • Work directly with researchers to provide project definition and analysis (e.g., project scope, requirements, specifications and/or design). • Evaluate existing tools and technologies, and investigate emerging technologies to identify potential uses in DH research. • Prototype demonstration projects and/or implement tools for use by others. • Provide technical support for DH research projects, including implementation of tools, technology, etc., to help researchers achieve their goals. • Conduct training, group instruction, and workshops on DH topics. • Coordinate, develop, organize, and lead events and programs including presentations, talks, workshops, and demonstrations to inform faculty and students about DH trends. Required Qualifications: • Graduate study (PhD preferred) in a field related to humanities scholarship or humanistic aspects of social or information science. • Demonstrated proficiency/fluency with one or more technologies commonly used in DH projects (e.g., social network analysis, text encoding, database design and development, GIS, data visualization, topic modeling). • Demonstrated experience in web development and programming • In-depth knowledge of one or more content management or digital scholarship platforms such as Desire2Learn, Wordpress, Drupal, etc. • Experience teaching or leading workshops on DH tools and/or methods to faculty and students. • Experience working collaboratively with other scholars and/or with IT professionals on projects related to digital scholarship. • Strong knowledge of current DH trends. • Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills, including the ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical partners. • Experience working with faculty in an educational setting. • Experience with computer network administration Desired Qualifications: • Experience with development and management of projects, grants, and/or budgets. • Record of professional presentations, publications, and DH project development. • Experience with grant making and management. • Experience with new media and technology applications for research and pedagogy in higher education. • Demonstrated knowledge of educational theory and practice in higher education. Review of applications will begin October 1, 2013 and will continue until the position is filled. Applications must be submitted electronically to the Michigan State University Human Resources web site https://jobs.msu.edu/ (posting number 8354). Applications should include a letter expressing interest in this position and describing qualifications and experience, a current curriculum vitae, and the names and email addresses of 3 potential referees." For more information contact Bill Hart-Davidson, Chair of the Search Committee, Department of Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures, hartdav2@msu.edu Persons with disabilities have the right to request and receive reasonable accommodation. MSU is an affirmative-action, equal-opportunity employer. MSU is committed to achieving excellence through cultural diversity. The university actively encourages applications and/or nominations of women, persons of color, veterans and persons with disabilities. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 315543076; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 05:51:31 +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 27D0D3070; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 05:51:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DADBB3058; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 05:51:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130925035120.DADBB3058@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 05:51:20 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.377 events: well-being; network analytics for literary & artistic value X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 377. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: kcl - cerch (17) Subject: CeRch Seminar - October 1st [2] From: Charles Ess (85) Subject: CFP - CEPE 2014 Well-Being, Flourishing, and ICTs --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 13:28:19 +0000 From: kcl - cerch Subject: CeRch Seminar - October 1st Please find below the details of next week's CeRch seminar: Network analytic approaches to the production and propagation of literary and artistic value (Daniel Allington) Tuesday, October 1st, 2013 from 6:15 PM to 7:30 PM (GMT) Anatomy Theatre and Museum, King's College London: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/atm/location.aspx Attendance is free and open to all, but registration is requested: https://www.eventbrite.com/event/8348373209 The seminar will be followed by wine and nibbles. All the best, Valentina Asciutti Abstract: According to Bourdieu, the value of art, literature, etc is a form of belief that is produced within the cultural field and then propagated outwards into wider society through public-facing cultural institutions - as in the case of the 'writer's writer' who is initially read only by his or her peers, but who becomes 'consecrated' (i.e. canonised) thanks to peer esteem and eventually finds a mass readership through school or university syllabi. In this talk, I shall lay out two innovative methodologies for studying these processes through social network analysis. This is potentially controversial because of Bourdieu's much-discussed preference for Multiple Correspondence Analysis. However, I shall argue that, just as the abstract mathematical space of Multiple Correspondence Analysis forms a useful analogue for Bourdieu's conception of field, the no-less abstract structure of a directed graph forms a useful analogue for his understanding of the production of value within a field, and of its subsequent propagation beyond that field. The first of the methodologies I shall present focuses on the production of value. It has already been trialled through a case study of interactive fiction, with results of this investigation to appear in my monograph, Literature in the Digital Economy (forthcoming from Palgrave, 2014), and elsewhere. As I will argue by reference to ongoing research, the same methodology can potentially yield important insights when applied to other cultural forms. The second of these methodologies focuses on the propagation of value, and thus provides a possible approach to the study of the impact of the arts on wider society, as well as a bridge between the two major strands of research in the sociology of culture, i.e. study of cultural producers and study of cultural consumers. It builds on the first methodology but presents arguably greater difficulties with regard to data collection and the interpretation of findings. However, these difficulties are instructive because they raise deep questions about the use of social network analysis in cultural research, both in the humanities and in the social sciences. Speaker's Bio: Daniel Allington is a lecturer in the Open University Centre for Language and Communication. His first book, Communicating in English: Talk, Text, Technology (co-edited by Barbara Mayor) was published by Routledge in 2012. His first monograph, Literature in the Digital Economy, is forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan in 2014. He researches the production, circulation, and recognition of value in a range of cultural practices, from literature and visual art to computer programming, focusing in particular on the construction and maintenance of hierarchies and inequalities, and on the quest for autonomy among cultural producers of all kinds. Daniel's website is at http:// http://www.danielallington.net --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 21:53:10 +0200 From: Charles Ess Subject: CFP - CEPE 2014 Well-Being, Flourishing, and ICTs Dear Humanists, On behalf of the Joint Organizing Committee, I'm very pleased to pass along the first CFP for CEPE (Computer Ethics: Professional Enquiry) 2014, on the theme of: Well-Being, Flourishing, and ICTs. Please distribute to appropriate lists and potentially interested colleagues. Joint Organizing Committee Elizabeth Buchanan (University of Wisconsin-Stout, US), Executive Director, INSEIT (International Society for Ethics in Technology) Charles Ess (University of Oslo), Conference Chair; President, INSEIT Shalini Kesar (Southern Utah University, US), Program Chair Bernd Carsten Stahl (De Montfort University), Chair, ETHICOMP Steering Committee Jean-Gabriel Ganascia (University Pierre et Marie Curie - Sorbonne Universités) Max Dauchet (LIFL - Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Lille) Ethicomp and CEPE are major conferences in the field of computer/information ethics. Previous CEPE conferences themes include intercultural ethics, roboethics, social impacts of social computing, socio-technical and ethical change in ICTs, and social responsibility and ICTs. ETHICOMP, the conference series initiated in 1995 by Simon Rogerson and Terry Bynum, has likewise focused on the ethical dimensions of computing technologies. To support the missions of each entity, while providing a robust opportunity for innovative collaborative research and scholarship, Ethicomp and CEPE will partner in 2014. Our joint conferences will be hosted by CERNA (Commission de réflexion sur l¹Ethique de la Recherche en sciences et technologies du Numérique d¹Allistene). As well, the overlap day between the two conferences (Wednesday, July 25) is co-sponsored by ACM SIGCAS (Special Interest Group, Computers and Society), and will focus on gender and technology. Background Norbert Wiener¹s _The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society_ (1950) is a primary source for contemporary Information and Computing Ethics. Wiener framed his reflections on the possible uses and benefits of then newly emerging computational devices and networks within the key ethical norms of human well-being and flourishing ­ the defining norms of virtue ethics. Contemporary computers and computer networks increasingly pervade and shape our lives, dramatically enhancing our communication capacities: they thereby foreground and amplify ³the networked self,² i.e., our sense of selfhood, identity, and agency (including moral agency) as increasingly relational and interwoven with one another.  Such relational senses of identity, selfhood and agency are in fact the beginning point of virtue ethics in its diverse expressions and traditions globally.  Wiener¹s foundational framework has thus proven to be profoundly prescient. But certainly, there are multiple ethical frameworks within which questions of 'the good life' ­ as focusing on our well-being and flourishing as human beings ­ may be couched. At the same time, alongside the undeniable boons of ICTs ­ recent developments such as the NSA surveillance scandals make critical reflection on the ethical, social, and political dimensions of contemporary ICTs and their array of uses all the more urgent. Accordingly, for CEPE14 we invite submissions - including panels - that address these core concerns with well-being and flourishing in an age of ICTs. We encourage research and reflection that approach these thematics from a wide array of viewpoints and with attention to specific foci including: ICTs and development technosecurity and cyber-warfare robots and robot ethics for humans and humane lives; social computing global / cultural perspectives on ICTs and the good life Important Dates 30 November 2013: Latest date to submit abstracts to Easychair 25 January 2014:  Authors informed of programme committee decisions by this date 5 April 2014: Last date for receipt of full papers from authors (electronic version) Panels Submission due: December 15th, 2013 Selection: February 15th, 2014 Submissions will be accepted via Easychair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/submission_new.cgi?a=5138535 Conference website: http://cepe2014.org == Thanks, - charles ess 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5D90A3091; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 08:06:46 +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 26E253067; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 08:06:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 169C63077; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 08:06:28 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130926060629.169C63077@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 08:06:28 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.378 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. 27, No. 378. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 10:50:16 -0500 From: Andrew Jewell Subject: DH Jobs at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln The University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) will be continuing its cluster search in digital humanities during 2013/14 to further propel its signature program. We seek to hire two tenure-track faculty--one at the rank of assistant professor and the other as a late assistant or an associate professor. 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 2014. The participating departments seek specialists who would contribute to UNL's research profile and teaching capacity in digital humanities. Applicants should go to http://employment.unl.edu, requisition #F_130176 and click on Apply to this job and complete the form. 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 November 4, 2013, and continue until suitable candidates are found. For further information contact Andrew Jewell, search committee chair, at 402-472-5266 or ajewell2@unl.edu. The University of Nebraska 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/ -- Andrew Jewell, Ph.D. Associate Professor, University Libraries co-editor, *Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing* (www.scholarlyediting.org) Editor, *Willa Cather Archive* (http://cather.unl.edu) 203 Love Library University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588 402.472.5266 ajewell2@unl.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: 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,BAYES_00, 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 2A9C23091; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 08:10:28 +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 4633B308D; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 08:10:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 257FE3079; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 08:10:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130926061017.257FE3079@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 08:10:16 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.379 Polish poetry X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 379. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Jan Rybicki" (27) Subject: RE: [Humanist] 27.375 Polish poetry? [2] From: Toma Tasovac (30) Subject: Re: 27.375 Panels at conferences? Polish poetry? [3] From: anna.szot.sacawa@utoronto.ca (156) Subject: Re: 27.375 Panels at conferences? Polish poetry? [4] From: Sarah J Young (79) Subject: Re: 27.375 Polish poetry? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 07:04:46 +0200 From: "Jan Rybicki" Subject: RE: [Humanist] 27.375 Polish poetry? Dear Alun, I would avoid using the inverted commas around Polish and mistaking influential Russian poets for Polish ones, especially in what is an obviously well-meaning initiative. Despite its nonexistence on European maps and its absence from the race for the colonies, Poland has had a constant and vivid poetic tradition dating at least to the Renaissance in no way unbroken by the partitions of the 19th century, and more: literature, and poetry in particularly, became the chief mode of expression of national identity. This you can find out even from my old and amateurish course website, http://www.ap.krakow.pl/nkja/literature/polpoet/session4.htm (just navigate to the desired literary period, and don't be afraid of the old java stuff); or from that wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_literature#Young_Poland). On the other hand, I sympathize with your problem: it might be somewhat more difficult to pinpoint any WWI poets since this is not a separate phenomenon in Polish letters as it is in Brit. Lit. One possible reason is that WWI was generally treated by the Poles as a golden opportunity for independence, and their modernists just kept on writing; the main reaction, in Poland, to WWI would be the sudden switch to a literature liberated from its obligatory national function. Sorry for all that Polish blarney, Jan Rybicki -----Original Message----- > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 13:03:59 +0000 > From: Alun Edwards > Subject: Polish poetry > > Dear all, > > At the First World War Poetry Digital Archive we are working with a British schools poetry project (whose figurehead is the former poet laureate Andrew Motion). > > We are researching online resources from the First World War Poetry Digital Archive, Europeana 1914-1918 and other sources, which can be presented online for school teachers to use. As there is a growing Polish population in British schools, we are trying to discover if there are war poets or poems from the First World War which are recognised as "Polish", using the quote marks because until the end of the war Poland didn't regain its independence. Formerly the territory was part of the Prussian, Russian and Austrian empires. I'm aware of Nikolay Gumilev, but not really any of his works, is he regarded as a Polish writer? > > Many thanks for all pointers, Ally > > -- > Alun Edwards, Project Manager alun.edwards@it.ox.ac.uk Education Enhancement team, Academic IT Services at > University of Oxford > > // Europeana 1914-1918 www.europeana1914-1918.eu/ | RunCoCo: How to Run a Community Collection Online http://runcoco.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ | The Great War Archive www.thegreatwararchive.com/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 16:55:12 -0400 From: anna.szot.sacawa@utoronto.ca Subject: Re: 27.375 Panels at conferences? Polish poetry? In-Reply-To: <20130925034444.EBFEC306C@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Sir, Nikolay Gumilev is a very well known Russian poet. Yes, there are Polish poems that are recognized as Polish (without the quotation marks as they were written in a Polish language regardless of the political situation of the country at that time). Patriotic war poems at the time were written, among others, Jerzy Żuławski (eg. poem "Do moich synów" - To my sons) i Edward Słoński (eg. poem "Ta co nie zginęła" - The one that did not perish). Other poets that co9me to mind are Józef Mączka i Józef Andrzej Teslar. Also many popular songs, such as "Szara piechota", "Przybyli ułani", "Serce w plecaku", "Marsz I Brygady" were first written as poems by Polish soldiers at the time (again Polish soldiers without question marks as they formed one Polish army, regardless of whether they were from territories under Russian, Prussian or Austrian occupation, and led by Pilsudski won back the independence of Poland. Polish literature thrived at this time. Nobel prizes were awarded to Polish writers in 1905 and again in 1925. Polish culture and literature (again without question marks) was alive at this time without any question, sir. Anna Szot-Sacawa Bora Laskin Law Library University of Toronto 416-946-5924 anna.szot.sacawa@utoronto.ca --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 22:32:28 +0100 From: Sarah J Young Subject: Re: 27.375 Polish poetry? In-Reply-To: <20130925034444.EBFEC306C@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Ally, I'm not sure why you are under the impression that Nikolai Gumilev might be a Polish poet - he may have served in a nominally Polish regiment in WW1, but he was born and educated near St Petersburg, wrote in Russian, and has never been considered other than as a Russian poet. My research is on Russian prose of the 19th and 20th centuries, so I can't help you myself, but I suggest you contact my colleague Katarzyna Zechenter (k.zechenter [at] ucl.ac.uk), who is a specialist on Polish poetry. Sincerely, Sarah -- Dr Sarah J. Young Lecturer in Russian SSEES, UCL Gower Street London WC1E 6BT http://www.sarahjyoung.com http://www.mappingpetersburg.org http://twitter.com/russianist _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 930303099; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 08:11:16 +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 F37EE3094; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 08:11:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D456D3094; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 08:11:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130926061104.D456D3094@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 08:11:04 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.380 peer review? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 380. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 16:19:49 +0100 From: "James O'Sullivan" Subject: Peer Review Processes Hello all, I was hoping to start a discussion on peer review processes. Looking at the submission guidelines for the DH2014, I noticed that the ADHO "has discontinued the anonymization of papers during the review process (moving to single-blind review)". I'm wondering why this is, and what people think of such a move? I've always been of the opinion that single-blind review has few benefits when compared with double-blind processes, and I've also heard some convincing arguments in relation to more open models. I have limited experience as a reviewer, so I am curious to know if there are any merits to a single-blind review process? Thanks as always... 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 116232FFC; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 05:45:03 +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 AC82D2FB4; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 05:44:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B8E262DAB; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 05:44:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130927034451.B8E262DAB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 05:44:51 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.381 peer review X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 381. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Sara A. Schmidt" (61) Subject: Re: 27.380 peer review? [2] From: Martin Holmes (30) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.380 peer review? [3] From: Melissa Terras (84) Subject: Re: 27.380 peer review? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 03:40:38 -0500 From: "Sara A. Schmidt" Subject: Re: 27.380 peer review? In-Reply-To: <20130926061104.D456D3094@digitalhumanities.org> Ray Siemens would be better able to speak to this issue than me, but I think single blind review has been used since ADHO started using ConfTool because people were routinely listing their names and affiliations in the files they were uploading into conftool so it would have been necessary for the PC chair to download each uploaded file in order to make sure no names or affiliations were included. I believe individuals submitting panel abstracts have historically tended to mention the names and affiliations of the various speakers planning to take part in the panel sessions. In addition I believe that it was believed that some long term members of the digital humanities community were familiar enough with the research and writing styles of some of their colleagues so that they would be able to make an educated guess as to the authors of a number of the abstracts they were being asked to review. Sara Schmidt On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 1:11 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 380. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 16:19:49 +0100 > From: "James O'Sullivan" > Subject: Peer Review Processes > > > Hello all, > > I was hoping to start a discussion on peer review processes. Looking at the > submission guidelines for the DH2014, I noticed that the ADHO "has > discontinued the anonymization of papers during the review process (moving > to single-blind review)". I'm wondering why this is, and what people think > of such a move? > > I've always been of the opinion that single-blind review has few benefits > when compared with double-blind processes, and I've also heard some > convincing arguments in relation to more open models. > > I have limited experience as a reviewer, so I am curious to know if there > are any merits to a single-blind review process? > > Thanks as always... > 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 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 05:40:59 -0700 From: Martin Holmes Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.380 peer review? In-Reply-To: <20130926061104.D456D3094@digitalhumanities.org> I've been doing reviews for the DH conference for many years, and it's usually pretty obvious who the authors of most of the papers are. This is a small community, and most of us are aware of the specializations, projects and preoccupations of most of those who work in the areas we're familiar with. If you do any additional reading (following up references or checking claims in the abstract) it becomes even more obvious. I don't know the motivations of the program committee in making this move, but I don't think it changes very much from the point of view of reviewers. Cheers, Martin --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 15:14:48 +0100 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Re: 27.380 peer review? In-Reply-To: <20130926061104.D456D3094@digitalhumanities.org> Dear James, As Program Committee Chair for DH2014, I'm happy to share what I know of the current situation. It's a very interesting question, and I'm looking forward to subsequent discussions. The change to single-blind peer review for DH was made in 2005. In the Annexe to the ADHO conference protocol (http://adho.org/administration/conference-coordinating/annex-adho-conference-protocol), you can see, under "Reviewing of Papers", "ADHO is discontinuing the practice of anonymizing papers during the review process." It would require some digging to get the minutes of the discussion that let to it, but as I understand it, this was because author identities are often so recognizable from the DH projects referenced in proposals. The conference organisation is bound by these protocols from one year to the next - so the procedure for DH2014 is now set up. However, we of course welcome input and discussion, and if there is a sense from the community that this needs to be changed, this can be addressed at committee level, and the protocols amended. Our community has changed a lot since 2005, indeed. The Conference Coordinating Committee would be the place to direct any recommendations, or queries, or to ask for this to be raised again as a discussion item, as they are responsible for maintaining the conference protocols. http://adho.org/administration/conference-coordinating We welcome any members of the ADHO community asking this sort of question about process, and as our community grows and develops, its important to think about how existing protocols reflect the community's needs. best, Melissa Terras (PC Chair DH2014). ----------------- Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE CITP FHEA 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/ Twitter: @melissaterras _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 F164F3070; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 05:48:53 +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 8903B3069; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 05:48:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 26DDD2FF4; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 05:48:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130927034845.26DDD2FF4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 05:48:45 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.382 jobs at King's, 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. 27, No. 382. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Doug Reside (62) Subject: Job at NYPL: Director of Digital Initiatives [2] From: Willard McCarty (65) Subject: job at King's --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:02:57 -0400 From: Doug Reside Subject: Job at NYPL: Director of Digital Initiatives Director, Digital Initiatives and Services The New York Public Library https://intranet-nypl.icims.com/jobs/7590/director-digital-initiatives-and-services/job Overview: Reporting to the Chief Library Officer of The New York Public Library, the Director, Digital Initiatives and Services leads the experimentation, implementation and portfolio management of the digital user experience. This person partners with internal and external stakeholders to identify, design, incubate and ensure delivery of an excellent user experience across all our digital properties. This position forms part of a senior team responsible for the digital strategy and customer service across the NYPL. Responsibilities: The qualified candidate will have direct oversight of the NYPL innovation program (includes NYPL Labs), the vision and direction of our user experience, new product and service implementation, and digital portfolio management. Specific responsibilities include; - Accountable to the User Experience Leadership team for delivery on the digital strategy - Partners with Strategy in the design and effective use of user analytics and research in decision-making, - Partners with the Chief Technology Officer on technology strategy and product development - Accountable for ease of use throughout the Library’s digital properties, including building strong digital partner experiences - Under the direction of the CLO and in partnership with the Andrew W. Mellon director, the VP of Public Services, the VP of Marketing and Communications, and the VP of Finance and Strategic Initiatives, leads the planning and implementation of NYPL’s digital strategy - In conjunction with other stakeholders, actively looks for and drives changes in the digital portfolio - Involved in hiring, developing and retaining digital expertise - Accountable for developing and overseeing the Digital Initiatives and Services budget - In collaboration with the CLO represents the digital strategy with internal and external stakeholders Key Competencies: - User experience focus - Analytical thinking - Skilled communicator - A track record of successful collaboration and team building across and within organizations - Strong ability to manage through change Qualifications: - A minimum of ten years working in the information industry – preferably in education or higher education, digital humanities, digital libraries or Internet-based publishing or product management - Bachelors Degree in information science or other related field required, Masters Degree prefered - Extensive experience stewarding products from incubation to production - Demonstrated track record of developing and using data and user-based research to deliver - Demonstrated track record of excellent customer service leadership - Excellent internal and external communicator - Excellent understanding of current day technologies (including but not limited to apps, collaboration, search and discovery, digital asset management) - Demonstrated history of collaboration across business units to bring about large-scale organizational change Work Environment: Standard office environment Physical Duties: N/A --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 17:54:32 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: job at King's Research Associate in Big Social Data Department of Digital Humanities School of Arts & Humanities Reference Number: R6/AAV/967/13-MK Grade 6, £31,331 - £35,244 per annum, plus £2,323 London allowance per annum To email: recruitmentteam3@kcl.ac.uk Applications should be made electronically in Word or PDF format. Please ensure you quote reference number R6/AAV/967/13-MK on all correspondence. Informal enquiries may be made to Tobias Blanke on 020 7848 1975, or via email at tobias.blanke@kcl.ac.uk. Closing date: 17 October 2013 The Department is seeking a Research Associate in dynamic web and mobile development including implementation of front-end interfaces with an interest in working in big social data. The Researcher will work on an AHRC Big Data funded research project called ‘Our data, ourselvesÂ’. Collectively, we now create more data in two days than we did in all of 2002. Whether it is the 4 Billion pieces of content shared daily on Facebook, the 200 Million tweets, more than 5 Billion of us intensively produce unprecedented and unfathomable amounts of social data whenever we text, browse, post or generate content on our phones. We call this Big Social Data (BSD), and it entails the symbolic content we generate as will as the metadata our phones emit, tracking our bodies through time and space. Recent revelations about the NSA and GCHQ reveal just how data centric our society has become. The project 'Our Data, Ourselves' seeks to democratise BSD. We seek to turn it into a community asset and develop tools, applications, formats and practices which will enable important new research on and using BSD by arts and humanities researchers. We will partner with youth coders in the Young Rewired State network as co-researchers, and gain privileged insight into how the mediated connectedness manifested by BSD is transforming communities. We will work with our young co- researchers to develop tools and applications for the capture, storage, and analysis of BSD, primarily from mobile phones. We will create an open environment for BSD research and develop an ethical framework for data sharing available for widespread community use. We envision a BSD research commons, respectful of privacy concerns, and engaging young tech-savvy communities to gain a greater understanding of the data-intensive digital culture of mobile environments. We develop a freely accessible, open source online market place for tools and applications enabling the extraction of BSD from smart phones. We engage in hackathons to develop these tools, and engage privacy concerns, developing anonymisation technologies and produce policy white papers on ethical data sharing. We seek to turn BSD, which is currently primarily fodder for targeted ads and surveillance into a community resource available for creative use. If it is 'our data ourselves', our BSD commons will empower us to use it in new ways, both in community and by arts and humanities researchers. The successful candidate for this position will be a web/mobile platforms researcher with experience in sophisticated public facing applications. The post-holder will have excellent knowledge of scripting languages such as PHP and Python and web-development technologies (Javascript, CSS, HTML5). Knowledge of the Andriod platform would be an advantage, too. They will need to be able to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team, as well as to work independently. Experience with collaborative development around open-source code-hosting repositories (such as Github, Bitbucket or Google Code) would be an advantage. The post is for 16 months and is a full time appointment. The post holder will be based at the Drury Lane site but the post will involve some travel to meet with the communities involved. -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D60A1309B; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 09:01:06 +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 C4A023097; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 09:00:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 81B113092; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 09:00:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130928070056.81B113092@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 09:00:56 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.383 Polish poetry X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 383. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 18:05:11 +0200 From: Toma Tasovac Subject: 27.375 Panels at conferences? Polish poetry? Dear Alun, I am sure that Polish experts on the list will be able to tell you more about specifically WWI-related poets, but for future reference keep in mind that: 1. Gumilev is a very famous Russian poet, so no, he is definitely not regarded Polish; and 2. there is really no need to use quotation marks when speaking of Polish poets during the First World War - or any other period, really. Poland had a thriving literary scene during the age of partitions. When Sienkiewicz won the Nobel prize in 1905, he did so as a Polish writer, and not as a stateless, language-less ghost. All best, Toma ————————————————————— Toma Tasovac Center for Digital Humanities (Belgrade, Serbia) http://humanistika.org • http://transpoetika.org 25.09.2013., в 05.44, Humanist Discussion Group > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 13:03:59 +0000 > From: Alun Edwards Subject: Polish poetry > > Dear all, > > At the First World War Poetry Digital Archive we are working with a British schools poetry project (whose figurehead is the former poet laureate Andrew Motion). > > We are researching online resources from the First World War Poetry Digital Archive, Europeana 1914-1918 and other sources, which can be presented online for school teachers to use. As there is a growing Polish population in British schools, we are trying to discover if there are war poets or poems from the First World War which are recognised as "Polish", using the quote marks because until the end of the war Poland didn't regain its independence. Formerly the territory was part of the Prussian, Russian and Austrian empires. I'm aware of Nikolay Gumilev, but not really any of his works, is he regarded as a Polish writer? > > Many thanks for all pointers, Ally > > -- > Alun Edwards, Project Manager alun.edwards@it.ox.ac.uk Education Enhancement team, Academic IT Services at > University of Oxford > > // Europeana 1914-1918 www.europeana1914-1918.eu/ | RunCoCo: How to Run a Community Collection Online http://runcoco.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ | The Great War Archive www.thegreatwararchive.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E569030A2; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 09:02:20 +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 7EDC03094; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 09:02:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5CF273094; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 09:02:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130928070210.5CF273094@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 09:02:10 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.384 help: graders to evaluate system outputs X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 384. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 20:19:00 +0000 From: "Downie, J Stephen" Subject: Be a Hero: MIREX 2013 AMS and SMS graders needed (time sensitive) Dear Colleagues: The Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) 2013 Audio Music Similarity (AMS) and Symbolic Melodic Similarity (SMS) tasks both require graders to evaluate system outputs. For more information about MIREX, please see: http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/MIREX_HOME We will need two sets of graders, one for each task. For AMS, we need *50* graders (50 queries, 1 query list per grader). For SMS, we need *6* graders as there are only 6 query lists to be evaluated. We are under the usual time constraints this year. ISMIR 2013 begins 4 November. We need to have all the MIREX results calculated and posted by our 21 October target date (fingers crossed)! We hope to open the Evalutron 6000 (E6K) v.2 grading system by Tuesday, 8 October. To meet our 21 October (MIREX results release date) goal, we must have all the AMS and SMS similarity grades entered into the E6K by Sunday, 17 October. YES, THIS GIVES US LESS THAN TWO WEEKS OF EVALUATION! So, if you are kind enough to sign up to be a grader, PLEASE understand that we REALLY need you complete your assigned grading by 17 October. If you are a SMS or AMS participant, we ask that you do what you can to encourage adults over 18 years of age to be graders. If you are an AMS or SMS participant, please chip in and be a grader. We have set up two sign up forms. The SMS sign up form is found at: http://bit.ly/1fNJD1s The AMS sign up form is found at: http://bit.ly/1aw16ra Once we get our lists put together, we will send out instructions to the graders on what they need to do and where to go to do the online evaluations. If you have any questions, please contact or Thank you very much everybody. 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CCD1430A5; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 09:03:48 +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 24666309C; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 09:03:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3FFBA309A; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 09:03:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130928070338.3FFBA309A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 09:03:38 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.385 events: genetic textual criticism; tagging experiment X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 385. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Van Hulle Dirk (11) Subject: genetic criticism and textual scholarship, ESTS 2013, Paris [2] From: jennifer edmond (15) Subject: "Tag, You're It" Emotion Tagging Experiment --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 09:46:30 +0000 From: Van Hulle Dirk Subject: genetic criticism and textual scholarship, ESTS 2013, Paris It is a pleasure to announce the 10th Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS), 'Variance in Textual Scholarship and Genetic Criticism' / 'La variance en philologie et dans la critique génétique', organized in conjunction with the Institut des textes et manuscrits modernes (ITEM, Paris) and Textes, histoire et monuments, de l’Antiquité au Moyen Âge (THEMAM). The conference takes place in Paris (École normale supérieure, 45 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris) from 22 to 24 November 2013. Please find a preliminary programme in attachment. Details about accommodation and registration will shortly be available on the ESTS website (www.textualscholarship.eu/conference-2013.html). With all best wishes, Dirk Van Hulle *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1380276421_2013-09-27_dirk.vanhulle@uantwerpen.be_31677.2.pdf --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 11:41:04 +0100 From: jennifer edmond Subject: "Tag, You're It" Emotion Tagging Experiment All members of the DH community are invited and encouraged to participate in a live tagging experiment being launched on Friday 27th September, called 'Tag, You're It'. Funded by the European Commission Marie Curie Actions and Science Foundation Ireland, 'Tag' was first conceptualised as a response to the question "How can you make metadata in interesting to the general public?" Now we actually want to see if we can learn anything from the data! http://www.cendari.eu/tagyoureit/ See for yourself - there's a bit of explanation on the 'About' page, or you can email the 'Tag' team at DiscoverResearchDublin@gmail.com. And yes, that is a potato!! Go raibh mile maith agat (thanks a mill)!! Jennifer Edmond and the Tag You're It/Discover Research Dublin teams! _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D5DF13122; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 09:04:58 +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 B47E0311B; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 09:04:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id ABDA430A1; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 09:04:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130928070449.ABDA430A1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 09:04:49 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.386 call for submissions: digital appropriations of Shakespeare X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 386. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 14:28:03 -0600 From: Michael Ullyot Subject: Call for Submission: Digital Appropriations of Shakespeare CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS to a new "Digital Appropriations" section of _Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation_ (or B&L) B&L is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal publishing original scholarship on the afterlives of Shakespearean texts and their literary, filmic, multimedia, and critical histories. We publish two issues, online, per year: http://www.borrowers.uga.edu/ . In addition to articles and article clusters (groups of two or more related articles with a short introduction by the cluster editor), we regularly publish three dedicated sections: Appropriations in Performance, Notes, and Book Reviews. We are pleased to announce a new fourth section, "Digital Appropriations," edited by Dr. Michael Ullyot, Assistant Professor (English) at the University of Calgary: < http://ullyot.ucalgaryblogs.ca/ > or < http://zeugmatic.org/ >. We seek thesis-driven reviews of the following: [a] Digital editions and encoded texts, particularly those focused on research and teaching applications. That includes student editions/multimedia apps; TEI-compliant encoded texts for adaptation, visualization, &c.; and other text-based resources. [b] Projects, databases, visualizations, and other resources that build on Shakespeare's texts and performance archives. We also welcome proposals for reviews of digital objects that fall outside of these categories, including games or social-media appropriations. Send queries, including proposals for reviews or review clusters, to the section editor: < ullyot[at]ucalgary.ca >. We prefer thesis-driven reviews that make arguments about digital objects, rather than primarily descriptive or evaluative reviews. Arguments can focus on Shakespeare within the reviewed application or tool, or upon the digital affordances of these Shakespeare objects for teaching or research. Reviews are normally between 1000 and 3000 words. We encourage authors to embed links and media, as appropriate, to take advantage of B&L's medium, and to consult Richard Lanham’s _Revising Prose_ or Joseph Williams’s _Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace_ as they edit their work. Upon acceptance, we will ask authors to verify all citations and to put their essays into the journal's house style. B&L is co-edited by co-founders Dr. Christy Desmet < cdesmet[at]uga.edu >and Dr. Sujata Iyengar < iyengar[at]uga.edu >; please address editorial correspondence to lenders[at]uga.edu or to Managing Editor Ms. Maria Chappell < machapp[at]uga.edu >. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 72B873120; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 07:38:57 +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 6FE9030A1; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 07:38:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B6C8930A0; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 07:38:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130930053844.B6C8930A0@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 07:38:44 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.387 peer review X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 387. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 18:46:30 +0100 From: "James O'Sullivan" Subject: Re: 27.381 peer review In-Reply-To: <20130927034451.B8E262DAB@digitalhumanities.org> Thanks to all for the informed responses. I think Dr Terras raises a good point when she points out that the DH community has changed a lot since 2005 - perhaps the time has come to revisit the review process in respect of such changes? There are leaders in this field who, as many have pointed out, are identifiable as a result of their research interests etc, but there is an increasingly wider group of scholars who are not so easily identifiable, and to my mind, the fairest way to appraise their work is either via a double-blind or open process. I think when a review process is single-blind, there will always be doubt in relation to selections, and I think that this is unfair on both reviewers and the reviewed. There might of course be other logistical reasons to be taken into account; again, more experienced individuals might be in a position to highlight these, but I do think that this process should be reconsidered, or at least opened up to a wider debate. Just my two cents - and thanks again to all for input. Best regards, James On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 4:44 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 381. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: "Sara A. Schmidt" > (61) > Subject: Re: 27.380 peer review? > > [2] From: Martin Holmes > (30) > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.380 peer review? > > [3] From: Melissa Terras > (84) > Subject: Re: 27.380 peer review? > > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 03:40:38 -0500 > From: "Sara A. Schmidt" > Subject: Re: 27.380 peer review? > In-Reply-To: <20130926061104.D456D3094@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Ray Siemens would be better able to speak to this issue than me, but I > think single blind review has been used since ADHO started using ConfTool > because people were routinely listing their names and affiliations in the > files they were uploading into conftool so it would have been necessary for > the PC chair to download each uploaded file in order to make sure no names > or affiliations were included. I believe individuals submitting panel > abstracts have historically tended to mention the names and affiliations of > the various speakers planning to take part in the panel sessions. In > addition I believe that it was believed that some long term members of the > digital humanities community were familiar enough with the research and > writing styles of some of their colleagues so that they would be able to > make an educated guess as to the authors of a number of the abstracts they > were being asked to review. > > Sara Schmidt > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 1:11 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < > willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 380. > > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > > > > > Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 16:19:49 +0100 > > From: "James O'Sullivan" > > Subject: Peer Review Processes > > > > > > Hello all, > > > > I was hoping to start a discussion on peer review processes. Looking at > the > > submission guidelines for the DH2014, I noticed that the ADHO "has > > discontinued the anonymization of papers during the review process > (moving > > to single-blind review)". I'm wondering why this is, and what people > think > > of such a move? > > > > I've always been of the opinion that single-blind review has few benefits > > when compared with double-blind processes, and I've also heard some > > convincing arguments in relation to more open models. > > > > I have limited experience as a reviewer, so I am curious to know if there > > are any merits to a single-blind review process? > > > > Thanks as always... > > 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 > > > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 05:40:59 -0700 > From: Martin Holmes > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.380 peer review? > In-Reply-To: <20130926061104.D456D3094@digitalhumanities.org> > > > I've been doing reviews for the DH conference for many years, and it's > usually pretty obvious who the authors of most of the papers are. This > is a small community, and most of us are aware of the specializations, > projects and preoccupations of most of those who work in the areas we're > familiar with. If you do any additional reading (following up references > or checking claims in the abstract) it becomes even more obvious. I > don't know the motivations of the program committee in making this move, > but I don't think it changes very much from the point of view of reviewers. > > Cheers, > Martin > > > > > --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 15:14:48 +0100 > From: Melissa Terras > Subject: Re: 27.380 peer review? > In-Reply-To: <20130926061104.D456D3094@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Dear James, > > As Program Committee Chair for DH2014, I'm happy to share what I know of > the > current situation. It's a very interesting question, and I'm looking > forward > to subsequent discussions. > > The change to single-blind peer review for DH was made in 2005. In the > Annexe to the ADHO conference protocol > ( > http://adho.org/administration/conference-coordinating/annex-adho-conference-protocol > ), > you can see, under "Reviewing of Papers", "ADHO is discontinuing the > practice of anonymizing papers during the review process." It would require > some digging to get the minutes of the discussion that let to it, but as I > understand it, this was because author identities are often so recognizable > from the DH projects referenced in proposals. > > The conference organisation is bound by these protocols from one year to > the > next - so the procedure for DH2014 is now set up. However, we of course > welcome input and discussion, and if there is a sense from the community > that this needs to be changed, this can be addressed at committee level, > and > the protocols amended. Our community has changed a lot since 2005, indeed. > > The Conference Coordinating Committee would be the place to direct any > recommendations, or queries, or to ask for this to be raised again as a > discussion item, as they are responsible for maintaining the conference > protocols. http://adho.org/administration/conference-coordinating > > We welcome any members of the ADHO community asking this sort of question > about process, and as our community grows and develops, its important to > think about how existing protocols reflect the community's needs. > > best, > > Melissa Terras > (PC Chair DH2014). > > > > ----------------- > Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE CITP FHEA > 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/ > Twitter: @melissaterras -- *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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 42EDD3121; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 07:39:57 +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 38C0439D3; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 07:39:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 92C2A30A5; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 07:39:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20130930053949.92C2A30A5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 07:39:49 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.388 job at the AHA (Washington DC) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 388. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 16:01:51 +0100 From: Seth Denbo Subject: American HIstorical Association Job Opening: Associate Editor, Perspectives on History AHA Job Opening: Associate Editor, Perspectives on History The American Historical Association is seeking an associate editor to join the publications team at AHA headquarters on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The successful candidate will work primarily on the monthly newsmagazine, Perspectives on History, editing and writing articles on issues vital to the discipline for historians in all fields and professions. In addition to work on Perspectives, the associate editor will contribute to the AHA Today blog, assist with the Association’s social media content and strategy, and participate in its scholarly communications efforts. A PhD in history is preferred. We will also consider candidates who are ABD in history, who have an MA in history, or who have a PhD in a related field, if they also have relevant editorial or writing experience. Ability to write for a general audience is essential, and familiarity with historians’ use of the online environment, digital tools, and social media is required. See more at: http://blog.historians.org/2013/09/aha-job-opening-associate-editor-perspectives-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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 29D0839DA; Tue, 1 Oct 2013 07:32:34 +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 7A0A339D3; Tue, 1 Oct 2013 07:32:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id F33D130A2; Tue, 1 Oct 2013 07:32:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131001053222.F33D130A2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 07:32:22 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.389 peer review X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 389. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 09:51:11 -0600 From: Barbara Bordalejo Subject: Re: 27.387 peer review In-Reply-To: <20130930053844.B6C8930A0@digitalhumanities.org> Hi James, I think you make some very good points, but I wish you had elaborated more on the "open process" you suggest. I have some experience editing a journal for which we used blind peer review, a process that I was responsible for setting up. The problem, as Martin has already pointed out, is that sometimes it is very evident who wrote a paper. A further problem is that some reviewers seem to "enjoy" to discover who wrote what or to confirm a suspicion about the identity of an author. So, when these factors are taken into account it is very difficult to sustain a "blind" process (although we might want to pretend that everything is fine). Double blind review does not help much either, as it is generally carried out by the same group of established academics. I am not sure what you had in mind with the open process, but what I would like to see is the end of a blind review process that is only in place to protect the reviewers or even to allow people to exert petty vengeances or advance themselves. My preference would be a completely open system in which every individual takes responsibility for what they write (positive or negative) about anyone else's work. If we could implement a completely open process reviewers would have to be much more mindful about what they write and would have to question themselves all the time: are my comments constructive and can they lead to an improvement of this piece? Is *my own argument* supported by the evidence? Am I being fair? Is there a conflict of interests here? Are their personal feelings involved in my review? Will the majority of my colleagues see my objections as fair? When I write a review (or an article, or even a message to this or other distribution lists) I ask myself whether if this text were to be available in future years I would feel OK about it. I want to be able to sign my writings knowing that I have tried to do my best, but that my best is not achieved by preventing others to take part in the community or by being destructive or negative just for the sake of it. The academic world would be much better if we asked scholars to own their words. Best, BB On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 387. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 18:46:30 +0100 > From: "James O'Sullivan" > Subject: Re: 27.381 peer review > In-Reply-To: <20130927034451.B8E262DAB@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Thanks to all for the informed responses. > > I think Dr Terras raises a good point when she points out that the DH > community has changed a lot since 2005 - perhaps the time has come to > revisit the review process in respect of such changes? > > There are leaders in this field who, as many have pointed out, are > identifiable as a result of their research interests etc, but there is an > increasingly wider group of scholars who are not so easily identifiable, > and to my mind, the fairest way to appraise their work is either via a > double-blind or open process. I think when a review process is > single-blind, there will always be doubt in relation to selections, and I > think that this is unfair on both reviewers and the reviewed. > > There might of course be other logistical reasons to be taken into account; > again, more experienced individuals might be in a position to highlight > these, but I do think that this process should be reconsidered, or at least > opened up to a wider debate. > > Just my two cents - and thanks again to all for input. > > Best regards, > 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 785913A0E; Tue, 1 Oct 2013 07:33:16 +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 1D83C3A01; Tue, 1 Oct 2013 07:33:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0C6FE39D8; Tue, 1 Oct 2013 07:33:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131001053306.0C6FE39D8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 07:33:05 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.390 job at the IHR (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. 27, No. 390. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 11:53:04 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: job vacancy at IHR for British History Online project manager Project Manager Institute of Historical Research London An opportunity has arisen for a suitably experienced individual to project manage the Institute of Historical Research’s flagship digital project British History Online. We are planning on updating British History Online to take full advantage of emerging technologies and standards. Using your working knowledge of website project management, you will manage and implement this process ensuring that the update is completed to the required standard of quality within the specified time and budget. The postholder will be responsible for requirements gathering, planning, team co-ordination, budgeting, quality assurance and change management, as well as for maintaining the digital library on an on-going basis. You will also be responsible for the specification, construction and support of software assets required to maintain, migrate or enhance the service, keeping all supporting documentation up-to-date. Requirements To succeed in this role you will have wide-ranging knowledge and demonstrable experience of agile website project management, web technologies and website delivery. In addition, knowledge of object-oriented software design, specification writing and database information management are essential. A publications, education, heritage or communications background would be advantageous. A self-motivated and analytical individual, you will have excellent interpersonal skills and thus work effectively both as part of a team or independently. With a capacity to provide innovative solutions, on time and to schedule, you will also maintain enthusiasm, effectiveness and a sense of calm while working under pressure to meet deadlines. About The Department At the time of its foundation in 1921, the IHR library was conceived as “a workshop for historical research” where research students would learn to use historical sources in an integrated seminar space. Although the teaching of history has changed, the library continues this source-based approach. Its collection consists mainly of printed primary sources, bibliographies, guides to archives, reference works, edited texts and collections of data such as lists of office holders, along with some relevant modern secondary works. 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For additional information or to apply for this the role please download the further particulars from the UoL website ******************* Dr Jane Winters Reader in Digital Humanities and Head of Publications & IHR Digital Institute of Historical Research University of London Senate House Malet Street LONDON WC1E 7HU t: +44 (0)20 7862 8789 f: +44 (0)20 7862 8754 e: jane.winters@sas.ac.uk Web: www.history.ac.uk http://www.history.ac.uk/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9A4BD3A26; Wed, 2 Oct 2013 08:27:09 +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 1F6533A15; Wed, 2 Oct 2013 08:27:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7AFE13A14; Wed, 2 Oct 2013 08:26:59 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131002062659.7AFE13A14@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 08:26:59 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.391 peer review X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 391. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 20:47:47 +0100 From: "James O'Sullivan" Subject: Re: 27.389 peer review In-Reply-To: <20131001053222.F33D130A2@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Barbara, There's various open models, but I admit that I've only ever had experience with blind processes. The majority of them, as you have pointed out, are based on the idea that reviewer identities are also visible. I agree with your position that we require a system where "every individual takes responsibility for what they write". Whether or not this would be feasible for the ADHO, I don't know, but it's a position that should certainly be explored. The consensus seems to be that reviewers are capable of identifying authors. But I wonder as the popularity of the discipline grows, will this continue to be the case? Where reviewers can identify authors, there will always be doubt in relation to a selection process, and as unrealistic as it might seem to achieve a completely fair process, surely it is in the best interest of the discipline and community at large to at least try an implement a system that strives to offer either complete anonymity or transparency? To my mind there simply isn't any advantage to a single blind review process. Ok, perhaps reviewers can identify authors, but why not take measures to at least make this more difficult? Or, take the converse approach as Barbara suggests, and ensure that reviewers are as visible as authors, so as to ensure transparency across the board? It's certainly food for thought and something that I think should be discussed in a more official capacity by the powers that be. Thanks to all for the informed responses - a pleasure as always! Best regards, James On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 6:32 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 389. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 09:51:11 -0600 > From: Barbara Bordalejo > Subject: Re: 27.387 peer review > In-Reply-To: <20130930053844.B6C8930A0@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Hi James, > > I think you make some very good points, but I wish you had elaborated more > on the "open process" you suggest. I have some experience editing a journal > for which we used blind peer review, a process that I was responsible for > setting up. The problem, as Martin has already pointed out, is that > sometimes it is very evident who wrote a paper. A further problem is that > some reviewers seem to "enjoy" to discover who wrote what or to confirm a > suspicion about the identity of an author. So, when these factors are taken > into account it is very difficult to sustain a "blind" process (although we > might want to pretend that everything is fine). Double blind review does > not help much either, as it is generally carried out by the same group of > established academics. > > I am not sure what you had in mind with the open process, but what I would > like to see is the end of a blind review process that is only in place to > protect the reviewers or even to allow people to exert petty vengeances or > advance themselves. My preference would be a completely open system in > which every individual takes responsibility for what they write (positive > or negative) about anyone else's work. If we could implement a completely > open process reviewers would have to be much more mindful about what they > write and would have to question themselves all the time: are my comments > constructive and can they lead to an improvement of this piece? Is *my own > argument* supported by the evidence? Am I being fair? Is there a conflict > of interests here? Are their personal feelings involved in my review? Will > the majority of my colleagues see my objections as fair? > > When I write a review (or an article, or even a message to this or other > distribution lists) I ask myself whether if this text were to be available > in future years I would feel OK about it. I want to be able to sign my > writings knowing that I have tried to do my best, but that my best is not > achieved by preventing others to take part in the community or by being > destructive or negative just for the sake of it. > > The academic world would be much better if we asked scholars to own their > words. > > Best, > > BB -- *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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9BDC23A32; Wed, 2 Oct 2013 08:28:18 +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 C97613A36; Wed, 2 Oct 2013 08:28:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 89EB43A24; Wed, 2 Oct 2013 08:28:08 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131002062808.89EB43A24@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 08:28:08 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.392 call for submissions: DH2013 issue of LLC X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 392. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 20:03:53 +0000 From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" Subject: Call for Papers: Special "DH 2013" issue of LLC Call for Papers: Special "DH 2013" issue of LLC LLC: The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities will publish a special issue of top papers from Digital Humanities 2013, the annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, held this summer at the University of Nebraska. We invite submissions from anyone who presented at the meeting, including those who gave long and short papers, or who participated in panels and poster sessions. Long articles of up to 6,000 words in length (notes& bibliography excluded) should take up theoretical issues in digital humanities or report on completed work, including at least preliminary evaluation of its results. 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Bethany Nowviskie, MA Ed., Ph.D. nowviskie.org | scholarslab.org | clir.org | ach.org | library.virginia.edu Director of Digital Research & Scholarship, University of Virginia Library President of the Association for Computers & the Humanities Special Advisor to the UVa Provost and CLIR Distinguished Presidential Fellow _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E0B803A36; Wed, 2 Oct 2013 08:40:13 +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 424C03A32; Wed, 2 Oct 2013 08:40:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 21D053A15; Wed, 2 Oct 2013 08:40:02 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131002064002.21D053A15@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 08:40:02 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.393 what to call 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. 27, No. 393. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 07:26:03 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: what to call it? I am hoping for a definite answer to this question, but discussion is also very welcome. Let me explain (for entertainment value, if nothing else) how the question arose this morning. It arose from reading around, in this case, Richard J. McNally's "Fear, anxiety, and their disorders", in Fear across the Disciplines, ed. Jan Plamper and Benjamin Lazier (2012). After his survey of approaches to the disorders he considers one by one, McNally concludes thus: > One of the most persistent problems in psychiatric nosology... > concerns comorbidity [i.e. suffering from several mental disorders > simultaneously]. For the sake of expositional clarity, I discussed > each discrete syndrome as a self-contained categorical entity.... Yet > most people suffering from one anxiety disorder qualify for others as > well. Such rampant comorbidity has raised questions about whether a > person who meets criteria for social anxiety disorder and GAD > [Generalized Anxiety Disorder], for example, "really" has two > distinct disorders or whether he or she suffers from some more > fundamental entity, such as heightened negative affectivity, that > manifests itself in diverse ways.... (p. 34) McNally then goes on to say that recently some scientists in the University of Amsterdam have "cut the Gordian knot by reconceptualizing disorders as networks of functionally interrelated symptoms rather than inferred latent entities". My immediate reaction to this was, yes, of course, but then I quickly began to wonder, why am I embracing the network solution so eagerly? In other words, why in an age of networking has a "network perspective" come about and has such appeal? Ok, the easy response is, we're now all thinking like that. But why? The usual deterministic narrative would tell us, it's be-cause we now have all these networks to interconnect us, and be-cause with all these resources online we spend our time networking their contents rather than pondering any particular source deeply. But other examples of many similar things happening at the same time (such as those 4 papers on effective calculability all done in 1936, including Turing's, and in the same year as Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times) suggest that another metaphor might serve us better, such as, say, confluence or infection (as in ideas "going viral"). I confess: I keep wanting to ask, why are these rivulets flowing together, why do particular people succumb to the virus and not others? So my question: who has written best about this sort of thing, and what has he or she called it? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3658C39E0; Thu, 3 Oct 2013 07:51:47 +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 1376A30A0; Thu, 3 Oct 2013 07:51:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6DA40309A; Thu, 3 Oct 2013 07:51:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131003055137.6DA40309A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 07:51:37 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.394 what to call 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 394. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Susan Ford (7) Subject: RE: 27.393 what to call it? [2] From: Franz Fischer (79) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.393 what to call it? [3] From: Jean-François Vallée (62) Subject: RE : 27.393 what to call it? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 09:07:07 +0000 From: Susan Ford Subject: RE: 27.393 what to call it? In-Reply-To: <20131002064002.21D053A15@digitalhumanities.org> Interesting about 1936 - I was only aware of two (Turing's and Church's) of which I have only read the former. Does network theory mean I don't have to read the others because they are all the same? Susan PhD candidate, Classics, Australian National University --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:04:17 +0200 From: Franz Fischer Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.393 what to call it? In-Reply-To: <20131002064002.21D053A15@digitalhumanities.org> Zeitgeist? Quoting Humanist Discussion Group : > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 393. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 07:26:03 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: what to call it? > > I am hoping for a definite answer to this question, but discussion is > also very welcome. Let me explain (for entertainment value, if nothing > else) how the question arose this morning. > > It arose from reading around, in this case, Richard J. McNally's "Fear, > anxiety, and their disorders", in Fear across the Disciplines, ed. Jan > Plamper and Benjamin Lazier (2012). After his survey of approaches to > the disorders he considers one by one, McNally concludes thus: > >> One of the most persistent problems in psychiatric nosology... >> concerns comorbidity [i.e. suffering from several mental disorders >> simultaneously]. For the sake of expositional clarity, I discussed >> each discrete syndrome as a self-contained categorical entity.... Yet >> most people suffering from one anxiety disorder qualify for others as >> well. Such rampant comorbidity has raised questions about whether a >> person who meets criteria for social anxiety disorder and GAD >> [Generalized Anxiety Disorder], for example, "really" has two >> distinct disorders or whether he or she suffers from some more >> fundamental entity, such as heightened negative affectivity, that >> manifests itself in diverse ways.... (p. 34) > > McNally then goes on to say that recently some scientists in the > University of Amsterdam have "cut the Gordian knot by reconceptualizing > disorders as networks of functionally interrelated symptoms rather > than inferred latent entities". > > My immediate reaction to this was, yes, of course, but then I quickly > began to wonder, why am I embracing the network solution so eagerly? In > other words, why in an age of networking has a "network perspective" > come about and has such appeal? Ok, the easy response is, we're now all > thinking like that. But why? The usual deterministic narrative would > tell us, it's be-cause we now have all these networks to interconnect > us, and be-cause with all these resources online we spend our time > networking their contents rather than pondering any particular source > deeply. But other examples of many similar things happening at the same > time (such as those 4 papers on effective calculability all done in > 1936, including Turing's, and in the same year as Charlie Chaplin's > Modern Times) suggest that another metaphor might serve us better, such > as, say, confluence or infection (as in ideas "going viral"). I confess: > I keep wanting to ask, why are these rivulets flowing together, why do > particular people succumb to the virus and not others? > > So my question: who has written best about this sort of thing, and what > has he or she called it? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital > Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital > Humanities, University of Western Sydney -- Dr. Franz Fischer Cologne Center for eHumanities / Thomas-Institut Universität zu Köln, Universitätsstr. 22, D-50923 Kön 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://dixit.uni-koeln.de http://guillelmus.uni-koeln.de http://confessio.ie --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 16:01:27 -0400 From: Jean-François Vallée Subject: RE : 27.393 what to call it? In-Reply-To: <20131002064002.21D053A15@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, Of course, one could consider this apparent conceptual commonality in terms of kuhnian paradigms, perhaps even with the more traditional humboldtian view of a dominant network "Weltanschauung" but, if I understand well your question, you are more interested in the "process" leading to such synchronicity of views in a certain era. Describing it in terms of the "viral" lingo of today's networks could seem somewhat tautological for this purpose. If one wishes to avoid traditional deterministic (cause/effect) perspectives, a possibility would be the recourse to the artistotelian notion of "formal causality", whereby "a thing's dynamic form or static shape" could be said to determine the thing's "properties and function" (Wikipedia). Marshall McLuhan, often accused of being a technological determinist, made much use of this non-linear notion (that he got through Aquinas) to explain the formal/structural similarities between electric/electronic technology and various social, political and cultural phenomenons of the "electronic era". Perhaps the same could be said of our "network epoch"? Hope this helps. Jean-François Vallée _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id F2EFE3A26; Thu, 3 Oct 2013 07:52:30 +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 9A8C930A2; Thu, 3 Oct 2013 07:52:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6BCA639D4; Thu, 3 Oct 2013 07:52:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131003055220.6BCA639D4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 07:52:20 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.395 peer review X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 395. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 11:06:54 -0400 From: "David L. Hoover" Subject: Re: 27.391 peer review In-Reply-To: <20131002062659.7AFE13A14@digitalhumanities.org> Dear James, Barbara, and all, The single blind process we have now acknowledges the fact that the number of submissions has probably reached the point where we can't check to assure that each one has been made as anonymous as possible. It also seems to me to be based on the view that blind reviews are more likely to be candid than ones where the author can see who wrote the review. It has the negative characteristic that authors with high status or a penchant for revenge may have abstracts accepted that are of significantly lower quality than those by unknown authors. And, as Barbara suggests, blind reviews allow for the possibility of negative bias and allow the reviewer to hide behind the anonymity of the process. A totally open process does, as Barbara says, require that reviewers own their own views, but it has the corresponding negative characteristic that reviewers may be intimidated by some authors, and may, in general, tend to write bland, mid-range reviews that make the program committee's job much more difficult. Again, authors with strong reputations may have relatively weak abstracts accepted. I have sometimes given an author whose talks are always of the highest quality a set of rankings that are not completely justified by the quality of the abstract alone, but I think this is, in fact, a justifiable practice. Further, it assures that those who want to reward their friends and punish their enemies can do so, as long as they do it openly (though it won't necessarily be obvious that they are doing it). The process last year and this, by allowing authors to respond to the reviews, seems to respond to some of the weaknesses of the single blind review, by allowing the author to counter an unfair or biased assessment. Allowing reviewers to opt out of reviewing some papers also seems like a positive step, and it at least assures that reviewers don't work on abstracts that they have no interest in. I am not as sure about the benefits of allowing reviewers to bid on papers, as this is also obviously open to abuse and collusion (If you give my paper a great review, I'll do the same for yours; oh, that jerk has an abstract this year, I'll fix her; he did me a good turn, so I'm going to give his crappy abstract a high score). All the processes have competing weaknesses and strengths. In a perfect world, I would prefer a double-blind process with an opportunity for the author to respond, but I realize that is probably not be possible. This issue seems like one that should be taken up by the entire community and discussed at AGM's and in the Conference Coordinating Committee. David Hoover On 10/2/2013 2:26 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 391. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 20:47:47 +0100 > From: "James O'Sullivan" > Subject: Re: 27.389 peer review > In-Reply-To: <20131001053222.F33D130A2@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Dear Barbara, > > There's various open models, but I admit that I've only ever had experience > with blind processes. The majority of them, as you have pointed out, are > based on the idea that reviewer identities are also visible. I agree with > your position that we require a system where "every individual takes > responsibility for what they write". Whether or not this would be feasible > for the ADHO, I don't know, but it's a position that should certainly be > explored. > > The consensus seems to be that reviewers are capable of identifying > authors. But I wonder as the popularity of the discipline grows, will this > continue to be the case? Where reviewers can identify authors, there will > always be doubt in relation to a selection process, and as unrealistic as > it might seem to achieve a completely fair process, surely it is in the > best interest of the discipline and community at large to at least try an > implement a system that strives to offer either complete anonymity or > transparency? > > To my mind there simply isn't any advantage to a single blind review > process. Ok, perhaps reviewers can identify authors, but why not take > measures to at least make this more difficult? Or, take the converse > approach as Barbara suggests, and ensure that reviewers are as visible as > authors, so as to ensure transparency across the board? > > It's certainly food for thought and something that I think should be > discussed in a more official capacity by the powers that be. > > Thanks to all for the informed responses - a pleasure as always! > > Best regards, > James > > On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 6:32 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < > willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > >> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 389. >> Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London >> www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >> Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >> >> >> >> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 09:51:11 -0600 >> From: Barbara Bordalejo >> Subject: Re: 27.387 peer review >> In-Reply-To: <20130930053844.B6C8930A0@digitalhumanities.org> >> >> >> Hi James, >> >> I think you make some very good points, but I wish you had elaborated more >> on the "open process" you suggest. I have some experience editing a journal >> for which we used blind peer review, a process that I was responsible for >> setting up. The problem, as Martin has already pointed out, is that >> sometimes it is very evident who wrote a paper. A further problem is that >> some reviewers seem to "enjoy" to discover who wrote what or to confirm a >> suspicion about the identity of an author. So, when these factors are taken >> into account it is very difficult to sustain a "blind" process (although we >> might want to pretend that everything is fine). Double blind review does >> not help much either, as it is generally carried out by the same group of >> established academics. >> >> I am not sure what you had in mind with the open process, but what I would >> like to see is the end of a blind review process that is only in place to >> protect the reviewers or even to allow people to exert petty vengeances or >> advance themselves. My preference would be a completely open system in >> which every individual takes responsibility for what they write (positive >> or negative) about anyone else's work. If we could implement a completely >> open process reviewers would have to be much more mindful about what they >> write and would have to question themselves all the time: are my comments >> constructive and can they lead to an improvement of this piece? Is *my own >> argument* supported by the evidence? Am I being fair? Is there a conflict >> of interests here? Are their personal feelings involved in my review? Will >> the majority of my colleagues see my objections as fair? >> >> When I write a review (or an article, or even a message to this or other >> distribution lists) I ask myself whether if this text were to be available >> in future years I would feel OK about it. I want to be able to sign my >> writings knowing that I have tried to do my best, but that my best is not >> achieved by preventing others to take part in the community or by being >> destructive or negative just for the sake of it. >> >> The academic world would be much better if we asked scholars to own their >> words. >> >> Best, >> >> BB _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 350863A17; Thu, 3 Oct 2013 07:55:52 +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 5DB5D3A26; Thu, 3 Oct 2013 07:55:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1841230A2; Thu, 3 Oct 2013 07:55:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131003055543.1841230A2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 07:55:42 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.396 postdoc for the Digital R&D Fund (UK) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 396. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 10:14:13 +0000 From: "Vetch, Paul" Subject: Post-Doctoral Researcher Digital R&D Fund for the Arts In-Reply-To: <561B2BB818227248821F0D936B96604C0AF57A0308@ISSMAILMBXVS1.ph.rc> Dear Digital R&D Research partners, The AHRC in partnership with Nesta and Arts Council England are looking to recruit a Post-Doctoral Researcher to explore the Research & Development process as part of the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts in England. The Researcher will be expected to work across all of the funded projects. Applicants must be of post-doctoral standing and are likely to be an early career researcher. Preferably a doctoral degree in an arts, humanities or social science discipline; or equivalent, with relevant professional qualifications or experience of research in the arts and humanities or the creative and cultural sector The AHRC will fund a researcher (up to £54,000 fEC) to undertake the post on a part-time basis over a two year period. They will remain employed and based at their own institution. Full details of the role and its requirements can be found on the AHRC website. Please contact Heather Williams (h.williams@ahrc.ac.uk) if you would like to discuss further. Please feel free to forward this onto any colleagues you think may be interested in applying for the post. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Bernd Carsten Stahl (86) Subject: Cfp: ETHICOMP 2014 - "Liberty and Security in an Age of ICTs" [2] From: Geoff Sutcliffe (51) Subject: LPAR-19 - Calls for Short Papers and Workshop Papers --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 08:13:55 +0100 From: Bernd Carsten Stahl Subject: Cfp: ETHICOMP 2014 - "Liberty and Security in an Age of ICTs" ETHICOMP 2014 – “Liberty and Security in an Age of ICTs” Call for papers Venue: Paris Dates: Wednesday-Friday 25 to 27 June 2014 The ETHICOMP conference series was initiated in 1995 by Professors Simon Rogerson and Terry Bynum. The purpose of this series is to provide an inclusive forum for discussing the ethical and social issues associated with the development and application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Held every 18 months, the previous conferences have featured over 600 papers from delegates and speakers from all continents. ETHICOMP 2014 will be the first conference held jointly with the CEPE (Computer Ethics: Professional Enquiries) conference (sponsored by INSEIT - the International Society for Ethics and Information Technology). Our conferences will be hosted by CERNA (Commission de réflexion sur l’Ethique de la Recherche en sciences et technologies du Numérique d’Allistene). Joint Organizing Committee Elizabeth Buchanan (University of Wisconsin-Stout, US), Executive Director, INSEIT Max Dauchet (LIFL - Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Lille) Charles Ess (University of Oslo), Conference Chair; President, INSEIT Jean-Gabriel Ganascia (University Pierre et Marie Curie - Sorbonne Universités) Shalini Kesar (Southern Utah University, US), Program Chair Bernd Carsten Stahl (De Montfort University), Chair, ETHICOMP Steering Committee “Liberty and Security in an Age of ICTs” As the current scandals over NSA surveillance and questions of freedom of expression demonstrate, ethics and ICTs are core issues for contemporary societies. Today’s technological changes and its multiple social and political impacts make it imperative we consider these changes in different contexts that look beyond just the present times and particular issues. The aim of the conference is to not only present and discuss these changes but also discuss its social and ethical impact on people, society, businesses and education. Interdisciplinary papers either with a conceptual, applied, case study, or practical are encouraged. The conference has the overall theme of "liberty and security in an age of ICTs”. Under this umbrella theme, papers with social/ethical perspective (but not limited to), within the following areas with tracks include: * 20 years of ETHICOMP: A celebration Preparation of a special issue in the journal Philosophy of Technology * Education and Training e.g. Virtual learning environments, Blended learning, Digital tutors, Game-based learning * Government and Goverance e.g. egovernment, edemocracy, evoting regulation and legislation * ICT and Ethics in Business e.g. Professionalism, Surveillance & Monitoring, Ownership * Ethics of Emerging Technologies e.g. Robotics, Social networking services * Responsible Research and Innovation in ICT e.g. Ethics and rights in cybersecurity, Remote healthcare, Human-robot interaction As well, the overlap day between the two conferences (Wednesday, July 25) will focus on gender and technology (see: http://inseit.net/events-and-news.html http://inseit.net/events-and-news.html). Important Dates 30 November 2013 Latest date to submit abstracts to Easychair (between 800-1000 words) 25 January 2014 Authors informed of programme committee decisions by this dates 5 April 2014 Last date for receipt of full papers from authors (electronic version) 25 to 27 June 2014 Conference Submissions can be made at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ethicomp2014 For details, also see: http://ethicomp2014.org --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 18:04:30 +0000 From: Geoff Sutcliffe Subject: LPAR-19 - Calls for Short Papers and Workshop Papers The 19th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning CALL FOR SHORT PAPERS and WORKSHOP PAPERS =================================================== Stellenbosch, South Africa, 14-19 December 2013 www.LPAR-19.info The series of International Conferences on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR) is a forum where, year after year, some of the most renowned researchers in the areas of logic, automated reasoning, computational logic, programming languages and their applications come to present cutting-edge results, to discuss advances in these fields, and to exchange ideas in a scientifically emerging part of the world. The 19th LPAR will be held in Stellenbosch, South Africa. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * SHORT PAPERS In keeping with the tradition of LPAR, researchers and practitioners are invited to submit short papers reporting on interesting work in progress or providing system descriptions. They need not be original. Extended or revised versions of the short papers may be submitted concurrently with or after LPAR to another conference or a journal. Short papers are limited in length to 8 pages in the EasyChair format. Accepted papers will be published electronically as a volume in the EPiC series, see http://www.easychair.org/publications/?page=38379010. Authors of accepted papers are required to ensure that at least one of them will be present at the conference. Papers that do not adhere to this policy will not be published. The LaTeX, Microsoft Word and LibreOffice templates for the EPiC series may be downloaded from http://www.easychair.org/publications/?page=1594225690. Short papers must be submitted through the EasyChair system using the web page https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpar19 Paper submission deadline: October 14th, 2013 Notification of acceptance: October 28th, 2013 Final version: November 11th, 2013 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * WORKSHOP PAPERS LPAR-19 includes five associated workshops: + IWIL-10 - The 10th International Workshop on the Implementation of Logics Submission deadline: October 14, 2013 + APS-7 - The 7th International Workshop on Analytic Proof Systems Submission deadline: October 14, 2013 + ALCS - The 1st International Workshop on Algebraic Logic in Computer Science Submission deadline: passed + LRCM - The 1st Workshop on Logics and Reasoning for Conceptual Models Submission deadline: October 14, 2013 + ALFA-2 - The 2nd Workshop on Automata, Logic, Formal languages, and Algebra Submission deadline: passed Submissions are still being accepted for three of the workshops. For further details, please refer to the workshop web pages that are linked from the LPAR-19 web pages at www.LPAR-19.info . ============================================================= _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 46BB23A5F; Thu, 3 Oct 2013 08:04:10 +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 2B8503A3E; Thu, 3 Oct 2013 08:04:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7639F3A3E; Thu, 3 Oct 2013 08:03:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131003060358.7639F3A3E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 08:03:58 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.398 confluence of ideas in 1936 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 398. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 06:50:17 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the confluence of ideas in 1936 This in response to Susan Ford's interest in the publications on effective computability in 1936: see Robin Gandy, "The Confluence of Ideas in 1936", in Rolf Herken, ed., The Universal Turing Machine: A Half-Century Survey. 2nd edn. Wien: Springer-Verlag, 1995, pp. 51-102. Gandy, by the way, was Turing's student and a friend. As Gandy points out, such simultaneous arrival at solutions is not an uncommon phenomenon in mathematics and the other sciences. He cites Newton's and Leibniz's development of the calculus. His metaphor is "something in the air". WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 459FB3AC2; Fri, 4 Oct 2013 10:23:30 +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 226093A4F; Fri, 4 Oct 2013 10:23:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CB3C33A3A; Fri, 4 Oct 2013 10:23:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131004082318.CB3C33A3A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 10:23:18 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.399 what to call 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 399. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Peta Mitchell (27) Subject: Re: 27.394 what to call it [2] From: Arianna Ciula (8) Subject: Re: 27.394 what to call it [3] From: "Dr. Hartmut Krech" (23) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.394 what to call it [4] From: orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it (13) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.398 confluence of ideas in 1936 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 06:57:45 +0000 From: Peta Mitchell Subject: Re: 27.394 what to call it In-Reply-To: <20131003055137.6DA40309A@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard So my question: who has written best about this sort of thing, and what has he or she called it? At the risk of being seen to blow my own horn, I have written about this sort of thing—though I can't say I have written best about it—in my recent book Contagious Metaphor. Network theory has explicitly been framed in terms of (social) contagion going back to Gabriel Tarde in the late nineteenth century, so the two metaphors/concepts have been linked for a substantial period of time. This has become particularly evident in the "viral" network theory espoused by Jussi Parikka, Eugene Thacker, and Tony Sampson, among others, but it's also apparent in Dawkins's meme theory, which posits a networked form of thought contagion. None of this is particularly new, though, because notions of the contagion of example, or contagious influence, go back at least as far as classical theories of mimesis, which are themselves implicitly tied to the figure of Dionysus, the god of mimetic contagion. Other relevant texts might be Bruno Latour's Reassembling the Social, in which he discusses the ambiguity surrounding the notion of the network (and his debt to Tarde's social contagion and network theories) and Derrida's "Rhetoric of Drugs" essay, in which he talks about the "parasitology" and "virology" that is at the heart of his "matrix" of work. I hope this is relevant and useful. Regards, Peta. _______________________________ Dr Peta Mitchell Senior Lecturer School of English, Media Studies, & Art History The University of Queensland Brisbane QLD 4072 Australia CRICOS Provider No: 00025B p: +61 (0)7 3365 3246 f: +61 (0)7 3365 2799 e: peta.mitchell@uq.edu.au w: http://uq.academia.edu/PetaMitchell http://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/781 Office: Michie building, room 617 Map: http://www.uq.edu.au/maps/index.html?menu=1&id=55 UQ ALLY The UQ Ally program is a joint initiative of UQ and UQ Union. Allies provide a 'safe zone' for students and staff identifying as LBGT/I, and promote the University's commitment to developing a safe and inclusive work and study environment. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 09:03:37 +0200 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: Re: 27.394 what to call it In-Reply-To: <20131003055137.6DA40309A@digitalhumanities.org> For some hints to another perspective on the use the concept of networks to express complex structural relationships in image study (e.g. history of art) see Warnke, Martin: *What’s in a net? or: The end of the average.* http://www.kunstgeschichte-ejournal.net/161/ In: Kunstgeschichte. Open Peer Reviewed Journal, 2011 (urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-kuge-161-5) - http://www.kunstgeschichte-ejournal.net/161/ Arianna Ciula --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 14:11:00 +0200 From: "Dr. Hartmut Krech" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.394 what to call it In-Reply-To: <20131003055137.6DA40309A@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, the ancients called it "symphilosophein" and you may ponder its meaning sipping a Sarasvati cocktail sitting by Fonte Aretusa in Syracuse. But beware that the synchronicity noted is not a synopsis, a construct of your synchronoptic view. Is a network model truly more than an extended multifactorial cause-effect relationship? Within pathology, if you go by its original meaning, it is very certainly a causal relationship, despite the interrelatedness and interconnectedness of syndromes. Accordingly, one may also understand that there is something like intellectual cloning within societies overconcerned with social control. Intellectual reverse engineering has nothing spontaneous about it. But about all of this you have not asked. Best regards, Hartmut http://ww3.de/krech Am 03/10/2013 07:51, schrieb Humanist Discussion Group: >>I keep wanting to ask, why are these rivulets flowing together, why do >>particular people succumb to the virus and not others? >> >>So my question: who has written best about this sort of thing, and what >>has he or she called it? --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 18:11:42 +0200 (CEST) From: orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.398 confluence of ideas in 1936 In-Reply-To: <20131003060358.7639F3A3E@digitalhumanities.org> Surely there was a confluence; but I would like to point that Turing's solution, unlike Church's, was not only mathematical but in a sense "operative". I think that for the birth of computers Turing's intuition is unique. I write this because I would like to have opinions. Tito Orlandi ----------------------------------------------------------------- Tito Orlandi (olim Univ. di Roma La Sapienza) Centro Linceo Interdisciplinare Beniamino Segre - Roma Hiob Ludolf Zentrum (Asien-Afrika-Institut, Univ. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "R. Michael Young" (10) Subject: Senior Research Software Developer Position in Narrative Processing at NCSU [2] From: "R. Michael Young" (9) Subject: Research Scientist Position in Narrative Processing at NCSU --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 15:56:28 +0000 From: "R. Michael Young" Subject: Senior Research Software Developer Position in Narrative Processing at NCSU Senior Research Software Developer Opening at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC Area: Narrative understanding and/or generation, artificial intelligence, cloud-based intelligent systems The Liquid Narrative group at NC State University invites applications for an open Senior Research Software Developer position in the Department of Computer Science, in the broad area of narrative processing, with specific interests in the design and development of a research architecture for narrative understanding, generation and interaction. The Senior Research Software Developer will participate in the development of a narrative processing system that reasons about various types of event data and uses a range of multi-media interfaces to tell compelling and informative stories about those events. The Senior Research Software Developer will work as part of a research team to design a range of narrative modeling and generation methods and will be a principal developer building a cloud-based architecture supporting these algorithms and their integration with 3D games, both for data acquisition, for automated machinima generation and for prediction of unfolding narratives. The Senior Research Software Developer will also contribute efforts to design and build an instrumented multi-player game and a general cinematic storytelling tool, both using 3D commercial game engines. Qualified candidates must have a B.S. in computer science or related field with outstanding research record and experience. Applicants with advanced degrees (MS/PhD) must have experience building completed research systems in a team environment. Applicants with BS degree must have 5+ years industrial experience developing service-oriented architectures, virtual worlds, serious or entertainment-focused games or other relevant architectures/applications. The grant support will be for an initial year and renewable on an annual basis given adequate progress. Salary is competitive and based on experience and University policy. The ideal candidate will have experience developing complex software in a team environment, have experience with game development and/or the development of artificial intelligences systems, especially those applicable to games or virtual worlds, and have strong communication skills. Prior experience in industry or academic research projects is a strong plus. The goals of the multi-year project are to build a large-scale infrastructure for narrative processing. The long-term work will involve developing computational tools for extracting narrative structure from a range of media (e.g., game logs, film/video, text-based news reports), modeling the space of narratives that account for the media content and supporting generation and interaction tools that allow human users to understand and interact with that narrative space. First year efforts in this project look to build key infrastructure as well as to focus on a pipeline from game play logs to both multi-media summarization and prediction of narrative progression. The research group working on this project includes Professors R. Michael Young and David Roberts. We expect the position to start as soon as a qualified candidate is identified but may consider hiring later in the academic year depending upon candidate and project constraints. Interested candidates should view the official HR posting and submit applications through the NC State UNiversity HR web pages at: https://jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/28623 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 15:27:57 +0000 From: "R. Michael Young" Subject: Research Scientist Position in Narrative Processing at NCSU In-Reply-To: Research Scientist Opening at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC Area: Narrative understanding and/or generation, artificial intelligence The Liquid Narrative group at NC State University invites applications for an open Research Scientist position in the Department of Computer Science, in the broad area of narrative processing, with specific interests in narrative understanding, modeling and generation. Qualified candidates must have (or will have, by their start date) a Ph.D. in computer science, cognitive science, intelligent systems or related field with outstanding research record and experience. Successful candidates will conduct basic research and interact with the principal investigator, graduate students, and collaborators. The grant support will be for an initial year and renewable on an annual basis given adequate progress. Salary is competitive and based on experience and University policy. We seek candidates who have research experience in computational models of narrative, planning, machine learning, computational linguistics, intelligent data analytics, video game AI or other areas of artificial intelligence; and a foundation in theoretical models as well as experience in the implementation of these algorithms in significant research systems. Experience with manuscript/grant preparation is also of benefit. Prior pre- or post-doctoral experience in industry or in academic research projects is a strong plus. Project management skills, especially within a research environment, is an advantage. The goals of the multi-year project are to build a large-scale infrastructure for narrative processing. The long-term work will involve developing computational tools for extracting narrative structure from a range of media (e.g., game logs, film/video, text-based news reports), modeling the space of narratives that account for the media content and supporting generation and interaction tools that allow human users to understand and interact with that narrative space. First year efforts in this project look to build key infrastructure as well as to focus on a pipeline from game play logs to both multi-media summarization and prediction of narrative progression. The Research Scientist may also contribute to efforts to design and build an instrumented multi-player game and/or a general cinematic storytelling tool, both using 3D commercial game engines. The research group working on this project includes Professors R. Michael Young and David Roberts. We expect the position to start as soon as a qualified candidate is identified but may consider hiring later in the academic year depending upon candidate and project constraints. Interested candidates should view the official HR posting and submit applications through the NC State UNiversity HR web pages at: https://jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/28619 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2151A3ACA; Fri, 4 Oct 2013 10:28:57 +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 87DEA3AC2; Fri, 4 Oct 2013 10:28:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2C51C2DEE; Fri, 4 Oct 2013 10:28:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131004082846.2C51C2DEE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 10:28:46 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.401 great works 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. 27, No. 401. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 14:56:00 +0200 From: Tara Andrews Subject: Re: 27.370 great works of scholarship In-Reply-To: <20130924075351.50D8E306C@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, On the subject of software systems and how we can comprehend and evaluate them, you write: > But when software systems grew beyond the > ability of any one person to hold the whole thing in mind -- around the time > when the DEC-10 operating system was superseded, I'd guess -- then I > suspect that we could no longer say that such systems could be known for > what they might do, however legible individual components might be. Moving away from software for a moment, if we imagine each field within which we work as a system of its own, with its own axioms and emphases and consequences - I am reminded of a discussion a few years ago concerning the future of my own 'home' subject, Byzantine studies, a field in which it is notoriously difficult to find an academic post even by the standards of the humanities as a whole. A recently-retired luminary of the field, invited to give his impressions, stated that the best thing about Byzantine history was that, after many years of study, a single individual could indeed aspire to comprehend the entirety of Byzantium and the world around it. When I heard this I found it deeply troubling, threatening even, and I hoped desperately that no funding bodies or hiring committees would ever hear it said. If a single scholar can indeed comprehend the whole of Byzantine history, then what point is there in employing multiple people to try? What need is there for anyone to take it seriously as a field? In fact Byzantium and its milieu is, like any other period of history, far too vast and complex for myself or any other single person to understand it all in both breadth and depth. We cannot examine everything ourselves, and in order to continue with our research, whether as historians, archaeologists, literary scholars, scholars of art, or whatever else, we have always had to rely to some extent on exactly the sort of conceptual 'black boxes' that are causing such consternation in DH at the moment. I am a historian first and a textual scholar second, and claim no expertise at all in the other fields; I do not have the practical capacity, for example, to engage with the axioms and methodological theory of art history. To what extent, then, should I incorporate the findings and conclusions of art historians into my own research? To what extent should an archaeologist turn her talents to textual historical source forensics, which is the sort of thing I do, in order to carry on with the archaeology at hand? And so we come back to software systems, which have grown to be large enough that we cannot claim fully to comprehend their entirety, and this makes some of us uncomfortable. But to me this seems to be the same situation as we have always faced, in Byzantine studies at least. I have to take on faith that the database software works as advertised, that the XML parser does its job properly, that the Javascript libraries for manipulating SVG will put the correct image in the web browser. As I work with these things to build my own system, of course, I have some expectations concerning the results I will see, and if I see something substantially different then I will pause and try to bridge the gap between expectation and reality. But here I suppose we might come to a difference between historical disciplines and software. We understand (more or less) the conclusions of art historians or archaeologists or textual scholars by reading their arguments and reflecting on them, applying the conclusions to our mental models and considering the consequences. In theory we could do the same with computer code, of course - read it, work it through in our heads, understand the argument, even read the source code for the sub-systems upon which our code depends - but we know that in practice no one does this for more than a very small subset of any given program. And no wonder - code is not a good medium for human-to-human communication! This is why we are constantly nagging software developers to document, document, document. By and large it is the documentation that sets our expectations for what the code does. Only then do we grasp its logic and its argument, and only then can we put it to the test. In a way, of course, this is very similar to the example you give of the glosses to Martianus Capella. In theory we could take the enormous trouble to replicate the scholarship, but in practice we rely on the introduction - the documentation - to set our expectations. (Another question that arises from this, somewhat tangential to the main question, is this: will it ever be possible to create a symbolic language for the expression of humanities concepts in computable ways? This is an idea that I have heard from Joris van Zundert - in fact, something of it was expressed in the final Interedition bootcamp in 2012 - and the concept reminds me very much of the dream of Leibniz to have a 'universal characteristic'. But that is a very large discussion all of its own.) The other difference that arises with software comes in how we put the work to the test. Where in the historical disciplines we read and reflect, using the new information as a new set of mental building blocks, in computing we take the 'building block' metaphor rather more literally. We try to build something. If it doesn't do as we expect, then we take a closer look at the code and the documentation, and try to work out whether the fault lies in our expectations or in the building block itself. Perhaps the dissonance we are seeing arises from the feeling that, as long as we are making things, we are not evaluating them or critiquing them? That seems, at any rate, to correspond with the 'tensions between theoretical critique and productive theory' that was observed by Katherine Hayles. I do think that in this case it is a false dichotomy. And so I will come back to your overarching question and give an answer, insofar as it has worked for me up to now. How do we evaluate software for the substance of its contribution to a field; how do we say whether it is a great work of scholarship? We test its rhetoric - read the documentation - against what we know; we test its substance - use the software - to create our own structures of knowledge, and see how well they stand up. And I do believe that we have to do both. Finally, maybe this is why peer review of scholarly works of software poses such a thorny challenge for us. The amount of time and effort it takes to read an article and think about its implications tends to exactly fill the amount of time we have to devote to the task. The act of making proper use of a piece of software, on the other hand, and especially the act of incorporating it into something else we build, has a rather higher minimum cost in terms of time and effort. The number of people who are in a position to provide a good review of any particular piece of scholarly software - those who actually have a use for the software (or at least have suitable digital data on hand to experiment with) as opposed to those who might be able to spare a little theoretical consideration but no more - within a reasonable time frame is necessarily going to be much smaller as a result. Best wishes, -tara -- Tara L Andrews Assistenzprofessorin in Digital Humanities Universität Bern, Institut für Klassische Philologie Länggassstrasse 49, CH-3000 Bern 9 Büro: Gesellschaftsstrasse 2, 237C tel +41 31 631 34 49 / fax +41 31 631 44 86 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, T_FRT_CONTACT autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 36DDA3AD4; Fri, 4 Oct 2013 10:34:10 +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 88CF43A3A; Fri, 4 Oct 2013 10:34:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9FB94742; Fri, 4 Oct 2013 10:33:59 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131004083359.9FB94742@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 10:33:59 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.402 events: history & philosophy of programming; DH: inclusive or hostile? 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Liesbeth De Mol (124) Subject: CfP: 2nd Symposium on History and Philosophy of Programming [2] From: Malte Rehbein (162) Subject: Digital Humanities: methodological Bridge or hostile Takeover? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 12:13:51 +0200 From: Liesbeth De Mol Subject: CfP: 2nd Symposium on History and Philosophy of Programming /Call for Papers/ Second Symposium on History and Philosophy of Programming www.computing-conference.ugent.be/hapop2 At AISB-50, Goldsmiths, London 1-4, April 2014 As part of the AISB-50 Annual Convention 2014 to be held at Goldsmiths, University of London, on April 1st--4th 2014 www.aisb.org.uk/events/aisb14 The convention is organised by the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) http://www.aisb.org.uk/ Overview The history and philosophy of computing only started to develop as real disciplines in the '80s and '90s of the previous century, with the foundation of journals (e.g. the IEEE Annals on the History of Computing, Minds and Machines and the like) and associations (SIGCIS, IACAP, . . . ), and the organization of conferences and workshops on a regular basis. A historical awareness of the evolution of computing not only helps to clarify the complex structure of the computing sciences, but it also provides an insight in what computing was, is and maybe could be in the future. Philosophy, on the other hand, helps to tackle some of the fundamental problems of computing. The aim of this symposium is to zoom into one fundamental aspect of computing, that is the foundational and the historical problems and developments related to the science of programming. This is the Second Symposium on History and Philosophy of Programming, following the first edition organized in 2012 at the AISB/IACAP Joint Convention in Birmingham, UK. It is supported by the Commission on the History and Philosophy of Computing (http://www.hapoc.ugent.be/home). A historical awareness of the evolution of computing not only helps to clarify the complex structure of the computing sciences, but it also provides an insight in what computing was, is and maybe could be in the future. Philosophy, on the other hand, helps to tackle some of the fundamental problems of computing. The aim of this symposium is to zoom into one fundamental aspect of computing, that is the foundational and the historical problems and developments related to programming. Topics of Interest That a logico-mathematical-physical object called program is so controversial, even though its very nature is mostly hidden away, is rooted in the range of problems, processes and objects that can be solved, simulated, approximated and generated by way of its execution. Given its widespread impact on our lives, it becomes a responsibility of the philosopher and the historian to study the science of programming. The historical and philosophical reflection on the science of programming is the main topic at the core of this workshop and we expect contributions (talks) in the following aspects (and their connections): 1. The history of computational systems, machines and programs 2. Foundational issues and paradigms of programming 3. Methodology of designing, teaching and learning programming We believe the scientific community needs a deep understanding and critical view of the problems related to the scientific paradigm represented by the science of programming. Possible and in no way exclusive questions that might be of relevance to this Symposium are: . What was and is the relation between hardware and software developments? . How did the notion of 'program' changed since the 40s? . How important has been the hands-off vs. the hands-on approach for the development of programming? . How did models of computability like Church's lambda-calculus influence the development of programming languages? . Is programming a science or a technology? . What are the novel and most interesting approaches to the design of programs? . What is correctness for a program? Issues in Type-checking, Model-checking, etc. . How do we understand programs as syntactical-semantical objects? . What is the nature of the relation between algorithms and programs? What is a program? . How can epistemology profit from the understanding of programs' behavior and structure? . What legal and socio-economical issues are involved in the creation, patenting or free-distribution of programs? . How is programming to be taught? Submission and Publication Details Submissions must be full (short) papers and should be sent via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hapop2 Text editor templates from a previous convention can be found at: http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb08/download.html We request that submitted papers are limited to eight pages. Each paper will receive at least two reviews. Selected papers will be published in the general proceedings of the AISB Convention, with the proviso that at least ONE author attends the symposium in order to present the paper and participate in general symposium activities. Important Dates Full paper submission deadline: *3 January 2014 * Notification of acceptance/rejections: 6 February 2014 Final version of accepted papers: 24 february 2014 Convention: 1-4 April 2014 (symposium date tbc) Additional Information Please note that there will be separate proceedings for each symposium, produced before the convention. Each delegate will receive a memory stick containing the proceedings of all the symposia. In previous years there have been awards for the best student paper, and limited student bursaries. These details will be circulated as and when they become available. Authors of a selection of the best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of the work to a journal special issue. Symposium organisers dr. Liesbeth De Mol elizabeth.demol@ugent.be UMR 8163 - Savoir, Textes, Languages Université de Lille 3 Bt.B4 Rue du Barreau BP 60149 59653 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France dr. Giuseppe Primiero G.Primiero@mdx.ac.uk website: http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/people/giuseppe-primiero/ Department of Computer Science Middlesex University the Borroughs NW4 4BT, London, UK Symposium Website: www.computing-conference.ugent.be/hapop2 Programme Committee G. Alberts (Amsterdam) - TBC M. Campbell-Kelly (Warwick) L. Corry (Tel Aviv) L. de Mol (Lille) H. Durnova (Brno) R. Kahle (Lisbon) B. Loewe (Amsterdam) G. Primiero (Middlesex London) M. Tedre (Helsinki) R. Turner (Essex) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 20:43:06 +0200 From: Malte Rehbein Subject: Digital Humanities: methodological Bridge or hostile Takeover? In-Reply-To: <524D09C8.9070901@mccarty.org.uk> Call for Papers Digital Humanities – methodischer Brückenschlag oder ‚feindliche Übernahme‘? Chancen und Risiken der Begegnung zwischen Geisteswissenschaften und Informatik: Jahrestagung der Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum, 25.-28. März 2014, Universität Passau I. Allgemeine Information / Inhalte Die „Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (DHd)“ bitten um die Einreichung von Abstracts zur ersten Jahrestagung nach ihrer Gründung auf der Digital Humanities 2012 in Hamburg. In der internationalen Tradition dieser Tagungen bitten wir um Beiträge in der ganzen Breite des Fachgebiets. Darunter möchten wir besonders auf vier Themenbereiche hinweisen, die uns für die derzeitige Diskussion besonders fruchtbar erscheinen: (1) Geisteswissenschaften und Informatik. Auch, aber nicht nur, durch die Förderaktivitäten des BMBF in Deutschland in den letzten Jahren, gibt es im deutschsprachigen Raum derzeit ein Interesse der Informatik an den Geisteswissenschaften, das in dieser Form kaum Parallelen hat. Über durchaus auch erwünschte Projektberichte hinaus bitten wir daher insbesondere um Beiträge, die die Frage thematisieren, welche Chancen für beide Seiten sich dadurch öffnen, aber auch wie die Interessen der unterschiedlichen Disziplinen ausgeglichen werden können. Wer bestimmt die traditionelle Ansätze übergreifenden Forschungsagenden? (2) Digitale Infrastrukturen für die Geisteswissenschaften. Bei der effektiven, über konzeptuelle Planungen hinausgehenden, Etablierung dedizierter digitaler Infrastrukturen für die Geisteswissenschaften dürfte der deutschsprachige Raum derzeit führend sein. Auch hier bitten wir, über Projektberichte hinaus, um Beiträge, die explizit die Frage thematisieren auf welche Weise die Anforderungsprofile an diese Infrastrukturen bestimmt werden sollen und wo im Wissenschaftssystem sie insgesamt zu verankern sind. (3) Vom analytischen Mehrwert digitaler Werkzeuge für die Geisteswissenschaften. Der wichtigste Wandel in den digitalen Geisteswissenschaften in den letzten zehn Jahren ist insbesondere eine Verlagerung von der Frage, wie digital gestützte Verfahren analytischen Mehrwert erbringen können, zur Frage wie die Netze zur Darstellung und Präsentation geisteswissenschaftlicher Quellen und Ergebnisse genutzt werden können. Wir bitten um Beiträge, die den analytischen Wert der Informationstechnologien begründen. (4) Digitale Kommunikation in den Geisteswissenschaften. Die sozialen Medien haben in den letzten Jahren die Kommunikation in Lehre und Forschung sehr stark verändert. Die damit zusammenhängenden Fragen wurden dabei aber häufig außerhalb des „harten Kerns“ der digitalen Geisteswissenschaften diskutiert. Wir bitten um Beiträge, die die methodische Signifikanz der neuen Medien in Lehre und Forschung reflektieren. Unabhängig von dieser Schwerpunktsetzung, die sich in der Tagungsorganisation widerspiegeln wird, bitten wir aber auch ausdrücklich um Beiträge zu allen Bereichen der digitalen Wissenschaften. Dazu gehören unter anderem: * Alle Aspekte der Modellierung geisteswissenschaftlicher Inhalte und Forschungsprozesse. * Probleme des Markup und anderer Ansätze zur Formalisierung von Inhalten, insbesondere auch im Bereich der semantischen Technologien. * Durch die Informationstechnologien ermöglichte neue Methoden. * Softwarewerkzeuge für die Geisteswissenschaften. * Beispiele für disziplinspezifische Anwendungen in der ganzen Breite der Geisteswissenschaften, sowohl in ihren objektbezogenen (Archäologie, Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Kunstgeschichte etc.) als auch in ihren textbezogenen Ausprägungen. * Digitale Geisteswissenschaften: Curricula und Abschlüsse. * Multimediale Möglichkeiten, 3D Anwendungen, VR und AR, digitale Kunst. * Computerspiele als Studienobjekt und Werkzeug, insbesondere Serious Games. * Kuratorische Aspekte der digitalen Verfahren (Bibliotheken, Archive, Museen). * Mobile Devices. II. Vorläufiges Programm * Keynote John Nerbonne, Groningen: Die Informatik als Geisteswissenschaft. * Kontroversdiskussion Gerhard Heyer, Leipzig v. Manfred Thaller, Köln: Grenzen und Gemeinsamkeiten: Die Beziehung zwischen der Computerlinguistik und den Digital Humanities. * Kontroversdiskussion Achim Bonte, Dresden / Thomas Stäcker, Wolfenbüttel: Infrastruktur für DH, aber richtig * Keynote Katja Kwastek, Amsterdam: Vom Bild zum Bild. Digital Humanities jenseits des Texts. * Mitgliederversammlung Dhd * Workshops, Vorträge, Poster Die Konferenz-Website enthält das vollständige Programm: http://dhd2014.uni-passau.de/ III. Allgemeine Information / Formales Es können eingereicht werden: * Poster (Abstract von maximal 750 Wörtern). * Vorträge (Abstract von maximal 1500 Wörtern). * Sektionen mit mehreren Beiträgen (drei Vorträge pro Sektion, ein Abstract pro Vortrag, ein Abstract von ca. 500 Wörtern, das die übergeordnete Fragestellung der Sektion beschreibt). * Panels (minimal 3, maximal 6 TeilnehmerInnen, ein Abstract von maximal 1500 Wörtern). * Vor der Konferenz stattfindende Workshops (Vorschlag von maximal 1500 Wörtern). Die Homepage der Konferenz findet sich unter http://dhd2014.uni-passau.de/. Technische Hinweise zur Einreichung der Abstracts über ein Konferenzsystem sowie alle weiteren benötigen Informationen - insbesondere auch Ansprechpartner für Rückfragen - werden in Kürze dort veröffentlicht werden. Die Frist für die Einreichung aller Arten läuft am 15.12.2013 um Mitternacht GMT ab. Eine Benachrichtigung darüber, ob der Beitrag angenommen wurde, wird am 15.01.2014 versandt. Die primäre Sprache der Veranstaltung ist Deutsch. Englische Beiträge werden akzeptiert. In der Regel wird erwartet, dass von einem Verfasser / einer Verfasserin / einer Projektgruppe nur ein Poster oder Vortrag eingereicht wird. Eine Beteiligung von Beiträgern darüber hinaus an einem Panel oder Workshop ist jedoch möglich. 1) Posterpräsentationen Poster (Abstracts: 500-750 Wörter) können zu jedem Thema des Call for Papers eingereicht werden, insbesondere aber auch den Stand einzelner Projekte darstellend beschreiben oder Software demonstrieren. 2) Vorträge Vorträge (Abstracts: 750 bis 1500 Wörter) stellen unveröffentlichte Ergebnisse dar, und / oder berichten über die Entwicklung von signifikanten neuen Methoden oder digitalen Ressourcen und / oder stellen ein methodisch theoretisches Konzept dar. Für die einzelnen Vorträge sind 20 Minuten Präsentationszeit und 10 Minuten für Fragen vorgesehen. Kurzvorträge sind nicht vorgesehen: Es wird erwartet, dass die behandelten Themen, auch wenn nicht abgeschlossen, mindestens signifikante Zwischenergebnisse vorweisen können. Die bloße Ankündigung von Vorhaben, zu denen noch keine Zwischenergebnisse vorliegen, ist nicht möglich. 3) Sektionen Diese bestehen aus drei Langvorträgen zu einem übergeordneten Thema. Neben den Abstracts der einzelnen Vorträge ist ein Abstract des Organisators / der Organisatorin einzureichen, das in etwa 500 Wörtern das übergeordnete Thema der Sektion, bzw. den Zusammenhang zwischen den einzelnen Beiträgen darstellt. 4) Panels Bieten drei bis sechs TeilnehmerInnen die Möglichkeit ein Thema auf der Basis einleitender Kurzvorträge zu diskutieren. In der Regel wird erwartet, dass von der 90-minütigen Sitzung je ein Drittel auf die vorbereiteten Statements, die Diskussion innerhalb des Panels und die Diskussion des Panels mit dem Publikum entfällt. Die Panel-OrganisatorInnen reichen eine kurze Beschreibung des Themas im Umfang von 750-1500 Wörtern und bestätigen die Bereitschaft der nominierten TeilnehmerInnen, an dem Panel teilzunehmen. 5) Vor der Konferenz stattfindende Workshops Von TeilnehmerInnen an Workshops, die vor der Konferenz stattfinden, wird erwartet, dass sie sich für die ganze Konferenz anmelden. Workshops dauern einen halben Tag. Die Vorschläge sollten die folgenden Informationen enthalten: * Titel und eine kurze Beschreibung des Themas (750 bis 1500 Wörter). * Die vollständigen Kontaktdaten aller benannten Beiträger sowie einen Absatz zu deren Forschungsinteressen. * Die Zahl der erwarteten TeilnehmerInnen. * Angaben zu einer etwa benötigten technischen Ausstattung. * Der workshopspezifische Call for Papers, falls ein solcher veröffentlicht wird. Programmkomitee: Prof. Dr. Tara Lee Andrews, Universität Bern; Prof. Dr. Andreas Fickers, Université du Luxembourg; Prof. Dr. Reinhard Förtsch, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Berlin; Prof. Dr. Gerhard Lauer, Universität Göttingen; Prof. Dr. Claudine Moulin, Universität Trier; Prof.Dr. Malte Rehbein, Universität Passau; Dr. Thomas Stäcker, Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel; Prof. Dr. Manfred Thaller, Universität zu Köln ----- Prof. Dr. Malte Rehbein Lehrstuhl für Digital Humanities Universität Passau Gottfried-Schäffer-Straße 20 / 204 D-94032 Passau fon: +49.851.509.3450 (Sekretariat .3451) 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2540A3AD4; Fri, 4 Oct 2013 10:37:54 +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 5C74D3A96; Fri, 4 Oct 2013 10:37:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DD3B43A3A; Fri, 4 Oct 2013 10:37:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131004083743.DD3B43A3A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 10:37:43 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.403 peer review X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 403. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Adam Crymble (77) Subject: Re: 27.395 peer review [2] From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" (73) Subject: Re: 27.395 peer review [3] From: Willard McCarty (48) Subject: realities of peer-reviewing and the prejudice against edited collections --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 08:30:39 +0100 From: Adam Crymble Subject: Re: 27.395 peer review In-Reply-To: <20131003055220.6BCA639D4@digitalhumanities.org> Regarding peer review: The Programming Historian 2 uses a semi-transparent review system. The reviewers know who the author is, and once the piece is published, the author finds out who the reviewers were. We do that mostly because we believe reviewers should be acknowledged for their contribution in the scholarly process. But we're a bit different in the sense that we believe the role of the reviewer is to help the author improve the piece to the point where it will be accepted. They act as guides and mentors in a system designed to improve work rather than gate-keep it. We find that makes for a very collegial atmosphere in which we hope both reviewers and authors feel a part of the community of scholars helping to build resources for others to use and learn from. If someone was acting vindictively, my role as the editor is to remove them from that community, and I'd be quick to do so. Adam Crymble Editor, Programming Historian 2 http://programminghistorian.org acrymbl@uwo.ca On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 395. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 11:06:54 -0400 > From: "David L. Hoover" > Subject: Re: 27.391 peer review > In-Reply-To: <20131002062659.7AFE13A14@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Dear James, Barbara, and all, > > The single blind process we have now acknowledges the fact that the > number of submissions has probably reached the point where we can't > check to assure that each one has been made as anonymous as possible. It > also seems to me to be based on the view that blind reviews are more > likely to be candid than ones where the author can see who wrote the > review. It has the negative characteristic that authors with high status > or a penchant for revenge may have abstracts accepted that are of > significantly lower quality than those by unknown authors. And, as > Barbara suggests, blind reviews allow for the possibility of negative > bias and allow the reviewer to hide behind the anonymity of the process. > > A totally open process does, as Barbara says, require that reviewers own > their own views, but it has the corresponding negative characteristic > that reviewers may be intimidated by some authors, and may, in general, > tend to write bland, mid-range reviews that make the program committee's > job much more difficult. Again, authors with strong reputations may have > relatively weak abstracts accepted. I have sometimes given an author > whose talks are always of the highest quality a set of rankings that are > not completely justified by the quality of the abstract alone, but I > think this is, in fact, a justifiable practice. Further, it assures that > those who want to reward their friends and punish their enemies can do > so, as long as they do it openly (though it won't necessarily be obvious > that they are doing it). > > The process last year and this, by allowing authors to respond to the > reviews, seems to respond to some of the weaknesses of the single blind > review, by allowing the author to counter an unfair or biased > assessment. Allowing reviewers to opt out of reviewing some papers also > seems like a positive step, and it at least assures that reviewers don't > work on abstracts that they have no interest in. I am not as sure about > the benefits of allowing reviewers to bid on papers, as this is also > obviously open to abuse and collusion (If you give my paper a great > review, I'll do the same for yours; oh, that jerk has an abstract this > year, I'll fix her; he did me a good turn, so I'm going to give his > crappy abstract a high score). > > All the processes have competing weaknesses and strengths. In a perfect > world, I would prefer a double-blind process with an opportunity for the > author to respond, but I realize that is probably not be possible. This > issue seems like one that should be taken up by the entire community and > discussed at AGM's and in the Conference Coordinating Committee. > > David Hoover --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 23:33:12 +0000 From: "Nowviskie, Bethany (bpn2f)" Subject: Re: 27.395 peer review In-Reply-To: <20131003055220.6BCA639D4@digitalhumanities.org> Further on the topic of peer review for the DH conference: I think David offers an excellent overview of the options and concerns that have faced us in past years, and which have been the subject of much discussion among Program Committee members, and in the Steering and Conference Coordinating committees of ADHO. Those conversations continue, and the kind of community feedback we see here -- as well as the feedback I received and passed on as last year's PC chair -- is most helpful! I just want to add a quick note about the "bidding phase" David mentions, which we experimented with for DH 2013 and which I understand will be an option this year as well. First, it is very unfortunately named in the ConfTool system. It would be more accurate to say that this phase is about indicating conflicts of interest, on the one hand -- some of which would not otherwise be evident from the author/reviewer metadata in the system -- and, on the other hand, indicating more nuanced areas of expertise than may be captured through our subject taxonomy. People participating in the "bidding phase" should not really be indicating the papers they WANT to review, so much as those they feel especially qualified or unqualified to review. It is also important to understand that the "bids" are not invisibly and unthinkingly acted on. It is the responsibility of the PC chair to evaluate information gained through that process and use both her own judgment and the assistive interface of ConfTool, which helps take several other factors into account, to make review assignments. You may be interested to know that one side effect of last year's attempt to engage reviewers more deeply in the process from start to finish was a halving of the number of late and missing reviews, and a marked (not to say miraculous) decrease in the number of flippant, too-brief, or downright rude reviews received -- all banes of Program Committees past. No peer review systems are perfect systems! But I believe they are perfectible, and it's important that we keep talking about and refining our processes each year. Thanks to James for opening this great discussion. -- Bethany Bethany Nowviskie, MA Ed., Ph.D. nowviskie.org | scholarslab.org | clir.org | ach.org | library.virginia.edu Director of Digital Research & Scholarship, University of Virginia Library President of the Association for Computers & the Humanities Special Advisor to the UVa Provost and CLIR Distinguished Presidential Fellow --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 09:20:22 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: realities of peer-reviewing and the prejudice against edited collections In-Reply-To: <20131003055220.6BCA639D4@digitalhumanities.org> As editor of a journal that normally does a double-blind review on its articles, I've been in many situations that required interventions and variations of various kinds. One such required me to write the introductory part of a brilliant, imaginative article in order to broker a delicate agreement between a prominent but unreasonably severe reviewer and an author so nervous about the article that he threatened to withdraw it. Commissioned articles from very prominent people I've handled by asking them to name two reviewers from whom they would most like to hear. That's worked every time, and very well. My own experiences as an author of reviewed articles has been exceedingly positive, except for the first time, when a jealous senior professor, whose identity was clear, did a hatchet job on me. Devastating at the time, but now it's only an amusing anecdote. I've heard of truly horrendous cases. But mostly I regard the mechanism as good for all. We do need to recognize that the need for such reviewing varies with the discipline. There are some areas of physics, I have been told, that don't need it at all, simply because no one would work in the area except someone who knew what he or she was doing. The Sokol affair taught us that some disciplines are wide open to trickery whatever the review process -- because, it seems, anything goes. Digital humanities presents some problems of its own, or I should say, opportunities to rethink the process. But others have written on this, so I won't. What concerns me deeply is the strong prejudice against contributions to edited collections. It is said far and wide in the UK at least that such contributions are automatically suspect, and some say should be, or are, downgraded automatically for assessment purposes, because they aren't as rigorously peer-reviewed as journal articles. Picture this: I and my mates get together and in a friendly way, without much internal criticism, write up some chapters and make a book, which the publisher, not knowing any better, puts into print. I suppose that does happen, but the suspicion, I think, is largely unwarranted. I've gathered with my mates and put together a volume, and then gone on to be quite demanding that poorly written contributions be revised, and revised again. As a scholar I depend all the time on edited collections and go to such preferentially to find magisterial surveys of activities in disciplines I need to find out about. As an author I contribute to such collections, our Research Excellence Framework be damned. I would like to know who, without widespread consultation, has quietly decided in effect to make a whole type of publication venue impractical for those who need to be very concerned with their rating for the REF or other such exercises. This we need most strongly to oppose. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A2D303AC2; Sat, 5 Oct 2013 08:29:15 +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 499B23AA2; Sat, 5 Oct 2013 08:29:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2C628DC4; Sat, 5 Oct 2013 08:29:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131005062906.2C628DC4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 08:29:06 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.404 what to call 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 404. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 06:41:58 -0600 From: Michael Burden Subject: Re: 27.399 what to call it In-Reply-To: <20131004082318.CB3C33A3A@digitalhumanities.org> The focus on the "confluence of ideas" as virus-like opens the question of why are some people in some times more susceptible to "infection". Were Church, Turing, et al all exposed to the same infected individual, or were their defences weakened (by all concentrating on a similar problem) so that infections available to everyone happened to hit them particularly? Looking at other examples, I think there may be a decent argument for the latter, which suggests that although confluence of ideas may spread with a rate similar to a virus, it is not a matter of studying network transmission of ideas, but rather of seeing how susceptibility (to ideas) is increased by, say, changes in the technological or social landscape. For example, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace both simultaneously published ideas concerning evolution. And although they were both in contact before that publication, I'd argue that the real reason for this confluence is the British Navy allowing scientists aboard its vessels, and protecting a trade system that allowed other vessels to follow its example. Newton and Leibniz both independently discovered calculus. For Newton, part of this can be attributed to the fact that he was one of the first people to have a way of measuring seconds accurately, and so his practical measurements of movement yielded analyzable data that led him toward the need for a calculus. But they were both living in a time when ancient mathematical works had been disseminated, absorbed and were at last being challenged. So there did not need to be any first-, second- or third- degree network between them, since the whole field had shifted. The development of the telephone, photograph and flight (among others) appear in hindsight to have similarity to the confluence of ideas: in each the official inventor can have their claim disputed by others who were at a similar point of success. But common to these is the need in many technological discoveries for a combination of vital elements. Someone with four of the five element might make a telephone that almost works, or a plane that almost flies. Again there need be no direct link between the disputing parties, but by focusing on an long-established problem and using tools available in recent times to "all", they find the right combination. And in a different field that has impacted academia more that it ought: was it a sudden infection that caused large numbers of people to sell stocks on September 29th 2008? Rather it was a gradual change in the financial landscape, and the repeated signalling of problems with increased frequency over the past six months, that lead to a sudden herd movement. Michael Burden On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 2:23 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 399. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: Peta Mitchell > (27) > Subject: Re: 27.394 what to call it > > [2] From: Arianna Ciula > (8) > Subject: Re: 27.394 what to call it > > [3] From: "Dr. Hartmut Krech" > (23) > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.394 what to call it > > [4] From: orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it > (13) > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.398 confluence of ideas in 1936 > > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 06:57:45 +0000 > From: Peta Mitchell > Subject: Re: 27.394 what to call it > In-Reply-To: <20131003055137.6DA40309A@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Dear Willard > > So my question: who has written best about this sort of thing, and what > has he or she called it? > > At the risk of being seen to blow my own horn, I have written about this > sort of thing—though I can't say I have written best about it—in my recent > book Contagious Metaphor. Network theory has explicitly been framed in > terms of (social) contagion going back to Gabriel Tarde in the late > nineteenth century, so the two metaphors/concepts have been linked for a > substantial period of time. This has become particularly evident in the > "viral" network theory espoused by Jussi Parikka, Eugene Thacker, and Tony > Sampson, among others, but it's also apparent in Dawkins's meme theory, > which posits a networked form of thought contagion. None of this is > particularly new, though, because notions of the contagion of example, or > contagious influence, go back at least as far as classical theories of > mimesis, which are themselves implicitly tied to the figure of Dionysus, > the god of mimetic contagion. Other relevant texts might be Bruno Latour's > Reassembling the Social, in which he discusses the ambiguity surrounding > the notion of the network (and his debt to Tarde's social contagion and > network theories) and Derrida's "Rhetoric of Drugs" essay, in which he > talks about the "parasitology" and "virology" that is at the heart of his > "matrix" of work. > > I hope this is relevant and useful. > > Regards, > Peta. > > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A9EE33AC4; Sat, 5 Oct 2013 08:30:35 +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 ED8DB3AC2; Sat, 5 Oct 2013 08:30:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1DD3C3AA2; Sat, 5 Oct 2013 08:30:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20131005063025.1DD3C3AA2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 08:30:24 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.405 public funding for national dictionary 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. 27, No. 405. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 17:17:29 +0100 From: Andrew Hawke Subject: Public funding for national dictionary projects? Dear Colleagues, As you may be aware, the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales has been grant-aiding Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru with a ring-fenced annual grant. This has reduced in recent years (partly because of the Dictionary's two former Co-Editors were presented in the last Research Assessment Exercise, leading to "double funding", which was then clawed back). The Dictionary generates very little income from sales - just about enough to meet the production costs. The remainder of the Dictionary's costs are met by the University of Wales (approx. 60%), but the University is being run down in the approach to the intended merger with University of Wales: Trinity Saint David in 2017 or 2018. Last year HEFCW announced that it intended to end its ring-fenced grant to the Dictionary because of financial exigencies and changed priorities. Consequently, we expect to lose at least 25% of our funding from August 2014. We have appealed to HEFCW to change its decision, pointing out that many large national historical dictionary projects around the world receive support from the public purse, in one way or another. HEFCW has asked us to substantiate this statement to aid its consideration of our case. We are therefore seeking to compile a list of major projects that receive funding from public sources (whether from a direct grant, or from funding via a university, or a government-funded learned society, or a quango such as a language board). The details HEFCW requires are the the name of dictionary or project, the source of the government funding and the approximate annual amount granted. (I appreciate that the amount of the annual grant may be difficult to obtain.) If there is any information which you can supply in your particular area of interest, I would be most grateful. I would also be grateful for any pointers to further possible sources of information to help us make our case. With thanks in anticipation, Best wishes, Andrew -- Andrew Hawke | Golygydd Rheolaethol | Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru, Canolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd Prifysgol Cymru, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, Aberystwyth, SY23 3HH Andrew Hawke | Managing Editor| University of Wales Dictionary of the Welsh Language, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, SY23 3HH, UK ff./tel. +44 (0)1970 631012 | ffacs/fax: +44 (0)1970 631039 | ach@aber.ac.uk | gwe/web: http://www.cymru.ac.uk/geiriadur/ Rhif Elusen Gofrestredig / Registered Charity No. 1146516 Nid yw'r neges hon o angenrheidrwydd yn adlewyrchu barn Prifysgol Cymru / This message does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the University of Wales _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B79D23AD9; Sat, 5 Oct 2013 08:31:11 +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 AAD8D3AC4; Sat, 5 Oct 2013 08:31:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 70EE83AA8; Sat, 5 Oct 2013 08:31:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131005063101.70EE83AA8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 08:31:01 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.406 job at the Getty X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 406. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 15:10:24 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: job: Digital Humanities Specialist at the Getty Position Announcement: Digital Humanities Specialist Getty Research Institute, a program of the J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles Position Description: The Getty Research Institute (GRI) seeks a creative, technology-grounded person with a background in art history and/or computer science to conceptualize, advise, and coordinate digital humanities projects and collection digitization projects. Reporting to the GRI Deputy Director, the position will interact with a diverse range of collaborators including resident scholars, curators, research staff, librarians, technologists, and external partners to increase access to collections, develop new tools for using digital collections, and facilitate original art-historical research using digital resources. The Digital Humanities Specialist will recommend strategic directions, participate in prioritizing projects, research and recommend new technologies, track advancements in the field, manage project teams, and collaborate with external partners. Responsibilities include: --Coordinate and/or lead cross-functional digital humanities project teams and collection digitization teams comprised of internal and external partners. Work in close partnership with the Manager of Digital Services, the Head of Digital Art History, and the Digital Library Steering Committee; monitor and document projects from initiation through completion, interfacing with internal and/or external partners on content, administrative, and technical matters; plan and direct schedules; monitor project budgets; recruit and supervise project staff, interns, and volunteers; oversee the production of all project-related communication and outreach including reports, presentations, and announcements. --Organize GRI-wide discussions to select and prioritize digital projects; participate in various committees devoted to advancing and executing the institutionÂ’s digital initiatives; document the institutionÂ’s policies and procedures. --Work with scholars conducting digital humanities projects and accessing digital collections. --Collaborate in the production of digital publications and other scholarly products. --Provide professional expertise and services while leveraging the knowledge and skills of others. --Monitor and track advancements in the field; research and recommend new technologies; build networks between the GRI and other digital humanities centers. --Seek external funding for projects, as appropriate. --Coordinate activities closely with GRI Leadership, Digital Services, Library Departments, Digital Art History, the Scholar Program, GRI Research Projects, GRI Publications, Library Information Systems, and Collection Development. --Conduct research and collect data, as required. --Develop new competencies among staff and expand institutional knowledge of current and emerging best practices, tools, and standards for digital humanities projects, digital collections creation and management, and digital preservation. Qualifications: A degree in a relevant humanities discipline (art history, library science, informatics, etc.) and/or a degree in computer science (or a related field). A Masters degree or higher in one of these areas is preferred; demonstrated knowledge of digital humanities; experience managing digital humanities or digital library projects; a deep understanding of research processes and an appreciation for the transformative potential of digital technologies for scholarship; motivated, independent, self-starter; excellent interpersonal and team collaboration skills; excellent writing skills; strong project management and leadership skills; and ability to work in a rapidly changing and ambiguous environment. The preferred candidate will have experience with advanced information technology or informatics training; experience with a range of tools and methods for collection digitization, text mining and analysis, statistical analysis, natural language processing, geospatial analysis, data visualization, and/or image analysis. Review of applications is in progress. Apply online: https://jobs-getty.icims.com/jobs/2024/digital-humanities-specialist/job -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A80D23AF1; Sat, 5 Oct 2013 08:35:24 +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 7BB173AC4; Sat, 5 Oct 2013 08:35:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 50FE1DC4; Sat, 5 Oct 2013 08:35:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131005063515.50FE1DC4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 08:35:15 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.407 self-configuring robots X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 407. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 16:07:38 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: self-configuring robots I would like to think that the project at MIT, described at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/simple-scheme-for-self-assembling-robots-1004.html, would provoke both worry and delight. The delight seems obvious -- it is the spirit of making new things, serious toys, if you will. What's the worry? I wonder: what happens when we begin thinking of creatures (things that have been created) as assemblages that can reassemble themselves autonomously into other creatures? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AFF253AED; Sat, 5 Oct 2013 08:36:16 +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 4CBD83AB0; Sat, 5 Oct 2013 08:36:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8D50C3AA8; Sat, 5 Oct 2013 08:36:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131005063606.8D50C3AA8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 08:36:06 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.408 events: history and philosophy of computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 408. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 05:09:27 -0700 From: Maarten Bullynck Subject: HaPoC 2013 (ENS, Paris): Programme online Dear All, The program for the 2nd Conference on the History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC 2013) that will take place at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris from 28th to 31st of October 2013 is now online (with abstracts): http://hapoc2013.sciencesconf.org/program I also want to remind you that normal registration for HaPoC 2013 is still open until October 15th: http://hapoc2013.sciencesconf.org/registration/index best regards, the organisers, Maarten Bullynck (Paris 8 & SPHERE) Jean-Baptiste Joinet (Lyon 3, IRPhil & CIRPHLES) History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC 2013, 28-31 October, Paris) http://hapoc2013.sciencesconf.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BF9B23AFA; Sat, 5 Oct 2013 08:37:22 +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 08F9F3B71; Sat, 5 Oct 2013 08:37:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B642A3AA8; Sat, 5 Oct 2013 08:37:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131005063712.B642A3AA8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 08:37:12 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.409 call for contributions: Irish studies & 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. 27, No. 409. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 22:40:01 -0400 From: Matthew Wilkens Subject: CFP: Breac 3 -- Irish Studies and Digital Humanities Call for Papers: Special Issue of Breac, a digital journal of Irish Studies (breac.nd.edu) Breac 3: Irish Studies and Digital Humanities [Deadline: January 15th, 2014] In 2012, Stanley Fish posed the question: does the digital humanities offer new and better ways to realize traditional humanities goals? Or does the digital humanities completely change our understanding of what a humanities goal (and work in the humanities) might be? Practitioners within both the digital humanites and the humanities community more generally have offered many responses to Fish's musings, but as Margaret Kelleher has observed, there is yet little investigation regarding the opportunities and implications afforded the study of Irish history, literature, and culture by electronic advances. Addressing this seeming absence of engagement, issue 3 of Breac seeks to foreground the intersections between the digital humanities and work in the field of Irish Studies. What type of innovative resources, tools and methodologies have been produced by and for scholars working in the field? What challenges have those working on digital projects encountered? How does the design, development and use of digital tools relate to and/or advance traditional practices in Irish Studies? Positing the question in reverse, how can debates and practices in Irish Studies work in the digital humanities? What new challenges can Irish Studies bring to the digital humanities? The guest editors of this issue of Breac -- Matthew Wilkens and Sonia Howell -- invite submissions addressing the results of digital humanities projects as well as commentaries on the intersections and possibilities for future collaborations between Irish Studies and the digital humanities. Capitalizing on Breac's digital form, we welcome submissions which can be best facilitated by an online journal.In keeping with Breac's commitment to linguistic diversity, we also welcome submissions in languages other than English. Other topics of interest include, but are by no means limited to: Data mining Geospatial analysis Data visualization Scholarly editing New media Digital literature or poetry Digital humanities and the Irish language Digital humanities and world literature The issue will include essays from Hans Walter Gabler (editor-in-chief of the Critical and Synoptic Edition of James Joyce's Ulysses) on conceiving a dynamic digital research site for James Joyce's Ulysses, Matthew Jockers (author of Macroanalysis and co-founder of the Stanford Literary Lab) on macroanalysis and Irish Studies, and Padraig Ó Macháin (Director of Irish Script on Screen) on how the digital revolution has affected Irish Studies and Irish-language scholarship. It will also feature a review of Franco Moretti's Distant Reading by Joe Cleary (author of Literature, Partition and the Nation-State: Culture and Conflict in Ireland, Israel and Palestine). Typical articles for submission vary in length from 3,000-8,000 words, but the editors are happy to consider pieces that are shorter or longer. Deadline for submission of manuscripts is January 15, 2014. Full submission instructions are available at http://breac.nd.edu/submissions/. Questions are welcome and should be sent to breac.djis@gmail.com. We are also pleased to announce the launch of the Reviews page later this fall. Reviews will be a page dedicated to reviewing recent publications as well as showcasing recent projects and works in progress in the field. The page will operate on a rolling basis and an accompanying forum discussion will center around the most recent material. To that end, Reviews provides a space where researchers and students can discuss current trends and new scholarship, as well as invite commentary and receive feedback from Breac subscribers. Submissions for the Reviews page should be 500-1500 words and may include screen shots, URLs, and other forms of media. About Breac Breac is a peer-reviewed, open-access, paperless journal that publishes critical and creative work relating to Ireland and Irish Studies. Previous contributors include Roddy Doyle, Margaret Kelleher, David Lloyd, Paige Reynolds, Brian Singleton, and Colm Tóibín. Among the journal's many features is a forum section that seeks to cultivate a global conversation around the published articles among its readers, students, and scholars. It also periodically streams live and recorded events through the website'sBreaCam. Subscribing to the journal is entirely free; we encourage you to visit the website at breac.nd.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C0F2C3C08; Sat, 5 Oct 2013 08:38:30 +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 A86D23AB0; Sat, 5 Oct 2013 08:38:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 79AA53AB0; Sat, 5 Oct 2013 08:38:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131005063820.79AA53AB0@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 08:38:20 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.410 corporate open source X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 410. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 07:25:09 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: corporate open source Those for whom open source is a topic of interest may wish to read the following: Christopher Newfield, "Corporate open source: Intellectual property and the struggle over value", in Radical Philosophy 181 (Sept/Oct 2013), which begins thus: > I began to worry about open source when the corporate world stopped > worrying and learned to love open source. For me the turning point was a > drinks party in Paris in 2003, thrown by the wife of an American > advertising executive temporarily based in the city. First, a bit of > context for the party and its place in the brief story IÂ’m telling here, > which is about the capture of open source by the current corporate > innovation system, and the battle for the alternatives that endure. For the rest see www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/corporate-open-source. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BC8483AC2; Sun, 6 Oct 2013 08:48:15 +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 66F853A96; Sun, 6 Oct 2013 08:48:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 76B5B2FF6; Sun, 6 Oct 2013 08:47:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131006064758.76B5B2FF6@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 08:47:58 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.411 corporate open source X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 411. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 09:01:18 +0100 From: Daniel Allington Subject: Re: 27.410 corporate open source In-Reply-To: <20131005063820.79AA53AB0@digitalhumanities.org> > the brief story I'm telling here, > which is about the capture of open source by the current corporate > innovation system, and the battle for the alternatives that endure. > For the rest see http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/corporate-open-source . > Comments? > Yours, > WM Interesting but also disappointing! Newfield's article has some good points to make, but seems confused about the nature of open source and the goals of the open source movement. The representatives of open source mentioned are Apache and the GNU project, neither of which has ever been anti-capitalist (especially not Apache; and never mind the distinction between 'free' and 'open source' that GNU would insist on). Newfield's real target appears to be not Microsoft but Coursera, which he uses as an example of 'corporate open source', but Coursera content is not open and, as far as I can make out, this is in any case a category error because what's at issue is not source code. It's certainly true that there's been a change in the relationship between the open source movement and the hi-tech industries during the period that Newfield discusses, but there are only gestures towards an understanding of it in his article. I wish he had got together with a co-author who knew more about the history of software. Then, the article might have made a real contribution: perhaps something about the way in which the virtual meaninglessness of the term 'open' has enabled it to serve different ideological interests at different points in recent history (my employer is a case in point). Best wishes Daniel Dr Daniel Allington Lecturer in English Language Studies Centre for Language and Communication The Open University www.danielallington.net http://www.danielallington.net On 5 Oct 2013, at 07:38, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 410. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 07:25:09 +0100 From: Willard McCarty > Subject: corporate open source Those for whom open source is a topic of interest may wish to read the following: Christopher Newfield, "Corporate open source: Intellectual property and the struggle over value", in Radical Philosophy 181 (Sept/Oct 2013), which begins thus: I began to worry about open source when the corporate world stopped worrying and learned to love open source. For me the turning point was a drinks party in Paris in 2003, thrown by the wife of an American advertising executive temporarily based in the city. First, a bit of context for the party and its place in the brief story IÂ’m telling here, which is about the capture of open source by the current corporate innovation system, and the battle for the alternatives that endure. For the rest see www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/corporate-open-source http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/corporate-open-source . Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/ http://www.mccarty.org.uk/ ), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E26653AC4; Sun, 6 Oct 2013 08:49:17 +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 ABEA43AA2; Sun, 6 Oct 2013 08:49:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D622B2F9D; Sun, 6 Oct 2013 08:49:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131006064906.D622B2F9D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 08:49:06 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.412 events: Digital Geographies, Geographies of Digitalia X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 412. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 15:46:25 -0700 From: Luke Bergmann Subject: AAG CFP: Digital Geographies, Geographies of Digitalia Dear Humanist colleagues: We welcome digital humanists to consider participating in our session at the Association of American Geographers' 2014 Annual Meeting from April 8-12 in Tampa, Florida. Best, Luke Bergmann Assistant Professor Department of Geography University of Washington AAG CFP: Digital Geographies, Geographies of Digitalia Jen Jack Gieseking (Bowdoin College) and Luke Bergmann (University of Washington) With expanding interest in and work on the ways technology and our everyday lives interrelate, increasing recognition of implications of digital methods and theoretical dispositions in geography is also growing. Much of this attention has been devoted to important and exciting explorations using geoweb or Geospatial Web frameworks, often prioritizing the work of GIS, big data, and/or, reflexively, science and technology studies (STS). While the digital humanities are exploding onto the academic scene--not only foregrounding a disposition toward a creative criticism that is generative, but also simultaneously posing questions of interest to literary and social theory--"digital geographies" are beginning to emerge. What can geography bring to the table? How might we embrace not only digital geographies that explore the digital, the computational, or the algorithmic, but also embrace geographies of digitalia, i.e. the social construction of our everyday lives and space through the imbrication of the digital and the material? In this session, we are interested in fostering a broader diversity of digital scholarship, qualitative and quantitative, that consciously engages digitally, yet may or may not take 'the digital' as its object of study. We are particularly interested in papers that provide theoretical, methodological, and/or analytical insights into digital approaches to geography. We welcome papers inspired by, but not limited to, the following topics: > feminist, queer, critical race, and disability studies approaches for challenging inequality and injustice through digital means and/or in digital spaces and places > constructions in the digital differences of place, such as urban vs. rural, comparative urbanisms, across scales > critical uses of Open Access, Open Source, Free and Open Source, and/or Open Data platforms, software, or initiatives > computational methods and analytics in geographic projects > analyses of civil movements’ use of technology, such as Tahir Square, Occupy, etc. > implementations of social media in geographic study and pedagogy > theoretical and applied insights into spatio-temporalities of digital space and place > data visualizations of space and time for diverse publics > digital methods and tools to support geographic participatory action research > policy implications for shifting ethics and possibilites as inspired by online spaces Please send a title and abstract of no more than 250 words to Jen Jack Gieseking (jgieseki@bowdoin.edu) and Luke Bergmann (lrb9@uw.edu) by October 20th, 2013. Feel free to contact us with any questions about the session. We look forward to a lively and engaging conversation! _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D62693AC4; Mon, 7 Oct 2013 07:14:36 +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 01EA53A64; Mon, 7 Oct 2013 07:14:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4E0843A4F; Mon, 7 Oct 2013 07:14:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20131007051425.4E0843A4F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 07:14:25 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.413 job for an ontologist 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="===============2588519136731485636==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============2588519136731485636== Content-Type: text/plain Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 413. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2013 23:25:28 +0200 From: maurizio lana Subject: research grant for an ontologist Università  del Piemonte Orientale - Vercelli at the address http://www.unipmn.it/Informazioni%20su/Ricerca%20Scientifica/Assegni%20di%20Ricerca/Bandi/default.aspx?DisplayContentByLocator=15722,11274&compound=20722&opt=ao,rd,rh has a call for 1 research grant (1 year, 19.000 euro pre-tax) for a person (less than 35 years old and PhD) which will work with geolat research team to the construction of a geographical ontology which will be used in the annotation/markup of a latin texts corpus; moreover, this person will participate to the setup of the software prototype of the annotation working environment. geolat project (geography for latin literature), has three scopes: 1) building a global digital library of latin; 2) tagging every geographical name both recurring to existing resources and creating a geographical ontology for classical texts/world; 3) allowing scholars to access the geographically tagged texts through a geo/graphic interface. the interdisciplinary team needs a person able to finalize the decisions of the group about the geographical ontology, and to build/integrate the specific parts of ontology for latin texts with other already existing ontologies. the candidate should have a solid background in computer science, computational ontologies and RDF, with no constraints on the domain where s/he got this knowledge: computer science, information engineering, or cognitive sciences. the call is written in Italian language, interested people can ask for explanations to m.lana@lett.unipmn.it. _knowledge of Italian language is not requested_; good knowledge of English as interaction language is requested. residence in italy is not requested the call is /really open/ to anyone interested. all the best maurizio lana, director of geolat project ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università  del Piemonte Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925 --===============2588519136731485636== 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 --===============2588519136731485636==-- Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 605603A99; Mon, 7 Oct 2013 07:15:54 +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 E4E263A96; Mon, 7 Oct 2013 07:15:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 107403A6E; Mon, 7 Oct 2013 07:15:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131007051544.107403A6E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 07:15:43 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.414 events: Difference, Diversity, and the 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. 27, No. 414. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 16:53:05 +0000 From: Susan Brown Subject: CFP Congress 2015: Difference, Diversity, and the Digital (ACCUTE and CSDH/SCHN joint session) Joint Session ACCUTE/ Canadian Society for Digital Humanities/Société canadienne des humanités numériques Difference, Diversity, and the Digital Organizers: Susan Brown (U of Guelph), Ruth Knechtel (U of Alberta), and John Simpson (U of Alberta) The humanities have long worked to specify, recover, contextualize, and understand difference and diversity. We are now seeing increasing emphasis on difference -- race, gender, ability, postcoloniality, alternative academic status, and global economic disparity being the most prominent -- within digital humanities debates and practices. This panel asks how difference, diversity, marginalization, and power register within digital research and culture. To what extent and how do digital cultural products, resources, or tools enable us to interrogate difference? Are particular interfaces constitutive of new performances of difference and different forms of subjectivity? Do visualizations, animations, interactivity or immersive technologies offer particular affordances for representing diversity or experiencing difference? Is difference lost, erased, or misrepresented within digital artifacts or experiences? Does “Big Data” obscure difference or enable new means of addressing it? What are the impacts of particular methodologies or standards on the representations of difference in a digital context? Proposals are invited to address these or other aspects of the topic. Please follow ACCUTE proposal requirements (http://accute.ca/general-sessions/). Send submissions by 1 November 2013 to: Susan Brown (susan.brown@uoguelph.ca), University of Guelph, Ruth Knechtel (rknechte@ualberta.ca), University of Alberta, and John Simpson (john.simpson@ualberta.ca), University of Alberta. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7BCD63AC6; Mon, 7 Oct 2013 07:17:58 +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 99DA43A96; Mon, 7 Oct 2013 07:17:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6F3F53A64; Mon, 7 Oct 2013 07:17:47 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131007051747.6F3F53A64@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 07:17:47 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.415 call for submissions: special issue of MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication 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. 27, No. 415. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 00:41:35 +0200 From: Thomas.Gloning@germanistik.uni-giessen.de Subject: Special Issue: Digital Humanities In-Reply-To: <20120709221303.49052mzkdvhv0hgc@webmail.hrz.uni-giessen.de> Special Issue: Digital Humanities - Now and beyond MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research Submission deadline: February 1, 2014 Publication deadline: Fall 2014 Editors: Mia Rendix (Aalborg University, Denmark), Ditte Laursen (State Media Archive, Denmark) When the American scholars Jeffrey Schnapp and Todd Presner launched their influential and controversial -Digital Humanities Manifesto' in 2009, it heralded a new age in the humanities. In 2011, Europe published a -Manifest for the Digital Humanities', which was developed during the ThatCamp conference in France. Despite their rhetorical, instrumental, and transatlantic differences, it was clear that digitization had entered the realm of the humanities for good. Due to the technological improvements and far-reaching possibilities presented by the internet, digitization fundamentally challenged and altered the ways in which we organize our universities, create new institutional models, and ultimately how we think about and perform basic humanities research. From its inception, however, the term 'digital humanities' has been a hypernym covering several factions and methodological and theoretical approaches. It thus remains widely debated and constantly negotiated. In addition, discussion as to whether digital humanities is or should be regarded as autonomous or whether it should interact or interrelate with the traditional humanities has been a constant source of conflict between different - and often ideological - discourses. MedieKultur welcomes both theoretical and empirical articles on the current and future versions, perspectives, and/or problems of digital humanities. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - What have we learned from the digital humanities so far? - What is the future of the digital humanities? - How does the digital influence research practice in the humanities? as source, as method, as tool, and as means of enforced communication? - What new questions and approaches does the digital enable within the humanities? - How do archival means of collecting and making available digital data affect the scholarly use of this data within the humanities? - How do the digital and the non-digital differ, and how can new constellations of the digital and the non-digital within the humanities be conceptualized? - In what way does the digital humanities represent a national-regional or universal vision? - How can new digital infrastructures be incorporated into and implemented on the institutional level? Klicken Sie folgenden Link für mehr Informationen... http://www.discourseanalysis.net/wiki.php?wiki=en%3A%3AEvents&id=929 ___________________________________________ Forschungsportal Diskursanalyse http://www.diskursanalyse.net gesendet von: Felicitas Macgilchrist _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 769DB3AD9; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 08:21:21 +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 1EA853044; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 08:21:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B86DB3044; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 08:21:08 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131008062108.B86DB3044@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 08:21:08 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.416 corporate open source X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 416. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 12:43:22 -0700 From: Rob Myers Subject: Re: 27.410 corporate open source In-Reply-To: <20131005063820.79AA53AB0@digitalhumanities.org> On 04/10/13 11:38 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > For the rest see www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/corporate-open-source. > > Comments? "The catch, as we have seen, lies in the meaning of ‘shared’. With the spread of corporate open source, ideas can be shared and owned, credited and appropriated, open and proprietary at the same time." It's very easy to say this sort of thing about "Open Source" as the term was adopted specifically to appeal to corporations and to avoid moral considerations. And as for "sharing", it's become a synonym for "rental". Software cannot however be owned, appropriated, or proprietary and have its users remain *free*. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html Corporate use of free software is not something to oppose in itself (whatever else about corporations needs reform). Corporations producing or adding value to software that respects the freedom of its users is a positive thing. To oppose "corporate open source" as identified in this article: 1. Use the GPL. Copyleft prevents appropriation. 2. Don't assign copyright to corporations, however nice they are. 3. Learn about the history and philosophy of free software. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3AE4A3B8D; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 08:22:04 +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 E1D123AF1; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 08:21:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7E6B63AD9; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 08:21:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131008062153.7E6B63AD9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 08:21:53 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.417 fellowships at KNAW, 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. 27, No. 417. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 16:07:52 +0200 From: Sally Wyatt Subject: visiting fellowships in Computational Humanities, Amsterdam, deadline 1 November Visiting fellowships in Computational Humanities, based at the eHumanities Group, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Deadline of 1 November is fast approaching. 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.knaw.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 1 November 2013. 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. Professor dr Sally Wyatt Programme Leader [cid:image003.png@01CDABB2.B91D83A0] Director, WTMC (Wetenschap, Technologie en Moderne Cultuur) Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture Professor, Digital Cultures in Development, Maastricht 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A78383BEE; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 08:33:33 +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 56A6E3AF1; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 08:33:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2CD693AF1; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 08:33:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131008063322.2CD693AF1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 08:33:22 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.418 pubs: Curating the Brain (ISR 38.3) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 418. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 07:27:47 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 38.3 (September 2013) Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 38.3 (September 2013) http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/isr/2013/00000038/00000003/ 1. Curating the Brain Kwint, Marius; Wingate, Richard 195-199(5) 2. Curating aphasia: Pierre Paul Brocas Museological Science Gere, Cathy 200-209(10) 3. Harvey Cushings Oxalis: the Cushing Center at Yale University Spencer, Dennis D 210-221(12) 4. From the Jar to the World Wide Web: Designing a Public Digital Library for the Human Brain Annese, Jacopo 222-231(10) 5. Showing Images of the Mind in Dresden and Brno Kesner, Ladislav 232-246(15) 6. Between: Curating Representations of the Embodied Brain Ingham, Karen 247-258(12) 7. Mind Gap Treimo, Henrik 259-274(16) 8. Flinders Petrie and the Curation of Heads Perry, Sara; Challis, Debbie 275-289(15) -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CB2A93AA4; Wed, 9 Oct 2013 07:29:26 +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 465863A75; Wed, 9 Oct 2013 07:29:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A04543A6E; Wed, 9 Oct 2013 07:29:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131009052913.A04543A6E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 07:29:13 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.419 jobs: at CUNY, Amsterdam, Maynooth, Tel Aviv X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 419. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Doron Tvizer (7) Subject: Test Analysis Algorithm Expert [2] From: Sally Wyatt (17) Subject: correction: visiting fellowships in Computational Humanities, Amsterdam, deadline 1 November [3] From: "Matthew K. Gold" (30) Subject: 2014-2015 Distinguished Fellowships in Digital Humanities at the Graduate Center, City University of New York [4] From: Jennifer Kelly (10) Subject: Position available at NUI Maynooth --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 10:59:03 +0000 From: Doron Tvizer Subject: Test Analysis Algorithm Expert We are looking for an experienced hands-on algorithm expert in the field of text analysis with vast experience in design and implementation of large, distributed systems and a good knowledge of social networks and gamification. Xrosspace is developing a platform for the generation of economic sustainable online magazines. We are funded and located at the TheTime Incubator at Tel-Aviv [http://www.thetime.co.il/]. Requirements: * Design and build a data platform over Big Data Technologies. * Take on an influential role in an early stage startup. * Experience in leading algorithm design and implementation in the fields of: Text Analysis, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Sentiment Analysis, Ranking, Big Data and Recommendation Systems. * Experience in leading applied research and development of large systems. * Advantage: content ranking and social influential ranking. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 13:28:54 +0200 From: Sally Wyatt Subject: correction: visiting fellowships in Computational Humanities, Amsterdam, deadline 1 November [Apologies – there was a mistake in the URL for further details about the group. Now corrected below.] Visiting fellowships in Computational Humanities, based at the eHumanities Group, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Deadline of 1 November is fast approaching. 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 1 November 2013. 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. Professor dr Sally Wyatt Programme Leader [cid:image003.png@01CDABB2.B91D83A0] Director, WTMC (Wetenschap, Technologie en Moderne Cultuur) Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture Professor, Digital Cultures in Development, Maastricht University --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 11:15:24 -0400 From: "Matthew K. Gold" Subject: 2014-2015 Distinguished Fellowships in Digital Humanities at the Graduate Center, City University of New York Dear Colleagues, Please consider applying for a distinguished fellowship in digital humanities at the Graduate Center, City University of New York [described below]. I would be more than happy to answer any questions you might have. Best, Matt -- Matthew K. Gold, Ph.D. Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities, City Tech & Graduate Center, CUNY Executive Officer, M.A. Program in Liberal Studies, CUNY Graduate Center Advisor to the Provost for Master’s Programs & Digital Initiatives, CUNY Graduate Center http://mkgold.net | @mkgold *Distinguished Fellowships* *Advanced Research Collaborative, the Graduate Center, City University of New York* The Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC) of the Graduate Center, City University of New York, invites applicants for Distinguished Fellowships in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theoretical Sciences for the 2014 – 2015 academic year. Applicants should have outstanding records of published research and scholarship. For the academic year 2014-2015, preference will be given to scholars working in the areas of Immigration, Inequality and the Digital Humanities but applicants working in the areas listed on our website are also welcome to apply. For more information please visit our website at: http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Degrees-Research/The-Advanced-Research-Collaborative/ARC-Applications You may also contact Don Robotham or Alida Rojas at arc@gc.cuny.edu or (212) 817-7544. --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 16:40:07 +0100 From: Jennifer Kelly Subject: Position available at NUI Maynooth Dear Willard, Some of the members on the Humanist list may be interested in a position currently advertised at An Foras Feasa, NUI Maynooth for a Technology Officer (Maternity Cover). I attach the link here: http://humanresources.nuim.ie/vacancies.shtml 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D96013AA4; Wed, 9 Oct 2013 07:34:39 +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 28CF43A75; Wed, 9 Oct 2013 07:34:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1ACD73A75; Wed, 9 Oct 2013 07:34:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131009053429.1ACD73A75@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 07:34:29 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.420 events: complex simulation; medieval archive; space & time; DHSI 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. 27, No. 420. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Tom Brughmans" (75) Subject: CfP CAA2014 S25. "Agents, Networks, Equations and Complexity: the potential and challenges of complex systems simulation" [2] From: kcl - digitalhumanities (9) Subject: Digitizing the Medieval Archive CFP [3] From: Leif Isaksen (11) Subject: Final programme for the Workshop, NeDiMAH Space and Time Working Group (November, Lisbon) [4] From: "James O'Sullivan" (56) Subject: DHSI Colloquium CFP --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 10:33:04 +0100 From: "Tom Brughmans" Subject: CfP CAA2014 S25. "Agents, Networks, Equations and Complexity: the potential and challenges of complex systems simulation" Dear all, We would like to draw your attention to a session on complex systems simulation in archaeology as part of the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) conference in Paris, France, this April ( http://caa2014.sciencesconf.org http://caa2014.sciencesconf.org). If you have created a computational model (Agent-based, mathematical, statistical, network analysis) within the broad topic of complex systems in archaeology, developed a new technique or particularly innovative solution to one of the recurrent issues in modelling, if you think you might have some new insights into the theoretical underpinnings of using simulations and complexity science in archaeology then we would like to hear more about it. We are organising a session on complex systems and computational models in archaeology: "S25. Agents, Networks, Equations and Complexity: the potential and challenges of complex systems simulation". We hope to bring together a wide variety of researchers working on a diverse case studies using techniques from all spectrum of complexity science. The goal of this session is to showcase the best applications, discuss the potential and challenges and sketch out the long-term outlook for applications of simulation techniques in archaeology. For further information see the abstract below. The call for papers closes on the 31st of October 2013. To submit an abstract, please, go to http://caa2014.sciencesconf.org http://caa2014.sciencesconf.org, create your user account, click on 'submissions' under the heading 'My Space' in the left hand side menu and follow the instructions on screen. Please do not forget to choose "S25. Agents, Networks, Equations and Complexity: the potential and challenges of complex systems simulation" from the dropdown menu "Topic". We will also be running a workshop on computational modelling in archaeology, which you are all welcome to join. More information about the workshop will follow in January when the workshop registration will open. Hope to see you in Paris. Best wishes, Ben, Iza, Enrico, Tom Ben Davies (Department of Anthropology, University of Auckland) Iza Romanowska (Institute for Complex Systems Simulation, University of Southampton) Enrico Crema (Institute of Archaeology, University College London) Tom Brughmans (Archaeological Computing Research Group, University of Southampton) _____ SESSION ABSTRACT S25 Agents, Networks, Equations and Complexity: the potential and challenges of complex systems simulation Chairs : Benjamin Davies 1, Iza Romanowska 2, Enrico Crema 3, Tom Brughmans 2 1 : The University of Auckland - Website 2 : University of Southampton - Website 3 : University College London - Website Simulation is not new in archaeology. However, the last decade knew an increased focus among archaeologists in the use of simple computational models used to evaluate processes which may have operated in the past. Rather than all-encompassing reconstructions of the prehistoric world, models have been used as 'virtual labs' or 'tools to think with', permitting archaeologists to explore hypothetical processes that give rise to archaeologically attested structures. Computational modelling techniques such as equation-based, statistical, agent-based and network-based modelling are becoming popular for quickly testing conceptual models, creating new research questions and better understand the workings of complex systems. Complexity science perspectives offer archaeology a wide set of modelling and analytical approaches which recognise the actions of individual agents on different scales who collectively and continually create new cultural properties. This session aims to bring together complex systems simulation applications in archaeology. We invite innovative and critical applications in analytical and statistical modelling, ABM, network analysis and other methods performed under the broad umbrella of complexity science. We hope this session will spark creative and insightful discussion on the potentials and limitations of complexity science, its many simulation techniques and the future of modelling in archaeology. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 09:19:46 +0000 From: kcl - digitalhumanities Subject: Digitizing the Medieval Archive CFP In-Reply-To: <50923F6F4638EA4D8C24821019D604951C6DBBE2@BY2PRD0310MB365.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> Digitizing the Medieval Archive 2014 April 25-26 Toronto, Ontario Keynote Speakers: David Greetham (The Graduate Center, CUNY) Stephen G. Nichols (Johns Hopkins University) Caroline Macé (KU Leuven) Consuelo Dutschke (Columbia University Library) The discussion about the digitization of the Middle Ages, by its very nature, tends to be one that takes place in an online setting. As the question of how medievalists may work within this digital environment becomes an increasingly popular topic of Internet conversation, we invite scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences to come together in real time to consider and discuss the possibilities of a digitized medieval archive. Click here for the full call for papers and the check the conference website http://digitizingmedievalarchive.wordpress.com/ for more information. Please submit a short C.V. and abstracts of 250 words by October 1, 2013 for consideration. To contact the conference organizers write todigitizingmedievalarchive@gmail.com. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 19:17:15 +0100 From: Leif Isaksen Subject: Final programme for the Workshop, NeDiMAH Space and Time Working Group (November, Lisbon) In-Reply-To: Please find attached information regarding the 3rd workshop of the NeDiMAH Space and Time Working Group which will be in Lisbon, Portugal on 8 November. This year's theme is Network Analysis. The workshop is free to attend and there are 10 bursaries available for PhD students and early career academics but please note the tight application deadline (October 18th). We hope to see some of you there! Best wishes Leif *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1381256521_2013-10-08_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_24638.3.pdf http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1381256521_2013-10-08_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_24638.2.pdf --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 22:36:21 +0100 From: "James O'Sullivan" Subject: DHSI Colloquium CFP In-Reply-To: Proposals are now being accepted for presentations at the DHSI colloquium for the digital humanities, to be held in June 2014 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 each day. Presentations will be informal and will take the form of brief, high-impact demonstrations and presentations (5 minutes). This chance in format reflects and facilitates the divers, dynamic, and exciting research that continues to spur the growth of the DHSI community. The colloquium welcomes presentations by individuals and 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. Submissions are welcome from emerging and established scholars alike (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; alt-academics; academic professionals; and those in technical programs). Submissions are welcome as either short 5-minute dynamic presentations, or as 5-minute project demonstrations. Please submit abstracts via https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dhsi2014. Deadline for submissions is January 15, 2014. Submissions will be peer-reviewed, with authors being notified by late February 2014. For more information, contact Mary Galvin (galvin.mg@gmail.com) and/or James O’Sullivan ( josullivan.c@gmail.com), or alternatively dhsi2014@easychair.org. *ABOUT 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 http://dhsi.org/www.dhsi.org . *REGISTRATION*: In recent years, courses have filled up quickly. We encourage applicants interested in attending the DHSI to register as soon as possible. A number of sponsored tuition scholarships are also available. Registrations and applications for tuition scholarships are currently being accepted. -- *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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 90D743C0F; Thu, 10 Oct 2013 08:44:14 +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 1D6CB3BEE; Thu, 10 Oct 2013 08:44:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2C9BA3BEB; Thu, 10 Oct 2013 08:44:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131010064404.2C9BA3BEB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 08:44:04 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.421 call for nominations: ACH Exec, President, VP X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 421. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 15:06:53 +0100 From: Mia.Ridge Subject: ACH seeks nominations for Executive Council, President and Vice-President The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) invites nominations for the 2013/2014 elections, in which our members will elect a President and Vice President for two-year terms, as well as three Executive Council members for four-year terms. We seek candidates who want to advance the field of digital humanities (DH) by helping to run the ACH. ACH officers and Executive Council members develop and uphold ACH policies, determine and distribute funding, and oversee all organizational activities. Activities for 2013/2014 include our mentorship program and jobs slams, advocacy work, publications including Digital Humanities Quarterly and DH Answers, collaborations with ADHO partners in the annual DH conference and other initiatives, co-administration of a number of prestigious DH awards, distribution of student bursaries for DH training and education, as well as other priorities as set by ACH. You could be involved in helping ACH programs succeed by nominating yourself, or someone else, to be an active participant in the leadership of the Association. To be confirmed as an ACH officer or Executive Council member, candidates must be members in good standing of the ACH. They commit to attending annual council meetings at the Digital Humanities conference and participate in discussions during the rest of the year by email and audio/video conference. Council members are expected to be active in the digital humanities community. We welcome participants not just from universities and colleges but also galleries, libraries, museums, community organizations, and other organizations engaged with digital humanities. Independent scholars, graduate students, alternative academics, women, those of diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds, and other under-represented communities are especially encouraged to self-nominate, or to be nominated by the membership. Demonstrated commitment to the organization and to the field counts for more with our membership than professional affiliations or academic status/titles. Send nominations to nominations@ach.org by October 31st, 2013. Please confirm with your nominee that he or she is willing to serve, and: * Put one of the following in the subject line, as appropriate: * Executive Council nomination * ACH President nomination * ACH Vice President nomination * Provide a brief candidate statement and biography. Sample candidate statements from past elections are available at: http://ach.org/elections-candidates/. * All nominations require two nominations (including self-nominations) to be considered for the ballot (per ACH bylaws), so please allow time for a second nominee to email in support of your nomination. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at nominations@ach.org. The three top vote-getters in the Executive Council race will be elected to four-year terms. 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 Mia Ridge, Open University (Chair) Ernesto Priego, City University London Jennifer Guiliano, MITH Johanna Drucker, UCLA Ex officio member Stefan Sinclair, ACH Vice President --- Mia Ridge Doctoral candidate in digital humanities, Open University http://openobjects.org.uk/ || http://twitter.com/mia_out -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8F5225EAA; Thu, 10 Oct 2013 08:44:53 +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 C739F5EB8; Thu, 10 Oct 2013 08:44:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 00B193C08; Thu, 10 Oct 2013 08:44:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131010064443.00B193C08@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 08:44:42 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.422 job: tenure-track at Calgary X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 422. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 09:30:23 -0600 From: Michael Ullyot Subject: Tenure-track position in Digital Humanities: Department of English, 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, 2014. We are seeking candidates with a PhD in English or a closely related discipline, a demonstrated scholarly record, and expertise in Digital Humanities in the context of historical literary and critical studies. The successful applicant will be able to contribute to the teaching needs of the Department at all levels. We are particularly interested in candidates with research and teaching strengths in British literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. For more information about this competition, see the full advertisement here: http://bit.ly/15VkQXs For more information about the Department of English at the University of Calgary, see here: http://english.ucalgary.ca/ 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A289B5EAA; Thu, 10 Oct 2013 08:46:51 +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 83FBD3AE1; Thu, 10 Oct 2013 08:46:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7039D3B66; Thu, 10 Oct 2013 08:46:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131010064640.7039D3B66@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 08:46:40 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.423 events: images and text; 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. 27, No. 423. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: kcl - cerch (18) Subject: CeRch Seminar - October 15th (Linking Images and Text in Digital Editions of Vetusta Monumenta) [2] From: Roland Wittje (54) Subject: XV Universeum Meeting - Call for papers --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 13:18:29 +0000 From: kcl - cerch Subject: CeRch Seminar - October 15th (Linking Images and Text in Digital Editions of Vetusta Monumenta) Dear all, Please find below the details of next week's CeRch seminar: Linking Images and Text in Digital Editions of Vetusta Monumenta (Kristen Schuster, University of Missouri, Columbia) Tuesday, October 15th, 2013 from 6:15 PM to 7:30 PM (GMT) Anatomy Theatre and Museum, King's College London: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/atm/location.aspx Attendance is free and open to all, but registration is requested: https://www.eventbrite.com/event/8348401293 The seminar will be followed by wine and nibbles. All the very best, Valentina Asciutti ----- 15th October: Kristen Schuster, University of Missouri, Columbia Linking Images and Text in Digital Editions of Vetusta Monumenta Abstract: Published by the Society of Antiquarians of London Vetusta Monumenta is a compendium of text and images describing and representing ancient artifacts and buildings from Europe (primarily England). Created over a number of years multiple volumes and editions of the work exist, three of which now reside in Ellis Library, Special Collections, at the University of Missouri Columbia. Although high quality scans have been made, currently only limited descriptive, administrative or technical metadata exists. In an effort to remedy this situation a group of librarians and English Department faculty have begun collaborating to synthesize scholarly and historical commentary with images in order to explore the potential of linked data. Beginning as a ‘simple’ digital libraries project, it has since evolved into an exploration of the potential for descriptive metadata to enhance the value of digitized materials. In particular, this project has made it necessary to ask: how should images and text interact in a digital library? Over the past decade questions like this have catalyzed a concerted exploration of information seeking behaviors in digital environments. While systems for negotiating text or images exist, each schema, protocol or controlled vocabulary is rather specialized and, thus, depends on users acquiring information or visual literacy skills – as opposed to a synthesis of the two. The collaboration between librarians and scholars has made it possible to re-contextualize the idea of linked data by directly linking scholarship to the materials it references. Using the Visual Resource Associations (VRA) VRA Core schema and Cataloging Cultural Objects content standard it has been possible to exploit the accuracy and extensibility of OCLCs Dublin Core schema through the use of SCALAR, a new digital library interface developed by the University of Southern California. As an ongoing project participants are endeavoring to use the digital surrogates of images to enhance the readability and value of written scholarship by associating text and images in an innovate manner. Bio: Kristen is currently a second year doctoral student in the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri Columbia. Her experiences as a librarian have primarily consisted of metadata management in visual resource departments, which has been quite useful in her current work and research in the area of digital humanities. She began collaborating with the English Department last spring to develop a digital edition of three volumes of Vetusta Monumenta, an antiquarian text of prints and essays on ancient British monuments published by the Society of Antiquaries of London. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 23:45:44 +0200 From: Roland Wittje Subject: XV Universeum Meeting - Call for papers XV UNIVERSEUM NETWORK MEETING Enhancing University Heritage-Based research University of Hamburg, Germany, 12‐14 June 2014 Call for Papers The European Academic Heritage Network UNIVERSEUM announces its 15th annual meeting. UNIVERSEUM invites submissions of papers on academic heritage in its broadest sense, tangible and intangible, namely the preservation, study, access and promotion of university collections, museums, archives, libraries, botanical gardens, astronomical observatories, and university buildings of historical, artistic and scientific significance. The theme of the conference is ‘Enhancing University Heritage‐Based research’, though papers on other topics are welcomed too. Post‐graduate students are especially encouraged to attend. Enhancing University Heritage-Based research Cultural heritage is widely studied, from collection studies to historical and social studies of science, research in the natural sciences, didactic research, museum studies, and conservation and restoration analysis. Research is one of universities’ core missions. How can university heritage based‐research be regarded with respect to this mission? What kind of research is being done and how is it presented to the general public? How can we make university heritage more relevant in research development and outreach? How does research contribute to transform the places where universities’ everyday activities are taking place into heritage? How can it turn artefacts, specimens, books, manuscripts and documents produced or gathered by universities into heritage? To what extent can university heritage as a whole be recognized as a multidisciplinary large‐scale tool for research activities? We welcome experiences, case‐studies and indepth papers that help us identify the nature and specificity of these issues and concerns. The conference language is English. Paper presentations will be 15 min or 20 min. A poster session will be also organized. Accommodation details, a preliminary programme and the abstract template will be provided at: http://www.hs.uni-hamburg.de/DE/GNT/events/universeum-hh-2014.php Please send abstract proposals (max 200 words) and a short biography highlighting main research interests (max. 50 words) to the following email address before 28 February 2014: gudrun.wolfschmidt@uni‐hamburg.de Program Committee: Gudrun Wolfschmidt, University of Hamburg, Chair Marta Lourenço, University of Lisbon (Portugal) Laetitia Maison‐Soulard, University Michel de Montaigne (France) Sébastien Soubiran, University of Strasbourg (France) Sofia Talas, University of Padua (Italy) Roland Wittje, University of Regensburg (Germany). ------------------------------------------ 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5D8D15F67; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 09:10:55 +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 66C4D3013; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 09:10:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5F3E53013; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 09:10:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131011071044.5F3E53013@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 09:10:44 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.424 visualising programming X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 424. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 10:55:19 +0000 From: Susan Ford Subject: RE: 27.398 confluence of ideas in 1936 In-Reply-To: <20131003060358.7639F3A3E@digitalhumanities.org> Hi Willard Thanks for the reference to Gandy’s paper on 1936 confluence of ideas. Since you mentioned Fortran in a conversation about understanding code, I am reminded of Donald Alcock’s wonderful ‘Illustrating Fortran’ (Cambridge University Press, 1982). Not only is it hand-written so neatly as to make it easier to read than a computer-generated typeface, the layout on the page is so designed as to provide code examples and their explanation in the same place. I attach a snippet (from page 40) for people who haven’t seen Alcock’s work. What digital humanities practitioners need is better documentation, as another contributor commented. But programmers don’t do good documentation and nor, it seems, does anyone else. Though the Web is a perfect space for annotated code there is not much out there. The visualisation I am thinking of would use the graphic space of a Web page a la Alcock’s pre-Web books rather than lots of hyperlinks - the human brain does not need lots of jumps and blinks to comprehend complexity - just a good field of view. Susan PhD candidate, Classics, Australian National University [Note: Alcock's book is listed by Amazon, where you can get a peek at his method. --WM] ________________________________________ From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] on behalf of Humanist Discussion Group [willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk] Sent: 03 October 2013 16:03 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BC8BE7674; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 09:11:49 +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 10EF26001; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 09:11:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8DD875F67; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 09:11:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131011071138.8DD875F67@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 09:11:38 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.425 events: digital history X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 425. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 21:07:12 +0100 From: Seth Denbo Subject: Digital History Seminar, October 15, Adam Crymble "The Programming Historian 2: Collaborative Pedagogy for Digital History" Who: Adam Crymble (King's College London) What: The Programming Historian 2: Collaborative Pedagogy for Digital History When: Tuesday, 15 October 2013, 5:15pm (BST/GMT+1) Where: Bedford Room G37, Senate house, Ground floor or live online at HistorySpot http://historyspot.org.uk/ The Programming Historian 2 http://programminghistorian.org/ offers open access, peer reviewed tutorials designed to provide historians with new technical skills that are immediately relevant to their research needs. The project also offers a peer reviewed platform for those seeking to share their skills with other historians and humanists. In this talk, Adam will discuss the project from behind the scenes, looking at how it has grown and hopes to continue to grow, as an enduring digital humanities project and alternative publishing and learning platform. *Adam Crymble* is one of the founding editors of the Programming Historian 2. He is the author of 'How to Write a Zotero Translator: A Practical Beginners Guide for Humanists' and is finishing a PhD in history and digital humanities at King's College London. Adam is also a Fellow of the Software Sustainability 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E9C073C10; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 07:37:36 +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 3C23C5EAA; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 07:37:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5EE9F39D4; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 07:37:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131012053717.5EE9F39D4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 07:37:17 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.426 datagate X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 426. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 16:57:29 +0200 From: Domenico Fiormonte Subject: Datagate: do we care? Dear Willard, what follows is a *very* late (and mixed up) comment on your 23rd of January response to my "Waiting for Godh" message. I've been mulling over this sentence for months, and also discussed it with a number of colleagues and friends. I gathered here few loosely related excerpts from these conversations, but I'm trying to write an essay or more articulated blog post on it. Here it is: "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?" It seems here that you are embracing the West's beloved argument "if there weren't slaves, we would not have the Pyramids". And it's as if you were tacitly saying, "hey, now it's our turn to spill blood and conquer the world! let's face it", etc. etc. Of course I know you don't mean this, but I found the implied argument dangerous and misleading at the same time. First, it's easy to notice that we don't know what the human race would have been without blood money (or bloodbaths in general): who knows, maybe we would have done just fine without libraries or the Coliseum. But this is not the point. The point is rather to reject the equation of "human sacrifice", disparity, injustice, inequalities, etc. etc. with any form of social and cultural progress. This equivalance has been demystified and deconstructed, I think, by almost half a century of post-colonial philosophy, anthropology, ethnography, sociology, etc. I don't dare even to touch on any of those arguments, because I don't want to embark on another endless theoretical debate about "cultural criticism". Instead, I'd only like to discuss other important and more practical issues. But before that, I'd like you to remember that there could be another way of looking at knowledge production and its connected cultural processes. According to the Ancient Indian wisdom (not "philosophy" in the Western sense), "innovating means to expand our consciousness of what reality is and has never ceased to be" (Torella, Il pensiero dell'India, p. 18). This is an interesting "extracting", not-accumalitive idea of progress (expanding consciousness, not accumulating books or building monuments, etc.) that may help us also to think about scholarship (and science in general) in a new way. I know this would mean abandoning our Romantic idea of the Humanities, i.e. that even if we are cruel human beings we have still created beautiful Art, Poetry, etc. Honestly, I think Humanities needs to go beyond that. But coming to the main subject of my email, recently I came across this interview: http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1600674-glenn-greenwald-snowden-tiene-informacion-para-causar-mas-dano English translation: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/13/reuters-article-dead-man-s-switch It has been a while since I wanted to raise this issue: is there anybody who thinks that the so-called "datagate" scandal affects not only us as global citizens, but our DH community as well? After these revelations, can we still do our work as before? I can't help thinking that something has radically changed. We can't even argue that we did not know this was happening. In 2011 the OpenNet Initiative reported in the conclusions of its Regional Profile: "With respect to surveillance, the United States is believed to be among the most aggressive countries in the world in terms of listening to online conversations" (https://opennet.net/research/regions/namerica). And after all since 2006 we knew that the US intelligence was spying on us: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/studiesdownload.html?languageDocument=EN&file=79050). Of course this is not about Digital Humanities, nor just about cultural differences, colonial or hypercolonial studies. This is about freedom. Besides, as I noted elsewhere (http://infolet.it/2013/09/19/informatica-e-diversita-culturale/), it seems that governments, food multinationals and IT multinationals are becoming allies in reducing diversity and increasing their control over us. Their instruments are patents and restrictive copyright laws (i.e. SOPA and PIPA in USA, ACTA in UE, etc.): from seeds to software, from food to knowledge. Their continual strategy has been to limit and control freedom of speech, knowledge sharing and food security. I think we can't just turn our backs on this global picture: as digital humanists we have the responsibility to uncover and discuss these connections, and to propose solutions and alternatives (both theoretical and practical) to these disturbing trends. How does it affect our role as researchers and teachers to know that the NSA taps into user data of Google, Apple, Facebook and other internet giants? Is there anything we can do about it? Or is our DH job just to build tools, theories, and eventually criticize them? Is there the space for some concrete action that would go beyond the mere intellectual exercise of criticism? The great environmental activist and Commons global movement leader Vandana Shiva speaks rightly of Seed Sovereignty (Beej Swaraj), Food Sovereignty (Anna Swaraj), Water Sovereignty (Jal Swaraj) and Land Sovereignty (Bhu Swaraj). We need also to struggle for *Knowledge and Culture Sovereignty*. The Commons movement in general considers knowledge as a "shared social-ecological system", so I think KCS should include our private communications, our scholarly products, our software and digital resources, etc. Domenico Fiormonte _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 531C13C10; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 07:37:52 +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 E09E46006; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 07:37:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1091E6006; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 07:37:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131012053739.1091E6006@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 07:37:38 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.427 Polish poetry X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 427. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 10:48:56 +0000 From: Alun Edwards Subject: RE: 27.383 Polish poetry In-Reply-To: <20130928070056.81B113092@digitalhumanities.org> Dear all, many thanks for all the comments about Polish poetry of the First World War. We are now researching many authors and poems. It's incredible how generous everyone has been offering advice - it shows that you can display some ignorance in a field for a good cause! With best wishes, Ally -- Alun Edwards, Project Manager alun.edwards@it.ox.ac.uk 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6B91E604D; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 07:38:17 +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 7F1036001; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 07:38:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 199803C10; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 07:38:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131012053806.199803C10@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 07:38:06 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.428 events: WWI X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 428. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 10:36:37 +0000 From: Alun Edwards Subject: Finding Identities: Lancashire and the First World War Conference 23-34 November 2013 Registration is open for: Finding Identities: Lancashire and the First World War Conference, 23-34 November 2013 Organised by the University of Central Lancashire, Preston Keynote speaker: Andy Robertshaw 'The 1st Lancashire Fusiliers on 1st July 1916 in films and photographs' Conference Background and Aims On the eve of the centenary of the First World War interest in the conflict has grown - as have debates over local identities, recruitment, the war effort, memorialisation, and the historical sources. As home to many Pals battalions, and a focus of Lord Derby's recruitment efforts, Lancashire is arguably at the heart of these matters. Moreover as the result of the successful Preston City Council bid to refurbish the town memorial, and extensive new research into rarely seen film, new and fascinating evidence of the war and its impact is now coming to light. Of interest to academic researchers, professionals in the heritage and educational sectors and the interested amateur, Finding Identities will include both keynote speakers, and opportunities to visit the Harris Museum and the newly restored Preston Cenotaph; the recently opened First World War gallery in the Museum of Lancashire and the Lancashire Infantry Museum at Fulwood Barracks. Conference programme has now been drafted, full details can be found on the conference website: http://www.uclan.ac.uk/conference_events/finding_identities_lancashire_first_world_war.php We'll be presenting about the Oxford Community Collection model, our work with Europeana 1914-1918, and of course with so many literary connection to be made to the area - the First World War Poetry Digital Archive http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/ Best wishes, Ally -- Alun Edwards, Project Manager alun.edwards@it.ox.ac.uk Education Enhancement team, Academic IT Services at University of Oxford // Europeana 1914-1918 www.europeana1914-1918.eu/ RunCoCo: How to Run a Community Collection Online http://runcoco.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ | The Great War Archive www.thegreatwararchive.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7C6315F67; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 07:23:24 +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 4E75A3B71; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 07:23:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 94B703B66; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 07:23:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131014052313.94B703B66@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 07:23:13 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.429 events: London reprise of Busa 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 429. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 03:26:17 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: London reprise of Busa Lecture Subscribers to Humanist within striking distance of London might like to note that, as part of the Arts and Humanities Festival of King's College London, on Thursday 17 October from 19.30-21.00, Willard McCarty will be speaking on 'The Digital and the Human: Remembering the Future of the Digital Humanities', a version of his landmark Busa lecture. Those who did not have an opportunity to hear this remarkable lecture at DH 2013 in Nebraska might welcome this European repeat. Following Willard's lecture, I will introduce a short panel discussion on the themes of the lecture. Members of the panel will include Dr David Berry, University of Sussex, editor of the recent volume, 'Understanding the Digital Humanities' and the author of a forthcoming book on 'The Critical Digital Humanities', and Professor Paul Conway of the School of Information, University of Michigan, who is currently a Visiting Senior Fellow at King's College London. The event takes place in the Council Room in the King's Building on the Strand Campus of King's College London. Please help spread the word! The event is free, but all attending are asked to register at: https://digitalandthehuman.eventbrite.co.uk/ For further details, see: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2013-2014/Festival/digital-and-human.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6AE267679; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 07:55:26 +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 5AC3F3B66; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 07:55:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0FF493B66; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 07:55:14 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131015055515.0FF493B66@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 07:55:14 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.430 disciplinary contradictions & radical demythologization? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 430. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 10:18:15 +0200 From: Victoria Scott Subject: The disciplinary contradictions of DH and the radical demythologization of computer programming Hello, I had a question about how digital humanists see the broad aims of their ever-evolving discipline in relation to a point raised by Evgeny Morozov in a recent article "Es ist lächerlich, das Internet erklären zu wollen!" (see link below). He identifies a self-proclaimed priest class that has formed to explain the Internet to the lay people, and he thinks--if I understand correctly--that it has to be challenged. What I am wondering is how this insight relates to digital humanists, if at all. Please correct me if I am wrong (I am very new here), but digital humanists often defend the radical democratic potential or open access nature of their projects...and yet, there seems to be a deep contradiction at the heart of their endeavors, insofar as often the only way these projects can only be realised is by using a series of obscure computer programs and/or programming languages that only they and their colleagues understand. Do you see what I am getting at here? Those claims of radical openness appear to be undermined by the very methods being used. If it isn't already the case (I think I mentioned I am *really* new here...), wouldn't it be more effective for digital humanists be campaigning, nationally and internationally, for the expansion of computer programming classes at every level of education?...Not just in awesome summer schools that a few of us happen to be lucky enough to attend? I guess what I am calling for is a wholesale and comprehensive demythologization of computer programming...or something. I am probably just repeating things others have already written about. If so, please accept my sincerest apologies and direct me to the key readings. Thank you for your patience. Forza! Victoria H.F. Scott *Evgeny Morozov* @*evgenymorozov* 11 Oct I talk about the emergence of preemptive governance in my FAZ interview (in German) today http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuill eton/evgeny-morozov-im-gespraech-es-ist-laecherlich-das-internet-erklaeren-zu-wollen-12614255.html … http://t.co/D0u84rDYLd -- ***The Art History Guild * _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8B27B604D; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 07:57:16 +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 12A6A767D; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 07:57:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A7DF57679; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 07:57:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131015055706.A7DF57679@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 07:57:06 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.431 tenure-track job at Stanford X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 431. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 20:16:02 +0000 From: Alyce Boster Subject: Stanford Faculty Search in Digital Humanities Dear Dr McCarty: We are conducting a search for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities, and we are writing to ask your help in identifying candidates of exceptional promise. As the ad states, Stanford University invites applications for a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor in the Digital Humanities, to be based in the Department of English or the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages (departments of Comparative Literature, French and Italian, German Studies, Iberian and Latin American Cultures, Slavic Languages and Literatures). The appointed scholar will have expertise in the literature(s) of the home department and considerable experience bringing digital tools and methodologies to literary and interdisciplinary research. Examples of tools and methods include, but are not limited to, the fields of computer programming, text-mining, data visualization, network analysis, semantic web analysis, or GIS. The appointed scholar will teach introductory and advanced courses in both literature and digital humanities, and will also be expected to contribute to the development of the digital humanities across the university. Applicants will need a PhD in hand in a discipline broadly related to the hiring department by the appointment start date of 9/1/2014. All application materials must be submitted online through http://apply.interfolio.com/22761 . Applicants are asked to transmit a cover letter, curriculum vitae (including list of publications), statements of research and teaching interests (no more than three (3) pages), teaching evaluations (if applicable), a writing sample the length of a typical research article or book chapter, along with three confidential letters of reference to the Digital Humanities Search Committee by October 28, 2013. The search committee would appreciate your sharing our announcement with your larger community and posting it to any relevant distribution lists. If you have candidates to recommend, please contact me. Stanford University is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to increasing the diversity of its faculty. It welcomes nominations of, and applications from, women and members of minority groups, as well as others who would bring additional dimensions to the university’s research and teaching missions. Sincerely, Alyce Boster Digital Humanities Search Administrator Department of English Stanford University _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B9B3B767F; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 07:31:14 +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 139B45F67; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 07:31:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id F2CD63C0F; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 07:31:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131016053103.F2CD63C0F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 07:31:03 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.432 disciplinary contradictions & radical demythologization X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 432. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Rob Myers (25) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.430 disciplinary contradictions & radical demythologization? [2] From: Joris van Zundert (122) Subject: 27.430 disciplinary contradictions & radical demythologization? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 11:36:19 -0700 From: Rob Myers Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.430 disciplinary contradictions & radical demythologization? In-Reply-To: <20131015055515.0FF493B66@digitalhumanities.org> On 14/10/13 10:55 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > there seems to be a deep contradiction > at the heart of their endeavors, insofar as often the only way these > projects can only be realised is by using a series of obscure computer > programs and/or programming languages that only they and their colleagues > understand. Do you see what I am getting at here? Those claims of radical > openness appear to be undermined by the very methods being used. Most academia is similarly opaque to the uninitiated. I've just had to explain to a family member how to format up citations... Increasing access to the canonical texts of (e.g.) Theory would not be a moral failure to do something else. Dumbing down the language used (rather than explaining it in effective terms) might increase the popularity of access but not the worth of it. Accessibility of results and tools is sufficient to make them accessible. Having accessed them they are resources that require particular competences to exploit, like any other body of knowledge. There are MOOCs, mailing lists, hacker spaces, Meetup groups, etc. by which people can access the social and educational resources required to do so. But these all have their own implications, as do bricks-and-mortar colleges. So I don't think that there isn't a uniquely destructive contradiction at the heart of this. DH is novel enough that the contradictions of academia and open access in general are visible to people who do not see them in their own endeavors, but these are not specific to DH. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 00:02:40 +0200 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: 27.430 disciplinary contradictions & radical demythologization? In-Reply-To: <20131015055515.0FF493B66@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Victoria, I do tend to think that two aims you are pointing to indeed are by and large shared goals of the DH community: - Openess of scientific information and practice through open data and free software/open source software. - The ability to use these means by humanities researchers through raising awareness and computer literacy. What struck me was your wording of "the only way these projects can be realised is by using a series of obscure computer programs and/or programming languages that only they and their colleagues understand." To me it seems that saying that computer languages obscure the potential of the digital medium and of computation, is similar to saying that Dutch obscures your ability to communicate with the people of my country because your native tongue is English. As far as I can tell nobody ever constructed a 'general purpose' computer language to be purposely obfuscating –with the noted exception of pranks resulting from computer language design exercises and experiments (cf. e.g. esolangs.org/wiki/Hello_world_program_in_esoteric_languages). That I am somewhat of a computer polyglot may stand as proof for this. Once you master one language in a computer language paradigm, the learning curve for others is very gentle. This is completely congruent to the effect that mastering Latin makes it easier to understand other languages in that family like Spanish and French: it is not too hard to master JavaScript next to Java, Python next to Ruby, etc. There is no intrinsic aspect of on purpose excluding, hiding, fencing off, etc. in the technologies that we are using. Of course these technologies can and may be used by less philanthropic people to create obfuscating products, like any technology can be directed at wrongful purposes. In any case I would argue that like painting computer literacy comes in levels of skill. Anyone can paint a blot, it takes some practice and knowledge though to create more intricate works. You want a blog? Go to Google Blogspot, be done. Want a domain specific computer language to model narrative structures? Hm.. that will take some actual effort. Now, whether we like it or not, increasingly the technologies you speak of are used to create the artifacts, processes, and interactions we as humanists study. Computers, computer languages, software applications written in those languages, and the Internet as a platform for all these things to be purposefully interacting—it is all part of our culture meanwhile. Like having to know French to be able to study in some depth the Literature in that language, do we not need to at least study, if not teach ourselves, the languages in use in this digital cultural world? Trying to understand some of these languages as an increasing part of what creates human expression and interaction, culture, ethics etc. seems to me almost an obligation to our profession. Whether we offer enough possibilities for future humanists to get acquainted with these languages is in my view not so much dependent on a lack of motivation within the community to provide and be open about. Rather it depends on faculties and establishment to providing room and credits in the curricula to transfer the knowledge. As for Morozov. I think he has a point. There was way too much naive Brave New World and Cockaigne hype around the Internet. And yes, I think we could use some more engagement with the ethical issues in our community too. But no, I do not have the impression that DH suffers from a deep contradiction in its practicing and preaching: we can not redesign the Internet and digital technology as a community, thus we need to thoroughly understand and engage deeply with the innards of these technologies to study there humanistic effects and potential. Hope these thoughts may be of some use. All the best --Joris On Tuesday, October 15, 2013, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 430. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 10:18:15 +0200 > From: Victoria Scott > Subject: The disciplinary contradictions of DH and the radical > demythologization of computer programming > > > Hello, > > I had a question about how digital humanists see the broad aims of their > ever-evolving discipline in relation to a point raised by Evgeny Morozov in > a recent article "Es ist lächerlich, das Internet erklären zu wollen!" (see > link below). > > He identifies a self-proclaimed priest class that has formed to explain the > Internet to the lay people, and he thinks--if I understand correctly--that > it has to be challenged. > > What I am wondering is how this insight relates to digital humanists, if at > all. Please correct me if I am wrong (I am very new here), but digital > humanists often defend the radical democratic potential or open access > nature of their projects...and yet, there seems to be a deep contradiction > at the heart of their endeavors, insofar as often the only way these > projects can only be realised is by using a series of obscure computer > programs and/or programming languages that only they and their colleagues > understand. Do you see what I am getting at here? Those claims of radical > openness appear to be undermined by the very methods being used. If it > isn't already the case (I think I mentioned I am *really* new here...), > wouldn't it be more effective for digital humanists be campaigning, > nationally and internationally, for the expansion of computer programming > classes at every level of education?...Not just in awesome summer schools > that a few of us happen to be lucky enough to attend? I guess what I am > calling for is a wholesale and comprehensive demythologization of computer > programming...or something. > > I am probably just repeating things others have already written about. If > so, please accept my sincerest apologies and direct me to the key readings. > > Thank you for your patience. > > Forza! > Victoria H.F. Scott > > *Evgeny Morozov* @*evgenymorozov* 11 > Oct > > I talk about the emergence of preemptive governance in my FAZ interview (in > German) today http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuill > > eton/evgeny-morozov-im-gespraech-es-ist-laecherlich-das-internet-erklaeren-zu-wollen-12614255.html > … http://t.co/D0u84rDYLd > > -- > ***The Art History Guild _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, LOTS_OF_MONEY,T_MONEY_PERCENT autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8A8597687; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 07:32:56 +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 B74857684; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 07:32:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5EE6E5F67; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 07:32:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131016053246.5EE6E5F67@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 07:32:46 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.433 PhD positions at Texas-Austin; job 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. 27, No. 433. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Tanya Clement (12) Subject: Two fully funded PhD positions in Information Studies, UT Austin iSchool [2] From: Franz Fischer (38) Subject: Job in Cologne --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 09:23:30 -0500 From: Tanya Clement Subject: Two fully funded PhD positions in Information Studies, UT Austin iSchool If you are interested in completing your doctoral studies at the School of Information at UT Austin and wish to work with one or more of the faculty members of the Information Work Research Group (http://blogs.ischool.utexas.edu/iwrg/iwrg-directors/), please contact James Howison (james@howison.name) to get further information about our group, about how to apply to the school’s doctoral program, and about funding resources. We’re always keen to have talented new students join our group; we look forward to hearing from you. Two funded positions for 2014: http://blogs.ischool.utexas.edu/iwrg/apply/ We invite applications for two fully funded PhD positions, starting in August 2014, available for incoming doctoral students to join our study of information work in the Information Work Research Group, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin. Applications are due November 15, 2013 (see below). The faculty and students in the IWRG undertake empirical and analytical studies of information workers in their workplaces, exploring how work and occupations are changing. We draw primarily on ethnography, participant observation, interviews, historical analysis and archival analysis to explore occupations such as records managers, remote financial professions, digital humanists, data analysts, open source software developers and online community managers. Both positions provide full tuition, a stipend of $20,000 and research travel support for two years. As Ph.D. students in the School of Information you would be eligible for continued funding through incoming grants, teaching assistantships and instructor positions; successful students should expect full-time support through the completion of their PhD. Austin is home to SXSW Interactive and a rapidly growing technology sector, and is an energetic, young city that is a great place to live and work through your Ph.D., offering excellent employment and education opportunities for spouses and families. We welcome inquiries from students interested in pursuing academic careers, coming from diverse academic and social backgrounds. Applicants with professional work experience are particularly encouraged to apply, as are students currently completing their masters or undergraduate degrees. Interested applicants should contact James Howison ASAP and provide an up-to-date resume and letter of interest no longer than 1 page. Applicants would then apply for the Information School Ph.D. through the regular admission process; full applications are due 15 November 2013, seeiSchool PhD application page. ___ Tanya Clement Assistant Professor, School of Information University of Texas, Austin tclement@ischool.utexas.edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 18:23:15 +0200 From: Franz Fischer Subject: Job in Cologne The Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH) at the University of Cologne is seeking a Digital Humanist for a position as research associate (50%) at the earliest date possible, initially for a period of 14 months. Applicants should ideally possess most of the following skills and competences or, if necessary, acquire them in a timely manner: - Modeling of research agendas and information resources - Metadata and data standards (e.g. DC, TEI, METS, EAD, CMDI) - XML technologies (XML, XSLT, xQuery, XML-data bases) - Web technologies (HTML, CSS, Javascript) - Programming (Python, Java etc.) - Design and creation of web applications regarding technology, concept & content Excellent communicative and organizational skills are required as well as the ability and willingness to both work in a team and manage projects independently. A background in the humanities would be an advantage. The upcoming projects span, among other fields of study, linguistics, philologies, history and archaeology. They involve dictionaries, palaeography, papyrology, cataloging, edition etc. Anyone interested in the position may contact the CCeH directly: info-cceh@uni-koeln.de or by phone 0049-221-470-3894 resp. 4056 http://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de/ -- Dr. Franz Fischer Cologne Center for eHumanities / Thomas-Institut Universität zu Köln, Universitätsstr. 22, D-50923 Köln Telefon: +49 - (0)221 - 470 - 6883/4056 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://dixit.uni-koeln.de http://guillelmus.uni-koeln.de 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AE5E27690; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 07:33:45 +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 62ACE7677; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 07:33:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id EC5237682; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 07:33:34 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131016053334.EC5237682@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 07:33:34 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.434 DH2014 submissions 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. 27, No. 434. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:52:45 +0200 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: DH 2014 submissions Dear all, The submissions of proposals for the Dh2014 is now open on dh2014.org: https://www.conftool.pro/dh2014/ Deadline: 1st November Dates of the DH2014 : 8-11 July 2014, in Lausanne (CH). The application for workshops will open later; deadline: 21st of February. We are looking forward to welcome you in Lausanne! The organizers team: Melissa Terras and the ADHO PC committee, with Claire Clivaz and Frédéric Kaplan _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 09650768F; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 07:36:40 +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 6187A7677; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 07:36:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A83A6604D; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 07:36:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131016053629.A83A6604D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 07:36:29 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.435 events: critical theory; critical questioning X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 435. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Sierra Eckert (45) Subject: Call for Papers: "Play. Power. Production." Undergraduate Research Conference [2] From: Delia Dumitrica (81) Subject: CFP: Digital Technologies and Social Transformations: What Role for Critical Theory? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 09:03:19 -0400 From: Sierra Eckert Subject: Call for Papers: "Play. Power. Production." Undergraduate Research Conference *Re:Humanities* is the first national digital humanities conference of, for, and by undergraduates, now in its fourth year. Our theme for Re:Humanities 2014 is “Play. Power. Production.” The Re:Hum Working Group, comprised of students from Haverford, Bryn Mawr, and Swarthmore Colleges, seeks undergraduates who engage with contemporary currents in digital humanities, scholars who both apply digital methodologies in traditional humanities research while posing critical humanities questions about those technologies. We invite undergraduates who will think interdisciplinarily, theorizing relationships between new digital technologies and the webs of power and access that surround them. The Working Group welcomes submissions of criticism and projects at all stages of development, with the understanding that a substantial amount of research will be accumulated to present at the conference at Haverford College, April 3-4, 2014. Keynote Speakers will include Mary Flanagan, the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College, and Adeline Koh, Assistant Professor of Literature at Richard Stockton College and founder of #DHPoco. We encourage proposals that are concerned with but not limited to: - Postcolonial Studies, Queer Studies and New Media Studies.- Criticism of New Media Technologies. - Collaboration and Solidarity in the Digital Humanities. - Game Analysis, Design and Play. - Digital Production and “Maker” Culture. - Performance and Affect in Participatory Media - Appropriation Culture: Theory and Practice. - Global and Transnational Perspectives on the Digital Humanities. Students selected to present will receive a small award to defray travel costs. Lodging will be arranged at no cost to participants. The submission deadline is *December 1, 2013* (Midnight GMT) and decisions will be announced before the new year. All submissions must include your name, institution, a short biography of 2-3 sentences, and a titled description of your project (maximum 700 words). Send a .doc/.docx, .pdf or .jpg file to rehumanities[at]gmail.com. (We are happy to accommodate you if your submission requires a different format. In this case, please contact us at least seven days in advance of the due date). We look forward to your participation! * * *The Re:Humanities 2014 Working Group* #rehum14 -- Sierra Eckert Swarthmore College '14 *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1381842421_2013-10-15_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_7376.2.pdf --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:15:38 +0000 From: Delia Dumitrica Subject: CFP: Digital Technologies and Social Transformations: What Role for Critical Theory? In-Reply-To: CFP: Digital Technologies and Social Transformations: What Role for Critical Theory? Special Issue of the Canadian Journal of Communication Guest Editors: Delia Dumitrica and Sally Wyatt In the past two decades, social research on the role of digital technologies in contemporary transformations has increasingly emerged as a disciplinary field in its own right. This has entailed a shift away from optimistic accounts of the alleged potential of these technologies to address social problems and alleviate inequalities, to a more nuanced understanding of the mutual shaping of digital technologies and existing social structures. Calls for recuperating the role of critical theory in understanding digital technologies (e.g. Feenberg 1991, 1999; Fuchs 2008, 2009) have emphasized the need to develop and refine suitable conceptual and methodological tools. The aim of this special issue is to map the use of critical theory in research on digital technologies. These technologies are often lauded for their capacity to harness creativity and knowledge, and proposed as a quick fix to the challenges and shortcomings of traditional hierarchies of power. Critical theory has emerged as an effort to constantly relate reflection on social aspects to existing configurations of power. The special issue brings together current research seeking to relate interpretation of digital technologies to power relations. The notion of power remains, of course, a notoriously problematic one; from its Marxist definition as (class) oppression to the post-structural (Foucaultian) power/knowledge pair, the common thrust of critical approaches has been to expose inequity and create conceptual and material spaces where more fair and egalitarian social arrangements can be imagined and enacted. Authors are encouraged to reflect on the role of power, in all its aspects, in their approach to digital technologies. We welcome a diverse approach to critical theory, including (but not restricted to) the traditional Marxist framework developed by the Frankfurt School, as well as subsequent revisions stemming from post-structuralism, postmodernism, feminism, queer theory, postcolonialism and indigenous epistemologies. We are also particularly interested in approaches that draw upon Canadian traditions, such as those inspired by the work of McLuhan, Smythe, Mosco, etc. Submissions should directly engage with the question of power, either in terms of conceptualizing technology or in terms of reflecting on technology’s role in social transformations. We invite authors to submit papers exploring this problematic with reference to diverse themes and cases, including, but not limited to studies of: - Digital technologies and democratic/economic empowerment (e.g. destabilizing authoritarian regimes; alleviating the democratic deficit; including marginalized or disenfranchised groups; new forms of politics, etc.); - Digital technologies and the state (e.g. security; cybercrime; public policy; governance, etc.); - Digital technologies and power in everyday life (e.g. cyber-identity; sociability; social ties; social capital; networks; mundane Panopticism; etc.); - Digital technologies and relations of production (e.g. immaterial labor; knowledge creation/mobilization; big data; cloud computing; cultural production; etc.); - Digital technologies in social sciences (e.g. critical thinking; modes of learning; evaluation and monitoring of scholarly labor, gamification, etc.). Extended abstracts (600 words) will be accepted until December 1, 2013. Abstracts should explicitly discuss how the role of power/ critical theory will be addressed in the context of the respective argument/ case. Please include a prospective title, 5-7 keywords and a short bio-note about yourself. We welcome abstracts in either English or French. The editors will review the abstracts and invite submission of full-length papers (7,000 – 9,000 words) for blind peer-review. An invitation to submit a full-length paper is not a guarantee that the paper will be accepted, and all articles will undergo a peer-review process. Deadline for the submission of full-length papers: March 1, 2014. To submit your abstract, or for any further queries regarding this special issue, please contact the issue editors directly: cjcissue@ucalgary.ca All submissions should follow the Canadian Journal of Communication submission guidelines: http://www.cjc-online.ca/submissions Works Cited Feenberg, Andrew. (1991). Critical Theory of Technology. Oxford University Press. Feenberg, Andrew. (1999). Questioning Technology. Routledge. Fuchs, Christian. (2009). Information and communication technologies & society: A contribution to the critique of the political economy of the Internet. European Journal of Communication, 24 (1): 69-87 Fuchs, Christian (2009). A contribution to theoretical foundations of critical media and communication studies. Javnost – The Public, 16(2): 5-24. http://philo.at/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catac _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: 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,BAYES_00, 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 51B0F768F; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 07:39:17 +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 2448B7677; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 07:39:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D17C45F67; Wed, 16 Oct 2013 07:39:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131016053907.D17C45F67@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 07:39:07 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.436 call for guest editor: Journal of Virtual Worlds 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. 27, No. 436. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 08:09:39 +0000 From: Tzafnat Shpak Subject: Call for Issue Editor - Assembled Journal of Virtual Worlds Research Call for a Guest Editor of JVWR Assembled Issue October 14, 2013 At the beginning of every year we publish a special Assembled issue that includes the best of all the papers submitted during the precedent year and are not designated for a topical issue. We are now looking for a prime guest editor and co-editors to manage the process for 2014. There are already more than 20 papers in our publishing system. This is a great opportunity to influence the state of our field. Please reply by Nov 1, 2013 to info@jvwresearch.org with a short CV and a cover letter listing your publishing and editing experience. ------------------- We invite you to read a guest post on Prof. Sivan blog "A Day in Your Life 2015 with (Google) Glass". If you have colleagues who may be interested in becoming an editor or a co-editor, please feel free to forward this call further. Looking forward to hearing from you, Thankfully, Tzafnat Shpak Coordinating Editor, The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research tzafnat.shpak@jvwresearch.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 674E63B71; Thu, 17 Oct 2013 07:26:13 +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 75EE53AA4; Thu, 17 Oct 2013 07:26:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 687273A65; Thu, 17 Oct 2013 07:26:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131017052601.687273A65@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 07:26:01 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.437 raising the level of computing literacy in digital humanities? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 437. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 21:32:52 -0500 From: Paul Fishwick Subject: Re: 27.432 disciplinary contradictions & radical demythologization In-Reply-To: <20131016053103.F2CD63C0F@digitalhumanities.org> I'd like any references that you may have on DH's need to raise the level of what we may call "computing literacy". I believe I have seen blog posts to this effect, but if any of you have journal articles or books, I'd like to know of them. The goal of "computing literacy" is one of my personal missions in bridging arts and humanities with computing/engineering, and I see it as a worthy goal. I wonder if part of that goal is the perceived need to treat the "tool" as subject matter for the humanist? I believe that Willard may have opined previously on the desire to see "into the black box." There are two approaches I am using at UT Dallas: (1) Relevance: teaching computing principles to artists, designers, and humanists is achieved through cultural contexts. I have a project where students learn computing and systems modeling by building several model-based interpretations of Al Jazari's 13th century castle clock (a water clock). Current models are centered in theory of computing (automata) as well as systems (block model). However, there is an abstract design interpretation, and if I had a history student in the class, there would be a historical piece as a model. Students routinely raise questions answerable through knowledge of history, computing, culture, and physics. (2) Representation: students are encouraged to creatively represent dynamic models--using something other than flat diagrams with circles and arrows, however, keeping the underlying metaphors alive. This is a another gateway to the humanities. "Relevance" makes reference to traditional notations. "Representation" goes beyond community norms for computing formalism, opening up the creative process so central to arts and humanities. Some of this philosophy is found in aesthetic computing literature. p On Oct 16, 2013, at 12:31 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 432. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: Rob Myers (25) > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.430 disciplinary contradictions & radical > demythologization? > > [2] From: Joris van Zundert (122) > Subject: 27.430 disciplinary contradictions & radical > demythologization? > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 11:36:19 -0700 > From: Rob Myers > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.430 disciplinary contradictions & radical demythologization? > In-Reply-To: <20131015055515.0FF493B66@digitalhumanities.org> > > On 14/10/13 10:55 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >> >> there seems to be a deep contradiction >> at the heart of their endeavors, insofar as often the only way these >> projects can only be realised is by using a series of obscure computer >> programs and/or programming languages that only they and their colleagues >> understand. Do you see what I am getting at here? Those claims of radical >> openness appear to be undermined by the very methods being used. > > Most academia is similarly opaque to the uninitiated. I've just had to > explain to a family member how to format up citations... > > Increasing access to the canonical texts of (e.g.) Theory would not be a > moral failure to do something else. Dumbing down the language used > (rather than explaining it in effective terms) might increase the > popularity of access but not the worth of it. > > Accessibility of results and tools is sufficient to make them > accessible. Having accessed them they are resources that require > particular competences to exploit, like any other body of knowledge. > > There are MOOCs, mailing lists, hacker spaces, Meetup groups, etc. by > which people can access the social and educational resources required to > do so. But these all have their own implications, as do > bricks-and-mortar colleges. > > So I don't think that there isn't a uniquely destructive contradiction > at the heart of this. DH is novel enough that the contradictions of > academia and open access in general are visible to people who do not see > them in their own endeavors, but these are not specific to DH. > > > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 00:02:40 +0200 > From: Joris van Zundert > Subject: 27.430 disciplinary contradictions & radical demythologization? > In-Reply-To: <20131015055515.0FF493B66@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Dear Victoria, > > I do tend to think that two aims you are pointing to indeed are by and > large shared goals of the DH community: > > - Openess of scientific information and practice through open data and free > software/open source software. > - The ability to use these means by humanities researchers through raising > awareness and computer literacy. > > What struck me was your wording of "the only way these projects can be > realised is by using a series of obscure computer programs and/or > programming languages that only they and their colleagues understand." > > To me it seems that saying that computer languages obscure the potential of > the digital medium and of computation, is similar to saying that Dutch > obscures your ability to communicate with the people of my country because > your native tongue is English. > > As far as I can tell nobody ever constructed a 'general purpose' computer > language to be purposely obfuscating –with the noted exception of pranks > resulting from computer language design exercises and experiments (cf. e.g. > esolangs.org/wiki/Hello_world_program_in_esoteric_languages). That I am > somewhat of a computer polyglot may stand as proof for this. Once you > master one language in a computer language paradigm, the learning curve for > others is very gentle. This is completely congruent to the effect that > mastering Latin makes it easier to understand other languages in that > family like Spanish and French: it is not too hard to master JavaScript > next to Java, Python next to Ruby, etc. > > There is no intrinsic aspect of on purpose excluding, hiding, fencing off, > etc. in the technologies that we are using. Of course these technologies > can and may be used by less philanthropic people to create obfuscating > products, like any technology can be directed at wrongful purposes. In any > case I would argue that like painting computer literacy comes in levels of > skill. Anyone can paint a blot, it takes some practice and knowledge though > to create more intricate works. You want a blog? Go to Google Blogspot, be > done. Want a domain specific computer language to model narrative > structures? Hm.. that will take some actual effort. > > Now, whether we like it or not, increasingly the technologies you speak of > are used to create the artifacts, processes, and interactions we as > humanists study. Computers, computer languages, software applications > written in those languages, and the Internet as a platform for all these > things to be purposefully interacting—it is all part of our culture > meanwhile. Like having to know French to be able to study in some depth the > Literature in that language, do we not need to at least study, if not teach > ourselves, the languages in use in this digital cultural world? Trying to > understand some of these languages as an increasing part of what creates > human expression and interaction, culture, ethics etc. seems to me almost > an obligation to our profession. > > Whether we offer enough possibilities for future humanists to get > acquainted with these languages is in my view not so much dependent on a > lack of motivation within the community to provide and be open about. > Rather it depends on faculties and establishment to providing room and > credits in the curricula to transfer the knowledge. > > As for Morozov. I think he has a point. There was way too much naive Brave > New World and Cockaigne hype around the Internet. And yes, I think we could > use some more engagement with the ethical issues in our community too. But > no, I do not have the impression that DH suffers from a deep contradiction > in its practicing and preaching: we can not redesign the Internet and > digital technology as a community, thus we need to thoroughly understand > and engage deeply with the innards of these technologies to study there > humanistic effects and potential. > > Hope these thoughts may be of some use. > > All the best > --Joris > > On Tuesday, October 15, 2013, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > >> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 430. >> Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London >> www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >> Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >> >> >> >> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 10:18:15 +0200 >> From: Victoria Scott >> Subject: The disciplinary contradictions of DH and the radical >> demythologization of computer programming >> >> >> Hello, >> >> I had a question about how digital humanists see the broad aims of their >> ever-evolving discipline in relation to a point raised by Evgeny Morozov in >> a recent article "Es ist lächerlich, das Internet erklären zu wollen!" (see >> link below). >> >> He identifies a self-proclaimed priest class that has formed to explain the >> Internet to the lay people, and he thinks--if I understand correctly--that >> it has to be challenged. >> >> What I am wondering is how this insight relates to digital humanists, if at >> all. Please correct me if I am wrong (I am very new here), but digital >> humanists often defend the radical democratic potential or open access >> nature of their projects...and yet, there seems to be a deep contradiction >> at the heart of their endeavors, insofar as often the only way these >> projects can only be realised is by using a series of obscure computer >> programs and/or programming languages that only they and their colleagues >> understand. Do you see what I am getting at here? Those claims of radical >> openness appear to be undermined by the very methods being used. If it >> isn't already the case (I think I mentioned I am *really* new here...), >> wouldn't it be more effective for digital humanists be campaigning, >> nationally and internationally, for the expansion of computer programming >> classes at every level of education?...Not just in awesome summer schools >> that a few of us happen to be lucky enough to attend? I guess what I am >> calling for is a wholesale and comprehensive demythologization of computer >> programming...or something. >> >> I am probably just repeating things others have already written about. If >> so, please accept my sincerest apologies and direct me to the key readings. >> >> Thank you for your patience. >> >> Forza! >> Victoria H.F. Scott >> >> *Evgeny Morozov* @*evgenymorozov* 11 >> Oct >> >> I talk about the emergence of preemptive governance in my FAZ interview (in >> German) today http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuill >> >> eton/evgeny-morozov-im-gespraech-es-ist-laecherlich-das-internet-erklaeren-zu-wollen-12614255.html >> … http://t.co/D0u84rDYLd >> >> -- >> ***The Art History Guild Paul Fishwick, PhD Chair, ACM SIGSIM Distinguished Chair of Arts & Technology and Professor of Computer Science Director, Creative Automata Laboratory The University of Texas at Dallas Arts & Technology 800 West Campbell Road, AT10 Richardson, TX 75080-3021 Home: utdallas.edu/atec/fishwick Blog: creative-automata.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4C618767F; Thu, 17 Oct 2013 07:27:59 +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 33B0B3B71; Thu, 17 Oct 2013 07:27:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 992CA3AC5; Thu, 17 Oct 2013 07:27:48 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131017052748.992CA3AC5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 07:27:48 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.438 call for proposals: small grants X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 438. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 10:12:37 +0000 From: "Isaksen L." Subject: EADH Small Grants: Call for Proposals EADH Small Grants: Call for Proposals The European Association for the Digital Humanities (EADH) hereby invites submissions for small grants to support Digital Humanities activities. The call is open to anyone active in Digital Humanities, although projects with an institutional or thematic connection to Europe will be prioritized. Furthermore, the EADH sees the development of linguistically and culturally focused Digital Humanities groups and associations around Europe as a very positive development, for individual professionals as well as for the field as a whole. As such, we particularly welcome initiatives proposed or endorsed by Europe-based national and regional DH organisations. Submissions are expected to be in the range of € 800 to € 2,000. The total amount available in this call is € 15,000. Successful awardees will be expected to write a short report on their activities during the lifetime of the grant. Information about previously successful grant applications can be found at: http://www.allc.org/support/previously-supported-activities More about the aims of EADH grants can be found in the ‘General description of EADH calls for workshops and projects’ at: http://www.allc.org/research/allc-support The format for proposals is described fully at: http://www.allc.org/research/allc-supported-workshops-and-projects/allc-calls-workshop-and-project-support#3 The maximum length of a proposal is three pages, including a cover sheet with title, one paragraph summary, total amount requested and a list of proposers, including affiliations and email addresses. The usual Terms and Conditions restricting submissions to registered EADH-members, do NOT apply to this call. Proposals (and any enquiries) should be sent to l.isaksen [at] soton.ac.uk by 17 November, 2013. Please note that as applications usually exceed the number of grants available late submissions cannot be considered. Notification of the results will be sent on 20 December 2013 at the latest. Leif Isaksen, on behalf of the The EADH Small Grants Committee Claire Clivaz Karina van Dalen-Oskam Elena Gonzalez-Blanco Leif Isaksen _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6607D7691; Thu, 17 Oct 2013 07:30:48 +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 6DEA12FD6; Thu, 17 Oct 2013 07:30:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8659C3ACD; Thu, 17 Oct 2013 07:30:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131017053038.8659C3ACD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 07:30:38 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.439 events: archaeology & history; magazines & 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. 27, No. 439. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Tom Brughmans" (162) Subject: CFP The Connected Past satellite conference at CAA 2014 Paris [2] From: Natalia Ermolaev (16) Subject: *Next Week* Remediating the Avant-Garde: Magazines and Digital Archives (Princeton University, Oct. 25-26) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 14:41:24 +0100 From: "Tom Brughmans" Subject: CFP The Connected Past satellite conference at CAA 2014 Paris CALL FOR PAPERS (French version below) The Connected Past A satellite conference at CAA 2014, Paris 26 April 2014 in Paris Sciences Po. Deadline abstract submission: 12 November 2013. http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/ With the Support of Sciences Po http://www.sciencespo.fr/ , the DYREM research program http://www.cso.edu/fiche_actu.asp?actu_id=1317 , Médialab http://www.medialab.sciences-po.fr/fr , and the French network of historical network analysis http://reshist.hypotheses.org/ . Held Saturday April 26th 2014 in Sciences Po, rooms Albert Sorel and Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, 27 rue Saint-Guillaume, 75007 Paris (metro Saint-Germain-des-Prés or Rue du Bac) Organisers: Claire Lemercier (CNRS, Sciences Po, Paris), Tom Brughmans (University of Southampton), The Connected Past steering committee. The Connected Past is a community led by a multi-disciplinary international steering committee. It aims to provide discussion platforms for the development of original and critical applications of network and complexity approaches to archaeology and history. To this purpose The Connected Past organises international conferences, focused seminars and practical didactic workshops. Over the past decade ‘network’ has become a buzz-word in many disciplines across the humanities and sciences. Researchers in archaeology and history in particular are increasingly exploring network-based theory and methodologies drawn from complex network models or social network analysis as a means of understanding dynamic social relationships in the past, as well as technical relationships in their data. This series of conferences aims to provide a platform for pioneering, multidisciplinary, collaborative work by researchers working to develop network approaches and their application to the past. The conference will be held immediately after the CAA conference (Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology), also happening in Paris, allowing participants to easily attend both – but participants from other disciplines, especially history, are also most welcome. The conference aims to: * Provide a forum for the presentation of network-based research applied to archaeological or historical questions * Discuss the practicalities and implications of applying network perspectives and methodologies to archaeological and historical data in particular * Strengthen the group of researchers interested in the potential of network approaches for archaeology and history * Foster cross-disciplinary dialogue and collaborative work towards integrated analytical frameworks for understanding complex networks * Stimulate debate about the application of network theory and analysis within archaeology and history in particular, but also more widely, and highlight the relevance of this work for the continued development of network theory in other disciplines We welcome contributions addressing any of (but not restricted to) the following themes: * The diffusion of innovations, people and objects in the past * Social network analysis in archaeology and history * The dynamics between physical and relational space * Evolving, multilevel and multiplex networks * Emergent properties in complex networks * Agency, structuration and complexity in network approaches * Future directions for network approaches in archaeology and history Please email proposed titles and abstracts (max. 250 words) by November 12th 2013 to: connectedpast@soton.ac.uk Complete papers will not be required. Oral presentations will be limited to 15 minutes so as to leave room for discussion. The abstracts should be written in English, but French talks accompanied by an English presentation, or vice versa, will be admitted, and French questions or answers will be welcome during the debates. Lunch will be offered to presenters and hopefully to all participants, but the organizers cannot fund travel or lodging. There are no attendance fees. Although this event is free of charge, registration is required and the number of places is limited. Registration to the event will open once the final programme is advertised in late November, and places will be allocated on a first-come-first-serve basis. A “The Connected Past” practical workshop, “Introduction to network analysis for archaeologists” will also be organized during CAA2014 in Paris (see the CAA programme ). —- French version —– The Connected Past Dans le cadre du congrès CAA 2014 (informatique et méthodes quantitatives en archéologie) à Paris. Deadline abstract submission: 12 November 2013. Un événement organisé par le réseau “The Connected Past” Avec le soutien de Sciences Po Paris, du programme de recherche http://www.cso.edu/fiche_actu.asp?actu_id=1317 DYREM, du Médialab et du groupe http://reshist.hypotheses.org/ Res-Hist, Réseaux et Histoire Samedi 26 avril 2014 à Sciences Po, amphithéâtres Albert Sorel et Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, 27 rue Saint-Guillaume, 75007 Paris (métro Saint-Germain-des-Prés ou Rue du Bac) Organisation : Claire Lemercier (CNRS, Sciences Po, Paris), Tom Brughmans (University of Southampton), The Connected Past comité scientifique “The Connected Past” est un groupe de chercheurs doté d’un comité scientifique international et interdisciplinaire. Son objectif est d’offrir des lieux de discussion autour du développement d’applications originales des approches en termes de réseaux et de complexité en archéologie et en histoire. Pour cela, il organise depuis 2011 des colloques, séminaires et ateliers de formation. Le mot “réseau” est de plus en plus à la mode depuis maintenant plusieurs décennies, dans la plupart des disciplines, y compris de sciences humaines et sociales. En histoire et en archéologie notamment, les théories et méthodes centrées sur les réseaux, souvent inspirées de l’analyse de réseaux sociaux ou des sciences de la complexité, sont de plus en plus souvent mobilisées, que ce soit pour parler des liens sociaux du passé ou pour traiter des données empiriques portant sur d’autres types de relations (impliquant des lieux, objets, etc.). La série de journées “The Connected Past” propose un lieu commun pour discuter de travaux de ce type, appliquant des approches des réseaux au passé, quelle que soit leur discipline d’origine. La journée de Paris se tiendra dans la foulée du congrès d’archéologie CAA, afin de permettre à ses participants d’être présents s’ils le souhaitent ; mais les propositions pour la journée émanant d’autres disciplines et notamment de l’histoire sont tout à fait bienvenues, indépendamment de toute participation au congrès CAA. Les objectifs de la journée sont de : * Proposer un lieu commun de présentation pour des recherches appliquant des approches des réseaux à des questions archéologiques ou historiques * Discuter les spécificités et les implications de ces approches pour ces questions et types de données particuliers * Contribuer à la constitution d’un groupe de chercheur.se.s intéressé.e.s par le potentiel de ces approches en archéologie et en histoire * Encourager le dialogue interdisciplinaire et la recherche collective dans le domaine des réseaux complexes * Faire vivre les débats sur l’application des théories et méthodes sur les réseaux, en histoire, archéologie, et en retour dans d’autres disciplines. Les propositions pour la journée de Paris peuvent notamment se rattacher aux thèmes suivants (liste non limitative) : * La diffusion ou la migration d’innovations, de personnes, d’objets dans le passé * L’analyse de réseaux sociaux en archéologie ou en histoire * Les dynamiques liées d’espaces physiques et relationnels * Les réseaux multiplexes, multiniveaux, longitudinaux * Les propriétés émergentes des réseaux complexes * Agency, structure et complexité dans les approches des réseaux * L’avenir possible des approches des réseaux en histoire et en archéologie Merci d’envoyer vos propositions (titre et résumé de 250 mots maximum, en anglais) à connectedpast@soton.ac.uk pour le 12 novembre 2013. L’envoi d’articles complets ne sera pas demandé. Les présentations orales seront limitées à 15 minutes, de manière à laisser un temps important aux discussions. Les propositions doivent être envoyées en anglais pour permettre un examen incluant l’équipe non francophone de “The Connected Past”. En revanche, il sera possible de donner une communication orale en français accompagnée d’une présentation projetée en anglais, ou l’inverse, et d’intervenir en français dans les discussions. Le repas de midi sera offert aux auteurs de communications et, nous l’espérons, à l’ensemble des participants. En revanche, les éventuels trajets et nuits d’hôtel resteront à la charge des auteurs de communications. Il n’y a pas de frais d’inscription, mais, du fait de la taille des amphithéâtres, il sera demandé de s’inscrire auprès des organisateurs (en cas d’inscriptions trop nombreuses, seuls les premiers pourront entrer !). Fin novembre, la liste des communications acceptées sera annoncée et l’adresse d’inscription sera indiquée dans le même temps. Notez enfin deux autres événements connexes auxquels nous vous encourageons également à participer * Un atelier pratique “The Connected Past” dans le cadre de la CAA : introduction aux réseaux sociaux pour archéologues (en anglais), voir CAA. * Les 9-11 avril 2014 à Toulouse, les secondes rencontres Res-Hist sur l’analyse de réseaux en histoire, avec des invités étrangers, des présentations de recherches en cours et des ateliers pratiques de formation. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 17:40:00 -0400 From: Natalia Ermolaev Subject: *Next Week* Remediating the Avant-Garde: Magazines and Digital Archives (Princeton University, Oct. 25-26) **Next week ** The Blue Mountain Project of the Princeton University Library will host an interdisciplinary conference, "Remediating the Avant-Garde: Magazines and Digital Archives," on October 25-26, 2013 at Princeton University. The conference will explore the conceptual and practical ground where traditional area studies, art history, periodical studies, digital humanities, computer science, and library and information science converge. How do these fields inform each other and challenge us to think in new ways, both as builders of digital resources and as scholars and teachers of avant-garde periodicals? The keynote lecture, "Radical Remediation," will be presented by Johanna Drucker (Department of Information Studies, UCLA) on Friday, October 25 at 5pm at McCormick 101. See our conference website for a full schedule and to register. ** Registration has been extended to Oct. 23** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2E5B53C0F; Fri, 18 Oct 2013 10:31:34 +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 57BE43AF1; Fri, 18 Oct 2013 10:31:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 879053044; Fri, 18 Oct 2013 10:31:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131018083123.879053044@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 10:31:23 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.440 job 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. 27, No. 440. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 00:56:48 +0200 From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: Job opening at Leipzig University Library Research associate Leipzig University Library The Leipzig University Library (LUL) in Germany is piloting a project to conceptualize and implement various infrastructure components which will be used to create, organize and provide fulltext-data and meta-data from various sources. Therefore the resulting concepts must be appropriate for digital born content as well as for digitized content and need to be implemented in a decentralized, heterogenous structure. The project focusses on open source solutions and will be conducted with various partners, especially in close partnership with the Workgroup for Automated Language-Processing (ASV) and the Workgroup for Image- and Signal-Processing (BSV) of the Leipzig University Computer Science Department. The following vacancy is available at the Leipzig University Library: Research associate (50% part-time, fixed-term contract until: 31. December 2014) Allocated salary: pay grade 13 TV-L The full job offer (in german) is available at: http://bit.ly/1ggSkEh ----- 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 470287675; Fri, 18 Oct 2013 10:32:06 +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 18AF77693; Fri, 18 Oct 2013 10:31:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3E6755F67; Fri, 18 Oct 2013 10:31:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20131018083156.3E6755F67@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 10:31:56 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.441 events: Digitizing Darwin 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. 27, No. 441. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 14:21:48 +0100 From: Jonathan Topham Subject: John Van Wyhe at University of Leeds, 22 October 2013 John Van Wyhe (National University of Singapore) will be presenting two papers at the University of Leeds next Tuesday, 22 October 2013: 12noon-1pm in the Centre for HPS Work-in-Progress Seminar, 'In Search of the Historical A. R. 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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 (67) Subject: Re: 27.437 raising the level of computing literacy in digital humanities? [2] From: Willard McCarty (41) Subject: like Latin --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 09:23:31 +0100 From: Alexander Hay Subject: Re: 27.437 raising the level of computing literacy in digital humanities? In-Reply-To: <20131017052601.687273A65@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Paul, I'm from a humanities background but presently work in promoting greater use of software across all the disciplines. Based on my research into the various schools of thought on this matter, there seems to be a broad range of opinions, from those who think only programmers should programme to those who think everyone should start coding immediately and kickstart The Singularity (or something). My own view on the matter is that scientists and engineers all certainly need to know how to code, but what they need to know and to what degree varies from case to case. The flip-side of this is that many of the computing/hard science people I work with are shocked at just how adept academics in the humanities are in regards to IT and programming. They thought they were the only ones having these debates, so it is quite a surprise for them to realise how advanced the discussions are in our own fields. (This is profoundly amusing for an English graduate like myself.) Kind regards, - Alexander On 17/10/2013 06:26, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 437. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 21:32:52 -0500 > From: Paul Fishwick > Subject: Re: 27.432 disciplinary contradictions & radical demythologization > In-Reply-To: <20131016053103.F2CD63C0F@digitalhumanities.org> > > > I'd like any references that you may have on DH's need to raise the level of > what we may call "computing literacy". I believe I have seen blog posts to this > effect, but if any of you have journal articles or books, I'd like to know of them. > > The goal of "computing literacy" is one of my personal missions in bridging arts and humanities > with computing/engineering, and I see it as a worthy goal. I wonder if part of that goal > is the perceived need to treat the "tool" as subject matter for the humanist? I believe > that Willard may have opined previously on the desire to see "into the black box." > > There are two approaches I am using at UT Dallas: > > (1) Relevance: teaching computing principles to artists, designers, and humanists is > achieved through cultural contexts. I have a project where students learn computing > and systems modeling by building several model-based interpretations of Al Jazari's > 13th century castle clock (a water clock). Current models are centered in theory of > computing (automata) as well as systems (block model). However, there is an abstract > design interpretation, and if I had a history student in the class, there would be a > historical piece as a model. Students routinely raise questions answerable through > knowledge of history, computing, culture, and physics. > > (2) Representation: students are encouraged to creatively represent dynamic models--using > something other than flat diagrams with circles and arrows, however, keeping the underlying > metaphors alive. This is a another gateway to the humanities. > > "Relevance" makes reference to traditional notations. "Representation" goes beyond community > norms for computing formalism, opening up the creative process so central to arts and > humanities. Some of this philosophy is found in aesthetic computing literature. > > p -- Alexander Hay PhD Policy & Communications Consultant Electronics & Computer Science Faculty of Physical & Applied Sciences Building 32 Room 4067 University of Southampton --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 09:28:55 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: like Latin In-Reply-To: <20131017052601.687273A65@digitalhumanities.org> In response to Paul Fishwick's note on computing literacy, I couldn't agree more that some level of instruction in programming is close to essential for training in digital humanities. It seems to me that the question of which language (Python, perl etc) is relatively unimportant. What's more important, because it's more of an impediment to people from a non-technical background, is the sort of example problems from which elementary exercises are drawn. Many years ago, teaching MA students with no such background whatever, I'd pose a simple problem almost everyone faces when doing research in the humanities and writing: how to reformat in Word a document with hard returns in the wrong places without losing the double hard returns between paragraphs -- or, somewhat more complicated, how to deal with such a document in which paragraphs are distinguished by tabbed indenting. This forces the student to think procedurally, to reason out the consequences of each action applied mechanically to the document. Many found this *very* much of a shock -- but they had no problem understanding the relevance of the problem. I'd also give them Edsger Dijkstra's "A parable" for light but instructive relief. See the E. W. Dijkstra Archive, ms 0594, http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/. Perhaps someone has thought of this before: a collaboratively constructed collection of sample problems that seem immediate sensible to humanities students. Problems they can imagine themselves wanting to solve. Problems that motivate. I took up a study of Latin because I knew it was sine qua non for what I wanted to do. Then I fell in love with the language. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2EAE37680; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:48:32 +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 1F3233B71; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:48:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3B4F73AF1; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:48:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20131019054820.3B4F73AF1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:48:20 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.443 computing literacy 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. 27, No. 443. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Stanislav Roudavski (24) Subject: RE: 27.442 computing literacy [2] From: Paul Fishwick (161) Subject: Re: 27.442 computing literacy --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 09:56:33 +0000 From: Stanislav Roudavski Subject: RE: 27.442 computing literacy In-Reply-To: <20131018083509.1EE233C0F@digitalhumanities.org> > I'd like any references that you may have on DH's need to raise the > level of what we may call "computing literacy". I believe I have seen > blog posts to this effect, but if any of you have journal articles or books, I'd like to know of them. My work is in architecture (broadly understood) but I hope some of the arguments/considerations are of relevance elsewhere. I have been trying to introduce computing into architectural education using various pedagogical models and they all come with hard-to-anticipate particular advantages and disadvantages. Using moderately technical introduction in parallel with reverse-engineering of picturesque examples proved fairly popular (http://www.exlab.org/2013/03/studio-air/). Here some papers: On introducing some relevant thinking early: http://www.academia.edu/1159351/Selective_Jamming_Digital_Architectural_Design_in_Foundation_Courses This one is on a particular effect but the context for this is a particular course. I also include the link to the student journal that shows a pastiche of techniques they had to encounter as well as a video: http://www.academia.edu/2368574/Emergent_Materiality_though_an_Embedded_Multi-Agent_System http://issuu.com/ertf345345/docs/pas_2011_journal https://vimeo.com/31549326 Finally, this is about my attempt to contextualize it all somehow culturally: http://www.academia.edu/1528577/Estranged-Gaze_Pedagogy_Probing_Architectural_Computing_through_Multiple_Ways_of_Seeing Hope this is of use, --- Dr Stanislav Roudavsk The University of Melbourne Senior Lecturer in Digital Architectural Design Elseware Collective; ExLab Founding Partner personal: stanislavroudavski.net http://stanislavroudavski.net/ collaborative: elsewarecollective.com http://elsewarecollective.com/ , exlab.org http://www.exlab.org/ publications: unimelb.academia.edu/StanislavRoudavski/Papers tutorials: vimeo.com/exlab --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 08:41:16 -0500 From: Paul Fishwick Subject: Re: 27.442 computing literacy In-Reply-To: <20131018083509.1EE233C0F@digitalhumanities.org> Alexander and Willard One of the problems we have in Computer Science (CS) is that the notion of computing is taken to be equivalent to learning to program. This is not just an issue with perception outside of CS, but perpetuated unfortunately within CS in many instances, but not all. Instead, I believe that we need to return to some basics (such as set theory, logic, automata, etc) but also become more relevant to the humanities. Examples include showing students where system models can be found in nature, art, and story structure. The other is to creatively explore representations of formal structure. In beginning drawing, the student may be asked to sit in front of an object and provide an interpretation on paper. This same procedure can be performed where the object is a formula, decision tree, or data flow program. Hopefully, this will be a new beginning. I would not say to do away with coding, but rather to bury it beneath modeling, which is a superior method that shows clearer relevance to other disciplines. -paul On Oct 18, 2013, at 3:35 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 09:23:31 +0100 > From: Alexander Hay > Subject: Re: 27.437 raising the level of computing literacy in digital humanities? > In-Reply-To: <20131017052601.687273A65@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Dear Paul, > > I'm from a humanities background but presently work in promoting greater > use of software across all the disciplines. Based on my research into > the various schools of thought on this matter, there seems to be a broad > range of opinions, from those who think only programmers should > programme to those who think everyone should start coding immediately > and kickstart The Singularity (or something). My own view on the matter > is that scientists and engineers all certainly need to know how to code, > but what they need to know and to what degree varies from case to case. > > The flip-side of this is that many of the computing/hard science people > I work with are shocked at just how adept academics in the humanities > are in regards to IT and programming. They thought they were the only > ones having these debates, so it is quite a surprise for them to realise > how advanced the discussions are in our own fields. (This is profoundly > amusing for an English graduate like myself.) > > Kind regards, > > - Alexander > > On 17/10/2013 06:26, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 437. >> Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London >> www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >> Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >> >> >> >> Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 21:32:52 -0500 >> From: Paul Fishwick >> Subject: Re: 27.432 disciplinary contradictions & radical demythologization >> In-Reply-To: <20131016053103.F2CD63C0F@digitalhumanities.org> >> >> >> I'd like any references that you may have on DH's need to raise the level of >> what we may call "computing literacy". I believe I have seen blog posts to this >> effect, but if any of you have journal articles or books, I'd like to know of them. >> >> The goal of "computing literacy" is one of my personal missions in bridging arts and humanities >> with computing/engineering, and I see it as a worthy goal. I wonder if part of that goal >> is the perceived need to treat the "tool" as subject matter for the humanist? I believe >> that Willard may have opined previously on the desire to see "into the black box." >> >> There are two approaches I am using at UT Dallas: >> >> (1) Relevance: teaching computing principles to artists, designers, and humanists is >> achieved through cultural contexts. I have a project where students learn computing >> and systems modeling by building several model-based interpretations of Al Jazari's >> 13th century castle clock (a water clock). Current models are centered in theory of >> computing (automata) as well as systems (block model). However, there is an abstract >> design interpretation, and if I had a history student in the class, there would be a >> historical piece as a model. Students routinely raise questions answerable through >> knowledge of history, computing, culture, and physics. >> >> (2) Representation: students are encouraged to creatively represent dynamic models--using >> something other than flat diagrams with circles and arrows, however, keeping the underlying >> metaphors alive. This is a another gateway to the humanities. >> >> "Relevance" makes reference to traditional notations. "Representation" goes beyond community >> norms for computing formalism, opening up the creative process so central to arts and >> humanities. Some of this philosophy is found in aesthetic computing literature. >> >> p > > -- > > Alexander Hay PhD > Policy & Communications Consultant > Electronics & Computer Science > Faculty of Physical & Applied Sciences > Building 32 Room 4067 > University of Southampton > > > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 09:28:55 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: like Latin > In-Reply-To: <20131017052601.687273A65@digitalhumanities.org> > > > In response to Paul Fishwick's note on computing literacy, I couldn't > agree more that some level of instruction in programming is close to > essential for training in digital humanities. > > It seems to me that the question of which language (Python, perl etc) is > relatively unimportant. What's more important, because it's more of an > impediment to people from a non-technical background, is the sort of > example problems from which elementary exercises are drawn. > > Many years ago, teaching MA students with no such background whatever, > I'd pose a simple problem almost everyone faces when doing research in > the humanities and writing: how to reformat in Word a document with hard > returns in the wrong places without losing the double hard returns > between paragraphs -- or, somewhat more complicated, how to deal with > such a document in which paragraphs are distinguished by tabbed > indenting. This forces the student to think procedurally, to reason out > the consequences of each action applied mechanically to the document. > Many found this *very* much of a shock -- but they had no problem > understanding the relevance of the problem. > > I'd also give them Edsger Dijkstra's "A parable" for light but > instructive relief. See the E. W. Dijkstra Archive, ms 0594, > http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/. > > Perhaps someone has thought of this before: a collaboratively > constructed collection of sample problems that seem immediate sensible > to humanities students. Problems they can imagine themselves wanting to > solve. Problems that motivate. I took up a study of Latin because I knew > it was sine qua non for what I wanted to do. Then I fell in love with > the language. > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > > -- > Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital > Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital > Humanities, University of Western Sydney Paul Fishwick, PhD Chair, ACM SIGSIM Distinguished Chair of Arts & Technology and Professor of Computer Science Director, Creative Automata Laboratory The University of Texas at Dallas Arts & Technology 800 West Campbell Road, AT10 Richardson, TX 75080-3021 Home: utdallas.edu/atec/fishwick Blog: creative-automata.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0E954769F; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:50:46 +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 DED8D5F67; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:50:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1E9D25EB8; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:50:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131019055037.1E9D25EB8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:50:36 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.444 between STEM and the human sciences? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 444. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 21:59:43 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: STEM and the human sciences A very thoughtful article on the relations between the human sciences (i.e. the humanities and interpretative social sciences) and the STEM disciplines (sciences, technology, engineering, medicine) has appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education for 14 October: David A. Hollinger, "The Wedge Driving Academe's Two Families Apart", http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Cant-the-Sciencesthe/142239/?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en. The question that arises for me from this article is all about what we in digital humanities can do to help both the other disciplines and ourselves. It seems obvious to me that with computing on the one side and the humanities on the other we're in a position to show what mediation can do. I don't mean get two enemies to agree, rather understand what it means to assimilate scientific practices -- Ian Hacking's styles of scientific reasoning -- within the humanities. I argue whenever I get the chance (such as Thurs night, in a lecture at King's) that digital humanities have brought experiment into the humanities, and that this urgently needs our attention. But if you check out the styles that Hacking has described, e.g. in "Style for Historians and Philosophers", Historical Ontology) I think you'll find that much of what we in fact do shows up under one of those styles. I've argued for a long time, waiting for a counter-argument, that digital humanities has implicitly created an as-if realm within the humanities by virtue of treating our objects as if they were merely data, allowing us then to treat these objects like any other data -- hence stylistically scientifically. Can we not begin to address the problem Hollinger identifies by overcoming our own estrangement from the techno-scientific inheritance to which we owe so much, including the machine that is at the foundation of our discipline? Once that happens I think we can be quite creative in our mediating. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: 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,BAYES_00, FUZZY_AMBIEN,LOTS_OF_MONEY 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 3000276A3; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:52:08 +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 AE782769F; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:52:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CF6225F67; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:51:59 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131019055159.CF6225F67@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:51:59 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.445 fellowships for the Rare Book 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. 27, No. 445. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 18:51:44 +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 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. RBS selected its first twenty Mellon Fellows in the spring of 2013, and will admit an additional twenty fellows to the program in the spring of 2014. 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 cover such topics as XML-TEI text encoding, digitization of historical documents, and scholarly editing. RBS faculty members include Matthew Kirschenbaum and Naomi Nelson, teaching "Born-Digital Materials: Theory & Practice," and Will Noel and Dot Porter, teaching "The Medieval Manuscript in the 21st Century," a new course for the summer of 2014. The deadline for application to the program is DECEMBER 2, 2013. Applicants must be doctoral candidates (post-qualifying exams), postdoctoral fellows, or junior (untenured) faculty in the humanities at a U.S. institution 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 Donna A. C. Sy Mellon Fellowship Program Director Rare Book School donna.sy@virginia.edu (434) 243-4296 --- RARE BOOK SCHOOL RECEIVES MELLON FOUNDATION GRANT TO SUPPORT FELLOWSHIPS IN CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY Fellowship program seeks to reinvigorate bibliographical studies within the humanities Charlottesville, VA, October 17, 2013 – Rare Book School (RBS) at the University of Virginia has been awarded a $783,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to extend and augment its three-year fellowship program, the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography, which was established in 2012 through funding from the Foundation. The aim of the program is to reinvigorate bibliographical studies within the humanities. RBS selected its first twenty Mellon Fellows in the spring of 2013, and will admit an additional twenty fellows to the program in the spring of 2014. The Mellon Fellowships at Rare Book School 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 also receive stipends to support research-related travel to special collections, and additional funds to host academic symposia at their home institutions. “I am grateful to the Foundation for its generous support of our Mellon Fellowship program, which seeks to help early-career humanities scholars incorporate bibliographical and book-historical methods into their research and teaching,” said RBS Director Michael F. Suarez, S.J. “We intend to build on the successes of the first phase of our Mellon Fellowship program by encouraging a more extensive collaborative dialogue among our fellows, who will continue to represent a wide variety of disciplines, ranging from musicology and the digital humanities to art history and American studies.” The deadline for application to join the program’s second cohort of fellows is December 2, 2013. 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: Jeremy Dibbell, Director of Communications & Outreach Rare Book School jeremy.dibbell@virginia.edu (434) 243-7077 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E023376A6; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:53:31 +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 8BC0E768D; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:53:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 96C647687; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:53:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131019055321.96C647687@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:53:21 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.446 events: virtual & haptic; GO::DH (Mexico City) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 446. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna" (23) Subject: Being | Human: The Virtual Object and Haptic Interfaces, King's Arts & Humanities Festival 2013 [2] From: Alex Gil (21) Subject: CFP: GO::DH+RedHD Mexico 2014: "Digital Humanities in a Global Context" --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:20:33 +0000 From: "Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna" Subject: Being | Human: The Virtual Object and Haptic Interfaces, King's Arts & Humanities Festival 2013 In-Reply-To: <64c2cabf90374587a3b9ae612fa9fec5@AMSPR03MB244.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com> If the description of this event sounds relevant to your interests and you are able to be in London on 23rd October 2013, the organisers and speakers REQUEST THE PLEASURE OF YOUR COMPANY AT The Virtual Object and Haptic Interfaces An interdisciplinary event led by Anna Bentkowska-Kafel, Margaret Cox and David Prytherch Council Room, King’s College London, Strand 23 October 2013, 2-5pm Part of the King’s Arts & Humanities Festival 2013: Being | Human Presented by Department of Digital Humanities This event is free and open to all but booking is required. It may not be immediately obvious what museum objects, such as sculpture, may have in common with drilling teeth; or how eighteenth-century poetry may help with describing experience of touch, virtually simulated through the use of computers; or why an artist and haptic computer-interface specialist is helping with research into dementia. This interdisciplinary event brings together experts in and users of machine haptics and explores the potential of 3D imaging and haptic technologies in research, teaching and learning across a variety of disciplines. The panel will debate how we can reciprocally stimulate new ideas and approaches to historical research, medical sciences, the creative arts and contemporary museum education. The session will include brief presentations, demonstrations and general discussion. Those with no previous experience of computer haptics will have the opportunity to experience this technology first hand, and develop critical appreciation of perceptual processes involved. Simulating touch in a virtual environment is not straightforward. It requires, among other things, a good understanding of the human touch which varies from one individual to another and how to represent the consequences of human tactile actions. Can this perceptual, emotional and cultural experience be satisfactorily replicated virtually? What human and technological considerations are the most challenging? For more information please visit the event page http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2013-2014/Festival/Haptic.aspx Comments welcome at Art & Science of Touch http://artandscienceoftouch.wordpress.com/ ----- 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 Please adopt the email charter, http://emailcharter.org/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 11:23:15 -0400 From: Alex Gil Subject: CFP: GO::DH+RedHD Mexico 2014: "Digital Humanities in a Global Context" In-Reply-To: <64c2cabf90374587a3b9ae612fa9fec5@AMSPR03MB244.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com> Hi all, I'm very proud to announce the official launch of our first GO::DH conference, second RedhD conference, "Digital Humanities in a Global Context." The event will take place in Mexico City, May 21-23, 2014. We are hoping to attract participants from all over the world. To that end we will work hard to make a multilingual an event as possible. We have already translated the Call for Participation into several languages and are waiting for more to come in. (We're still taking volunteers for translation). Help us share the announcement through your different channels! Here are the links English - http://humanidadesdigitales.net/index.php/encuentro2014/encuentro2014-en Español - http://humanidadesdigitales.net/index.php/encuentro2014/encuentro2014-es Portugûes - http://humanidadesdigitales.net/index.php/encuentro2014/encuentro2014-pt Italiano - http://humanidadesdigitales.net/index.php/encuentro2014/encuentro2014-it Hope to see you in Mexico! 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0819376AC; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:54:33 +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 6499676A1; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:54:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E9B4C769F; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:54:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131019055423.E9B4C769F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:54:23 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.447 pubs: DHQ 7.1; Altmetrics 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. 27, No. 447. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Flanders, Julia" (52) Subject: DHQ issue 7.1 [2] From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Altmetrics Bibliography --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 11:42:44 +0000 From: "Flanders, Julia" Subject: DHQ issue 7.1 I am very happy to announce the release of DHQ issue 7.1, a huge issue that includes a special cluster on "The Literary" guest edited by Jessica Pressman and Lisa Swanstrom, as well as a set of additional articles. Best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders Editor in chief, DHQ Northeastern University ****************** ****************** DHQ 7.1 (2013) Special Cluster: The Literary Editors: Lisa Swanstrom and Jessica Pressman The Literary And/As the Digital Humanities Jessica Pressman, ACLS Fellow; Lisa Swanstrom, Florida Atlantic University A Visual Sense is Born in the Fingertips: Towards a Digital Ekphrasis Cecilia Lindhé, Umeå University Taken Possession of: The Reprinting and Reauthorship of Hawthorne's "Celestial Railroad" in the Antebellum Religious Press Ryan Cordell, Northeastern University Revenge of the Nerd: Junot Díaz and the Networks of American Literary Imagination Ed Finn, Arizona State University Kindling, Disappearing, Reading Yung-Hsing Wu, University of Louisiana, Lafayette A Deep History of Electronic Textuality: The Case of English Reprints Jhon Milton Areopagitica Whitney Anne Trettien, Duke University The .txtual Condition: Digital Humanities, Born-Digital Archives, and the Future Literary Matthew Kirschenbaum, University of Maryland cut to fit the tool-spun course Nick Montfort, MIT; Stephanie Strickland, Independent scholar Criminal Code: Procedural Logic and Rhetorical Excess in Videogames Mark L. Sample, George Mason University Code as Ritualized Poetry: The Tactics of the Transborder Immigrant Tool Mark C. Marino, University of Southern California The End of Literature: Machine Reading and Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome Mike Frangos, University of Umeå Whence Feminism? Assessing Feminist Interventions in Digital Literary Archives Jacqueline Wernimont, Scripps College Digital Humanities, Copyright Law, and the Literary Robin Wharton, Independent Scholar The Idiocy of the Digital Literary (and what does it have to do with digital humanities)? Sandy Baldwin, West Virginia University ********************************** Regular Articles Sounding for Meaning: Using Theories of Knowledge Representation to Analyze Aural Patterns in Texts Tanya Clement, University of Texas, Austin; David Tcheng, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Loretta Auvil, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Boris Capitanu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Megan Monroe, University of Maryland, College Park The Boundless Book: A Conversation between the Pre-modern and Posthuman Alison Tara Walker, Saint Louis University An Agent-based Model for the Humanities Belinda Roman, St. Mary's University Performative Materiality and Theoretical Approaches to Interface Johanna Drucker, UCLA Modeling Afro-Latin American Artistic Representations in Topic Maps: Cuba’s Prominence in Latin American Discourse Eduard A. Arriaga, University of Western Ontario; Fernando Sancho Caparrini, University of Sevilla; Juan Luis Suárez, University of Western Ontario Developing Academic Capacity in Digital Humanities: Thoughts from the Canadian Community Lynne Siemens, University of Victoria --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:11:07 +0000 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Altmetrics Bibliography Digital Scholarship has released the Altmetrics Bibliography, which includes over 50 selected English-language articles and technical reports that are useful in understanding altmetrics. http://digital-scholarship.org/alt/altmetrics.htm The "altmetrics" concept is still evolving. In "The Altmetrics Collection," Jason Priem, Paul Groth, and Dario Taraborelli define altmetrics as follows: "Altmetrics is the study and use of scholarly impact measures based on activity in online tools and environments. The term has also been used to describe the metrics themselves—one could propose in plural a 'set of new altmetrics.' Altmetrics is in most cases a subset of both scientometrics and webometrics; it is a subset of the latter in that it focuses more narrowly on scholarly influence as measured in online tools and environments, rather than on the Web more generally." Sources have been published from January 2001 through September 2013. 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. Translate (oversatta, oversette, prelozit, traducir, traduire, tradurre, traduzir, or ubersetzen) this message: http://digital-scholarship.org/announce/altbib.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2778D76AB; Sun, 20 Oct 2013 09:54:50 +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 2743976A8; Sun, 20 Oct 2013 09:54:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1A8AC76A2; Sun, 20 Oct 2013 09:54:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131020075438.1A8AC76A2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 09:54:37 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.448 between STEM and the human sciences X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 448. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 10:49:15 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: 27.444 between STEM and the human sciences? In-Reply-To: <20131019055037.1E9D25EB8@digitalhumanities.org> I think it's a good article, but I also think the issue has been oversimplified by being defined in terms of STEM vs. the humanities. To me, the real division is between applied vs. theoretical studies, and this division obtains within and across individual fields. There is a great affinity within the humanities for theoretical physics and other sciences (just think about all of the humanities ink spilled by quantum physics and chaos theory), and it's not hard to find philosophers who also have degrees in advanced math. As a side note, I prefer to shut up about quantum physics and chaos theory until I understand the math, and I wish many of my colleagues would do the same, but not all of them. Now if we redraw the dividing lines between theoretical and applied studies (a line with some gray area on either side, yes, but there is a lot of work solidly in one area or the other), that leads us to a different question about computing: what kind of a line exits between theoretical and applied computing? Is there one in any meaningful sense of the word? I could see discussion of A.I. becoming increasing theoretical and predicated on processors that do not yet exist, but what else? Jim R On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 1:50 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > A very thoughtful article on the relations between the human sciences > (i.e. the humanities and interpretative social sciences) and the STEM > disciplines (sciences, technology, engineering, medicine) has appeared > in the Chronicle of Higher Education for 14 October: David A. Hollinger, > "The Wedge Driving Academe's Two Families Apart", > > http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Cant-the-Sciencesthe/142239/?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 7488176B5; Sun, 20 Oct 2013 09:55:33 +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 4DD7976AF; Sun, 20 Oct 2013 09:55:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5A38F76AB; Sun, 20 Oct 2013 09:55:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131020075522.5A38F76AB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 09:55:22 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.449 fellowships for emergence & 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. 27, No. 449. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 10:28:07 +0000 From: "EDDY M.D." Subject: Durham: Emergence and Science Fellowships Call for Research Proposals Durham Emergence Project: Call for Proposals Fellowship Announcement The Durham Emergence Project is pleased to announce its fellowship programme, supported by a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation. Proposals are invited from either research teams or single researchers for scientific and philosophical research into the conceptual foundations and empirical possibility of strong emergence. Interdisciplinary proposals involving researchers from both philosophy and the sciences are particularly encouraged, as are proposals from early-career researchers. Background The Durham Emergence Project is an interdisciplinary research initiative involving collaboration between philosophers and physicists. Emergence, or dependent novelty, is of increasing interest to scientists and philosophers as a way of characterising relationships between complex entities and their parts, relationships between the sciences, and the place of the mind in the physical world. Weak emergence, which is uncontroversial, concerns knowledge of the world, or our description of it: unpredictability, or the applicability of new concepts. This project will focus on strong emergence, which involves novelty in the world itself: new properties or objects, laws or causal powers. Discussion of emergence is hampered by proliferating criteria for emergence, not all of which are readily interpretable in scientific terms. It is also hampered by the differing presuppositions that underlie the entrenched positions of emergentists and their opponents. The aim of the project is to build on recent scientific and philosophical research, including mathematical methods in condensed matter physics, powers theories in the metaphysics of causation, and analyses of intertheory relations in the philosophy of science, to advance understanding of the possibility and plausibility of strong emergence. It will address the following research questions: 1. How should ‘strong emergence’ be understood? How is it related to the existence of downward causation? What is downward causation, and how is it related to the completeness of physics, or the causal closure of the physical (CCP)? How should CCP be formulated? Is it an a priori or an empirical claim? If CCP is (or involves) an empirical claim, what kind of evidence is there for it? What kind of evidence could there be for it? How should criteria for emergence be expressed in the mathematical language of physics? And how do such criteria relate to relations of emergence in the real world? 2. How do recent developments in the metaphysics of causation affect the formulation and plausibility of emergentist positions, and the formulation and plausibility of CCP? How do these developments bear on the possibility of downward causation, or mental causation? 3. How do these developments bear on the formulation of new emergentist positions in the philosophy of mind? Do these new positions address such longstanding issues as the problem of mental causation in new ways? 4. How do explanatory relationships between different scientific theories bear on claims for the existence (or non-existence) of strong emergence, the truth and falsity of CCP, and the possibility of mental causation? Specific examples to be considered should include cases from chemistry and condensed matter physics. 5. How do the various interpretations of quantum mechanics bear on the existence (or non-existence) of strong emergence, the truth and falsity of CCP, and the possibility of mental causation? 6. How do theoretical accounts of (i) symmetry-breaking; (ii) the emergence of structure in materials; and (iii) the behaviour of macromolecules bear on the existence (or non-existence) of strong emergence, the truth and falsity of CCP, and the possibility of mental causation? Proposals should make clear how they would address at least one of these groups of questions. A full description of the project is available here. A non-exhaustive list of suggested sub-projects is available here. Fellowship Description Applications are invited for up to £50,000, for research projects lasting up to a year. Up to ten awards will be made. Applications from interdisciplinary teams of scientists and philosophers are especially encouraged. Fellows need not spend all their funded research time at Durham University but would be welcome to do so, especially during July 2014 and 2015, when Durham University’s Institute of Advanced Study will host key project events. Fellows will be expected to attend the project’s final conference in July 2016, and contribute a paper to an edited collection addressing the project’s core research questions. How to Apply A two-stage international funding competition will be administered by Durham University, according to the following timetable: 15th November 2013: deadline for outline proposals. December 2013: invitations to submit full proposals. 31st March 2014: deadline for full proposals. June 2014: notification of funding decisions. 1st October 2014: earliest date for funded research to begin. 30th September 2015: latest date for funded research to conclude. Outline Proposals By 15th November 2013, applicants should submit, to the project leader Robin Hendry (r.f.hendry@durham.ac.uk), an outline of their proposed research not exceeding 1000 words, which should describe the research questions to be addressed, how they will be addressed, and an outline budget. This should be accompanied by a short curriculum vitae for each of the main participants in the research, covering their educational and employment history, and a list of relevant publications. Outline proposals will be reviewed by the project leader and other members of the steering group, which is listed on the project website. Full Proposals Full proposals will be accepted only by invitation. By 31st March 2014 applicants should submit, to the project leader Robin Hendry (r.f.hendry@durham.ac.uk), an expanded description of their proposed research, not exceeding 3000 words, which should describe the research questions to be addressed, how it is proposed to address them, and the planned outcomes of the research, including any publications. This should be accompanied by a full budget setting out the costs of the research and, and a narrative explaining why they are justified. Full Proposals will be reviewed by the project leader and other members of the steering group, which is listed on the project website, with the help of a panel of external expert referees. If a proposal involves content or methods for which these reviewers do not have adequate expertise, additional ad hoc reviews may be sought. Eligibility and Selection Criteria Applicants should have a PhD in a relevant subject and be affiliated to a recognised institution of higher education. They should have, or be able to demonstrate the potential for, a record of excellent academic research and publication in areas relevant to the Emergence Project. Applications will be judged according to the following criteria: * the rigour and currency of the proposed research, * the feasibility of the research, * its relevance to the aims of the Durham Emergence Project, * the career stage of the applicants and the expected effect that the fellowship would have on their career development, * the value for money it demonstrates in relation to the research outputs and outcomes. Conditions of Funding * PIs of funded projects must submit interim and final reports, as well as interim and final expenditure reports. The interim and final reports should not exceed 5 pages, and should detail the results of the funded project. Reports must be submitted after six months and at the conclusion of the project. * Funded projects must notify the Durham Emergence Project via email of all conference presentations, papers, books and additional funding that arise from the funded research. Dr Matthew D Eddy Durham University, Department of Philosophy, 50/51 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HN, United Kingdom. http://www.dur.ac.uk/m.d.eddy/ http://durham.academia.edu/MatthewEddy _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id EE8C776B3; Sun, 20 Oct 2013 09:56:44 +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 5FACE76A9; Sun, 20 Oct 2013 09:56:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0E23B76A6; Sun, 20 Oct 2013 09:56:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131020075633.0E23B76A6@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 09:56:31 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.450 events: Religions of the Book X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 450. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 08:08:00 +0000 From: Van Hulle Dirk Subject: SHARP conference September 2014, Antwerp Call for papers 22nd SHARP conference Antwerp, 17-21 September 2014 "Religions of the Book" The 22nd annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP) will be held in Antwerp (Belgium), Wednesday 17 September through Sunday 21 September 2014. The conference takes place primarily at the University of Antwerp, in the old centre of the city, but includes events at different venues 
of book historical interest as well as preconference workshops/tours and excursions. The central theme is ‘Religions of the Book’, but in conformity with tradition the conference also welcomes other book historical papers. Paper and panel proposals can be submitted at: http://dighum.ua.ac.be/ocs/index.php/sharp/sharp2014/schedConf/cfp For more details, see the conference website: www.sharp2014.be *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1382171821_2013-10-19_dirk.vanhulle@uantwerpen.be_745.2.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8EC3976AE; Sun, 20 Oct 2013 09:59:21 +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 438F576AD; Sun, 20 Oct 2013 09:59:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4807876A6; Sun, 20 Oct 2013 09:59:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131020075909.4807876A6@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 09:59:09 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.451 depths & heights X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 451. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 08:51:11 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the depths and the heights The latest London Review of Books, 35.20 for 24 October, spans the distance from Hell to Heaven. The former is detailed for UK higher education by Stefan Collini, in "Sold out", http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n20/stefan-collini/sold-out. Read this, if you do, when you are in an impenetrably cheerful frame of mind. Then weep. The latter is depicted by Colin Burrow in "Burning love", a review of Clive James' translation of the Divine Comedy -- this unfortunately not accessible for free. James' translation does not receive Burrow's complete approbation, but then as Burrow writes, none can. His description of Dante's poem is truly wonderful -- enough, I'd imagine, to motivate someone to devote his or her life to its study, others (like me) almost to break their pens and become an eremite. But there is one bit of the review that will please many of those here with geeky tendencies (again like me). Writing of Dante, Borrow says, > If he were alive today he might be a writer of metaphysical SF, with > a beard and high principles, who spends his evenings debugging > freeware for Linux. And then there's the bit we will recognize but may not feel so complimentary: > But the other great quality of Dante (distinguishing him from the > average freeware debugger) is his phenomenal social tact. Now in danger of typing out the entire review I had better quit and leave you to search out a copy of the LRB, once you finish weeping over the fate of UK higher education. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: 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,BAYES_00, LONGWORDS 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 1992876A7; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:26:09 +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 EBBE4767C; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:25:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 36299767C; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:25:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131021082558.36299767C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:25:58 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.452 events: models of 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 452. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 03:26:28 +0000 From: S B Cooper Subject: TAMC2014 in Chennai, India, April 11-13, 2014 [Most items in the following list of topics for Theory and Applications of Models of Computation are too highly specialized and technical to be within range of a majority of us, I suspect. But I find it worthwhile to look through lists such as this to note points of contact between current theoretical interests in computer science and other fields. I note, for example work on automata, biology, gaming, cryptography, economics, learning, aesthetics, processes in nature, systems theory. I find the turns to biology, aesthetics and nature the most interesting -- because they seem at first the most adventurous. In principle computation is indefinitely extensible. But, I wonder, what happens to your view of the world when you view it through the lens of computing? Does it extend, select or distort your vision? --WM] CALL FOR PAPERS: 11th Annual Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation [TAMC 2014] 11- 13 April 2014 Vivekananda Auditorium, Anna University, Chennai, India http://www.annauniv.edu/tamc2014/ Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 15 November 2013, 11:59pm EST. Notification of Acceptance: 15 December 2013 Final Camera Ready Version Due: 15 January 2014 Proceedings: Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science ********************************************************************** Scope and Topics TAMC 2014 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, algorithms, models of computation and systems theory. Typical but not exclusive topics of interest include: algebraic computation algorithmic coding theory algorithmic number theory approximation algorithms automata theory circuit complexity combinatorial algorithms computability computational biology, and biological computing computational complexity [including circuits, communication, derandomization, PCPs, proof complexity, structural complexity] computational game theory computational logic computational geometry continuous and real computation cryptography data structures design and analysis of algorithms distributed algorithms domain models [Assets, Price of Abstraction, frameworks] fixed parameter tractability geometric algorithms graph algorithms information and communication complexity learning theory memory hierarchy tradeoffs model theory for computing [modal and temporal logics, specification, verification, synthesis or automated software construction, aesthetics, software behavior, transformation of models] natural computation nature inspired computing network algorithms networks in nature and society online algorithms optimization parallel algorithms philosophy of computing [emerging paradigms, morality, intentionality] privacy and security property testing proof complexity process models [for software construction, validating software under construction, supply - chain] quantum computing randomness, pseudo-randomness randomized algorithms space - time tradeoffs streaming algorithms systems theory [Concurrent, Timed, Hybrid and Secure systems] VLSI Models of Computation [Models for Hardware - Software Codesign] Paper Submission The format of the papers should confirm to the ACM Guidelines (option 2) available at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates For submitting your papers, please visit: http://senldogo0039.springer-sbm.com/ocs/home/TAMC2014 Steering Committee Manindra Agrawal (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India) Jin-Yi Cai (University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA) S. Barry Cooper (University of Leeds, Leeds, UK) John Hopcroft (Cornell University) Angsheng Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Zhiyong Liu (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Programme Committee Aaron D. Jaggard,U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), USA Bakhadyr Khoussainov, University of Auckland, New Zealand Carlo Alberto Furia, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Chaitanya K Baru, University of California, San Diego, USA Christel Baier, Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany Cristian S. Calude, University of Auckland, New Zealand Dimitris Fotakis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Dipti Deodhare, Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR),India Hongan Wang, State Key Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS), China Jacques Sakarovitch, Ecole nationale superieure des telecommunications, France & Chair: International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) TC-1-Foundations of Computer Science Jianxin Wang, Central South University (CSU), China Jose R. Correa, Universidad de Chile, Chile Kamal Lodaya, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, India Kazuhisa Makino, University of Tokyo, Japan R Nadarajan, PSG College of Technology, India Y Narahari, Indian Institute of Science, India Naijun Zhan, State Key Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS), China Navin Goyal, Microsoft Research, India Pan Peng, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China C Pandurangan, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Rajagopal Srinivasan,Tata Consultancy Services,India Rajeeva Karandikar, Chennai Mathematical Institute, India Richard Banach, University of Manchester, UK R K Shyamasundar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), India Somenath Biswas, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India Toshihiro Fujito,Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan Venkat Chakaravarthy, IBM Research, India Vincent Duffy, Purdue University, USA Wenhui Zhang, State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, China Xiaoming Sun, Institute of Computing Technology, China Academy of Sciences, China For any further Clarifications, please contact: Dr. T V Gopal Conference Chair - TAMC 2014 & Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering College of Engineering Anna University Chennai - 600 025, INDIA E-mail: gopal@annauniv.edu ; gayamadhgop@hotmail.com Ph : (Off) 22351723 Extn. 3340 ; (Res) 24454753 http://www.csi-india.org/web/software/home ********************************************************************** _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id ED70F76BE; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 10:02:46 +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 64E0776B1; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 10:02:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 244F176B3; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 10:02:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20131022080236.244F176B3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 10:02:36 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.453 models of computation 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. 27, No. 453. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Arianna Ciula (45) Subject: Re: 27.452 events: models of computation [2] From: Paul Fishwick (63) Subject: Re: 27.452 events: models of computation --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 13:29:47 +0100 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: Re: 27.452 events: models of computation In-Reply-To: <20131021082558.36299767C@digitalhumanities.org> Possibly not a very productive reply, but I think the lens of computing, like any other lens, would constrain your vision and therefore make it possible that you see anything at all, or, as Olsson ("A Critique of Cartographic Reason") would put it: would allow you to make the invisible, visible. It's optical projection as David Hockney reveals it (deconstructing its mechanics) to us in "Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the lost techniques of the Old Masters". So, I guess, the real question is, is what way would the lens of computing be different from other lenses if at all? Arianna On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 452. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 03:26:28 +0000 > From: S B Cooper > Subject: TAMC2014 in Chennai, India, April 11-13, 2014 > > > [Most items in the following list of topics for Theory and Applications of > Models of Computation are too highly specialized and technical to be > within range of a majority of us, I suspect. But I find it worthwhile to > look > through lists such as this to note points of contact between current > theoretical interests in computer science and other fields. I note, for > example work on automata, biology, gaming, cryptography, economics, > learning, aesthetics, processes in nature, systems theory. I find the > turns to biology, aesthetics and nature the most interesting -- because > they seem at first the most adventurous. In principle computation is > indefinitely extensible. But, I wonder, what happens to your view of > the world when you view it through the lens of computing? Does > it extend, select or distort your vision? --WM] > > > CALL FOR PAPERS: > 11th Annual Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation > [TAMC 2014] > 11- 13 April 2014 > Vivekananda Auditorium, Anna University, Chennai, India > http://www.annauniv.edu/tamc2014/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:30:10 -0500 From: Paul Fishwick Subject: Re: 27.452 events: models of computation In-Reply-To: <20131021082558.36299767C@digitalhumanities.org> Willard: Regarding the topic list, perhaps I am on a quest for the impossible, but some of these topics can be expressed in a way that is not only palatable to non-CS but is also deeply engaging. I also realize that having said that, I shall now be required to cough up the evidence. I'm working on writing that now, while using different strategies. One strategy is to consider objects that have deep cultural and historical significance, while simultaneously exploring mathematical and computing aspects of the same objects. Recently, I have been exploring physical automata from the past as one representative class; however, objects of art can also serve as launching pads. For an informal automata-related discussion, see my blog on the subject: http://creative-automata.com/ . The mathematics, and indeed "programming," of these artifacts is fascinating. I am working now on curating a "model exhibit" around a sculpture from the Nasher: http://www.nashersculpturecenter.org/ -p Paul Fishwick, PhD Chair, ACM SIGSIM Distinguished Chair of Arts & Technology and Professor of Computer Science Director, Creative Automata Laboratory The University of Texas at Dallas Arts & Technology 800 West Campbell Road, AT10 Richardson, TX 75080-3021 Home: utdallas.edu/atec/fishwick Blog: creative-automata.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7B39976C0; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 10:03:08 +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 208E776C1; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 10:03:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DC4D776B9; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 10:02:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131022080258.DC4D776B9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 10:02:58 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.454 between STEM and the human sciences X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 454. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 16:26:35 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.444 between STEM and the human sciences? In-Reply-To: <20131019055037.1E9D25EB8@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 1:50 AM, Humanist Discussion Group you wrote: > Can we not begin to address the problem Hollinger identifies by > overcoming our own estrangement from the techno-scientific inheritance > to which we owe so much, including the machine that is at the foundation > of our discipline? Once that happens I think we can be quite creative in > our mediating. I agree that to the extent we are estranged, it militates against our being able to mediate, and that overcoming that estrangement is necessary for a creative response. Yet I am also doubtful that any single one of us coming to terms with "styles of scientific reasoning" (so vast a project could take years) is going to be up to the need, or even that if many of us do so (as we may indeed be doing, assuming we have ever felt such estrangement much at all) that our efforts on behalf of our peers should be successful, all by themselves. It's a bigger problem than that. Fundamentally, I think the struggle for respect here only masks the real struggle, which is one over resources and support. There is a scarcity of resources, to be sure, even though (it seems to me) it is an entirely artificial scarcity, created by interests that would rather see public and even private money otherwise allocated (for whatever reason and to whatever ends) than to support either sciences or the humanities. In turn, the roots of the artificial scarcity are in the exploitation by a few (motivated by profits or ideology) of widespread fear and resistance to changes that are well underway and not always welcome: and these are cultural and demographic changes as well as political, technological and social. In other words, we are suffering only from "an attitude problem" (as my high school band director used to say), but its roots are deep. The society is doomed that does not know that any education, for the few and for the many and in however many forms it can be made available (the more esoteric the better), is always the best possible investment in the future, regardless of supposed relevance or utility. We are now way past the point when a person could reasonably expect to live and die in a settled world, surviving in much the way their ancestors did. Nurturing global civilization requires deep and sensitive knowledge of languages, cultures and their histories as well as quantitative reasoning skills. The more peculiar the knowledge we bring to each other the better off we are: say an Ivy-League-educated major in Post-colonial Studies gets a job with an Internet tech firm doing market research, and finds herself sitting next to a statistician who went to a community college. Who stands to profit? Everyone. Education demands diversity, welcomes questioning and embraces with enthusiasm the fact that the world is already way too big for any of us as individuals to begin to comprehend. Since as individuals we all need to know much more than as individuals we will ever know, we also need to know how to communicate across boundaries, with other "styles of reasoning" whatever they may be. In other words, to the extent there are two sides here, I don't think they can get together until they decide they should be working together for the same outcome: a society that includes (along with the tech entrepreneurs) cancer researchers, and professional dancers, and mechanics who help us develop and maintain all these technologies (while earning enough livelihood to be able to support the dancers). With not a few college professors mixed in. If a Professor of Chemistry doesn't stand up for a Professor of English, who will? That there are high-concept debates over ways of knowing, styles of reasoning or the nature of evidence is good: as long as people have time to philosophize, I guess they think their jobs are safe enough. At least, until it becomes a matter of hanging separately because we didn't hang together. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Richard Lewis (79) Subject: AHRC Studentship in Music and Social Media [2] From: Alexandra Franklin (25) Subject: Byrne-Bussey Marconi Fellowship [3] From: Lev Manovich (19) Subject: 2014-2015 Distinguished Fellowships in Digital Humanities at the Graduate Center, City University of New York --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 12:23:35 +0100 From: Richard Lewis Subject: AHRC Studentship in Music and Social Media STUDENTSHIP ADVERTISEMENT With apologies for cross-posting. Please circulate. AHRC Doctoral Studentship in Music and Social Media --------------------------------------------------- We invite applications for a Doctoral Studentship, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, in Computational Musicology, located at Goldsmiths, University of London, under the supervision of Dr Christophe Rhodes. The deadline for applications to be received is *Friday 22 November 2013*; interviews will take place in the week beginning *2 December 2013*. The studentship forms part of the AHRC Digital Transformations project Transforming Musicology: http://www.transforming-musicology.org/ Full details of the studentship are available here: http://www.transforming-musicology.org/news/2013-10-18_ahrc-doctoral-studentship-in-music-and-social-media/ The Studentship --------------- The specific aims of the studentship are: to research and develop ways of understanding the creation, distribution and consumption of music on the modern Internet, in particular the current and potential use of Social Media by practitioners and scholars; and to develop tools which can assist musicians and academics in their understanding of the interaction between music and social networks. The studentship will be located in a very rich research environment, first within the Transforming Musicology project, but also within the highly interdisciplinary Department of Computing at Goldsmiths, and the successful candidate will be encouraged to interact with other researchers in both of these contexts. The studentship will require strong computational and technical skills and substantial sensitivity to music and musicology alongside patterns of social behaviour; as such, we would expect applicants to be trained in at least one of computer science (or a related technical discipline), sociology or music, and to be able to demonstrate their understanding of the other disciplines. Applicants formally qualified in more than one of these areas will be particularly welcome. The successful applicant may be required to undertake relevant undergraduate and postgraduate interdisciplinary courses as part of the programme of study. This three-year studentship, funded by the AHRC as part of the "Transforming Musicology" project, is for fees plus a tax-free stipend starting at £15,726 per annum. Further details of the AHRC scheme including terms and conditions can be found here: http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/Funding-Opportunities/Postgraduate-funding/Pages/Current-award-holders.aspx Applicants must satisfy UK residence requirements as defined here: http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/Funding-Opportunities/Documents/Guide%20to%20Student%20Eligibility.pdf Candidates must have a first class or 2.i undergraduate degree or equivalent, either with a significant component of music or sociology, in which case evidence of well-developed practical expertise in computing, including programming, will be required; or in computer science or a related technical subject, in which case evidence of music practice or understanding of sociology will be required. Candidates with relevant postgraduate qualifications will be particularly welcome. Other relevant qualifications and/or areas of expertise include (but are not limited to): human-computer interaction, data science, signal processing, software engineering, information retrieval, visualisation. Application ----------- Informal enquiries can be made by email to Dr Christophe Rhodes (c.rhodes@gold.ac.uk). Please note that Dr Rhodes is unable to advise, prior to interview, whether an applicant is likely to be selected. To apply please follow the on-line process: http://www.gold.ac.uk/pg/mphil-phd-computer-science/ Please note that for this studentship, instead of the 'Research Proposal' we request a 'Statement of Research Interests'. Your Statement of Research Interest should answer two questions: (i) Why are you interested in this research topic? (ii) What is your experience in the areas of computing, music and social media? Your statement should be brief: no more than 500 words or one side of A4 paper. In addition we would also like you to send a sample of your written work, such as your final year dissertation. The deadline for applications to be received is *Friday 22 November 2013*; interviews will take place in the week beginning *2 December 2013*. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis Computing, Goldsmiths' College @: lewisrichard http://www.transforming-musicology.org/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 09:56:40 +0000 From: Alexandra Franklin Subject: Byrne-Bussey Marconi Fellowship Bodleian Libraries Visiting Fellowships The Bodleian Libraries invite applications for Visiting Fellowships in 2014. Fellowships of between one and four months are available to scholars whose research requires use of the Bodleian Libraries Special Collections. The Special Collections of the Bodleian Libraries are an outstanding resource for scholarly study and discovery, containing rare printed books, classical papyri, medieval and renaissance manuscripts, literary, political and historical papers, archives, printed ephemera, and maps and music in both manuscript and printed form. The collections contain material from western and non-western cultures, of all dates and periods from antiquity onwards. The collections support a vibrant programme of public exhibitions as well as research and learning by students and scholars. Visiting Fellows are expected to be resident in Oxford during the term of the Fellowship. Applicants should carefully consult the descriptions provided on the Fellowships webpage here http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships , which define any special topics or other criteria for application. In every case, the selection committees will consider the potential of the planned research to increase knowledge and understanding of the Bodleian Libraries' Special Collections or the development of innovative research methods for the study of these materials. Research Fellowships & topic-specific Fellowships Application Deadline: 17 January 2014 Period of residence: between one and four months, during year beginning September, 2014 (see descriptions of named Fellowships for details) Collaborative Fellowships Application Deadlines: 16 December 2013 (RSA-Bodleian) [apply directly to RSA] 17 January 2014 (BSECS-Bodleian and The Dunscombe Colt Fellowship) Period of residence: one month, during calendar year 2014 Potential applicants are encouraged to contact the Fellowships Programme for more information on any of the general terms or for particulars of individual Fellowships: e-mail : Alexandra Franklin bookcentre@bodleian.ox.ac.uk 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.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/ http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/csb/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 14:59:56 +0000 From: Lev Manovich Subject: 2014-2015 Distinguished Fellowships in Digital Humanities at the Graduate Center, City University of New York Dear colleagues, I want to bring to your attention Distinguished Fellowship at The Graduate Center CUNY in 2014-2015. One of the themes will be Digital Humanities. 3 fellowships for people from outside CUNY will be available. They are designed for associate level faculty, but junior and more senior people are also welcome to apply. We hope that you and your colleagues may be interested in this opportunity. Note that deadline for application is Nov 6. best, Lev Manovich ------------------------------------------------------------ Distinguished Fellowships Advanced Research Collaborative, the Graduate Center, City University of New York ------------------------------------------------------------ The Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC) of the Graduate Center, City University of New York, invites applicants for Distinguished Fellowships in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theoretical Sciences for the 2014 – 2015 academic year. Applicants should have outstanding records of published research and scholarship. For the academic year 2014-2015, preference will be given to scholars working in the areas of Immigration, Inequality and the Digital Humanities but applicants working in the areas listed on our website are also welcome to apply. Distinguished Fellows are provided with office space, a computer, and access to the Graduate Center’s academic infrastructure. Depending on their category of membership (see below), they will also receive either a stipend or teaching release. In return, they are expected to carry out their work regularly at the Graduate Center, which is located in Midtown at 365 Fifth Avenue, and to participate in the intellectual and academic community of ARC and the Graduate Center. In practice, this means using their office on a regular basis, attending ARC events, giving presentations to a seminar and/or a public audience, sharing work-in-progress with doctoral students and mentoring them in a research praxis seminar and individual sessions organized for this purpose. Distinguished Fellowships fall into three categories: * Distinguished Visiting Fellows: for scholars and researchers who are not employed by the City University of New York. A Distinguished Visiting Fellow will receive a stipend of $72,000 for two semesters or $36,000 for one semester. * Distinguished CUNY Fellows: for tenured faculty at one of the campuses of the City University of New York. A Distinguished CUNY Fellow will receive three course releases per semester for a maximum of two semesters. * Distinguished GC Fellows: for tenured faculty of the Graduate Center. A Distinguished Graduate Center Fellow will receive one course release per semester for a maximum of two semesters. The deadline for applications is Wednesday, November 6, 2013. Notification of acceptance will be sent by January 31, 2014. For more information please visit the website at: http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Degrees-Research/The-Advanced-Research-Collaborative/ARC-Applications You may also contact Don Robotham or Alida Rojas at arc@gc.cuny.edu (mailto:arc@gc.cuny.edu) or (212) 817-7544 (tel:%28212%29%20817-7544) . _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: 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,BAYES_00, FR_ALMOST_VIAG2,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 87D0A76CC; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 10:11:29 +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 EFA3F76BC; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 10:11:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3AF4B76BA; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 10:11:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131022081119.3AF4B76BA@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 10:11:19 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.456 events: 6 various, worthy & interesting X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 456. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Greta Franzini (25) Subject: Leipzig eHumanities Seminar Series 2013 [2] From: Dot Porter (93) Subject: Global Digital Library Symposium @ UVA, Oct. 31-Nov. 1 [3] From: Marco_BÜCHLER (106) Subject: DATeCH 2014 Call for papers [4] From: Scott Kushner (44) Subject: CfP: Little Data and the Big Picture (ACLA 2014, NYU, 20-23 March) [5] From: Lev Manovich (33) Subject: The Aggregate Eye: 13 cities / 312,694 people / 2,353,017 photos [6] From: Fabio Ciotti (30) Subject: 2nd AIUCD Annual Conference 2013 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 15:16:26 +0200 From: Greta Franzini Subject: Leipzig eHumanities Seminar Series 2013 Dear all, The Leipzig eHumanities Seminar Board invites you to attend Eric Champion's talk /Interacting with History using Virtual Environments/. In:*Leipzig University, Room S017 (ground floor, Seminargebäude) On: Wednesday 23rd October 2013 At: *3:15 PM to 4:45 PM* Attendance at the seminar is free of charge. *ALL WELCOME* For further information, please visit http://www.e-humanities.net/events/2013-ehum-seminar-call.html http://www.e-humanities.net All best, Greta Franzini -- Greta Franzini Research Associate Digital Humanities Department of Computer Science University of Leipzig Augustusplatz 10-11 04109 Leipzig, Germany Phone: +49 341 97 32330 Email: franzini@informatik.uni-leipzig.de Web: www.dh.uni-leipzig.de --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 14:32:39 -0400 From: Dot Porter Subject: Global Digital Library Symposium @ UVA, Oct. 31-Nov. 1 Global Digital Libraries http://www.rarebookschool.org/globaldigitallibraries/ A symposium sponsored by Rare Book School, the Scholars' Lab, and the Buckner W. Clay Endowment for the Humanities at the Institute of the Humanities & Global Culture University libraries and humanities centers are shifting many resources toward the development of digital libraries and archives, intended to foster scholarly research in networks that span both national and financial borders. Large-scale projects along these lines, such as Europeana and the Digital Public Library of America, have developed out of academic discussions and endeavors initiated by professors and librarians. At the same time, large-scale, international, collaborative initiatives present new organizational challenges for humanities departments and research libraries alike. This symposium will explore and critique the kinds of models that have emerged for building global digital libraries, and the kinds of comparative research that have been made possible through them. The symposium is intended for digital humanists from departments throughout the UVA community and beyond, and is designed to contribute to UVA's strategic planning and development of ongoing and emerging global projects to digitize and interpret collections. The symposium will also foster collaborative relationships among UVA and other research centers that are helping to form global digital libraries. Events Wednesday, 30 October 10:00–11:00 am | Public lecture by Dot Porter. Scholars' Lab, 421 Alderman Library. Thursday, 31 October 12:00–1:30 pm | Luncheon and round-table discussion moderated by Will Noel and Michael F. Suarez, S.J. Limited to 24 participants. Rare Book School, 112 Alderman Library. 5:30 pm | Public lecture by Will Noel: "Global Digital Libraries: Some Principles and an Idea." This lecture will question the notion of digital surrogacy, discuss best practices for the presentation of digital information on books, and look at exploiting digital technologies to further the study of book archaeology. Auditorium of the Harrison Institute and Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. Reception to follow at Rare Book School, 112 Alderman Library. Friday, 1 November 2:00–4:00 pm | Workshop led by Will Noel and Dot Porter: "Disbinding All the Books in the World." Using the combined skill sets of Rare Book School, The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, and the Scholars Lab, this workshop will sketch out what needs to be done to enable the virtual disbinding of all digitized books openly available in standard formats. The takeaway will be a blueprint for building such a tool. Limited to 24 participants. Rare Book School, 112 Alderman Library. Registration To register for the luncheon and/or symposium workshop, please fill out the registration form. Registration for the luncheon and workshop is limited, so don't delay: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/T6CCKZ2 Symposium Presenters Will Noel is Director of the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, and Director of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, before which he worked at The Walters Art Museum as Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books. Among his books are The Harley Psalter (1995), The Oxford Bible Pictures (2005), and The Archimedes Codex (2007). An advocate for open manuscript data, during his tenure the Walters began to release full digital surrogates of its illuminated medieval manuscripts under a creative commons license. Will was a 2012 TED speaker, and in 2013 was honored as a White House Open Science Champion for Change. He has been a member of the Rare Book School faculty since 2005. Dot Porter is the Curator of Digital Research Services in the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, Kislak Center for Special Collections, University of Pennsylvania. Dot holds Masters degrees in medieval studies and library science, and started her career working on image-based digital editions of medieval manuscripts. She has worked on a variety of projects, focusing on materials as diverse as ancient texts and Russian religious folklore, providing both technical support and scholarly expertise. Her research focuses on medievalists' use of digital resources. At Penn, she both provides general digital humanities support for faculty and graduate students, and plays with digitized medieval manuscripts. Michael F. Suarez, S.J. is the Director of Rare Book School, and a University Professor with a separate appointment as Professor in UVA's English department. In addition, he serves as Honorary Curator of UVA's Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections department. Suarez's most recent publication is The Book: A Global History (forthcoming from Oxford University Press, 2013). He is co-Editor (with H. R. Woudhuysen) of The Oxford Companion to the Book (Oxford University Press, 2010), and co-General Editor of The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins Internationally known for his work on both printed and digital materials, he is Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Scholarly Editions Online, a major digital undertaking (2010–2020) of Oxford University Press. -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter@gmail.com Personal blog: dotporterdigital.org Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance: http://www.mesa-medieval.org MESA blog: http://mesamedieval.wordpress.com/ MESA on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MedievalElectronicScholarlyAlliance *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 22:15:56 +0200 From: Marco_BÜCHLER Subject: DATeCH 2014 Call for papers Call for papers: DATeCH international conference Madrid 19-20 May, 2014 The DATeCH international conference brings together researchers and practitioners looking for innovative approaches for the creation, transformation and exploitation of historical documents in digital form. Important dates * 7 January 2014 - Paper submission deadline * 28 February 2014 - Decision notification * 31 March 2014 - Camera-ready papers due * 19-20 May 2014 - Conference Target audience The workshop aims to foster interdisciplinary work and linking together participants engaged in the following areas: * Text digitization and OCR. * Digital humanities. * Image and document analysis. * Digital libraries and library science. * Applied computational linguistics. * Crowdsourcing. * Interfaces and human-computer interaction. Topics Topics of interest are all those related to the practical and scientific goals listed above, such as: * OCR technology and tools for minority and historical languages. * Methods and tools for post-correction of OCR results. * Automated quality control for mass OCR data. * Innovative access methods for historical texts and corpora. * Natural language processing of ancient languages (Latin, Greek). * Visualization techniques and interfaces for search and research in digital humanities. * Publication and retrieval on e-books and mobile devices. * Crowdsourcing techniques for collecting and annotating data in digital humanities. * Enrichment of and metadata production for historical texts and corpora. * Data created with mobile devices. * Data presentation and exploration on mobile devices. * Ontological and linked data based contextualization of digitized and born digital scholarly data resources. Venue The conference will take place in the Biblioteca Nacional de España (Madrid), in the framework of the Digitisation Days http://www.succeed-project.eu/digitisation-days (19-20 May, 2014) organised by the Succeed Support Action. Programme committee The programme committee is chaired by Apostolos Antonacopoulos (Salford University) and Klaus U. Schulz (Ludwig-Maximilians UniversitÀt) and integrated by: * Aly Conteh, The British Library * Basilis Gatos, Demokritos National Center for Scientific Research * Bruce Robertson, Mount Allison University * Christoph Ringlstetter, Ludwig-Maximilians UniversitÀt * Christopher Blackwell, Furman University * Claudine Moulin, UniversitÀt Trier * David Doermann, University of Maryland * Enrique Vidal, Universitat PolitÚcnica de ValÚncia * François Bry, Ludwig-Maximilians UniversitÀt * Gregory Crane, UniversitÀt Leipzig * GÃŒnter MÃŒhlberger, UniversitÀt Innsbruck * Joan Andreu Sánchez, Universitat PolitÚcnica de ValÚncia * Laura Mandell, Texas A&M University * Lou Burnard, TEI Board * Malte Rehbein, UniversitÀt Passau * Marco BÃŒchler, Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities * Martin MÃŒller, Northwestern University * Neel Smith, College of Holy Cross * Rose Holley, National Archives of Australia * Simone Marinai, Università degli Studi di Firenze * Stefan Gradmann, Humboldt-UniversitÀt zu Berlin * Stoyan Mihov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences * Thierry Paquet, Université de Rouen * Tomaz Erjavec, Institut Jožef Stefan Submission The following criteria will be applied to all communications submitted to DATeCH 2014 (http://datech2014.info/submissions http://datech2014.org/submissions ): * Only original material will be accepted. * All communications will be peer reviewed and published in the proceedings of the conference. * The authors of the best contributions will be invited to prepare an extended version for a collective publication of selected papers in an indexed journal (an additional reviewing process will be applied). Contact For additional information, please visit www.datech2014.info http://www.datech2014.info or send an email to datech@digitisation.eu DATeCH 2014 is supported by: http://www.succeed-project.eu http://www.digitisation.eu -- Marco BÜCHLER Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (GCDH) Papendiek 16 37073 Göttingen (Heynehaus) eMail : mbuechler@e-humanities.net Web : http://www.gcdh.de/ Profil : http://www.gcdh.de/en/people/team/marco-buechler/ Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/marco.buechler LinkedIn : http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=15098543&trk=tab_pro Twitter : https://twitter.com/mabuechler l-h --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 21:00:46 -0400 From: Scott Kushner Subject: CfP: Little Data and the Big Picture (ACLA 2014, NYU, 20-23 March) Dear Willard, The following call for papers (viewble at http://bit.ly/H79K6q) may be of interest to Humanist readers working in literary, media, and cultural studies. It promises to be an exciting occasion to think together about how the literary critical tradition can be brought bear upon everyday textual experiences of new media use. Would you be kind enough to forward it to the list? "Little Data and the Big Picture: What Everyday Literature Can Do for Comparison" a seminar to be held at the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association New York University 20-23 March 2014 The broad claims of Big Data hide the continued importance of the specific, individual, and random. This seminar examines the contributions that Comparative Literature has made and can make for understanding the stories that are written and read against the background of “digital humanities,” “new media,” and the “information society.” Prospective participants are invited to problematize these key terms and explore how textual cultures have evolved alongside, been shaped by, and resisted successive fantasies of a data-driven society. There has always been an everyday literature of letters, memos, telegrams, and notes. How are the forms of today’s everyday literature analogous repetitions of past forms and how do they represent something qualitatively different? How do we judge? In some fashion, the papers in this seminar will explore ways that the specific, the particular, the analog, and the banal persist in the face of the general, the aggregate, the digital, and the grand arc. Possible topics include (but are not limited to): Histories and counter-histories of the information society; everyday digital textuality; computer and human languages; networked social media; Tweet poetics; posting addiction; life writing; comparative media and textual cultures; reception; censorship; quantitative historiography; textual geographies; platforms (computer and otherwise); analog/digital tensions; political action; lacunae; interface; objects (virtual and/or tangible); participation and/or non-participation; material and immaterial conditions of reading and writing. Submit a paper proposal at http://www.acla.org/submit (be sure to select "Little Data..." in the Seminar drop-down menu). Learn more about the meeting and its "distinctive structure" at http://www.acla.org/acla2014. Any questions about the seminar, inquiries about topic suitability, or nominations of possible participants may be directed to me at scott.kushner@gmail.com. Many thanks, Scott Kushner --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 19:59:18 +0000 From: Lev Manovich Subject: The Aggregate Eye: 13 cities / 312,694 people / 2,353,017 photos Nadav Hochman, Lev Manovich, Jay Chow The Aggregate Eye: 13 cities / 312,694 people / 2,353,017 photos Amelie A. Wallace Gallery October 29 – December 5, 2013 Opening reception: October 29, 4 - 7pm Lecture by Lev Manovich: "From Atget to Instagram: Representing the City" Followed by panel discussion with Lev Manovich, Nadav Hochman, Alise Tifentale, and Hyewon Yi October 29, 7 - 8pm Curated by Hyewon Yi and Alise Tifentale Maps, photographs, and cinema are the principal technologies that individuals, small groups, and businesses traditionally have used to represent cities. Today, urban representations can be created by hundreds of millions of ordinary people who capture and share photos on social networks. If we were to aggregate these masses of photos, how would our cities look? How unique are the photos captured by each of us? Are there dominant themes regardless of location? The Aggregate Eye, a project created by Lev Manovich, Nadav Hochman, and Jay Chow investigates these questions. The collaborators downloaded and analyzed 2,353,017 Instagram photos shared by 312,694 people in thirteen cities over a three-month period. The large prints and video included in the exhibition combine these photos to reveal unique patterns. One set of images compares New York, Tokyo, and Bangkok using 150,00 Instagram photos. Another image, created by 53,498 photos taken in Tokyo over several days, depicts a gradual progression from day to night activities. A visualization of 23,581 photos shared in Brooklyn during Hurricane Sandy captures the dramatic narrative of that day. This exhibition is a part of the Phototrails project (http://phototrails.net) , initiated by Hochman, Manovich, and Chow to investigate patterns in social media user-generated photography and video. The Atlantic Cities, Der Spiegel, The Guardian, and Wired have reported on the project. All works included in the exhibition can be viewed online: http://phototrails.net/exhibition/. Artist and Panelist Biographies: Lev Manovich (http://www.manovich.net/) is world-renowned innovator in digital humanities and theorist of digital culture and media art. His global reputation in digital humanities stems from the tremendous impact of his 2001 book, The Language of New Media (The MIT Press, 2001), which has been translated into ten languages. His most recent book, Software Takes Command was published this summer (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013). He is Professor of Computer Science at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and Director of the Software Studies Initiative (softwarestudies.com). Manovich’s art projects have been presented at ICA, Centre Pompidou, The Walker Art Center, Chelsea Art Museum, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwangju Design Biennale, and Graphic Design Museum (Breda, NL). Nadav Hochman (http://nadavhochman.net/) is a doctoral student in the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh and a visiting scholar at the Software Studies Initiative at the Graduate Center, CUNY. His research focuses on the use of computational methods for analysis of massive online visual cultural data sets. He holds masters degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and the Interdisciplinary Program of the Arts at Tel Aviv University. Hochman was a visiting researcher at the Museum of Modern Art and is an Andrew Mellon Research Fellow (2013-2014). Jay Chow (http://jayjchow.com/) is a recent graduate of the University of California San Diego with a BFA in Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts. He is a researcher at the Software Studies Initiative at Calit2, where he develops tools for the analysis and visualization of large image and video collections for the humanities. Alise Tifentale (http://gc-cuny.academia.edu/AliseTifentale) , a doctoral student in Art History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, is an art historian, editor, writer, and curator whose interests include the history of photography as art and new media aesthetics. In 1996, Tifentale co-founded E-Lab (now called RIXC), the first new media arts activist group in Riga, Latvia. She co-curated the Latvian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennial (2013), and is the author of The Photograph as Art in Latvia, 1960-1969 (Riga: Neputns, 2011). Hyewon Yi (https://sites.google.com/site/hyewonyiprojects/) , Director of the Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, has been curating exhibitions at the Gallery regularly since 2006. Having served previously as an adjunct instructor, she joined the faculty of the Visual Arts Department at SUNY College at Old Westbury as a full-time lecturer in Fall 2013, where she teaches History of Photography, New Media Art, and Introduction to the Arts. Yi earned her PhD in Art History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York in May 2013. Amelie A. Wallace Gallery SUNY College at Old Westbury, Old Westbury, New York 11568 Directions: www.oldwestbury.edu/about/directions.cfm Hours: Monday - Thursday, 12 – 5pm, and by appointment Exhibition walkthroughs with gallery director Hyewon Yi: Monday, November 11, 1pm and Wednesday, December 4, 11am Gallery contact: Hyewon Yi Please visit our gallery Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Amelie-A-Wallace-Gallery-SUNY-College-at-Old-Westbury/117307764947) page or follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/#!/AmelieAWallace) This email was sent to willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk why did I get this? (http://softwarestudies.us2.list-manage.com/about?u=67ffe3671ec85d3bb8a9319ca&id=716db8d27c&e=8a08a35e11&c=659729f958) unsubscribe from this list (http://softwarestudies.us2.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=67ffe3671ec85d3bb8a9319ca&id=716db8d27c&e=8a08a35e11&c=659729f958) update subscription preferences (http://softwarestudies.us2.list-manage.com/profile?u=67ffe3671ec85d3bb8a9319ca&id=716db8d27c&e=8a08a35e11) Lev Manovich, Professor, Department of Computer Science · CUNY The Graduate Center · 365 Fifth Avenue · New York, NY 10016 · USA Email Marketing Powered by MailChimp http://www.mailchimp.com/monkey-rewards/?utm_source=freemium_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=monkey_rewards&aid=67ffe3671ec85d3bb8a9319ca&afl=1 --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 09:18:26 +0200 From: Fabio Ciotti Subject: 2nd AIUCD Annual Conference 2013 2nd AIUCD Annual Conference 2013 on Collaborative Research Practices and Shared Infrastructures for Humanities Computing 11-12 December 2013 Hosted by the Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione Università degli studi di Padova Via Gradenigo, 6/B — 35131 Padova Italy http://www.dei.unipd.it/wdyn/?IDsezione=4448 Call for papers The AIUCD (Associazione Italiana per l'Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale) invites submissions of abstracts (max 4 pages/2000 words) for its annual conference, on any aspect of the digital humanities. We particularly welcome submissions on interdisciplinary work and new developments in the field, and encourage proposals relating to the theme of the conference, or more specifically: Interdisciplinarity and multidisciplinarity Legal and economyc issues Tools and collaborative methodologies Measurement and impact of collaborative methodologies Sharing and collaboration methods and approaches Cultural institutions and collaborative facilities Infrastructures and digital libraries as collaborative environments Data, resources, and technologies sharing. The deadline for submitting papers to the Programme Committee is midnight CET (Central European Time), 15 November 2013. All submissions will be reviewed by the AIUCD Programme Committee and appointed external reviewers. Submissions have to be submitted using EasyChair and uploaded online at the following address: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiucd2013 Presenters will be notified of acceptance by 29 November 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1264F76D1; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 10:12:09 +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 3572676CA; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 10:12:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CD4CE76C5; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 10:11:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131022081157.CD4CE76C5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 10:11:57 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.457 pubs: theatre & science; culture after the avant-garde X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 457. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Litteraria Pragensia (69) Subject: THE ORGAN-GRINDER'S MONKEY: CULTURE AFTER THE AVANT-GARDE, by Louis Armand [2] From: Willard McCarty (43) Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 38.4 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 03:19:46 +0200 From: Litteraria Pragensia Subject: THE ORGAN-GRINDER'S MONKEY: CULTURE AFTER THE AVANT-GARDE, by Louis Armand *THE ORGAN GRINDER'S MONKEY: CULTURE AFTER THE AVANT-GARDE*, by Louis Armand. ISBN 978-80-7308-466-0 (paperback). 266pp. Also available in a Kindle edition [US http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FOPKM5E ] [UK http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00FOPKM5E ]. Theorising the “poetic turn” in cultural discourse from the 1950s to the present,*The Organ Grinder’s Monkey* examines the post-avant-garde condition mapped out in the work of an international roster of artists, writers, philosophers and film-makers, from Neo-Dada to the New Media, including Cy Twombly, Robert Rauschenberg, Samuel Beckett, Andy Warhol, Jean-Luc Godard, Charles Olson, Guy Debord, Marshall McLuhan, Michael Dransfield, Philippe Sollers, Dusan Makavejev, Rosalind Krauss, Alain Badiou, Marjorie Perloff, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Veronique Vassiliou, Pierre Joris, Karen Mac Cormack, Lukas Tomin, John Kinsella, Joshua Cohen, Vincent Farnsworth... http://litterariapragensia.wordpress.com/2013/10/05/the-organ-grinders-monkey/ “Armand is unafraid to ask the most basic questions, to go beyond the zone in which most cultural discussions operate in order to ask what underlies our capacity for thought, for imaging, for communication. Time and again he takes his reader to the edge of what is thinkable, subjecting familiar concepts to stringent analysis and casting an original light on old debates.”–Derek Attridge To request a *review copy*, write to info@litterariapragensia.com Orders: www.litterariapragensia.com *Other poetics titles from LPB http://www.litterariapragensia.com/ :* *CROSSROADS POETICS * by Michel Delville Bringing together readings of Virgil Thomson, Gertrude Stein, Max Jacob, Louis Feuillade, Rosmarie Waldrop, Frank Zappa, Bill Viola and Pierre Alechinsky, this book attempts to delineate the possibility of a truly transversal poetics, one which creates a space for a reconsideration of contemporary poetics while navigating the complex interactions between the theory and practice. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ERGOQ2G https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00ERGOQ2G *COMPLICITIES: British Poetry 1945-2007* eds. Sam Ladkin & Robin Purves, with Thomas Day, Keston Sutherland, Alizon Brunning, Robin Purves, J.H. Prynne, Bruce Stewart, D.S. Marriott, Stephen Thomson, Craig Dworkin, Sophie Read, Sara Crangle, Malcolm Phillips, Tom Jones, Josh Robinson, Sam Ladkin, Jennifer Cooke, Ian Patterson. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E2S0XWG https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00E2S0XWG *AVANT-POST: The Avant-Garde under "Post-" Conditions* ed. Louis Armand, with Johanna Drucker, Michael S. Begnal, Lisa Jarnot, Ann Vickery, Christian Bök, Robert Archambeau, Mairead Byrne, R.M. Berry, Trey Strecker, Keston Sutherland, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Robert Sheppard, Bonita Rhoads, Vadim Erent, Laurent Milesi, Esther Milne. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DSPGOHM https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00DSPGOHM *PIERRE JORIS: CARTOGRAPHIES OF THE IN-BETWEEN * ed. Peter Cockelbergh, with Louis Armand, Tony Baker, Franca Bellarsi, Mohammed Bennis, Charles Bernstein, Nicole Brossard, Geert Buelens, Clive Bush, Corina Ciocarlie, Peter Cockelbergh, Clayton Eshleman, Allen Fisher, Christine Hume, Robert Kelly, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Jennifer Moxley, Carrie Noland, Alice Notley, Marjorie Perloff, Nicole Peyrafitte, Jean Portante, Christopher Rizzo, Jerome Rothenberg, Dale Smith, Habib Tengour. *HIDDEN AGENDAS http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/hidden_agendas.html : Unreported Poetics* ed. Louis Armand, with Ali Alizadeh, Livio Beloi, Jeremy Davies, Stephan Delbos, Michel Delville, Johanna Drucker, Michael Farrel, Allen Fisher, D.J. Huppatz, Vincent Katz, Stephen Muecke, Jena Osman, Michael Rothenberg, Lou Rowan, Kyle Schlesinger, Robert Shepperd, Stephanie Strickland, John Wilkinson. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DSPQ2ZQ https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00DSPQ2ZQ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 08:47:10 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 38.4 Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 38.4 December 2013 Theatre and science 1. Editorial pp. 291-291(1) 2. Guest editorial Bartleet, Carina; Shepherd-Barr, Kirsten pp. 292-294(3) 3. Science in contemporary British theatre: a conceptual approach Campos, Liliane pp. 295-305(11) 4. Cardboard, Conjuring and A Very Curious Experiment Watt-Smith, Tiffany pp. 306-320(15) 5. Imagining Otherwise: Autism, Neuroaesthetics and Contemporary Performance Shaughnessy, Nicola pp. 321-334(14) 6. Revisiting the Puzzle Factory: Cultural Representations of Psychiatric Asylums Harpin, Anna pp. 335-350(16) 7. Performing Science (Not Ethics) in Analogues 2401 Objects Bartleet, Carina pp. 351-364(14) 8. The Acceptable Face of the Unintelligible: Intermediality and the Science Play Heuvel, Mike Vanden pp. 365-379(15) 9. Reviews pp. 380-384(5) -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1102676BA; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 09:58:07 +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 678E47688; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 09:57:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BF75B7680; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 09:57:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20131023075757.BF75B7680@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 09:57:57 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.458 models of computation 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. 27, No. 458. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 09:52:32 -0500 From: Paul Fishwick Subject: Re: 27.453 models of computation In-Reply-To: <20131022080236.244F176B3@digitalhumanities.org> Arianna has an excellent question, and I'd like to propose some answers to the question: > So, I guess, the real question is, is what way would the lens of computing > be different from other lenses if at all? First, forgive me for answering a slightly different question which is a bit broader. My justification for this is that what underlies computing is mathematical reasoning, which provides for an approach to see and use "patterns". Patterns and models occupy similar space. Revised Question: In what way would the lens of "modelling" be different from others lenses if at all? .............. Modelling provides for an abstract way of looking at the world. Through modelling, we therefore see patterns of similarity. In my work, I tend to focus on scale models, as well as models of information/data/knowledge, dynamics/behavior, and shape. Being able to model gives one a strong toolkit for finding patterns of relation, behavior, and shape among other characteristics. Computing as a discipline covers all of these models in different forms. Behind "code" one finds the system model of behavior (input, output, function, state, event). I find this way of thinking, this lens, to be more fundamental and relevant to non-CS than learning how to code in Python or Java. -p On Oct 22, 2013, at 3:02 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 453. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: Arianna Ciula (45) > Subject: Re: 27.452 events: models of computation > > [2] From: Paul Fishwick (63) > Subject: Re: 27.452 events: models of computation > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 13:29:47 +0100 > From: Arianna Ciula > Subject: Re: 27.452 events: models of computation > In-Reply-To: <20131021082558.36299767C@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Possibly not a very productive reply, but I think the lens of computing, > like any other lens, would constrain your vision and therefore make it > possible that you see anything at all, or, as Olsson ("A Critique of > Cartographic Reason") would put it: would allow you to make the invisible, > visible. It's optical projection as David Hockney reveals it > (deconstructing its mechanics) to us in "Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering > the lost techniques of the Old Masters". > > So, I guess, the real question is, is what way would the lens of computing > be different from other lenses if at all? > > Arianna Paul Fishwick, PhD Chair, ACM SIGSIM Distinguished Chair of Arts & Technology and Professor of Computer Science Director, Creative Automata Laboratory The University of Texas at Dallas Arts & Technology 800 West Campbell Road, AT10 Richardson, TX 75080-3021 Home: utdallas.edu/atec/fishwick Blog: creative-automata.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9D31676C9; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 09:58:58 +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 3E71976BB; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 09:58:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 88D2976B8; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 09:58:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131023075849.88D2976B8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 09:58:49 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.459 application of stats to 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. 27, No. 459. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 12:29:36 -0400 From: "Jim O'Donnell" Subject: statistical evaluation of humanistic scholarship The flurry of concern about peer review in the sciences impels me to ask if any gentle Humanist readers know of serious attempts to apply some of the standard statistical methods (meta analysis, significance analysis with or without null hypothesis) to work in the humanities. Jim O'Donnell Georgetown U. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DD72D76CC; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 10:00:42 +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 8E56A76BD; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 10:00:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2154576BA; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 10:00:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131023080033.2154576BA@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 10:00:32 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.460 DHSI scholarships X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 460. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 19:04:13 -0500 From: Lisa Spiro Subject: DHSI Offers Scholarships to ADHO Members As a way of giving back to the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), the Digital Humanities Summer Institute http://www.dhsi.org/ at the University of Victoria will be offering ten tuition scholarships in 2014 specifically to members of ADHO and its constituent organizations. These scholarships cover tuition costs with the exception of a small, non-refundable administration fee (students $150, non-students $300). In addition, the Association for Computers and the Humanities http://www.ach.org/ offers several bursaries to help defray travel and lodging costs for ACH graduate student members. Details of the tuition scholarships, bursaries, and the process, and a link to the application are at http://dhsi.org/scholarships.php. --Lisa Spiro, Ph.D. ADHO Communications Officer Blog: http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/ Twitter: @lisaspiro Phone: 832-341-0380 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0987576CF; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 10:03:12 +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 95F2B76BA; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 10:03:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7FA3876BA; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 10:03:02 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131023080302.7FA3876BA@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 10:03:02 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.461 events: edition as argument; Canadian DH; photography X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 461. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (41) Subject: Anthropology and Photography [2] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (20) Subject: CSDH/SCHN Call for Papers [3] From: Kevin Killeen (22) Subject: THE EDITION AS ARGUMENT, 1550-1750 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:35:10 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Anthropology and Photography Anthropology and Photography British Museum, Clore Centre, 29-31 May 2014 The Royal Anthropological Institute is pleased to announce that a conference 'Anthropology and Photography' will take place at the British Museum, Clore Centre, in conjunction with the museumÂ’s Anthropology Library and Research Centre. The aim of the Conference is to stimulate an international discussion on the place, role and future of photography. Panel proposals are therefore welcome from any branch of anthropology. Call for Panels and Papers We welcome contributions from researchers and practitioners working in museums, academia, media, the arts and anyone who is engaged with historical or contemporary production and use of images. Panels can draw upon (but are not limited to) the following themes: * The use of photography across anthropological disciplines * The changing place of photography in museums and exhibitions * Photography and globalisation * Photography, film and fine art * Revisiting and re-contextualising archival images * Photography and public engagement * Ethics, copyright, access and distribution of images * Technological innovation and its impact * Regional photography practices * Visual method and photo theory The call for panels opens on 1 August 2013 and closes on 31 October 2013 The call for papers opens on 27 November 2013 and closes on 8 January 2014 Conference Fee: Non-Fellow: £170 RAI Member: £150 RAI Fellow: £90 Concessions: £70 RAI Student Fellow: £50 Our mailing address is: Royal Anthropological Institute 50 Fitzroy Street, London, United Kingdom London, W1T 5BT United Kingdom -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:59:54 -0600 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: CSDH/SCHN Call for Papers [French version follows -- La version française ci-dessous] “Digital Humanities Without Borders” – 2014 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society For Digital Humanities / Société Canadienne Des Humanités Numériques The Canadian Society for Digital Humanities (http://csdh-schn.org/) invites scholars, practitioners, and graduate students to submit proposals for papers, sessions and demonstrations for its annual meeting, which will be held at the 2014 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Brock University, Ontario from the 26th to the 28th of May (http://brockucongress2014.ca/). The society would like in particular to encourage submissions relating to the central theme of the Congress – “Borders Without Boundaries.” While this year’s Congress theme fits with the interests of many in CSDH/SCHN (pronounced “citizen”), 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.), digital demonstrations, and panels (2 -6 speakers for a 1½ hour session) will be accepted until the 8th of December 2013 and must be submitted at https://www.conftool.net/csdh-schn-2014/. Abstracts for these should be between 200 and 400 words long, and should clearly indicate the paper’s thesis, methodology and conclusions. This year we welcome proposals for Digital Demonstrations of innovative projects or tools. Demonstrations will be given table space and a backdrop so they can set up a poster and a computer for a 2 hour session. We encourage projects with software to show to apply for this venue. CSDH/SCHN (pronounced "citizen") welcomes proposals for joint panels with The Canadian Game Studies Association (CGSA), and we encourage individual presenters to note if they are open to being scheduled on a joint panel. Submit your pre-constituted panel proposal or individual paper proposal to either association. You and your panelists need to be members of either association, but not necessarily both. Please see also the CFP for our joint session with ACCUTE on Difference, Diversity and the Digital at http://csdh-schn.org/2013/09/06/cfp14-accute/. 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/). Scholars in the digital humanities are engaged in diverse digital and computer-assisted research, teaching, and creation. CSDH/SCHN welcomes proposals from all constituencies and disciplines, and encourages applications from from women, people of color, LGBTQ, or other under-represented groups. 2014 Program committee: Geoffrey Rockwell (program chair), John Bonnett (local organizer), Jon Saklofske, Susan Brown, Stéfan Sinclair, and Michael E. Sinatra. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- «Humanités numériques sans frontières» — Réunion annuelle de 2014 de la Canadian Society For Digital Humanities / Société Canadienne Des Humanités Numériques La Société canadienne des humanités numériques (http://csdh-schn.org/) invite chercheurs et étudiants aux cycles supérieurs à soumettre des propositions de communication, de session et de démonstration pour sa réunion annuelle, qui se tiendra au Congrès 2014 de la Fédération canadienne des sciences humaines à l’Université Brock, Ontario du 26 au 28 mai (http://brockucongress2014.ca/). La Société souhaite encourager en particulier des propositions concernant le thème central de la réunion : «Frontières sans limites». Bien que le thème du congrès de cette année soit bien adapté aux intérêts de la CSDH/SCHN (prononcé citizen), nous encourageons également toute communication qui traite des sciences humaines numériques, tant au niveau théorique que pratique. Les propositions de communication (20 minutes), démonstrations numériques et de session ou table-ronde (2-6 participants pour une période d’une heure trente) seront acceptées jusqu’au 8 décembre 2013 et doivent être soumises à https://www.conftool.net/csdh-schn-2014/. Les résumés devraient compter entre 200 et 400 mots, et indiquer clairement la thématique, méthodologie, et conclusion. Cette année, les propositions pour démonstrations numériques de projets innovateurs or d’outils sont les bienvenus. Pour ces démonstrations, une table et une toile de fond seront fournis pour l’installation et la diffusion pour une session de 2 heures. Nous encourageons les projets avec démonstrations de logiciels à appliquer pour ce format. La CSDH/SCHN accepte les propositions pour des sessions conjointes avec The Canadian Games Studies Association (CGSA), et nous encourageons les présentateurs individuels à nous indiquer s’ils sont intéressés à être planifiés dans une session conjointe. Vous pouvez soumettre vos sessions préformées ou individuelles à l’association de votre choix. Vous et vos panelistes devez être enregistrés à l’une des deux associations, mais pas nécessairement aux deux. Veuillez aussi consulter l’appel à communications pour notre session conjointe avec ACCUTE sur la « Différence, diversité et le numérique » à l’adresse suivante : http://csdh-schn.org/2013/09/06/cfp14-accute/. 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 conférence. 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). Les chercheurs en humanités numériques travaillent sur diverses recherches, enseignements et créations numériques et assistés par ordinateur. La CSDH/SCHN accueille les propositions de tous les milieux et de toutes disciplines, et encourage les candidatures venant de femmes, minorités visibles, LGBTQ, ou autre groupe sous-représenté. Comité scientifique 2014: Geoffrey Rockwell (président du comité), John Bonnett (organisateur local), Jon Saklofske, Susan Brown, Stéfan Sinclair et Michael E. Sinatra. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 17:18:16 +0100 From: Kevin Killeen Subject: THE EDITION AS ARGUMENT, 1550-1750 THE EDITION AS ARGUMENT, 1550-1750 16-17 July 2014 Queen Mary, University of London Call for Papers Keynote Speakers: Professor Cathy Shrank (University of Sheffield) Professor Henry Woudhuysen (Oxford University) Confirmed speakers: Kate Bennett, Christopher Burlinson, Dan Carey, David Colclough, Alice Eardley, Nick McDowell, Leah Marcus, Valerie Rumbold; Richard Serjeantson, Gary Stringer From the philology of Lorenzo Valla to twentieth-century debates over copy-text to the new frontier of digital humanities, textual scholars have always argued over the making of meaning. Indeed, argument is integral to the practice of editing: to privilege one reading is to discard another. Bibliographical, historical, and textual choices: these ineluctably and often invisibly inform our larger understanding of the text, the author, and the culture from which they emerge. They can destabilise or confirm our most basic assumptions, from a single word – what is “blew”? – to the nature of the book: what is a text? what is an author? what is an edition? This landmark two-day conference will draw together experienced and new editors, to analyse and to celebrate editions in progress and to inspire a new generation of editors and editions. Hosted by the AHRC-funded Complete Works of Sir Thomas Browne (forthcoming, OUP), the event will explore the future of editing in universities and offer perspectives from curators and publishers. One direct print outcome will be a handbook on editing sixteenth and seventeenth-century documents. We invite proposals for 20-25 minute papers on these and other arguments. Topics might include, but are not limited to: establishing copy-text representing multiplicity: texts, states, revisions error and the problem of authorial intention non-author-centric editions composing editorial mise-en-page the role of annotation editorial theory the case for new editions and the future of editing digital humanities the impact of editing and textual scholarship Abstracts should be no more than 300 words long and should be sent to Harriet Phillips (h.phillips@qmul.ac.uk) and Claire Bryony Williams (c.b.williams@qmul.ac.uk) by 1st December 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1732A76CD; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 10:03:42 +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 6120976D2; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 10:03:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7E30276CD; Wed, 23 Oct 2013 10:03:28 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131023080328.7E30276CD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 10:03:28 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.462 book review: puppets in a wired 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. 27, No. 462. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 08:51:36 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: puppets in a wired world Many here, I expect will be interested in Sue Halpern's review in the New York Review of Books, "Are We Puppets in a Wired World?", of the following volumes: The Folly of Technological Solutionism by Evgeny Morozov Hacking the Future: Privacy, Identity and Anonymity on the Web by Cole Stryker From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: What You Really Need to Know About the Internet by John Naughton Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die by Eric Siegel Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age by Alice E. Marwick Privacy and Big Data: The Players, Regulators and Stakeholders by Terence Craig and Mary E. Ludloff See http://tinyurl.com/pdc58jz for the review. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A7B5B3A3B; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:31:07 +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 C2A49767F; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:30:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8C88B2F03; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:30:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131024073057.8C88B2F03@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:30:57 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.463 models of 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. 27, No. 463. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 23:12:43 +0100 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: Re: 27.458 models of computation In-Reply-To: <20131023075757.BF75B7680@digitalhumanities.org> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 458. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 09:52:32 -0500 > From: Paul Fishwick > Subject: Re: 27.453 models of computation > In-Reply-To: <20131022080236.244F176B3@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Arianna has an excellent question, and I'd like to propose some answers > to the question: > > So, I guess, the real question is, is what way would the lens of > computing be different from other lenses if at all? I think my question is - provocatively but also genuinely - unsettling (but thanks for the 'excellent'!). While being focused on defining and demonstrating the unicity of the lens of computing (in digital humanities this is part of the discourse for the raison d'être and survival of the discipline), it seems to me that we tend to overlook (or deliberately ignore?) the similarities with other imaginative practices of assembling 'toolkits' to find patterns in human production and the world at large. > First, forgive me for answering a slightly different question which is a > bit broader. My justification for this is that what underlies computing is > mathematical reasoning, which provides for an approach to see and > use "patterns". Patterns and models occupy similar space. > > Revised Question: In what way would the lens of "modelling" be different > from others lenses if at all? > .............. > Modelling provides for an abstract way of looking at the world. Through > modelling, we therefore see patterns of similarity. In my work, I tend to > focus on scale models, as well as models of information/data/knowledge, > dynamics/behavior, and shape. Being able to model gives one a > strong toolkit for finding patterns of relation, behavior, and shape among > other characteristics. Computing as a discipline covers all of these > models in different forms. Behind "code" one finds the system model of > behavior (input, output, function, state, event). I find this way of > thinking, this lens, to be more fundamental and relevant to non-CS than > learning how to code in Python or Java. Of course I was thinking of modelling too, the process rather than the results, the formalisation rather than the processing per se. I find interesting how your definition of modelling narrows down, but I find even more interesting how it anchors to 'broad' terms (abstract, mathematical reasoning, way of thinking). What isn't modelling? In the continuum from chaos to self-identity where is the lens of modelling in computing terms? Is digital humanities unique in its practice and research strategy? Other scholarship in the humanities and sciences has passed/passes via the experimental and the formal: in what way is the experimental and the formal done with computing different and similar? I don't really have an answer to all this, otherwise I wouldn't have asked the question, but I suspect that in digital humanities our challenge is to shift the lens up the scale, to embrace the experimental nature of modelling at the lower level of the scale (e.g. in computing coding) and see indeed how it scales up (how do we do critical scholarship with/via it?). I realise this might seem all very lofty and abstract, but it is not by chance that in my previous message I quoted some juicy references grounded on (but flying beyond) cartography and history of art: while text (t e x t) might elude the complexity of its own form, visual artefacts (works of art, maps) tend to be more opaque to abstraction. But they have been deconstructed. The techniques revealed with other techniques (sometimes specular; e.g. Hockney replicates Brunelleschi's panel, experiments with optical projections to test and falsify hypothesis about how paintings were constructed, finds the breaches that enrich his thesis and learns/teaches us new things, or rather to see old things in different ways). Can we do in digital humanities what scholars do/have done with other techniques? Is modelling in computing going to lift our way of seeing and therefore thinking to another level? I think your answer implies that it does. But what level of analysis can we reach? Is formal modelling 'only' didactically useful or does it provide us - first hand - with generative structures to make sense of ourselves? We know in the techno-sciences formalism (in mathematical formulas as well as embedded in telescopes hardware and software) is indeed a sine qua non to interpret the world out there. I confess the Busa lecture by Willard (on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTHa1rDR680 but better read than heard) must have affected my directions of thinking here quite a bit. I guess to be experimental in the way described above (e.g. doing a critique of digital art passing by the building of digital models) we would need to know more about how digital technologies are used by artists, writers, cultural industries and the like. And I guess to be consistent, we would have to study how modelling (intended here in strongly formalised terms - lower end of the scale, but also in yet less formalised terms - upper level of the scale) affects the whole spectrum of human production and thinking, including the techno-sciences. Of course many are doing scholarship via more or less formalised modelling. I miss the connections, the patterns. 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 97042769D; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:32:19 +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 237F43A3B; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:32:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 529E43A3B; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:32:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131024073209.529E43A3B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:32:09 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.464 system for online encyclopedia? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 464. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 14:17:27 +0200 From: Frédéric Clavert Subject: Encyclopedia Dear humanist members, I am currently thinking about how to develop an edition system for an on-line encyclopedia which is to be written in the next few years by the members of my research center. Are you aware of any similar projects? (a part from Europäische Geschichte Online and wikipedia) Best, Frédéric Clavert -- Docteur en histoire contemporaine http://www.clavert.net/ Ingénieur de recherche - LabEx EHNE > Hjalmar Schacht, financier et diplomate > Les banquiers centraux dans la construction européenne > L'histoire contemporaine à l'ère numérique _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B9A3E76B8; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:34:43 +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 CD09A7695; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:34:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 834C4601B; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:34:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131024073433.834C4601B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:34:33 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.465 events: visualising complex data; Islamic & Middle East 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. 27, No. 465. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Tom Brughmans" (33) Subject: Hestia2 in Stanford: complex data visualisation in the humanities [2] From: Evyn Kropf (33) Subject: Fwd: [Adabiyat] Webcast: Conference on the Digital Humanities + Islamic & Middle East Studies --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 11:30:33 +0100 From: "Tom Brughmans" Subject: Hestia2 in Stanford: complex data visualisation in the humanities Dear all, The Hestia project is pleased to announce its second community event, which will take place at Stanford University on 4-5 November 2013. The two-day workshop, hosted by Stanford's Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (http://cesta.stanford.edu/), will tackle the issue of visualizing complex data, and will be of interest to anyone working on network theory and the digital analysis of literature and historical material. It will include presentations from various local high-tech companies developing complex data analysis and hands-on work with the following humanities projects based in Stanford: - Orbis 2.0 (http://orbis.stanford.edu/), the latest geospatial network model of the ancient world; - Arches (http://archesproject.org/), a new open-source geospatial software system for cultural heritage inventory and management; - Palladio, a new platform for visualizing and analyzing networks of historical data; - Topotime, a new data model and graphical layout designed specifically to handle the fuzzy temporal bounds and cyclical time of literary narratives. This two-day event is free for all. We simply ask you to register in advance here: https://www.eventbrite.com/event/8878063527 For more information about the event and about Hestia, please visit our blog: http://hestia.open.ac.uk/hestia2stanford-visualizing-complex-networks/ We look forward to welcoming you in Stanford! Best wishes The Hestia2 team **Hestia2 is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council** --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 09:18:46 -0400 From: Evyn Kropf Subject: Fwd: [Adabiyat] Webcast: Conference on the Digital Humanities + Islamic & Middle East Studies In-Reply-To: Conference on the Digital Humanities + Islamic & Middle East Studies Programme and links to live webcasts at http://islamichumanities.org/conference2013/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Elias Muhanna > Date: Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 9:12 PM > Subject: [Adabiyat] Webcast: Conference on the Digital Humanities + Islamic & Middle East Studies Dear colleagues, On October 24-25, Brown University will be hosting an international Conference on the Digital Humanities + Islamic & Middle East Studies. The complete program may be found at the conference website, where you may also view a live web-cast of the presentations. Please feel free to circulate this announcement to interested colleagues. Best wishes, Elias Muhanna -- Elias Muhanna Assistant Professor Comparative Literature & Middle East Studies Brown University elias_muhanna@brown.edu qifanabki.com ***************************************************************************** Adabiyat list for Middle Eastern Literary Traditions Post message via email: adabiyat@lists.uchicago.edu Post via web: https://lists.uchicago.edu/web/compose_mail/adabiyat List Info: https://lists.uchicago.edu/web/info/adabiyat Archives: https://lists.uchicago.edu/web/arc/adabiyat ______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B5616768E; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:35:23 +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 8788E7687; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:35:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E1AE0767F; Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:35:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131024073513.E1AE0767F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:35:13 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.466 pubs: Literary & Linguistic Computing 28.4 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. 27, No. 466. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 16:56:27 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: LLC 28.4 Literary and Linguistic Computing Special Issue Digital Humanities 2012: Digital Diversity: Cultures, Languages and Methods Vol. 28, No. 4 December 2013 http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/28/4?etoc ----------------------------------------------------------------- Original Articles ----------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction Paul Spence, Susan Brown, and Jan Christoph Meister pp. 491-492 Developing a New Integrated Editing Platform for Source Documents in Classics Bridget Almas and Marie-Claire Beaulieu pp. 493-503 Beyond the tree of texts: Building an empirical model of scribal variation through graph analysis of texts and stemmata Tara L. Andrews and Caroline Macé pp. 504-521 Linked data driven multilingual access to diverse Japanese Ukiyo-e databases by generating links dynamically Biligsaikhan Batjargal, Takeo Kuyama, Fuminori Kimura, and Akira Maeda pp. 522-530 DeRiK: A German reference corpus of computer-mediated communication Michael Beißwenger, Maria Ermakova, Alexander Geyken, Lothar Lemnitzer, and Angelika Storrer pp. 531-537 Networks of networks: a citation network analysis of the adoption, use, and adaptation of formal network techniques in archaeology Tom Brughmans pp. 538-562 Automatic recognition of speech, thought, and writing representation in German narrative texts Annelen Brunner pp. 563-575 A data-centred ‘virtual laboratory’ for the humanities: Designing the Australian Humanities Networked Infrastructure (HuNI) service Toby Burrows pp. 576-581 Distant Listening to Gertrude Stein’s ‘Melanctha’: Using Similarity Analysis in a Discovery Paradigm to Analyze Prosody and Author Influence Tanya Clement, David Tcheng, Loretta Auvil, Boris Capitanu, and Joao Barbosa pp. 582-602 Mind your corpus: systematic errors in authorship attribution Maciej Eder pp. 603-614 Visual workflow interfaces for editorial processes Luciano Frizzera, Milena Radzikowska, Geoff Roeder, Ernesto Peña, Teresa Dobson, Stan Ruecker, Geoffrey Rockwell, Susan Brown, and The INKE Research Group pp. 615-628 The myth of the new: Mass digitization, distant reading, and the future of the book Paul Gooding, Melissa Terras, and Claire Warwick pp. 629-639 Pundit: augmenting web contents with semantics Marco Grassi, Christian Morbidoni, Michele Nucci, Simone Fonda, and Francesco Piazza pp. 640-659 Complex network perspective on graphic form system of Hanzi Jiajia Hu and Ning Wang pp. 660-667 Using the Google N-Gram corpus to measure cultural complexity Patrick Juola pp. 668-675 Investigating the relatedness of the endangered Dogon languages Steven Moran and Jelena Prokić pp. 676-691 Geo-Temporal Interpretation of Archival Collections with Neatline Bethany Nowviskie, David McClure, Wayne Graham, Adam Soroka, Jeremy Boggs, and Eric Rochester pp. 692-699 Sharing and debating Wittgenstein by using an ontology Alois Pichler and Amélie Zöllner-Weber pp. 700-707 The stylistics and stylometry of collaborative translation: Woolf’s Night and Day in Polish Jan Rybicki and Magda Heydel pp. 708-717 Towards a digital geography of Hispanic Baroque art Juan Luis Suárez, Fernando Sancho-Caparrini, Elika Ortega, Javier de la Rosa, Natalia Caldas, and David Brown pp. 718-735 The MayaArch3D project: A 3D WebGIS for analyzing ancient architecture and landscapes Jennifer von Schwerin, Heather Richards-Rissetto, Fabio Remondino, Giorgio Agugiaro, and Gabrio Girardi pp. 736-753 -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 25BCC76C5; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:15:14 +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 032517691; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:14:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 93868768F; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:14:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131025081455.93868768F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:14:55 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.467 models of computation; system for online encyclopedia X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 467. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Paul Fishwick (28) Subject: Re: 27.463 models of computation [2] From: "Holly C. Shulman" (50) Subject: Re: 27.464 system for online encyclopedia? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 11:08:21 -0500 From: Paul Fishwick Subject: Re: 27.463 models of computation In-Reply-To: <20131024073057.8C88B2F03@digitalhumanities.org> Arianna asks: > Can we do in digital humanities what scholars do/have done with other > techniques? Is modelling in computing going to lift our way of seeing and > therefore thinking to another level? I think your answer implies that it > does. But what level of analysis can we reach? I am unsure as to what level can be reached, however, I can point you to a small effort we have to produce models of various sorts, starting with a sculpture (called X) by artist Liz Larner. This short news blog summarizes the importance of the effort in terms of modelling: http://www.utdallas.edu/atec/blog/2013/10/atec-professor-reflects-on-nasher-xchange-installation/ This process will take a few months to complete, but the idea is to expand the nature of interpretation to result in models, a subset of which will be expressed within the medium of typography (e.g., the more traditional text-based interpretations of art criticism, or mathematical models using textual expressions). -p Paul Fishwick, PhD Chair, ACM SIGSIM Distinguished Chair of Arts & Technology and Professor of Computer Science Director, Creative Automata Laboratory The University of Texas at Dallas Arts & Technology 800 West Campbell Road, AT10 Richardson, TX 75080-3021 Home: utdallas.edu/atec/fishwick Blog: creative-automata.com --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:55:57 -0400 From: "Holly C. Shulman" Subject: Re: 27.464 system for online encyclopedia? In-Reply-To: <20131024073209.529E43A3B@digitalhumanities.org> Contact Matthew Gibson at the Encyclopedia of Virginia. msg2d@eservices.virginia.edu. Holly C. Shulman On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:32 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 464. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 14:17:27 +0200 > From: Frédéric Clavert > Subject: Encyclopedia > > Dear humanist members, > > I am currently thinking about how to develop an edition system for an > on-line encyclopedia which is to be written in the next few years by the > members of my research center. > > Are you aware of any similar projects? > > (a part from Europäische Geschichte Online and wikipedia) > > Best, > Frédéric Clavert > > -- > Docteur en histoire contemporaine http://www.clavert.net/ > Ingénieur de recherche - LabEx EHNE > > > Hjalmar Schacht, financier et diplomate< > http://www.clavert.net/hjalmar-schacht-financier-et-diplomate-peter-lang/ > >< > http://www.clavert.net/hjalmar-schacht-financier-et-diplomate-peter-lang/> > > Les banquiers centraux dans la construction européenne< > http://www.cairn.info/resume.php?ID_ARTICLE=HES_114_0003> > > L'histoire contemporaine à l'ère numérique< > http://www.clavert.net/lecture-des-sources-historiennes-a-lere-numerique/> -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2E38276D2; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:15:54 +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 42B5A76CE; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:15:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 436CB76C5; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:15:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131025081541.436CB76C5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:15:41 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.468 call for reviewers: DH2014 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 468. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 11:47:07 +0100 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Call for Reviewers for DH2014 On behalf of the program committee for Digital Humanities 2014 (Lausanne, see http://dh2014.org/), and on behalf of the conference coordinating committee of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) I would like to identify scholars and scientists interested in refereeing submissions to DH 2014. We would like to benefit from the wisdom and good judgment of scholars from all over the world and from all humanities disciplines and all the other sub-disciplines that contribute to DH conferences, but we need help if we’re to do this. Please consider devoting a few hours of your time to refereeing for DH 2014. You may specify your specialization in the conference management software and the maximum number of two-page abstracts you are willing to take on, which might be anywhere from two to ten, so joining need not be a large burden. You may also find it useful to read of new work in sub-disciplines that interest you, especially as the work reported on will typically be quite new! We welcome self-nominations from all those with proven interest and competence in DH. A Ph.D. in a related field is more than enough, but two or more presentations at DH conferences (or similar ones) would also suffice. Please send your name, email address, affiliation (if any) and qualifications to John Nerbonne at john.nerbonne[at]frias.uni-freiburg.de by Oct. 31 if you would like to get involved. Please do not nominate others, only yourself. Thanks! With regards, John Nerbonne, for ADHO, and the DH2014 PC - See more at: http://www.allc.org/news-events/call-reviewers-dh2014#sthash.6MR0IN5a.dpuf ----------------- Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE CITP FHEA Director, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities Professor of Digital Humanities 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/ Twitter: @melissaterras _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 29E3F76D3; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:16:37 +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 08E1876CA; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:16:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 82D18769F; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:16:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131025081626.82D18769F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:16:26 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.469 job as Linux developer at Leicester X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 469. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 12:53:22 +0100 From: "Dixon, Simon N. (Dr.)" Subject: Solutions Developer (Linux Environment): University of Leicester Library In-Reply-To: <7722595275A4DD4FA225B92CDBF174A101B0DACED751@EXC-MBX3.cfs.le.ac.uk> The University of Leicester is recruiting for a Solutions Developer (Linux Development) to support research projects in the area of Digital Humanities. The post is available on a 12 month, fixed term contract (full-time). Solutions Developer (Linux Environment) University of Leicester -Library Library Salary Grade 7 - £31,331 to £36,298 per annum At Leicester we're going places. Ranked in the top 12 universities in Britain our aim is to climb further. A commitment to high quality fused with an inclusive academic culture is our hallmark and led the Times Higher Education to describe us as "elite without being elitist". You will use your experience of working in a Linux environment to configure and deploy software to support research projects in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in collaboration with IT Services. You will contribute to the planning of new research projects, produce guidance and documentation about software and technical resources available to the research community at Leicester and contribute to the University's Digital Humanities training programme for researchers. Closing date for applications: midnight, Monday 11 November 2013. Interviews will be held on Wednesday 27 November 2013. Further particulars: http://www.le.ac.uk/jobs/external/LIB00141_Further_Particulars.pdf Apply online: http://ig5.i-grasp.com/fe/tpl_UniversityOfLeicester01.asp?newms=jj&id=83904&aid=14178 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 24F1476D3; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:25:03 +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 7F0D5769D; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:24:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D25BC7696; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:24:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131025082452.D25BC7696@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:24:52 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.470 events: sustainable history; book history; big 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. 27, No. 470. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Adam Crymble (23) Subject: Sustainable History Workshop [2] From: kcl - cerch (19) Subject: CeRch Seminar: Thinking Big: escaping the Small Data fallacy in Historical Linguistics [3] From: igalina (18) Subject: CfP Ages of the Book International Conference --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 10:16:07 +0100 From: Adam Crymble Subject: Sustainable History Workshop *Sustainable History: Ensuring today's digital history survives.* 28 November 2013. 10h-1530h in London UK. How long will our digital research survive? Historical scholarship is increasingly digital; and yet we do not have an agreed form of best practices for ensuring that digital scholarship lasts. Speakers at this one day workshop will share practical advice on a range of pressing issues for historians and cultural heritage professionals working with digital material. From ensuring research data is archived safely, to building sustainable strategies into your project workflows, and even learning from the mistakes of others, this event promises practical solutions for big challenges facing digital scholarship. *Registration is free, but spaces are limited.* Sponsored by the Software Sustainability Institute http://software.ac.uk , the Institute of Historical Research http://www.history.ac.uk/ , the Programming Historian 2 http://programminghistorian.org , and The AHRC Theme Leader Fellowship for Digital Transformations. Register at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/8989595121 More details at http://events.history.ac.uk/event/show/12189 Please send questions or comments to Adam Crymble (adam.crymble@gmail.com) Adam Crymble Department of History and Digital Humanities King's College London --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 11:13:59 +0000 From: kcl - cerch Subject: CeRch Seminar: Thinking Big: escaping the Small Data fallacy in Historical Linguistics Thinking Big: escaping the Small Data fallacy in Historical Linguistics (Gard Jenset and Barbara McGillivray, University of Oxford/University of Bergen/Oxford University Press) Tuesday, October 29th 2013 from 6:15 PM to 7:30 PM (GMT) Anatomy Theatre and Museum, King's College London: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/spaces/anatomy-museum.aspx Attendance is free and open to all, but registration is requested: https://www.eventbrite.com/event/8348441413 The seminar will be followed by wine and nibbles. All the best, Valentina Asciutti Abstract: Historical Linguistics studies the evolution of historical languages and earlier stages of living languages. By necessity, historical linguistics has traditionally been based on the analytical study of exemplars from written collections of texts. Given the technological constraints and the aims of historical comparative philology of the 19th and early 20th centuries, the reliance on qualitative assessment of a few exemplars was justified. Towards the end of the last century, formalized collections of texts known as corpora bloomed with the advent of computer technology. This made it feasible to automatically create very large corpora (> 100 million words), annotate them various linguistic information, and efficiently search and systematically retrieve information from them. However, technological advances can only change a field if they find their place in an appropriate methodological framework. The qualitative methods of comparative philology (manually searching for exemplars) underutilize the information available in today's historical corpora, and contemporary historical linguistics is still largely based on the traditional methodology. Few things are more commonly taken for granted in historical linguistics than the assumption that the researcher should eyeball every piece of data relevant to her analysis. We disagree with this position, which we will henceforth refer to as the Small Data Fallacy. Instead, we believe that methods inspired by Big Data can and should influence Historical Linguistics, and that such a move would entail a qualitative leap forwards in Historical Linguistics research methods. We will discuss some of the benefits, challenges, and limitations of applying the Big Data framework to historical linguistics. We will also touch upon the impact this would have on the fundamental aims of Historical Linguistics in the 21st century. Bios: Gard Jenset is a visiting scholar in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford, with research interests in historical corpus linguistics, corpora in ELT, statistics and quantitative research methods in linguistics, corpus methods for semantics and cognitive linguistics. Barbara McGillivray is a computational linguist, and works as a language engineer in the Dictionary Department of Oxford University Press. She holds a PhD in computational linguistics form the University of Pisa. Her research interests include: Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Latin computational linguistics, quantitative historical linguistics, and computational lexicography. NB This seminar will not be live-streamed. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 16:56:50 +0000 From: igalina Subject: CfP Ages of the Book International Conference Ages of the Book International Conference 2014  Dates: October 13 -17, 2014 Hosted by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico Deadline for submissions: February 14th 2014 Call for papers The aim of the conference is to bring together specialists from diverse fields of study, such as written and printed culture, visual design and communication, editing and the publishing industry, history, literature and new technologies, for discussion of academic, scientific, technical and economic issues that will advance our knowledge on the written word throughout history. The conference will explore the wide range of traditions and innovations surrounding the composition of texts manifest in distinct periods and in different regions of the world, from the early production of codices through to present day electronic books. The organizing committee invites abstract submissions on subjects such as epigraphy, calligraphy and paleography, editorial design, typography, printing processes, ecdotics, textual and graphic editing, electronic publishing and technology applied to editing. Additional topics for consideration are transmission of texts, textual and visual disposition, page design, typography and illustrations in books, text-image relationships, ornamentation, initialing, reading styles and methods, use and management of color in the transmission of texts, usability, design and navigation for screen, e-book interface design and visual ergonomics. The main thematic areas are the manuscript, printed and electronic book. The conference will be held at the Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas (Institute for Bibliographic Studies) of the UNAM in Mexico City from 13th to the 17th of October 2014. All abstract submissions must be received by February 14th 2014. All abstracts will be reviewed by an international committee. Authors will be notified of the results May 6th 2014. For more information about submissions, key dates and registration please visit our website: http://www.edadesdellibro.unam.mx ---------- Dra. Isabel Galina Russell Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) igalina@unam.mx @igalina _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BABC07687; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 09:22:54 +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 5A7913A65; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 09:22:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DD6B63A65; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 09:22:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131026072243.DD6B63A65@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 09:22:43 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.471 models of 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. 27, No. 471. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 13:57:56 +0200 From: Øyvind_Eide Subject: Re: 27.467 models of computation; system for online encyclopedia In-Reply-To: <20131025081455.93868768F@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Paul, and all, I believe the idea of producing models of various sorts is a key to this. Each particular model will hide and highlight different things, but so will each type of model at a different level. In my own area of textual studies: Various types of text encoding give different insights, but another level of understanding can be reached by comparing text encoding to other types of modelling, such as mapping. What is hidden and what is highlighted by this specific map? How do this compare to other maps? To specific examples of TEI encoding, RDF models, or even theatre versions (to stretch the idea of a model a bit)? I believe various exemplars of various types of models combined with what is currently called traditional methods (such as close reading) to be a useful line of work. It is indeed time consuming, but so is any detailed study of a text. Kind regards, Øyvind Eide On 25. okt. 2013, at 10:14, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 467. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: Paul Fishwick (28) > Subject: Re: 27.463 models of computation > > [2] From: "Holly C. Shulman" (50) > Subject: Re: 27.464 system for online encyclopedia? > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 11:08:21 -0500 > From: Paul Fishwick > Subject: Re: 27.463 models of computation > In-Reply-To: <20131024073057.8C88B2F03@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Arianna asks: > >> Can we do in digital humanities what scholars do/have done with other >> techniques? Is modelling in computing going to lift our way of seeing and >> therefore thinking to another level? I think your answer implies that it >> does. But what level of analysis can we reach? > > I am unsure as to what level can be reached, however, I can point you to > a small effort we have to produce models of various sorts, starting > with a sculpture (called X) by artist Liz Larner. This short news blog summarizes > the importance of the effort in terms of modelling: > > http://www.utdallas.edu/atec/blog/2013/10/atec-professor-reflects-on-nasher-xchange-installation/ > > This process will take a few months to complete, but the idea is to expand > the nature of interpretation to result in models, a subset of which will be > expressed within the medium of typography (e.g., the more traditional text-based > interpretations of art criticism, or mathematical models using textual expressions). _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CA453768A; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 09:29:02 +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 A1DA45EB6; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 09:28:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D93A83086; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 09:28:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131026072852.D93A83086@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 09:28:52 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.472 events: libraries; textual scholarship; archives for endangered cultures X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 472. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Wim Van-Mierlo (13) Subject: ESTS 2013 [2] From: Nick Thieberger (46) Subject: PARADISEC Decade Celebration Conference: Registration now open [3] From: "Conf@qqml.eu" (63) Subject: First Call of Proposals QQML2014, 6th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference, 27 - 30 May 2014, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey. --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 09:12:54 +0000 From: Wim Van-Mierlo Subject: ESTS 2013 "Variance in textual scholarship and genetic criticism/La variance en philologie et dans la critique génétique" The 10th Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS 2013) will be held at the École Normale supérieure, Paris on 22-24 November 2013. The conference fee is 50 € for full delegates and 10 € for students. To register for the conference, or get more information about the programme, please visit the ESTS website at http://www.textualscholarship.eu/conference-2013.html. Wim Dr Wim Van Mierlo Acting Director Institute of English Studies University of London Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU http://ies.sas.ac.uk The University of London is an exempt charity in England and Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (reg. no. SC041194) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 07:49:56 +1100 From: Nick Thieberger Subject: PARADISEC Decade Celebration Conference: Registration now open Research, records and responsibility (RRR): Ten years of the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) Dates: 2nd-4th December 2013 *Venue: Old Arts, Lecture Theatre C, University of Melbourne, Australia* *Keynote Speaker* Shubha Chaudhuri Associate Director General (Academic) Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology American Institute of Indian Studies Gurgaon, India Registration page: http://paradisec.org.au/2013Conf.html Program: http://paradisec.org.au/RRRProgram.html Topics include: - new tools and methods for digital fieldwork - community-driven archive projects and how they might change the way archives operate; - dialogic fieldwork, how archival materials might influence the way researchers do fieldwork; - the reanimation of archival materials - communities breathing life into historical recordings; - the use of archived ethnographic material for: - linguistic analysis - other scholarly research - building corpora from archival materials - unexpected uses of archived linguistic or musicological records - benefits of textual corpora with linked media - collections as scholarly outputs – criteria for assessment - sharing data and metadata across archives nationally and internationally - locating, describing and digitising analog collections, what remains to be done? The Advisory Committee is: Kevin Bradley (National Library of Australia), Andrew Garrett (UC Berkeley, California Language Archive), Gary Holton (Alaska Native Language Center), Nicole Kruspe (Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage, Lund), Susan Kung (Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America) Åshild Naess (Newcastle University), Paul Trilsbeek (MPI Nijmegen, DELAMAN), Jane Simpson (Australian National University). The Organising Committee is: - - Linda Barwick (University of Sydney), - Amanda Harris (University of Sydney), - Simon Musgrave (Monash University), - Nick Thieberger (University of Melbourne). --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 22:34:04 +0000 From: "Conf@qqml.eu" Subject: First Call of Proposals QQML2014, 6th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference, 27 - 30 May 2014, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey. International Conference (QQML2014), 27 - 30 May 2014, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey. We invite you to submit a paper /abstract /poster /workshop to the 6th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries Abstract submission deadline: 20 December 2013. First Call of Proposals QQML2014 Dear Colleagues, It is our great pleasure to announce the 6th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference ((QQML2014), 27 - 30 May 2014, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey: http://www.isast.org/qqml2014.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 6th QQML2014 was scheduled during the previous 5th QQML2013 Conference. It was also decided that the 7th QQML 2015 International Conference will be organized in Paris, France. QQML2009, QQML2010, QQML2011, QQML2012 and QQML2013 were successful events both from the number and quality of the presentations and from the post conference publications in Journals and Books. QQML2014 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: secretar@isast.org or from the electronic submission at the web page: http://www.isast.org/abstractsubmission.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/abstractsubmission.html Registrations are registration forms are available from: http://www.isast.org/qqml2014registration.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/ The abstracts and full papers should be in compliance to the author guidelines: http://www.isast.org/ 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 2014 Conference and Student Research Presentations to: the secretariat of the conference 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 41CF276A2; Sun, 27 Oct 2013 07:08:51 +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 90F7C7682; Sun, 27 Oct 2013 07:08:36 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4420B7681; Sun, 27 Oct 2013 07:08:34 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20131027060834.4420B7681@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 07:08:34 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.473 Postdoc or PhD studentship at Lausanne 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. 27, No. 473. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 23:02:48 +0200 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: Research position in Lausanne (CH), 18 months Dear all, In the framework of the pilot project for a Swiss HS digitalisation center (http://www.sagw.ch/fr/sagw/laufende-projekte/ddz.html), a position is offered at the University of Lausanne (CH), from the 1st February 2014 until the 31st of July 2015, at 50%. The position will be offered to a post-doc in Human Sciences, or a PhD student in his/her last year. After a 2-3 weeks computer training, this researcher will have to interact with various colleagues in the French part of Switzerland, to curate some databases, to implement the project Salsah and to co-animate some workshops on the topic. This position will allow a jung researcher to extend his/her CV in the direction of the Digital Humanities and to get a various professional experiment. An excellent practice of the French language is expected, as well as good English knowledge; the capacity to interact with various colleagues is important, as well as a sense of the innovation and autonomy in work. Deadline for the application: 10th November 2013 Information and inscription: https://recruitingapp-2644.umantis.com/Vacancies/625/Description/3/Default?click_token=422616 The commission of examination: Claire Clivaz, Bela Kapossy and Dominique Vinck _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 675E776B8; Sun, 27 Oct 2013 07:09:34 +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 57B3776A2; Sun, 27 Oct 2013 07:09:26 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CAC167694; Sun, 27 Oct 2013 07:09:24 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131027060924.CAC167694@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 07:09:24 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.474 events: computer 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. 27, No. 474. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 14:15:38 -0500 From: Andrew Shi-hwa Chen Subject: CFP: Computer Culture (SWPACA Conference, February 19-22, 2014) (Second Notice) Computer Culture area 35th Annual Southwest Popular / American Culture Association Conference February 19-22, 2014 Hyatt Regency, Albuquerque, NM www.southwestpca.org http://www.swtxpca.org We are accepting papers and forming panels for the area of Computer Culture, as one of the many areas within the 35th annual conference of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA). The conference was formerly named the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association (SW/TX PCA/ACA). Computer is broadly defined as any computational device, whether smartphone or abacus, and any form of information technology, including the origins of concepts of interactive text which may predate computational devices as traditionally conceived. Culture is rooted in the concept of cultural meaning. We ask not just operational questions such as, "How do people communicate using computers?" but questions of meaning such as, "What does it mean when people communicate using computers instead of using pre-computer approaches to communication?" "Computer Culture" can be understood in a variety of ways: - the culture of the computer, that is, as computers interact with each other, what culture do they have of their own? - the culture around the computer, that is, (sub)cultures associated with the production, maintenance, use, and destruction of computers - the culture through the computer, that is, explicit treatment of how computer mediation influences cultural phenomena that exist or has existed in forms that did not involve computer mediation, and what these influences mean - the culture by the computer, that is, the ways in which new (sub)cultures or (sub)cultural phenomena have arisen because of computers and understandings of these given awareness of the nature and/or workings of computers Example questions associated with Computer Culture would include, but not be limited to: - What implications are there because of the powerfulness of (computer/information) technology ___ and are these implications beneficial, detrimental, inevitable, or avoidable? - What are the cultural origins of computers, computer/information technologies, and practices (such as ____) associated with them? What is the descriptive and prescriptive outlook for the conditions of those cultural forces associated with those cultural origins? - How do cultural forces (such as changes from one generation to the next, trends in education or society, or other cultural phenomena) impact (and are impacted by) computer/information technologies/market-forces, and what do these impacts (in either direction or both) mean? Paper topics might include (but are not limited to) those that address: - issues of (re)presentation through computers (Web site analysis and design), - methods of discourse involving computers (blogging, Twitter, social networks, viral video, live feeds), - theories focused on the relationship between computers and culture, - uses of computers in particular contexts and the impacts thereof (computers and pedagogy, online literary journals), - the relationship between computers and cultural forces (such as news, politics, and terrorism), - security/privacy/fraud and computers (online security issues, spam, scams, and hoaxes), - and others. While we will consider any relevant paper, we have a preference for those that involve transferable methodological approaches. This is an interdisciplinary conference, and other conference attendees would benefit from being able to adapt your research methods to their future research. Scholars, teachers, professionals, artists, and others interested in computer culture are encouraged to participate. Graduate students are also particularly welcome with award opportunities for the best graduate papers. More information about awards can be found at http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards/ Specifically, we would like to highlight the following award opportunities: - The "Computer Culture and Game Studies Award" - The "Heldrich-Dvorak Travel Fellowships" Given how papers may often fall into multiple categories, there may be other award opportunities listed at http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards/ which would be appropriate for your paper. (However, each presenter may only apply for one – not including the Travel Fellowships, which can be in addition.) If you wish to form your own panel, we would be glad to facilitate your needs. This conference is a presentation opportunity. For a publication opportunity, we encourage you to consider submitting your paper to the Southwest PCA/ACA’s new journal, Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, at http://journaldialogue.org/call-for-papers/ Please pass along this call to friends and colleagues. For consideration, submit 100-200 word abstracts and proposals for panels before Friday, November 1, 2013 to the conference’s electronic submission system which can be found at: http://conference2014.southwestpca.org/ If you have any questions, contact the Computer Culture area co-chairs, Andrew Chen (andrewsw@gmail.com) and Joseph Chaney (jchaney@iusb.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 35227768A; Mon, 28 Oct 2013 07:33:29 +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 AD1E97676; Mon, 28 Oct 2013 07:33:19 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 35321604D; Mon, 28 Oct 2013 07:33:18 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131028063318.35321604D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 07:33:18 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.475 prize for 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. 27, No. 475. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 19:08:23 -0400 From: Andrew Butrica Subject: Maurice Daumas Prize 2014 The International Committee for the History of Technology, ICOHTEC, welcomes submissions for the Maurice Daumas Prize, which aims to encourage innovative scholarship in the history of technology. ICOHTEC is interested in the history of 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 author of the best article submitted on the history of technology and published in a journal or edited volume in 2012 or 2013. Submissions are welcomed from scholars of any country, and their focus can be the technological past of any period or 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 must include a three-page English summary. For the Maurice Daumas Prize 2014, please send your submission to each of the five Prize Committee members no later than 5 January 2014. Electronic submissions are preferred. The winner will be contacted in late May 2014. The prize will be awarded at our 41st Symposium, to be held 29 July – 2 August 2014 in Brasov, Romania. 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 2014. Additionally, the ICOHTEC Symposium will feature a special panel organized around the winning article. Susan Schmidt Horning, Prof., Chair St. John's University Queens, NY 11439 USA Email: schmidts@stjohns.edu Andrew Butrica, Dr., Research Historians Group Bethesda, MD USA Email: abutrica@earthlink.net Hermione Giffard, Dr. Independent Scholar The Netherlands Email: hgiffard@gmail.com Pierre Lamard, Prof. L’Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard (UTBM) France Email: pierre.lamard@utbm.fr Patrice Bret, Dr. Centre Alexandre Koyré/CNRS-EHESS-MNHN Paris, France Email: patrice.bret@yahoo.fr Andrew J. Butrica, Ph.D. Research Historian _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 CF2CB76A0; Mon, 28 Oct 2013 12:18:49 +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 A3625768A; Mon, 28 Oct 2013 12:18:35 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 47C50768A; Mon, 28 Oct 2013 12:18:34 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131028111834.47C50768A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 12:18:34 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.476 job as Senior Lecturer 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 476. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 22:04:18 +1100 From: Craig Bellamy Subject: Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney, due 15 Dec In-Reply-To: > Ref 895/13 Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities, School of Humanities > and Communication Arts > > The School of Humanities and Communication Arts seeks to appoint a > Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities to play a key role in the > development and future direction of the UWS Digital Humanities > Research Group. > > The successful applicant will have an excellent track record in > research, publication, projects or equivalent achievements, and in > teaching and administration. The core field of specialisation will be > Digital Humanities. > > This new position offers the opportunity to join a dynamic and > innovative Research Group that seeks to build its international > profile and develop a vibrant research culture as it expands. The > Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities will work closely with the > Research Group Leader on the development of interdisciplinary, > collaborative Digital Humanities projects, initiatives and programs in > the School and the University, and with external stakeholders. > > This is a full time, five (5) year fixed term appointment based at > Parramatta. > > *Remuneration Package* : Academic Level C $123,713 to $141,913 p.a. > (comprising Salary $104,645 to $120,200 p.a., plus 17% Superannuation, > and Leave Loading) > > *Position Enquiries* : Professor Paul Arthur, p.arthur@uws.edu.au > > > *Closing Date* : 15 December 2013 > > Click here to view Position Description > > > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BC737769B; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:16:57 +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 75D1C7694; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:16:49 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A6EC8767F; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:16:47 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131029061647.A6EC8767F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:16:47 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.477 the fact of online 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. 27, No. 477. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 20:47:32 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: just the stuff This evening on the Channel 4 news (John Snow's programme) was a story about the Syrian rebels' competition for attention, and so for funding, played out in YouTube videos. These videos, the commentator pointed out, are heavily influenced by the format and style of video games, which as tend to approximate as closely as possible the scenery and actions of real battles. The videos are professionally done. Very impressive, using many of the latest techniques. In them the fighters are not hamming it up for the camera, they are acting. Their exultant scenes with captured objects on video are, the commentator said, more important than the actual trophies, such as fighter jets the rebels cannot fly. Life imitating art. Add to this The Zuckerberg Files (see elsewhere on Humanist). And add to that the astonishing resources for medieval manuscript research coming on line all the time, e.g. entire manuscripts furnished as downloadable pdfs by the Trier Staatsbibliothek free of charge -- mind-blowing to anyone who has had to trek across Europe and to Russia to get a glimpse. And on it goes. Before anyone tries to triangulate on my state of mind using this rather odd mixture of examples, let me run ahead with my point: the mere fact of online publication. Has the show been stolen by something that simple? Yours, WM -- . Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 52B0076A5; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:18:20 +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 460E97687; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:18:13 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D1A227682; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:18:10 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131029061810.D1A227682@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:18:10 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.478 James on the scope of humanistic learning? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 478. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 15:50:15 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Scope of humanistic learning Dear Willard and HUMANIST: In a piece I recently read on line, the redoubtable Mortimer Adler is quoted thus: “At the beginning of the century William James anticipated Ortega’s insight. He pointed out that any subject can be seen in a humanistic light by being approached historically or philosophically.” In the original, this appears in a footnote without a citation to James. I am wondering whether readers might be able to help me find a single reference for this or something like it. Having looked up and down my anthology of James, I can say this idea seems to appear everywhere as much as anywhere (even while "humanism" in his work mainly refers to a particular school of philosophy contemporary with him, i.e. ca. 1900). But I also suppose that James was not the first to make the distinction between holistic "humanistic" knowledge -- which can be knowledge of anything -- versus knowledge that is merely useful. 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8863F76AF; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:20:57 +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 273B976A0; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:20:49 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DD287769C; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:20:46 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131029062046.DD287769C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:20:46 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.479 jobs: project manager at CWRC; tenure-track at South Carolina X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 479. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ray Siemens (26) Subject: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Digital Humanities (Open Literary Field) [2] From: Susan Brown (6) Subject: Project Manager position: Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 15:58:53 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Digital Humanities (Open Literary Field) In-Reply-To: > From: David Miller Please share widely: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Digital Humanities (Open Literary Field) Assistant Professor The Department of English Language & Literature at the University of South Carolina (http://artsandsciences.sc.edu/engl/) invites applications for a tenure-track, Assistant Professorship in Digital Humanities (Open Literary Field). The search is open to all fields within English studies and all approaches to digital humanities though we have a particular interest in digital work in the areas of topic modeling, social network analysis, or mapping. To apply, please send CV, letter of interest, writing sample, and at least three confidential letters of recommendation (which may be sent separately either electronically through a certified dossier service or in hard copy) to: William E. Rivers, Chair Department of English University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208. For full consideration, application materials must be received no later than November 1. 2013. The Department of English Language and Literature features a strong and flexible undergraduate major and graduate degrees in literature, composition and rhetoric, creative writing, and speech communication. Our diverse faculty includes internationally-known scholars in English and American literature, African American studies, composition and rhetoric, history of authorship and publishing, literary theory, linguistics, communication studies, film, and creative writing. The University of South Carolina's main campus is located in the state capital, close to the mountains and the coast. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has designated the University of South Carolina as one of only 73 public and 32 private academic institutions with “very high research activity” and also lists USC as having strong focus on community engagement. The University has over 31,000 students on the main campus (and over 46,000 students system-wide), more than 350 degree programs, and a nationally-ranked library system that includes one of the nation’s largest public film archives. The University of South Carolina is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. The University of South Carolina does not discriminate in educational or employment opportunities or decisions for qualified persons on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, or veteran status. -- David Lee Miller University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208 (803) 777-4256 FAX 777-9064 dmill1951@gmail.com Center for Digital Humanities http://www.cdh.sc.edu/ Faculty Web Page http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/people/pages/miller.html Dreams of the Burning Child A Touch More Rare --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 23:01:44 -0400 From: Susan Brown Subject: Project Manager position: Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory In-Reply-To: The Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory (CWRC) seeks a dynamic project manager to play a vital role in developing an innovative online infrastructure for literary scholars. CWRC is producing a virtual research environment for the study of writing in Canada, in partnership with other open-source software initiatives and with literary researchers. It is building a repository, a layer of services for the production, use, and analysis of repository and federated materials, and a user interface that integrates those services. Information about the project and the research it supports is available at www.cwrc.ca. We seek someone whose experience blends humanities research and technical exploration, loves working collaboratively, and is passionate about the potential of computing to allow us to do research in new ways. Notwithstanding the name, it is an academic position for two years with an infrastructure project that is closely aligned with exciting research in a range of areas including interface development, visualization, born-digital scholarship, XML editing, and Linked Open Data. The full advertisement for the position can be found on the University of Alberta careers website: http://www.careers.ualberta.ca/Competition/A110421650/ Applications will be considered from Nov. 25th onwards. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. The University of Alberta hires on the basis of merit. We welcome diversity and encourage applications from all qualified women and men, including persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, and Aboriginal persons. Applications are through the University of Alberta website, but inquiries may be addressed to: Susan Brown, Project Leader, Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory, susan.brown /at/ 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7255576AC; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:21:51 +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 DC85576AB; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:21:42 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 40CBA76A5; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:21:40 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131029062140.40CBA76A5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:21:40 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.480 crowdsourcing the Slade X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 480. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 15:43:18 +0000 From: Melissa Terras Subject: New Crowdsourcing Project - Crowdsourcing the Slade School of Art Class Photos Dear Willard et al, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, in conjunction with the Slade School of Fine Art, are pleased to announce the launch of a new crowdsourcing project to help us identify students in the class photos. The Slade School of Fine Art has a fascinating, but currently incomplete, collection of annual class photographs dating from 1931. The black and white panoramic images reflect the school’s rich history, capturing the likeness of Slade students and faculty through the decades. We are asking former staff and students, scholars and members of the public to help us complete the collection and identify the sitters through a new website designed by UCL Centre for Digital Humanities. We've already listed all of those who appear in the 1953 photograph (http://sladearchive.github.io/groups/SLADE_1953_A/), including William Coldstream, Lucien Freud, Henry Moore, Sam Ntiro, and Paula Rego. Can you help us identify other faces in the photos? The feedback provided by visitors to the site will result in a dynamic archive and research resource, giving us an opportunity to compare crowdsourcing platforms and begin to trace the impact of Slade alumni around the world. This project is a collaboration between UCL Centre for Digital Humanities and the Slade School of Fine Art, as part of the Slade Archive Project. (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/sladearchive) Slade class photos http://sladearchive.github.io/index.html Follow the Slade Archive Project blog http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/slade-archive-project/ Slade School of Fine Art http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade UCL Centre for Digital Humanities http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh ----------------- Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE CITP FHEA Director, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities Professor of Digital Humanities 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/ Twitter: @melissaterras _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 770AC76B6; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:24:42 +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 478E876AB; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:24:33 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 608A276A0; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:24:31 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131029062431.608A276A0@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:24:31 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.481 events: narrative; museums; linguistics & 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. 27, No. 481. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Fagan, Annalisa" (12) Subject: CeRch seminar on Historical Linguistics and Big Data: 29th October [2] From: Mark Finlayson (73) Subject: CFP: 5th Computational Models of Narrative Workshop (CMN'14) [3] From: Museums and the Web (40) Subject: West meets East! Museums and the Web Asia in Hong Kong, December 8-12, 2013 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 10:39:23 +0000 From: "Fagan, Annalisa" Subject: CeRch seminar on Historical Linguistics and Big Data: 29th October This coming Tuesday 29th October the Centre for e-Research are holding the next in our Autumn seminar series. The topic involves historical linguistics and big data, and we think might be interesting to those involved with the LDC. The details are: Tuesday 29th October, Centre for e-Research Seminar, 6-15-7.15pm Anatomy Theatre Museum (6th floor Strand Campus) Speakers: Gard Jenset and Barbara McGillivray Title: Thinking Big: escaping the Small Data fallacy in Historical Linguistics The full abstract for this talk is available here. -- Mike Bryant Research Associate Centre for e-Research Tel. +44 20 7848 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 13:49:19 -0400 From: Mark Finlayson Subject: CFP: 5th Computational Models of Narrative Workshop (CMN'14) ANNOUNCEMENT Fifth Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN'14) July 31 - August 2, 2014 Quebec City Conference Center, Quebec City, Canada http://narrative.csail.mit.edu/cmn14/ Important Dates: April 11, 2014. Submission deadline. May 9, 2014. Notification of acceptance. May 30, 2014. Final versions due. July 23-26, 2014. CogSci 2014. July 27-31, 2014. AAAI-14. July 26-31, 2014. CNS 2014. July 31 - August 2, 2014. Workshop in Quebec City. 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 at multiple levels: from the psychological and cognitive impact of narratives to our ability to model narrative responses computationally. Special Focus: Neuroscience This inter-disciplinary workshop will be an appropriate venue for papers addressing fundamental topics and questions regarding narrative. The workshop will be held in association with the following meetings: - The 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society - The 28th Conference on Artificial Intelligence - The 23rd Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting The workshop will have a special focus on the neuroscience 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 neuroscientific and cognitive aspects of narrative. Regardless of its focus, reported work should provide some sort of insight of use to computational modeling of narratives. 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 are the neural correlates of narrative or narrative processing? - How can we study narrative from a neuroscientific or cognitive point of view? - 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 are appropriate formal or computational representations for narrative? - How should we evaluate computational and formal models of narrative? Organizers: - Mark A. Finlayson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A.) - Jan Christoph Meister (Universitaet Hamburg, Germany) - Emile Bruneau (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A.) --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 12:55:59 -0700 From: Museums and the Web Subject: West meets East! Museums and the Web Asia in Hong Kong, December 8-12, 2013 West meets East: Join the global network at Museums and the Web Asia in Hong Kong, December 8-12, 2013. Connecting museum innovators with leading-edge technology and digital practices from around the world. Pre-conference Tours, Sunday December 8: Curation in the 21st Century: Walking tour of contemporary Asian art at the Asia Society, followed by gallery visits on Hong Kong Island. Transmedia and Immersive Experiences: Fotan Artist studios, Bruce Lee at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, and immersive media at The Run Run Shaw Creative Media Center (bus tour). Pre-conference Workshops, Monday December 9: Get $50 off your workshop! Discount code: c60d-1f23-383f-dd11 Analyzing the Past, Designing the Future: From Multimedia via Hypermedia to the user as 'virtual co-curator' - Harald Kraemer, Switzerland Digital Production: developing, implementing and evaluating your digital project - Lynda Kelly, Australia Make Video Right Now - Anna Chiaretta Lavatelli, United States Making it Pretty and Easy: Video for Museums on the Cheap - Anna Chiaretta Lavatelli, USA Developing Digital Strategies - Michael Parry, Australia The How-to's, Why-to's, If-to's, Where-to's of Crowdfunding Museum Programs and Projects in Asia - Leonard Steinbach, USA Web Archiving Workshop - Lori Donovan, USA Conference: December 10-12, 2013 Program highlights include keynotes by Met CDO Sree Sreenivasan (read his recent NY Times interview: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/arts/artsspecial/so-many-stories-to-tell-for-mets-digital-chief.html?_r=1& ), the Google Art Project town hall, the Mobile Parade, the Curator as DJ, immersive trans-media experiences from Bruce Lee to the Cleveland Museum of Art, reception in the Hong Kong Maritime Museum's new venue and the best in museum technology from social media and digital strategy to education, evaluation and professional training: http://mwa2013.museumsandtheweb.com/program/ Registration: 4-night Registration Package: Full conference Registration plus 4 nights in the conference hotel (limited time offer): US$1600 code WA2013 5-night Registration Package: Full conference Registration plus 5 nights in the conference hotel (limited time offer): US$1850 code MWA2013 Other rates (day registration; registration only) available online at http://mwa2013.museumsandtheweb.com/registration/; let us know if you need more nights in the Hotel. Hong Kong Local? We have special discount for Locals. Use this coupon code to get $100 off from registration! e7e0-3cf8-8196-c9e5 Special rates end November 7, 2013. Location: SHERATON HONG KONG HOTEL & TOWERS, 20 Nathan Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong http://www.starwoodhotels.com/ ****Program Updates!**** 1). Shao-Chun Wu from National Palace Museum of Taiwan and others will discuss the impact of the Google Art Project in museums: http://mwa2013.museumsandtheweb.com/proposals/asia-art-museum-on-google-art-project-a-web-log-analysis-of-national-palace-museums-participation-in-google-art-project/ All attendees at MWA2013 are invited to contribute to the presentations and discussion in this session. Please let use know if you'd like to join the conversation: info@museumsandtheweb.com 2). Everyone's favorite, the Mobile Parade, is offered on Tuesday, December 10 at 4:45pm - 6pm! Short, fast presentations of mobile projects and research, followed by the opportunity to speak with presenters at length at their demonstration booths in the exhibit hall. Full program details: http://mwa2013.museumsandtheweb.com/program/ About Museums and the Web: Museums and the Web is the largest international conference on digital technology and features the most innovative projects and presenters in the cultural sector. It has been held since 1997 in the US and Canada and attracts more than 600 museum professionals from more than 40 countries to its North American conference. This year, for the second time, we invite colleagues to meet us in Hong Kong, center of global innovation, to extend and strengthen our professional and educational networks. The proceedings of MW conferences are available freely online, and the in-person learning and networking opportunities enable cultural professionals to use digital tools to improve access to collections, enhance programs and extend exhibitions and outreach to audiences. We look forward to meeting you, and thank you for bringing your experience and expertise to the global museum community in Hong Kong! Any questions? Please contact Hiroko Kusano at hkusano@museumsandtheweb.com Hiroko Kusano Museums and the Web 703 Dale Drive, Silver Spring, MD 20910 USA Cell: (619) 717-1488 | Phone: (240) 839-1114 | Fax: (240) 986-9546 hkusano@museumsandtheweb.com MWA 2013 in Hong Kong - http://mwa2013.museumsandtheweb.com/ MW 2014 in Baltimore - http://mw2014.museumsandtheweb.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 685E6768E; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:26:11 +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 25EA476AF; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:26:03 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B734976AB; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:26:01 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131029062601.B734976AB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:26:01 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.482 pubs: call for papers on 19C art; the Zuckerberg Files X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 482. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (16) Subject: the Zuckerberg Files [2] From: Ray Siemens (4) Subject: Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Digital Research and Publication Initiative --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 11:27:12 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the Zuckerberg Files Many here, I assume, will at least enjoy contemplating a new online resource, The Zuckerberg Files, http://zuckerbergfiles.org/, described by Marc Parry in "‘The Zuckerberg FilesÂ’: New Scholarly Archive Scrutinizes Facebook CEO", Chronicle of Higher Education, http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/the-zuckerberg-files-new-scholarly-archive-scrutinizes-facebook-ceo/47777?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en. There's a potentially interesting PhD or two in a corpus linguistics study of that archive. I find myself wondering, what would it be like to have everything one has said in public thus accessible to close scrutiny? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 16:16:50 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Digital Research and Publication Initiative In-Reply-To: > From: Pugh, Emily Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Digital Research and Publication Initiative Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide has received a grant from the Mellon Foundation for a three-year capacity-building initiative to maximize the possibilities of the journal's online format. With this in mind, NCAW is soliciting potential articles that take full advantage of new web technologies either in the research or the publication phase, or both. The Mellon grant is intended to help authors in the development phase of their articles as well as to aid NCAW in the implementation phase. For more information, including links to previously published articles in this series, visit http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/call-for-proposals. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DCB6076A4; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:23:38 +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 82E80767E; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:23:30 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CB8BA7687; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:23:28 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131030062328.CB8BA7687@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:23:28 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.483 models of 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. 27, No. 483. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 12:18:00 +0000 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: Re: 27.471 models of computation In-Reply-To: <20131026072243.DD6B63A65@digitalhumanities.org> Thanks both for these informative replies which I dare to summarise as following: - modelling practices span indeed fields of knowledge and art, moving from visible to invisible abstractions; - what might be specific to digital humanities research - or more in general to interdisciplinary endeavours that make use of computationally-inspired modelling - is the necessity to combine diverse modelling techniques (formal reading and close reading, for instance). Arianna Ciula On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 471. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 13:57:56 +0200 > From: Øyvind_Eide > Subject: Re: 27.467 models of computation; system for online > encyclopedia > In-Reply-To: <20131025081455.93868768F@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Dear Paul, and all, > > I believe the idea of producing models of various sorts is a key to this. > Each particular model will hide and highlight different things, but so will > each type of model at a different level. > > In my own area of textual studies: Various types of text encoding give > different insights, but another level of understanding can be reached by > comparing text encoding to other types of modelling, such as mapping. What > is hidden and what is highlighted by this specific map? How do this compare > to other maps? To specific examples of TEI encoding, RDF models, or even > theatre versions (to stretch the idea of a model a bit)? > > I believe various exemplars of various types of models combined with what > is currently called traditional methods (such as close reading) to be a > useful line of work. It is indeed time consuming, but so is any detailed > study of a text. > > Kind regards, > > Øyvind Eide > > On 25. okt. 2013, at 10:14, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 467. > > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > [1] From: Paul Fishwick > (28) > > Subject: Re: 27.463 models of computation > > > > [2] From: "Holly C. Shulman" > (50) > > Subject: Re: 27.464 system for online encyclopedia? > > > > > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 11:08:21 -0500 > > From: Paul Fishwick > > Subject: Re: 27.463 models of computation > > In-Reply-To: <20131024073057.8C88B2F03@digitalhumanities.org> > > > > > > Arianna asks: > > > >> Can we do in digital humanities what scholars do/have done with other > >> techniques? Is modelling in computing going to lift our way of seeing > and > >> therefore thinking to another level? I think your answer implies that it > >> does. But what level of analysis can we reach? > > > > I am unsure as to what level can be reached, however, I can point you to > > a small effort we have to produce models of various sorts, starting > > with a sculpture (called X) by artist Liz Larner. This short news blog > summarizes > > the importance of the effort in terms of modelling: > > > > > http://www.utdallas.edu/atec/blog/2013/10/atec-professor-reflects-on-nasher-xchange-installation/ > > > > This process will take a few months to complete, but the idea is to > expand > > the nature of interpretation to result in models, a subset of which will > be > > expressed within the medium of typography (e.g., the more traditional > text-based > > interpretations of art criticism, or mathematical models using textual > expressions). _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B320676A6; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:24:45 +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 503977699; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:24:39 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9C4D0768A; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:24:37 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131030062437.9C4D0768A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:24:37 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.484 call for submissions: visualisation of data in classics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 484. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 13:11:33 +0000 From: "Francese, Christopher" Subject: Visualizing the Classics Anvil Academic and Dickinson College Commentaries announce the availability of a $1,000 prize for the best scholarly visualization of data in the field of classical studies submitted during 2013. Two runners-up will be awarded prizes of $500 each. Submissions must include: • one or more visual representations of data that involves some linguistic component (Latin, Greek, or another ancient language of the Greco-Roman worlds), but may also include physical, geospatial, temporal, or other data; • a research question and narrative argument that describes the conclusions drawn from the data and the visualization; and • the source data itself Submissions in any and all sub-fields of classical studies, including pedagogical approaches, are welcome from any individual or team. The three winning submissions will be published by Anvil under a Creative Commons license (CC-BY-ND). The visualizations themselves and the narratives that accompany them will be published on Anvil’s website. The source data may be published there as well; though in any case the source data must be in some published form and included, even if only via link, with the submission. Submissions will be evaluated by the panel of reviewers listed below on the criteria of scholarly contribution, effectiveness of the visualization, accuracy and relevance of the data, and the cogency of the conclusions drawn. Existing digital projects are welcome to submit entries, which must be formatted in a way that can be republished by Anvil, as described above. Please contact Fred Moody (fmoody@anvilacademic.org)  or Chris Francese (francese@dickinson.edu) with any questions. Deadline for submission: December 31, 2013, to fmoody@anvilacademic.org; only submissions in electronic form will be considered. Panel of reviewers: John Bodel, W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics and Professor of History, Brown University Alison Cooley, Reader & Deputy Head, Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Warwick Gregory Crane, Professor of Computer Science, Tufts University, and Humboldt Professor, Universität Leipzig Lin Foxhall, Professor of Greek Archaeology and History, Head of School, School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester Chris Francese, Professor of Classical Studies, Dickinson College Jonathan Hall, Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities and Professor of History and Classics, University of Chicago Dominique Longrée, Professor of Classics, University of Liège and Saint-Louis University, Brussels Andrew M. Riggsby, Professor of Classics and Art History, University of Texas at Austin Greg Woolf, Professor of Ancient History, University of St. Andrews _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 636C976AF; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:26:45 +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 F3F3B76A1; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:26:36 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4D1BC76A1; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:26:35 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131030062635.4D1BC76A1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:26:35 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.485 the fact of online 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. 27, No. 485. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 12:52:01 -0700 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: 27.477 the fact of online publication In-Reply-To: <20131029061647.A6EC8767F@digitalhumanities.org> As for the Internet it is rife with baddies. Here is a letter of mine put out online at site titled www.speakwithoutinterruption. A sort of Hyde Park, if you will, or the Union Square of the 30s/40s in NYC, a hobby of some retired businessman. He allowed be a rubric [taken from Emily Dickinson, LETTERS TO THE WORLD, where I post letters NOT published by the media out there.] I will paste into this post, if you wont mind, WM...? Letters to the World (Series) by Jascha Kessler Posted by Jascha Kessler in: Letters September 26, 2013 Letters to the Editor THE LOS ANGELES TIMES Los Angeles Dear Letters Editor: The Times may argue for the right to fair use of copyrighted material, lauding “new forms of creativity made possible by digital technology.” And cover its rear by adding, “…Copyright holders aren’t happy with the law either, which they say offers little protection from piracy” on a huge scale. (Nor for individual creators.) I’m one of those holders with no protection. A librarian at Connecticut College recently informed me that several of my poems from magazines and my own books, were lifted by a fellow named Morgan in England, submitted under his name and published, even entered in contests, at least one of which he won. Morgan pirated the work of other writers and put them out under his name. Flattery? Well, yes—and/or no! One can’t eat flattery. Suppose my words are picked up by some rapper who sells a million "songs"? I’m not Universal Music Publishing. I’ve no recourse. The next thing that could happen is, someone like Morgan engaging Tony Soprano’s lawyer on contingency threatens to sue me, the copyright holder for infringement on my own work! No kidding. Sincerely, Jascha Kessler Professor Emeritus of Modern English & American Literature, UCLA, Santa Monica, CA Jascha Kessler Professor Emeritus of Modern English & American Literature, UCLA www.jfkessler.com www.xlibris.com On Oct 28, 2013, at 11:16 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 477. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 20:47:32 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: just the stuff > > > This evening on the Channel 4 news (John Snow's programme) was a story > about the Syrian rebels' competition for attention, and so for funding, > played out in YouTube videos. These videos, the commentator pointed out, > are heavily influenced by the format and style of video games, which as > tend to approximate as closely as possible the scenery and > actions of real battles. The videos are professionally done. Very impressive, > using many of the latest techniques. In them the fighters are not > hamming it up for the camera, they are acting. Their exultant scenes > with captured objects on video are, the commentator said, more important > than the actual trophies, such as fighter jets the rebels cannot fly. > Life imitating art. > > Add to this The Zuckerberg Files (see elsewhere on Humanist). And add > to that the astonishing resources for medieval manuscript research > coming on line all the time, e.g. entire manuscripts furnished as > downloadable pdfs by the Trier Staatsbibliothek free of charge -- > mind-blowing to anyone who has had to trek across Europe and to Russia > to get a glimpse. And on it goes. > > Before anyone tries to triangulate on my state of mind using this rather > odd mixture of examples, let me run ahead with my point: the mere fact > of online publication. Has the show been stolen by something that simple? > > Yours, > WM > > -- . > Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital > Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital > Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D870576B6; Wed, 30 Oct 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 C6BBD76AB; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:27:55 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 44E2276A4; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:27:54 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131030062754.44E2276A4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:27:54 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.486 job: open-rank position, iSchool 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. 27, No. 486. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 14:51:23 +0000 From: "Downie, J Stephen" Subject: Digital Humanities Open Rank Faculty Position: iSchool @ University of Illinois Dear Digital Humanities Colleagues: Please share with all that might be interested. **************************** GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE (GSLIS) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign OPEN RANK FACULTY POSITION GSLIS seeks to hire an outstanding full-time faculty member to join our iSchool. We are particularly interested in candidates specializing in the digital humanities, but strong candidates in any related area involving the organization, management, preservation, retrieval, and analysis of information are encouraged to apply. In particular, we seek candidates who can contribute to our active programs in digital libraries, data curation, and data analytics. Applications from members of under-represented groups working in these or other areas of information science are particularly welcome. GSLIS is a highly interdisciplinary unit and the successful candidate could hold a degree in information science; a field in the arts, humanities or the social sciences; computer science; or other relevant disciplines. Applicants' specific backgrounds could include digital humanities, computational linguistics, semantic web technologies, cultural informatics, and digital archives. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is one of the world's leading research universities. GSLIS, the top-ranked school of library and information science, is an established national leader in both information science research and the preparation of information professionals. GSLIS offers MS and PhD degrees, a Certificate of Advanced Study (CAS), and participates in the University's undergraduate informatics minor, informatics PhD, and MS in Bioinformatics. For MS and CAS students, GSLIS also offers an award-winning online option (LEEP). GSLIS faculty and students are involved in many initiatives across campus, including collaborations with world-renowned units such as the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS). Our close relationship with scientific and cultural institutions ensures that our research shapes practice and engages critical contemporary problems. GSLIS is the institutional home of the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS), a leader in research and education on the use of data and technology in scholarship. CIRSS supports an active portfolio of research projects with a wide variety of institutional partners, collaborating with national data centers, other iSchools, leading research libraries, and cyberinfrastructure initiatives. CIRSS sponsors specializations for both MS and PhD students in data curation and in socio-technical data analytics. In addition to CIRSS, GSLIS houses the Center for Children's Books, the Center for Digital Inclusion, and the HathiTrust Research Center. The breadth of interest evinced by these initiatives speaks to the collegial and collaborative environment that new GSLIS faculty members will experience. Appointment will begin August 16, 2014 or as negotiated. Rank is open, and salary will be commensurate with qualifications. A Ph.D. degree or equivalent is required although candidates near completion will be considered. To apply, create a candidate profile at https://jobs.illinois.edu and upload a letter of application, curriculum vitae, short research statement, and a list of three references including contact information. To ensure full consideration applicants must apply by November 15, 2013. More information about GSLIS programs and faculty can be found at http://www.lis.illinois.edu. For further information regarding application procedures, contact Candy Edwards (cledward@illinois.edu, 217 244-3809). Illinois is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and ideas who embrace and value diversity and inclusivity. (http://www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu). ********************************************************** "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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: 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,BAYES_00, 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 0B83D76C2; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:29:47 +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 82AC776B4; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:29:39 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 899A076B3; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:29:38 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131030062938.899A076B3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:29:38 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.487 events: communication; recent social 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. 27, No. 487. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jamie Cohen-Cole (28) Subject: CFP: First Annual Conference on the History of Recent Social Science [2] From: Le Havre Conference 2014 (23) Subject: Call for papers - International Conference "ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION, CULTURES AND IDENTITIES", Le Havre (France) June 11th, 12th and 13th, 2014 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 17:59:12 +0000 From: Jamie Cohen-Cole Subject: CFP: First Annual Conference on the History of Recent Social Science CALL FOR PAPERS FIRST ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON THE HISTORY OF RECENT SOCIAL SCIENCE (HISRESS) École normale supérieure de Cachan, France 13-14 June 2014 This two-day conference will bring together researchers working on the history of post-World War II social science. It will provide a forum for the latest research on the cross-disciplinary history of the post-war social sciences, including but not limited to anthropology, economics, psychology, political science, and sociology as well as related fields like area studies, communication studies, history, international relations, law and linguistics. We are especially eager to receive submissions that treat themes, topics, and events that span the history of individual disciplines. The conference aims to build upon the recent emergence of work and conversation on cross-disciplinary themes in the postwar history of the social sciences. A number of monographs, edited collections, special journal issues, and gatherings at the École normale supérieure de Cachan, Duke University, the London School of Economics, New York University, the University of Toronto and elsewhere testify to a growing interest in the developments spanning the social sciences in the early, late, and post-Cold War periods. Most history of social science scholarship, however, remains focused on the 19th and early 20th centuries, and attuned to the histories of individual disciplines. Though each of the major social science fields now has a community of disciplinary historians, research explicitly concerned with cross-disciplinary topics remains comparatively rare. The purpose of the conference is to further encourage the limited but fruitful cross-disciplinary conversations of recent years. A related purpose is to consider the creation of a Society for the History of Recent Social Science, with the aim to bring together scholars working in the area on an annual basis. Submissions are welcome in areas such as: - The uptake of social science concepts and figures in wider intellectual and popular discourses - Comparative institutional histories of departments and programs - Border disputes and boundary work between disciplines as well as academic cultures - Themes and concepts developed in the history and sociology of natural and physical science, reconceptualized for the social science context - Professional and applied training programs and schools, and the quasi-disciplinary fields (like business administration) that typically housed them - The role of social science in post-colonial state-building governance - Social science adaptations to the changing media landscape - The role and prominence of disciplinary memory in a comparative context The two-day conference, hosted at the École normale supérieure de Cachan, 15 minutes from Paris, will be organized as a series of one-hour, single-paper sessions attended by all participants. Ample time will be set aside for intellectual exchange between presenters and attendees, as all participants are expected to read pre-circulated papers in advance. Proposals should contain roughly 1000 words, indicating the originality of the paper. The deadline for receipt of abstracts is 15 January 2014. Proposals will be evaluated by the end of January and final notification will be given in early February. Completed papers will be expected by May 15, 2014. The organizing committee consists of Jamie Cohen-Cole (George Washington University), Philippe Fontaine (ENS Cachan), Nicolas Guilhot (CIRHUS - NYU), and Jeff Pooley (Muhlenberg College). All proposals and requests for information should be sent to: philippe.fontaine@ens-cachan.fr --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 22:09:14 +0000 From: Le Havre Conference 2014 Subject: Call for papers - International Conference "ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION, CULTURES AND IDENTITIES", Le Havre (France) June 11th, 12th and 13th, 2014 International Conference ECCI Electronic Communication, Cultures and Identities Le Havre - June 11th, 12th and 13th, 2014 Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to inform you that the Department of Information-Communication – IUT/University of Le Havre (France) is organizing a third international conference focusing on digital communication. Click the link below to download the call for papers of the international conference “electronic communication, cultures and identities”, which will take place in Le Havre, June 11th, 12th and 13th, 2014. Proposals (3500 signs) must arrive before January 31st, 2014 at the following address: soumission@colloquelehavre2014.org More information available at: www.colloquelehavre2014.org Please act on or circulate as widely as possible this call for papers – Thank you. Best Regards, Organizing Committee. Cher(e)s collègues, Nous avons le plaisir de vous informer que le département Information-Communication de l’IUT du Havre organise le 3ème colloque international sur la communication électronique. Vous trouverez ci-dessous le lien pour télécharger l’appel à communication du colloque international « Communication électronique, cultures et identités », qui aura lieu au Havre (France) les 11, 12 et 13 juin 2014. Les propositions (3500 signes) doivent nous parvenir à l’adresse suivante : soumission@colloquelehavre2014.org au plus tard le 31 janvier 2014 Pour toute information complémentaire, veuillez consulter le site internet : www.colloquelehavre2014.org Nous vous remercions de bien vouloir diffuser l’appel à communication le plus largement possible. Au très grand plaisir de vous rencontrer prochainement au Havre. Bien à vous. Le Comité d'Organisation. Download the call for papers Télécharger l'appel à communication Contact _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6798B76AD; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 07:49:43 +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 A742D76A4; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 07:49:35 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 15D9776A1; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 07:49:34 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131031064934.15D9776A1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 07:49:34 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.488 online 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. 27, No. 488. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 12:04:25 -0700 From: Rob Myers Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.485 the fact of online publication In-Reply-To: <20131030062635.4D1BC76A1@digitalhumanities.org> On 29/10/13 11:26 PM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > A librarian at Connecticut College recently informed me that several > of my poems from magazines and my own books, were lifted by a fellow > named Morgan in England, submitted under his name and published, even > entered in contests, at least one of which he won. Morgan pirated > the work of other writers and put them out under his name. This is possible because copyright restricts the ability to check previous texts and discover plagiarism. Fair Use makes this kind of checking via systems such as Google Book Search legal. Sadly we don't have Fair Use in England, we have the much more restrictive Fair Dealing system. Detecting plagiarism by the industrialised scanning of texts is therefore of dubious legality. If only the UK had Fair Use, discovering plagiarism (which is a moral problem) would not be prevented by copyright infringement (which is a legal problem). Abolishing or reducing Fair Use in the US would leave educational institutions such as Prof. Kessler's employer, or poets who wish to quote the work of others, with large costs. Plagiarists and large corporations would not care. The former would be better protected as finding them would be harder, the latter can afford costs that would bankrupt those individuals who are pleading to be defended from 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0415376B6; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 07:50:32 +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 564C376AD; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 07:50:26 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8C3DB76AA; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 07:50:24 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20131031065024.8C3DB76AA@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 07:50:24 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.489 figures and illustrations? 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. 27, No. 489. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 12:44:10 -0500 From: Paul Fishwick Subject: figures and illustrations in printed text I have a question regarding humanities scholarship with regard to figures and illustrations found in texts. Also, I have an observation, and would like critical feedback. 1. Placement: I find it interesting that some books that I am studying from the 19th century (in the general area of science) place figures at the end of the book. The reason that comes to mind is one of economy; it is simpler or cheaper to put them at the end rather than a more usable and convenient in-line position. Is this the case or are there other good reasons? If it is the case, what is the technical reason related to typesetting process? Prior to the invention of metal type, the tradition may have been different since manuscripts were hand copied (e.g., illuminated manuscripts). 2. Abstraction: I recall reading somewhere that illustrations or figures (or maps) are seen in DH as containing more potential bias than the written word. However, I find this puzzling, and would think that due to visual cues, maps and other illustrations are less abstract than symbolic text, and that they have less of an opportunity for bias. Thoughts or references on this topic? -paul Paul Fishwick, PhD Chair, ACM SIGSIM Distinguished Chair of Arts & Technology and Professor of Computer Science Director, Creative Automata Laboratory The University of Texas at Dallas Arts & Technology 800 West Campbell Road, AT10 Richardson, TX 75080-3021 Home: utdallas.edu/atec/fishwick Blog: creative-automata.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 79F6576BA; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 07:51:54 +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 096CA76A1; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 07:51:46 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 275CC76A7; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 07:51:45 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131031065145.275CC76A7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 07:51:45 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.490 big data is bunk? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 490. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 14:14:15 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: big data is bunk Some here will be bothered, others amused by the opinions of Harper Reed, Obama's chief techie for the 2012 campaign, on big data. See Marc Parry, "'Big Data' Is Bunk, Obama Campaign's Tech Guru Tells University Leaders", Chronicle of Higher Education for 30 October, http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/big-data-is-bunk-obama-campaigns-tech-guru-tells-university-leaders/47885?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en. WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 77F3976C3; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 07:54:38 +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 D06A176B9; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 07:54:29 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 72DE976B6; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 07:54:28 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131031065428.72DE976B6@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 07:54:28 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.491 fellowship at Dartmouth; asst professorship at American University of Beirut X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 491. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: David Wrisley (24) Subject: Asst Prof Visual/Digital Culture [2] From: Allen Riddell (42) Subject: Call for applications: Neukom Fellows at Dartmouth College --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 16:06:35 +0200 From: David Wrisley Subject: Asst Prof Visual/Digital Culture The Department of English at the American University of Beirut is seeking to fill a position of Assistant Professor. Possible fields of specialization include visual or digital culture, cinema studies, digital approaches to literature, emergent forms of storytelling, augmented reality or theoretical approaches to visual/digital world(s). Candidates will be expected to teach both core courses in literature and more specialized ones at the undergraduate and graduate level. Applicants must have a PhD at the time of appointment. Appointments are for an initial period of four years with opportunities for renewal and advancement. The teaching load is 3/2. Positions begin late August 2014. To apply, send a cover letter, CV, writing sample, sample relevant syllabi/materials and three letters of reference to the Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Files may be sent electronically to as_dean@aub.edu.lb or by mail to: American University of Beirut, P.O. Box 11-0236, Beirut 1107 2020, Lebanon. Review of materials begins Nov 25, 2013 with interviews at MLA. The American University of Beirut is the preeminent liberal arts university in the Middle East, serving a diverse, multilingual student body. AUB is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. David Joseph WrisleyAssociate Professor, English/CVSP Chairperson, Department of English American University of Beirut Twitter: @AUB_ENGL @DJWrisley http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/english/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 10:12:36 -0400 From: Allen Riddell Subject: Call for applications: Neukom Fellows at Dartmouth College Neukom Fellows at Dartmouth College The Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth College is pleased to announce the 2013 Neukom Fellows competition. Neukom Fellows are interdisciplinary positions for recent Ph.D.s, DMAs, or MFAs whose research interests or practice cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries, but has some computational component, whether it be a framing concept for intellectual exploration or an explicit component of the work that is pursued. The successful candidate should have a history of collaborative work across disciplines, but still show good evidence of independence and initiative. The Fellowships are two- to three-year appointments, with the third year extension considered upon request after a review early in the second year. Neukom Fellows will be mentored by faculty in two departments at Dartmouth College, take up residence in one department, and will teach one seminar course each year on a subject of their interest. Beyond that there are no additional duties. Neukom Fellow stipends are $60,000 for 2014-2015. Additional funds are available for equipment, travel, and research materials. Requirements: 1. Ph.D. in any discipline or DMA or MFA (or expected by September 2013). 2. Research interests that strongly intersect the theme of computation. 3. A proven ability to work independently and collaboratively 4. A demonstrated interest in multidisciplinary research. 5. Evidence of the ability to think outside traditional paradigms. Application Materials: Interested candidates are strongly encouraged to contact prospective mentors at Dartmouth College and must submit the following materials: 1) Curriculum vitae (including publications list).
2) Statement of research interests (max. 2 pages) including a short description of the research you would like to pursue and why.
3) Description of which departments (and even better, which Dartmouth faculty) you would be interested in working with and why the opportunity to engage with multiple departments would enhance your work. 4) Three referees whose letters of recommendation speak to the aims of the Fellowship. 5) (Optional) A copy of one paper you have written in English, either published or unpublished. Apply at: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3364 Completed applications received by December 1, 2013 will receive first consideration. Materials received after that date or those that do not fulfill the above requirements stand the chance of not being considered. Applications from women and minorities are encouraged. Dartmouth College is an equal opportunity employer. For a list of current Neukom Fellows: http://neukom.dartmouth.edu/programs/neukom_fellows_announced.html and also http://neukom.dartmouth.edu/programs/neukom_fellows_14.html For more information on The Neukom Institute: http://neukom.dartmouth.edu/ The Neukom Fellows Program and the Neukom Institute are made possible by a generous gift from Mr. William H. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 13:40:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Elena González-Blanco García Subject: Rv: Mailing list of the Spanish DH Association. New subscription policy In-Reply-To: Dear Humanist members: On behalf of the Hispanic Association of Digital Humanities HDH (www.humanidadesdigitales.org), it is a pleasure for me to announce that our mailing list has just been opened to public suscription and not just for members of the Association as it was before. The link to suscribe to this list is: https://listserv.rediris.es/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=HDH Please, feel free to circulate to anybody who could be interested! Thanks a lot, ------------ En nombre de la HDH: Humanidades Digitales Hispánicas, Sociedad Internacional (www.humanidadesdigitales.org) es un placer anunciar que la política de suscripción de nuestra lista de correo interna acaba de hacerse pública para todos aquellos que deseen recibir información sobre nuestras actividades y proyectos, así como enviar los suyos que puedan resultar de interés a la comunidad de Humanidades Digitales en español. Les adjuntamos el link para que puedan suscribirse: https://listserv.rediris.es/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=HDH Esperamos que sea de su agrado y les rogamos que lo difundan entre todos aquellos que puedan estar interesados. Un saludo muy cordial, Elena González-Blanco García Secretaria de la HDH Dpto. de Literatura Española y Teoría de la Literatura, Despacho 722 Facultad de Filología, UNED Paseo Senda del Rey 7 28040 MADRID tel. 91 3986873 www.uned.es/remetca _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8DAF476D1; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 08:00:21 +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 B8CD776D0; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 08:00:12 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A04A176CD; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 08:00:09 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131031070009.A04A176CD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 08:00:09 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.493 events: iConference; AI; social organization X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 493. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Compaso Compaso (69) Subject: CfP: Stories in social organization [2] From: "ecai2014@guarant.cz" (33) Subject: ECAI 2014 call for papers [3] From: Mats Dahlström (47) Subject: iConference 2014: registration call --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 09:28:36 +0200 From: Compaso Compaso Subject: CfP: Stories in social organization Journal of Comparative Research in Sociology and Anthropology Call for Papers: Stories in social **organisation* http://compaso.eu/2013/10/15/call-for-papers-stories-in-social-organization/ Social organization relies, among others, on accounts of action, involving the use of social categories and vocabularies of motive (Mills, 1940) to portray meaningful characters engaged in intelligible missions. Stories are often used in accounts, offering a valuable form for rendering experience intelligible. We invite contributions that explore the use of stories for social organization, at multiple levels and in various settings (De Fina & Georgakopoulou, 2012). Some of the research questions that may guide reflections include, without being limited to, the following: - How are stories produced in conversation? How do speakers organize talk sequentially to mark the delivery of stories (Jefferson, 1978; Stokoe & Edwards, 2006), and how do they respond to storytelling? - What types of actions can be accomplished through story formatted sequences and what are their affordances compared to other formatting options (Sidnell, 2010)? - How can we analyze stories by taking into account the social interaction in which their authors are involved (Norrick, 2007)? How are ‘small stories’ (Georgakopoulou, 2006, 2007) designed for situated exchanges, and what are their interactional effects? - How are stories used in organizational settings (Blazkova, 2011)? How are stories resources for concerted action in organizations, portraying types of members, or actions that are possible, impossible, Quixotescue, or heroic? - How is storytelling learned, and how is it adapted to various stages and settings of life (Bruner, 1990)? How do adults tell stories to children, and how do children tell stories to adults? How is storytelling institutionally organized – in courtrooms, in hospitals, in schools, at workplaces? - How are selves sustained through storytelling (Dennett, 1992)? - How are stories used for identity making (Schwalbe & Mason-Schrock, 1996) and display, including gender or age performances (West & Zimmerman, 1987; Laz, 1998) ? *References* Blazkova, H. (2011). Telling Tales of Professional Competence: Narrative in 60-Second Business Networking Speeches. Journal of Business Communication, 48(4), 446–463. Bruner, J. S. (1990). Acts of Meaning. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. De Fina, A., & Georgakopoulou, A. (2012). Analyzing Narrative. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Dennett, D. (1992). The self as a center of narrative gravity. In F. Kessel, P. Cole, & D. Johnson (Eds.), Self and Consciousness: Multiple Perspectives (pp. 103–115). Hillsdale: Erlbaum. Georgakopoulou, A. (2006). Thinking big with small stories in narrative and identity analysis. Narrative Inquiry, 16(1), 122–130. Georgakopoulou, A. (2007). Small Stories, Interaction and Identities. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Jefferson, G. (1978). Sequential aspects of storytelling in conversation. In J. Schenkein (Ed.), Studies in the Organisation of Conversational Interaction (pp. 219–248). New York: Academic Press. Laz, C. (1998). Act Your Age. Sociological Forum, 13(1), 85–113. doi:10.1023/A:1022160015408 Mills, C. W. (1940). Situated Actions and Vocabularies of Motive. American Sociological Review, 5(6), 904–913. Norrick, N. (2007). Conversational storytelling. In D. Herman (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Narrative (pp. 127–141). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Schwalbe, M. L., & Mason-Schrock, D. (1996). Identity work as group process. Advances in Group Processes, 13, 113–147. Sidnell, J. (2010). Conversation Analysis: An Introduction. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Stokoe, E. H., & Edwards, D. (2006). Story formulations in talk-in-interaction. Narrative Inquiry, 16(1), 56–65. West, C., & Zimmerman, D. H. (1987). Doing gender. Gender & Society, 1(2), 125–151. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 13:13:00 +0000 From: "ecai2014@guarant.cz" Subject: ECAI 2014 call for papers ECAI'14 Call for Papers The Twenty-first European Conference on Artificial Intelligence 18–22 August 2014, Prague, Czech Republic www.ecai2014.org http://www.ecai2014.org/ The biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) is Europe's premier archival venue for presenting scientific results in AI. Organised by the European Coordinating Committee for AI (ECCAI), the ECAI conference provides an opportunity for researchers to present and hear about the very best research in contemporary AI. As well as a full programme of technical papers, ECAI'14 will include the Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems conference (PAIS), the Starting AI Researcher Symposium (STAIRS), the International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML), and an extensive programme of workshops, tutorials, and invited speakers. (Separate calls are issued for PAIS, STAIRS, RuleML, tutorials, and workshops.) ECAI'14 will be held in the beautiful and historic city of Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. With excellent opportunities for sightseeing and gastronomy, Prague promises to be a wonderful venue for a memorable conference. This call invites the submission of papers and posters for the technical programme of ECAI'14. High-quality original submissions are welcome from all areas of AI; the following list of topics is indicative only. • Agent-based and Multi-agent Systems • Constraints, Satisfiability, and Search • Knowledge Representation, Reasoning, and Logic • Machine Learning and Data Mining • Natural Language Processing • Planning and Scheduling • Robotics, Sensing, and Vision • Uncertainty in AI • Web and Knowledge-based Information Systems • Multidisciplinary Topics Both long (6-page) and short (2-page) papers can be submitted. Whereas long papers should report on substantial research results, short papers are intended for highly promising but possibly more preliminary work. Short papers will be presented in poster form. Rejected long papers will be considered for the short paper track. Submitted papers must be formatted according to ECAI'14 guidelines and submitted electronically through the ECAI'14 paper submission site. Full instructions including formatting guidelines and electronic templates are available on the ECAI'14 website. Paper submission: 1 March 2014 Author feedback: 14–18 April 2014 Notification of acceptance/rejection: 9 May 2014 Camera-ready copy due: 30 May 2014 The proceedings of ECAI'14 will be published by IOS Press. Conference Secretariat GUARANT International Na Pankráci 17 140 21 Prague 4 Tel: +420 284 001 444, Fax: +420 284 001 448 E-mail: ecai2014@guarant.cz Web: www.ecai2014.org http://www.ecai2014.org/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 09:25:39 +0100 From: Mats Dahlström Subject: iConference 2014: registration call In-Reply-To: <20131019055159.CF6225F67@digitalhumanities.org> ************************************************************* iConference 2014: Early-bird registration available through Dec. 15, 2013 4-7 March, 2014, Berlin, Germany http://ischools.org/the-iconference/ ************************************************************* Registration is now open for iConference 2014, with discounted early rates available through December 15; standard rates apply thereafter. Register now for the lowest available rate! iConference 2014 will bring together scholars and researchers from around the world who share a common concern about critical information issues in contemporary society. This is our ninth annual conference and the first to be held in Europe. Organized under the banner ‘Breaking Down Walls | Culture, Context, Computing, iConference 2014 will provide an inspiring sense of community, high quality research presentations, and myriad opportunities for engagement. All information field practitioners are welcome; affiliation with a member-iSchool is not required. Highlights include: -- A compelling program of peer-reviewed Papers, Notes, and Posters. -- Thought-provoking Workshops and Sessions for Interaction and Engagement. -- Keynote addresses from Tony Hey of Microsoft Research and Melissa Terras of the Department of Information Studies, University College London. -- Myriad opportunities for socializing and networking with premier thinkers in the information field. Social events include our Opening Reception at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, private gala dinner at the world-renowned Naturkunde Museum Berlin, two networking-oriented Poster Sessions, a Farewell Reception, and multiple shared meals and breaks throughout. -- Unique opportunities for career mentoring and growth, including a Doctoral Colloquium (invitation only), an Early Career Colloquium (open to all) and a Professional Development Seminar (also open to all). -- A Social Media Expo presented by iSchool student teams and sponsored by Microsoft Research. -- The opportunity to personally experience Berlin, one of the most historic and compelling cities in Europe. iConference 2014 is presented by the iSchools organization and hosted by The Berlin School of Library and Information Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; the program is administered by the Royal School of Library and Information Science, University of Copenhagen. The presenting sponsor is Microsoft Research, with additional funding from De Gruyter and Springer. The conference takes place 4-7 March, 2014. More at http://ischools.org/the-iconference/hp _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 AC89776C1; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 08:01:33 +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 40C5676C4; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 08:01:26 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A5AC476B9; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 08:01:24 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131031070124.A5AC476B9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 08:01:23 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.494 pubs: Mosteller; philosophy & 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. 27, No. 494. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Charles Ess (95) Subject: Cfp - special issue of Philosophy and Technology: 20 years of ETHICOMP [2] From: Willard McCarty (11) Subject: Frederick Mosteller --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 12:03:18 +0000 From: Charles Ess Subject: Cfp - special issue of Philosophy and Technology: 20 years of ETHICOMP Dear Humanists, On behalf of the editors - please distribute and cross-post widely! Many thanks in advance, - charles ess University of Oslo == Philosophy and Technology (Springer), Editor in Chief Luciano Floridi (Oxford) Call for Papers for a special issue on 20 Years of ETHICOMP: A Celebration GUEST EDITORS Charles Ess, Bernd Carsten Stahl Background The ETHICOMP conference series began in 1995. In 1995 the World Wide Web was a new phenomenon unheard of by most people. It was a time of initial experimentation with electronic government and electronic commerce. The dominant computing paradigm was still focused on mainframes, with networked machines starting to gain prominence. Personal computers existed but were expensive. Mobile telephones were the preserve of well-paid executives. Increasingly, however, the emerging characteristics and growing social consequences of computing technologies evoked and required ethical reflection. It was in this context that Simon Rogerson and Terry Bynum had the vision of organizing the first ETHICOMP conference in 1995 (Leicester, UK). Technologies, their organisational, individual and social use and the resulting social and ethical consequences have developed rapidly. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are now converging and diffusing into an ever-increasing number of social domains. ETHICOMP remains one of the main venues for the exchange of ideas about ethics and ICTs. Among the defining features of ETHICOMP are the explicit attempts to bring together people from different backgrounds from within and outside of academia with a strong interest in practice and policy. The ETHICOMP conference series furthermore prides itself in being inclusive, supportive and providing a friendly environment for new entrants in the discussion to voice their ideas. These distinctive characteristics of the conference series are due first of all to the vision and labour of its two leading figures, Terry and Simon. During the nearly two decades of its existence, the conference has branched out from being a local event in Leicester to spanning several continents with the events occurring in places as diverse as China, Japan and South America. Recently, Terry and Simon have stepped down as chairs and leaders of the ETHICOMP conference series and have handed over the responsibility to the next generation of scholars. This special issue celebrates the achievements of the ETHICOMP conference series, of the two individuals who have steered it, and the community of researchers, scholars and practitioners who have discovered and helped shape it as a place to develop their understanding and thinking. TOPICS In this special issue we want to look back on the discourse that has developed within and around ETHICOMP. This special issue will be linked to a dedicated track of the 2014 ETHICOMP / CEPE conference. Potential authors are encouraged to submit an extended abstract to the 2014 ETHICOMP track. The track will allow potential authors to develop their ideas further. Possible topics include: · Technological changes and resulting ethical challenges · Themes of ethical discussion in ICT since 1995, both within and beyond ETHICOMP · Relationships of different scholarly and disciplinary communities (e.g. computer science, software engineering, philosophy, science and technology studies, information systems) and conferences (e.g., CAP, ECAP, IACAP, CEPE, and of course, ETHICOMP) in ethics and ICT · Personal insights, accounts or viewpoints that demonstrate the relevance of ETHICOMP and its two founders ­ e.g., Terry Bynum¹s focus on ³flourishing ethics² as rooted in the work of Norbert Wiener, Simon Rogerston¹s attention to ways in which professional practice can become relevant in the ICT industry. · Historical, bibliometric or other analyses of ETHICOMP content · Likely topics of ETHICOMP conferences in 2035, i.e., what might current patterns of research topics and anticipated technological developments suggest as future directions for research and critical reflection? TIMETABLE 30.11.2013                  Submission of extended abstracts to ETHICOMP 2014 (recommended) 25-27.06.2014             2014 ETHICOMP, in conjunction with CEPE 01.08.2014                  Submission online of full paper to the journal (see instructions below) 31.10.2014                  Deadline for peer-reviewed, double-blind evaluations 15.11.2014                  Editorial feedback to authors 01.02.2015                  Submission of revised papers 31.03.2015                  Final editorial decision June 2015                    Publication of the special issue  SUBMISSION DETAILS To submit a paper for this special issue, authors should go to the journal¹s Editorial Manager (EM) http://www.editorialmanager.com/phte/  The author (or a corresponding author for each submission in case of co- authored papers) must register into EM. The author must then select the special article type: "20 Years of ETHICOMP: A Celebration² from the selection provided in the submission process. This is needed in order to assign the submissions to the Guest Editors.  For any further information please contact: Stahl, Bernd Carsten bstahl@dmu.ac.uk Ess, Charles c.m.ess@media.uio.no --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 20:39:09 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Frederick Mosteller Anyone here who cares about the history of authorship attribution and computational stylistics will be interested in the U.S. National Academy of Sciences' publication of a biography of Frederick Mosteller (1916-2006), by Stephen E. Fienberg, David C. Hoaglin and Judith M. Tanur, in their Biographical Memoirs series, downloadable from http://bit.ly/HsMwrT. WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B732B76E1; Fri, 1 Nov 2013 07:05:29 +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 04C8B7699; Fri, 1 Nov 2013 07:05:18 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E804F2ED1; Fri, 1 Nov 2013 07:05:15 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131101060515.E804F2ED1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 07:05:15 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.495 big data is bunk X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 495. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 02:57:25 -0500 From: Anupam Basu Subject: Re: 27.490 big data is bunk? In-Reply-To: <20131031065145.275CC76A7@digitalhumanities.org> "The exciting thing is you can get a lot of this stuff done just in Excel," he said. "You don't need these big platforms. You don't need all this big fancy stuff. If anyone says 'big' in front of it, you should look at them very skeptically ... You can tell charlatans when they say 'big' in front of everything." While there is, of course, some debate on how to define the phrase "big data," it is thrown about rather recklessly in the media. The prevalent opinion focuses on computing resources as a measure of "bigness" - i.e. your data isn't big unless you're talking about several terabytes or even petabytes that needs distributed clusters, map-reduce etc to process http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/hadoop_hatred.html . I know of no humanities projects that need to operate at this scale. I don't know about Excel, but most of what we do is certainly tractable with fairly moderate computing power. But if we are to stick to hardware resources as a frame of reference, I'd define an intermediate notion of scale as the point where your data is large enough that you can't simply brute-force your way through it - where you have to think about data-structures, memory usage and optimizing algorithms. With a corpus of several thousand texts - it's easy to hit this threshold with a single computer where you start to run out of RAM and have to serialize things, or where brute-force searches simply don't scale and you have to look at new tools and algorithms. Lying between the domains of Excel and Hadoop, this is where a lot of humanities "big data" analytics happens. On the other hand, one might argue that all data is big data in the humanities. That is, the moment we enter the realm of "data" in the humanities - the moment we scale up from the conventional logic and practices of reading and start to think in terms of corpora and corpus-wide analysis - we enter a domain that might not stretch computing hardware of even Excel, but that requires us to rethink and fundamentally reevaluate paradigmatic assumptions about reading and analysis. Conventional big data that uses distributed processing requires a radical rethink of how computational resources are used and how large-scale analysis is broken down into tractable chunks. I'd say that the jump from 'close' to 'distant' reading and the translation of qualitative experience into quantitative data is no less radical. If the phrase were not so co-opted by commercial gimmicks, I'd be happy to settle on this paradoxical notion of computationally small data that is "big" from a humanistic perspective. -Anupam --- Washington University in Saint Louis Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities Humanities Digital 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7D53676EE; Fri, 1 Nov 2013 07:06:25 +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 C53C876E7; Fri, 1 Nov 2013 07:06:16 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0874A76E5; Fri, 1 Nov 2013 07:06:14 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131101060615.0874A76E5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 07:06:14 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.496 figures and illustrations X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 496. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 09:32:22 +0100 From: Øyvind Eide Subject: Re: 27.489 figures and illustrations? In-Reply-To: <20131031065024.8C3DB76AA@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Paul, I will go straight for number 2. The standard text for maps is: Monmonier, Mark. How to Lie with Maps. 2 ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. There are two issues at stake here. First the ability to present biased information. This can easily be done in texts, of course, but also in maps and other graphical forms. The means for doing it are different, but you have a number of options from plain lies (for instance military areas not shown on maps) to dubious projections (for instance, on the ordinary world maps we use, Europe is presented as relatively speaking too large and Africa too small. One take on this is: Wood, Denis. The Power of Maps. New York, 1992, with a follow up in 2010. The second issue is how the reader experience the expression. There is no book called "How texts lie", even if, in addition to Monmonier, you have titles such as "How to lie with statistics" (Huff 1954), "How to lie with charts" (Jones 1995), and even "The myth of paradigm-shift, or, How to lie with methodology" (Scharnberg 1984). In a way, we know from the outset that all texts are biased; from our education, maybe even from the decoding of the medium itself. We know that we do not fully grasp the semantic potential of the words and how they play out in the text -- especially those of us writing in a foreign language. Maps may have a stronger rhetoric of unbiased truth. How this is established I am not sure of, but it is clearly connected to how we perceive the different semiotic systems. As a map maker (many years ago) I know some of the things we do in order to make truthful and pleasing maps; we move things around, change details, omit information at both particular and of course type level, etc. So I think it is not the bias contained in the expression (if that can even be spoken about without an understanding reader), but rather the expression-reader relationship which gives different types of status to different expression. Within media, of course; a legal text is different from a novel and a propaganda map is different from a topographical map, but also between media form. I believe that in the culture I come from (Northern Europe late 20th century) maps are experienced as less biased than texts in general. It may be that the maps we had were actually less biased. But the sum of bias and the expectations for bias (the level of critical sense in the reading) may give a different story than the level of bias seen alone. Another thing is of course that bias in itself is hard to establish. A description for me is propaganda for you. Thanks for raising this important issue! Issue 1 is important as well, of course, but there are a number of experts on the field on this list so I trust the discussion will come. Kind regards, Øyvind Eide On 31. okt. 2013, at 07:50, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 489. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 12:44:10 -0500 > From: Paul Fishwick > Subject: figures and illustrations in printed text > > > I have a question regarding humanities scholarship with regard to > figures and illustrations found in texts. Also, I have an observation, > and would like critical feedback. > > 1. Placement: I find it interesting that some books that I am studying from the 19th > century (in the general area of science) place figures at the end of the book. The > reason that comes to mind is one of economy; it is simpler or cheaper to put them > at the end rather than a more usable and convenient in-line position. Is this the > case or are there other good reasons? If it is the case, what is the technical reason > related to typesetting process? Prior to the invention of metal type, the tradition may > have been different since manuscripts were hand copied (e.g., illuminated manuscripts). > > 2. Abstraction: I recall reading somewhere that illustrations or figures (or maps) are > seen in DH as containing more potential bias than the written word. However, I find this > puzzling, and would think that due to visual cues, maps and other illustrations are > less abstract than symbolic text, and that they have less of an opportunity for > bias. Thoughts or references on this topic? > > -paul > > Paul Fishwick, PhD > Chair, ACM SIGSIM > Distinguished Chair of Arts & Technology > and Professor of Computer Science > Director, Creative Automata Laboratory > The University of Texas at Dallas > Arts & Technology > 800 West Campbell Road, AT10 > Richardson, TX 75080-3021 > Home: utdallas.edu/atec/fishwick > Blog: creative-automata.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 605E476F6; Fri, 1 Nov 2013 07:07:54 +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 9285376E7; Fri, 1 Nov 2013 07:07:45 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AF6A976E5; Fri, 1 Nov 2013 07:07:43 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131101060743.AF6A976E5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 07:07:43 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.497 fellowships for digital 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. 27, No. 497. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:30:06 +0100 From: Franz Fischer Subject: DiXiT - Marie Curie fellowships on digital scholarly editions now open for application The Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network (DiXiT) offers 12 Marie Curie fellowships to early stage researchers (ESRs) for a period of 3 years and 5 Marie Curie fellowships to experienced researchers (ERs) for a period of 12 to 20 months. Fellowships are now open for applications. For details visit: http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/fellows.html Please circulate widely! About DiXiT: DiXiT (Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network) is an international network of high-profile institutions from the public and the private sector that are actively involved in the creation and publication of digital scholarly editions. DiXiT offers a coordinated training and research programme for early stage researchers and experienced researchers in the multi-disciplinary skills, technologies, theories, and methods of digital scholarly editing. DiXiT is funded under Marie Curie Actions within the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme and runs from September 2013 until August 2017. For more information visit the DiXiT website: http://dixit.uni-koeln.de APPLICATION Academic Requirements: Early-Stage Researchers must be in the first 4 years of their research careers and not yet have a doctoral degree. This is measured from the date when they obtained the degree which would formally entitle them to embark on a doctorate, irrespective of whether or not a doctorate is envisaged. Experienced Researchers must be in possession of a doctoral degree or have at least 4 years of full-time equivalent research experience. At the time of recruitment by the host organisation an experienced researcher must also have less than 5 years of full-time equivalent research experience. It should be noted that an individual researcher may not be recruited first as an ESR and subsequently as an ER in the same project. Marie Curie ITN mobility requirement: Researchers can be of any nationality. They are required to undertake trans-national mobility (i.e. move from one country to another) when taking up their appointment. One general rule applies to the appointment of researchers: At the time of recruitment by the host organisation, researchers must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc) in the country of their host organisation for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the reference date. Short stays such as holidays and/or compulsory national service are not taken into account. Application process: Please note that applications from any qualified applicants, regardless of gender, ethnicity or country of origin are welcome if they meet the eligibility requirements. Applicants should send their applications directly to the institution hosting the desired fellowship. Applications for more than one post are welcome – however, multiple applications should be indicated via the obligatory DiXiT application form (which has to be submitted separately from the application documents send to the hosting institution). Application deadline: The deadline for applications is the 10th December 2013. Please note that the four remaining ER fellowships will start at a later date and the possibility of application will be announced accordingly. For further details visit http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/fellows.html -- Dr. Franz Fischer Cologne Center for eHumanities / Thomas-Institut Universität zu Köln, Universitätsstr. 22, D-50923 Köln Telefon: +49 - (0)221 - 470 - 4056 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://dixit.uni-koeln.de http://guillelmus.uni-koeln.de 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, T_FRT_COCK autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6AAAF76FB; Fri, 1 Nov 2013 07:10:33 +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 7686676F2; Fri, 1 Nov 2013 07:10:24 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 88F1576F1; Fri, 1 Nov 2013 07:10:22 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131101061022.88F1576F1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 07:10:22 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.498 events: annotation; innovation; 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. 27, No. 498. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (61) Subject: ACRH-3. in memory of Fr Roberto Busa [2] From: Willard McCarty (13) Subject: Innovative Information Technologies, Vilnius, Lithuania, 14- 16 November [3] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (21) Subject: Translation in a Digital Age --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 14:58:33 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: ACRH-3. in memory of Fr Roberto Busa Programme of The Third Workshop on Annotation of Corpora for Research in the Humanities (ACRH-3) 12th December 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria http://bultreebank.org/ACRH-3/ In memory of father Roberto Busa (1913-2011) Registration 8:30-9:15 ----- Opening by Caroline Sporleder 9:15-9:30 ----- "Busa" session (Chair: Caroline Sporleder) Marco Passarotti One Hundred Years Ago. In memory of Father Roberto Busa SJ 9:30-10:00 Invited lecture: Willard McCarty What does Turing have to do with Busa? 10:00-11:00 ----- Coffee break 11:00-11:30 ----- Session A: 2 oral presentations (Chair: TBA) Olga Scrivner, Sandra Kuebler, Barbara Vance and Eric Beuerlein Le Roman de Flamenca: An Annotated Corpus of Old Occitan 11:30-12:00 ----- Timo Korkiakangas and Matti Lassila Abbreviations, fragmentary words, formulaic language: treebanking mediaeval charter material 12:00-12:30 ----- Lunch 12:30-14:00 ----- Session B: 2 oral presentations (Chair: TBA) Erwin Komen Predicting referential states using enriched texts 14:00-14:30 Dimitrios Kokkinakis Annotation of interpersonal relations in Swedish 19th century prose fictio 14:30-15:00 ----- Coffee break 15:00-15:30 ----- Session C: 2 oral presentations (Chair: TBA) Iris Hendrickx, Marten During, Kalliopi Zervanou and Antal van Den Bosch Searching and Finding Strikes in the New York Times 15:30-16:00 Ines Rehbein, Emiel Visser and Nadine Lestmann Annotating computer-mediated language #bestpractices 16:00-16:30 ----- Closing remarks (Marco Passarotti) 16:30-16:45 See -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:08:15 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Innovative Information Technologies, Vilnius, Lithuania, 14-16 November *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1383232321_2013-10-31_willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk_26714.2.pdf 6th International Conference INNOVATIVE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR SCIENCE, BUSINESS AND EDUCATION, IIT-2013 November 14-16, 2013 Artis Centrum Hotel, Liejyklos 11/23, Vilnius, Lithuania The programme of the conference is attached. -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:12:05 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Translation in a Digital Age The following event may be of interest: Part of the British Academy & Guardian Language Festival Organized by the Arts and Humanities Research Council ‘Translating Cultures’ and ‘Digital Transformations’ themes in collaboration with the British Academy A panel discussion on ‘Translation in a Digital Age’ Monday 11 November 2013 6.00-8.30 pm British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH http://www.britac.ac.uk/contact/visit_us.cfm While translation attracts increased attention in contemporary politics, culture and society, the practices the term encompasses are undergoing processes of radical change as a result of advances in digital technology and the internet. Developments in machine translation and computational linguistics, crowd-sourcing, translation apps, free online language translation services and other innovations are revolutionizing the ways in which translations are produced and consumed, and also extending our understanding of what is or is not translatable. These developments are challenging traditional understandings of translation, not least in relation to its commercial, professional, political and cultural dimensions. The place of human agency in translation is also undergoing rapid change, leading certain commentators to predict the ‘death of the translator’. Participants in this panel will assess the implications of recent developments in machine translation, computational linguistics and other technologies whilst exploring what, in the light of an emerging digital humanism, persists of the ‘living voice’ in translation practices Speakers: Sarah Ardizzone (translator; curator, Spectacular Translation Machine) Professor Jeremy Munday (University of Leeds) Professor Stephen Pulman FBA (University of Oxford) Dr Matt Stuttle (Google) Professor Andy Way (Dublin City University; Lingo24; editor, Machine Translation) Co-chairs: Professor Charles Forsdick (University of Liverpool; AHRC Theme Leadership Fellow, ‘Translating Cultures’) Professor Andrew Prescott (KCL; AHRC Theme Leadership Fellow, ‘Digital Transformations’) To register, please contact: email: britishacademy@vistaevents.co.uk telephone: 020 8542 7622 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5F79E76FC; Fri, 1 Nov 2013 07:11:06 +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 39B1276FB; Fri, 1 Nov 2013 07:10:58 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 50EA076FA; Fri, 1 Nov 2013 07:10:56 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131101061056.50EA076FA@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 07:10:56 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.499 a Tristram Shandy X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 499. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 19:03:39 -0500 (CDT) From: Alan Corre Subject: Tristram Shandy The Anglo-Irish novelist Laurence Sterne was born on November 24 1713. His novel, described as a comedy skirting tragedy, "Tristram Shandy" has had great influence on other writers and is an established classic. But this eighteenth century masterpiece is difficult for moderns to read. In order to remedy this, and to celebrate the tercentenary, I have prepared an edition for the Kindle e-reader which is firmly repunctuated, gently modernized, and briefly annotated. Short notes are interpolated in the text between square brackets [ ]; longer notes are placed at the end of chapters which the reader reaches easily and then returns to his place. I hope it will enable a new generation of readers to enjoy this work, which is strikingly modern in its outlook on issues which still trouble us today. In short, I have tried to ease its archaic trappings. Find it on Amazon.com by searching Books on "Sterne Corre". Alan Corre _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CE9F376E2; Sat, 2 Nov 2013 07:22:25 +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 9F8DE76DF; Sat, 2 Nov 2013 07:22:15 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 44A5076CC; Sat, 2 Nov 2013 07:22:14 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131102062214.44A5076CC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 07:22:14 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.500 PhD studentship at Calgary; postdoc at the 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 500. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Michael Ullyot (50) Subject: PhD opportunity: Research Associate, University of Calgary [2] From: Susan Schreibman (50) Subject: Postdoc: Linked Data in Media and Cultural Applications, Ireland. Deadline Nov 8 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 10:57:22 -0600 From: Michael Ullyot Subject: PhD opportunity: Research Associate, University of Calgary The Zeugmatic Project is recruiting a student to undertake a PhD in English at the University of Calgary, beginning in Fall 2014, with up to three years of financial support from the Project as a Research Associate. The ideal candidate will have an MA or MPhil in Early Modern/Renaissance English language and literature with a demonstrated interest in the digital humanities, but those with other kinds of formation will be also be considered, including very promising students with BA only. The Project will offer up to three years of support in the form of research assistantships, which may replace some of the teaching that would otherwise be expected of a doctoral candidate at the University of Calgary, and will provide some travel funds to assist with training (normally at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute) and conference presentations. The work assigned under the research assistantship will give advanced training in text encoding, computational linguistics / text analysis, and project management, and will be configured to result in a substantial scholarly publication for the Research Associate. Students interested in this opportunity will need to apply to the doctoral program in English (or MA program if without a master's degree) at the University of Calgary, following the standard procedures and deadlines. The deadline for applications is 15 December 2013, with supporting documents due by 10 January 2014. The student who takes this position will join the network of graduate students and faculty in the digital arts and humanities, a thriving research and teaching network at the University of Calgary (UofC) and in the province of Alberta. The Department of English is now hiring a digital humanist with the expertise to complement our research areas from medieval to modern texts and digital poetics. The UofC’s new digital library makes a strong commitment to digital services and research incubation. The UofC’s Eyes High strategy is committed to research-informed undergraduate and graduate teaching methods, in which the digital humanities are very strong. And the Alberta Digital Arts and Humanities (ABDAH) network is building province-wide links between researchers and graduate students. For more information: 1 / < http://english.ucalgary.ca/graduate > describes the University of Calgary PhD program and application procedures; 2 / < http://mems.ucalgaryblogs.ca/ > concerns medieval and early modern studies at the University of Calgary, including graduate courses; 3 / < http://zeugmatic.org/about/ > describes the project; and 4 / Michael Ullyot < http://ullyot.ucalgaryblogs.ca/about/ > can address any other questions; email < ullyot@ucalgary.ca >. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Michael Ullyot Associate Dean (Teaching + Learning), Faculty of Arts [from December 2013]; and Assistant Professor, Department of English University of Calgary * ullyot.ucalgaryblogs.ca/ * twitter.com/ullyot * google.com/+MichaelUllyot * 403.220.4656 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 18:46:21 +0000 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: Postdoc: Linked Data in Media and Cultural Applications, Ireland. Deadline Nov 8 In-Reply-To: <5585E44E50865845A21532E164B566182D8F30FB@RIAEXCH01.royal.local> > Subject: [dariah-all] Postdoc: Linked Data in Media and Cultural Applications, Ireland. Deadline Nov 8 > Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 16:39:00 +0000 > From: Natalie Harrower We are currently seeking applications for the following position. Please distribute widely. Title: Postdoctoral Researcher, Linked Data Focus: Linked Data in Media and Cultural Applications Location: Digital Repository of Ireland, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, Ireland and INSIGHT@NUI Galway (formerly DERI, the Digital Enterprise Research Institute), Galway, Ireland This is an exciting full time position in Linked Data applications in the media and cultural domains. The successful candidate will work in a lively atmosphere with an energetic, multidisciplinary team of researchers working at the forefront of semantic web, digital humanities and digital preservation technologies. The candidate will also collaborate with national broadcasting institutions and key cultural institutions. Full job spec attached. For informal discussion, please contact stefan.decker@deri.org *Deadline*: 5pm GMT Friday Nov 8, 2013 *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1383338821_2013-11-01_susan.schreibman@gmail.com_20213.2.pdf _______ Dr. Natalie Harrower Manager, Education & Outreach Digital Repository of Ireland Royal Irish Academy 19 Dawson St., Dublin 2 www.dri.ie| +353 (1) 609 0690 Twitter:@dri_ireland / www.ria.ie http://www.ria.ie/ The Royal Irish Academy/Acadamh ///Ríoga/ na /hÉireann// /Ireland's Academy for the sciences and humanities/ 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 1988 & 2003. For further information see our website www.ria.ie -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Trinity 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 21EAE76EC; Sat, 2 Nov 2013 07:23:06 +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 6BB5576E2; Sat, 2 Nov 2013 07:22:59 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 41AAB76E4; Sat, 2 Nov 2013 07:22:56 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131102062257.41AAB76E4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 07:22:56 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.501 events: into the ether X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 501. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 10:39:26 +0000 From: Alexandra Franklin Subject: The lure, and demise, of the ether: Symposium 21 Feb., Oxford The Lure of the Ether: physics, modernity and the communications circuit Friday, 21 February 2014 History Faculty Lecture Theatre, George Street, Oxford 10 am - 4 pm 'All that is solid melts into air' ... The inventions which created the communications revolution rely upon electromagnetic waves. Experiments and Einstein's theory of relativity challenged the supposed 'ether' through which these waves were thought to move, with dramatic results for the way space and matter might be related. How did scientists explain the apparently conflicting conceptions which organized their own studies of space and matter in the 20th century; how did the public understand these theories; and what were the ripples, throughout cultural and intellectual life, of the demise of the ether? Speakers : Imogen Clarke (Roehampton) Jaume Navarro (Universidad del País Vasco) Richard Noakes (Exeter) Richard Staley (Cambridge) Michael Whitworth (Oxford) The symposium is convened by Jaume Navarro, Byrne-Bussey Marconi Fellow at the Bodleian Libraries in 2013. http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/events Registration is required; e-mail bookcentre@bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Please include subject: 'ETHER'. 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.bodleian.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CE6CB76DF; Sat, 2 Nov 2013 08:52:20 +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 95C6D7689; Sat, 2 Nov 2013 08:52:11 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0FB7E7689; Sat, 2 Nov 2013 08:52:09 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131102075210.0FB7E7689@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 08:52:09 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.502 grants for curiosity? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 502. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 07:11:44 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: substitution of grants for curiosity American President Dwight Eisenhower's farewell address of January 1961 is best known for his warning of the threat posed to the country by the "military-industrial complex" -- a phrase which has since then found no lack of uses. But this address is historically valuable, indeed prescient as well, in other ways. One of these is, I think, relevant to digital humanities directly. In the address Eisenhower considers the changes to his country in the time he has been alive to see them, including (as well as the establishment of a permanent industry for military purposes) a great shift in research. As you may be aware World War II brought together many scientists to work on urgent problems. After the war many of the great collaborative groups broke up, but funding for the Cold War fuelled the developments toward Big Science, for example in the "factory physics" (as Louis Alvarez's style came to be known) responsible for so many discoveries of subatomic particles. This is what Eisenhower has to say on the subject: > Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our > industrial- military posture, has been the technological revolution > during recent decades. In this revolution, research has become > central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A > steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction > of, the Federal government. > > Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been > overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing > fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the > fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced > a revolution in the conduct of research. > > Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract > becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every > old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers. > The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal > employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever > present and is gravely to be regarded. Our relative uselessness has, I suppose, protected us from government contracts becoming "virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity" until recently. But for us also, more so because of our popularity, "The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by... project allocations [and] the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded". Comments? (For the whole speech see http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/research/online_documents/farewell_address.html.) Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A591976D6; Sun, 3 Nov 2013 07:35:08 +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 768A476C4; Sun, 3 Nov 2013 07:34:56 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DE50976C3; Sun, 3 Nov 2013 07:34:54 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131103063454.DE50976C3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 07:34:54 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.503 grants for curiosity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 503. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Alexander O'Connor (76) Subject: Re: 27.502 grants for curiosity? [2] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (10) Subject: Heidegger and scholarship --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 08:20:55 +0000 From: Alexander O'Connor Subject: Re: 27.502 grants for curiosity? In-Reply-To: <20131102075210.0FB7E7689@digitalhumanities.org> Hi All Call this idle thought, but: I wonder to some extent is there an overly romantic perception of these sole tinkerers? Many of them were quite wealthy, and would employ amanuenses and factotums from either their or their patron's grants. These assistants were even more anonymous and ignored than modern junior academics. Also, much of what used to be activity reserved for those wealthy enough for idle indulgence has professionalised. Look at sport—there are few amateurs at world level. Finally, the scientific narrative has never been as simple as the Eureka! anecdotes reflect. While people want to find one great discoverer, ideas, their development and their exploitation each is part of a many-handed, messier process than story-tellers of science would like. You can see this with the great tension about who is awarded Nobel prizes. -- Dr. Alexander O'Connor Alex.OConnor@scss.tcd.ie > On 2 Nov 2013, at 07:52, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 502. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 07:11:44 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: substitution of grants for curiosity > > American President Dwight Eisenhower's farewell address of January 1961 > is best known for his warning of the threat posed to the country by the > "military-industrial complex" -- a phrase which has since then found no > lack of uses. But this address is historically valuable, indeed > prescient as well, in other ways. One of these is, I think, relevant to > digital humanities directly. > > In the address Eisenhower considers the changes to his country in the > time he has been alive to see them, including (as well as the > establishment of a permanent industry for military purposes) a great > shift in research. As you may be aware World War II brought together > many scientists to work on urgent problems. After the war many of the > great collaborative groups broke up, but funding for the Cold War > fuelled the developments toward Big Science, for example in the "factory > physics" (as Louis Alvarez's style came to be known) responsible for so > many discoveries of subatomic particles. This is what Eisenhower has to > say on the subject: > >> Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our >> industrial- military posture, has been the technological revolution >> during recent decades. In this revolution, research has become >> central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A >> steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction >> of, the Federal government. >> >> Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been >> overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing >> fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the >> fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced >> a revolution in the conduct of research. >> >> Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract >> becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every >> old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers. >> The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal >> employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever >> present and is gravely to be regarded. > > Our relative uselessness has, I suppose, protected us from government > contracts becoming "virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity" > until recently. But for us also, more so because of our popularity, "The > prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by... project > allocations [and] the power of money is ever present and is gravely to > be regarded". > > Comments? (For the whole speech see > http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/research/online_documents/farewell_address.html.) > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital > Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital > Humanities, University of Western Sydney --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 11:56:28 -0600 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Heidegger and scholarship In-Reply-To: <20131102075210.0FB7E7689@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, Thank you for the quote from President Eisenhower regarding the substitution of grants for curiosity. I am reminded of a point Heidegger makes in "The Age of the World Picture”: > The decisive unfolding of the character of modern science as constant activity produces, therefore, a human being of another stamp. The scholar disappears and is replaced by the researcher engaged in research programs. These, and not the cultivation of scholarship, are what places his work at the cutting edge. The researcher no longer needs a library at home. He is, moreover, constantly on the move. He negotiates at conferences and collects information at congresses. > > From an inner compulsion, the researcher presses forward into the sphere occupied by the figure of, in the essential sense, the technologist. Only in this way can he remain capable of being effective, and only then, in the eyes of his age, is he real. Alongside him, an increasingly thinner and emptier romanticism of scholarship and the university will still be able to survive for some time at certain places. (Heidegger 2002, 64) What is less clear is whether Heidegger thinks the scholar is a more authentic figure. My read is that Heidegger recognizes that the scholar is prone to pedantry just as the researcher is prone to self-important busyness. It isn’t the case that one academic mode of activity is inherently better than the other. It is how you do scholarship or research projects that matters. He also reminds us to be careful of romanticizing scholarship, especially at those times (right before the DH submission deadline) when one wishes for a life of scholarly leisure. Yours, after a busy week, Geoffrey Rockwell Heidegger, M. (2002). The Age of the World Picture (J. Young & K. Haynes, Trans.) Off the Beaten Track (pp. 57-85). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id EC70176E4; Sun, 3 Nov 2013 07:35:54 +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 29F7C76DD; Sun, 3 Nov 2013 07:35:48 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AF84676DB; Sun, 3 Nov 2013 07:35:45 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20131103063545.AF84676DB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 07:35:45 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.504 philosophy and/or ethics of information at Oxford X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 504. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 09:02:38 +0000 From: Luciano Floridi Subject: Graduate Study in Philosophy/Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford Please circulate If you are interested in pursuing interdisciplinary graduate study at the University of Oxford in philosophy and/or ethics of information in connection with digital technologies, the Oxford Internet Institute offers: 1) The eleven-month residential MSc in Social Science of the Internet. Students from a wide variety of backgrounds can combine their interests in philosophical/ethical issues with Internet-related courses in law, policy and other social sciences. 2) The doctoral programme (DPhil) in Information, Communication and the Social Sciences. This is for students wishing to undertake groundbreaking, detailed research. Students are encouraged to ask original, concrete questions and to adopt incisive methodologies for exploring them, in order to help to shape the development of digital realities. 3) The Summer Doctoral Programme. This provides top doctoral students from around the world with the opportunity to work for a few intensive weeks with leading figures in Internet/digital research. For more information, please check: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/graduatestudy/ For an initial expression of interest, please send a short CV (max 1500 words) and a short outline of research interests or project (max 1500 words) to: Mrs. Penny Driscoll, BA (Hons), MA PA to Prof Luciano Floridi Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford 1 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3JS _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D9A2876E9; Sun, 3 Nov 2013 07:36:38 +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 339BD76E1; Sun, 3 Nov 2013 07:36:30 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BF3BD76E1; Sun, 3 Nov 2013 07:36:27 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131103063627.BF3BD76E1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 07:36:27 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.505 events: computer 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. 27, No. 505. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 06:59:47 -0500 From: Andrew Shi-hwa Chen Subject: UPDATE: Computer Culture (SWPACA Conference, February 19-22, 2014) (Deadline extension to November 15th (was November 1)) Computer Culture area 35th Annual Southwest Popular / American Culture Association Conference February 19-22, 2014 Hyatt Regency, Albuquerque, NM www.southwestpca.org http://www.swtxpca.org/ We are accepting papers and forming panels for the area of Computer Culture, as one of the many areas within the 35th annual conference of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA). The conference was formerly named the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association (SW/TX PCA/ACA). Computer is broadly defined as any computational device, whether smartphone or abacus, and any form of information technology, including the origins of concepts of interactive text which may predate computational devices as traditionally conceived. Culture is rooted in the concept of cultural meaning. We ask not just operational questions such as, "How do people communicate using computers?" but questions of meaning such as, "What does it mean when people communicate using computers instead of using pre-computer approaches to communication?" "Computer Culture" can be understood in a variety of ways: - the culture of the computer, that is, as computers interact with each other, what culture do they have of their own? - the culture around the computer, that is, (sub)cultures associated with the production, maintenance, use, and destruction of computers - the culture through the computer, that is, explicit treatment of how computer mediation influences cultural phenomena that exist or has existed in forms that did not involve computer mediation, and what these influences mean - the culture by the computer, that is, the ways in which new (sub)cultures or (sub)cultural phenomena have arisen because of computers and understandings of these given awareness of the nature and/or workings of computers Example questions associated with Computer Culture would include, but not be limited to: - What implications are there because of the powerfulness of (computer/information) technology ___ and are these implications beneficial, detrimental, inevitable, or avoidable? - What are the cultural origins of computers, computer/information technologies, and practices (such as ____) associated with them? What is the descriptive and prescriptive outlook for the conditions of those cultural forces associated with those cultural origins? - How do cultural forces (such as changes from one generation to the next, trends in education or society, or other cultural phenomena) impact (and are impacted by) computer/information technologies/market-forces, and what do these impacts (in either direction or both) mean? Paper topics might include (but are not limited to) those that address: - issues of (re)presentation through computers (Web site analysis and design), - methods of discourse involving computers (blogging, Twitter, social networks, viral video, live feeds), - theories focused on the relationship between computers and culture, - uses of computers in particular contexts and the impacts thereof (computers and pedagogy, online literary journals), - the relationship between computers and cultural forces (such as news, politics, and terrorism), - security/privacy/fraud and computers (online security issues, spam, scams, and hoaxes), - and others. While we will consider any relevant paper, we have a preference for those that involve transferable methodological approaches. This is an interdisciplinary conference, and other conference attendees would benefit from being able to adapt your research methods to their future research. Scholars, teachers, professionals, artists, and others interested in computer culture are encouraged to participate. Graduate students are also particularly welcome with award opportunities for the best graduate papers. More information about awards can be found at http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards/ Specifically, we would like to highlight the following award opportunities: - The "Computer Culture and Game Studies Award" - The "Heldrich-Dvorak Travel Fellowships" Given how papers may often fall into multiple categories, there may be other award opportunities listed at http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards/ which would be appropriate for your paper. (However, each presenter may only apply for one – not including the Travel Fellowships, which can be in addition.) If you wish to form your own panel, we would be glad to facilitate your needs. This conference is a presentation opportunity. For a publication opportunity, we encourage you to consider submitting your paper to the Southwest PCA/ACA’s new journal, Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, at http://journaldialogue.org/call-for-papers/ Please pass along this call to friends and colleagues. For consideration, submit 100-200 word abstracts and proposals for panels before Friday, November 15, 2013 to the conference’s electronic submission system which can be found at: http://conference2014.southwestpca.org/ If you have any questions, contact the Computer Culture area co-chairs, Andrew Chen (andrewsw@gmail.com) and Joseph Chaney (jchaney@iusb.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3E89B76E1; Mon, 4 Nov 2013 07:31:56 +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 E28BE76D0; Mon, 4 Nov 2013 07:31:46 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AC7FF76D0; Mon, 4 Nov 2013 07:31:44 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131104063144.AC7FF76D0@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 07:31:44 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.506 grants for curiosity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 506. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 18:01:06 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Re: 27.503 grants for curiosity In-Reply-To: <20131103063454.DE50976C3@digitalhumanities.org> The romantic image of the inventor as sole tinkerer, changing the world from a back room, is brilliantly analysed by Christine MacLeod in her 2008 book, 'Heroes of Invention: Technology, Liberalism and British Identity, 1750-1914’. MacLeod points out how in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century, the ‘projector’ was regarded as a very dubious and suspicious figure, and it was not until the Enlightenment changed views of man’s creativity that such achievements as vaccination for smallpox or balloon flight began to be more widely celebrated. In a superb chapter discussing the reputation of James Watt, MacLeod shows how the inventor began to be adopted as a heroic figure by British liberals to counter the influence of conservative figures such as the Duke of Wellington. The idea was promoted that industrial and technical progress were just as important in explaining the defeat of Napoleon as the tactical acumen of a Wellington or Nelson. This ushered in the cult of the inventor in the nineteenth century which, suggests McLeod, was only displaced in Britain in the early twentieth century, by the rise of the idea of the research scientist, with an academic team and working in teams, as a result of the anxieties created by the growth of European and American economies. The cult of the ’tinkerer’, she suggests, was always something of a British romantic fiction. 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 3 Nov 2013, at 06:34, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 503. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: Alexander O'Connor (76) > Subject: Re: 27.502 grants for curiosity? > > [2] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (10) > Subject: Heidegger and scholarship > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 08:20:55 +0000 > From: Alexander O'Connor > Subject: Re: 27.502 grants for curiosity? > In-Reply-To: <20131102075210.0FB7E7689@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Hi All > > Call this idle thought, but: > > I wonder to some extent is there an overly romantic perception of these sole tinkerers? > > Many of them were quite wealthy, and would employ amanuenses and factotums from either their or their patron's grants. These assistants were even more anonymous and ignored than modern junior academics. > > Also, much of what used to be activity reserved for those wealthy enough for idle indulgence has professionalised. Look at sport—there are few amateurs at world level. > > Finally, the scientific narrative has never been as simple as the Eureka! anecdotes reflect. While people want to find one great discoverer, ideas, their development and their exploitation each is part of a many-handed, messier process than story-tellers of science would like. You can see this with the great tension about who is awarded Nobel prizes. > > -- > Dr. Alexander O'Connor > Alex.OConnor@scss.tcd.ie > >> On 2 Nov 2013, at 07:52, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: >> >> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 502. >> Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London >> www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >> Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >> >> >> >> Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 07:11:44 +0000 >> From: Willard McCarty >> Subject: substitution of grants for curiosity >> >> American President Dwight Eisenhower's farewell address of January 1961 >> is best known for his warning of the threat posed to the country by the >> "military-industrial complex" -- a phrase which has since then found no >> lack of uses. But this address is historically valuable, indeed >> prescient as well, in other ways. One of these is, I think, relevant to >> digital humanities directly. >> >> In the address Eisenhower considers the changes to his country in the >> time he has been alive to see them, including (as well as the >> establishment of a permanent industry for military purposes) a great >> shift in research. As you may be aware World War II brought together >> many scientists to work on urgent problems. After the war many of the >> great collaborative groups broke up, but funding for the Cold War >> fuelled the developments toward Big Science, for example in the "factory >> physics" (as Louis Alvarez's style came to be known) responsible for so >> many discoveries of subatomic particles. This is what Eisenhower has to >> say on the subject: >> >>> Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our >>> industrial- military posture, has been the technological revolution >>> during recent decades. In this revolution, research has become >>> central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A >>> steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction >>> of, the Federal government. >>> >>> Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been >>> overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing >>> fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the >>> fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced >>> a revolution in the conduct of research. >>> >>> Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract >>> becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every >>> old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers. >>> The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal >>> employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever >>> present and is gravely to be regarded. >> >> Our relative uselessness has, I suppose, protected us from government >> contracts becoming "virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity" >> until recently. But for us also, more so because of our popularity, "The >> prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by... project >> allocations [and] the power of money is ever present and is gravely to >> be regarded". >> >> Comments? (For the whole speech see >> http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/research/online_documents/farewell_address.html.) >> >> Yours, >> WM >> -- >> Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital >> Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital >> Humanities, University of Western Sydney > > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 11:56:28 -0600 > From: Geoffrey Rockwell > Subject: Heidegger and scholarship > In-Reply-To: <20131102075210.0FB7E7689@digitalhumanities.org> > > Dear Willard, > > Thank you for the quote from President Eisenhower regarding the substitution of grants for curiosity. I am reminded of a point Heidegger makes in "The Age of the World Picture”: > >> The decisive unfolding of the character of modern science as constant activity produces, therefore, a human being of another stamp. The scholar disappears and is replaced by the researcher engaged in research programs. These, and not the cultivation of scholarship, are what places his work at the cutting edge. The researcher no longer needs a library at home. He is, moreover, constantly on the move. He negotiates at conferences and collects information at congresses. >> >> From an inner compulsion, the researcher presses forward into the sphere occupied by the figure of, in the essential sense, the technologist. Only in this way can he remain capable of being effective, and only then, in the eyes of his age, is he real. Alongside him, an increasingly thinner and emptier romanticism of scholarship and the university will still be able to survive for some time at certain places. (Heidegger 2002, 64) > > What is less clear is whether Heidegger thinks the scholar is a more authentic figure. My read is that Heidegger recognizes that the scholar is prone to pedantry just as the researcher is prone to self-important busyness. It isn’t the case that one academic mode of activity is inherently better than the other. It is how you do scholarship or research projects that matters. > > He also reminds us to be careful of romanticizing scholarship, especially at those times (right before the DH submission deadline) when one wishes for a life of scholarly leisure. > > Yours, after a busy week, > > Geoffrey Rockwell > > Heidegger, M. (2002). The Age of the World Picture (J. Young & K. Haynes, Trans.) Off the Beaten Track (pp. 57-85). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8AA1A76E9; Mon, 4 Nov 2013 07:33:30 +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 BFFF976E6; Mon, 4 Nov 2013 07:33:21 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DC91F76E1; Mon, 4 Nov 2013 07:33:19 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131104063319.DC91F76E1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 07:33:19 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.507 pub: Sharing Ancient Wisdoms X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 507. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 16:21:13 +0000 From: "Roueche, Charlotte" Subject: Sharing Ancient Wisdoms We are delighted to announce the completion of the Sharing Ancient Wisdoms project, which is publishing several texts of interest to Classicists/Byzantinists/Digital Humanists: see http://ancientwisdoms.ac.uk Please ask your librarian to add any or all of the following items to your library catalogue: Gnomological Material in Arabic and in Arabic-Spanish transmission SAWS edition, 2013 Texts established by Ines Dallaji, Lorenz Nigst, Christoph Storz, Elvira Wakelnig ISBN 978-1-897747-27-8 Available at http://www.ancientwisdoms.ac.uk/library/arabicgnomol/ Arabic Philosophical Compendia and Excerpts of Arabic and Latin Philosophical Texts SAWS edition, 2013 Texts established by Christoph Storz and Elvira Wakelnig ISBN 978-1-897747-28-5 Available at http://www.ancientwisdoms.ac.uk/library/arabicphilos/ Apophthegmata et gnomae secundum alphabetum SAWS edition, 2013 Annotated edition of Greek Gnomologia by Denis Searby, Måns Bylund, Pontus Österdahl, with English translation by Denis Searby ISBN 978-1-897747-26-1 Available at http://www.ancientwisdoms.ac.uk/library/gnomologia/ Kekaumenos, Consilia et Narrationes SAWS edition, 2013 Greek text, English translation and commentary by Charlotte Roueché, with further translations by H.G. Beck, J. Signes Codoner, G.G. Litavrin, M.D. Spadaro ISBN 978-1-897747-29-2 Available at http://www.ancientwisdoms.ac.uk/library/kekaumenos-consilia-et-narrationes/ ---------------------------- Professor Charlotte Roueché Centre for Hellenic Studies King's College London WC2R 2LS fax + 44 20.7848 2545 charlotte.roueche@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/chs _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9BBA576E8; Tue, 5 Nov 2013 07:44:30 +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 A05F876D0; Tue, 5 Nov 2013 07:44:25 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 52ED676D0; Tue, 5 Nov 2013 07:44:24 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131105064424.52ED676D0@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 07:44:24 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.508 being romantic X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 508. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 07:03:38 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: romantic notions In both Geoffrey Rockwell's and Andrew Prescott's helpful and cautionary responses to my note on Dwight Eisenhower's view of research the word "romantic" carries the weight of criticism. I think the parting of company with these two friends and colleagues that I'd own to can be described as the difference between two senses of that word: first, mine, "that is told of in romances; fabled"; second, theirs, "fantastic, extravagant, quixotic; going beyond what is customary or practical. Of a person, personality, etc.: given to or characterized by such ideas; responsive to the promptings of imagination or fancy regardless of practicality" (OED, freely assembled). In other words, I think the difference is between a deep-rooted idealism and a feet-on-the-ground realism. I'm *very* glad my friends are realists, but I cannot help myself when it comes to research -- I'm a romantic. Let me fight my corner a bit longer. I was not arguing or implying an argument that a once-upon-a-time of idyllic unfettered research conditions could be shown historically to have existed and so been lost. Perhaps it has, but I was not arguing that.I was not overlooking the fact that e.g. the enviably privileged environment of Bertrand Russell's Cambridge in the 1890s, which he describes so well in Portraits from Memory, was solely for already privileged males, which would have excluded me on one count and my partner on both. I was speaking about where we set our sights, how high we set them. In a very different, far more cynical tone Machiavelli advises his reader, > Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which > yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the > strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not > to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able > with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach. The Prince 2.6 I do wonder if a case could be made for a parallel between the histories of the terms "Victorian" and "romantic", that both began as badges of honour describing whole ways of life and thought, then became utterly pejorative. We have seen "Victorian" largely restored to honour, I would suppose. I have great hopes for "romantic". Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7889176F2; Tue, 5 Nov 2013 07:45:23 +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 77A2276E6; Tue, 5 Nov 2013 07:45:15 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 55DF976DF; Tue, 5 Nov 2013 07:45:13 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131105064513.55DF976DF@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 07:45:13 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.509 the Shelley-Godwin 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. 27, No. 509. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 19:48:23 -0500 From: Neil Fraistat Subject: Shelley-Godwin Archive Launch Dear all, The Maryland Institute of Technology (MITH) and The New York Public Library, in concert with their partners, the Bodleian Libraries of Oxford, the Houghton Library of Harvard, the Huntington Library, and the British Library, are delighted to announce that the Shelley-Godwin Archive went live on Halloween and received some 60,000 unique visitors in its first full day of operation. All known manuscripts of *Frankenstein, *including drafts and fair copy, are now available through the Archive's platform, which enables toggling between a number of different views, including between MWS's hand and PBS's, as well as zooming in and out of page images, and, not least, a nuanced full-text search capacity. The technical infrastructure of the Shelley-Godwin Archive builds on linked data principles and emerging standards such as the Shared Canvas data modeland the the Text Encoding Initiative’s Genetic Editions vocabulary. It is designed to support a participatory platform where scholars, students, and the general public will be able to engage in the curation and annotation of the Archive's contents. We’re pleased to say that the Archive's transcriptions, software applications, and libraries are currently published on GitHub, with all content and code under open licenses. The project and its current launch have generated some gratifying responses, such as this from the *Chronicle of Higher Education*: http://chronicle.com/article/Frankensteins-Manuscript/142701/ Try it out! The site is currently in Beta release and works best when viewed in Chrome. Please share with your classes, colleagues, friends, and anyone else who might be interested: http://shelleygodwinarchive.org/. Best, Neil Fraistat & Project Co-Director Liz Denlinger -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id F2F9076F9; Tue, 5 Nov 2013 07:47:31 +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 9E54276ED; Tue, 5 Nov 2013 07:47:24 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 194ADE17; Tue, 5 Nov 2013 07:47:22 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131105064722.194ADE17@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 07:47:22 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.510 events: cognitive futures; semantic drift; documentary 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. 27, No. 510. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Greta Franzini (24) Subject: Leipzig eHumanities Seminar: Matthew Munson [2] From: "Fagan, Annalisa" (69) Subject: COGNITIVE FUTURES IN THE HUMANITIES [3] From: Amanda Gailey (60) Subject: Call for Papers: Association for Documentary Editing --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 10:06:22 +0100 From: Greta Franzini Subject: Leipzig eHumanities Seminar: Matthew Munson Dear all, This week's Leipzig eHumanities seminar will be given by Matthew Munson, who will be talking about: '"You will know a word by its changes in company!": Using Collocation Analysis to Track Semantic Drift in Biblical Greek'/ In: Room P801 (Paulinum, 8th floor), University of Leipzig On: Wednesday 6th November 2013 At: 3:15 PM to 4:45 PM Attendance at the seminar is free of charge. *ALL WELCOME* For further information, please visit: http://www.e-humanities.net/events/2013-ehum-seminar-call.html -- Greta Franzini Research Associate Digital Humanities Department of Computer Science University of Leipzig Augustusplatz 10-11 04109 Leipzig, Germany Phone: +49 341 97 32330 Email: franzini@informatik.uni-leipzig.de Web: www.dh.uni-leipzig.de --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 10:32:57 +0000 From: "Fagan, Annalisa" Subject: COGNITIVE FUTURES IN THE HUMANITIES COGNITIVE FUTURES IN THE HUMANITIES 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, DURHAM UNIVERSITY, UK, 24-26 APRIL 2014 · Full call for papers attached · Keynote speakers: Alan Richardson, Alan Palmer, Patricia Waugh, David Herman, Mark Rowlands, Vyvyan Evans · Roundtable on interdisciplinarity with Ellen Spolsky, Mark Turner and Michael Wheeler · 5 special thematic conference threads on e.g. Extended Mind · Conference banquet in Durham Castle Deadline for proposals for 20 min papers or panels: 1st December. Email cog.futures@durham.ac.uk Subject: Call for Papers: Association for Documentary Editing Call for Papers: Association for Documentary Editing Annual Meeting, Louisville, Kentucky, July 24-27, 2014 (Deadline: Feb. 1, 2014) The Association for Documentary Editing invites proposals for its 36th Annual Meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, July 24-27, 2014 at the Seelbach Hilton. Conference information will be posted at http://documentaryediting.org/meeting/index.html http://www.documentaryediting.org/wordpress/?page_id=71 as it becomes available. Through its annual meeting, the ADE promotes cooperative networking and the exchange of ideas among editors who employ critical thinking and technical skills to present original texts to diverse audiences in a variety of formats. Members of the Association work with documents from the broad range of human experience, encompassing public papers, private correspondence, literary manuscripts, graphic images, and music. The Program Committee welcomes submissions for presentations on all aspects of documentary editing and textual scholarship, including but not limited to editorial practice, theory, varieties of texts, collaboration, uses of edited documents in K-12 curricula, and publication. Proposals for individual papers are welcome. (If you are interested in proposing a complete panel, please consult with the program chair before preparing your submission.) Program participants do not have to be members of the ADE. The Program Committee encourages submissions by students. With funding by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the Association offers additional opportunities in Louisville in conjunction with the annual meeting: the Institute for Editing Historical Documents, to be held July 20-24 for individuals new to the practice of historical documentary editing. Experienced documentary editors provide instruction in the principles of their field and insight into the realities of their work. For more information, contact Bob Karachuk, Education Director, Association for Documentary Editing, at ade-educationdir@documentaryediting.org . This year’s annual meeting will include a full session devoted to poster presentations. This session will enable editing professionals, students, teaching faculty, and independent researchers to showcase their projects or present focused topics in a setting that features personal interaction and informal conversation. Participants will have the option of making their posters available on the ADE’s website before the meeting. Recognition will be given at the meeting to the best posters by students. (See below for tips on creating a poster presentation.) To propose a paper or poster, send an abstract of no more than 250 words to the chair of the Program Committee at john.lupton@illinoiscourthistory.orgno later than February 1, 2014. Please include a brief c.v. or biographical note and your address, email, and phone number. A limited number of travel grants will be awarded to help defray partial expenses of program participants who are members of the association. To join the ADE, see http://documentaryediting.org/membership/index.html. John A. Lupton, Program Committee Chair Illinois Supreme Court Historic Preservation Commission -- Amanda Gailey Assistant Professor, Department of English Fellow, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities Co-editor, *Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing *(scholarlyediting.org) University of Nebraska 202 Andrews Hall 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 82CCD7699; Wed, 6 Nov 2013 07:23:51 +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 782AE30A9; Wed, 6 Nov 2013 07:23:42 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8F34E30A9; Wed, 6 Nov 2013 07:23:40 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131106062340.8F34E30A9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 07:23:40 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.511 being romantic X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 511. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Colin Greenstreet (110) Subject: Re: 27.508 being romantic [2] From: "Lele, Amod" (85) Subject: Re: 27.508 being romantic --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 13:06:02 +0000 From: Colin Greenstreet Subject: Re: 27.508 being romantic In-Reply-To: <20131105064424.52ED676D0@digitalhumanities.org> *Scale and the professionalisation of research* This has been an interesting debate on the professionalisation of humanities (and other) research and the growth of scale. However, the debate, as I see it, has moved to historical terms, rather than looking to current and future developments in the humanities. Let me place my cards on the table. My background is in the pharmaceutical industry, and, specifically in pharmaceutical research. I am used to research and development on a massive scale (GlaxoWellcome had over 10,000 in R&D when I was head of GlaxoWellcome R&D strategy). When I turned my attention to my earlier passion of history and historical research five years ago I was struck by the disconnect between the structure and processes I had seen in pharmaceutical research and management consulting, and those within the humanities. Let me be clear, I am no fan of scale and scope for their own sake. Indeed the great challenge for GlaxoWellcome and then GlaxoSmithKline was (and is) to structure units and incentives within the overall R&D group of an appropriate size and culture for the different tasks required in the decade-plus process of moving from discovering a new molecular entity to its regulatory approval in the form of a drug. Fifteen months ago I started the MarineLives project to bring explore how scale and scope might have an impact on historical understanding of mid-seventeenth century English High Court of Admiralty records. A group of thirty volunteers - school and university students, PhD candidates, enthusiasts, and retirees - transcribed over 1300 pages of a single volume of HCA depositions from the years 1656-1657 over a five month period. The volunteers were in six different countries, and were organised in teams, supported by team facilitators and by collaborative opensource software. Their motivations were varied, ranging from a desire to learn palaeography, to a wish to create something of intellectual value, and a desire to socialise online with others who shared their own interests. Fifteen months since the start of the project we have now transcribed one and a half million words, most of which are freely available to the public in the form of wikis. The total cash cost of the project to date has been under £1000. Participation in our project is on a voluntary basis and without cost to the participant. In a world in which taught and research masters degrees now cost £9000 a year in tuition fees, it will be interesting to see whether alternatives develop which offer skills development and research experience without the financial burden of a formal degree. Moreover, without some of the constraints of a formal research degree, it will be interesting to see whether approaches to skills development and team management emerge which can combine some of the attractions of humanities content with skills needed outside the academic world. For further information on MarineLives see our ShippingNews blog ( http://marinelives-theshippingnews.org/blog/) and our website ( http://marinelives.org/). You can also follow us on facebook ( https://www.facebook.com/MarineLives) and Twitter ( https://twitter.com/marinelivesorg). Yours Colin Greenstreet On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 6:44 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 508. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 07:03:38 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: romantic notions > > In both Geoffrey Rockwell's and Andrew Prescott's helpful and cautionary > responses to my note on Dwight Eisenhower's view of research the word > "romantic" carries the weight of criticism. I think the parting of > company with these two friends and colleagues that I'd own to can be > described as the difference between two senses of that word: first, > mine, "that is told of in romances; fabled"; second, theirs, "fantastic, > extravagant, quixotic; going beyond what is customary or practical. Of a > person, personality, etc.: given to or characterized by such ideas; > responsive to the promptings of imagination or fancy regardless of > practicality" (OED, freely assembled). In other words, I think the > difference is between a deep-rooted idealism and a feet-on-the-ground > realism. I'm *very* glad my friends are realists, but I cannot help myself > when it comes to research -- I'm a romantic. > > Let me fight my corner a bit longer. I was not arguing or implying > an argument that a once-upon-a-time of idyllic unfettered research > conditions could be shown historically to have existed and so been lost. > Perhaps it has, but I was not arguing that.I was not overlooking the fact > that e.g. the enviably privileged environment of Bertrand Russell's > Cambridge in the 1890s, which he describes so well in Portraits from > Memory, was solely for already privileged males, which would have > excluded me on one count and my partner on both. I was speaking about > where we set our sights, how high we set them. In a very different, far > more cynical tone Machiavelli advises his reader, > > > Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which > > yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the > > strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not > > to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able > > with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach. > The Prince 2.6 > > I do wonder if a case could be made for a parallel between the histories > of the terms "Victorian" and "romantic", that both began as badges of > honour describing whole ways of life and thought, then became utterly > pejorative. We have seen "Victorian" largely restored to honour, I would > suppose. I have great hopes for "romantic". > > Yours, > WM > > -- > Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital > Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital > Humanities, University of Western Sydney --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 16:31:46 +0000 From: "Lele, Amod" Subject: Re: 27.508 being romantic In-Reply-To: <20131105064424.52ED676D0@digitalhumanities.org> Related note: in Francis Fiorenza's class on hermeneutics at Harvard, he devoted some time to telling us "how to cuss in hermeneutics". He explained that you could "cuss at someone in hermeneutics" by calling them a Romantic (with a capital R); scholars in hermeneutics now are apparently always eager to deny that they are Romantics. The Romantic view in question is that associated with Friedrich Schleiermacher, the 19th-century German Romantic theologian who thought that the aim of interpreting a text was to understand its author better than he understood himself*. Scholars working on hermeneutics today, so it was claimed, all accept the criticisms of Heidegger and Gadamer that the interpreter's own worldview is an inevitable part of interpretation, so that Schleiermacher's project was overly ambitious. Point being that there are additional senses of "romantic" beyond those mentioned by Willard (especially with a capital R, related to the European Romantic movement) - but they too seem to take on a pejorative cast. * or than she understood herself, though that was less of an issue at the time. -- Amod Lele, PhD Educational Technologist, Information Services & Technology Visiting Researcher, Center for the Study of Asia Boston University Office: 617-358-6909 Mobile: 617-645-9857 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 49D8276AF; Wed, 6 Nov 2013 07:24:39 +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 38B527691; Wed, 6 Nov 2013 07:24:32 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 006757699; Wed, 6 Nov 2013 07:24:29 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131106062430.006757699@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 07:24:29 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.512 PhD studentships at the iSchool (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. 27, No. 512. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 11:03:59 +0000 From: "Downie, J Stephen" Subject: iSchool at Illinois: PhD opportunities Dear Colleagues: The University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), the iSchool at Illinois, is actively recruiting high quality doctoral students who want to design, develop, and evaluate informatics solutions to the grand challenges of the twenty-first century. Admitted candidates typically receive up to 4 years of funding in the form of research, teaching and service assistantships, including tuition waivers and stipends. Massive changes in how large collections of data are created, disseminated, analyzed, and used have increased the role that information plays in industry, science, scholarship, government, and our every-day lives. The flexible program ensures that each student receives the intellectual guidance and experiences necessary to prepare them for vibrant research careers in a wide range of academic, business, and government settings. Students receive one-on-one mentorship from faculty with a global reputation for excellence in scholarship and high impact science. Faculty work on data from many domains including science (MEDLINE, EPA, STAR METRICS), business (health, energy, media), humanities (HathiTrust, Google Books), and everyday life (social media) and develop new methods in: * Text and Data Mining * Informetrics and Data Analytics * Information Retrieval * Social Computing * Digital Humanities * Social Network Analysis * Digital Libraries * Computer Supported Cooperative Work * Data Curation and Linked Data * Information Trust and Privacy * Digital Youth GSLIS 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, data curation and information organization. Additional information about research at GSLIS is available at http://www.lis.illinois.edu/research/projects. For specific information about the PhD program, please visit http://www.lis.illinois.edu/academics/programs/phd/recruit or contact lis-apply@illinois.edu. Students from historically underrepresented groups are particularly encouraged to apply. Deadline for PhD applications is December 15, 2013. ********************************************************** "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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 455D976C0; Wed, 6 Nov 2013 07:26:02 +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 F2BD87682; Wed, 6 Nov 2013 07:25:53 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1AE337682; Wed, 6 Nov 2013 07:25:52 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131106062552.1AE337682@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 07:25:52 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.513 events: access to 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. 27, No. 513. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 12:52:17 +0000 From: "Tanner, Simon" Subject: PATCH workshop: The Future of Experiencing Cultural Heritage Looking for proposals: http://patch2014.wordpress.com/2013/11/04/the-call-for-proposals-is-published-spread-the-word/? Call for Proposals – PATCH’2014 – The Future of Experiencing Cultural Heritage, Haifa, Israel. February 24, 2014 7th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2014) will be this year co-located with the Intelligent User Interfaces Conference (http://www.iuiconf.org/). IUI is the annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as the principal international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. It takes place in Haifa, Israel on 24 February 2014. Next to the full research papers, we also encourage submissions of position papers, short papers and demonstrations to enable active discussion of the open challenges and issues in this area of research. For more details check PATCH2014 webpage: http://patch2014.wordpress.com/ Best, Simon ____________________________________________ Simon Tanner Director of Digital Consultancy (KDCS) Deputy Head, Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Email: simon.tanner@kcl.ac.uk Phone: +44(0)7887-691716 (direct) Twitter: @SimonTanner DDH: www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh/ KDCS: www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk Blog: http://simon-tanner.blogspot.co.uk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 98F6976C8; Wed, 6 Nov 2013 07:26:37 +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 AF94D76C0; Wed, 6 Nov 2013 07:26:31 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id EB94776A1; Wed, 6 Nov 2013 07:26:29 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131106062629.EB94776A1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 07:26:29 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.514 corrections to Ancient Wisdoms X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 514. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 15:19:42 +0000 From: "Roueche, Charlotte" Subject: Ancient Wisdoms Many apologies for having circulated the link http://ancientwisdoms.ac.uk/ when it should be http://www.ancientwisdoms.ac.uk/ I know that many of you have already resolved it - but it was still silly of me! With best wishes Charlotte ---------------------------- Professor Charlotte Roueché Centre for Hellenic Studies King's College London WC2R 2LS fax + 44 20.7848 2545 charlotte.roueche@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/chs _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 13F0876AF; Thu, 7 Nov 2013 07:46:58 +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 34D8D76A1; Thu, 7 Nov 2013 07:46:54 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 55861768E; Thu, 7 Nov 2013 07:46:52 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131107064652.55861768E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 07:46:52 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.515 being romantic X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 515. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 07:22:54 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.511 being romantic In-Reply-To: <330fdfc0bed3475bb823fc360de821ce@AMSPR03MB242.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com> Colin Greenstreet's brief note about his move from research on the massive scale of the pharmaceutical industry to the small one of academic history is a fascinating story. I hope we hear much more about it. Somewhere, possibly in Historical Ontology, Ian Hacking comments that the shift of primary research in some fields, such as pharmacology, from the academy into the for-profit world of business is a very interesting development. As I recall he doesn't say much more than that. This leaves me wondering whether anyone has studied this phenomenon. Once again I am drawn to think about the relation between the kind of research we're talking about and how it is done. Many have observed that disciplinary training tends to result in a quite blinkered view of research -- how it is done, what its results look like, what in fact "research" denotes and how we recognize that something or other *is* research. In striking my romantic pose I am as guilty of the blinkered view as anyone, I suppose. If what I do were compilation, editing and publication of historical records I might have fun working on the very small scale that I work, I might even have brilliant insights worth writing about, but I certainly wouldn't be remotely as helpful, my work remotely as beneficial as work on Greenstreet's scale. But given what I do, I'd be mad to scale up -- except perhaps on the relatively small scale of the group responsible for Peter Galison and David J. Stump, eds., The Disunity of Science: Boundaries, Contexts, and Power (Stanford, 1996), or far more unusually, for the multi-authored volume by Gerd Gigerenzer, .Zano Swijink, Theodore Porter, Lorraine Daston, John Beatty and Lorenz Krüger, The Empire of Chance: How probability changed science and everyday life (Cambridge, 1989). (Gigerenzer et al note that they randomized the order of their names; no part of this book carries the name of any one of them alone -- all are responsible for all.) I think the point I am groping toward is the freedom to do research in the manner best suited to the particular research in question. Not to do Big Humanities or collaborative projects because they are Big or collaborative but because the research itself requires the large scale and/or many hands and minds. We who are mortal surely wouldn't want pharmaceutical research to be done by individual inventors tinkering away in their private labs. But who wants philosophy, theoretical physics, literary criticism, number theory or the writing of histories to be done by groups structured along the lines of the Manhattan Project? Again I turn to Bertrand Russell. He concludes "Some Cambridge Dons of the Nineties", in Portraits from Memory, thus: > 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. > I would think that for us digital humanists as for all our colleagues, the question to be asking is, given each particular variety of research, where do we find or how create that "good place", i.e. the good places? Perhaps we should take several pages from Peter Galison's "Introduction: The Context of Disunity", in The Disunity of Science, and pluralize. "Digital humanities" is not a bad disciplinary label to have in that respect -- a singular collective noun. Comments? Yours, WM On 06/11/2013 06:23, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 511. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: > humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: Colin Greenstreet > (110) Subject: Re: 27.508 being romantic > > [2] From: "Lele, Amod" > (85) Subject: Re: 27.508 being romantic > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 13:06:02 +0000 From: Colin > Greenstreet Subject: Re: > 27.508 being romantic > In-Reply-To:<20131105064424.52ED676D0@digitalhumanities.org> > > > *Scale and the professionalisation of research* > > This has been an interesting debate on the professionalisation of > humanities (and other) research and the growth of scale. However, the > debate, as I see it, has moved to historical terms, rather than looking to > current and future developments in the humanities. > > Let me place my cards on the table. My background is in the > pharmaceutical industry, and, specifically in pharmaceutical research. I > am used to research and development on a massive scale (GlaxoWellcome had > over 10,000 in R&D when I was head of GlaxoWellcome R&D strategy). > > When I turned my attention to my earlier passion of history and historical > research five years ago I was struck by the disconnect between the > structure and processes I had seen in pharmaceutical research and > management consulting, and those within the humanities. > > Let me be clear, I am no fan of scale and scope for their own sake. Indeed > the great challenge for GlaxoWellcome and then GlaxoSmithKline was (and > is) to structure units and incentives within the overall R&D group of an > appropriate size and culture for the different tasks required in the > decade-plus process of moving from discovering a new molecular entity to > its regulatory approval in the form of a drug. > > Fifteen months ago I started the MarineLives project to bring explore how > scale and scope might have an impact on historical understanding of > mid-seventeenth century English High Court of Admiralty records. A group > of thirty volunteers - school and university students, PhD candidates, > enthusiasts, and retirees - transcribed over 1300 pages of a single volume > of HCA depositions from the years 1656-1657 over a five month period. The > volunteers were in six different countries, and were organised in teams, > supported by team facilitators and by collaborative opensource software. > Their motivations were varied, ranging from a desire to learn > palaeography, to a wish to create something of intellectual value, and a > desire to socialise online with others who shared their own interests. > > Fifteen months since the start of the project we have now transcribed one > and a half million words, most of which are freely available to the public > in the form of wikis. The total cash cost of the project to date has been > under £1000. Participation in our project is on a voluntary basis and > without cost to the participant. > > In a world in which taught and research masters degrees now cost £9000 > a year in tuition fees, it will be interesting to see whether alternatives > develop which offer skills development and research experience without the > financial burden of a formal degree. Moreover, without some of the > constraints of a formal research degree, it will be interesting to see > whether approaches to skills development and team management emerge which > can combine some of the attractions of humanities content with skills > needed outside the academic world. > > For further information on MarineLives see our ShippingNews blog ( > http://marinelives-theshippingnews.org/blog/) and our website ( > http://marinelives.org/). You can also follow us on facebook ( > https://www.facebook.com/MarineLives) and Twitter ( > https://twitter.com/marinelivesorg). > > Yours > > Colin Greenstreet > > On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 6:44 AM, Humanist Discussion Group< > willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > >> >> > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 508. > >> Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > >> www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > >> Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >> >> >> >> > Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 07:03:38 +0000 > From: Willard >> McCarty > Subject: romantic >> notions >> >> > In both Geoffrey Rockwell's and Andrew Prescott's helpful and >> cautionary > responses to my note on Dwight Eisenhower's view of research >> the word > "romantic" carries the weight of criticism. I think the >> parting of > company with these two friends and colleagues that I'd own >> to can be > described as the difference between two senses of that word: >> first, > mine, "that is told of in romances; fabled"; second, theirs, >> "fantastic, > extravagant, quixotic; going beyond what is customary or >> practical. Of a > person, personality, etc.: given to or characterized by >> such ideas; > responsive to the promptings of imagination or fancy >> regardless of > practicality" (OED, freely assembled). In other words, I >> think the > difference is between a deep-rooted idealism and a >> feet-on-the-ground > realism. I'm *very* glad my friends are realists, >> but I cannot help myself > when it comes to research -- I'm a romantic. >> >> > Let me fight my corner a bit longer. I was not arguing or implying > an >> argument that a once-upon-a-time of idyllic unfettered research > >> conditions could be shown historically to have existed and so been lost. >> > Perhaps it has, but I was not arguing that.I was not overlooking the >> fact > that e.g. the enviably privileged environment of Bertrand >> Russell's > Cambridge in the 1890s, which he describes so well in >> Portraits from > Memory, was solely for already privileged males, which >> would have > excluded me on one count and my partner on both. I was >> speaking about > where we set our sights, how high we set them. In a very >> different, far > more cynical tone Machiavelli advises his reader, >> >>> >> Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark >>> which >> yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which >>> the >> strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the >>> mark, not >> to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, >>> but to be able >> with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they >>> wish to reach. >> > The Prince 2.6 >> >> > I do wonder if a case could be made for a parallel between the >> histories > of the terms "Victorian" and "romantic", that both began as >> badges of > honour describing whole ways of life and thought, then became >> utterly > pejorative. We have seen "Victorian" largely restored to >> honour, I would > suppose. I have great hopes for "romantic". >> >> > Yours, > WM >> >> > -- > Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of >> Digital > Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in >> Digital > Humanities, University of Western Sydney >> -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id F3A1176B2; Thu, 7 Nov 2013 07:48:01 +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 205E076BF; Thu, 7 Nov 2013 07:47:59 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0AF6676AF; Thu, 7 Nov 2013 07:47:56 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20131107064757.0AF6676AF@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 07:47:56 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.516 events: spatial cognition 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. 27, No. 516. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 10:47:30 +0000 From: kcl - cerch Subject: Cerch Seminar: Using Spatial Cognition to Improve Knowledge Construction Using Spatial Cognition to Improve Knowledge Construction (Carl Smith and Pierre-Francois Gerard, London Metropolitan University/Goldsmiths) Tuesday, 12th November, 2013 from 6:15 PM to 7:30 PM (GMT) Anatomy Theatre and Museum, King's College London: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/spaces/anatomy-museum.aspx Attendance is free and open to all, but registration is requested: https://www.eventbrite.com/event/8348503599 The seminar will be followed by wine and nibbles. All the best, Valentina Asciutt Abstract: To what extent can we organise and engineer knowledge construction using space and visualisation? Using physical or virtual architectural structures and landscapes for cognitive enhancement has been practised for centuries. The Art of Memory or Ars Memoriae is one of the techniques that is used to assist in the combination and 'invention' of new ideas. This is achieved by associating emotionally striking memory images within visualized locations. The widespread use of video games and mobile devices is expanding the practise of spatial cognition in both virtual and physical environments respectively. By gathering evidence from these practises this research aims to answer the following questions: In today's context of technological and visual culture how do we use this potential of spatial cognition to manage, structure and organise the increasing amount of information that we acquire? Can we overcome our apparent cognitive limits by combining these ancient pedagogies with modern technologies? To what extent can we use analogue and digital technology to combine concrete reasoning with abstract reasoning in order to form new ways of learning? Bios: Carl Smith is Director of the Learning Technology Research Institute (LTRI) at London Metropolitan University. He is an academic expert, researcher and developer with a long-standing focus on pervasive learning technologies, hybrid reality and digital/mobile learning. His background is in Computer Science and Architecture. He specialises in using various visualization techniques to produce augmented spaces for the generation and transformation of learning. His other research interests include visual and spatial literacy, pattern recognition, intermediality, visualisation as interface, and open source learning. The LTRI conducts research into the application of information and communication technologies to augment, support and transform learning. Pierre-Francois Gerard is currently a PhD Student in Computing Department at Goldsmith College, University of London. His main research area is the use of space to enhance learning. His background is in Architecture (Graduated in Brussels) and 3D visualisation. During 10 years of professional practice with architects and designers both in Brussels and London, Pierre-Fran?ois realized the potential of 3D visualisation techniques as a creative force not only in the design process but mainly as a communication tool. He graduated in Information and Communication Technology (MA France). Through this very interdisciplinary lens, his research interests include spatial cognition, long-term memory, 3D learning environments, human computer interaction and game 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DE79576C3; Thu, 7 Nov 2013 07:49:12 +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 C80BE76B1; Thu, 7 Nov 2013 07:49:08 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0C1C07681; Thu, 7 Nov 2013 07:49:06 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131107064907.0C1C07681@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 07:49:06 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.517 a virtual tour of 17C 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. 27, No. 517. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 23:54:09 -0600 From: "Robert A. Amsler" Subject: Virtual 3D Tour 17th Century London In-Reply-To: <20131028063318.35321604D@digitalhumanities.org> http://www.dailydot.com/gaming/virtual-3d-tour-17th-century-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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 5184D76C1; Fri, 8 Nov 2013 10:31:14 +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 0248D76AF; Fri, 8 Nov 2013 10:31:06 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 28FC376A3; Fri, 8 Nov 2013 10:31:04 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131108093104.28FC376A3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 10:31:04 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.518 job with DiXiT 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. 27, No. 518. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 08:27:02 +0000 From: James Cummings Subject: DiXiT: Job at University of Oxford IT Services at the University of Oxford would like to announce that applications are now being accepted for a 20 month experienced researcher fellowship position on the DiXiT project funded as part of a Marie Curie Initial Training Network. The post-holder must start on 1 April 2014 and will be responsible for the analysis and improvements of technologies for the creation and publication of digital scholarly editions. They will be familiar with the Guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and be skilled in using related technologies such as XSLT to generate digital scholarly editions from TEI P5 XML source files. The post-holder will contribute to the teaching at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School and the DiXiT TEI training workshop. For a full list of duties and criteria please see the job description attached to the advert on the University of Oxford recruitment website: https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=110645 The EC funding for this position starts from £54,692 p.a. (depending on employer deductions, personal circumstances, and the exchange rate to be notified by the EC), which includes an annual living allowance and a mobility allowance (to cover the expenses associated with working in a different country). *Eligibility Requirements:* 1) either be in possession of a doctoral degree, independently of the time taken to acquire it, or have at least four years of full-time equivalent research experience; 2) have less than five years of full-time equivalent research experience; 3) not have lived in the UK for more than 12 months during the past 3 years; 4) be willing, during the 20 month post, to undertake a 3 month secondment to King's College London (United Kingdom) and a 3 month secondment to SyncRo Soft Ltd. (Romania). *Application Process:* Please note that applications from any qualified applicants, regardless of gender, ethnicity or country of origin are welcome if they meet the eligibility requirements. Applicants should ensure they have completed both the following steps by midday on 11 December 2013: 1. Submitted a DiXiT project ER application to dixit-info@uni-koeln.de see http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/fellows.html for more information 2. Completed the University of Oxford online application process from the job posting on the https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=110645 website. Including having: a. Uploaded a full C.V. b. Provided contact details for two referees c. Uploaded a covering letter demonstrating how you meet both the essential/desirable criteria listed in the further particulars and the eligibility requirements d. Uploaded a copy of your DiXiT project ER application form Informal enquiries concerning the post may be sent to Dr James Cummings at james.cummings@it.ox.ac.uk. The interviews are expected to be held on Friday 17 January 2014. -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AA17C76CA; Fri, 8 Nov 2013 10:36:57 +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 2858276B7; Fri, 8 Nov 2013 10:36:49 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8457376B2; Fri, 8 Nov 2013 10:36:46 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131108093646.8457376B2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 10:36:46 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.519 events: blindness & reading; media innovations; DH & CS; 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. 27, No. 519. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ben Brumfield (77) Subject: Crowdsourced Transcription Hackathon [2] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (23) Subject: Call for Papers: "Blindness, Technology, and Multimodal Reading" conference [3] From: "Jaskot, Paul" (109) Subject: 8th Annual Chicago DH and Computer Science Conference: Registration and Preliminary Program [4] From: Charles Ess (135) Subject: Final call for papers - 3rd International Symposium on Media Innovations - Oslo, April 24-25, 2014 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 04:25:20 -0600 From: Ben Brumfield Subject: Crowdsourced Transcription Hackathon The organizers of the Biodiversity Specimen Label Transcription Hackathon have extended their deadline to November 15 and asked me to reach out to people in the humanities, particularly those on HUMANIST. Note that expenses for participants are funded. For those interested in exploring crowdsourcing, transcription tools, and OCR, this is a really neat opportunity to see what's going on in natural science collections. I attended the Augmenting OCR hackathon in February and learned a tremendous amount about OCR. Better yet, one of the tools I developed for processing entomology labels was re-used successfully by folks at the Early Modern OCR Project for their work dealing with 18th-century English printed books. I wrote up the experience here: http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com/search/label/hackathon (see especially the third post) Ben Brumfield http://fromthepage.com/ Forwarded announcement: Biodiversity Specimen Label Transcription Hackathon iDigBio (www.idigbio.org) and Zooniverse's Notes from Nature Project (www.notesfromnature.org) are pleased to announce a hackathon to further enable public participation in online transcription of biodiversity specimen labels. There are approximately 1 billion specimens of this type in US collections alone, but it is estimated that information from just 10% of them is currently digitized and online. Digitization of natural history collections grants researchers access to vast quantities of information in their investigations of timely subjects such as climate change, invasive species, and the extinction crisis. The magnitude of the task of bringing those collections into digital format exceeds that of any single organization and will require new, Internet-scale approaches to engage the public. This is an exciting opportunity to work on a ground-breaking citizen-science endeavor with immediate and strong impacts in the areas of biodiversity research and applied conservation. The event will occur from December 16-20, 2013, at iDigBio in Gainesville, FL. There is up to $1200 for support of travel and lodging for each participant. The hackathon will produce new functionality and interoperability for Zooniverse's Notes from Nature (www.notesfromnature.org) and similar transcription tools. There are four areas of development that will be progressively addressed throughout the week. On Monday, the focus will be (1) linking images registered to the iDigBio Cloud to transcription tools to create efficiency and alleviate storage issues. Starting on Tuesday, topics will include (2) transcription QA/QC and the reconciliation of replicate transcriptions, (3) integration of OCR into the transcription workflow, and (4) new UI features and novel incentive approaches for public engagement. We expect that most participants will arrive on Monday afternoon and depart on Friday late afternoon/evening or Saturday morning. There will be a social at the Florida Museum of Natural History on Wednesday, December 18. There will be opportunities to narrow the focus in each category of activity in a teleconference tentatively scheduled for early in the week of November 25. **If you wish to be considered for one of about ten open invitations (of a total of about 30), please send (1) your CV/resume, (2) a short description (<250 words) of your relevant expertise (citing example products where appropriate), (3) the development areas that interest you (of the four numbered above), and (4) the days that you can attend to Austin Mast (amast@bio.fsu.edu) by Friday, November 15, for assured consideration. At least 3 slots will be reserved for qualified graduate students.** With best regards, Austin and Rob Guralnick (UC-Boulder), co-organizers Austin Mast ____________________________________ Associate Professor · Director, Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium · Associate Editor, Systematic Biology and Systematic Botany · Treasurer, American Society of Plant Taxonomists · Steering Committee Member, iDigBio, The National Resource for Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections Department of Biological Science · 319 Stadium Drive · Florida State University · Tallahassee, FL 32306-4295 · U.S.A. Office is King Life Science Building, room 4065 · Lab is King Life Science Building, rooms 4068 and 4084 · Herbarium is Biological Science Unit One, room 100 Voice: 1 (850) 645-1500 · Fax: 1 (850) 645-8447 · amast@bio.fsu.edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 12:24:05 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Call for Papers: "Blindness, Technology, and Multimodal Reading" conference > From: Matthew Rubery > > Subject: Call for Papers: “Blindness, Technology, and Multimodal Reading” conference > Date: 7 November 2013 11:22:06 GMT Dear Colleagues, Here are the details about the conference I’m organizing on “Blindness, Technology, and Multimodal Reading” in London on June 27-28, 2014. Would you mind forwarding the call for papers (attached and below) to anyone you know who might be interested? Thanks, Matt Call for Papers: “Blindness, Technology, and Multimodal Reading” Date: 27-28 June 2014 Venue: Wellcome Collection, London (http://www.wellcomecollection.org/) Website: http://blindnessconference.wordpress.com/ Closing date for submissions: 1 February 2014 “Blindness, Technology, and Multimodal Reading” is a two-day conference focusing on the relationship among visual disabilities, reading formats, and multimodal literacy from historical as well as present-day perspectives. It brings together internationally renowned figures from the humanities, sciences, and public sector to discuss technological innovations designed to make reading material accessible to blind and other print-disabled readers. The conference will involve researchers working on a wide range of topics including embossed printing, talking books, text-to-speech reading machines, refreshable braille displays, screen readers, and electronic note-takers. Questions to be considered include: How can visual material be translated into media accessible to other senses including touch, hearing, scent, and taste? How are new techniques of representation linked to new forms of cognition and community? What lessons have been learned about the practice of reading from historical experiments with print access? In today’s digital environments, how does multimodal literacy encompass both blind and sighted readers? Keynote speakers include Georgina Kleege (Berkeley), Pat Beech (RNIB), Julie Anderson (Kent), George Williams (South Carolina Upstate), and Selina Mills (writer and journalist). We invite proposals for 15-20 minute presentations. Please email abstracts of 250-300 words and a short cv or bio to Matt Rubery (m.rubery@qmul.ac.uk) and Mara Mills (mmills@nyu.edu) by 1 February 2014. This event is generously supported by the Wellcome Trust and will take place at the Wellcome Collection in central London, near several museums, archives, and other centers at the forefront of preservation efforts related to the history of blindness. Dr Matthew Rubery Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature School of English and Drama Queen Mary, University of London London E1 4NS Web: http://www.sed.qmul.ac.uk/staff/ruberym.html *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1383829021_2013-11-07_andrew.prescott@kcl.ac.uk_21231.1.1.html http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1383829021_2013-11-07_andrew.prescott@kcl.ac.uk_21231.2.pdf --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 19:46:03 +0000 From: "Jaskot, Paul" Subject: 8th Annual Chicago DH and Computer Science Conference: Registration and Preliminary Program Hello! Registration for the Chicago DHCS 2013 is now available at the following URL: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/9074240297 Feel free to share with colleagues. Thanks, Robin __________________________________________________________ Robin Burke, Professor College of Computing and Digital Media, DePaul University rburke@cdm.depaul.edu The preliminary program for this event is as follows: DCHS 8th Annual Conference DePaul University Draft Program 3 November 2013 THURSDAY, 5 DECEMBER 2013 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS AND WELCOME (1:00-1:05) (Paul B. Jaskot, DePaul University) SESSION 1 (1:05-2:35): RETHINKING THE AUTHOR AND THE NARRATIVE IN THE DIGITAL AGE (Chair: Mark Olsen, University of Chicago) "Inferring Authorship Through Myers-Briggs Type Inventory" Elizabeth DeCarlo (Duquesne University) "Story-morphing Capabilities in the Affective Reasoner" Clark Elliott (DePaul University) "Genre Trouble: The Social Implications of Using Durable Narrative Genres in Video Games" Sara Humphreys (Trent University) SESSION 2 (2:45-4:15): DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: DESIGNING TRANSMEDIA PROJECTS FOR EMOTIONAL HEALTH (Chair: George K. Thiruvathukal, Loyola University Chicago) Akrasia and Elude: Designing for Emotional Health, But for Whom? Barbara Harris and Doris C. Rusch (DePaul University) Interactive Documentary on Students and Emotional Well-Being Anuradha Rana and Doris C. Rusch (DePaul University) Lucidity: Transmedia Games and Emotional Health Patrick Jagoda (University of Chicago) SESSION 3 (4:30-6:00): NEW DIGITAL HUMANITIES APPROACHES TO HISTORICAL TEXTS AND OBJECTS (Chair: Robert Buerglener, DePaul University) "More Material than the Materials: The Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project" Megan Ward (Point Park University) "iDig: The Development of an Archaeological Field Recording App" Matthew Baumann (The Ohio State) and Bruce Hartzler (American School of Classical Studies at Athens) "Old Wine in New Bottles: Franz Rosenzweig and the Reappraisal of the Authoritative Text, from Holy Text to E-text" Ynon Wygoda (Yale University) RECEPTION (6:00-7:30), RICHARDSON LIBRARY POSTERS/DEMOS (during Thursday evening reception in Library Scholar's Lab, beginning 6:15PM): "Diverse Data in Three Dimensions: Developing the Scholarly 3D Toolkit" James Coltrain (University of Nebraska, Lincoln) "Digital Reconstruction of Niobid F3 at Hadrian's Villa" Tassie Gniady (University of Indiana) "GPS-Enabled Stories and the Quantification of Creative Density" Josh Fisher (DePaul University) "The Newberry's Civil War Transcription Project: An Experiment in Scale and Scope" Anne Flannery and Adam Strohm (Newberry Library) "Corroborative Collaboration: On a Digital Edition of Franz Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption" Matthew Handelman (Michigan State University) "A fonds of Edwardian Postcards as a Site to Explore Social Networks" Mary-Louise Craven (York University) FRIDAY, 6 DECEMBER 2013 SESSION 4 (9:00-10:30AM): PEDAGOGIC APPLICATIONS OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES (Chair: TBA) "English Majors in the Lab: Expanding the History of Books to Digital Formats" John Shanahan and Megan Bernal (DePaul University) "Social Network Analysis in the Humanities: Faculty-Student Projects Using NodeXL" (Colgate University) Alexander Nakhimovsky, Computer Science and Linguistics, Jesi Bender, University Libraries and Collaboration for Enhanced Learning, Zlatko Grozl, ITS and Collaboration for Enhanced Learning, Alice Nakhimovsky, Russian and Eurasian Studies; Jewish Studies Robert Garland, Department of the Classics "A Dip In the Lake on DePaul's Campus: Maps, Google Earth, and the Art of Geography" Euan Hague and Patrick McHaffie (DePaul University) SESSION 5 (10:45-12:45PM): KEYNOTE SESSION (Introduction: Robin Burke, DePaul University) Michael Chwe (Department of Political Science at University of California Los Angeles) Steven Jones (Loyola University), Discussant Discussant #2, TBA (LUNCH 12:45-2:00) DURING FRIDAY LUNCH FOR INTERESTED PARTIES IN ROOM TBA: "Promoting Digital Humanities Collaborations in the CIC: A Roundtable" Angela Courtney (Indiana University) Dean Rehberger (Michigan State University (MATRIX)), co-chair Katherine Walter (University of Nebraska-Lincoln (CDRH)), co-chair Jon Winet (University of Iowa) SESSION 6 (2:15-3:45): TEXT MINING: METHODS AND NEW RESEARCH (Chair: Mark Olsen, University of Chicago) "Semantic Annotation and Network Visualization in the Digital Scholarly Archive" Silvia Stoyanova (Princeton University) "Syntax as Ontology: Tracking Agency in the Scientific Literature using Dependency Grammars" T. Clay Templeton, Kenneth R. Fleischmann, and Rachel Simons (University of Texas, Austin) "Two methods for discovering cross-language text reuse" Christopher Forstall and James Gawley (University of Buffalo) SESSION 7 (4:00-5:45): THEORIES AND METHODOLOGIES OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES [KEYNOTE SESSION] (Chair: Paul Jaskot, DePaul University ) "The Workset Creation for Scholarly Analysis (WCSA) Prototyping Project: Background and Goals" Stephen Downie (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne) "GIS Meets Humanities: The Potential and Limits of GIS for Geospatial Humanities Scholarship" Julie Hwang (DePaul University) "Virtual Verse in the Library: A Needs Assessment for Indexing Online-Only Poetry" Harriet Green (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne) and Rachel Fleming-May (University of Tennessee Knoxville) "Forging Stronger Connections Between the Humanities and Computer Science" Paul Fishwick (University of Texas, Dallas) CONCLUDING REMARKS (5:45-5:50) (Robin Burke, DePaul University) Paul B. Jaskot Professor of Art History Dept. of the History of Art & Architecture DePaul University 2315 N. Kenmore Ave. Chicago, IL 60614 http://las.depaul.edu/haa/ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 05:53:58 +0000 From: Charles Ess Subject: Final call for papers - 3rd International Symposium on Media Innovations - Oslo, April 24-25, 2014 Dear Humanists, On behalf of the Organizing Committee, and with the usual apologies for duplication, etc. - and the request for further distribution to potentially interested communities and individuals. Many thanks in advance - Charles Ess == Final Call for papers: From Digital Taxes to Beta Newsrooms: Media Innovation, Digital Industries and Good Lives The Third Annual International Symposium on Media Innovations (ISMI14) Dates: April 24-25, 2014 Venue: University of Oslo Sponsors include: the Centre for Research on Media Innovations (CeRMI); the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo; Telenor Research We invite scholars, editors, producers, and executives to contribute to our on-going exploration of how changing technologies, and changing modes of media usage and engagement bring about innovation and transformation of the media sector. ISMI14 specifically examines recent transformations in the broadcast and telecommunication industries. These include the impact of taxation policies on innovation in digital services and focus on our shared interests in good life and work vis-à-vis digital media innovations and innovation processes. Keynote speakers Thor Gjermund Eriksen, Director General of NRK (the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation). Keynote: ³Conditions for Innovations in Public Broadcasting² Bjørn Taale Sandberg, Senior Vice President, Telenor Research Steve Jones, University of Illinois at Chicago Distinguished Professor Provisional keynote title: ³Living the Good Life: IT Innovations and the Quantified Self² Submissions are invited that address the themes listed below.  Submissions will be peer-reviewed.  Extended abstracts of proposed papers (750-word maximum) should be sent to . Deadlines and Dates November 22, 2013: extended abstracts due December 20, 2013: acceptance notices due March 14, 2014: full papers due April 14, 2014: best paper award announced Publications: Special issue: Journal of Media Innovations.  Submitted papers will be further reviewed for inclusion in a special issue of The Journal of Media Innovations, Vol. 2, No. 1, Fall, 2014. Anthology: Papers submitted to the workshop/seminar on digital media and taxation policies (see below) will be considered for a planned anthology.   Themes for paper and panel presentations (Workshop/seminar) Digital media and taxation policies: What are the roles and implications of value-added tax (VAT) policies for the innovation processes of new digital services? Taxation policies regarding new digital services (e.g., eBooks, online newspaper, music services) are central to both business practices (ranging from design to decisions as to what country in which to incorporate) and policy makers (e.g., as potential revenue streams are diverted to other nations). Innovation processes within digital media are thus shaped and influenced through taxation policies in multiple ways.  The goal of the workshop is to bring forward new research and insight in this domain ­ in part with a view towards publication of selected papers in a forthcoming anthology. For additional information on the workshop/seminar, including abstract submission details (due December 15, 2013), please contact the organizer, Terje Colbjørnsen, . Beta mentality: How are newsrooms dealing with constant change? The speed of technology innovations is breath-taking, as is the way users¹ media habits are changing in front of our eyes.  New media platforms have been introduced to the media mix, including Twitter, which has introduced a new dimension of speed to news reporting. To keep up with the development, many newsrooms are forced to change the way they organize, work and think.  But change can be painful, difficult and frustrating. What are some of the lessons media companies have learned in order to adapt to this constantly changing media landscape? Innovation and the good life "We no longer have a way of living together ­ of conducting any domain of life ­ _without_ media but we don¹t yet know how to live _well_ with media" (Couldry 2013: 15; emphasis in the original). Media production is often justified and/or evaluated in normative terms.  For example, journalism is often defended in terms of freedom of expression and its contribution to debate crucial to democratic societies. We invite papers that offer normative analyses of media innovations, e.g., Do innovative forms of journalism ­ including so-called "citizen journalism" or crowdsourcing- contribute to a greater diversity of viewpoints, tolerance, debate, and healthier democratic processes and/or to (anti-democratic) fragmentation, Œherd mentality¹ and polarization? The following themes are also of interest: § media entrepreneurs and small media firms as innovators, particularly: "Break-through" examples that may serve as models for others? "Learning from our failures" ­ how not to pursue innovation? Best-case / worst-case examples of innovation § innovation in journalistic practices and media content § innovation in New Product Development routines and practices in media industries § ICTs and innovation in media production tools § innovation, accessibility, and customer service § innovation in children's media § genre innovation, including new genres and styles in e-books, social media and mobile media § gender and media innovation § innovation vis-à-vis media economics and media and cultural policy § humanistic approaches to innovation in media design; § media innovations and political communication; § mobile media, apps, and innovation § media innovation and cultural institutions (museums, libraries, etc.) All papers must be firmly connected with concrete and focused examples of media innovation practices and products. Accommodations: We strongly urge potentially interested participants to explore the resource lists on the conference website of recommended accommodations and book as early as possible.  Notifications of acceptance will be issued sufficiently early (December 20, 2013) so as to allow cost-free reservation cancellation if need be. Planning Committee Jens Barland, Gjøvik University College Niamh Ní Bhroin, University of Oslo Charles Davis, Ryerson University Karoline Andrea Ihlebæk, University of Oslo Bente Kalsnes, University of Oslo Arne H. Krumsvik, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences Philippe Ross, University of Ottowa Knut Kvale, Telenor  We look forward to welcoming to you 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 594CD76ED; Sat, 9 Nov 2013 09:45:52 +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 6B6E376E6; Sat, 9 Nov 2013 09:45:43 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 21D6E76E5; Sat, 9 Nov 2013 09:45:42 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131109084542.21D6E76E5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2013 09:45:42 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.520 job at Univ of California Merced; PhD & MA fellowships X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 520. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Nelson, Brent" (48) Subject: PhD and MA fellowships in medieval/early modern culture and digital humanities [2] From: Ruth Mostern (18) Subject: Job Announcement: Open-Rank Faculty Position in World Heritage/Digital Heritage at UC Merced --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 15:44:32 +0000 From: "Nelson, Brent" Subject: PhD and MA fellowships in medieval/early modern culture and digital humanities PhD and MA fellowships in medieval/early modern culture and digital humanities The Department of English at the University of Saskatchewan is inviting applications for four-year PhD and one-year MA scholarships to work on the following research projects: * The Culture of Curiosity in England and Scotland, 1580-1700 * The John Donne Society's Digital Prose Project * The Canterbury Tales Project * The Textual Communities Project * The Medieval Codes Project (http://medievalcodes.ca) Applicants should propose a PhD thesis project related to some aspect of these projects. Possible topics include, but are not restricted to: * Literature and culture related to early modern collecting * The textual tradition of the Canterbury Tales * Theory and practice of scholarly editing in the digital age * The effect of the digital revolution on our models of the humanities, archives and the community * Curiosity as a literary topos in such authors as Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne, Browne, and Milton * Digital humanities and scholarly editing/archival collections * Science, curiosity, and religious devotion * Rhetoric, language, and early modern collections * Information structures and features in medieval documents * Medieval manuscript layout and navigation The successful candidate will join one of the textual studies teams at the University of Saskatchewan, including The Digital Ark, the Canterbury Tales, the John Donne Prose, Textual Communities, and Medieval Codes projects. The level of funding will depend on the quality of the candidate's application and will include funding for travel and training (subject to budget approval). Facility with Latin or a modern European language and advanced skills in computing will be particularly valuable, but not essential. Please follow the Department of English guidelines for application, which can be found at http://artsandscience.usask.ca/english/forgraduates/. In your cover letter, please specify that you are applying for this position and provide a substantial description of your research interests as they relate to the projects named above. For more information about these research opportunities, please contact Brent Nelson at brent.nelson@usask.ca, Peter Robinson at peter.robinson@usask.ca, or Yin Liu at yin.liu@usask.ca. The deadline for complete applications is January 10, 2014. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Dr. Brent Nelson, Associate ProfessorDirector, Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies Department of English 9 Campus Dr. University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A5 ph.: (306) 966-1820 fax.: (306) 966-5951 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 18:52:33 +0000 From: Ruth Mostern Subject: Job Announcement: Open-Rank Faculty Position in World Heritage/Digital Heritage at UC Merced In-Reply-To: <20131108093646.8457376B2@digitalhumanities.org> Greetings Humanist Colleagues, University of California, Merced, is conducting an open-rank search for a faculty member in World Heritage, with an emphasis on Digital Heritage and/or Digital Humanities. The ad is on line at http://jobs.ucmerced.edu/n/academic/position.jsf?positionId=4993. Please spread the word, and consider applying if this is your field. Best, 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 @RuthMostern 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 11FDE76F1; Sat, 9 Nov 2013 09:53:17 +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 B1EDF76E6; Sat, 9 Nov 2013 09:53:08 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6D23D76E5; Sat, 9 Nov 2013 09:53:06 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131109085306.6D23D76E5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2013 09:53:06 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.521 events: CL for literature; big data; Buddhist studies; AIUCD (Padua) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 521. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Charles Muller (93) Subject: SYMPOSIUM> Humanities Studies in the Digital Age and the Role of Buddhist Studies, UTokyo 11/16-17 [2] From: Anna Kazantseva (24) Subject: 1st CFP: Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature [3] From: maurizio lana (19) Subject: AIUCD conference call for papers [4] From: Allen Riddell (19) Subject: Conference: Digital Humanities and Big Data --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 20:10:10 +0900 From: Charles Muller Subject: SYMPOSIUM> Humanities Studies in the Digital Age and the Role of Buddhist Studies, UTokyo 11/16-17 In-Reply-To: <527C70F8.1040407@l.u-tokyo.ac.jp> > From: Charles Muller > Subject: International Symposium: Humanities Studies in the Digital Age and the Role of Buddhist Studies Fukutake Hall, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, University of Tokyo Nov. 16 (Sat) - 17 (Sun) 2013 (Hosted by the Project "Constructing a Research Knowledge Base for Indology and Buddhology in the International Alliance," Grant-in-Aid (A) Project Supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; Co-hosted by the Center for Evolving Humanities, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo) [16th (Sat) Nov.] Opening Remarks (Prof. M. Shimoda) 09:15-09:30 Session 1 "Digital Humanities as New Methodology for Buddhist Studies" (Chair: Prof. A. C. Muller) 9:30-10:00 "The Present and Future of the CBETA Project"(Prof. A. Tu and Prof. J. Hun, Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association, Taiwan) 10:00-10:30 "SAT as a Leading Model for Humanities Researches inthe Digital Humanities Environments" (Mr. K. Nagasaki, International Institute for Digital Humanities, Japan) 10:45-11:15 "New Project of Compiling Pali Canonical Texts" (Prof. G. Somaratne, Dhammachai Institute, Thailand) 11:15-11:45 "Gandharan Manuscript Project and the Digital Archive" (Dr. S. Baums, University of Munich, Germany) Session 2 "Reconsidering Methodologies of Traditional Buddhist Studies in the Environments of Digital Media" (Chair: Prof. M. Shimoda) 13:00-13:30 "Some Remarks from the Methodology of Tibetan Buddhist Materials" (Prof. I. Miyazaki, Kyoto University, Japan) 13:30-14:00 "Several Issues in the Methodology of Japanese Buddhist Studies" (Prof. K. Minowa, University of Tokyo, Japan) 14:00-14:30 "Dealing with Sanskrit Materials of Buddhist Studiesin Digital Environments" (Dr. T. Tomabechi, International Institute for Digital Humanities, Japan) Session 3 "Constructing Buddhist Knowledge Bases" (Chair:Dr. T. Tomabechi) 14:50-15:10 "A View of the New Horizon of the Humanities from the Project of the Digital Dictionary of Buddhism" (Prof. A. C. Muller, University of Tokyo, Japan) 15:10-15:40 "The Buddhist Canons Research Database" (Dr. P. Hackett, Columbia University, USA) 15:40-16:10 "Constructing a Database for Ancient Japanese Buddhist Manuscripts" (Prof. Hayashidera, Hokkaido University) Discussion for the First Day (Chair: Prof. M. Ono) 16:30-18:00 [17th (Sun) Nov.] Session 4-1 "Humanities Studies in the Digital Age" (Chair: Prof. M. Miyake) 10:00-10:30 "The Current Situation and Role of TEI P5 as an XML Standard for the Corpus of Historical Japanese" (Dr A. Kawase andDr A. Ogiso, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Japan) 10:30-11:00 "Encoding Japanese Historical Texts using TEI"(Prof. T. Yamada, University of Tokyo, Japan) 11:00-11:30 "Opening a New Perspective of Text Analysis in the Digital Humanities" (Prof. T. Tabata, Osaka University, Japan) Demonstration 13:00-13:30 Session 4-2 "Humanities Studies in the Digital Age" (Chair: A. C. Muller) 13:30-14:00 "The Significance of Establishing and Evaluation System for the Development of Digital Humanities" (Dr. K. Takahashi, University of Tokyo) 14:00-14:30 "SMART-GS: A System for Working with Historical Manuscripts" (Y. Hashimoto, Prof. S. Hayashi, Kyoto University, Japan) 14:30-15:00 "Digital Humanities as Methodological Commons" (Prof. H. Short, Kings College London/ Western Sydney University, UK) Special Lecture (Chair: Prof. M. Shimoda) 15:10-15:50 Prof. Funayama, Kyoto University, "Several Methodological Issues in Chinese Buddhist Studies" General Discussion (Chair: Prof. M. Ono and Dr. T. Tomabechi) 16:10-17:00 (Discussion) 17:10-18:00 (Discussion) The symposium poster has a bit more information, including a map: http://www.acmuller.net/SATsymposium.pdf Regards, 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 Twitter: @H_Buddhism ********************************************************************** H-Buddhism (Buddhist Scholars Information Network) Web Site: http://www.h-net.org/~buddhism Posting Guidelines: http://www.h-net.org/~buddhism/posting_guidelines.html Account Handling: http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=h-buddhism Bibliography Project: https://www.zotero.org/groups/h-buddhism_bibliography_project/items H-Net Job Guide: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/home.php Twitter: @H_Buddhism -- --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 08:52:03 -0500 From: Anna Kazantseva Subject: 1st CFP: Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature In-Reply-To: <527C70F8.1040407@l.u-tokyo.ac.jp> Third Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature April 26 or 27, 2014, Göteborg, Sweden, co-located with EACL 2014 https://sites.google.com/site/clfl2014a/ First Call for Papers [Our apologies for multiple postings.] The purpose of the series of ACL workshops on Computational Linguistics for Literature is to bring together researchers fascinated with literature as a unique type of data which pose distinct challenges. We invite papers on original unpublished work in this broad area. In particular, we hope to see papers which explore how the state-of-the-art NLP methods can help solve existing research problems in the humanities, or perhaps suggest new problems. Literary texts revolve around the human condition, emotions, social life and inner life. Naturally, such data abound in common-sense knowledge but are very thin on technical jargon. Can tools and methods developed in the ACL community help process literary data? When do they work, when do they fail and why? What new instruments do we need in order to work with prose and poetry, on a large or small scale? Are there computational solutions of noteworthy problems in the Humanities, Information Science, Library Sciences and other similar disciplines? Here are some of the topics of interest to the workshop: - the needs of the readers and how these needs translate into meaningful NLP tasks; - searching for literature; - recommendation systems for literature; - computational modelling of narratives, computational narratology, computational folkloristics; - summarization of literature; - differences between literature and other types of writing as relevant to computational linguistics; - discourse structure in literature; - emotion analysis for literature; - profiling and authorship attribution; - identification and analysis of literary genres; - building and analyzing social networks of characters; - generation of literary narrative, dialogue or poetry; - modelling literary dialogue for generation. We will consider regular papers which describe experimental methods or theoretical work, and we will gladly welcome position papers. The NLP community does not study literature often enough, so it is important to discuss and formulate the problems before proposing solutions. The (tentative) submission deadline is January 23, 2014. Anna Feldman, Anna Kazantseva, Stan Szpakowicz --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 15:03:19 +0100 From: maurizio lana Subject: AIUCD conference call for papers In-Reply-To: <527C70F8.1040407@l.u-tokyo.ac.jp> dear all, is now open the call for the 2nd AIUCD (Associazione per l'Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale) conference which will be held in Padua December 11-12 2013. see http://www.umanisticadigitale.it/2013/10/secondo-convegno-annuale-dellaiucd-ricerca-collaborativa-e-piattaforme-condivise-per-linformatica-umanistica/#more-472 for the usual details about preferred themes. contributions in languages different from italian are accepted 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/ che cosa sono le digital humanities: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JqLst_VKCA ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università  del Piemonte Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925 --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 10:05:22 -0500 From: Allen Riddell Subject: Conference: Digital Humanities and Big Data In-Reply-To: <527C70F8.1040407@l.u-tokyo.ac.jp> Dartmouth's Leslie Humanities Center and Neukom Institute for Computational Science invite proposals for participants in a conference Oct. 5-6, 2014, "How the 'Big Data' Viewpoint is Reshaping the Humanities." Digital Humanities (formerly Humanities Computing) is a wide and expanding field that explores where computational methodologies and humanistic inquiry might intersect, and in doing so fundamentally shifts each of these subjects in new directions. Ranging from game development to archiving projects and datamining, the field uses emerging technical and computational resources to provide access to knowledge and reshape its meanings. Increasingly, new approaches designed for the collection, analysis, and visualization of large data sets are becoming relevant for investigations in the humanities. This meeting will focus on these innovative approaches. Proposals for poster session presentations of 15 minutes on innovative work at the intersection of computation and the humanities are welcome. Selected participants will receive lodging from the organizers and transportation to Dartmouth/Hanover NH. Application deadline: February 15, 2014. Submission at : http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/hbd/ Inquires to Humanities.Big.Data.Conference@Dartmouth.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id F2EB276F3; Sat, 9 Nov 2013 09:54:06 +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 A1DF076E7; Sat, 9 Nov 2013 09:53:58 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3306276E6; Sat, 9 Nov 2013 09:53:57 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131109085357.3306276E6@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2013 09:53:57 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.522 call for contributions: social robots X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 522. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2013 07:15:25 +0000 From: Charles Ess Subject: Call for papers: Social Robots: Form, Content, Critique - International Journal of Social Robotics Dear Humanists, With the usual apologies for duplications and request for cross-posting to suitable lists and potentially interested colleagues - on behalf of my co-editors: Call for Papers: Social Robots: Form, Content, Critique special issue of The International Journal of Social Robotics Co-editors: Michaela Pfadenhauer (Karlsruhe University / Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Satomi Sugiyama (Franklin College, Switzerland), Charles Ess (University of Oslo).   We invite papers from scholars and researchers across the disciplines (including philosophy, robot ethics, Artificial Intelligence, cognitive science, media/sociology, information science, art history) that examine and explore social robots through three distinct but inextricably interwoven frameworks: * Form/appearance (e.g., human/animal likeness in appearance; everyday media forms and robotic functions; cultural attitudes toward robot forms, etc.) * Content/AI/applications (e.g., implications of artificial intelligence in everyday human experiences such as memories, relationships, and conceptions of the self and self-understanding;  applications that shape human-robot interactions; applications of mobile media and their implications in human¹s robotic experiences, etc.) * Critical issues that undergird the above, including; ethics, intimacy, emotions, authenticity, etc. Paper submission deadline: 1 January 2014 Notification to authors: 1 March 2014 Submission of authors' revised papers: 1 May 2014 Final acceptance: 1 June 2014 (accepted papers will be immediately published at the IJSR webpage with a Digital Object Identifier for citation purposes) Publication: August, 2014 The call is an outcome of the COST Strategic Workshop on Social Robotic and Sustainability that took place in Brussels, Belgium, on 10-13 June 2013. http://www.cost.eu/events/socialrobotics The online submission system is available at: : http://www.editorialmanager.com/soro/ Authors are required to register on the website and to follow the Journal¹s ³Instructions for Authors² as provided there. == Many thanks in advance, - Charles Ess 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/ My latest book, Digital Media Ethics, is now available from Polity: http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745656056 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id F045776EC; Sat, 9 Nov 2013 10:34:55 +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 CCD0776E8; Sat, 9 Nov 2013 10:34:46 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4B00776E4; Sat, 9 Nov 2013 10:34:45 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131109093445.4B00776E4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2013 10:34:45 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.523 being romantic X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 523. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 21:01:43 +0000 (GMT) From: joeraben1@cox.net Subject: RE: 27.515 being romantic Willard, Your allusion to the Manhattan Project stirred memories of my own involvement in that operation from July to December 1944. With my newly minted BA in English, I was told that my chief qualification was a presumably legible handwriting and I was assigned as a materials checker in the unairconditioned warehouse that controled the flow of carbon blocks to the (airconditioned) processing shop, where they were machined to consitute the atomic piles that refined plutonium. The work would not have challenged a high school graduate, but my compensation was substantially lower than that of the unionized laborers who actually moved the blocks around. When the operation drew near its close I was transferred to the civil engineering group, where again I was assigned the lowest rank, while the instrument man (a former meat cutter) performed with a knowledge of geometry that included a distinction between "right angles" and "left angles." If a collaborative project in digital humanities were ever constructed along the lines of the Manhattan Project (despite its success in producing what it was designed to produce), I would certainly opt for the loneliness of individual effort that I followed in my career. Best, 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B4A3F76F0; Mon, 11 Nov 2013 09:05:03 +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 031C976E7; Mon, 11 Nov 2013 09:04:54 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9931676E7; Mon, 11 Nov 2013 09:04:52 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131111080452.9931676E7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 09:04:52 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.524 PhD research fellowship at Carleton (Canada) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 524. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 11:19:42 -0500 From: Brian Greenspan Subject: PhD Research Fellowships in Digital Humanities / Digital Rhetoric PhD Research Fellowships in Digital Humanities / Digital Rhetoric The Department of English Language and Literature at Carleton University 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 some combination of skills in the areas of rhetorical theory and criticism, text encoding and analysis, comparative literature (ancient, modern or postmodern), and/or critical media studies. Research experience in digital humanities / digital rhetoric will be an asset. The fellowships will be affiliated with the Canada Research Chair in Rhetoric and Ethics, and will also include a Research Assistantship associated with Carleton’s newDigital Rhetorics Laboratory. 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. To learn more about Carleton’s PhD in the Production of Literature, please visit: http://carleton.ca/english Please note the deadline for applications to the PhD program is 1 February 2014. 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 [at] carleton [dot] ca PDF for download: http://modernrhetoric.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/grad-student-fellowship-2014.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id EE75576F0; Tue, 12 Nov 2013 09:33:05 +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 9CC8F76EB; Tue, 12 Nov 2013 09:32:57 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 852192F90; Tue, 12 Nov 2013 09:32:56 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20131112083256.852192F90@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 09:32:56 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.525 the poetry of failure 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. 27, No. 525. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 09:15:07 -0500 From: Francois Lachance Subject: Solution Seeking and Failure In-Reply-To: <20131107064907.0C1C07681@digitalhumanities.org> Willard, Often I have read a thread or two on Humanist about the importance of failure for the research enterprise. And so the following line from a poem by Charles Simic resonates: At some point my need for a solution was replaced by the poetry of my continuous failure. The line is from "Chessboard of the Soul" in Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 383A376F6; Tue, 12 Nov 2013 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 E25AA76ED; Tue, 12 Nov 2013 09:38:02 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6FAB3E6A; Tue, 12 Nov 2013 09:38:00 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131112083800.6FAB3E6A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 09:38:00 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.526 job at RIT (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. 27, No. 526. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 19:48:46 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Tenure-Track Position: RIT Assistant Professor of English in Digital Media In-Reply-To: <297C50CA-A673-48C7-8171-A412C1637965@rit.edu> > From: Robert Glick > Position Title: Instructional Faculty Faculty Rank: Assistant Professor Faculty Type: Tenure Track Department: English PC# 2508 Requisition# 798BR Application Deadline: November 30, 2013 Anticipated Start Date: August 13, 2014 DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION: Situated within a vibrant technological university committed to the Digital Humanities, the English Department seeks a teacher/scholar of digital media for a tenure-track position. The candidate will specialize in cultural analytics: the use of computational methods to analyze and visualize digital and/or literary media. Potential areas of focus include: literature, film, archival and image collections, born-digital artifacts, micromedia, social networking databases, digital activism, metatextual aesthetics, interactive art or media practices. The ideal candidate approaches his/her subject matter using cross-disciplinary and/or global perspectives. Teaching assignments might include courses in digital humanities, literature, comparative media, and general education courses offered by the English Department, with opportunities to develop courses in candidate’s areas of specialization. The teaching load for new faculty is 2/3. We are seeking an individual who has the ability and interest in contributing to a community committed to Student Centeredness; Professional Development and Scholarship; Integrity and Ethics; Respect, Diversity and Pluralism; Innovation and Flexibility; and Teamwork and Collaboration. Select to view links to RIT’s core values, honor code, and diversity commitment. THE UNIVERSITY AND ROCHESTER COMMUNITY: RIT is a national leader in professional and career-oriented education. Talented, ambitious, and creative students of all cultures and backgrounds from all 50 states and more than 100 countries have chosen to attend RIT. Founded in 1829, Rochester Institute of Technology is a privately endowed, coeducational university with nine colleges and institutes emphasizing career education and experiential learning. With approximately 15,000 undergraduates and 3,000 graduate students, RIT is one of the largest private universities in the nation. RIT offers a rich array of degree programs in engineering, science, business, and the arts, and is home to the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. RIT has been honored by The Chronicle of Higher Education as a “Great Colleges to Work For” for four years. RIT is responsive to the needs of dual career couples by our membership in the Upstate NY HERC. Rochester, located on Lake Ontario, is the 79th largest city in the United States and the third largest city in New York State. The Greater Rochester region, which is home to nearly one million people, is rich in cultural and ethnic diversity, with a population comprised of approximately 16% African and Latin Americans and another 7% of international origin. It is also home to the largest deaf community per capita in the U.S. Rochester ranks 3rd best metropolitan regions for Raising a Family" by Forbes Magazine; 6th among 379 metropolitan areas as “Best Places to Live in America” by Places Rated Almanac; 1st in Expansion Management Magazine’s ranking of metropolitan areas having the best “Quality of Life in the Nation”; and is among Essence Magazine’s “Top 10 Cities for Black Families.” REQUIRED MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: • Ph.D. in English or closely related field at time of appointment • Experience in college teaching related to digital humanities • Teaching and/or research approaches using cross-disciplinary and/or global perspectives • Research plan which includes a form of cultural analytics • Publication record of critical texts and/or portfolio of digital humanities projects • Experience with computational methods • Programming/scripting/technical proficiency • Potential to attract sponsored research funding • Ability to contribute in meaningful ways to the college’s continuing commitment to cultural diversity, pluralism, and individual differences. HOW TO APPLY: Apply online at http://careers.rit.edu/faculty. Search: 798BR. Please submit your cover letter addressing the listed qualifications; a vita; brief statement of teaching philosophy; writing sample/portfolio; Contribution to Diversity Statement; and the names, addresses and phone numbers for three references. You can contact the search committee with questions on the position at: Dr. Robert Glick, Chair, Search Committee, Department of English, Rochester Institute of Technology, 92 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623-5604, engsc1@rit.edu. APPLICATION DEADLINE: The application deadline is November 30th, 2013. INTERVIEW SCHEDULE: The committee will be conducting initial interviews at the MLA conference in January 2014. RIT does not discriminate. RIT promotes and values diversity, pluralism and inclusion in the work place. RIT provides equal opportunity to all qualified individuals and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, age, marital status, sex, gender, religion, sexual orientations, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, veteran status or disability in its hiring, admissions, educational programs and activities. Robert Glick, Ph.D. Chair, English Department Digital Media Search Committee Robert Glick Assistant Professor, Department of English Rochester Institute of Technology 92 Lomb Memorial Drive Bldg. 6, Room 1311 Rochester, NY 14623 robert.glick@rit.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2C75376FC; Tue, 12 Nov 2013 09:42:27 +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 CA28376F3; Tue, 12 Nov 2013 09:42:17 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A46FB76F1; Tue, 12 Nov 2013 09:42:16 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131112084216.A46FB76F1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 09:42:16 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.527 events: affordances; 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. 27, No. 527. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Francesca Tomasi (76) Subject: CfP: 10th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries - IRCDL 2014 Padua, 30-31 January 2014 [2] From: Alfred Nordmann (31) Subject: Conference on affordances, Nov 25 to 27 in Darmstadt --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 17:33:56 +0100 From: Francesca Tomasi Subject: CfP: 10th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries - IRCDL 2014 Padua, 30-31 January 2014 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <02c901cedefb$d0c74180$7255c480$@unibo.it> CALL FOR PAPERS 10th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries - IRCDL 2014 Padua, 30-31 January 2014 http://ircdl2014.dei.unipd.it/ http://ircdl2014.dei.unipd.it/ ************************************************************************ IRCDL is a yearly deadline for Italian researchers on Digital Libraries related topics. One of the focus of IRCDL 2014 is on emphasizing the multidisciplinary nature of the research on digital libraries which not only goes from computer science to humanities but also crosses among areas in the same field ranging, for example, from archival to librarian sciences or from information management systems to new knowledge environments. This is a continued challenge for the DL field and there is the need to continue to contribute to improve the cooperation between the many communities that share common objectives. Another focus of IRCDL 2014 is on the profound change that is happening on the world of scientific communication, where the object of scientific communication is no longer a linear text, although digital, but an object-centric network that consists of text, data, images, videos, blogs, etc. This change is likely to change the nature and the role of the Digital Library and its relationship with the thematic data center. It is vitally important that this change is presented and discussed at IRCDL 2014. The aim of IRCDL 2014 is once more to provide the opportunity to explore new ideas, techniques, and tools, and to exchange experiences also from on-going projects. Topics include but are not limited to: Formal and methodological foundations of digital libraries DL Architectures and infrastructures System interoperability and data integration Ontologies and linked data for digital libraries Metadata creation, management, and curation User interfaces and visualisation Information Access, Usability, and Personalization Long-term preservation Collaborative and adaptive environments Social networking and networked information Quality and evaluation of digital libraries Digital libraries for education and learning Digital libraries for the evaluation of research quality and scholarly impact (bibliometric indicators, citation analysis, ...) Exploitation of digital cultural heritage collections Semantic publishing and digital libraries Linking data to publications New models for scholarly publishing Submissions Research papers, describing original ideas on those topics and on other fundamental aspects of digital libraries and technology, are solicited. Moreover, short papers on early research results, demos, and projects are also welcome. Research papers presenting original works should not exceed 12 pages, whereas short papers on early research results should not exceed 6 pages, and papers presenting demos or projects should not exceed 4 pages. Papers should be submitted electronically as a PDF file at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ircdl2014 Submissions must be formatted according to Authors Instructions for Springer-Verlag LNCS Proceedings. Accepted papers in PDF format will be published in on-line proceedings (max 12 pages) at the time of the conference and presented at the conference. After the conference some selected authors will be invited to submit a revised version of their paper for a possible inclusion in the post-proceedings volume. The revised version of each paper must take into account the suggestions and the comments received during the discussion at the conference; the revised versions are going to be reviewed by at least two reviewers. Important dates Submission Deadline: December 13, 2013 Acceptance Notification: January 10, 2014 Registration deadline: January 17, 2014 Final version submission: January 20, 2014 Conference: January 30-31, 2014 Revised Version Submission: March 28, 2014 Post-proceedings Publication: by July, 2014 Logistics IRCDL 2014 will will be held in the Aula Magna “A. Lepschy” of the Department of Information Engineering (DEI) of the University of Padua, via G. Gradenigo 6/b - 35131 Padova, Italy. Organization [...] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 18:19:14 +0100 From: Alfred Nordmann Subject: Conference on affordances, Nov 25 to 27 in Darmstadt In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <02c901cedefb$d0c74180$7255c480$@unibo.it> Conference Announcement: "What Affordance Affords" November 25-27, 2013 - Darmstadt, Germany www.goto-objects.eu The interdisciplinary conference features contributions from the perspectives of philosophy, sociology, psychology, science studies, economics, architecture and design. It investigates the concept ‘affordance’, its history and transformations as it traveled through different research fields and disciplines. The notion of affordance originates and is frequently identified with ecological thinking, it appears in considerations about interdependencies and interactions, about relational configurations and ontologies. Digital objects, smart materials, chemical devices, robots and the human body, geographical information systems and neuronal activity, hydrological infrastructure and landscape parks – all of these are presented and discussed as providing or being affordances. A variety of epistemological positions will be defended, different ontological claims advanced and relevant background theories invoked. There will be advocates of the notion and its heuristic value, and skeptics seeking to critique its current popularity. Speakers include Adrian Alsmith, Marcel Boumans, Claudia Carello, Harry Collins, Karmen Franinović, Hajo Greif, Rom Harré, Harry Heft, Jannis Kallinikos, Montana Katz, Irene Klaver, Alexander Koutamanis, Peter Kroes and Maarten Franssen, Joel Krueger, Yvonne Latham, Jean-Pierre Llored, Lorenzo Magnani, Paul Micklethwaite, Jens Ortmann, Hans Jörg Rheinberger, Eran Tal, Michael Turvey, Emre Ugur and Erol Şahin, Cees van Leeuwen, Catharine Ward Thompson. The conference is part of a DFG and ANR-funded project on the genesis and ontology of technoscientific objects: www. goto-objects.eu - it has been organized by Astrid Schwarz: schwarz@phil.tu-darmstadt.de - if you plan to attend, please send a short note to Jutta Braun: braun@phil.tu-darmstadt.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E490F76F0; Wed, 13 Nov 2013 07:02:07 +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 3679376B8; Wed, 13 Nov 2013 07:01:59 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 90FD276AF; Wed, 13 Nov 2013 07:01:57 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131113060157.90FD276AF@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 07:01:57 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.528 poetry of failure X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 528. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 12:38:25 +0000 From: Marcus Dahl Subject: RE: 27.525 the poetry of failure In-Reply-To: <20131112083256.852192F90@digitalhumanities.org> Dear All, Just a quick aside on this subject - my friend and colleague Dr. Adam Rounce (one of the best read men I know) has just written a marvellous book on 'Failure' which I recommend to all. Amazon Link here but presumably it is available in all good libraries! http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fame-Failure-1720-1800-Unfulfilled-Literary/dp/1107042224 many thanks Marcus -----Original Message----- From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [mailto:humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: 12 November 2013 08:33 To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0189676F6; Wed, 13 Nov 2013 07:08:48 +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 8AB1C76E8; Wed, 13 Nov 2013 07:08:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AE29876E4; Wed, 13 Nov 2013 07:08:38 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131113060838.AE29876E4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 07:08:38 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.529 Board members for Comics Grid? Members for AHRC Peer Review College? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 529. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (32) Subject: AHRC PRC Call for Nominations [2] From: Ernesto Priego (14) Subject: Looking for two Editorial Board members --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 13:20:46 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: AHRC PRC Call for Nominations AHRC 2013 Call for Nominations to the Peer Review College The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is seeking nominations for new members to be appointed to its Peer Review College (PRC). This Call is open to all nominees who meet the eligibility criteria (please see related guidance document). Peer review lies at the heart of the AHRC’s operations, and we are fully committed to the principle of peer review for the assessment of proposals to our schemes and programmes. PRC members provide expert quality reviews of proposals within their areas of expertise, which inform the AHRC’s decision making processes. As well as making an important contribution to the AHRC’s peer review processes, the experience gained by membership of the College provides benefits to individuals, departments and higher education institutions. Please click here for more information about Peer Review College Membership College Groups The AHRC organises the College into groups to improve our ability to match reviewers’ expertise with proposals, and to enable us to identify reviewers who can assess certain aspects of proposals. Individuals can be nominated to join one or more of the groups, as listed below: • Academic • Non HEI *1 • Strategic • International • Knowledge Exchange • Technical Reviewers *1 Non HEI organisations might include Government departments and agencies (including the Cabinet Office and Foresight Programme), Local authorities, Voluntary sector, Minority and other community groups, Private sector, Museum, archive, library and heritage sectors Eligibility We welcome nominations for all candidates, at any stage of their career, who meet the relevant eligibility criteria. Please see Appendix A in the guidance notes. Please note that candidates must be nominated by a senior staff member or representative within Higher Education Institutions (for example Pro-Vice Chancellor, Dean, Head of School or College, Head of Faculty, Research Director) or other organisations, learned societies or professional associations. Research Areas This is an open call including all areas within the AHRC’s remit. However, nominations are particularly invited from those with expertise in one or more of the Targeted Research Areas and Themes listed below. This does not have to be their primary area of expertise. How to Apply Please note that the nomination process consists of three stages and nominees are strongly advised to follow the steps as recommended in the guidance. Guidance notes, including details of the eligibility criteria, can be downloaded from the AHRC PRC News page. Nominees - the relevant online survey must be completed and the following must be uploaded: a brief CV (this should be no longer than 2 sides of A4, and should cover all areas set out in the ‘Guidance notes on completing the Peer Review College Nomination process’); and, a list of major publications within the last 5 years (no longer than 1 side of A4). Nominators – the relevant online survey for nominators must also be completed and a Case for Support (max. 500 words) must be uploaded. Please note that if a nominator is nominating more than one candidate, they can do so within the same survey. They will need to provide details and upload a Case for Support for all the individuals they are nominating. The deadline for nominations is 12 noon on 11th December 2013. If successful, College members will be appointed for a term commencing 1 June 2014 and ending 31 December 2017. If you have any queries regarding the nomination process please do not hesitate to contact: Matthew Carr AHRC Peer Review College Coordinator email: m.carr@ahrc.ac.uk tel: 01793 416069 *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1384262821_2013-11-12_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_27876.1.txt http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1384262821_2013-11-12_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_27876.2.docx --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 17:25:59 +0000 From: Ernesto Priego Subject: Looking for two Editorial Board members Dear Colleagues, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship is looking for two colleagues to join our Editorial Board. Information here: http://blog.comicsgrid.com/2013/11/looking-two-new-editorial-board-members/ Apologies for any cross-posting. Best regards, Dr Ernesto Priego*Lecturer in Library Science Acting Course Director, MSc/MA Electronic Publishing City University London http://epriego.wordpress.com/ @ernestopriego Editor-in-Chief, *The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship * http://www.comicsgrid.com/ 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CAA5476F5; Wed, 13 Nov 2013 07:09:53 +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 3C50B76EF; Wed, 13 Nov 2013 07:09:45 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C895076E8; Wed, 13 Nov 2013 07:09:42 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131113060942.C895076E8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 07:09:42 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.530 events: silence of science; 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. 27, No. 530. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (17) Subject: V-MUST.NET International Virtual Heritage School 2013 [2] From: "Mellor, Felicity" (8) Subject: silence of science conference --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 14:05:13 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: V-MUST.NET International Virtual Heritage School 2013 International Virtual Heritage School 2013 2nd International Virtual Heritage School 9th – 13th December 2013 @ AIR Studio, Falmouth University, Falmouth, Cornwall. UK V-MUST.NET http://v-must.net/ and King's College London in collaboration with AIR Studio, Falmouth University, announce the 2nd International Virtual Heritage School Designed for early career professionals and researchers with a strong interest in cultural heritage and/or virtual museum digitisation and communication The school presents and exciting programme of lectures and hands-on sessions by leading experts in the filed of cultural heritage and virtual museums, combined with field trips and participant led case study development Spaces are limited to 20 participants selected by the V-MUST.NET committee base on CV and relevant interest to the programme. Accommodation for the duration of the school will be provided and leading candidates will be offered travel grants of up to €1,000. Application is now open. Please go to the online registration form at the application-form. http://www.v-must.net/schools/international-virtual-heritage-school-2013 Submission deadline Friday 20th November 2013 Best wishes Drew ________________________________ Drew Baker. Research Fellow Digital Humanities, King’s College London 26-29 Drury Lane. London. UK. WC2B 5RL Telephone +44 (0)20 7848 2780 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 18:25:03 +0000 From: "Mellor, Felicity" Subject: silence of science conference The Silences of Science: Silences in the History and Communication of Science Registration is now open for this one day conference to be held at Imperial College London on Tuesday 17th December 2013. The programme and registration form can be found here: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/humanities/sciencecommunicationgroup/research/silencesofscience The registration from should be completed and returned to f.mellor@imperial.ac.uk by 30th November. Silence is often construed negatively, as a lack, an absence. Yet silences carry meaning. They can be strategic and directed at particular audiences; they can be fiercely contested or completely overlooked. Silence is not only oppressive but also generative, playing a key role in creative and intellectual processes. Conversely, speech, whilst seeming to facilitate open communication, can serve to mask important silences or can replace the quietude necessary for insightful thought with thoughtless babble. Despite a currently dominant rhetoric that assumes that openness in science is an inherent good, science - and its communication - depends as much on discontinuities, on barriers and lacunae, as it does on the free flow of information. This conference will bring together STS scholars and Science Communication Studies scholars to explore both the positive and negative features of silence in scientific practice and the communication of science. Keynote: 'The Sounds of Silencing' by Professor Brian Rappert, Exeter University, author of Experimental Secrets. There is no conference fee. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 271B3770B; Thu, 14 Nov 2013 05:46:21 +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 6391576F1; Thu, 14 Nov 2013 05:46:12 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3FD517699; Thu, 14 Nov 2013 05:46:10 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131114044610.3FD517699@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 05:46:10 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.531 being romantic X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 531. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 18:55:06 +0100 From: "Dr. Hartmut Krech" Subject: Re: 27.508 being romantic In-Reply-To: <20131105064424.52ED676D0@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard and members of this "invisible college", This interesting discussion has surfaced a very special understanding of "romantic" or "romantic scholar" that seems to be peculiar to the English-language tradition. It is embraced in Pres. Eisenhowers 1961 statement quoted by Willard: "Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields." Within the German tradition, we also have the image of the idiosyncratic individual scholar as exemplified in Spitzweg's painting 'The Poor Poet' (1839), the most popular painting in Germany right after Leonardo's Mona Lisa (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_arme_Poet), yet he was never described as a "Romantic" as such. The identification of individual one-person enterprises in science with Romanticism makes sense when we remember that the very word 'scientist' was added to the English language in the 1830s (Whewell among others). The German 'Naturwissenschaftler' and 'Naturforscher' make their debut already around 1690. 1845, the founding of the Physikalische Gesellschaft zu Berlin with its emphasis on the concept of force, is an appropriate final date for Romanticism in science. If, in the English-language world, 'scientists' as individuals originated in the Romantic period, it is quite understandable that, in the public mind, scientific individuality may still share some connotations attached to the Romantic Movement. In a way, it is experienced as the empty shell of the humanistic scholar. In Germany, mention was always made of the 'Romantic School' to emphasize its subjective and particular outlook, until Wilhelm Scherer (1841-1886) first used the collective term 'Romantische Wissenschaft' in 1883. The 'romantic' as a certain 'orientation' in philosophy had already been set apart from the the 'classical' in 1877. It is this distinction that is kept alive in Eisenhower's 1961 address. To cut a long story short, the meaning of 'romantic' in science is not necessarily confined to individualism or subjectivism. As a matter of fact, quite a number of scientific organizations of a new kind were founded between 1798 and 1845 that relied on the co-operation of interested laymen in the acquisition of their data. The Annual Reports of the U.S. National Museum and other institutions of the times abound with stories of school kids who sent in fossilized bones, bird eggs, feathers, and the like. Remarkable influences have issued from this 'Romantic Science' as a "progressive universal poetry" (Schlegel 1798). Nevertheless, it definitely leaves the realm of science when it uses "symbolic representation" where knowledge is said to be unknowable and belief is substituted for inquiry. It is more concerned with personal expression than with a modest acknowledgement of what is. Science becomes feuilleton. In no way must individualism in science be identified with romanticism and there are good uses for fiction even within the most exact sciences, but the substitution of insight with convenient formulations will lead nowhere. There are research questions that only an individual can pursue over several decades. This statement is just as true as to say that without focussing there is no photographic image. On the other hand, large-scale research is not to be condemned as such. The problem that Eisenhower seems to have addressed 52 years ago is the substitution of genuine curiosity and innovative sipirit with scene shifting for the only purpose to acquire grants for institutions. Best regards, Hartmut http://ww3.de/krech Am 05.11.2013 07:44, schrieb Humanist Discussion Group: > In other words, I think the > difference is between a deep-rooted idealism and a feet-on-the-ground > realism. I'm*very* glad my friends are realists, but I cannot help myself > when it comes to research -- I'm a romantic. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 57B1A7715; Thu, 14 Nov 2013 05:48:10 +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 39E29770C; Thu, 14 Nov 2013 05:48:01 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 19C807702; Thu, 14 Nov 2013 05:47:59 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131114044759.19C807702@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 05:47:59 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.532 events: little data; book launch X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 532. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Melissa Terras (21) Subject: Invitation to Book Launch of "Defining Digital Humanities: A Reader" [2] From: Scott Kushner (45) Subject: CfP: Little Data and the Big Picture (ACLA 2014, NYU, 20-23 March--FINAL NOTICE) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 14:49:30 +0000 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Invitation to Book Launch of "Defining Digital Humanities: A Reader" Dear Humanist List, You are cordially invited to a party to celebrate the launch of "Defining Digital Humanities: A Reader", edited by Melissa Terras, Julianne Nyhan and Edward Vanhoutte, to be held at UCL, London, on Friday 29th November 2013. Digital Humanities is becoming an increasingly popular focus of academic endeavour. There are now hundreds of Digital Humanities centres worldwide and the subject is taught at both postgraduate and undergraduate level. Yet the term ‘Digital Humanities’ is much debated. This reader brings together, for the first time, in one core volume the essential readings that have emerged in Digital Humanities. We provide a historical overview of how the term ‘Humanities Computing’ developed into the term ‘Digital Humanities’, and highlight readings which explore the meaning, scope, and implementation of the field. To contextualize and frame each included reading, the editors and authors provide a commentary on the original piece. There is also an annotated bibliography of other material not included in the text to provide an essential list of reading in the discipline. This text will be required reading for scholars and students who want to discover the history of Digital Humanities through its core writings, and for those who wish to understand the many possibilities that exist when trying to define Digital Humanities. For more information, see http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409469636. Please note that registration is required so that we have an idea of numbers, and further details of location and time are available on the sign up page: https://definingdh.eventbrite.com. best wishes, Melissa ----------------- Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE CITP FHEA Director, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities Professor of Digital Humanities 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/ Twitter: @melissaterras --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 22:20:10 -0500 From: Scott Kushner Subject: CfP: Little Data and the Big Picture (ACLA 2014, NYU, 20-23 March--FINAL NOTICE) Dear Willard, The following call for papers (viewble at http://bit.ly/H79K6q) may be of interest to Humanist readers working in literary, media, and cultural studies. It promises to be an exciting occasion to think together about how the literary critical tradition can be brought bear upon everyday textual experiences of new media use. As abstracts are due shortly, would you be kindly forward it to the list again? "Little Data and the Big Picture: What Everyday Literature Can Do for Comparison" a seminar to be held at the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association New York University 20-23 March 2014 Abstracts by 15 November 2013 The broad claims of Big Data hide the continued importance of the specific, individual, and random. This seminar examines the contributions that Comparative Literature has made and can make for understanding the stories that are written and read against the background of “digital humanities,” “new media,” and the “information society.” Prospective participants are invited to problematize these key terms and explore how textual cultures have evolved alongside, been shaped by, and resisted successive fantasies of a data-driven society. There has always been an everyday literature of letters, memos, telegrams, and notes. How are the forms of today’s everyday literature analogous repetitions of past forms and how do they represent something qualitatively different? How do we judge? In some fashion, the papers in this seminar will explore ways that the specific, the particular, the analog, and the banal persist in the face of the general, the aggregate, the digital, and the grand arc. Possible topics include (but are not limited to): Histories and counter-histories of the information society; everyday digital textuality; computer and human languages; networked social media; Tweet poetics; posting addiction; life writing; comparative media and textual cultures; reception; censorship; quantitative historiography; textual geographies; platforms (computer and otherwise); analog/digital tensions; political action; lacunae; interface; objects (virtual and/or tangible); participation and/or non-participation; material and immaterial conditions of reading and writing. Submit a paper proposal at http://www.acla.org/submit (be sure to select "Little Data..." in the Seminar drop-down menu). Learn more about the meeting and its "distinctive structure" at http://www.acla.org/acla2014. Any questions about the seminar, inquiries about topic suitability, or nominations of possible participants may be directed to me at scott.kushner@gmail.com. Many thanks, Scott Kushner _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 50A36770F; Thu, 14 Nov 2013 05:49:06 +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 DE2A776E4; Thu, 14 Nov 2013 05:48:57 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 835BB7694; Thu, 14 Nov 2013 05:48:55 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20131114044855.835BB7694@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 05:48:55 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.533 MA at Alberta X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 533. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 11:00:34 -0700 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: MA in Humanities Computing Dear Humanists, I am writing to encourage you to recommend our terrific MA in Humanities Computing to students interested in the digital humanities, new media, informatics and game studies. Please circulate this message to any interested students. The URL for the programme is: http://www.ois.ualberta.ca/en/HumanitiesComputing.aspx Some reasons why students might want to consider Humanities Computing at U of Alberta: - We are one of the top graduate programmes in the field (established in 2001) and we have a great record of placing our students in library positions, computer lab positions, research projects, PhD programmes and industry jobs. - There is significant depth in the field at the University of Alberta. We are a leading centre in Canada. We have five faculty who are closely involved in the programme and another five adjunct faculty. We have three labs run by the Arts Resource centre for teaching and research in the field. - Students can do a 2 year thesis MA in Humanities Computing or a 3 year joint MA/MLIS (also with thesis). The double degree gives them a strong combination of academic and professional degrees with a breadth of career prospects. In both cases students can specialize in another field like (English, History, Philosophy, Music ...) should they want to continue on to a PhD in that field. There is room in the curriculum to take courses in the specialization and the thesis is then supervised jointly by someone in Humanities Computing and someone in the specialization. - We have been successful for the five last years in finding funding for most of the students that we accept including international students. In many cases the funding is with grant funded research projects so students get to be involved from the first semester in real projects that lead to conference presentations and publications. Some of the areas of research strength that students can get involved in include: - Sean Gouglas, Maureen Engel and Geoffrey Rockwell are part of an interdisciplinary Canada-wide Network of Centres of Excellence on Graphics, Animation and New media Design (GRAND). A number of graduate students from Humanities Computing are part of this project developing serious games, locative games, visualization systems, assessing games and looking at gender in game discourse. For example we are now developing Queer Edmonton, a locative media game about the city's queer history using the fAR-Play platform we developed. (grand-nce.org) - Susan Brown is leading a large project called the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory that is developing a distributed editing environment. Graduate students are managing testing of modules, doing interface design, and looking at semantic web technologies. (cwrc.ca) - Susan Brown and Geoffrey Rockwell have projects on text mining, visualization and text analysis. Graduate students are reviewing tools, developing corpora for text mining research, building visualization tools, conducting usability resarch and studying literary corpora. (tapor.ca) - Peter Baskerville and Sean Gouglas are studying Canadian history through land-use and census records. Student are entering and encoding materials, linking people across records and working with GIS systems to analyze the data. (ccri.uvic.ca/) - Geoffrey Rockwell is part of the INKE project looking at new interfaces to knowledge. Students are studying historical interfaces and developing new touch-screen interfaces. (inke.ca) - Maureen Engel, along with co-investigators Heather Zwicker, Daniel Laforest and Russell Cobb, heads the Edmonton Pipelines group, a research cell that employs digital mapping and visualization techniques to provide deep spatial narratives about urban spaces. From narrating suburbia, to crowdsourcing the solstice, to creating a layered map of aboriginal Edmonton, Pipelines uses digital tools as narrative provocation to challenge our views of our urban environments. (edmontonpipelines.org) - Maureen Engel is also a co-investigator on the "Between the City and the River" project which is building a digital historical atlas of Edmonton's river valley, and a collaborator on ArtCan, a project that is building an online commons of resources on Canadian art, art history, and art education. She is an active member of HASTAC (hastac.org) and was co-chair of HASTAC 2013 (hastac2013.org) with Caitlin Fisher, a frequent collaborator at the Augmented Reality Lab at York University. - Scott Smallwood is working on electronic musical instruments and physical computing. He teaches courses on programming, circuit bending, and physical computing. Students have worked with him to build interactives for different purposes. (solarsoundarts.com/) - Harvey Quamen is a project lead on the Editing Modernism in Canada project, which is digitizing the archives of Wilfred and Sheila Watson, two Edmonton authors. He uses Big Data techniques and data visualizations to investigate the contents of digital archives and was on the team that built WatsonWalk, a literary walking app of Paris. (emic.ualberta.ca/) Students who want more information should feel free to contact the Director or the Graduate Coordinator: Director: Scott Smallwood, scott.smallwood@ualberta.ca Graduate Coordinator: Geoffrey Rockwell, geoffrey.rockwell@ualberta.ca Please ask us questions, let us call you, or come for a visit! 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4C3DC76F3; Fri, 15 Nov 2013 06:01:53 +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 D741476E4; Fri, 15 Nov 2013 06:01:42 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 129D176A6; Fri, 15 Nov 2013 06:01:40 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131115050141.129D176A6@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 06:01:40 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.534 events: standardisation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 534. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 17:13:37 +0200 From: Kai Jakobs Subject: CfP: WS on Standardisation Management Call for Papers 2nd Workshop on 'Standardisation Management' http://www.comsys.rwth-aachen.de/team/kai-jakobs/ws-standardisation- management/ws-standardisation-management-copy-1/ 24/25 March 2014 Ecole des Mines Albi-Carmaux, France In conjunction with the I-ESA'12 conference (Interoperability for Enterprise Systems and Applications) http://www.aidima.es/iesa2012/index.htm Objective of the Workshop ------------------------- The WS aims to address aspects relating to the management of standardisation. That is, it will look at managerial issues of corporate standardisation as well as at standards management in the public sector. Accordingly, the main objective is to contribute to the identification of best-practices in organisational standardisation management. Corporate standardisation management also entails the selection of the most appropriate standards bodies. Thus, a secondary objective is to identify the criteria upon which this selection is based. This, in turn, will (hopefully) contribute to a more effective and efficient standardisation landscape. Topics Covered (this is a non-exclusive list) ? approaches to corporate standardisation management in the public and the private sector; ? corporate standardisation strategies; ? intra-organisational flow of information about standardisation; ? the individual in standards setting - selection, training, motivation; ? new ways of co-operation between standards bodies; ? potential new standardisation landscapes. Submission Guidelines --------------------- Original (unpublished) papers not exceeding 6 pages are solicited. Formatting guidelines may be found at http://2014.i-esa.org/I-ESA14Template.zip. All papers will undergo a double blind peer-review process. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings, to be published by Wiley/ISTE Publications, UK. Outstanding papers will be considered for inclusion in the International Journal on IT Standards and Standardization Research (JITSR). All submissions (in .doc/.docx/.rtf/.pdf format) should be sent to: Kai.Jakobs@comsys.rwth-aachen.de Deadliness ---------- Submissions due: 20 December 2013 Notification: 30 January 2014 Final papers due: 1 March 2014 Programme Committee ---------------------------- Kai Jakobs (Chair), RWTH Aachen U., DE Knut Blind, TU Berlin, DE Tineke Egyedi, TU Delft, NL Vladislav Fomin, Vytautas Magnus U., LT Stephan Gauch (tbc), TU Berlin, DE Ian Graham, U. of Edinburgh, UK Klaus Turowski, U. of Magdeburg, DE Henk de Vries (tbc), Erasmus U., NL Tim Weitzel, U. of Bamberg, DE Robin Williams (tbc), U. of Edinburgh, UK ________________________________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5102B7704; Fri, 15 Nov 2013 06:05:07 +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 BC2BD76F5; Fri, 15 Nov 2013 06:04:58 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D90E576F4; Fri, 15 Nov 2013 06:04:56 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131115050456.D90E576F4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 06:04:56 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.535 "Lost in Visualization?" Live blog X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 535. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 09:57:14 +0100 From: Jan Christoph Meister Subject: Lost in Visualization: Live blog from the DCI Workshop @ Hamburg University Texts are often the primary objects of interest in literary studies and in the Humanities in general. Though it getting increasingly common to use computational methods for analyzing texts, methods of visualization could not yet prevail. This issue is subject to a workshop that is held within the frameworks of the TransCoop project *DCI -- The Digital Commons Initiative* which is funded by the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation. The workshop is organized by the DCI team in cooperation with the team of the eHumanities project /heureCLÉA/ (www.heureclea.de). Workshop participants from 5 countries and continents with an expertise in computer science, linguistics, literary studies, and historial science will discuss how the results of textual analysis can fruitfully be processed through data visualization. The envisaged outcome of the workshop is to develop visualization-prototypes that are adjusted to the specifics of different types of text analytical research questions. This methodologically informed preselection of practical visualizations will enable newcomers to benefit from the value of visualizations. For a live blog from the "Lost in Visualization?" workshop run at Hamburg University 14-16 November please visit http://jcmeister.de/projects/dci-the-digital-commons-initiative/ Chris Meister -- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 78C4476F3; Sat, 16 Nov 2013 05:41:22 +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 69DD57695; Sat, 16 Nov 2013 05:41:12 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 55B106006; Sat, 16 Nov 2013 05:41:10 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131116044110.55B106006@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 05:41:10 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.536 fellowship: future of the book at CUNY X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 536. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 21:13:55 -0500 From: "Matthew K. Gold" Subject: Fellowship Opportunity: Pinetree Foundation Distinguished Visiting Fellowship on The Future of the Book in the Digital Age at Graduate Center, CUNY (2014-2015) The Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC) of the Graduate Center invites applications for the Pinetree Foundation Distinguished Visiting Fellowship on The Future of the Book in the Digital Age. A Pinetree Foundation Distinguished Visiting Fellow will receive a stipend of $72,000 for two semesters and will be provided with office space, a computer, and access to the Graduate Center’s academic infrastructure. http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Degrees-Research/The-Advanced-Research-Collaborative/ARC-Applications Applicants must not be currently employees of the City University of New York. In return, the Fellow is expected to carry out work regularly at the Graduate Center, which is located in Midtown at 365 Fifth Avenue, and to participate in the intellectual and academic community of ARC and the Graduate Center. In practice, this means using the office provided on a regular basis, attending ARC events, giving presentations to a seminar and/or a public audience, and sharing work-in-progress with doctoral students and faculty. Applicants would have outstanding records of published research and scholarship in book history, textual studies, print culture, digital humanities, and new media studies. The holder of the fellowship will come to the Graduate Center to do research on the nature of the printed book in the digital age, the changing nature of knowledge production, organization, preservation, and dissemination, in both print and digital media, concentrating specifically on dynamic relationships between print and digital publication streams. Topics may include how digital media and the internet change reading, writing, and research; how technology impacts the role of the research library and scholarly communication; the role of libraries in supporting and creating the digital humanities; how technology will impact access to knowledge or intellectual property rights; and the changing value of the printed artifact in a digital age. In addition to dovetailing with existing Graduate Center digital initiatives, the Pinetree Foundation Distinguished Visiting Fellowship will build on the strong relationships that the Graduate Center has with area archival institutions such as the New York Public Library, the Morgan Library, the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the New York Historical Society. The fellow will be encouraged to embark on collaborative projects and joint seminars with the librarians, curators, and technologists of these and other New York institutions. Applicants should complete the application form below: Pinetree Foundation Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Application Form: http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Degrees-Research/The-Advanced-Research-Collaborative/ARC-Applications/Distinguished-Visiting-Fellowship-Application Additional questions can be e-mailed to arc@gc.cuny.edu. The deadline for applications is Friday, December 20, 2013. Notification of acceptance will be sent by February 14, 2014. -- Matthew K. Gold, Ph.D. Associate Professor of English & Digital Humanities City Tech & Graduate Center, City University of New York http://cuny.is/mkgold | @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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B36CC76F6; Sat, 16 Nov 2013 05:42:17 +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 37DA076F9; Sat, 16 Nov 2013 05:42:09 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0DF8F76EA; Sat, 16 Nov 2013 05:42:06 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131116044207.0DF8F76EA@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 05:42:06 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.537 events: performing arts; 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. 27, No. 537. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Doug Reside (29) Subject: CFP: Digital Humanities & The Performing Arts [2] From: Geoff Sutcliffe (155) Subject: ERSHOV INFORMATICS CONFERENCE (PSI'14) - Call for Papers --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 08:10:52 -0500 From: Doug Reside Subject: CFP: Digital Humanities & The Performing Arts For distribution. *Call for Papers* Theatre Library Association and SIBMAS are pleased to announce their 2014 Conference: *Body, Mind, Artifact: Reimagining Collections* June 10-13, 2014 John Jay College New York City This will be a truly international event for professionals involved in libraries, archives and museums of performing arts, in the heart of New York’s theatre district. The conference also celebrates the 60th anniversary of SIBMAS. We invite Papers on the following three major themes: - Dance Preservation - Digital Humanities and the Performing Arts - Artifacts and Ephemera Please review the detailed Call for Papers. Papers should not exceed 20 minutes and may be given in either English or French. Proposals may be submitted online through the Conference Website. http://www.sibmas.org/conferences/new-york-2014-invitation For additional information, please contact: Nancy Friedland Conference Co-Chair nef4@columbia.edu Alan Jones Conference Co-Chair A.Jones@rcs.ac.uk --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 16:45:51 +0000 From: Geoff Sutcliffe Subject: ERSHOV INFORMATICS CONFERENCE (PSI'14) - Call for Papers Call for Papers ERSHOV INFORMATICS CONFERENCE (PSI'14) 24 June - 27 June, 2014, Peterhof, St. Petersburg, Russia http://psi.nsc.ru/psi14 [AIMS AND SCOPE] The Ershov Informatics Conference (the PSI Conference Series, 9th edition) is the premier international forum in Russia for research and its applications in computer, software and information sciences. The conference brings together academic and industrial researchers, developers and users to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences and concerns in the conference area. [ORGANIZERS] - A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems, Siberian Branch of RAS - Saint Petersburg State University [CONFERENCE CHAIRS] - Alexander Marchuk A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems, Novosibirsk, Russia - Andrey Terekhov Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia [STEERING COMMITTEE] Dines Bjorner Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark Manfred Broy Institut fuer Informatik, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Victor Ivannikov Institute for System Programming RAS, Moscow, Russia Ugo Montanari University of Pisa, Italy [PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIRS] Irina Virbitskaite A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems, Novosibirsk, Russia Andrei Voronkov The University of Manchester, UK [CONFERENCE SECRETARY] Irina Adrianova A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems, Novosibirsk, Russia 6, Acad. Lavrentiev av. 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia tel.: +7 383 3307352 fax: +7 383 3323494 e-mail: psi2014@iis.nsk.su, iadrianova@iis.nsk.su [CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS] - Edmund M. Clarke (USA) - Tony Hoare (UK) - Bertrand Meyer (Switzerland) - Vladimiro Sassone (UK) - Vadim E. Kotov (USA) [CONFERENCE TOPICS] 1. Foundations of Program and System Development and Analysis - specification, validation, and verification techniques, - program analysis, transformation and synthesis, - semantics, logic and formal models of programs, - partial evaluation, mixed computation, abstract interpretation, compiler construction, - theorem proving and model checking, - concurrency theory, - modeling and analysis of real-time and hybrid systems, - computer models and algorithms for bioinformatics. 2. Programming Methodology and Software Engineering - object-oriented, aspect-oriented, component-based and generic programming, - programming by contract, - program and system construction for parallel and distributed computing, - constraint programming, - multi-agent technology, - system re-engineering and reuse, - integrated programming environments, - software architectures, - software development and testing, - model-driven system/software development, - agile software development, - software engineering methods and tools, - program understanding and visualization. 3. Information Technologies - data models, - database and information systems, - knowledge-based systems and knowledge engineering, - bioinformatics engineering, - ontologies and semantic Web, - digital libraries, collections and archives, Web publishing, - peer-to-peer data management. In addition to papers in the above list of topics, papers both bridging the gap between different directions and promoting mutual understanding of researchers are welcome. Papers defining the general prospects in computer, software and information sciences are also encouraged. [PROGRAMME COMMITTEE] http://psi.nsc.ru/psi14/programme_committee [SUBMISSIONS] There are three categories of submissions: - regular papers describing fully developed work and complete results (12 pages / 30 minute talks); - short papers reporting on interesting work in progress and/or preliminary results (7 pages / 15 minute talks); - system and experimental papers describing implementation or evaluation of experimental systems and containing a link to a working system (4 pages / 10 minute presentation). Submissions should: - contain original contributions that have not been published or submitted to other conferences/journals in parallel with this conference; - clearly state the problem being addressed, the goal of the work, the results achieved, and the relation to other works; - be in PS or PDF and formatted according to Springer LNCS Instructions for authors: http://www.springeronline.com; - be in English and in a form that can be immediately included in the proceedings without major revision; - be attached (if necessary) by an appendix that contains proofs etc. However, the paper must be self-contained without the appendix in that reviewers may not read the appendix; - be sent electronically (as a PostScript or PDF file) through the submissions link to the conference website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=psi2014 not later than January 20, 2014. Submitted regular papers that are judged to have limited merit may be accepted as short papers, with up to seven pages in the proceedings. At the time of submission, authors should indicate if they wish to have their submission considered as a short paper in the case it is not accepted as a regular one. At least one author of each accepted paper must register, attend the conference and present the paper. [CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS] A preliminary book of tutorial, invited and accepted contributions will be handed out at the conference. The final versions of the invited, regular and short papers presented at the conference will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series after the conference. One can find the proceedings of the previous seven conferences in LNCS, Vol. 1181, 1755, 2244, 2890, 4378, 5947, and 7162. [LOCATION] The conference will be held in Peterhof (also known as Petrodvorets), a suburb of St. Petersburg located on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland. The town is one of St. Petersburg's most famous and popular visitor attractions thanks to its palaces, fountains and parks. Founded as a summer residence of Peter the Great, the area is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is often referred to as "the Russian Versaille". For more information see http://www.saint-petersburg.com/peterhof. [TRAVELLING] You can fly directly to St Petersburg (Pulkovo Airport) or travel via Moscow. Going from Moscow, you can take take a train - the fastest takes about four hours and now costs EUR 117 one way. There are also quite a few overnight trains, which cost from EUR 71 to EUR 106 2nd class one way and take about 8 hours. All direct trains depart from Moskva Oktiabrskaya (October Station, the former Moscow Leningradsky Station) and arrive at Sankt-Peterburg Glavnyi (Main Station). For more details see http://www.russianrail.com. [SATELLITE WORKSHOPS] N.B. Three satellite workshops will be held in conjunction with PSI'14: - Program Understanding, - Educational Informatics, - Science Intensive Applied Software. [IMPORTANT DATES] January 13, 2014: abstract submission January 20, 2014: submission deadline April 1, 2014: notification of acceptance June 24 - 27, 2014: the conference dates September 1, 2014: camera ready papers due See for more information http://psi.nsc.ru/psi14 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A182C7700; Sat, 16 Nov 2013 05:43:00 +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 058047695; Sat, 16 Nov 2013 05:42:52 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 868587695; Sat, 16 Nov 2013 05:42:49 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131116044249.868587695@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 05:42:49 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.538 pubs: translation; affective-aware ubiquitous 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. 27, No. 538. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Dr. Dr. Egon L. van den Broek" (9) Subject: CFP on Affective Aware Ubiquitous Computing (ISI journal) & workshop [2] From: Ram-Verlag (33) Subject: Study of Translation --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 10:25:10 +0000 From: "Dr. Dr. Egon L. van den Broek" Subject: CFP on Affective Aware Ubiquitous Computing (ISI journal) & workshop Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments (JAISE) Thematic Issue: Affect Aware Ubiquitous Computing There has been considerable research in pervasive and ubiquitous computing infrastructures for realising Ambient Intelligence (AmI) and user aware systems that attempt to use smart data representation and learning techniques to interpret and respond to peoples’ everyday environmental and information needs [1-5]. Such intelligence has to be focused around the user, the context of their activities, and their interactions with computing artefacts so that their behaviours, preferences and desires are anticipated by the system [1-5]. [For the remainder of this cfp see: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1384521721_2013-11-15_vandenbroek@acm.org_26747.4.pdf] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 18:12:44 +0000 From: Ram-Verlag Subject: Study of Translation Just published: ----- Quantitative Exploration of Historical Translation: A Corpus Study of Tetsugaku Jii by Meng JI ISBN 978-3-942303-16-3 Topics: Lexicon, Translation, Japanese Available as: PDF-File download from Internet: 20.00 EUR (Link) CD-ROM: 25.00 EUR (order to RAM-Verlag) Printed edition: 65.00 EUR (order to RAM-Verlag) ----- Exploratory Statistical Techniques: for the Study of Literary Translation by Meng JI ISBN 978-3-942303-17-0 Topics: Translation, Comparison, Chinese Available as: PDF-File download from Internet: 15.00 EUR (Link) CD-ROM: 20.00 EUR (order to RAM-Verlag) Printed edition: 45.00 EUR (order to 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 187667700; Sun, 17 Nov 2013 10:40:16 +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 D907D76F2; Sun, 17 Nov 2013 10:40:01 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3C2B33BEE; Sun, 17 Nov 2013 10:39:59 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131117094000.3C2B33BEE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 10:39:59 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.539 pubs: D-Lib Magazine for November/December X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 539. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 14:43:50 +0000 From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The November/December 2013 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available Greetings: The November/December 2013 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 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 Portal to Texas History, a fascinating array of rare and invaluable items that document Texas's history created and maintained by the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Projects Unit. The articles include: Growing Institutional Support for Data Citation: Results of a Partnership Between Griffith University and the Australian National Data Service By Natasha Simons, Griffith University, Brisbane, Karen Visser, Australian National Data Service and Samantha Searle, Griffith University, Brisbane A Method for Identifying Personalized Representations in the Archives By Mat Kelly, Justin F. Brunelle, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson, Old Dominion University Descriptive Metadata for Field Books: Methods and Practices of the Field Book Project By Sonoe Nakasone, District of Columbia Public Library System and Carolyn Sheffield, Smithsonian Institution Providing Access to Electronic Theses and Dissertations: A Case Study from Togo By Joachim Schoepfel, Charles de Gaulle University Lille 3 and Maebena Soukouya, University Library of Kara, Togo Schema for the Integration of Web Applications By Theo van Veen, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Netherlands 2012 Census of Open Access Repositories in Germany: Turning Perceived Knowledge Into Sound Understanding By Paul Vierkant, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin The conference reports are: Building Global Partnerships — Second Plenary Meeting of the Research Data Alliance By Mark A. Parsons, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute An Overview of the 17th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2013) By Vittore Casarosa, Institute for Information Science and Technologies (ISTI), Italian National Research Council (CNR), Pisa, Italy and Ana Pervan, Intern at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Meyrin, Switzerland 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 November/December 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0651F76FE; Mon, 18 Nov 2013 07:22:51 +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 83ADF76EC; Mon, 18 Nov 2013 07:22:41 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 01E0376EC; Mon, 18 Nov 2013 07:22:38 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131118062239.01E0376EC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 07:22:38 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.540 40 years of history in digital humanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 540. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 17:32:46 +0100 (CET) From: Wilhelm Ott Subject: 40 years ago... In-Reply-To: <20131117094000.3C2B33BEE@digitalhumanities.org> 40 years ago: the first of 90 e-humanities Colloquia in Tuebingen On November 17, 1973, the first "Kolloquium zur Anwendung der EDV in den Geisteswissenschaften an der Universität Tübingen" took place; the last one in this series, the 90th Kolloquium, was held on February 5, 2005, with John Unsworth speaking on "The importance of digitization and cyberinfrastructure in the humanities". One of the highlights was the 50th Colloquium where Father Roberto Busa reported on "Half a Century of Literary Computing: Towards a 'New' Philology" (November 24, 1990, exactly 30 years after he had organized with IBM the "Kolloquium über maschinelle Methoden der literarischen Analyse und der Lexikographie" at the University of Tübingen). Some of you may remember the publication in print of the reports of the colloquia number 1 to 83 in ALLC Bulletin and in Literary and Linguistic Computing (and a selection of the reports in Historical Social Research). The reports of the whole series are available (without the English abstracts contained in the paper publication) on www.tustep.uni-tuebingen.de/kolloq.html - they can serve as an additional source for the history of the development from literary and linguistic computing to e-humanities in Germany and beyond: they cover a period of more than 30 years, from punched card times and project specific programming in FORTRAN with output on line printers and cathod ray tube typesetters to the internet, mobile media and e-publishing, and custom programming being replaced by applying powerful software tools and established standards like TEI and XML. For colleagues interested in the history of our field, a look at the reports could be interesting. Best from Tübingen 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 699D87703; Mon, 18 Nov 2013 07:24:59 +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 97BB576F9; Mon, 18 Nov 2013 07:24:50 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8E23C76F4; Mon, 18 Nov 2013 07:24:48 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131118062448.8E23C76F4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 07:24:48 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.541 fellowships in 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. 27, No. 541. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 15:31:11 +0000 From: "Young, John K" Subject: Fellowships in Digital Scholarly Editing [from The list of the European Society for Textual Scholarship and the Society for Textual Scholarship] Dear members of the STS community, Please see the announcement below from Timothy Stinson of North Carolina State University. The Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network (DiXiT) offers 12 Marie Curie fellowships to early stage researchers (ESRs) for a period of 3 years and 5 Marie Curie fellowships to experienced researchers (ERs) for a period of 12 to 20 months. Fellowships are now open for applications. For details visit: http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/fellows.html Please circulate widely! About DiXiT: DiXiT (Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network) is an international network of high-profile institutions from the public and the private sector that are actively involved in the creation and publication of digital scholarly editions. DiXiT offers a coordinated training and research programme for early stage researchers and experienced researchers in the multi-disciplinary skills, technologies, theories, and methods of digital scholarly editing. DiXiT is funded under Marie Curie Actions within the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme and runs from September 2013 until August 2017. For more information visit the DiXiT website: http://dixit.uni-koeln.de http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/ APPLICATION Academic Requirements: Early-Stage Researchers must be in the first 4 years of their research careers and not yet have a doctoral degree. This is measured from the date when they obtained the degree which would formally entitle them to embark on a doctorate, irrespective of whether or not a doctorate is envisaged. Experienced Researchers must be in possession of a doctoral degree or have at least 4 years of full-time equivalent research experience. At the time of recruitment by the host organisation an experienced researcher must also have less than 5 years of full-time equivalent research experience. It should be noted that an individual researcher may not be recruited first as an ESR and subsequently as an ER in the same project. Marie Curie ITN mobility requirement: Researchers can be of any nationality. They are required to undertake trans-national mobility (i.e. move from one country to another) when taking up their appointment. One general rule applies to the appointment of researchers: At the time of recruitment by the host organisation, researchers must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc) in the country of their host organisation for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the reference date. Short stays such as holidays and/or compulsory national service are not taken into account. Application process: Please note that applications from any qualified applicants, regardless of gender, ethnicity or country of origin are welcome if they meet the eligibility requirements. Applicants should send their applications directly to the institution hosting the desired fellowship. Applications for more than one post are welcome – however, multiple applications should be indicated via the obligatory DiXiT application form (which has to be submitted separately from the application documents send to the hosting institution). Application deadline: The deadline for applications is the 10th December 2013. Please note that the four remaining ER fellowships will start at a later date and the possibility of application will be announced accordingly. For further details visit http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/fellows.html Best, John Dr. John Young Professor, Department of English Marshall University (304) 696-2349 youngj@marshall.edu www.marshall.edu/english http://www.marshall.edu/english _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4BED076EA; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 07:33:57 +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 5288176AC; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 07:33:43 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 530EB769A; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 07:33:41 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131119063341.530EB769A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 07:33:41 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.542 events: geography & GIS; data curation; memory; programming X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 542. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Liesbeth De Mol (124) Subject: 2nd cfp Second Symposium for the History and Philosophy of Programming [2] From: federica perazzini (15) Subject: New Humanities seminar series: "Memory: mathematics, computer science, literature" [3] From: Kathy Weimer (17) Subject: Geography & GIS this week [4] From: "Senseney, Megan Finn" (17) Subject: Digital Humanities Data Curation Institute: Now Accepting Applications --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 12:11:33 +0100 From: Liesbeth De Mol Subject: 2nd cfp Second Symposium for the History and Philosophy of Programming Second Symposium on History and Philosophy of Programming 2nd Call for Papers www.computing-conference.ugent.be/hapop2 At AISB-50, Goldsmiths, London 1-4, April 2014 As part of the AISB-50 Annual Convention 2014 to be held at Goldsmiths, University of London, on April 1st--4th 2014 www.aisb.org.uk/events/aisb14 The convention is organised by the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) http://www.aisb.org.uk/ Overview The history and philosophy of computing only started to develop as real disciplines in the '80s and '90s of the previous century, with the foundation of journals (e.g. the IEEE Annals on the History of Computing, Minds and Machines and the like) and associations (SIGCIS, IACAP, . . . ), and the organization of conferences and workshops on a regular basis. A historical awareness of the evolution of computing not only helps to clarify the complex structure of the computing sciences, but it also provides an insight in what computing was, is and maybe could be in the future. Philosophy, on the other hand, helps to tackle some of the fundamental problems of computing. The aim of this symposium is to zoom into one fundamental aspect of computing, that is the foundational and the historical problems and developments related to the science of programming. This is the Second Symposium on History and Philosophy of Programming, following the first edition organized in 2012 at the AISB/IACAP Joint Convention in Birmingham, UK. It is supported by the Commission on the History and Philosophy of Computing (www.hapoc.org) A historical awareness of the evolution of computing not only helps to clarify the complex structure of the computing sciences, but it also provides an insight in what computing was, is and maybe could be in the future. Philosophy, on the other hand, helps to tackle some of the fundamental problems of computing. The aim of this symposium is to zoom into one fundamental aspect of computing, that is the foundational and the historical problems and developments related to programming. Topics of Interest That a logico-mathematical-physical object called program is so controversial, even though its very nature is mostly hidden away, is rooted in the range of problems, processes and objects that can be solved, simulated, approximated and generated by way of its execution. Given its widespread impact on our lives, it becomes a responsibility of the philosopher and the historian to study the science of programming. The historical and philosophical reflection on the science of programming is the main topic at the core of this workshop and we expect contributions (talks) in the following aspects (and their connections): 1. The history of computational systems, machines and programs 2. Foundational issues and paradigms of programming 3. Methodology of designing, teaching and learning programming We believe the scientific community needs a deep understanding and critical view of the problems related to the scientific paradigm represented by the science of programming. Possible and in no way exclusive questions that might be of relevance to this Symposium are: . What was and is the relation between hardware and software developments? . How did the notion of 'program' changed since the 40s? . How important has been the hands-off vs. the hands-on approach for the development of programming? . How did models of computability like Church's lambda-calculus influence the development of programming languages? . Is programming a science or a technology? . What are the novel and most interesting approaches to the design of programs? . What is correctness for a program? Issues in Type-checking, Model-checking, etc. . How do we understand programs as syntactical-semantical objects? . What is the nature of the relation between algorithms and programs? What is a program? . How can epistemology profit from the understanding of programs' behavior and structure? . What legal and socio-economical issues are involved in the creation, patenting or free-distribution of programs? . How is programming to be taught? Submission and Publication Details Submissions must be full (short) papers and should be sent via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hapop2 Text editor templates from a previous convention can be found at: http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb08/download.html We request that submitted papers are limited to eight pages. Each paper will receive at least two reviews. Selected papers will be published in the general proceedings of the AISB Convention, with the proviso that at least ONE author attends the symposium in order to present the paper and participate in general symposium activities. Important Dates Full paper submission deadline: *3 January 2014 * Notification of acceptance/rejections: 6 February 2014 Final version of accepted papers: 24 february 2014 Convention: 1-4 April 2014 (symposium date tbc) Additional Information Please note that there will be separate proceedings for each symposium, produced before the convention. Each delegate will receive a memory stick containing the proceedings of all the symposia. In previous years there have been awards for the best student paper, and limited student bursaries. These details will be circulated as and when they become available. Authors of a selection of the best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of the work to a journal special issue. Symposium organisers dr. Liesbeth De Mol elizabeth.demol@ugent.be UMR 8163 - Savoir, Textes, Languages Université de Lille 3 Bt.B4 Rue du Barreau BP 60149 59653 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France dr. Giuseppe Primiero G.Primiero@mdx.ac.uk website: http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/people/giuseppe-primiero/ Department of Computer Science Middlesex University the Borroughs NW4 4BT, London, UK Symposium Website: www.computing-conference.ugent.be/hapop2 Programme Committee G. Alberts (Amsterdam) - TBC M. Campbell-Kelly (Warwick) L. Corry (Tel Aviv) L. de Mol (Lille) H. Durnova (Brno) R. Kahle (Lisbon) B. Loewe (Amsterdam) G. Primiero (Middlesex London) M. Tedre (Helsinki) R. Turner (Essex) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 17:38:36 +0100 From: federica perazzini Subject: New Humanities seminar series: "Memory: mathematics, computer science, literature" Memory is not only a fundamental faculty for the construction of knowledge and, therefore, for the reproduction of living. It is also many other different things as different are its meanings, places, media and practices or the techniques to study the ways in which it manifests itself and acts in the various areas of knowledge or political uses. It is therefore crucial to work for a critical analysis of the interdependencies between the various memories, especially between the external and the subjective memory, including storage tools and techniques of self-construction, between the multiplicity of contexts and the discovery of invariants . Giuseppe Longo , Teresa Numerico and Francesco Fiorentino will discuss about it in the seminar titled "Memory: mathematics, computer science, literature" Wednesday, November 20th, 2013, 10 a.m Room " Ignazio Ambrogio" - via del Valco S.Paolo 19, University of Roma Tre/ Department of Languages, Literatures and Foreign Cultures --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 17:06:57 +0000 From: Kathy Weimer Subject: Geography & GIS this week Hello all, Geography Awareness week, with the theme of "The New Age of Exploration" takes place this week. Created by National Geographic, the goal is to raise awareness of geography and geo-spatial issues in our lives. On Wednesday of this week we also celebrate "GIS Day," an international celebration to showcase GIS in our communities – GIS Day events are found here http://www.gisday.com/gis-day-events-map.html The 'Exploration' theme, and emphasis on GIS is particularly relevant to Humanists who are increasingly exploring numerous worlds, bringing context and connections between texts, ideas and place, and in a variety of ways creating geo-aware digital scholarship. To support work in this area, the ADHO SIG, GeoHumanities, was formed and now has members from around the globe. See our recently updated web page: http://www.geohumanities.org which includes membership information, pointers to GeoHumanities Resources and a discussion on building a taxonomy for this area. On behalf of the ADHO GeoHumanities Special Interest Group, co-Chair, Karl Grossner and I congratulate all of you who bring the issues of space and place into scholarship to broaden understandings of our real and virtual environments. Happy Geography Awareness Week and GIS Day, everyone! Regards, Kathy Weimer Katherine H. Weimer Professor Map & GIS Library Texas A & M University Libraries 5000 TAMU College Station, TX 77843-5000 (979) 845-6588 k-weimer@library.tamu.edu twitter:@Kathy_Weimer Co-Editor, Journal of Map & Geography Libraries Co-Chair, ADHO GeoHumanities SIG --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 18:33:56 +0000 From: "Senseney, Megan Finn" Subject: Digital Humanities Data Curation Institute: Now Accepting Applications Digital Humanities Data Curation, a series of three-day workshops, will provide a strong introductory grounding in data curation concepts and practices, focusing on the special issues and challenges of data curation in the humanities. Workshops are aimed at humanities researchers — whether traditional faculty or alternative (alt-ac) professionals — as well as librarians, archivists, cultural heritage specialists, other information professionals, and advanced graduate students. Applications are now being accepted for the third Digital Humanities Data Curation Institute workshop, to be held at Northeastern University, April 30-May 2, 2014. Visit the Institute Web site (http://dhcuration.org/institute) to complete an application by January 31, 2014. Workshops are limited to 20 participants, and applicants will be notified regarding acceptance in mid-February. As the materials and analytical practices of humanities research become increasingly digital, the theoretical knowledge and practical skills of information science, librarianship, and archival science — which come together in the research, and practice of data curation — will become more vital to humanists. Carrying out computational research with digital materials requires that both scholars and information professionals understand how to manage and curate data over its entire lifetime of interest. At the least, individual scholars must be able to document their data curation strategies and evaluate those of collaborators and other purveyors of humanities data. More fully integrating data curation into digital research involves fluency with topics such as disciplinary research cultures, policies and plans for information sharing, metadata standards and repository systems, and the technical characteristics of digital data. An overview of the content is available by browsing the schedules of our past workshops, which can be found online at http://www.dhcuration.org/institute/schedule/. Organized by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), the Women Writers Project (WWP) at Brown University, and the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS) at GSLIS, this workshop series is generously funded by an Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Thanks to support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, limited funding will be available to offset the cost of attending the institute and will be awarded based on need. Support may not cover all costs associated with attendance. Email: mfsense2@illinois.edu Visit the website at http://dhcuration.org/institute -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DCFA576F8; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 08:35:16 +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 5F5CA76F9; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 08:35:08 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A8B8376EB; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 08:35:06 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131120073506.A8B8376EB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 08:35:06 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.543 job in visual analytics at Simon Fraser X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 543. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 19:37:23 +0000 From: Susan Brown Subject: CRC in Visual Analytics at Simon Fraser Canada Research Chair Tier I position in Visual Analytics Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology School of Interactive Arts and Technology Full details at: http://www.sfu.ca/siat/news/current/7.html We invite applications from leading scholars for a Canada Research Chair Tier I position in Visual Analytics. Visual Analytics is the science of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces. It is an interdisciplinary field that draws upon a range of disciplines including Information Design, Visualisation, Cognitive and Perceptual Sciences, Data Analysis, and others. SFU is internationally known as a leader in visual analytics. SIAT researchers are at the core of the Vancouver Institute for Visual Analytics (VIVA), a multi-university consortium hosted by SFU to support collaboration in VA across universities in BC. VIVA affiliates bridge fundamental cognitive and vision science research with advanced software development in applications that include scientific research, advanced manufacturing, aircraft safety, public health, financial risk, and emergency management. With support from the Boeing Company, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and federal sources, VIVA has been a leader in promoting visual analytics across Canada and is working with industrial sponsors to establish a national aerospace research consortium. The CRC Tier I Chair is a highly prestigious position for distinguished scholars. Only senior investigators with outstanding publications will be considered and the applicant is expected to make an application for a Tier 1 CRC within the first year of appointment. Candidates should demonstrate a strong record of academic accomplishments and the capability to provide leadership to SFUs Visual Analytics community and its collaborators in BC and across Canada. Applicants should be eligible for appointment at the rank of Full Professor and have the terminal degree in their discipline (normally a Ph.D.) in a field relevant to Visual Analytics. The applicant will have an opportunity to establish collaboration with and complement other research areas of strength within our School, including interaction design, human computer interaction, computer aided design, sustainable design, health informatics, cognitive and perceptual science, and learning analytics. SIAT is a vibrant, multidisciplinary program connecting computing, media and design. SIAT’s teaching and research draw upon fields ranging from cognitive science, media arts, electronic games, design and interactive technology. SIAT offers degrees at bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral levels, and is the home of the SFU Visual Analytics graduate certificate program. The School currently enrolls about 800 undergraduates and approximately 110 graduate students, over 65 of whom are at the doctoral level. SIAT’s infrastructure includes purpose-built, state-of-the-art classrooms and laboratories at SFU’s Surrey campus. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8B9E97701; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 07:28:20 +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 DB09876F9; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 07:28:07 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3B4F076E3; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 07:28:05 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131121062805.3B4F076E3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 07:28:05 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.544 events: the Early Modern social 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. 27, No. 544. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 10:51:08 +0000 From: Tessa Whitehouse Subject: QMUL CEMMN.net seminar Dear all, The following talk may be of interest to people on this mailing list - it is hosted by Ruth Ahnert, our speaker at Tuesday's seminar 'Social Networking - Tudor Style', at Senate House, 5pm: http://blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk/digitalhumanities/ best wishes Tessa We would like to invite you to the Centre for Early Modern Mapping, News and Networks' first evening seminar. Please join us. Christopher Warren (Carnegie Mellon University), Bacon and Edges: Reassembling the Early Modern Social Network – 6 December, 5.15pm, Lock-Keeper’s Cottage, QMUL Scholars in the humanities have long been engaged with reconstructing and representing social networks of various kinds. Coteries, conventicles, “tribes,” and trade associations – each has been the subject of intense research and publication. As historian Anthony Grafton notes, “the interpretation of texts now goes hand in hand with the reconstruction of intellectual and publishing communities.” Yet this talk will argue that the traditional medium of scholarly exchange, prose, is a limited tool for the purpose of representing complex networks of association. Although we already have vast knowledge of networks, that knowledge is not encoded, visible, or available in the most useful way. The presentation will introduce a collaborative project called Six Degrees of Francis Bacon that learns from centuries of “inky” data and meta-data, remediating text to make the early modern social network more accessible, extensible, collaborative, and interoperable. http://www.cemmn.net/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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A5C8576FC; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 07:29:19 +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 882427702; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 07:29:11 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 765ED76FB; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 07:29:10 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131121062910.765ED76FB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 07:29:10 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.545 new on WWW: Fleischmann Diaries X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 545. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 09:07:26 +0000 From: "Roisin O'Brien" Subject: The Fleischmann Diaries Online Archive *The Launch of The Fleischmann Diaries Online Archive: fleischmanndiaries.ucc.ie http://fleischmanndiaries.ucc.ie * The digitised 1926 and 1927 diaries of the Irish composer, Aloys Fleischmann (1910 – 1992) will be launched at 5pm today, Wednesday, 20th November 2013 in the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, University College Cork (UCC), Ireland. A live stream will be broadcast at http://bit.ly/1btSi7b. The project will be launched by Róisín O’Brien http://ie.linkedin.com/in/roisinaobrien on behalf of the Digital Arts and Humanities Program, with Dr Ruth Fleischmann as the guest of honour. The Program will be outlined, the digitisation process explained and the diaries, part of the extensive Fleischmann Collection housed in the Archives at UCC, introduced. Aloys Fleischmann (1910-1992) was born into a family of immigrant German musicians resident in Cork since 1879. His maternal grandfather, Hans Conrad Swertz, had come from the Bavarian town of Dachau to take up a post as organist and choirmaster. The second of his nine children, Tilly, born in Cork in 1882, studied in Munich at the Royal Academy of Music from 1901-1905; she married the Dachau organist and composer Aloys Fleischmann, who came to Cork with her the following year to take over her father’s position at the cathedral. Their son Aloys was to become a composer, musicologist, scholar of traditional Irish music, professor of music at University College Cork 1934-1980, founder and conductor of the Cork Symphony Orchestra 1934-1992, founder of the Cork Orchestral Society in 1938, of the Cork International Choral Festival and its director for 20 years, provider of music for the Cork Ballet Company for 45 years, chairman of the Cork Sculpture Park for 24 years, and a life-long campaigner to bring classical music into the schools and lives of Irish people. The sources of this commitment to the cause of the arts in Ireland can be traced in the diaries written by the boy during his last two years at school. About 200 photographs selected from Tilly Fleischmann’s albums illustrate the diaries. The public is invited to visit the website; high-resolution images of the diaries and accompanying illustrations can be downloaded. The digitisation of the diaries was undertaken by Róisín O’Brien as a thesis project for the Masters Degree in Digital Arts and Humanities at UCC. It was carried out with the collaboration of the Fleischmann family and guidance of a number of international practitioners. In addition to the digital preservation of fragile artefacts through photography and online publication, the aim of the project was to create a freely available digitisation prototype for scholars and non-experts, providing them with a reproducible model. A dissertation, “Digitising the Diaries of Aloys Fleischmann: a prototype for novices”, which documents the technical process and establishes a theoretical basis for the project, will be distributed as an Open Access publication at the Cork Open Research Archive http://cora.ucc.ie/ in 2013. *To view the Fleischmann Diaries Online Archive, please visit:* fleischmanndiaries.ucc.ie *For further information about the thesis project, please contact:* Róisín O’Brien roisinaobrien@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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 22BC4770A; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 09:37:01 +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 CC58A76FE; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 09:36:55 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 821B176FE; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 09:36:53 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131121083653.821B176FE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 09:36:53 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.546 simulation? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 546. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 06:58:52 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: simulation? What is a (computational) simulation? How does simulation differ from modelling? What is the point of simulating? Where does one find simulations in digital humanities? What is their role in these disciplines? So far my answers have been as follows: (1) A simulation is a computational analogue of a real-world system based on knowledge of this system's components and how they interact. (2) "Model" used loosely can denote a simulation, but where they differ a model is based on correspondence between its results and the object modelled; a simulation is based on correspondence between its processes and those of the simulated system. (3) The point of a simulation is to study otherwise unknowable or unobservable behaviours of the real-world system. (4) In digital humanities so far simulations are found in virtual-world constructs; some of these, such as Carolyn Lougee's "A World-Be Gentleman" (1983) have been around for a long time and do not necessarily involve visualisation. Prose- and poetry-writing software, tried out in the 1960s and later, simulated human authorship; these provoked some violent reactions, e.g. from F. R. Leavis. (5) The roles of simulation in the humanities are in teaching (e.g. Lougee's program) and in speculative and counterfactual probing of the unknown. Comments on any or all of these? I have a small bibliography of writings on the subject, almost all from the physical sciences, and would greatly appreciate suggestions for further reading. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 7AC6F7715; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 10:14:12 +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 7325E2EC1; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 10:14:04 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D6A7A770D; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 10:14:01 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131122091401.D6A7A770D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 10:14:01 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.547 simulation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 547. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Paul Fishwick (80) Subject: Re: 27.546 simulation? [2] From: "Robert A. Amsler" (68) Subject: Re: 27.546 simulation? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 11:36:19 -0600 From: Paul Fishwick Subject: Re: 27.546 simulation? In-Reply-To: <20131121083653.821B176FE@digitalhumanities.org> Willard Some answers below from one member of the modeling and simulation community. Some of this is from my 1994 book Simulation Model Design and Execution: Building Digital Worlds -paul ……. Paul Fishwick, PhD Chair, ACM SIGSIM Distinguished Chair of Arts & Technology and Professor of Computer Science Director, Creative Automata Laboratory The University of Texas at Dallas Arts & Technology 800 West Campbell Road, AT10 Richardson, TX 75080-3021 Home: utdallas.edu/atec/fishwick Blog: creative-automata.com On Nov 21, 2013, at 2:36 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 546. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 06:58:52 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: simulation? > > > What is a (computational) simulation? How does simulation differ from > modelling? What is the point of simulating? Where does one find > simulations in digital humanities? What is their role in these disciplines? > > So far my answers have been as follows: > > (1) A simulation is a computational analogue of a real-world system > based on knowledge of this system's components and how they interact. Simulation is generally considered the overall process involving model building, design, implementation, use, and testing/verification/validation. Target phenomena are can be real-world (natural vs. artificial) or synthetic (worlds used for education or entertainment). > (2) "Model" used loosely can denote a simulation, but where they differ > a model is based on correspondence between its results and the object > modelled; a simulation is based on correspondence between its processes > and those of the simulated system. I would call modeling a language-based activity used to distill knowledge. So a behavioral model would capture the dynamics of something (e.g., finite state machine, Petri net, mathematical model, System Dynamics model, agent-based model). Languages can be textual, visual, and highly interactive. The correspondence you mention is what I am calling distillation. There is a mapping of representation performed. > (3) The point of a simulation is to study otherwise unknowable or > unobservable behaviours of the real-world system. Yes, one major goal is knowledge whether or not the system is real-world. But in other cases, the goal may be entertainment (computer games). > (4) In digital humanities so far simulations are found in virtual-world > constructs; some of these, such as Carolyn Lougee's "A World-Be > Gentleman" (1983) have been around for a long time and do not > necessarily involve visualisation. Prose- and poetry-writing software, > tried out in the 1960s and later, simulated human authorship; these > provoked some violent reactions, e.g. from F. R. Leavis. I would say that in digital humanities, there are more possible roles for modeling and simulation. I am working up a talk related to this for the DHCS conference at DePaul in early December. > (5) The roles of simulation in the humanities are in teaching (e.g. Lougee's > program) and in speculative and counterfactual probing of the unknown. Nicely put. -paul Paul Fishwick, PhD Chair, ACM SIGSIM Distinguished Chair of Arts & Technology and Professor of Computer Science Director, Creative Automata Laboratory The University of Texas at Dallas Arts & Technology 800 West Campbell Road, AT10 Richardson, TX 75080-3021 Home: utdallas.edu/atec/fishwick Blog: creative-automata.com --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 23:28:40 -0600 From: "Robert A. Amsler" Subject: Re: 27.546 simulation? In-Reply-To: <20131121083653.821B176FE@digitalhumanities.org> This is perhaps not based on humanities per se, but, for me: (1) A simulation is what happens when a model is moved through time. (2) The purpose of a simulation is normally to make predictions about the behavior of a real-world system; to find discrepancies between the model the simulation exercises over time and the real-world system and thus provide feedback as to whether the model and the simulation's rules for how circumstances will affect the model are correct or not; and whether changes in the model or the simulation's rules will yield a closer approximation to the real-world system. Both the model and the simulation may be called upon to predict what will happen in a real-world situation that may or may not have ever happened. I would expect models and simulations to be useful in the digital humanities in terms of making predictions based on the existence of known past artifacts of the hypothetical existence of unknown past artifacts and the creation of new artifacts in the future. Such predictions could be descriptive of the properties of the artifacts, their locations, their creators, their times of creation. Authorship/Creator would seem to be a predictive goal. Subject matter would seem to be a predictive goal. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 395D8771C; Fri, 22 Nov 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 48F4D7716; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 10:16:03 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C8436770F; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 10:16:01 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20131122091601.C8436770F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 10:16:01 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.548 limits of online search tools: an example 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. 27, No. 548. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Francois Lachance (41) Subject: C D E flat [2] From: Francois Lachance (6) Subject: C D E flat (addendum) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 10:47:06 -0500 From: Francois Lachance Subject: C D E flat In-Reply-To: <20131121062805.3B4F076E3@digitalhumanities.org> Willard, I am an avid user of online search tools. I have come up against a limit in the intelligence of such tools. I share it here for the insight subscribers to Humanist may be able to share on the state of the art of making knowledge accessible. My example stems from a reading of a poem sequence by Robin Blaser called The Moth Poem. The poem sequence has a section with capitalized letters running vertically down the page. Some of these letter are prefixed by what I recognize as the musical notation for "flat". This section of the poem made of musical notation reads "C D E flat G A B flat B D". Running the string through a search engine nets no match. It appears that the search engine doesn't "recognize" this as musical notation. Modifying the string "C D Eb G A Bb B D" nets one match to a posting by Cornelia Wyngaarden in 1999 who contributes the following in a thread devoted to the interprestation of lines from John Dryden's "A Song for St. Cecilia's Day". My mentor Robin Blaser a poet who locally gets referred to as God (not unsarcastically) and who has spent many years in the basements of various libraries throughout Europe researching these type of things suggests that the music of the spheres is as follows. C D Eb G A Bb B D I haven't figured out why yet. corry -------------------------------------- Cornelia Wyngaarden Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design Vancouver, B.C. Canada I haven't figured out why either. And with no musical background (I can neither read by sight nor learn by ear) I am not about to discover the mystry of Blaser's chord. However, as St. Cecilia's day (Nov 22) approaches I wonder how search engines can judge when to point researchers to fora where questions can be asked of humans and whether some day one can hum a tune for the search engine to retrieve relevant data. Of course any help from musicological experts re the Blaser much appreciated. Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance to think is often to sort, to store and to shuffle: humble, embodied tasks --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 10:56:58 -0500 From: Francois Lachance Subject: C D E flat (addendum) In-Reply-To: <20131121062805.3B4F076E3@digitalhumanities.org> Quick addendum to below. By chance, a variation in the search ("moth poem e flat") netted a mention of Ravel's Nocturelles. Still nothing online can help the non-muscicologist adjudicate any link with Blaser's poem. F. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 10:47:06 -0500 From: Francois Lachance To: Online seminar 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4769F771F; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 10:21:19 +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 9BFD17712; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 10:21:09 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6EC11770F; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 10:21:07 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131122092107.6EC11770F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 10:21:07 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.549 events: TEI; large textual corpora; digital labour; digital thinking (WWI) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 549. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (13) Subject: Google, art and digital labor The Photographers' Gallery Wed 4th Dec [2] From: kcl - cerch (19) Subject: CeRch Seminar: They're reading our minds: humanities research and digital thinking with CENDARI [3] From: "Flanders, Julia" (23) Subject: call for participation: Taking TEI Further workshops at the WWP in 2014 [4] From: Karina van Dalen (12) Subject: Announcement of two NeDiMAH workshops --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 08:49:20 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Google, art and digital labor The Photographers' Gallery Wed 4th Dec > From: Katrina Sluis > > Subject: Google, art and digital labor The Photographers' Gallery Wed 4th Dec > Date: 19 November 2013 20:12:10 GMT To: "sluiskp@lsbu.ac.uk Sluis" > Dear friends, I am getting in touch about an event which may be of interest to you or your students. Andrew Norman Wilson, artist and ex-Google employee will be doing a lecture performance next week at The Photographers' Gallery. His video Workers Leaving the Googleplex investigates the marginalized class of Google Books’ "ScanOps" workers at their international headquarters in Silicon Valley while simultaneously chronicling the complex events surrounding his own dismissal from the company. In this talk Andrew Norman Wilson will experiment with corporate, academic and artistic presentation techniques to explore projects such as Workers Leaving the Googleplex and ScanOps. His talk will address medium-specificity and histories of film/video, photography and publishing media, emphasizing the materiality of both analog and digital media and the labor processes they entail. In 2013 Andrew Norman Wilson participated in Image Employment at MoMA PS1, To Look is To Labor through CCS Bard/Basilica Hudson with Harun Farocki and Lucy Raven, Palazzo Peckham at the 55th Venice Biennale, Art Basel with Art Metropole, and group shows at Betonsalon in Paris, Steve Turner Contemporary in Los Angeles, and Carroll / Fletcher in London. He was recently an artist in residence at Impakt in Utrecht and at the Headlands Center in Sausalito, California. His work has been featured in Aperture, Artforum, DIS Magazine, and Tank Magazine. Wilson currently lives and works in New York. http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/digital-programme-lecture Best wishes Katrina --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 12:20:11 +0000 From: kcl - cerch Subject: CeRch Seminar: They're reading our minds: humanities research and digital thinking with CENDARI Dear all, Apologies for cross-posting. Please find below the details of next week's CeRch seminar: They're reading our minds: humanities research and digital thinking with CENDARI Kate Macdonald (Ghent University) and Alessandro Salvador (University of Trento), Visiting Researchers at the Centre for e-Research, King's College London Date: Tuesday, 26th November, 2013 from 6:15 PM to 7:30 PM (GMT) Location: Anatomy Museum Space, 6th Floor, King's College London (Strand campus) http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/campuses/strand/Strand.aspx Attendance is free and open to all, but registration is requested: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cerch-seminar-theyre-reading-our-minds-humanities-research-and-digital-thinking-with-cendari-kate-tickets-8348531683 All the best, Valentina Asciutti Abstract: The Collaborative EuropeaN Digital Archive Infrastructure (CENDARI) provides and facilitates access to existing archives and resources in Europe for the study of medieval and modern European history (specifically the First World War period) through the development of an ‘enquiry environment’. As part of this project, the Centre for e-Research is currently hosting two visiting researchers: Kate Macdonald and Alessandro Salvador, who are investigating how CENDARI can assist their own research work. At tonight's seminar Kate Macdonald and Alessandro Salvador will discuss their ongoing research, within the context of CENDARI. Kate Macdonald’s presentation will outline a methodology and early findings from reading British popular fiction magazines published for the entirety of the First World War, looking for depictions of the war-wounded ex-soldier, and the civilian who had been impaired by disease, congenital causes, or industrial injury. This stream of cultural production at this time has never been investigated before, yet it presents important evidence for how the ordinary reader regarded, or was expected to regard, physical impairment at a time when the demographics of the physically impaired were changing dramatically, and new technologies were changing treatments, rehabilitation, and living with impairment. This is part of a wider project investigating such depictions during and after WW1 and up to 1939, exploring the hypothesis that some kinds of disability were more deserving than others. She will discuss her role in the CENDARI project as a case study and guinea-pig for exploring humanities research processes. Alessandro Salvador: My contribution will focus on the main topic of my research and the reasons and goals of my current work within the CENDARI project. I am currently in the final stage of a research about demobilization and reinstatement into civilian life of the Italian-speaking soldiers enlisted in the Austro-Hungarian army during World War I. In particular, I researched the activities of the Italian government in managing a group of Italian-nationals belonging to an enemy State within a complex series of events that started in 1915 and finished in 1921. This topic represented a challenge for archival research, as the sources are spread throughout archives in Italy, Russia, Austria and UK. This brought to the idea of creating an online research guide in which archival information can be gathered and made public for researchers needing to access sources on this topic. Thus, my current work mostly deals, as pilot project, with Italian sources. My contribution will give a brief introduction to the topic and the problematic issues in order to explain the kind of data I am collecting, the way of organizing them and what advantages I expect that this project will offer to researchers. Bios: Kate Macdonald teaches British literary history and poetry at Ghent University, and is the author of several books, chapters and articles on British publishing culture from 1880 to 1950. Alessandro Salvador studied contemporary history in Trieste and Trento, obtaining his Ph.D. in 2010. After a period as exchange scholar (DAAD Program) at the Freie Universitaet Berlin, he obtained a post-doc position at the University of Trento. Currently he is part of a research group on WWI involving the University and the Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trento. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 14:54:15 +0000 From: "Flanders, Julia" Subject: call for participation: Taking TEI Further workshops at the WWP in 2014 The Women Writers Project at Northeastern University is now accepting applications for our final round of three advanced NEH-funded institutes on "Taking TEI Further": Taking TEI Further: Publishing and Transforming TEI Data Northeastern University, March 11-13, 2014 Guest instructor: David Birnbaum, University of Pittsburgh Application deadline: January 3, 2014 Taking TEI Further: TEI Customization Northeastern University, May 14-16, 2014 Guest instructor: Trevor Muñoz, University of Maryland Application deadline: February 25, 2014 Taking TEI Further: Teaching with TEI Northeastern University, August 2014 (specific date TBD; a further announcement will be made) Guest instructor: Jacqueline Wernimont, Scripps College Application deadline: April 25, 2014 **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. This is the last year of a three-year seminar series funded by the NEH and conducted by the 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. These seminars 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 Director, Digital Scholarship Group Northeastern University --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 17:23:37 +0100 From: Karina van Dalen Subject: Announcement of two NeDiMAH workshops Announcement of two NeDiMAH workshops The NeDiMAH Working Group “Using large-scale text collections for research” will host two workshops, on the 1st and 2nd of April 2014. The workshops will take place at the University of Würzburg, Germany. Funding is available for 20 participants up to a maximum of € 700 per participant (for travel and a maximum of two nights in a hotel). The workshops are open for other participants paying their own costs. Participants selected for funding for one of the workshops are welcome to extend their stay on their own costs and also join in the other workshop. Those wishing to participate are invited to send an abstract of one page to Karina van Dalen-Oskam, karina.van.dalen at huygens.knaw.nl before 15 January 2014. Please state clearly for which of the two workshops you want to apply. You will receive a message about acceptance or rejection in the first week of February. Workshop 1, “Corpora”, 1 April 2014 The workshop “Corpora” will especially deal with the interface between linguistic annotation and textual annotation for historical and literary etc. research. It aims to bring together corpus builders and those corpus users other than linguists. Corpus builders could inform the participants about such things as the kind of requests for functionality they get from non-linguists and their answers and advice to those scholars. Non-linguistic corpus users are invited to talk about the different ways in which they have gathered their own corpus, whether they especially built a private corpus for their use, and why the have taken such a step, or what they would like to see in a corpus before they will actively start making use of it. Discussions are expected to arise on such topics as samples versus complete texts, standard functionality for text research, the need of export options to get the texts to the scholar to be used in his or her stand-alone tools, in opposition to the adding of tools to a corpus, strategies for and issues in building a multilingual reference corpus for text analysis, and much more. We invite informative short talks that may result in an open and exploratory discussion between participants with different disciplines as a background. Workshop 2, “Research”, 2 April 2014 The workshop “Research” focuses on new kinds of analysis of large text corpora explicitly from the perspective of literary or historical etc. research questions. In this context, for example, the issue of validation of results gains importance, not primarily in the sense of statistical measures of validity or robustness, but rather in the sense of interpretation and validation of results in relation to literary or historical etc. knowledge. We invite short papers describing a concrete case in which the use of (relatively) large-scale text collections has lead to new insights that could not have been gotten using non-digital methods. These kinds of case studies are expected to have a high impact on the willingness of humanities scholars to broaden their toolkit to digital and computational methods. If you have experience with this kind of issues and/or impact, we would be interested in hearing more about this. 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 http://www.huygens.knaw.nl/en/vandalen/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CF423771D; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 08:50:39 +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 317417716; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 08:50:31 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 643DA76DF; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 08:50:29 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131123075029.643DA76DF@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 08:50:29 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.550 research fellowships X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 550. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 10:11:36 +0000 From: "Catherine O'Brien" Subject: CENDARI Visiting Research Fellowships - closing date 9 Dec 2013 Reminder! Applications to the CENDARI Visiting Research Fellowships programme are due by Mon 9 December 2013. The CENDARI Visiting Research Fellowships are intended to support and stimulate historical research in the two pilot areas of medieval European culture and the First World War, by facilitating access to key archives, specialist knowledge and collections in CENDARI host institutions. The CENDARI Transnational Access programme is financed by the European Union. In particular, the CENDARI project is committed to hosting early career scholars who aim to apply digital humanities methods to their historical enquiry. The fellowships are particularly designed to support researchers from countries without equivalent facilities and early career scholars with limited access to these research infrastructures. The following institutions will offer fellowships for 2014 on a competitive basis: - Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - King’s College London, UK - National Library of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic - Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (GCDH), University of Göttingen, Germany - University of Stuttgart and Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte, Germany The CENDARI fellowships are funded for between 6 and 12 weeks. For more information and to apply please visit: http://www.cendari.eu/research/visiting-research-fellowships/ -- Catherine O'Brien CENDARI Communications Officer Trinity Long Room Hub Trinity College Dublin Ireland +353 (0)1 896 4274 www.cendari.eu Innovation Academy Programme Administrator Trinity College Dublin 3 Foster Place Dublin 2, Ireland +353 (0)1 896 4366 www.innovationacademy.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id F198E7724; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 08:51:42 +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 3054E771B; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 08:51:34 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D62D1770F; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 08:51:31 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131123075131.D62D1770F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 08:51:31 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.551 the Virtual Paul's Cross 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 551. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 04:51:31 -0500 From: John Wall Subject: Installation of the Virtual Paul's Cross Project We have opened an installation of the Virtual Paul's Cross Project in the technology-rich Teaching and Visualization Lab at NC State University's Hunt Library. The Lab has 10 projectors that create a seamless 270 degree image and 21 speakers that create an acoustic experience of Paul's Churchyard during a sermon by John Donne on November 5th, 1622. For more information, go here: http://news.ncsu.edu/releases/wms-donne-2013/ Those of you in England may have seen the account in the Guardian, here: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/nov/11/john-donne-virtual-reality-sermon JNW -- 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E0D2A7725; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 08:53:36 +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 A43EE771B; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 08:53:28 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 25D0C771B; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 08:53:26 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131123075326.25D0C771B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 08:53:26 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.552 events: hackathon for GLAMs at Pennsylvania X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 552. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 16:11:45 -0500 From: Dot Porter Subject: GLAM Hack Philly - Feb 1-2, 2014 In-Reply-To: > From: *Chad Nelson* > Date: Friday, November 22, 2013 > Subject: [PhillyDigitalHumanities] GLAM Hack Philly - Feb 1-2, 2014 GLAM Hack Philly is a free, weekend-long hackathon focused on building apps with open data from Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums. It will take place the weekend of February 1-2, 2012 at the University of Pennsylvania’s Kislak Center for Special Collections. The event will bring together programmers, curators, librarians, designers, archivists, and anyone else with a passion for GLAM data, to build fun and interesting apps with the tremendous amount of GLAM data that is openly and freely available. On the morning of Saturday, February 1st, participants can pitch ideas for projects related to a specific data set or for broader GLAM-related applications. This could be anything from creating Omeka plug-ins to building a virtual city tour app using local digital collections. Small groups will form and participants will begin working on their projects through Sunday, with a goal to present a working prototype by Sunday afternoon. Challenges and Data We are seeking proposals of Data Challenges for teams to work on during the hackathon. Challenges can be as simple as a dataset and a vague idea of what could be done with that data, or could be an already identified problem with your data that you are seeking help to solve. The only requirements for proposing a challenge are: - Someone from your organization commits to participating in the event. They will help steward teams who take up that challenge by giving context to your data. - If you r challange includes a dataset, that data should be made available for use and reuse. Providing your data openly means that anyone can build applications with your data before, during, and after the hackathon. Submit a Challenge Now http://bit.ly/1bp5xpV If you’re not sure how your organization's data could be used or want some help brainstorming a challenge, just get in touch with glamhackphilly@gmail.com , we're happy to help. You can also submit your dataset without proposing a challenge http://bit.ly/1cg6bEr . We'll highlight your dataset on our website for attendees consideration. But I'm not a programmer -- can I participate? The input of content specialists like museum curators, librarians, archivists, catalogers,GLA researchers and others who know the data produced by GLAM organizations, is crucial to creating successful projects. We don't just want your participation, we need it! You can find more information on http://glamhack.com Thanks, Philly GLAM Hack organizers -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter@gmail.com Personal blog: dotporterdigital.org Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance: http://www.mesa-medieval.org MESA blog: http://mesamedieval.wordpress.com/ MESA on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MedievalElectronicScholarlyAlliance *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0BCCC7728; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 08:59:32 +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 B4DB0771F; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 08:59:24 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1A331771B; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 08:59:23 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20131123075923.1A331771B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 08:59:23 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.553 pubs: Human IT 12.2 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="===============7324027927371345298==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============7324027927371345298== Content-Type: text/plain Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 553. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 10:46:32 +0100 From: "Veronica Johansson" Subject: New issue of Human IT - 12.2 Dear all, A new issue of Human IT, no. 12.2, is now available at http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith/2-12/index.htm The four articles in this issue cover topics that range from augmented reality simulations in a secondary science class; ways in which teenagers appropriate digital media as they move between different places over a day (school, home etc); ways in which people all over the world use various types of nicknames for their mobile phones for various purposes; and an article on what happens when Swedish welfare state bureaucracies use information published in social media in their exercise of authority towards their clients. The full table of contents with links to the articles are included here below. Hope you will enjoy them all! / Veronica Johansson, editor P.S. We are on the lookout for someone to review two books that have been sent to the journal (and of course the reviewer will get to keep the book): The (MIT Press) book Scripting Reading Motions: The Codex and the Computer as Self-Reflexive Machines by Manuel Portela. For more information about the book, see: http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/scripting-reading-motions and Storsul & Krumsvik (Eds.), Media Innovations: A Multidisciplinary Study of Change (Nordicom). See: http://www.nordicom.gu.se/?portal=mr&main=info_publ2.php&ex=380 Let us know if you a€™re interested by sending us an e-mail to human.it@hb.se --- 12.2 Table of contents:--- * Editorial http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith/2-12/index.htm#editorial * Thomas Lundblad, Claes Malmberg, Mats Areskoug & Per Jönsson Simulating Real-Life Problems in Secondary Science Class: A Socio-scientific Issue Carried through by an Augmented Reality Simulation http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith/2-12/tlcmmapj.htm * Helena Bergström & Patrik Hernwall Digitala medier som platsbunden resurs: Ungas handlingar och ianspråktaganden [Digital Media as a Place Bound Resource: The Actions and Appropriations of Young People] http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith/2-12/hbph.htm * Marissa Ernlund Myndighetsutövning i det digitalas tidevarv [Exercise of Authority in the Digital Era] http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith/2-12/me.htm * Marcus Persson "Loli: I Love It, I Live with It": Exploring the Practice of Nicknaming Mobile Phones http://etjanst.hb.se/bhs/ith/2-12/mp.htm --===============7324027927371345298== 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 --===============7324027927371345298==-- Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 45121772D; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:20:33 +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 68B917729; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:20:22 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4F19E7725; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:20:21 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131125092021.4F19E7725@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:20:21 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.554 model, modelling, simulation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 554. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 07:02:51 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: model, modelling, simulation When I wrote the chapter on the notion of "model" for Humanities Computing (Palgrave, 2005) I read everything I could then get my hands on that made an attempt to define it. I sped quickly and bravely past all the warning signs of dangerous polysemy ahead, surveyed it all and came to my own conclusions. These anyone who is interested may read. But chief among them was that "model" was if not the wrong word for what we do certainly a misleading one, because (as Bob Amsler put it) what we do moves in time. So I recommended "modelling" as the central idea. I more or less ignored "simulation" and "simulating" -- a serious shortcoming of that account but, I hope, forgivable given the complexities involved. But a serious shortcoming nevertheless. It's clear that the murk has not cleared itself up. There are surely some models in our work that last long enough to give continuing life to the idea of a settled representation of something. But I like to think that these are the exception in the context of research (as opposed to the context of building of things to fit given specifications). In the context of research (which is a kind of search not a kind of finding, no?) one of the big problems is the assumption, as Brian Rotman puts it in Ad Infinitum: The Ghost in Turing's Machine (Stanford 1993), of an anterior reality to which the model corresponds, or as Jerome McGann says in many places on behalf of literature, that what we work with is not self-identical. The problem (as I understand it, all serious qualifications applying) is that we do not stand apart from the action but are part of it -- we begin immediately to see the object in terms of the modelling we are doing. And I suppose one could argue that prior to all that, given that we are immersed in computational thinking, we have already construed the object computationally in some basic sense. Modelling moves in time. So does simulating. But it's curious that whereas "model" refers to an object only, "simulation" refers both to an object and a process. So I am beginning to think that the two basic kinds can be distinguished by the fact that once we build the simulation, we either stand back and observe or play the game. We don't tinker with the rules of the game. Does that fly? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 833247730; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:48:06 +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 2324E7728; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:47:58 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CA0B37727; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:47:55 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131125094755.CA0B37727@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:47:55 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.555 unGLAMorous acronymicity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 555. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 21:14:13 +0200 From: Darzentas Jenny Subject: Re: 27.552 events: hackathon for GLAMs at Pennsylvania In-Reply-To: <20131123075326.25D0C771B@digitalhumanities.org> Another point of interest for your map, not to participate but to know about the existence of this initiative, what is "glam", and it see if the data you facilitate [To answer immediately: Galleries Libraries Archives Museums = GLAM. An amusing acronym, allowing for GLAMorous etc. But the question does indicate that we cannot always assume readers know what we mean when we use particular acronyms. I find this to be a problem especially with conference series that send out adverts using whatever acronym identifies the conference but nowhere spelling out what the acronym signifies. Not a way to encourage people beyond one's immediate circle to take an interest! --WM] Sent from my iPad On 23 Νοε 2013, at 9:53, "Humanist Discussion Group" wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 552. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 16:11:45 -0500 > From: Dot Porter > Subject: GLAM Hack Philly - Feb 1-2, 2014 > In-Reply-To: > > >> From: *Chad Nelson* >> Date: Friday, November 22, 2013 >> Subject: [PhillyDigitalHumanities] GLAM Hack Philly - Feb 1-2, 2014 > > > GLAM Hack Philly is a free, weekend-long hackathon focused on building > apps with open data from Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums. It > will take place the weekend of February 1-2, 2012 at the University of > Pennsylvania’s Kislak Center for Special Collections. > > The event will bring together programmers, curators, librarians, designers, > archivists, and anyone else with a passion for GLAM data, to build fun and > interesting apps with the tremendous amount of GLAM data that is openly and > freely available. On the morning of Saturday, February 1st, participants > can pitch ideas for projects related to a specific data set or for broader > GLAM-related applications. This could be anything from creating Omeka > plug-ins to building a virtual city tour app using local digital > collections. Small groups will form and participants will begin working on > their projects through Sunday, with a goal to present a working prototype > by Sunday afternoon. > > Challenges and Data > > We are seeking proposals of Data Challenges for teams to work on during the > hackathon. Challenges can be as simple as a dataset and a vague idea of > what could be done with that data, or could be an already identified > problem with your data that you are seeking help to solve. > > The only requirements for proposing a challenge are: > > - > > Someone from your organization commits to participating in the event. > They will help steward teams who take up that challenge by giving context > to your data. > - > > If you r challange includes a dataset, that data should be made > available for use and reuse. Providing your data openly means that anyone > can build applications with your data before, during, and after the > hackathon. > > Submit a Challenge Now http://bit.ly/1bp5xpV > > If you’re not sure how your organization's data could be used or want some > help brainstorming a challenge, just get in touch with > glamhackphilly@gmail.com 'glamhackphilly@gmail.com');>, we're happy to help. > > You can also submit your dataset without proposing a > challenge http://bit.ly/1cg6bEr . > We'll highlight your dataset on our website for attendees consideration. > > But I'm not a programmer -- can I participate? > > The input of content specialists like museum curators, librarians, > archivists, catalogers,GLA researchers and others who know the data > produced by GLAM organizations, is crucial to creating successful projects. > We don't just want your participation, we need it! > > You can find more information on http://glamhack.com > > Thanks, > Philly GLAM Hack organizers > > -- > *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* > Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) > Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian > Email: dot.porter@gmail.com > Personal blog: dotporterdigital.org > Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance: http://www.mesa-medieval.org > MESA blog: http://mesamedieval.wordpress.com/ > MESA on Facebook: > https://www.facebook.com/MedievalElectronicScholarlyAlliance > *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 3A5607733; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:49:41 +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 E8A39772A; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:49:32 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 77A247728; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:49:30 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131125094930.77A247728@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:49:30 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.556 job at Whittier X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 556. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 03:47:02 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Position Announcement In-Reply-To: DIGITAL SCHOLAR Whittier College, a 4-year liberal arts college in Southern California, seeks to hire its first digital scholar. The dynamic and enthusiastic candidate will help create and manage a newly remodeled collaborative digital workspace to be housed in the campus Library. The digital scholar will guide a team of faculty, students and technology specialists to support individual and campus-wide digital initiatives. We are particularly interested in a scholar who can inspire and implement the College’s commitment to innovative pedagogies associated with digital technologies. A generous Andrew Mellon Foundation grant of $750,000 provides bridge funding to create this permanent full-time position. Visit Whittier's Digital Liberal Arts Center blog for more information. Major Responsibilities * Promote the innovative and evolving use of technology to advance the liberal arts curriculum at Whittier College * Research and lead development initiatives to identify emerging technologies, industry trends and best practices that are appropriate to the College’s environment * Promote and support the use of digital technologies to enhance hybrid learning, the use of web-based collaboration tools, mobile learning technologies and games and simulations in multi-user virtual environments * Serve as a liaison to faculty, informing them about options to integrate technology into their pedagogies * Promote the conceptualization, design, development, and assessment of scholarly digital projects * Coordinate training opportunities for faculty to increase their understanding and awareness of established and emerging technologies * Engage faculty and students in collaborative scholarship and the creation of knowledge using emerging digital technologies * Advance collaboration with other colleges, including efforts to expand undergraduate research * Be knowledgeable in the production of audio and video content in support of teaching and learning, and digital media, electronic media presentation, production, and distribution tools * Teach an annual course in your area of specialization, after year one * Participate in campus governance committee work, after year one Qualifications Graduate degree in a Humanities field (PhD preferred). Evidence of successfully created and managed digital projects. Successful work experience with students, faculty and staff from diverse backgrounds and with various levels of technical expertise. Relevant experience working in higher education, Active involvement in academic communities related to digital scholarship (NITLE, EDUCAUSE, HASTAC), and Demonstrated effectiveness in a teaching environment. Sophisticated understanding of digital projects and publishing, Familiar with digital repositories, and Conversant with digital methodologies, geographic information systems, data visualization and other modes of digital scholarship. Exceptional organizational, presentation, project management, interpersonal and communication skills. Works effectively across disciplines and Working knowledge of Learning Management Systems (Moodle preferred). To be considered for this position, please email your CV with cover letter, three references and salary history in a single PDF file to: lcrump@whittier.edu . Applications will be reviewed beginning December 10th, and will be accepted until the position is filled. The start date for this position is open for negotiation, but preferably will begin by Spring, 2014. Whittier College is a nationally recognized, selective, independent liberal arts college with a diverse student body of approximately 1600 undergraduates and is distinguished by its small size and innovative interdisciplinary programs. The campus is located on a 95-acre hillside 18 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles. We have a long history of commitment to equity, reflecting our Quaker origins, and our student body mirrors the diversity of the region. We are an official Hispanic-Serving Institution and have had two Title V grants. Our faculty, committed teacher-scholars, weave issues of diversity into their work with students. We seek to attract and retain a highly qualified and diverse faculty (AA/EO). -- Andrea Rehn, PhD Associate Professor of English arehn@whittier.edu 562-907-4200 x4350 Co-Director, Whittier DigLibArts Initiative http://www.whittier.edu/academics/diglibarts Co-Editor, Victorian Poetry, Poetics, and Contexts http://victorianpoetrypoeticsandcontext.wikispaces.com/ Whittier College 13406 Philadelphia St PO Box 634 Whittier, CA 90608 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 415767735; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:50:34 +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 ADA10772C; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:50:26 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9A8C0772A; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:50:24 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131125095024.9A8C0772A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:50:24 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.557 events: media innovations X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 557. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 15:18:03 +0000 From: Charles Ess Subject: Deadline for ISMI'14 extended to December 13, 2013 Dear HUMANISTS, In response to a number of requests to extend the deadline for submissions to The Third Annual International Symposium on Media Innovations (ISMI¹14) - to be held in Oslo, April 24-25, 2014 - we have extended the deadline to December 13, 2013. Please see the conference website for additional details: Many thanks, - charles 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/ Co-editor, Etikk i praksis / Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics Guest Professor, Philosophy Department, University of Vienna (Fall, 2013) My latest book, Digital Media Ethics, is now available from Polity: http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745656056 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 56CBE7735; Tue, 26 Nov 2013 08:19:06 +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 95EB97728; Tue, 26 Nov 2013 08:18:57 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8ED437726; Tue, 26 Nov 2013 08:18:55 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131126071855.8ED437726@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 08:18:55 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.558 model, modelling, simulation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 558. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Peter van Kranenburg (20) Subject: Re: 27.554 model, modelling, simulation [2] From: Paul Fishwick (75) Subject: Re: 27.554 model, modelling, simulation --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 13:16:25 +0100 From: Peter van Kranenburg Subject: Re: 27.554 model, modelling, simulation In-Reply-To: <20131125092021.4F19E7725@digitalhumanities.org> On 11/25/13 10:20 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Modelling moves in time. So does simulating. But it's curious that > whereas "model" refers to an object only, "simulation" refers both to an > object and a process. So I am beginning to think that the two basic > kinds can be distinguished by the fact that once we build the > simulation, we either stand back and observe or play the game. We don't > tinker with the rules of the game. ... during the 'game', but afterwards we do. That would make a simulation a specific kind of model, namely one that represents a process. best, Peter van Kranenburg -- Peter van Kranenburg, PhD, MSc, MA. http://goo.gl/N8LX9p 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: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:00:02 -0600 From: Paul Fishwick Subject: Re: 27.554 model, modelling, simulation In-Reply-To: <20131125092021.4F19E7725@digitalhumanities.org> Willard Anyone in the Humanities Computing/Digital Humanities community who is using computing tools as identified here (as a sample reference): http://nlp.stanford.edu/fsnlp/ is already doing modelling and has implicitly or explicitly accepted the notion of using statistical models as an integral mode of knowledge inquiry. -p Paul Fishwick, PhD Chair, ACM SIGSIM Distinguished Chair of Arts & Technology and Professor of Computer Science Director, Creative Automata Laboratory The University of Texas at Dallas Arts & Technology 800 West Campbell Road, AT10 Richardson, TX 75080-3021 Home: utdallas.edu/atec/fishwick Blog: creative-automata.com On Nov 25, 2013, at 3:20 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 554. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 07:02:51 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: model, modelling, simulation > > When I wrote the chapter on the notion of "model" for Humanities > Computing (Palgrave, 2005) I read everything I could then get my hands > on that made an attempt to define it. I sped quickly and bravely past > all the warning signs of dangerous polysemy ahead, surveyed it all and > came to my own conclusions. These anyone who is interested may read. But > chief among them was that "model" was if not the wrong word for what we > do certainly a misleading one, because (as Bob Amsler put it) what we do > moves in time. So I recommended "modelling" as the central idea. I more > or less ignored "simulation" and "simulating" -- a serious shortcoming > of that account but, I hope, forgivable given the complexities > involved. But a serious shortcoming nevertheless. > > It's clear that the murk has not cleared itself up. There are surely > some models in our work that last long enough to give continuing life to > the idea of a settled representation of something. But I like to think > that these are the exception in the context of research (as opposed to > the context of building of things to fit given specifications). In the > context of research (which is a kind of search not a kind of finding, > no?) one of the big problems is the assumption, as Brian Rotman puts it > in Ad Infinitum: The Ghost in Turing's Machine (Stanford 1993), of an > anterior reality to which the model corresponds, or as Jerome McGann > says in many places on behalf of literature, that what we work with is not > self-identical. The problem (as I understand it, all serious > qualifications applying) is that we do not stand apart from the action > but are part of it -- we begin immediately to see the object in terms of > the modelling we are doing. And I suppose one could argue that prior to > all that, given that we are immersed in computational thinking, we have > already construed the object computationally in some basic sense. > > Modelling moves in time. So does simulating. But it's curious that > whereas "model" refers to an object only, "simulation" refers both to an > object and a process. So I am beginning to think that the two basic > kinds can be distinguished by the fact that once we build the > simulation, we either stand back and observe or play the game. We don't > tinker with the rules of the game. > > Does that fly? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital > Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital > Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 4C6AD7725; Tue, 26 Nov 2013 08:20:04 +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 8F6587734; Tue, 26 Nov 2013 08:19:53 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 520797734; Tue, 26 Nov 2013 08:19:51 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20131126071951.520797734@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 08:19:51 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.559 proposals for prototypes? 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. 27, No. 559. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 19:27:07 +0000 From: "Senseney, Megan Finn" Subject: RFP: Prototyping Projects for the HathiTrust Research Center The HathiTrust Research Center http://www.hathitrust.org/htrc is seeking proposals for prototyping projects to define and implement a tool or service that will help scholars better identify and select relevant resources at scale from the HathiTrust http://www.hathitrust.org/ corpus and/or facilitate the construction of large-scale worksets useful for scholarly analyses. Grants of $40,000 will be offered to each of four successful respondents to be conducted over a nine-month period beginning April 2014. Workset Creation for Scholarly Analysis: Prototyping Project (WCSA) is generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation http://mellon.org/ . A complete copy of the RFP is attached to this email and available online at: http://worksets.htrc.illinois.edu/worksets/?page_id=20. RFP Schedule: RFP Available: 22 November 2013 Letters of Intent Due (preferred): 16 December 2013 Final Proposals Due: 13 January 2014 Shortlist Meeting Invitations Issued: 20 January 2014 Shortlist Meeting: 20 February 2014 Award Notification: No later than 15 March 2014 Program Description (see the full RFP for more detail): The HathiTrust (HT) is a large digitized-text corpus (> 10 million volumes) of keen interest to researchers working in a wide range of scholarly disciplines. To tap the analytic potential of this large and diverse corpus, to tame it and make it useful to them, many researchers need the wherewithal to gather together, into a kind of personal digital carrel, cohesive and coherent subsets of HT texts (potentially tens or hundreds of thousands of volumes or parts of volumes) amenable to the in depth forms of analysis they want to do. The attributes on which they seek to collocate digitized texts are not always recorded in standard bibliographic descriptions. The HTRC will collaborate with four independent sub-awardees in conducting individual prototyping projects to develop and validate the potential of specific algorithms, services and/or tools that can enable the creation of large and small scale worksets of digitized texts and parts of digitized texts for scholarly analysis in ways not currently feasible. We are seeking proposals from engaged teams of digital humanists, librarians and computer scientists. We anticipate that the proposals received will approach the problem in a variety of different and complementary ways. Proposed prototype experiments must respond to real scholar needs and requirements. Respondents are urged to contact htrc.wcsa@gmail.com, in advance of proposal submission to discuss eligibility, project details, prerequisites, and HTRC support with a member of the project team. Prime award project PIs are: J. Stephen Downie, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois Tim Cole, University Library, University of Illinois Beth Plale, Data to Insight Center, Indiana University -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3525E7732; Tue, 26 Nov 2013 08:20:38 +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 3E9727737; Tue, 26 Nov 2013 08:20:29 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BA38A7735; Tue, 26 Nov 2013 08:20:26 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131126072026.BA38A7735@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 08:20:26 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.560 job at Swarthmore X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 560. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 19:15:48 +0000 From: "Roueche, Charlotte" Subject: digital librarian job at Swarthmore In-Reply-To: The Librarian for Digital Initiatives and Scholarship will establish and grow a dynamic program to support new models of scholarship. S/he will foster the successful adoption and application of digital approaches to teaching, learning, and research, will develop sustainable and scalable digital resources, and will explore emerging and existing technologies which enable the use of digital content. Will manage a portfolio of digital scholarship, digital collection and library technology projects, in close collaboration with faculty, librarians, academic technologists and Tri-College partners. Initial goals for the Librarian for Digital Initiatives and Scholarship include conducting an environmental scan of academic departments, identifying potential scholarly projects, determining suitable tools and methodologies for use in each, and establishing priorities based on the content’s cultural, academic or historical value. Will manage the lifecycle of these identified projects, from the creation of digital objects to long-term preservation. Interested applicants are encouraged to apply at: http://www.swarthmore.edu/human-resources/employment.xml (1.0 FTE, 12-month, regular, salary grade 8) Requirements: ALA-accredited MLS or MLIS degree, or MA/PhD with significant experience in digital humanities At least 2 years experience in academic or library services. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 16:11:57 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Events ************************************************************* iConference 2014: Early-bird registration available through Dec. 15, 2013 4-7 March, 2014, Berlin, Germany Conference Home: http://ischools.org/the-iconference/ Conference Schedule: https://www.conftool.com/iConference2014/sessions.php ************************************************************* Registration is now open for iConference 2014, with discounted early rates available through December 15; standard rates apply thereafter. Register now for the lowest available rate! iConference 2014 will bring together scholars and researchers from around the world who share a common concern about critical information issues in contemporary society. 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Social events include our Opening Reception at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, private gala dinner at the world-renowned Naturkunde Museum Berlin, two networking-oriented Poster Sessions, a Farewell Reception, and multiple shared meals and social breaks throughout. • • Unique opportunities for career mentoring and growth, including a Doctoral Colloquium (invitation only), an Early Career Colloquium (open to all) and a Professional Development Seminar (also open to all). • • A Social Media Expo featuring presentations by iSchool student teams, sponsored by Microsoft Research. • • The opportunity to personally experience Berlin, one of the most historic and compelling cities in Europe. iConference 2014 is presented by the iSchools organization and hosted by The Berlin School of Library and Information Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; the program is administered by the Royal School of Library and Information Science, University of Copenhagen. The presenting sponsor is Microsoft Research, with additional funding from Emerald Publishing, De Gruyter, Springer, Purdue University Press, and Morgan & Claypool Publishers. The conference takes place 4-7 March, 2014. More at http://ischools.org/the-iconference/ 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B16FB7735; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 07:58:16 +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 4142B3122; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 07:58:08 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5021B2EE7; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 07:58:06 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131127065806.5021B2EE7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 07:58:06 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.562 acronyms X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 562. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 16:47:03 -0500 From: Dot Porter Subject: Re: 27.555 unGLAMorous acronymicity In-Reply-To: <20131125094755.CA0B37727@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Jenny and Willard, I apologize for using an obscure, although not unknown, acronym ("GLAM") in the subject heading of my announcement. In my defense, the acronym was defined in the first sentence of the announcement ("GLAM Hack Philly is a free, weekend-long hackathon focused on building apps with open data from Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums."). Dot On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 4:47 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 555. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 21:14:13 +0200 > From: Darzentas Jenny > Subject: Re: 27.552 events: hackathon for GLAMs at Pennsylvania > In-Reply-To: <20131123075326.25D0C771B@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Another point of interest for your map, not to participate but to know > about the existence of this initiative, what is "glam", and it see if the > data you facilitate > > [To answer immediately: Galleries Libraries Archives Museums = GLAM. An > amusing acronym, allowing for GLAMorous etc. But the question does indicate > that we cannot always assume readers know what we mean when we use > particular acronyms. I find this to be a problem especially with conference > series that send out adverts using whatever acronym identifies the > conference but nowhere spelling out what the acronym signifies. Not a way > to encourage people beyond one's immediate circle to take an interest! --WM] > -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter@gmail.com Personal blog: dotporterdigital.org Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance: http://www.mesa-medieval.org MESA blog: http://mesamedieval.wordpress.com/ MESA on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MedievalElectronicScholarlyAlliance *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BF1B9773C; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 07:59:14 +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 4E214772B; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 07:59:06 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7DE1A772B; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 07:59:04 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131127065904.7DE1A772B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 07:59:04 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.563 events: London CryptoFestival X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 563. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 09:05:42 +0000 From: "Scullard, Susan" Subject: London CryptoFestival Saturday 30 November London CryptoFestival Tools and analysis for a post-PRISM internet https://www.cryptoparty.in/london_cryptofestival Saturday, November 30th Doors open 10.30 / Start 11am sharp New Academic Building Goldsmiths, New Cross London Location: http://www.gold.ac.uk/find-us/ Free, all welcome What happens to the internet after the Snowden revelations? Do we just sit tight and let the most important cultural and economic force of the last two decades get turned into a giant surveillance honeytrap? London CryptoFestival is the biggest public and academic manifestation in the UK after the spy-network has been exposed. The unique day-long festival is aimed at showing paths beyond the logic of fear and coercion offered by the state on the one hand, and business models based on surveillance on the other. London CryptoFestival brings together leading security engineers, computer scientists, civil rights groups, hackers, activists and artists to evaluate the current situation and to show ways forward. Alongside this, three strands of hands-on workshops present user-friendly tools to increase security by encrypting email, web-use, chat and other data. Speakers Ross Anderson, University of Cambridge Computer Lab Ian Brown, Open Rights Group, Oxford Internet Institute George Danezis, UCL Marianne Franklin, Goldsmiths, Internet Rights and Principles Coalition Jo Glanville, PEN Wendy Grossman, Open Rights Group Annie Machon ex-MI5 whistleblower Smári McCarthy (@smarimc), International Modern Media Institute Nick Pickles, Big Brother Watch Workshops Over twenty workshops will teach non-experts how to use advanced tools to support internet privacy, secure personal data, and to use the internet, mobile phones and computers without falling easy prey to spooks. Workshops will include: Internet of Things; Tor (secure web-browsing); PGP (secure email); Metadata; TCPDump (analyzing network traffic); File encryption; Bitmessage (chat); Talk (chat); OTR (chat); Digital Double (app); Chokepoint Project; and more to be announced. Bring your computer and start working with these tools. Workshops are suitable for all skill levels. Art IOCOSE – present First Viewer Television Orsolya Bajusz – Swarming Talent Competition Deckspace – Community Access Organised by Digital Culture Unit, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London: http://www.gold.ac.uk/cultural-studies/ccsdigitalcultureunit/ Department of Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London: http://www.gold.ac.uk/computing/ Contacts Book a place online: https://londoncryptofestival.eventbrite.co.uk/ Twitter: @cryptofestival Please circulate -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Project Officer Department of Digital Humanities (Monday, Wednesday and Thursday) King’s College London 2nd Floor | 26-29 Drury Lane | London | WC2B 5RL Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2931 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B2C557739; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 08:05:53 +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 921CB3122; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 08:05:42 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B09842EE7; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 08:05:40 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131127070540.B09842EE7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 08:05:40 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.564 model, modelling, simulation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 564. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 06:55:25 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: model, modelling, simulation Thanks to Peter van Kranenburg in Humanist 27.558 for pointing out that simulations are tinkered with between runs, or simulation-games after the playing is done, and to Paul Fishwick for pointing out that modelling extends to much of what we do with our tools. The latter has essentially been my argument all along -- that modelling is basically what we do most of the time. To pick up on Peter's summary, that a simulation is "a specific kind of model, namely one that represents a process", let me ask, when would you be modelling a process rather than a thing? The answer I keep coming up with is, when you can only know about the components of something and cannot observe or predict what the thing will do. So, I could model a particular game of Monopoly, tweaking, say, the prices of houses on a particular patch of the board, but a model of Monopoly itself, with some (pseudo-)randomization, when run is a simulation of capitalist activity. Carolyn Lougee Chappell's Would-Be Gentleman, from the mid 1980s and still going, is an instructional simulation-game of the petite-bourgeoisie in 17C France. SimCity from the late 1980s, also still going, is likewise a simulation -- a game that models urban entities but whose outcome in any play is unknown to a significant degree. Can we say that the difference is between simple and complex, linear and non-linear systems? What other examples do we have in the humanities? Are VR applications essentially visualised simulations? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2DD5D7728; Thu, 28 Nov 2013 07:09:15 +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 33D9A7708; Thu, 28 Nov 2013 07:09:06 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E30D276F7; Thu, 28 Nov 2013 07:09:03 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131128060903.E30D276F7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 07:09:03 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.565 model, modelling, simulation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 565. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Stanislav Roudavski (15) Subject: model, modelling, simulation [2] From: Joris van Zundert (89) Subject: Re: 27.564 model, modelling, simulation --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 08:23:23 +0000 From: Stanislav Roudavski Subject: model, modelling, simulation What an interesting discussion... ...as I have materially experienced in a recent workshop, the understanding of simulation in medical fields tends to be very inclusive/hybrid. Participants of medical simulations (that are rather like interactive theatrical performances) include trained professionals, students, lay people, actors, real patients, manikins of varying fidelity, equipment, mock-ups of equipment, props, interactive artifacts, computational simulations, educational documents, scenarios, solution-oriented tasks, error-search tasks, real or imagined places, architectural structures, etc. The challenge there is often not to match a known or hypothesized process but to create a relatively safe (magic circle? game?) situations that can be immersive on one hand and open for critical reflection, assessment, tinkering and redesign on the other. Such simulations can often be modified in-process as well as between runs... In a response to the Willard McCarty's question: "Are VR applications essentially visualized simulations?" I can offer this recent paper that discusses VR/VE applications as hybrid, multiplicious (porous? friable?) performances akin to the ones outlined above. In my interpretation, such performances can include visualizations/presentations of well-bounded models/simulations but are not equivalent to them. https://www.academia.edu/5185272/Portmanteau_Worlds_Hosting_Multiple_Worldviews_in_Virtual_Environments Hope this is of interest. Happy to hear opinions. --- Dr Stanislav Roudavski The University of Melbourne Senior Lecturer in Digital Architectural Design Elseware Collective; ExLab Founding Partner personal: http://stanislavroudavski.net collaborative: http://elsewarecollective.com, http://www.exlab.org publications: http://unimelb.academia.edu/StanislavRoudavski/Papers tutorials: https://vimeo.com/exlab --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 09:51:44 +0100 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Re: 27.564 model, modelling, simulation In-Reply-To: <20131127070540.B09842EE7@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, I wonder if your definition for modeling a process maybe be skewing a bit too much towards the analytical potential or simulation aspect of process? There are contexts I suppose where model/modeling is an appropriate description of the activities undertaken to capture a process and where–as you say–the outcome of the process is not entirely predictable, but where in contrast to that the process modeling is exactly aimed at keeping the outcome within in certain bounds. I'm thinking for instance of the situation where one is modeling a workflow process into software or from existing software components. Say, in the case of a workflow for digital editing. If everything works out well we deliver an non (essentially?) analytical tool that supports editors and researchers to capture and represent text as data, but the modeling of the workflow is such that the data captured eventually turn into a representational form (the digital edition) that has certain conformity. I do think this situation holds to your definition of "when you can only know about the components of something and cannot observe or predict what the thing will do". But in this form it suggest that the (partial) unpredictability is in a way an aim. Yet in workflow process modeling I'd say the aim is to root out as much as possible unpredictability from the resulting artifacts. I think this raises questions about the reciprocal effects process model and object model have on each other. Or maybe I'm just unnecessarily confusing matters, in which case I'll let myself be happily corrected. All the best --Joris On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 564. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 06:55:25 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: model, modelling, simulation > > Thanks to Peter van Kranenburg in Humanist 27.558 for pointing out that > simulations are tinkered with between runs, or simulation-games after > the playing is done, and to Paul Fishwick for pointing out that > modelling extends to much of what we do with our tools. The latter has > essentially been my argument all along -- that modelling is basically > what we do most of the time. > > To pick up on Peter's summary, that a simulation is "a specific kind of > model, namely one that represents a process", let me ask, when would you > be modelling a process rather than a thing? The answer I keep coming up > with is, when you can only know about the components of something and > cannot observe or predict what the thing will do. So, I could model a > particular game of Monopoly, tweaking, say, the prices of houses on a > particular patch of the board, but a model of Monopoly itself, with some > (pseudo-)randomization, when run is a simulation of capitalist activity. > Carolyn Lougee Chappell's Would-Be Gentleman, from the mid 1980s and > still going, is an instructional simulation-game of the > petite-bourgeoisie in 17C France. SimCity from the late 1980s, also > still going, is likewise a simulation -- a game that models urban > entities but whose outcome in any play is unknown to a significant degree. > > Can we say that the difference is between simple and complex, linear and > non-linear systems? What other examples do we have in the humanities? > Are VR applications essentially visualised simulations? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital > Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital > Humanities, University of Western Sydney -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 266247728; Thu, 28 Nov 2013 07:10:01 +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 0268B772A; Thu, 28 Nov 2013 07:09:53 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2A35376FD; Thu, 28 Nov 2013 07:09:52 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131128060952.2A35376FD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 07:09:52 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.566 Twitter 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. 27, No. 566. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 14:02:55 +0000 From: Ernesto Priego Subject: Can you help? Very quick survey on Twitter for Engaging with Research Dear all, In case anyone has a minute to complete a 15-question online survey on Twitter for engaging with research... (participants are required to be Twitter users). http://goo.gl/iKfQCI Thanks very much in advance. I know you are all busy. Best regards, Dr Ernesto Priego Lecturer in Library Science Acting Course Director, MSc/MA Electronic Publishing City University London http://epriego.wordpress.com/ @ernestopriego Editor-in-Chief, *The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship * http://www.comicsgrid.com/ 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 1CAEB7737; Thu, 28 Nov 2013 07:12:38 +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 01C607728; Thu, 28 Nov 2013 07:12:29 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 88C5D7716; Thu, 28 Nov 2013 07:12:26 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131128061226.88C5D7716@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 07:12:26 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.567 jobs: Senior Lecturer (Western Sydney), project manager (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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 567. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Paul Arthur (18) Subject: Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities, Sydney, Australia - applications close 15 December [2] From: Ray Siemens (5) Subject: FW: EMMO Project Manager --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 21:17:37 +0000 From: Paul Arthur Subject: Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities, Sydney, Australia - applications close 15 December SENIOR LECTURER IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES - applications close 15 December The University of Western Sydney School of Humanities and Communication Arts seeks to appoint a Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities to play a key role in the development and future direction of the UWS Digital Humanities Research Group. Position description: https://uws.nga.net.au/publicfiles/uws/jobs/a16be5c3-5e56-1667-a12c-770e80954059/895-13_PD.docx The successful applicant will have an excellent track record in research, publication, projects or equivalent achievements, and in teaching and administration. The core field of specialisation will be Digital Humanities. This new position offers the opportunity to join a dynamic and innovative Research Group that seeks to build its international profile and develop a vibrant research culture as it expands. The Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities will work closely with the Research Group Leader on the development of interdisciplinary, collaborative Digital Humanities projects, initiatives and programs in the School and the University, and with external stakeholders. This is a full time, five (5) year fixed term appointment based at Parramatta, Sydney. Remuneration Package : Academic Level C $123,713 to $141,913 p.a. (comprising Salary $104,645 to $120,200 p.a., plus 17% Superannuation, and Leave Loading) Position Enquiries : Professor Paul Arthur, p.arthur@uws.edu.au Closing Date : 15 December 2013 PROFESSOR PAUL ARTHUR Dr R. Marika Visiting Chair of Australian Studies (2013-14) University of Cologne, Germany Professor of Digital Humanities The University of Western Sydney School of Humanities and Communication Arts Locked Bag 1797 Penrith NSW 2571 T +61 2 9685 9410 | F +61 2 9685 9075 E p.arthur@uws.edu.au | W paularthur.com --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 17:48:22 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: FW: EMMO Project Manager In-Reply-To: EMMO Project Manager The Folger Shakespeare Library seeks an energetic and experienced Project Manager for a 3-year IMLS grant-funded project, Early Modern Manuscripts Online (EMMO). The PM will work closely with the Curator of Manuscripts and associated staff on the planning, implementation and assessment of EMMO, a searchable database of transcribed and digitized early modern manuscript texts. The PM will: assist in the development and implementation of workflows for the execution of project activities; maintain project and content management systems for the project; manage and monitor the grant budget; and contribute to the testing, evaluation, and improvement of the transcription and tagging environment. Working closely with two grant-funded paleographers, the PM will also participate in the creation and sustaining of a community of volunteer transcribers. The ideal candidate will have an advanced subject degree in early modern English literature or history and an MLS, with training in early modern English paleography preferred. This position requires project management experience, preferably in a research library or museum setting. Experience with XML and project and content management systems, such as Drupal, and the ability to work in a collaborative, flexible, and creative environment, are necessary. Strong organizational skills, budget management experience, and outstanding communication skills are required. Preference will be given to candidates with experience in crowd-sourcing, scholarly textual editing, and the transcription of manuscripts in English secretary and other early modern hands. Interested individuals should email cover letter and resume to: jobs@folger.edu, or mail to Folger Shakespeare Library, Attn: HR/EMMO, 201 E. Capitol Street, SE, Washington, DC 20003-1004. EOE For some details about the project, see the Folger research blog, The Collation: http://collation.folger.edu/2013/11/emmo-early-modern-manuscripts-online/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 27439773B; Thu, 28 Nov 2013 07:14:31 +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 EDAF37732; Thu, 28 Nov 2013 07:14:22 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 219517728; Thu, 28 Nov 2013 07:14:21 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131128061421.219517728@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 07:14:21 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.568 call for proposals: talks at CeRCH, 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. 27, No. 568. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:52:56 +0000 From: Centre for e-Research Subject: Call for talk proposals: Spring 2014, Centre for e-Research Seminar Series, King's College London Hello all, apologies for cross-posting, We now invite proposals for presentations in the Spring Term 2014 Centre for e-Research (CeRch) seminar series at King's College London. The CeRch seminars provide a venue for discussion and engagment of a range of projects, applications, methods and theories spanning the Centre's academic interests in computing, library and archives research, digital culture, information science and digital scholarship. Talks can cover any topic within CeRch's areas of interest and expertise, including applied and theoretical papers and discussion of early results. More details about the CeRch Seminar Series are at the bottom of this email. The call is open to all, including people at any stage in their academic career and those working outside academia, with the possibility to facilitate remote speakers. Seminars will be streamed live and published as online video after the event, unless the speaker requests otherwise. Reasonable limited travel expenses can be met, along with one night's accommodation in London if necessary. Please submit an abstract of up to 400 words to Anna Jordanous, via email to cerch@kcl.ac.uk by *Thursday 12th December 2013*. Please also contact Anna if you have any questions. Seminars will take place on Tuesday 6.15pm-7.30pm, provisionally on 21st Jan, 4th Feb, 18th Feb, 4th March, 18th March 2014. Please indicate your availability for these dates or alternative Tuesdays (January-March 2014) in your submission email. We look forward to hearing from you, Regards, Anna Jordanous Centre for e-Research, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London. --- Centre for e-Research Seminar Series The Centre for e-Research (CeRch) at King's College London runs an interdisciplinary seminar programme on alternate Tuesday evenings during term time. With viewpoints from many disciplines including the sciences, social sciences and humanities, the series' primary focus is to stimulate discussion and provide new and innovative insight into design, development and use of digitally-based methods and technologies, and the theoretical issues that they raise (especially where they interact with a range of other fields). Previous topics have included visualisation, webometrics, digital research infrastructures, computational creativity, motion data, computational linguistics, cultural value and social network analysis, among many others. Details of recent seminars in this series can be seen at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/seminars/ . The series invites contributions for talks engaging with innovative questions or applications, using technology-enhanced methods. The series provides excellent networking opportunities, and will be of interest to anyone interested in debates around theories and practice in computing and digital technologies. Seminars are held fortnightly on Tuesdays during term time at 6.15pm (unless otherwise stated) in the Anatomy Museum Space, at King's College London, Strand Campus (http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/spaces/anatomy-museum.aspx). Seminars are followed by drinks and nibbles. Twitter: @KingsCeRch hashtag: #cerchseminars --- Centre for e-Research, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, 26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9639F773E; Thu, 28 Nov 2013 07:16:33 +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 DA35F772E; Thu, 28 Nov 2013 07:16:24 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CD1E1772E; Thu, 28 Nov 2013 07:16:22 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131128061622.CD1E1772E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 07:16:22 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.569 call for submssions: critical theory; empirical 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. 27, No. 569. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "JLT, Deutsche Philologie" (18) Subject: Call for Submissions - Empirical Methods in Literary Studies [2] From: Delia Dumitrica (34) Subject: Reminder - CfP: Digital Technologies and Social Transformations: What Role for Critical Theory? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 10:15:22 +0000 From: "JLT, Deutsche Philologie" Subject: Call for Submissions - Empirical Methods in Literary Studies Call for Submissions Journal of Literary Theory Vol. 9, No. 1 (2015) Special Issue: Empirical Methods in Literary Studies Editors: Fotis Jannidis (Wuerzburg, Germany), Gerhard Lauer (Goettingen, Germany), Simone Winko (Goettingen, Germany) Empirical methods have a humble yet continuous tradition in literary studies. It is a tradition that seems to stand in fundamental opposition to historical and hermeneutical approaches due to differences concerning the practice of validation, reliability and extensiveness of their claims. JLT is interested in publishing articles that take a theoretical and systematic perspective on the question how empirical methods – despite those differences – might fit into the research practices of literary studies. How can both approaches complement each other? How can established questions in literary studies be answered differently (or maybe even more satisfyingly) by using empirical approaches? How does literature as a subject matter change through the use of empirical approaches, such as methods from the cognitive sciences or computer based processes? Which preconditions should (still) be clarified, so that empirical methods can become part of the literary studies? We encourage submissions from all language and literature departments as well as other fields within the humanities and social sciences. Contributions should not exceed 50,000 characters in length and have to be submitted until August 1, 2014. Please submit your contribution electronically via our website http://www.jltonline.de under "Articles". Articles are chosen for publication by an international advisory board in a double-blind review process. For further information about JLT and to view the submission guidelines, please visit http://www.jltonline.de/index.php/articles ("About JLT" and "For Authors") or contact the editorial office at jlt@phil.uni-goettingen.de. Jan Borkowski Assistant Editor JLT - Journal of Literary Theory Georg-August-Universität Goettingen Seminar fuer Deutsche Philologie Kaete-Hamburger-Weg 3 37073 Goettingen 0049 - (0)551 - 39 - 7516 JLT@phil.uni-goettingen.de http://www.JLTonline.de http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jlt --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 20:01:22 +0000 From: Delia Dumitrica Subject: Reminder - CfP: Digital Technologies and Social Transformations: What Role for Critical Theory? In-Reply-To: <63e4726c35fb4ee5e4a595e88927da38.squirrel@webmail.ucalgary.ca> Reminder: The submission deadline for the special issue of the Canadian Journal of Communication (Digital Technologies and Social Transformations: What Role for Critical Theory?) is coming up on December 1, 2013. For more information on the call for papers, please visit: http://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/announcement/view/197 We invite authors to submit papers exploring the use of critical theory in research on digital technologies with reference to diverse themes and cases, including, but not limited to studies of: - Digital technologies and democratic/economic empowerment (e.g. destabilizing authoritarian regimes; alleviating the democratic deficit; including marginalized or disenfranchised groups; new forms of politics, etc.); - Digital technologies and the state (e.g. security; cybercrime; public policy; governance, etc.); - Digital technologies and power in everyday life (e.g. cyber-identity; sociability; social ties; social capital; networks; mundane Panopticism; etc.); - Digital technologies and relations of production (e.g. immaterial labor; knowledge creation/mobilization; big data; cloud computing; cultural production; etc.); - Digital technologies in social sciences (e.g. critical thinking; modes of learning; evaluation and monitoring of scholarly labor, gamification, etc.). Extended abstracts (600 words) will be accepted until December 1, 2013. Abstracts should explicitly discuss how the role of power/ critical theory will be addressed in the context of the respective argument/ case. Please include a prospective title, 5-7 keywords and a short bio-note about yourself. We welcome abstracts in either English or French. To submit your abstract, or for any further queries regarding this special issue, please contact the issue editors directly: cjcissue@ucalgary.ca Dr. Delia Dumitrica Department of Communication and Culture University of Calgary _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 473257738; Thu, 28 Nov 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 EDDD47744; Thu, 28 Nov 2013 07:17:10 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 68ED67743; Thu, 28 Nov 2013 07:17:09 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20131128061709.68ED67743@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 07:17:09 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.570 study at OII 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. 27, No. 570. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 09:47:40 +0000 From: Luciano Floridi Subject: Studying at the Oxford Internet Institute PLEASE NOTE: Applicants with interests in digital humanities, philosophy, ethics, and STS are very welcome. The website contains further details and some short video presentations. >From the Website: ----------------------- http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/graduatestudy/openday/ Studying at the Oxford Internet Institute We are the only major department in a top-ranked international university to offer multi-disciplinary social science degree programmes focusing on the Internet. We offer an MSc in Social Science of the Internet and a DPhil in Information, Communication and the Social Sciences. We are a young and innovative department, and have deliberately sought to create a teaching environment that is welcoming, supportive and stimulating for all our students. With a student to faculty ratio of just 2:1, our students benefit from frequent interaction with academics and are encouraged to get involved in a wide range of research and policy activities. If you would like to discuss the programmes with teaching faculty and current students we usually hold two open days a year, in November (physical) and December (virtual); various open days are also run by the University and individual colleges: please check the Oxford University Graduate Studies website or college websites for details ----------------------- Best wishes, Luciano _________________________________________ Luciano Floridi | www.philosophyofinformation.net Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford 1 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3JS Tel: +44 (0) 1865 287202 www.oii.ox.ac.uk http://www.oii.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DAC6A7741; Fri, 29 Nov 2013 07:45:57 +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 B99BF773E; Fri, 29 Nov 2013 07:45:47 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0F5B47738; Fri, 29 Nov 2013 07:45:44 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131129064545.0F5B47738@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 07:45:44 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.571 reference to copyright demands? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 571. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 08:52:39 +0000 From: John Levin Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.569 call for submssions: critical theory; empirical literary studies In-Reply-To: <20131128061622.CD1E1772E@digitalhumanities.org> On 28/11/2013 06:16, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 569. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: "JLT, Deutsche Philologie" (18) > Subject: Call for Submissions - Empirical Methods in Literary Studies > > [2] From: Delia Dumitrica (34) > Subject: Reminder - CfP: Digital Technologies and Social > Transformations: What Role for Critical Theory? > > May I start a campaign, albeit with little hope of success, that journals' calls for papers include the copyright demands of the said journal? I think it would be most helpful and indeed a veritable enticement were an author be assured that they do not have to alienate their copyright or be isolated behind a paywall. (For the record, CJC publish under CC BY NC ND: http://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/about/submissions#copyrightNotice I can't find any info about copyright policies for JLT.) 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 17:02:01 +0100 From: Afelonne Doek Subject: IISH vacancy: Scientific Developer / Wetenschappelijk Ontwikkelaar The International Institute of Social History has a vacancy for a scientific developer. The text of the vacancy is in Dutch since good knowledge of the Dutch language is required. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Het IISG doet geavanceerd onderzoek naar de geschiedenis van werk, werkenden en arbeidsverhoudingen op mondiale schaal en verzamelt daartoe gegevens, die ook ter beschikking worden gesteld aan andere onderzoekers. Voor de afdeling Digitale Infrastructuur is het IISG per direct op zoek naar een Wetenschappelijk Ontwikkelaar (m/v) (38 uur per week voor 1 jaar) Afdeling Digitale Infrastructuur Deze afdeling werkt aan de ontwikkeling en uitvoering van projecten op het gebied van (digitale) wetenschappelijke informatieproducten en -diensten, die van strategisch belang zijn voor het instituut. Deze projecten worden uitgevoerd door afdelingsoverschrijdende werkgroepen, met inzet van expertise vanuit de verschillende afdelingen. Ze zijn sterk internationaal georiënteerd en op ICT-gebied trendvolgend en gericht op praktische toepassing. Voor het versterken van ons team zoeken wij een enthousiaste, leergierige en communicatief sterke persoonlijkheid. Functie-informatie: Het IISG verzamelt en beheert een aantal wetenschappelijke datasets die de grondslag vormen voor onderzoek. Deze omvangrijke datasets, die veelal nog in ontwikkeling zijn, dienen duurzaam te worden opgeslagen en tevens optimaal toegankelijk te zijn voor de onderzoeker. Dit vraagt om een gedegen en flexibele digitale infrastructuur die nauw aansluit bij de uiteenlopende werkprocessen van de onderzoeker. We zoeken ter uitbreiding van ons team een wetenschappelijke ontwikkelaar die een duidelijke bijdrage kan leveren aan de ontwikkeling van de digitale infrastructuur en de ontwikkeling van ‘tools’ binnen de lopende projecten op ‘microdata’ gebied. In deze functie ga je onder andere werken aan; - De Historische Steekproef Nederland (http://socialhistory.org/en/hsn) - Linking System for historical family reconstruction (http://www.iisg.nl/hsn/projects/links.html ) - Nieuwe en bestaande projecten op gebied van ‘record linkage’, ‘parser-technologie’ en ‘design-patterns’ De ontwikkeling van de applicaties en ‘tools’ gebeurt op basis van webstandaarden en ‘Open Source frameworks en toolkits’. Ontwikkelen gaat volgens de ‘OpenUP’ methodiek; met ‘usecases’, functionele en technische ontwerpen. Dit houdt ook in dat gedegen documenteren en testwerkzaamheden een onderdeel zijn van het werk. We bieden je een plaats binnen een enthousiast team met ambitie en met ruimte voor eigen initiatief. Functie-eisen: Je beschikt over een Bachelor- (of Master-)opleiding in (technische) informatica. Je hebt aantoonbare kennis en ervaring (3 jaar) met het ontwikkelen van wetenschappelijke applicaties. Je hebt ervaring met het werken met omvangrijke datasets (structured data) en het toepassen van nieuwe methoden uit de database technologie. Daarnaast bezit je de volgende vaardigheden: ontwikkelt volgens SOA , JAVA/JSP, XML, XSL, XSLT, mySQL, Postgres, Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS); pré: bash, perl, indexing software. Je moet in staat zijn om wensen van wetenschappers om te zetten in praktische toepassingen en kan zowel zelfstandig als in teamverband goed functioneren. Voor de functie zijn wij op zoek naar een pragmatische programmeur met een sterk analytisch vermogen en een ‘hands-on’ mentaliteit. Je bent daarnaast gedreven, doelgericht, stressbestendig en beschikt over goede communicatieve/sociale vaardigheden. Een goede beheersing van Nederlands en Engels in woord en geschrift is vereist. Aanstelling en salaris: De aanstelling bij de Stichting IISG is voor de duur van een jaar op projectbasis. Het salaris bedraagt afhankelijk van relevante werkervaring minimaal € 2.427,- en maximaal € 3.831,- (schaal 10 CAO-Nederlandse Universiteiten) bij een 38-urige werkweek. Het IISG biedt aantrekkelijke secundaire arbeidsvoorwaarden, zoals 8,3 % eindejaarsuitkering, 8% vakantieuitkering, een goede pensioenregeling, 6 weken vakantie op jaarbasis en de mogelijkheid om verlofdagen te kopen/verkopen. Reactie: Je kunt je sollicitatie (brief met CV) tot en met 5 januari 2014 sturen aan wsprogr2013@iisg.nl, t.a.v. Marjoleine Cornelissen (hoofd Algemene Dienst/P&O, bij het onderwerp vermelden “wetenschappelijk programmeur”. Informatie is verkrijgbaar bij Mario Mieldijk, hoofd Digitale Infrastructuur (mmi@iisg.nl) of via telefoonnummer 020-6685866. Meer informatie over het IISG kun je vinden op socialhistory.org. -------------------------------------------------- Afelonne Doek Director of Collections and Digital Infrastructure International Institute for Social History Cruquiusweg 31 | 1019 AT Amsterdam | The Netherlands Mail address: P.O. Box 2169 | NL-1000 CD Amsterdam | The Netherlands t + 31 (0)20 668 58 66 www.socialhistory.org [cid:image001.jpg@01CEEC5B.778AD790] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0FDF6774D; Fri, 29 Nov 2013 07:47:25 +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 AE0677744; Fri, 29 Nov 2013 07:47:19 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8B7DE7742; Fri, 29 Nov 2013 07:47:17 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131129064717.8B7DE7742@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 07:47:17 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.573 events: PhD workshop on the medieval North X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 573. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 11:29:46 +0000 From: "Watson, Matilda" Subject: PhD Workshop: Comparing the Medieval North In-Reply-To: <5295E7FE.5030005@mccarty.org.uk> Call For Papers PhD Workshop: Comparing the Medieval North Coordinating methodologies in the study of Medieval Scandinavia We are pleased to announce a call for papers for an interdisciplinary PhD workshop taking place at Aarhus University on 3rd April 2014. This workshop will provide a forum for discussion of how medievalists use different and potentially conflicting concepts and methodologies in their work, and hopefully lead to new ideas about how to tackle some of the challenges of interdisciplinary and comparative work. At the workshop, a panel of three experts in the medieval period from different disciplines will provide feedback on participants’ papers. We are pleased that the following experts have kindly agreed to join our panel: Michael Gelting Sæbjørg Walaker Nordeide Agnes Arnórsdóttir Alison Finlay Prior to the workshop each participant will circulate a paper (max. 2500 words) outlining their main ideas and or problems. Each paper will be read by one formal ‘responder,’ who will be another postgraduate, as well as at least one expert from our panel. On the day of the workshop, each participant will give a 10 minute presentation summarising their ideas to kick-off a round table discussion. We hope this format will facilitate some helpful and stimulating feedback for everyone involved. Papers can be work in progress and do not need to be specifically ‘new work’. This is an opportunity to receive feedback on issues you may have been struggling with or would like to discuss with others working in a similar field. The idea for the workshop originated from discussions about the best way to approach comparative study and we would like to particularly encourage papers in this area. Papers can be from any period from the early to the late Middle Ages and from any discipline. You may wish to consider topics such as: • Combining archaeological and textual evidence• Comparing and using evidence from different genres • Comparing evidence and developments across borders and periods • Negotiating terms and concepts across time and space • Comparing vernacular and Latin texts • Combining the sacred and the secular • Cultural exchange, transfer and transformation We are pleased to announce that we have five bursaries of £100 each to help with travel and accommodation expenses for PhD students who have to travel a significant distance to participate in the workshop. Please send a 200 word abstract and a short biography to: comparingmedievalnorth@gmail.com by Monday the 9th of December 2013 Organising committee: Louisa Taylor (UCL), Matilda Watson (KCL), Marie Bønløkke Spejlborg (AU) *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1385640421_2013-11-28_matilda.watson@kcl.ac.uk_8604.2.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 96529773F; Sat, 30 Nov 2013 09:41:50 +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 908687722; Sat, 30 Nov 2013 09:41:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D34B27721; Sat, 30 Nov 2013 09:41:37 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131130084137.D34B27721@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 09:41:37 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.574 the lie of the API X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 574. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 14:40:07 +0100 From: Seth van Hooland Subject: The lie of the API Dear all, As many within the Digital Humanities enthusiastically develop custom APIs to facilitate an automated access to metadata and/or content, you might find it useful to read the blogpost "The lie of the API" by my colleague and co-author Ruben Verborgh: http://ruben.verborgh.org/blog/2013/11/29/the-lie-of-the-api With the help of practical examples from Europeana, DPLA and the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, both bad and good practices are illustrated. This blog post can help to dissuade DH project managers from not getting trapped into the multi-API fallacy. 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 --- http://www.tic.ugent.be/ http://freeyourmetadata.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id F28A8773D; Sat, 30 Nov 2013 09:42:34 +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 66C9F7745; Sat, 30 Nov 2013 09:42:24 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id F04237740; Sat, 30 Nov 2013 09:42:22 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131130084222.F04237740@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 09:42:22 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.575 digital humanities at MLA 2014 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 575. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 15:23:47 -0500 From: Mark Sample Subject: Digital Humanities Sessions at MLA 14 (Chicago, January 9-12) Dear Colleagues, As I have done for the past several years, I've compiled a list of DH-related sessions at the upcoming Modern Language Association convention. I interpret "digital humanities" rather broadly; the list includes sessions related to scholarly communication, online pedagogy, and graduate mentorship. There are also the more "traditional" DH sessions related to digital tools, objects, and practices in literary, textual, and media studies. The complete list of 77 sessions can be found at http://bit.ly/mla14dh. Cheers, Mark Sample George Mason University (on leave) Davidson College (Visiting Associate Professor) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 01EA6774B; Sat, 30 Nov 2013 09:47:12 +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 95F2A7747; Sat, 30 Nov 2013 09:47:04 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A3A2F7741; Sat, 30 Nov 2013 09:47:02 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131130084702.A3A2F7741@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 09:47:02 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.576 model, modelling, simulation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 576. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 08:38:07 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: model, modelling, simulation At the moment I cannot stop to assimilate the various papers on the topic which I have run across, but I thought it might be useful to others involved in this discussion-thread if I were to point to those that seem to me most worthy of our attention. This pointing might also provoke mention of others. So here goes. (1) Galison, Peter. 1996. "Computer Simulations and the Trading Zone". In The Disunity of Science: Boundaries, Contexts, and Power. Ed. Peter Galison and David J. Stump. 118-157. Stanford: Stanford University Press. An historical study of the common activity, centred on computing, of what might seem at first a chaotic assemblage of disciplines and activities: thermonuclear weapons, enhanced A-bombs, poison gas, weather prediction, pion-nucleon interactions, number theory, probability theory, industrial chemistry, and quantum mechanics. "More precisely, nuclear-weapons theorists transformed the nascent "calculating machine," and in the process created alternative realities to which both theory and experiment bore uneasy ties. Grounded in statistics, game theory, sampling, and computer coding, these simulations constituted what I have been calling a "trading zone," an arena in which radically different activities could be locally, but not globally, coordinated." (2) Ghamari-Tabrizi, Sharon. 2000. "Simulating the Unthinkable: Gaming Future War in the 1950s and 1960s". Social Studies of Science 30.2: 163-223. A socio-historical study that gives emphasis to the effect of planning for thermonuclear war had on the development of simulation. "The Cold War set for its strategic planners a problem that had never before confronted the military. Nuclear war was a tabula rasa.... Given the fact that nuclear wars could not be field-tested, war-planning necessarily employed a variety of simulations." Hence, she argues, the authority of experienced field officers was undermined and that of civilian scientists greatly increased. Simulation is thus tied not only to the unobservable and unpredictable but also the unthinkable and undoable -- as well as to a profound social shift. (3) Keller, Helen Fox. 2003. "Models, Simulations, and 'Computer Experiments'". In The Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation. Ed. Hans Radder. 198-215. Pittsburgh PA: University of Pittsburgh Press. As with Galison, anything Keller writes is worth dropping whatever one is doing to read, so it is difficult to narrow down to this, but it is exactly on topic. Keller is also interested in sorting out a taxonomy for simulation, but she ends with synthetic biology as a discipline of engineering, thus: "Synthetic life forms that are real objects in the sense that they are made from material components and assembled in real space and time are clearly being built, and in ways that draw directly from work on "lifelike" simulations in cyberspace..... Without doubt, these entities are real. But another question immediately arises: are they "alive"?" Then the punchline: "This is a question that worries many philosophers, but, as I argue elsewhere (Keller 2002, chap. 9), it may well be a question that belongs more properly in the realm of history than in that of philosophy." In other words, what we call being alive, she suggests, is historically contingent -- along with thinking, reasoning, doing scholarship? (4) Lenhard, Johannes. 2007. "Computer Simulation: The Cooperation between Experimenting and Modelling". Philosophy of Science 74.2: 176-94. As many have noticed, the introduction of Monte Carlo and other statistical techniques into physics has resulted in a new branch of that discipline: computational physics. There are, of course, philosophical problems to be sorted, but for us this seems important because now we are in the humanities doing something very much like experiment, so need to understand how the idea of experiment is being affected. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 28ADB773E; Sat, 30 Nov 2013 10:01:22 +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 D6B257722; Sat, 30 Nov 2013 10:01:13 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5FB387721; Sat, 30 Nov 2013 10:01:11 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131130090111.5FB387721@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 10:01:11 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.577 pubs: Defining 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. 27, No. 577. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 08:53:55 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: new publication: Defining Digital Humanities This is to announce the following new book that should be of some interest among us: Defining Digital Humanities: A Reader. Ed. Melissa Terras, Julianne Nyhan and Edward Vanhoutte. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2013. See http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409469636 for more. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DA3B67757; Sun, 1 Dec 2013 07:46:03 +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 363BA7738; Sun, 1 Dec 2013 07:45:55 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4B6D57738; Sun, 1 Dec 2013 07:45:54 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131201064554.4B6D57738@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2013 07:45:54 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.578 essay prize winners X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 578. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 18:08:42 -0700 From: Daniel O'Donnell Subject: Global Outlook::Digital Humanities Essay Prize Winners Announced lt is with great pleasure that Global Outlook::Digital Humanities announces the winners of its first DH essay prize. http://t.co/7xhUcgfUXG The competition, which was supported by funds awarded by the University of Lethbridge and an anonymous donor, attracted 53 entries in 7 languages. The first prize winners (in alphabetical order) are * Dacos, Marin (Open Edition, France). La stratégie du Sauna finlandais: Les frontières de Digital Humanities. Essai de Géographie politiqued’une communauté scientifique. * Gawne, Lauren (University of Melbourne, Australia). Language documentation and division: Bridging the digital divide. * Pue, A. Sean, Tracy K. Teal, and C. Titus Brown (Michigan State University, USA). Bioinformatic approaches to the computational analysis of Urdu poetic meter. * Raval, Noopur (Jawaharlal Nehru Univesity (JNU), New Delhi, India). On Wikipedia and Failure: Notes from Queering the Encyclopedia. Second prize winners (also in alphabetical order) are * Arauco Dextre, Renzo (Memoragram, Lima, Peru). Memogram, un Cloud-Service Para la Memoria Colectiva. * Carlson, Thomas A. (Princeton University, USA). Digital Maps are still not territory: Challenges raised by Syriaca.org’s Middle Eastern places over two millenia. * Tomasini Maciel, Julia (University of Maryland, USA). Humanidades Digitales y traducción literaria: Latinoamérica entre el portugués y el español. * Portales Machado, Yasmín Silvia (Havana, Cuba). Perfil demográfico de la blogosfera hecha en Cuba en diciembre de 2012. * Tasovac, Toma and Natalia Ermolaev (Centre for Digital Humanities, Belgrade, Serbia). Interfacing diachrony: Rethinking lexical annotation in digital editions. Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): * Arbuckle, Alyssa (University of Victoria, Canada). The risk of digital repatriation for indigenous groups. * Baryshev, Ruslan, Igor Kim, Inna Kizhner, Maxim Rumyantsev (Siberian Federal University, Russia). Digitial Humanities at Siberian Federal University. * Calbay, Francis Raymond (HayPinas.org, Taipei, Taiwan). User-Generated vitriol: Ethnic stereotypes in online comments on media reports of a South China Sea shooting incident. * Farman, Jason (University of Maryland, USA). Mapping virtual communities: The production of crisis maps and cultural imaginaries of the Diaspora. * Finney, Tim (Vose Seminary, Australia). How to discover textual groups. * Ives, Maura and Amy Earhart (Texas A&M University, USA). Establishing a digital humanities center: Vision, reality, sustainability. * Kaltenbrunner, Wolfgang (Leiden University, The Netherlands). Transparency strategies in digital scholarship. * López Villaneuva, José Manuel (Mexico). Reflexiones sobre la RedHD en México: desarrollo y alcance de la RedHD en la comunidad académica universitaria. * Menon, Nirmala (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India). Multilingual digital publishing: A postcolonial Digital Humanities imperative. * O’Sullivan, James (Ireland). The emergence of Digital Humanities in Ireland. * Ouellette, Jessica (University of Massachussetts, USA). Blogging borders: Transnational feminist rhetorics and global voices. * Perozo Olivares, Karla (Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Venazuala). Una aproximación al desconocimiento de las masas digitales. * Riedel, Dagmar (Columbia University, USA). The digitization of books in Arabic script and the digital divide in Muslim societies. * Sandstedt, Jørgen (University of Iceland, University of Oslo, Iceland/Norway). Text-dependent automated methods in scribal hand identification. * Schmidt, Desmond (University of Queensland, Australia). Towards a model for the digital scholarly edition. * Sobczak, Anna (Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego, Poland). A CO Z HUMANISTAMI? – CYFROWA HUMANISTYKA JAKO LEKARSTWO NA OBECNY STAN POSTRZEGANIA HUMANISTYKI W MEDIACH ELEKTRONICZNYCH? The committee thanks all authors for their submissions and their patience with the (longer-than-anticipated) adjudication process. The competition was extremely tight and the remaining submissions included many excellent papers that the referees singled out for special comment. Although this exhausts the current funding, it is hoped that we will be able to repeat this competition in future years. The organisers also thank the adjudication panel for their hard work and willingness to help out. -- --- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A4593775B; Sun, 1 Dec 2013 07:49:33 +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 29E067752; Sun, 1 Dec 2013 07:49:25 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4F7437751; Sun, 1 Dec 2013 07:49:23 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131201064923.4F7437751@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2013 07:49:23 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.579 pubs: A New History 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. 27, No. 579. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2013 06:42:32 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: new book on the history of the humanities Many here will I'm sure be interested in Rens Bod's recent book, A New History of the Humanities: The Search for Principles and Patterns from Antiquity to the Present (Oxford University Press, 2013). Bod's New History shows that pattern-searching has always been part of the humanities since Antiquity, and the book also goes into the history of humanities computing in the 20th century. See http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199665211.do for more. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 79415775B; Sun, 1 Dec 2013 07:57:31 +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 5AA827751; Sun, 1 Dec 2013 07:57:21 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 40FB8773D; Sun, 1 Dec 2013 07:57:19 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131201065719.40FB8773D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2013 07:57:19 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.580 jobs at EPFL (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. 27, No. 580. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 12:26:50 +0000 From: Elisa Nury Subject: Postes à l'EPFL (dont un pour le DH2014) In-Reply-To: <1VmVQQ-0004WD-5b@litan.unil.ch> > De : Claire Clivaz > Date : 29 novembre 2013 21:16 > Objet : [m-recher-ladhul-iss-ssp] Postes à l'EPFL (dont un pour le DH2014) Il y a en ce moment 5 postes à pouvoir à l’EPFL DHLAB. *Communication / management* http://dhlab.epfl.ch/page-101989-en.html - 1 Conference coordinator / digital communication manager (lié à la conférence dh2014.org coorganisée avec l’Université de Lausanne) *Recherche* http://dhlab.epfl.ch/page-88103.html - 1 PostDoc position in Handwritten recognition and alignment in ancient manuscripts - 1 PostDoc position in Semantic extraction in large-scale databases of newspaper articles - 2 PhD positions on Algorithmic texts and linguistic capitalism Nous avons reçu un premier ensemble de candidatures, mais le choix des candidats n'est pas encore arrêté. N’hésitez pas à m’envoyer un mail si vous êtes intéressé. Meilleures salutations, Frédéric Kaplan --- Prof. Frederic Kaplan. Digital Humanities Lab (DHLAB) http://dhlab.epfl.ch EPFL CDH DHLAB / GC D2 386 / Station 10 / CH-1015 Lausanne / Switzerland Tel direct : +41 21 69 30253 / Tel secrétariat : +41 21 69 31901 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D669D775B; Sun, 1 Dec 2013 07:58:08 +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 2E91E775C; Sun, 1 Dec 2013 07:58:00 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C80487756; Sun, 1 Dec 2013 07:57:57 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131201065757.C80487756@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2013 07:57:57 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.581 events: Computer Ethics, Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE) 2014 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 581. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2013 06:44:52 +0000 From: Charles Ess Subject: Deadline extension - CEPE 2014 Dear HUMANISTs, Please circulate and distribute widely: In light of a considerable number of requests, we are extending the submission deadline for CEPE 2014 to December 13, 2013. Computer Ethics, Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE) 2014 ­ Well-Being, Flourishing, and ICTs. June 25-27, 2014. Paris, France. In collaboration with Ethicomp, this joint event is hosted by CERNA (Commission de réflexion sur l'Ethique de la Recherche en sciences et technologies du Numérique d'Allistene) and will be held in Les Cordeliers on the campus of Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France. Please see the conference website for more details: http://cepe2014.org For CEPE¹14 we invite submissions ­ including panels ­ that address the core concerns with well-being and flourishing in an age of ICTs. We encourage research and reflection that approach these thematics from a wide array of viewpoints and with attention to specific foci including: ICTs and development technosecurity and cyber-warfare robots and robot ethics for humans and humane lives; social computing global / cultural perspectives on ICTs and the good life Important Dates 13 December 2013      Latest date to submit abstracts to Easychair 25 January 2014                Authors informed of programme committee decisions by this date 5 April 2014        Last date for receipt of full papers from authors (electronic version) Panels Submission due: December 15th, 2013 Selection: February 15th, 2014 Submissions will be accepted via Easychair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/submission_new.cgi?a=5138535 Many thanks in advance, and on behalf of the Organizing Committee, Elizabeth Buchanan (University of Wisconsin-Stout, US), Executive Director, INSEIT Charles Ess (University of Oslo), Conference Chair; President, INSEIT Shalini Kesar (Southern Utah University, US), Program Chair Bernd Carsten Stahl (De Montfort University), Chair, ETHICOMP Steering Committee Jean-Gabriel Ganascia (University Pierre et Marie Curie - Sorbonne Universités) Max Dauchet (LIFL - Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Lille) - Charles Ess 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/ Co-editor, Etikk i praksis / Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics Guest Professor, Philosophy Department, University of Vienna (Fall, 2013) My latest book, Digital Media Ethics, is now available from Polity: http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745656056 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E205A7750; Mon, 2 Dec 2013 09:03:35 +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 84F3ED90; Mon, 2 Dec 2013 09:03:21 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6E270772C; Mon, 2 Dec 2013 09:03:19 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20131202080319.6E270772C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 09:03:19 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.582 fellowships for early stage & experienced researchers 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. 27, No. 582. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2013 21:32:29 +0000 From: "Pierazzo, Elena" Subject: DiXIT Fellowship deadline approaching: 10 December Willard and all, Apologies for cross-posting. I just would like to remind everybody that the DIXIT ITN deadline is rapidly approaching: your applications should be sent by the 10th of December to the respective host institution and to the central coordinator institution (University of Cologne). DIXIT ITN is offering 12 fellowships for Early Stage Researchers. Please notice the following criteria for eligibility which it seems they were somehow not so clearly expressed before: - Candidates should not have already a PhD: the fellowship is meant to support the successful candidate to obtain one. - Candidates should not have more than 4 years full time research experience - Candidates should NOT having spent more than 12 months in the host country during the past 3 years. Application for one Experienced Researcher is also out which has the following eligibility criteria: - Candidates should have already a PhD or an equivalent research achievement. - Candidates should not have more than 5 years full time research experience and not less than 4. - Candidate should NOT having spent more than 12 months in the host country during the past 3 years. Please find here the references to all open positions: http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/fellows.html Two of the Early Career Researchers will be based at King's College London (see http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=13929): please get in touch with me if you are interested either in documentary editing or social editing. Many thanks to all that will give it the largest diffusion. 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 033317755; Mon, 2 Dec 2013 09:04:59 +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 45C35774C; Mon, 2 Dec 2013 09:04:51 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 366397742; Mon, 2 Dec 2013 09:04:49 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131202080449.366397742@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 09:04:49 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.583 events: Canadian Society for Digital Humanities 2014 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 583. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2013 22:32:23 -0700 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: CSDH/SCHN Deadline is Dec. 8th! Dear Humanists, A reminder about the CSDH/SCHN Call for Proposals: Deadline is Dec. 8th! - - - - - - - - [French version follows -- La version française ci-dessous] Digital Humanities Without Borders — 2014 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society For Digital Humanities / Société Canadienne Des Humanités Numériques The Canadian Society for Digital Humanities (http://csdh-schn.org/) invites scholars, practitioners, and graduate students to submit proposals for papers, sessions and demonstrations for its annual meeting, which will be held at the 2013 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Brock University, Ontario from the 26th to the 28th of May (http://brockucongress2014.ca/). The society would like in particular to encourage submissions relating to the central theme of the Congress– “Borders Without Boundaries.” While this year’s Congress theme fits with the interests of many in 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.), digital demonstrations, and panels (2 -6 speakers for a 1½ hour session) will be accepted until the 8th of December 2013 and must be submitted at https://www.conftool.net/csdh-schn-2014/. Abstracts for these should be between 200 and 400 words long, and should clearly indicate the paper’s thesis, methodology and conclusions. - - - - - - - - Humanités numériques sans frontières— Réunion annuelle de 2014 de la Canadian Society For Digital Humanities / Société Canadienne Des Humanités Numériques La Société canadienne des humanités numériques (http://csdh-schn.org/) invite chercheurs et étudiants aux cycles supérieurs à soumettre des propositions de communication, de session et de démonstration pour sa réunion annuelle, qui se tiendra au Congrès 2014 de la Fédération canadienne des sciences humaines à l’Université Brock, Ontario du 26 au 28 mai (http://brockucongress2014.ca/). La Société souhaite encourager en particulier des propositions concernant le thème central de la réunion : «Frontières sans limites». Bien que le thème du congrès de cette année soit bien adapté aux intérêts de la CSDH/SCHN, nous encourageons également toute communication qui traite des sciences humaines numériques, tant au niveau théorique que pratique. Les propositions de communication (20 minutes), démonstrations numériques et de session ou table-ronde (2-6 participants pour une période d’une heure trente) seront acceptées jusqu’au 8 décembre 2013 et doivent être soumises à https://www.conftool.net/csdh-schn-2014/. Les résumés devraient compter entre 200 et 400 mots, et indiquer clairement la thématique, méthodologie, et conclusion. - - - - - - - - On behalf of the 2014 Program committee: Geoffrey Rockwell (program chair), John Bonnett (local organizer), Jon Saklofske, Susan Brown, Stéfan Sinclair, and Michael E. Sinatra. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id F1B457758; Mon, 2 Dec 2013 12:31:49 +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 CD06D774D; Mon, 2 Dec 2013 12:31:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E1ABF774D; Mon, 2 Dec 2013 12:31:38 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131202113138.E1ABF774D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 12:31:38 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.584 PhD studentships at King's College London X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 584. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 10:53:20 +0000 From: "Fagan, Annalisa" Subject: Studentships in linguistics at King's College London In-Reply-To: <623323fd1386475ca39609300bc87f3b@AMXPR03MB245.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com> A range of post-graduate studentships are available for 2014-15 entry at the Centre for Language Discourse & Communication http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ldc at King’s College London, offering supervision in text, discourse & narrative analysis, pragmatics, linguistic ethnography, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, applied, educational, cognitive and corpus linguistics: · Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) Studentships (deadline: 31 January 2014). These cover sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, interactional discourse analysis, linguistic ethnography, areas of applied linguistics, computational linguistics, educational linguistics and language & literacy education. Candidates can apply either for a three year PhD Studentship or for a four year Studentship which involves a one year MA and a three year PhD. * Arts & Humanities Research Council/London Arts & Humanities Partnership (AHRC/LAHP) Studentships (deadline: 31 January 2014). This covers research on linguistic structure, history, theory and description, including stylistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, corpus studies, translation, and some areas of applied linguistics. Studentships last three years. * UK Cognitive Linguistics MPhil/PhD Bursary http://www.uk-cla.org.uk/ (deadline 31st January 2014) * Studentships administered by the King’s College Graduate School (http://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/pg/funding/sources/pgr.aspx). To apply, you should have excellent qualifications, as well as clear research idea if you are applying for a three year PhD award. It is important to identify and contact a potential supervisor as soon as possible, referring to our webpages at www.kcl.ac.uk/ldc http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ldc , and you also need to submit an ordinary admissions application. If you are not sure about potential supervisors, please contact ldc@kcl.ac.uk or ben.rampton@kcl.ac.uk. *[Please note: I encourage those interested in cross-overs involving linguistic and philological studies with digital humanities to apply for the above and to write to me immediately concerning the PhD in Digital Humanities, which covers all these areas. --WM, willard.mccarty@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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A00007755; Tue, 3 Dec 2013 07:48:55 +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 EE83E7749; Tue, 3 Dec 2013 07:48:46 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AC05B773E; Tue, 3 Dec 2013 07:48:45 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131203064845.AC05B773E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 07:48:45 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.585 an atlas? give-and-take? 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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 (30) Subject: more like a person [2] From: "Jim O'Donnell" (23) Subject: seeking an atlas --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 10:18:32 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: more like a person Consider the following about developments in computing, from John Pfeiffer, "Machines That Man Can Talk With", in The Computer Age and Its Potential for Management, by Gilbert Burke and the Editors of Fortune (New York: Harper and Row, 1965): > PERHAPS THE MOST STRIKING single fact about the continuing computer > revolution is that the proudest achievements of today's machines will > seem crude and primitive within a decade.... [New developments] are a > response to an urgent need for computers that are intelligent enough > to be approached in a more democratic, "man to man" manner. > Present-day computers have to be ordered about like menials. The user > writes out a detailed program of instructions for them and then waits > while the machine grinds out answers..... But when he wants to do > original work-say, to design a new space vehicle or devise a subtler > business or military strategy-he cannot spell out step-by-step > programs in advance. He must be able to maintain give-and-take > relations with the computer instead of giving it peremptory commands. > In other words, he must be able to talk easily with it, ask it > questions, receive prompt replies, and change his mind at a moment's > notice in the light of those replies.... Conversations still tend to > be a bit on the awkward side.... Substitute for the now striking use of the personal pronoun an explicitly more inclusive one; also substitute for the user-programmer the user as he or she now usually is. Then ask, what has changed since then? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 13:42:13 +0100 From: "Jim O'Donnell" Subject: seeking an atlas I would like to find a real atlas for my iPad. I mean real maps that zoom down to a decent level of detail, contain some basic street maps of major cities. Essentially the Times Atlas of the World would do just fine, if I could zoom down to a resolution comparable to what I get when I take my (near-sighted) glasses off and put my nose to the page of the print version and squint. Yes, Google Maps exists and has excellences (and I have kept my iPad at system 5 so that I have the real Google Maps app from back in the day, not the crippled version that came out after they had their fight with Apple; and not the Apple Maps thing -- if you've forgotten it, the joint venture was really a superior product to anything available now) BUT I want something that is not network dependent. This came to me in a plane where I was sketching the outlines of a lake on the back of my boarding pass so I could look at it after we landed and figure out where we flew. Silly to have to do that. App Store is discouraging about choices. National Georgraphic Atlas is available very cheaply, but it requires network to work. Other no-name atlases on offer get screamingly bad reviews. I know I'll buy the Barrington Classical Atlas when it comes out real soon now and that will help me over a large part of Eurasia, but not in the Americas alas. Suggestions welcome. Jim O'Donnell Georgetown U. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 CB31B7756; Tue, 3 Dec 2013 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 D22567743; Tue, 3 Dec 2013 07:50:25 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 59336773F; Tue, 3 Dec 2013 07:50:23 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131203065023.59336773F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 07:50:23 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.586 fellowships at Dartmouth; 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 586. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Allen Riddell (44) Subject: Neukom Fellows at Dartmouth College, application deadline extended to Jan 1 [2] From: James Cummings (54) Subject: DH Awards 2013: Nominations Open! --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 08:57:31 -0500 From: Allen Riddell Subject: Neukom Fellows at Dartmouth College, application deadline extended to Jan 1 Neukom Fellows at Dartmouth College (Deadline extended to January 1; applicants with a background in Humanities Computing/Digital Humanities welcomed.) The Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth College is pleased to announce the 2014 Neukom Fellows competition. Neukom Fellows are interdisciplinary positions for recent Ph.D.s, DMAs, or MFAs whose research interests or practice cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries, but has some computational component, whether it be a framing concept for intellectual exploration or an explicit component of the work that is pursued. The successful candidate should have a history of collaborative work across disciplines, but still show good evidence of independence and initiative. The Fellowships are two- to three-year appointments, with the third year extension considered upon request after a review early in the second year. Neukom Fellows will be mentored by faculty in two departments at Dartmouth College, take up residence in one department, and will teach one seminar course each year on a subject of their interest. Beyond that there are no additional duties. Neukom Fellow stipends are $60,000 for 2014-2015. Additional funds are available for equipment, travel, and research materials. Requirements: 1. Ph.D. in any discipline or DMA or MFA (or expected by September 2014). 2. Research interests that strongly intersect the theme of computation. 3. A proven ability to work independently and collaboratively 4. A demonstrated interest in multidisciplinary research. 5. Evidence of the ability to think outside traditional paradigms. Application Materials: Interested candidates are strongly encouraged to contact prospective mentors at Dartmouth College and must submit the following materials: 1) Curriculum vitae (including publications list).
2) Statement of research interests (max. 2 pages) including a short description of the research you would like to pursue and why.
3) Description of which departments (and even better, which Dartmouth faculty) you would be interested in working with and why the opportunity to engage with multiple departments would enhance your work. 4) Three referees whose letters of recommendation speak to the aims of the Fellowship. 5) (Optional) A copy of one paper you have written in English, either published or unpublished. Apply at: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3364 Completed applications received by January 1, 2014 will receive first consideration. Materials received after that date or those that do not fulfill the above requirements stand the chance of not being considered. Applications from women and minorities are encouraged. Dartmouth College is an equal opportunity employer. For a list of current Neukom Fellows: http://neukom.dartmouth.edu/programs/neukom_fellows_announced.html and also http://neukom.dartmouth.edu/programs/neukom_fellows_14.html For more information on The Neukom Institute: http://neukom.dartmouth.edu/ The Neukom Fellows Program and the Neukom Institute are made possible by a generous gift from Mr. William H. Neukom --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 23:22:50 +0000 From: James Cummings Subject: DH Awards 2013: Nominations Open! Please forward to anyone you think may be interested. === The annual open DH Awards 2013 are now accepting nominations! Please nominate any Digital Humanities resource you feel deserves to win in any of this year's categories. The open DH Awards 2013 are openly nominated by the community and openly voted for by the public as a DH awareness activity. There are no financial prizes, just the honour of having won and an icon for your website. Nominations will be open until 31 December 2013 (midnight GMT), voting will take place in January 2014. Please note that the nominations must be for projects/resources/sites that were launched/finished/created in 2013. To nominate something for the DH Awards 2013 visit the nominations page at: http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/nominations/ The categories we are accepting nominations for the open Digital Humanities Awards 2013 are: === *Best DH tool or suite of tools* Nominations for this category should be for a tool or suite of tools created by members of the DH community, used for enabling, encouraging, and/or accomplishing DH work. *Best DH contribution not in the English language* Nominations for this category should be for DH resources or publications that are not in the English language. *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. *Best DH blog post, article, or short publication* Nominations for this category should be for a specific short DH publication (peer-reviewed or not) whether article, blog post, or other publication. *Best DH visualization or infographic* Nominations for this category should be for a graphic, infographic, or visualization created for or by the DH community. *Best DH project for public audiences* Nominations for this category should be for a DH project designed to be used by audiences primarily outside of higher education, including educators, students, enthusiasts, genealogists, engaged citizens, etc. === Again, to nominate something for the DH Awards 2013 visit the nominations page at: http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/nominations/ If you have any questions please see http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/faqs2013/ or ask at james@dhawards.org or tweet @DHawards James Cummings 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CEA69775A; Tue, 3 Dec 2013 07:51:16 +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 86D847739; Tue, 3 Dec 2013 07:51:08 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AB2BD7749; Tue, 3 Dec 2013 07:51:06 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131203065106.AB2BD7749@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 07:51:06 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.587 events: workshop on 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. 27, No. 587. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 18:57:25 +0000 From: "Senseney, Megan Finn" Subject: Digital Collections Contexts Workshop at iConference 2014 Digital Collection Contexts: Intellectual and Organizational Functions at Scale Full-day workshop at iConference Berlin, Germany March 4, 2014 Registration is now open for a full-day workshop that examines conceptual and practical aspects of collections and the context they provide in the digital environment, especially in large-scale cultural heritage aggregations. Collections will be considered in relation to the information needs of scholars, roles of cultural institutions, and international interoperability. The workshop aims to: * Broaden the conversation across an international community * Further the research and development agenda for digital aggregations * Relate conceptual advances to implementation goals * Identify realistic approaches for collection representation, contextualization, and interoperability at scale Sessions will be led by European and North American experts from iSchools and projects developing large-scale digital cultural heritage collections. * Morning session: Conceptual Foundations of Digital Collections * Carole L. Palmer & Karen Wickett (CIRSS, University of Illinois) * Hur-li Lee (School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) * Martin Doerr (Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas) * Carlo Meghini (Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche). * Afternoon session: Practical Implications for Digital Collections * Antoine Isaac (Europeana Foundation) * Emily Gore and Amy Rudersdorf (Digital Public Library of America) * Sheila Anderson (Centre for e-Research, King’s College London) * Shenghui Wang (OCLC Research) * Mark Stevenson and Paul Clough (Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield) For a complete program and additional information about the workshop, please visit http://bit.ly/collectionsworkshop2014. Early bird registration deadline is Sunday, December 15, 2013. Workshops are included in the cost of conference registration. For more details, please see http://ischools.org/the-iconference/registration/. -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8D7147749; Tue, 3 Dec 2013 07:52:35 +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 38AA17757; Tue, 3 Dec 2013 07:52:27 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2B1497743; Tue, 3 Dec 2013 07:52:25 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131203065225.2B1497743@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 07:52:25 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.588 mass 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 588. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 16:39:30 +0100 (CET) From: "Victoria HF Scott" Subject: Mass Surveillance, Academic Libraries, and Data Protection Hello! A friend and I recently translated a German article by Roland Reuss about the significance of the NSA revelations for academic libraries, students, and scholars. It details how Google has transformed academic library catalogues into machines for mass surveillance. The article is specifically about what is happening in Germany, but it is an international phenomenon that is, in my opinion, beyond disturbing. There has been some discussion about libraries and the NSA in the US, but not *academic* libraries and the NSA. I am hoping the translation might change that. The original German article can be consulted here: http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/themen/datenschutz-in- bibliotheken-sie-nennen-es-service-dabei-ist-es-torheit-12659003.html The English translation is attached. Please feel free to circulate widely. All my best, Victoria H.F. Scott The_Art_History_Guild *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1385998922_2013-12-02_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_29850.2.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BFB3A775C; Tue, 3 Dec 2013 07:54:28 +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 08D727743; Tue, 3 Dec 2013 07:54:20 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E556C773E; Tue, 3 Dec 2013 07:54:17 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131203065417.E556C773E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 07:54:17 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.589 pubs: Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy 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. 27, No. 589. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 20:04:21 -0500 From: "Matthew K. Gold" Subject: Issue 4 of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy now live! In-Reply-To: <8A275BBF46F82F4A9E96732DC897DFD9746690DAB4@MAILBOX.gc.cuny.edu> Dear Colleagues, Issue 4 of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy is now available. http://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ Table of Contents: Issue Four Introduction Leila Walker and Stephen Klein http://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/introduction-4/ Can You Digg It?: Using Web Applications in Teaching Research Rochelle (Shelley) Rodrigo http://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/can-you-digg-it-using-web-applications-in-teaching-the-research-process/ BeardStair: A Student-Run Digital Humanities Project History, Fall 2011 to May 16, 2013 David T. Coad, Kelly Curtis, Jonathan Cook, and Katherine D. Harris http://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/beardstair-a-student-run-digital-humanities-project-history-fall-2011-to-may-16-2013/ Online Discussion Boards as Identity Workspaces: Building Professional Identities in Online Writing Classes Patricia Boyd http://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/online-discussion-boards-as-identity-workspaces-building-professional-identities-in-online-writing-classes/ Teaching Twentieth-Century Art History with Gender and Data Visualizations Nancy Ross http://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/teaching-twentieth-century-art-history-with-gender-and-data-visualizations/ Digital Literary Pedagogy: An Experiment in Process-Oriented Publishing Roger Whitson, Kimon Keramidas, and Amanda Licastro http://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/digital-literary-pedagogy-an-experiment-in-process-oriented-publishing/ -- Matthew K. Gold, Ph.D. Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities City Tech & Graduate Center, CUNY 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1D1C67760; Tue, 3 Dec 2013 07:55:14 +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 8D7A8773E; Tue, 3 Dec 2013 07:55:05 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6C2DF7749; Tue, 3 Dec 2013 07:55:04 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131203065504.6C2DF7749@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 07:55:04 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.590 course on tools 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. 27, No. 590. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 11:14:46 +0000 From: "Bod, Rens" Subject: Materials Crash Course "Digital Tools in the Humanities" available Materials Crash Course "Digital Tools in the Humanities" are available The Center for Digital Humanities at the University of Amsterdam has recently offered a one-week crash course on state-of-the-art digital tools for textual, historical, visual and other humanities research. This course included demonstration and explanation of tools, small assignments to get hands-on experience and also offered ample space for critical discussion. The full programme and all materials of the crash course are now available. See http://cdh.uva.nl/news-and-events/news/news/news/content/folder/2013/11/program-and-materials-crashcourse-digital-tools-for-the-humanities-available.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 60F907764; Wed, 4 Dec 2013 08:10:09 +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 C4F977760; Wed, 4 Dec 2013 08:09:54 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DB1F8775F; Wed, 4 Dec 2013 08:09:52 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131204070952.DB1F8775F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 08:09:52 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.591 mass surveillance; Twitter 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 591. 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: 27.588 mass surveillance [2] From: "Clutterbuck, Hanna" (9) Subject: RE: 27.566 Twitter for research? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 10:34:16 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Re: 27.588 mass surveillance In-Reply-To: <20131203065225.2B1497743@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, Anybody interested in seeking historical parallels to the issues described in Ronald Reuss’s article will find a great deal of interest in a remarkable Ph D thesis by my former colleague at the British Library, Robert Henderson, 'Vladimir Burtsev and the Russian revolutionary emigration: surveillance of foreign political refugees in London, 1891-1905’ (Queen Mary University of London, 2008), available online here: http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/jspui/handle/123456789/1461. Chapters Three and Four are particularly relevant. They describe how, despite (or perhaps because of) its reputation as (in Trotsky’s words) a ‘sanctuary’ for political exiles, the British Museum gave readers’ tickets to plain clothes policemen from Scotland Yard to enable them to keep an eye on refugees working in the Reading Room. Following the Greenwich Observatory bomb outrage of 1894 (the inspiration for Conrad’s Secret Agent) it was found that information on the explosives had been taken from a book in the British Museum, and the Museum’s authorities agreed to remove a second edition of the book on explosives from the catalogue and keep it in a reserved collection. (Apparently the origins of the collection of books suppressed on security or legal grounds which was still in place when I worked at the Library, when copies of ’Spycatcher’ received under legal deposit were placed in a Deputy Keeper’s cupboard under lock and key). This eventually led to the arrest of the writer and journalist Vladimir Burtsev by one of the plain clothes policemen with a reader's ticket as he left the Museum Reading Room. Burtsev was subsequently the first Russian exile to be imprisoned in Britain. The case of Regina v. Bourtzeff remains central to law in this area and was recently cited, as Robert points out, in the litigation concerning the deportation of Abu Al Hamza. 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 3 Dec 2013, at 06:52, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 588. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 16:39:30 +0100 (CET) > From: "Victoria HF Scott" > Subject: Mass Surveillance, Academic Libraries, and Data Protection > > > Hello! > > A friend and I recently translated a German article by Roland Reuss about the > significance of the NSA revelations for academic libraries, students, and > scholars. It details how Google has transformed academic library catalogues > into machines for mass surveillance. The article is specifically about what is > happening in Germany, but it is an international phenomenon that is, in my > opinion, beyond disturbing. There has been some discussion about libraries and > the NSA in the US, but not *academic* libraries and the NSA. I am hoping the > translation might change that. > > The original German article can be consulted here: > http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/themen/datenschutz-in- > bibliotheken-sie-nennen-es-service-dabei-ist-es-torheit-12659003.html > > The English translation is attached. > > Please feel free to circulate widely. > > All my best, > Victoria H.F. Scott > The_Art_History_Guild > > *** Attachments: > http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1385998922_2013-12-02_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_29850.2.pdf --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 08:54:51 -0500 From: "Clutterbuck, Hanna" Subject: RE: 27.566 Twitter for research? In-Reply-To: <20131128060952.2A35376FD@digitalhumanities.org> Good morning! Dr. Priego, someone may have pointed this out before but the survey will not allow you to submit a completed entry; it insists that the 'country' field has no text in it. Thanks! -Hanna ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Processing Assistant, Center for the History of Medicine and Project Coordinator, Medical Heritage Library (http://www.medicalheritage.org/) 617-432-7393  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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9F1267768; Wed, 4 Dec 2013 08:11:15 +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 9EEC9776A; Wed, 4 Dec 2013 08:11:05 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 548727766; Wed, 4 Dec 2013 08:11:04 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131204071104.548727766@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 08:11:04 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.592 job at Valparaiso; postdoc at UCLA X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 592. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (10) Subject: job at Valparaiso [2] From: "Borovsky, Zoe" (43) Subject: CLIR Post-doc position at UCLA's Research Library --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 08:44:07 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: job at Valparaiso Assistant Professor of Communication - Digital Media Valparaiso University College of Arts & Sciences -- Department of Communication Valparaiso, IN Date Posted: Oct. 24, 2013 http://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=50634&o=932198&t=HU131202m-9e -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 17:56:53 +0000 From: "Borovsky, Zoe" Subject: CLIR Post-doc position at UCLA's Research Library In-Reply-To: <604083FFEC79BA448A6745A1E97E87434045B966@EM3C.ad.ucla.edu> Dear colleagues! We're excited about this CLIR Post-doc position that was recently crafted at UCLA. http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/applicants/UCLA2014 Please forward the information to potential candidates. Applications are due December 27, 2013. Information for Applicants is here: http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/applicants Thanks very much! --zoe Zoe Borovsky, Ph.D. Librarian for Digital Research and Scholarship, Digital Humanities, Anthropology and Archaeology UCLA Library CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship 2013-2015 The UCLA Library offers a two-year CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Collections, Research and Instructional Services Department of the Charles E. Young Research Library. The fellow will be based in the Research Library's Research Commons and will be engaged in developing a long-range plan for supporting digital research projects that draw upon resources and expertise of the library's Digital Library Program, the Center for Primary Research and Training (Special Collections) and UCLA's Center for Digital Humanities. The fellow will work closely with subject librarians, digital librarians, the Librarian for Digital Research and Scholarship, as well as faculty, graduate students and IT staff engaged in digital humanities research at UCLA. Because UCLA's Digital Library and the Center for Digital Humanities have several existing projects that are based upon time-map applications, the primary focus of the fellowship will be on designing workflows for digital projects based on materials in Special Collections that can utilize components of a shared time-map infrastructure. Aspects of the fellowship include: * Work with CDH and Digital Library staff to inventory existing UCLA time-map applications (e.g. AEGARON, UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, Cuneiform Digital Library, and Hypercities) for common and unique components, developing mock-ups or prototypes of functionalities * Work with Special Collections to identify collections that would benefit from time-map functionality * Design a workflow for developing digital projects that includes --an outreach program showcasing collections and prototypes and a call for projects --a workshop for scoping the projects with researchers, developers, and designers that leads toward the selection of several projects for development --identification of a project team (librarians, developers and designers) for each project --the development of these projects by the Center for Digital Humanities and the Digital Library team * Serve as coordinator to steward these projects from inception to ingestion in the Digital Library Collection system Required Skills Team-based experience, graduate degree in a relevant field of study (e.g., history, archaeology, geography, urban planning, design, information studies), familiarity with digital research tools and methods such as GIS-based mapping tools, visualization tools and technologies (e.g. D3.js). Familiarity with web-based content management systems (e.g. Drupal) and digital repositories (e.g. Fedora). Ability to communicate well across disparate individuals/groups including scholars, students, librarians, programmers. Preferred Skills Demonstrated experience with digital research tools, web design; Experience working with digitized collections, especially experience in preparing collections for digitization, digitizing collections, and resolving issues with metadata, searching and storage in digitized collections; Research experience with archives and other original source material. About UCLA and the UCLA Library UCLA is one of the leading public research universities in the United States. It ranks among the nation's top five institutions in research funding. UCLA is one of the top 10 universities in the country in the number of doctoral degrees it awards each year, and among the top 25 for professional degrees. The university includes more than 100 separate academic programs and 11 professional schools. Ranked among the top 10 academic research libraries in North America, the UCLA Library houses one of the most comprehensive and highly used collections in the world, with more than 9 million volumes, tens of thousands of serial subscriptions, and extensive online academic resources to which the library subscribes for the benefit of the university community. UCLA students have access to the holdings of all of the University of California libraries, which are collectively second in size only to those of the Library of Congress. The UCLA Library's extensive Digital Library Program (DLP) http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/ serves as the catalyst for the creation, management, and delivery of digital content in support of the UCLA Library's mission and goals. The DLP provides for the storage and dissemination of digital objects, including text, images, audio, data files, and video in their various digital manifestations and combinations. The UCLA Library provides a web presence for digital collections and provides storage, backup, and digital preservation support for all digital content accepted into, or developed by, the library. The DLP grows in scope daily and currently includes approximately 735,000 digital objects. UCLA's Library Special Collections (LSC) http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special-collections is recognized internationally as being one of the largest and most distinguished repositories in the United States for archival collections, rare books and manuscripts, historic photographs, audiovisual materials, maps, oral histories, ephemera, and other types of special research materials. It includes the notable Center for Primary Research -- description here. The Center for Digital Humanities at UCLA The vision for the UCLA Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) is to become a leading research and teaching unit dedicated to expanding the frontiers and forms of knowledge in the 21st century. Our mission is driven by the belief that the public research university is a vital site for the invention, application, and translation of humanistic knowledge and that this happens through transdisciplinary collaborations across and beyond the university. Integrated with humanities computing expertise, CDH is a physical space for exploration and experimentation as well as a virtual space for networking and sharing. It is composed of a community of scholars, students, and practitioners who come together to design, create, experiment, innovate, and disseminate new knowledge in the digital age. At UCLA, CDH is a "center of excellence," sponsored by the Division of the Humanities and supported by the Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE), leading the way for innovation in research and teaching that bridges Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences, Information Studies, and Computational Sciences. At its core, CDH aims to expand the reach and impact of the Humanities and humanistic knowledge for the public good, while also enabling world-class scholarship, teaching and learning, all founded on technology excellence. In practice, the Center for Digital Humanities functions as a "humanities lab" or "knowledge design studio" by bringing together faculty, students, research scholars, technologists, and librarians. Led by a faculty director with guidance provided by a faculty advisory committee and the Humanities CIO, CDH is a catalyst for innovation and applied knowledge. Projects cross the boundaries between research, teaching, and service, thereby creating new knowledge collaborations and possibilities for engagement. CDH is also a leader in the creative dissemination of knowledge through publications (both print and digital modalities), digital tool development, pedagogical methods and resources, and project incubation and development. The staff and faculty at CDH are prominent leaders throughout the national and international digital humanities community, participating in everything from major professional organizations and grant-funded initiatives to conferences and hack-a-thons. This vision of CDH builds upon an existing structure of technologies, services and expertise that supports, and will continue to support, the entire Humanities Division. Existing expertise in instructional technology and design, project incubation and development, web development for departments and faculty projects, network and server-based solutions for humanities teaching and research, and end-to-end faculty and staff support ensure that, going forward, CDH will continue to serve as the hub for technology in support of Humanities knowledge creation and dissemination. The marriage of foundational humanistic computing infrastructure and practices with innovation in digital humanities research and instructional projects ensures that the evolution of humanistic knowledge creation is intimately tied to the evolution of technology solutions responding to the full spectrum of humanistic computing. This necessarily fosters the ongoing creation of community around technology needs, and invites new entrants from Humanities departments and the larger community to the digital humanities knowledge studio that is CDH. Goals for CDH in the next 3-5 years: * Facilitates innovation through faculty, staff, and student initiated research and teaching projects * Provides support (including technical and grant support) across the life-cycle of a project, from initial conceptualization and incubation to mature, extramurally funded initiatives * Collaborates with key partners across the campus to enable the full spectrum of academic and technological practices, including the Institute for Digital Research and Innovation (IDRE), the UCLA Library, the Office of Information Technology (OIT), Information Technology Services (ITS), and the Common Collaboration and Learning Environment (CCLE). * Garners funding for new staff, space, and initiatives by means of a proactive and targeted development campaign in combination with foundation and grant support, working in partnership with the Dean's office, the Vice Chancellor for Research, the UCLA Library, IDRE, and External Affairs * Houses the Digital Humanities minor and graduate certificate program; provides opportunities for students to work directly on DH research projects. * Supports and/or collaborates with key campus technology-enabled research and instructional spaces (and supports further innovation of these spaces): the CDH Learning Lab (Rolfe); the Laboratory for Digital Cultural Heritage, the Digital Hub, and the Research Commons (YRL); the Technology Sandbox and the Visualization Portal (Math Sciences); research and instructional spaces operated by key campus partners. * At the level of senior leadership, all staff have advanced degrees and are active researchers and teachers in one or more subfields of the digital humanities (ie, visualization, data curation, geo-spatial analysis, 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6AE787768; Wed, 4 Dec 2013 08:17:17 +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 D97D1776F; Wed, 4 Dec 2013 08:17:07 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BE2AA776E; Wed, 4 Dec 2013 08:17:05 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131204071705.BE2AA776E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 08:17:05 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.593 pubs: metrics for publishing; boundaries of patronage X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 593. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Maria Bonn (60) Subject: CFP: Metrics for Measuring Publishing Value: Alternative and Otherwise: The Journal of Electronic Publishing [2] From: Albert Lloret (9) Subject: Digital Philology 2.2 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 10:47:30 -0600 From: Maria Bonn Subject: CFP: Metrics for Measuring Publishing Value: Alternative and Otherwise: The Journal of Electronic Publishing Call for submissions: Metrics for Measuring Publishing Value Historically, the value of publication has been measured by success in the marketplace and impact of the publication, whether that impact be cultural or scholarly. The calculus of this value has been as straightforward as number of copies sold (documented most widely in “best seller” lists) and/or dollars in profit generated to the complex citation and referral counts that result in a scholarly “impact factor.” As with so many areas of our cultural and intellectual lives, the widespread adoption of digital technology and networked communication (with its attendant social media practices) has disrupted our metrics of publishing value and has called for a revision of the ways in which that value is calculated. In some professional and social circles, page visits, link referrals, Google ranks, presence in the Twitter universe and other social media prominence, are now taken as seriously as scholarly citation and profit margins, a shift that raises questions for how scholars balance the emerging professional requirement for an online presences with the need for privacy and protected space for research. In addition, the value measure of pages visits and glances (where a quick hit might “count” for the same as an extended period of study and engagement) are still in the early stages of development. While we have seen the rise of “altmetrics” and “impact stories,” weeks on the *New York Times* Best Seller List continue to indicate worthiness for attention and the case for scholarly job security continues to be made by citation based measures. In addition, the increased ease of collaboration and co-authoring, even across wide spans of time and space, make assigning authorial and impact “credit” both more compelling and more difficult. We are also still developing rubrics for calculating the broader social contribution of work that is made widely available via the Web. In the scholarly context this revision of measures of value continue to be embedded in disciplinary practices and prejudices, contexts that have a significant impact upon shaping evaluation metrics. The Journal of Electronic Publishing http://journalofelectronicpublishing.org/ (JEP) invites reflections and reportage on enduring, emerging and potential measures of publication value. We expect such discussions will be rooted in the publishing context (of value to whom, for whom?) and will address both short-comings and usefulness of the metrics under discussion. While we anticipate that our contributors will be attendant to changes wrought by digital technology and networked communication, we are also interested in metrics embedded within print culture, both those that endure and those that are no longer current. Publication is anticipated for late spring, 2014; final drafts will be due in April, 2014. Please send article ideas and indications of interest to the editor, Maria Bonn mbonn@illinois.edu. Please see the journal website for more information about the journal and the submission process http://www.journalofelectronicpublishing.org/submit.html. JEP articles are peer-reviewed at the request of the author, and peer-reviewed articles are identified as such in both the article and in the preservation metadata. Editorial decisions are otherwise made by the editor in consultation with the editorial board. If you yourself are not prepared to write on these topics but you know of others who should be invited to contribute, please send suggestions to the editor, as above. - See more at: http://www.publishing.umich.edu/2013/11/26/cfp-metrics-for-measuring-publishing-value-jep/#sthash.p7zTqVfL.dpuf Maria Bonn Senior Lecturer, Graduate School of Information and Library Science University of Illinois Editor, Journal of electronic Publishing (http://www.journalofelectronicpublishing.org) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 03:12:17 +0000 From: Albert Lloret Subject: Digital Philology 2.2 In-Reply-To: <011101cef09e$87c8b5e0$975a21a0$@hotmail.com> Dear Colleagues, Apologies for cross-posting. I am pleased to announce the publication of Digital Philology 2.2. This is a special issue edited by Deborah McGrady and devoted to Rethinking the Boundaries of Patronage. It includes essays by Jeanette Patterson on the Bible historiale, Andrea Tarnowski on de Mézières Epistre lamentable, Amy N. Vines on Hoccleve’s Series, and Helen Swift on defenses of women. Additionally, the Fall 2013 issue of DPh features an article on Auerbach’s counterphilology, by James I. Porter, and an essay reviewing the terminology used to describe manuscripts, by Tjamke Snijders. Five reviews of digital projects close the volume. Here is the link to the Table of Contents: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/digital_philology/toc/dph.2.2.html . I hope you enjoy it! Best, Albert Lloret Albert Lloret, PhD Managing Editor, Digital Philology Assistant Professor of Spanish and Catalan University of Massachusetts Amherst http://umass.academia.edu/AlbertLloret _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4D7657778; Thu, 5 Dec 2013 10:37:38 +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 F13A2776F; Thu, 5 Dec 2013 10:37:31 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1B87A776B; Thu, 5 Dec 2013 10:37:30 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131205093730.1B87A776B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 10:37:30 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.594 events: mediations of the visual; alt-uses of applications for creative purposes X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 594. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: kcl - cerch (13) Subject: CeRch Seminar: Détournement of applications as a creative tool (lecture/performance) [2] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (28) Subject: Cultural Mediations of the Visual --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 13:14:42 +0000 From: kcl - cerch Subject: CeRch Seminar: Détournement of applications as a creative tool (lecture/performance) CeRCH Seminar for 10 December: Détournement of applications as a creative tool (lecture/performance) - Brian Reffin Smith, Collège de 'Pataphysique, Paris Date: Tuesday, 10th December, 2013 from 6:15 PM to 7:30 PM (GMT) Location: Anatomy Museum Space, 6th Floor, King's College London (Strand campus) http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/campuses/strand/Strand.aspx Attendance is free and open to all, but registration is requested: https://www.eventbrite.com/event/8348553749 The seminar will be followed by wine and festive nibbles. All the best, Valentina Asciutti Abstract: The French word "Détournement", loosely translatable as hijacking, leading astray or appropriation, describes the sideways or "alt" use of computer applications outside their original fields: for example the use of medical imaging software to make movies, of spelling checkers to scramble text, or of fluid behaviour modelling software to make drawings. It is a two-way process and win-win situation, because "unauthorised" or simply crazy uses of apps can feed back ideas into their mainstream application as well as leading to creative splurges in other disciplines. Examples, some interactive, will be shown of hijacking computer software and iPad apps into areas of art, sound, text, cognitive psychology and because of the venue, anatomy (it is recommended not to eat before this seminar). Bio: Brian Reffin Smith is a writer, artist, theoretician, zombie and musician. He has spent about 40 years teaching ideas of "détournement", using them for art and writing about them, and is a pioneer of computer based conceptual art. He won the very first Golden Nike (the 'Oscars' of computer art) at Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria and his art and text works are shown internationally. His fields of activity are computer-based art and general creativity, performance art, Zombie studies and 'Pataphysics, the science of imaginary solutions. He is a book reviewer for Leonardo. He was for 25 years a French civil servant, as Professeur, Art et Informatique, in the École Nationale Supérieure d'Art, Bourges, France. He holds the Chair of Catachemistry and Speculative Metallurgy in the Paris-based Collège de 'Pataphysique, and lives in Berlin, Germany. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 13:53:44 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Cultural Mediations of the Visual Cultural Mediations of the Visual Location Council Room K2.29 Strand Campus King's College London Category Seminar When 06/12/2013 (13:00-14:00) Contact digitalhumanities@kcl.ac.uk Cultural Mediations of the Visual: At the nexus of database, narrative and archive. Hosted by the Department of Digital Humanities. Associate Professor Hart Cohen, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney, addresses the re-mediation of archival images as a basis for a form of cultural repatriation, based on his research with the Ntaria communities in Australia. He is the Chief Investigator of the Australia Research Council project titled, Digital Archives and Discoverability: Conceptualising the Strehlow collection as a new knowledge resource for remote indigenous communities. Dr Cohen writes: From the mid 1990s my research engagements have centred on the Strehlow Collection in the context of its primary community of interest at Hermannsburg(Ntaria), about 130 kilometres west of Alice Springs, Central Australia. Currently, this work is being developed as part of an Australian Research Council project titled, Digital Archives and Discoverability: Conceptualising the Strehlow collection as a new knowledge resource for remote indigenous communities. Earlier projects focused on the Stehlow Film Archive and his memoir, Journey to Horseshoe Bend. The ascendency of the visual in anthropology has been marked by a tension surrounding the use of images that have been collected and sequestered in archives. Two tendencies have converged recently: the use of digital technology in the re-mediating of image collections and an interest in the repatriation of material culture by communities of interest from collecting agencies. Our project has embraced these two tendencies in exploring the idea of digital repatriation as a means of addressing the knowledge interests in respect of a specific Indigenous community. To support the idea of digital repatriation, we have partnered with the Northern Territory Library Service’s Community Stories Database project to collaborate on the establishment of an iteration of this Database at Hermannsburg as a potential digital hub or repository. Second, we have focussed on narrative strategies as a means ofproviding access to the archive with digital storytelling and on-line storyengines in collaboration with the Ntaria School. This presentation addresses the re-mediation of archival images as a basis for a form of cultural repatriation reconceptualised as an interest in how images of all kinds can become the space where embodied knowledge and community interest in cultural history cross. Our project’s interests can be summarized in three interrelated questions: How will the digitisation of these archives enable us to find the knowledge flows within and across the Strehlow Collection? Can engagement with contemporary Aboriginal knowledge practicesinform the concept of a cultural landscape? Can Aboriginal people discover and create their own relationships to the content of the Strehlow collection within contemporary database models? *Note: The paper is based on work in collaboration with co-investigators, Dr Juan Francisco Salazar and Dr Rachel Morley of the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney as well as other members of the research team including Wendy Cowan (Ntaria School), Mark Inkamala (W.Arrarnta traditional owner), Rex Kantawara (Cultural Advisor, Ntaria School),Adam Mcfie (SRC). Hart Cohen is Associate Professor in Media Arts in the School of Humanities & Communication Arts at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He is Director, Research and Postgraduate Studies for the School. 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3DF377785; Thu, 5 Dec 2013 10:38:18 +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 99E717779; Thu, 5 Dec 2013 10:38:09 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 534B47778; Thu, 5 Dec 2013 10:38:08 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131205093808.534B47778@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 10:38:08 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.595 pubs: Digital Humanities in Biblical, Early Jewish and Early 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 595. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 16:30:03 +0000 From: Hugh Houghton Subject: New volume on Digital Humanities Posted on behalf of Claire Clivaz: Dear colleagues, Here is a newly-published collection of essays that may interest you. Kind greetings, Claire Clivaz, University of Lausanne (CH) Digital Humanities in Biblical, Early Jewish and Early Christian Studies, Leiden: Brill, 2013. Edited by Claire Clivaz, University of Lausanne, Andrew Gregory, University of Oxford and David Hamidovic, University of Lausanne, in collaboration with Sara Schulthess, University of Lausanne Ancient texts, once written by hand on parchment and papyrus, are now increasingly discoverable online in newly digitized editions, and their readers now work online as well as in traditional libraries. So what does this mean for how scholars may now engage with these texts, and for how the disciplines of biblical, Jewish and Christian studies might develop? These are the questions that contributors to this volume address. Subjects discussed include textual criticism, palaeography, philology, the nature of ancient monotheism, and how new tools and resources such as blogs, wikis, databases and digital publications may transform the ways in which contemporary scholars engage with historical sources. Contributors attest to the emergence of a conscious recognition of something new in the way that we may now study ancient writings, and the possibilities that this new awareness raises. http://www.brill.com/products/book/digital-humanities-biblical-early-jewish-and-early-christian-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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 392E37775; Fri, 6 Dec 2013 06:28:18 +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 221C27753; Fri, 6 Dec 2013 06:28:10 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A76927736; Fri, 6 Dec 2013 06:28:08 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20131206052808.A76927736@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 06:28:08 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.596 fresh ideas for a Canadian infrastructure? 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. 27, No. 596. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 10:39:59 -0700 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Have your say The Leadership Council for Digital Infrastructure has launched a crowdsourcing campaign to get fresh ideas for how to build a world-leading advanced digital infrastructure ecosystem for Canada. We need input from Canadian researchers and others with ideas to inform the development of a policy framework and roadmap for achieving an advanced DI. Please visit the Council's new website at www.digitalleadership.ca and to participate early in the campaign. We're looking for broad participation from the entire community - from researchers in all sectors (including the humanities), academic administrators, project managers in government and academe, students, policy makers and anyone else who stands to use and benefit from an advanced DI ecosystem in Canada. Please share this email widely through your networks. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jochen Schneider (35) Subject: MPIWG Berlin: Two Postdoctoral Fellowships [2] From: Aileen Fyfe (15) Subject: St Andrews to sponsor Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship applicants [3] From: James Cummings (59) Subject: DiXiT Job at University of Oxford (Marie Curie ITN Experienced Researcher) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 13:54:12 +0100 From: Jochen Schneider Subject: MPIWG Berlin: Two Postdoctoral Fellowships The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (the Max Planck Research Group Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe; Director: Prof. Dr. Sven Dupré) announces two postdoctoral fellowships for up to two years starting date between July 1 and October 1, 2014. Outstanding scholars are invited to apply. Candidates should hold a doctorate in the history of science and technology or a related field (art history, conservation science, technical art history, history of medicine) at the time of application and show evidence of scholarly promise in the form of publications and other achievements. Tenure of a prior postdoctoral fellowship will be to the candidate’s advantage. Particularly welcome are research projects on ‘Early Modern Art Technologies and Materials’: see http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/research/projects/FGDupre_Art_Technology. However, research projects addressing the full scope of Max Planck Research Group dealing with the history of knowledge and art up to the eighteenth century (with a preference for the period between 1350 and 1750) will be considered. Research projects may concern any geographical area within Europe, and any of the visual and decorative arts. For short descriptions of the project, see http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/research/projects/MRGdupre. Postdoctoral 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, who may alternatively opt for a contract TVöD E13 in the German system). 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. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Candidates are requested to submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae including publication list, research prospectus (maximum 750 words), and at least one sample of writing (i.e. article or book chapter) to: https://s-lotus.gwdg.de/mpg/mbwg/postdocdupre_2013_01.nsf/application Please arrange to have two referees send signed scanned letters of recommendation to: officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de or originals by snail mail to: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Max Planck Research Group Dupré Boltzmannstr. 22 14195 Berlin Germany Deadline for submission: 15 February 2014 // Interviews will take place on 26 March 2014. 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 questions relating to the online application procedure please contact (officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de). For administrative questions concerning the position or 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: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 14:20:33 +0000 From: Aileen Fyfe Subject: St Andrews to sponsor Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship applicants The School of History http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history and the University of St Andrews http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk is pleased to announce that it will sponsor outstanding researchers who are eligible and wish to apply for a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship http://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/funding/ecf/ecf.cfm . This scheme enables early career researchers to undertake a significant piece of publishable work. Applicants must have a track record of research, but should not have held an established academic appointment. To be considered for University sponsorship, and if you wish to have an ECF in the School of History, please discuss your application in the first instance with the Head of the School of History, Prof. John Hudson. The application to the University should be sent to provost@st-andrews.ac.uk and should be in the form of a draft of a Leverhulme application. The deadline for applications to the University is 10 January 2014. http://standrewsschoolofhistory.wordpress.com/2013/12/05/st-andrews-to-sponsor-leverhulme-early-career-fellowship-applicants/ ----------------- Dr Aileen Fyfe, FHEA, MYAS Reader in Modern British History School of History University of St Andrews St Katharine's Lodge The Scores St Andrews KY16 9AR Tel. +44(0)1334 462996 http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/staff/aileenfyfe.htm https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosophicaltransactions/ The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland (No. SC 013532) --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 16:59:55 +0000 From: James Cummings Subject: DiXiT Job at University of Oxford (Marie Curie ITN Experienced Researcher) Please forward to anyone you think may be interested. === IT Services at the University of Oxford would like to announce that applications are now being accepted for a 20 month experienced researcher fellowship position on the DiXiT project funded as part of a Marie Curie Initial Training Network. The post-holder should start on 1 April 2014 and will be responsible for the analysis and improvements of technologies for the creation and publication of digital scholarly editions. They will be familiar with the Guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and be skilled in using related technologies such as XSLT to generate digital scholarly editions from TEI P5 XML source files. The post-holder will contribute to the teaching at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School and the DiXiT TEI training workshop. For a full list of duties and criteria please see the job description attached to the advert on the University of Oxford recruitment website: https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=110645 The EC funding for this position starts from £54,692 p.a. (depending on employer deductions, personal circumstances, and the exchange rate to be notified by the EC), which includes an annual living allowance and a mobility allowance (to cover the expenses associated with working in a different country). *Eligibility Requirements:* 1) either be in possession of a doctoral degree, independently of the time taken to acquire it, or have at least four years of full-time equivalent research experience; 2) have less than five years of full-time equivalent research experience; (posts that are not _research_ do not count against this) 3) not have lived in the UK for more than 12 months during the past 3 years; 4) be willing, during the 20 month post, to undertake a 3 month secondment to King's College London (United Kingdom) and a 3 month secondment to SyncRo Soft Ltd. (Romania). *Application Process:* Please note that applications from any qualified applicants, regardless of gender, ethnicity or country of origin are welcome if they meet the eligibility requirements. Applicants should ensure they have completed both the following steps by midday on 11 December 2013: 1. Submitted a DiXiT project ER application to dixit-info@uni-koeln.de see http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/fellows.html for more information 2. Completed the University of Oxford online application process from the job posting on the https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=110645 website. Including having: a. Uploaded a full C.V. b. Provided contact details for two referees c. Uploaded a covering letter demonstrating how you meet both the essential/desirable criteria listed in the further particulars and the eligibility requirements d. Uploaded a copy of your DiXiT project ER application form Informal enquiries concerning the post may be sent to Dr James Cummings at james.cummings@it.ox.ac.uk. The interviews are expected to be held on Friday 17 January 2014. -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 BC1057786; Fri, 6 Dec 2013 06:30:58 +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 931707785; Fri, 6 Dec 2013 06:30:49 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9F2397783; Fri, 6 Dec 2013 06:30:48 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131206053048.9F2397783@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 06:30:48 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.598 Alaskan lab for I-CHASS X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 598. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 03:36:35 +0000 From: I-CHASS Subject: I-CHASS Receives Grant to Build Fab Lab in Togiak, Alaska I-CHASS Receives Grant to Build Fab Lab in Togiak, Alaska to Provide Educational and Economic Opportunities, and to Study Indigenous American Perspectives of Technology I-CHASS members Dr. Alan Craig (I-CHASS Associate Director of for Human Computer Interaction) and Dr. Scott Poole (I-CHASS Director) in collaboration with the Alaska Federation of Natives, the Traditional Council of Togiak, and the University of Alaska Fairbanks-Bristol Bay Campus have been awarded a National Science Foundation grant of $299,963 for a project entitled, "Bridging the Divide: Exploring Native Approaches.” The grant begins with an award of $157,504 this year with the remainder of the grant distributed next year contingent upon the availability of funding to NSF from the federal government and progress on the project. This grant will be used to plan and develop a research project
that studies the implementation of a fabrication laboratory (Fab Lab) containing cutting edge technology in a rural Alaska Native village off of the Bering Sea. Researchers have pointed to gaps in the understandings of Native and Western perspectives of science, as well as differences in cultures of learning (Deyhle & Swisher, 1997). This research project therefore focuses on the intersection and interaction of Western and Indigenous American perspectives on the implementation of science and technology. The fact that little is known about Indigenous American perspectives of technology is a problem considering that 78.9% of bachelors degrees earned by American Indians and Alaska Natives 25 and older are in science and engineering, or science and engineering-related fields (U.S. Census Bureau, 2011). To address these problems, the project will center on the implementation of a Fab Lab in Togiak, Alaska. A Fab Lab is an opportunity for community members to create personalized digital products using new technologies like 3D printers and laser engravers in order to gain educational and economic benefits (Gershenfeld, 2007, p. 13). This Fab Lab will also create an opportunity for researchers to better understand Alaska Native ways of knowing and perspectives on technology designed according to a Western logic. This research agenda also addresses the third digital divide, which is the cultural gap created when non-Western peoples are encouraged to adopt new technologies which embody only Western cultural orientation and values. This project will use a participatory design process that will enable the melding of Alaska Native and Western scientific perspectives by identifying stakeholders (see Freeman, 2010) in the community Fab Lab and exploring how they participate in the process. The grant is effective immediately and the project will begin by planning the lab and connecting with the local community in Togiak. The participating organizations/groups are: (1) the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science, UIUC (I-CHASS); (2) University of Alaska Fairbanks-Bristol Bay Campus (BBC); (3) Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN); (4) Togiak partners (Traditional Council of Togiak, City of Togiak, Togiak Natives Limited, and Southwest Region School District); and (5) Champaign-Urbana Community Fab Lab. Dr. Alan Craig, Dr. Scott Poole, and Kate Cooper at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are coordinators on this project. Question about this project can be sent to Dr. Alan Craig at acraig@ncsa.uiuc.edu . References Deyhle, D., & Swisher, K. (1997). Research in American Indian and Alaska Native education: From assimilation to self-determination. Review of research in education, 22, 113-194. Freeman, R. E. (2010). Strategic management: A stakeholder approach. Cambridge University Press. Gershenfeld, N. (2008). Fab: the coming revolution on your desktop--from personal computers to personal fabrication. Basic Books. U.S. Census Bureau. (2011). American Community Survey. Retrieved November 25, 2013 from http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/ facts_for_features_special_editions/cb12-ff22.html. ~~~ 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2FA3977A4; Sat, 7 Dec 2013 09:59:38 +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 6B6BC7799; Sat, 7 Dec 2013 09:59:25 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A3DA37794; Sat, 7 Dec 2013 09:59:23 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131207085923.A3DA37794@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 09:59:23 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.599 a poetics of and for 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. 27, No. 599. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2013 11:21:13 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: poet and technician Norman Cousins, in an often quoted article in the magazine Forum (UCLA, Spring 1989), zeroes in on "The essential problem of man in a computerized age", namely the temptation to imitate the machine, lose his and her humanity, to confuse facts spilling in abundance from the machine with wisdom so hard and painful to obtain. Until the very end this brief article reads like many other jeremiads of the time. But then he says this: > Without taking anything away from the technicians, it might be > fruitful to effect some sort of junction between the computer > technologist and the poet. A genuine purpose may be served by > turning loose the wonders of the creative imagination on the kinds of > problems being put to electronic tubes and transistors. The company > of poets may enable the men who tend the machines to see a larger > panorama of possibilities than technology alone may inspire. This reads to me like a call for digital humanities to do much, much more than it had been doing, indeed as it is now doing. Such calls are few across its history. As far as I know (and would love to be corrected) they began in writing with Cambridge linguist and philosopher Margaret Masterman in 1962 and on the other side of the Pond with Louis Milic in 1966. I don't know of any others remotely equal to his until this hint of such thoughts in 1989. Mostly (as I keep saying) we get the kind of negative assessments Rosanne Potter catalogued in 1991, with finger-pointings at a variety of bogey-men, such as French critical theory. And then the Web hit, and we forgot the question. About a decade later the literary-critical establishment noticed what Mark Olsen had seen, that you could do interesting things on a large scale. And about a decade after that Alan Liu helpfully started making much of the theoretical poverty Potter had shown to be the problem in 1991. Someone (of a more melancholic disposition that I will own to) might say, no wonder we want to call what we were doing before the Web a different and inferior practice so that no one bothers to rescue it from the effects of professional amnesia. But your mileage may differ, as the hackers used to say. What landscape do you see? Norman Cousins' article is at http://www.haverford.edu/cmsc/slindell/The%20Poet%20and%20the%20Computer.htm. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 60BC677AA; Sat, 7 Dec 2013 10:01:42 +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 34009779F; Sat, 7 Dec 2013 10:01:33 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 495FF779E; Sat, 7 Dec 2013 10:01:31 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131207090131.495FF779E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 10:01:31 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.600 events: publishing text workshop; inaugural 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 600. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Melissa Terras (19) Subject: Inaugural Lecture in Digital Humanities - Melissa Terras at UCL - Tues 27th May [2] From: Greta Franzini (68) Subject: Publishing Text for a Digital Age: 2014 Workshop --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 11:06:24 +0000 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Inaugural Lecture in Digital Humanities - Melissa Terras at UCL - Tues 27th May Dear Friends in DH, Booking for my inaugural lecture - A Decade in Digital Humanities - to be held at UCL, London, at 6.30pm on Tues 27th May, has just gone live. Tickets are free but booking is essential to ensure a space. It would be great to see as many friends in Digital Humanities there as possible, please do sign up at http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-lecture-professor-melissa-terras-ucl-information-studies-dis-tickets-9177699747 if you would like to attend. best wishes, Melissa ----------------- Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE CITP FHEA Director, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities Professor of Digital Humanities 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/ Twitter: @melissaterras --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 14:32:41 +0100 From: Greta Franzini Subject: Publishing Text for a Digital Age: 2014 Workshop In-Reply-To: <529C4C0B.9050808@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> *Publishing Text for a Digital Age* March 27-30, 2014 Tufts University Medford MA perseus_neh (at) tufts.edu http://sites.tufts.edu/digitalagetext/2014-workshop/ Call for contributions! http://sites.tufts.edu/digitalagetext/2014-workshop/ As a follow-on to Working with Text in a Digital Age, an NEH-funded Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Digital Humanities and in collaboration with the/Open Philology Project/ at the University of Leipzig, Tufts University announces a two-day workshop on publishing textual data that is available under an open license, that is structured for machine analysis as well as human inspection, and that is in a format that can be preserved over time. The purpose of this workshop is to establish specific guidelines for digital publications that publish and/or annotate textual sources from the human record. The registration for the workshop will be free but space will be limited. Some support for travel and expenses will be available. We particularly encourage contributions from students and early-career researchers. Textual data can include digital versions of traditional critical editions and translations but such data also includes annotations that make traditional tasks (such as looking up or quoting a primary source) machine-actionable, annotations that may build upon print antecedents (e.g., dynamic indexes of places that can be used to generate maps and geospatial visualizations), and annotations that are only feasible in a digital space (such as alignments between source text and translation or exhaustive markup of morphology, syntax, and other linguistic features). Contributions can be of two kinds: 1. Collectionsof textual data that conform to existing guidelines listed below. These collections must include a narrative description of their contents, how they were produced and what audiences and purposes they were designed to serve. 2. Contributions about formats for publication. These contributions must contain sufficient data to illustrate their advantages and to allow third parties to develop new materials. All textual data must be submitted under a Creative Commons license. Where documents reflect a particular point of view by a particular author and where the original expression should for that reason not be changed, they may be distributed under a CC-BY-ND license. All other contributions must be distributed under a CC-BY-SA license. Most publications may contain data represented under both categories: the introduction to an edition or a data set, reflecting the reasons why one or more authors made a particular set of decisions, can be distributed under a CC-BY-ND license. All data sets (such as geospatial annotation, morphosyntactic analyses, reconstructed texts with textual notes, diplomatic editions, translations) should be published under a CC-BY-SA license. *Contributors should submit abstracts of up to 500 words toEasyChair . We particularly welcome abstracts that describe data available already available under a Creative Commons license. * Dates: January 1, 2014: Submissions are due. Pleasesubmit via EasyChair . January 20, 2014: Notification. -- Greta Franzini Research Associate Digital Humanities Department of Computer Science University of Leipzig Augustusplatz 10-11 04109 Leipzig, Germany Phone: +49 341 97 32330 Email:franzini@informatik.uni-leipzig.de Web:www.dh.uni-leipzig.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8184B77B0; Sun, 8 Dec 2013 09:09:12 +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 68B5D77AD; Sun, 8 Dec 2013 09:09:00 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4DED177A9; Sun, 8 Dec 2013 09:08:52 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131208080852.4DED177A9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2013 09:08:52 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.601 events: knowledge visualisation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 601. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 17:28:19 +0000 From: IV13_CGIV13 Subject: iV2014 - DHKV: Digital Humanities Knowledge Visualisation iV2014: DHKV 7th International Symposium Digital Humanities Knowledge Visualisation 15, 16, 17 and 18 July 2014 University of Paris Descartes ● Paris ● France ● http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2014/ www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2013/CHKV.htm http://www.univ-paris5.fr ****************************************************************** Call for Papers, Videos and Participation Theme and scope is planned as series of symposia with details and further information is available at: www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2014/symposia.htm This symposium seeks short and long papers on original and unpublished work addressing, but not limited to, the following topics: * Culture and Heritage Knowledge Visualisation * Art and Design * Visualization techniques for text corpora * Cartographics * Virtual and built environments * Interactive systems * Infographic design and its associated process * Data mining in the humanities * Information design and modelling * Social Networks * Network graph visualisation of historical precedents * Digital media enabled humanities research * Digital media assisted linguistics research * The digital arts, architecture, music, film, theatre, new media, digital games, and related areas Symposium Committee Theodor G Wyeld, Flinders University, Australia (Chair) Sarah Kenderdine, City University of Hong Kong (Chair) Francis T. Marchese, Pace University, NY, USA (Chair) Advisory, Programme and reviewing committee: Theodor G Wyeld, Flinders University, Australia Sarah Kenderdine (Museum Victoria, Aust) Francis T. Marchese, Pace University, NY, USA Ekaterina Prasolova-Førland (NTNU, Trondheim) Teng-Wen Chang (NYUST, Taiwan) Brett Leavy (CyberDreaming, Aust) Malcolm Pumpa (QUT, Aust) Marinos Ioannides (HTI, Cyprus) Giovanni Issini (DFI, Italy) Supporting Bodies Flinders Institute for Research in the Humanities, Flinders University, Australia. Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. PACE University, NY, USA. Submission procedures: www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2014/PAPERS.htm Further information: www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2014/ Important Dates: 1 March 2014 – Submission of papers & Submission of tutorials: https://www.conftool.net/IV2014/ 05 May 2014 – Submission of camera-ready & early registration closes Symposium Chair: Theodor G Wyeld, Flinders University, Australia (Chair): theodor.wyeld (AT)flinders.edu.au Sarah Kenderdine, City University of Hong Kong (Chair), skender (AT) museum.vic.gov.au Francis T. Marchese, Pace University, NY, USA (Chair), fmarchese (AT) pace.edu All other enquiries and submissions should be addressed to: Conference Co-ordinator P.O. BOX 29, HATFIELD, AL9 7ZL,United Kingdom. Tel: (Int. +44) 1707 - 652 224 Fax: (Int. +44) 1707 - 652 247 Email: IV14@graphicslink.co.uk URL: www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2014/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CECCA77B3; Sun, 8 Dec 2013 11:36:56 +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 EC89477B0; Sun, 8 Dec 2013 11:36:47 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6E4567758; Sun, 8 Dec 2013 11:36:45 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131208103645.6E4567758@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2013 11:36:45 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.602 nuts about computers? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 602. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2013 10:29:10 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: nuts about computers? I would greatly appreciate recommendations of books (and articles) published up to the early 1990s that attack the computer as a pernicious influence and cause of social ills or promote it with equal, unreasoning vigour. I want to have a reliable sense of how much the onset of computing in those Cold War years rocked our social and intellectual boat emotionally. Two examples of the unreasoning negative come to mind: Harvey Matusow's curious, only half humorous collection of stories, The Beast of Business: A Record of Computer Atrocities (1968), and Geoff Simons' Silicon Shock: The Menace of the Computer Invasion (1985), which begins with four anecdotes, two of nausea at the sight of a computer, two of men (one of them a policeman) shooting theirs. I am not so much looking for milder, reasoned, reassuring, even lighthearted arguments designed to counteract panic and fear, such as found in John Short's The Sachertorte Algorithm and Other Antidotes to Computer Anxiety (1958) or in Ben Ross Schneider's Travels in Computerland, or Incompatibilities and Interfaces (1974), though if you know of others in this genre please tell me. Nor am I so keen on the more serious kind against computing, esp against AI, such as Mortimer Taube's Computers and Common Sense: The Myth of the Thinking Machine (1961), whose attack is reflected in the many stories told by Pamela McCorduck in her wonderful book Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence (1979, rev edn 2004). On the positive side I am very keen on proclamations of revolutionary impact, such as firebrand scholar Stephen Parrish's at the first conference dedicated to our field, at which he allied himself with the scientists in C. P. Snow's 1959 Rede Lecture, or such as Edmund C. Berkeley's Giant Brains, or Machines that Think (1949) or his The Computer Revolution (1962). In brief, I am interested in the excited, aggressive, fear-struck or simply over-the-top reactions to that which we now take for granted as a kind of appliance and calmly theorize. I think our sometimes nutty predecessors saw something important, though mostly misinterpreted it. Their reactions, I am wanting to argue, need to be seen in context, e.g. of the cultural scene described by the great anthropologist Margaret Mead in Culture and Commitment: A Study of the Generation Gap (1972). Many thanks. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7C6A477A6; Mon, 9 Dec 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 79333779C; Mon, 9 Dec 2013 07:21:57 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AF7A0779B; Mon, 9 Dec 2013 07:21:55 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131209062155.AF7A0779B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 07:21:55 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.603 nuts about computers X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 603. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2013 17:23:14 +0000 From: Alun Edwards Subject: RE: 27.602 nuts about computers? In-Reply-To: <20131208103645.6E4567758@digitalhumanities.org> Hi Willard, I know this is a little wide of the mark, but I was intrigued by the security issues surrounding computing in the early 1990s having read The Cuckoo's Egg, there is a little about it on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg Ally -- Alun Edwards alun.edwards@it.ox.ac.uk University of Oxford -----Original Message----- From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [mailto:humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: 08 December 2013 10:37 To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 602. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2013 10:29:10 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: nuts about computers? I would greatly appreciate recommendations of books (and articles) published up to the early 1990s that attack the computer as a pernicious influence and cause of social ills or promote it with equal, unreasoning vigour. I want to have a reliable sense of how much the onset of computing in those Cold War years rocked our social and intellectual boat emotionally. Two examples of the unreasoning negative come to mind: Harvey Matusow's curious, only half humorous collection of stories, The Beast of Business: A Record of Computer Atrocities (1968), and Geoff Simons' Silicon Shock: The Menace of the Computer Invasion (1985), which begins with four anecdotes, two of nausea at the sight of a computer, two of men (one of them a policeman) shooting theirs. I am not so much looking for milder, reasoned, reassuring, even lighthearted arguments designed to counteract panic and fear, such as found in John Short's The Sachertorte Algorithm and Other Antidotes to Computer Anxiety (1958) or in Ben Ross Schneider's Travels in Computerland, or Incompatibilities and Interfaces (1974), though if you know of others in this genre please tell me. Nor am I so keen on the more serious kind against computing, esp against AI, such as Mortimer Taube's Computers and Common Sense: The Myth of the Thinking Machine (1961), whose attack is reflected in the many stories told by Pamela McCorduck in her wonderful book Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence (1979, rev edn 2004). On the positive side I am very keen on proclamations of revolutionary impact, such as firebrand scholar Stephen Parrish's at the first conference dedicated to our field, at which he allied himself with the scientists in C. P. Snow's 1959 Rede Lecture, or such as Edmund C. Berkeley's Giant Brains, or Machines that Think (1949) or his The Computer Revolution (1962). In brief, I am interested in the excited, aggressive, fear-struck or simply over-the-top reactions to that which we now take for granted as a kind of appliance and calmly theorize. I think our sometimes nutty predecessors saw something important, though mostly misinterpreted it. Their reactions, I am wanting to argue, need to be seen in context, e.g. of the cultural scene described by the great anthropologist Margaret Mead in Culture and Commitment: A Study of the Generation Gap (1972). Many thanks. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 1BBBA77AC; Mon, 9 Dec 2013 07:23:13 +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 59411779C; Mon, 9 Dec 2013 07:23:04 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 19302779D; Mon, 9 Dec 2013 07:23:03 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131209062303.19302779D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 07:23:03 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.604 job reminder: Senior Lecturer at UWS (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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 604. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2013 23:04:06 +0000 From: Paul Arthur Subject: Reminder: SENIOR LECTURER IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES - applications close 15 December SENIOR LECTURER IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES - applications close 15 December The University of Western Sydney School of Humanities and Communication Arts seeks to appoint a Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities to play a key role in the development and future direction of the UWS Digital Humanities Research Group. Position description: https://uws.nga.net.au/publicfiles/uws/jobs/a16be5c3-5e56-1667-a12c-770e80954059/895-13_PD.docx The successful applicant will have an excellent track record in research, publication, projects or equivalent achievements, and in teaching and administration. The core field of specialisation will be Digital Humanities. This new position offers the opportunity to join a dynamic and innovative Research Group that seeks to build its international profile and develop a vibrant research culture as it expands. The Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities will work closely with the Research Group Leader on the development of interdisciplinary, collaborative Digital Humanities projects, initiatives and programs in the School and the University, and with external stakeholders. This is a full time, five (5) year fixed term appointment based at Parramatta, Sydney. Remuneration Package : Academic Level C $123,713 to $141,913 p.a. (comprising Salary $104,645 to $120,200 p.a., plus 17% Superannuation, and Leave Loading) Position Enquiries : Professor Paul Arthur, p.arthur@uws.edu.au Closing Date : 15 December 2013 PROFESSOR PAUL ARTHUR Dr R. Marika Visiting Chair of Australian Studies (2013-14) University of Cologne, Germany Professor of Digital Humanities The University of Western Sydney School of Humanities and Communication Arts Locked Bag 1797 Penrith NSW 2571 T +61 2 9685 9410 | F +61 2 9685 9075 E p.arthur@uws.edu.au | W paularthur.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 136DA77A5; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 07:41:50 +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 E78F37765; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 07:41:41 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 332B27760; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 07:41:40 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131210064140.332B27760@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 07:41:40 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.605 jobs: Reader in Digital Information Environments / Digital Humanities, Aberystwyth X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 605. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 14:34:25 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Reader in Digital Information Environments / Digital Humanities, Aberystwyth Reader in Digital Information Environments / Digital Humanities Department of Information Studies Institute of Management, Law and Information Science Aberystwyth University Grade 9: £54,826 - £56,467 per annum We are seeking an outstanding scholar to develop and lead new research and teaching in digital humanities/digital information environments at Aberystwyth University. In particular, she/he will provide a strong point of focus and binding to strengthen academic partnerships in new interdisciplinary research centres being developed by the University as part of its ambitious 2012-2017 Strategic Plan. We aim to build a strong international presence in digital humanities and digital information environment areas and the Readership will have a key role in these exciting new developments. This is a post for an ambitious, innovative scholar motivated by the possibilities of the discipline interacting with others to lead cutting edge research of international significance. The role holder will be expected to contribute to the building of strong partnerships. The Readership will be based in the University’s Department of Information Studies (DIS) within the Institute of Management, Law and Information Science. DIS has built an international reputation over the past 49 years and has a central role in education and research across the field of information science and the information profession. Spanning Libraries, Archives, Records Management and Digital Curation the department strategy is committed to developing its portfolio of teaching and research in these areas and wishes by this appointment to strengthen its contribution within these and related areas. The successful applicant will contribute to the teaching of the Department’s PG portfolio spanning multiple PG courses including our Pathways to Information Leadership courses. In addition to teaching, the post will involve administrative duties, student supervision and support. Informal enquiries to: Professor Chris Thomas, Pro-Vice Chancellor Research and Academic Quality Email: cjt@aber.ac.uk Phone: +44(0)1970 62 1987 Dr Allen Foster, Head of Department of Information Studies (aef@aber.ac.uk). Prospective applicants may also phone for further information by arrangement with the Departmental Secretary (01970 622189). Ref: IMLIS.13.03 Closing Date: 8 January 2014 Interview Date: 6 February 2014 ----- For further details see: http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/media/departmental/humanresources/pdfs/jobs/IMLIS-13-03-FINAL-EXT.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 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6109377B0; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 07:44:54 +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 E985277AC; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 07:44:45 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6F6D577A5; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 07:44:44 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131210064444.6F6D577A5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 07:44:44 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.606 more nutty (or sensible?) behaviour X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 606. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2013 08:44:45 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: more nutty (or sensible?) behaviour While on the subject of reactions to computers in the early days, let me advance from the likes of Silicon Shock to a different kind of response -- what I think of as the genre of reassurance, of which John Shore's The Sachertorte Algorithm and Benn Ross Schneider, Jr.'s Travels in Computerland seem to me to belong. Of these two the latter draws my attention in particular for its curious style of presentation. The typography, quotations on the title page, table of contents and language evoke the sense of 18C travel literature, such as Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels. (Here is a good example of what text encoding would miss or handle poorly, the stuff to which a book historian would pay close attention, I'd think.) The sense of genteel humour brought to what was then (in 1974) a delicate subject for many -- the computer in scholarship! -- is obvious. Looking at this book now, however, I wonder: is this not rather curious evidence of a deep unease? When someone tells you things are fine, you may wonder what there is to be worried about. When someone tells a joke you sometimes have to wonder, why this particular joke, told in this particular manner? Shore's book (1985) deals with the anxieties aroused by computing in quite a straightforward way, though the reassurances do raise questions. Chapter 1, for example, is entitled, "Intimidation and Anxiety". Chapter 11, "Electronic Cretins", alludes more interestingly to what by then had become a standard response to the fear of artificially intelligent "giant brains" -- according to Pamela McCorduck, this was initiated by IBM executives worried about loss of sales. Don't worry, they were saying, our machines are just "fast morons" (which was the usual term). But Schneider's sense of humour? In the fairytales recorded/modified by the Brothers Grimm, scary situations, spilling of blood etc are hardly ameliorated. I am not at all sure I'd read some of them to small children. But I am also not at all sure it's a good idea to make monsters furry and friendly, such as the Cookie Monster -- to hide away completely the nature of the world we live in. The historiographical problem is this: as Richard M. Fried says at the beginning of The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! Pagentry and Patriotism in Cold-War America (Oxford, 1998), > School children did not "Duck and Cover" from atomic attack every > school day. Adults may have worried more about car payments than > Bolshevism -- though doubtless many would have liked this priority > reversed. How did anti-communism settle into people's lives at times > HUAC or McCarthy or lesser imitators were not in the news? We > remember volcanic eruptions, but what of the fine dust? (p. ix) Recovering what computing meant to our predecessors, and so understanding what course they set us on, means sifting that fine dust, such as Schneider's stylistic quirks. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1BC4677B7; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 07:45:28 +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 BBF0F7770; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 07:45:19 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 61CFF77B4; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 07:45:17 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131210064517.61CFF77B4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 07:45:17 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.607 new commission on the history and philosophy of computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 607. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 16:33:20 +0100 From: Liesbeth De Mol Subject: New DHST commission History and Philosophy of Computing We are happy to announce the new commission for the History and Philosophy of Computing of the Division for the History of Science and Technology. For more information on HaPoC please do have a look at our new website: www.hapoc.org We are convinced that this website should really be the dynamic result of the HaPoC community and, for this purpose, anyone interested to contribute to the website can create an account at the website. This account will allow you to post new publications, events, comments etc. You can create an account here: http://www.hapoc.org/user/register Membership to the new commission is free. If you are interested in HaPoC-related topics, please feel free to become a member by filling out the following form: http://www.hapoc.org/membership If you would have any more questions, suggestions, ideas, etc please do not hesitate to contact us at hapoc@info.org, my very best wishes, on behalf of the HaPoC council, Liesbeth and Giuseppe. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1DBFF77BD; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 07:48:53 +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 B305777B9; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 07:48:44 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2E96F77B3; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 07:48:43 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131210064843.2E96F77B3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 07:48:43 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.608 events: CL for literature; standards; historical places; 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. 27, No. 608. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Greta Franzini (23) Subject: Leipzig eHumanities Seminar: Giovanni Colavizza [2] From: Kai Jakobs (115) Subject: CfP: Standardisation and Innovation - European Academy of Management [3] From: Anna Kazantseva (24) Subject: CfP: Third Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature [4] From: Elisabeth Burr (37) Subject: ESU DH "Culture & Technology" / CLARIN-D - Joint Summer School , 21 July - 2 August 2014 University of Leipzig --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 10:48:33 +0100 From: Greta Franzini Subject: Leipzig eHumanities Seminar: Giovanni Colavizza Dear all, This week's Leipzig eHumanities Seminar will be given by Giovanni Colavizza, who will be talking about: "Functional Categorization for Historical Place Types" In: Room P801 (Paulinum, 8th floor), University of Leipzig On: Wednesday 11th December 2013 At: 3:15 PM to 4:45 PM Attendance at the seminar is free of charge. *ALL WELCOME* For further information, please visit: http://www.e-humanities.net/events/2013-ehum-seminar-call.html -- Greta Franzini Research Associate Digital Humanities Department of Computer Science University of Leipzig Augustusplatz 10-11 04109 Leipzig, Germany Phone: +49 341 97 32330 Email: franzini@informatik.uni-leipzig.de Web: www.dh.uni-leipzig.de --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 12:20:11 +0100 From: Kai Jakobs Subject: CfP: Standardisation and Innovation - European Academy of Management Folks, The European Academy of Management are holding their annual conference in Valencia, Spain (very nice place, btw) on 4 - 7 June 2014. This is the first time that a track on 'Standardisation and Innovation' will be a dedicated part of the conference (well, that's what we're aiming at). Below you will find the CfP. The submission deadline is 16 January, so you'd better start thinking (and writing) .... You may find more information about the conference on http://www.euram-online.org/conference/2014/ . Cheers, Kai. EURAM 2014: Valencia Track Number: 06_01 Track Name: Standardisation and Innovation Special Interest Group: Innovation By now, many academics, policy makers and practitioners have accepted that standardisation is not the adversary of innovation as which it has been portrayed until not so long ago. These days, some scholars consider standards as both a constraint for and an enabler of innovation, others see them as a common basis upon which innovation can flourish. The European Commission now recognizes standardisation as an essential instrument to enhance innovation and competitiveness in Europe. However, the precise nature of the inter?relation between both still remains largely unclear. This Track aims to improve this situation. To this end, it will bring together scholars, researchers and practitioners that have a stake in research into standardisation and innovation. This will be a highly multi?disciplinary group of people, with backgrounds including, but by no means limited to, Business Studies, Management Studies, Economics, History, Law, Sociology, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, and Policy Studies. Thus, the track will provide an opportunity for experts from these very different communities to meet, interact, exchange views and ideas and, ultimately, come to a better understanding of the mutual dependencies between standardisation and innovation. While such a better understanding is clearly desirable for the academic community, it has also potentially significant practical ramifications. Not least due to the associated IPR issues, standardisation has become a multi?billion Dollar business. Accordingly, a better understanding of how to use standards as an enabler of innovation, and how to prevent them from becoming a constraining factor, is of considerable interest to both for companies and policy makers. The Track will look at both the role of standardisation (the process) and of standards (the resulting product) in relation to innovation. That is, it will try to find answers to the questions: * How can standards be deployed as an enabler of innovation? * How can standardisation be used as a platform for (open) innovation? * How to better understand the overlapping concepts of standards, dominant designs and platforms? Proponents ---------- Knut Blind TU Berlin; Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University; Fraunhofer FOKUS. Kai Jakobs RWTH Aachen. Henk de Vries Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus University. Keywords: Standardisation, Innovation, Dominant designs, Standards, Platforms Submission guidelines EURAM 2014 -------------------------------- Please, follow these guidelines and formatting instructions to prepare and submit your paper. RULE OF 3: Please note that you may be listed as an author or co-author on up to 3 submitted papers. 1. Each paper can only be submitted to ONE topic or track. 2. Submitted papers must NOT have been previously published and if under review, must NOT appear in print before EURAM 2014 Conference. 3. To facilitate the blind review process, remove ALL authors identifying information, including acknowledgements from the text, and document/file properties. (Any submissions with author information will be automatically DELETED). 4. The entire paper (title page, abstract, main text, figures, tables, references, etc.) must be in ONE document created in PDF format. 5. The maximum length of the paper is 40 pages (including ALL tables, appendices and references). The paper format should follow the European Management Review Style Guide. 6. Use Times New Roman 12pitch font, double spaced, and 1?inch (2.5 cm) margin all around. 7. Number all of the pages of the paper. 8. No changes in the paper title, abstract, authorship, and actual paper can occur AFTER the submission deadline. 9. Check that the PDF File of your paper prints correctly and ensure that the file is virus free. 10. Submissions will be done on?line on the EURAM 2014 website from December 1st 2013 till January 16th 2014. 11. Only submissions in English shall be accepted for review. 12. In case of acceptance, the author or one of the co-authors should be available to present the paper at the conference. 13. In case of acceptance, each author can present only one paper at the conference. 14. Particularly good and relevant papers will be considered for inclusion in the Handbook of Standards and Innovation (Edward Elgar Publishers) or for a special of the Int. J. of IT Standards & Standardisation Research (igi Global). ________________________________________________________________ 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 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 10:21:26 -0500 From: Anna Kazantseva Subject: CfP: Third Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature Third Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature April 27, 2014, Göteborg, Sweden, co-located with EACL 2014 https://sites.google.com/site/clfl2014a/ Second Call for Papers (with apologies for multiple postings) The purpose of the series of ACL workshops on Computational Linguistics for Literature is to bring together researchers fascinated with literature as a unique type of data which pose distinct challenges. We invite papers on original unpublished work in this broad area. In particular, we hope to see papers which explore how the state-of-the-art NLP methods can help solve existing research problems in the humanities, or perhaps suggest new problems. Literary texts revolve around the human condition, emotions, social life and inner life. Naturally, such data abound in common-sense knowledge but are very thin on technical jargon. Can tools and methods developed in the ACL community help process literary data? When do they work, when do they fail and why? What new instruments do we need in order to work with prose and poetry, on a large or small scale? Are there computational solutions of noteworthy problems in the Humanities, Information Science, Library Sciences and other similar disciplines? Here are some of the topics of interest to the workshop: - the needs of the readers and how these needs translate into meaningful NLP tasks; - searching for literature; - recommendation systems for literature; - computational modelling of narratives, computational narratology, computational folkloristics; - summarization of literature; - differences between literature and other types of writing as relevant to computational linguistics; - discourse structure in literature; - emotion analysis for literature; - profiling and authorship attribution; - identification and analysis of literary genres; - building and analyzing social networks of characters; - generation of literary narrative, dialogue or poetry; - modelling literary dialogue for generation. We will consider regular papers which describe experimental methods or theoretical work, and we will gladly welcome position papers. The NLP community does not study literature often enough, so it is important to discuss and formulate the problems before proposing solutions. The submission deadline is January 23, 2014. Anna Feldman, Anna Kazantseva, Stan Szpakowicz --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 00:26:37 +0100 From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: ESU DH "Culture & Technology" / CLARIN-D - Joint Summer School , 21 July - 2 August 2014 University of Leipzig *Joint Summer School of ESU DH "Culture & Technology" and CLARIN-D , 21 July - 2 August 2014 University of Leipzig - http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/* ESU DH “Culture & Technology” and CLARIN-D are happy to announce that they will organise a joint Summer School in 2014 at the University of Leipzig. This Summer School will take place from the 21st of July (arrival) to the 2nd of August (departure). Through this collaboration we seek to cover a broad spectrum of Digital Humanities topics. A special focus will be on the use of language technology in Digital Humanities. Thanks to our sponsors, the following support for participants will be available: * The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria will sponsor up to 5 tuition fellowships for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who take part in this Summer School. * Funding granted by the German Accademic Exchange Service (DAAD) will allow us to support travel and accommodation costs of up to 15 alumni / alumnae of German universities. Alumni / Alumnae are people from outside Germany who as students, graduates, researchers or lecturers have received a degree at a German University or have studied, conducted research or worked at a German University *at least for three months* and who are now outside Germany. More information will be comunicated soon. See also the Web-Portal of the European Summer School in Digital Humanities “Culture & Technology”: http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/. 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.uni-leipzig.de/%7Eburr _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0F96077BD; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 07:50:18 +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 7AE5B77B0; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 07:50:10 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 571CC7765; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 07:50:08 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131210065008.571CC7765@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 07:50:08 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.609 Time's "Machine of the Year" 1982 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 609. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2013 16:57:35 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Time's 1982 Machine of the Year relaunched Some here are old enough to remember that on 3 January 1983 Time Magazine replaced its conventional "Man of the Year" special issue with the "Machine of the Year", showing on the cover a plaster man and a plaster woman, each with their computers in a bare sitting room, with the title, "The Computer Moves In". The Apple Lisa and Steve Jobs received considerable attention (the first Mac was then a year in the future) along with Osborne, Sinclair and a number of others. The 30th anniversary of this issue has been celebrated (promoted) by a commemorative re-issue, with a downloadable replica of the entire thing for iPad et al. See http://techland.time.com/2013/01/04/times-machine-of-the-year-30-years-later/#ixzz2mzojRcco for more. Will we begin speaking of an "historical turn" in digital humanities? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8D3D277B8; Wed, 11 Dec 2013 10:56:54 +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 B7D357780; Wed, 11 Dec 2013 10:56:47 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CE2317780; Wed, 11 Dec 2013 10:56:45 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131211095645.CE2317780@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 10:56:45 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.610 jobs: chair at Guelph; postdoc 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. 27, No. 610. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ray Siemens (20) Subject: Canada Research Chair - Collaborative Digital Scholarship [2] From: "Flanders, Julia" (9) Subject: call for applications: Postdoc in Gender and Digital Humanities, Northeastern University --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 13:59:54 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Canada Research Chair - Collaborative Digital Scholarship Tier I Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Collaborative Digital Scholarship University of Guelph The College of Arts in the University of Guelph invites applications to be the University's nominee for a Tier I Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Collaborative Digital Scholarship. The successful candidate will be nominated by the University to the CRC Secretariat and, if approved, will be appointed as a regular faculty member to a tenure-track position at the Associate or Full Professor level. The CRC Program was established by the Government of Canada to enable Canadian Universities to achieve the highest levels of research excellence in the global, knowledge-based economy. Tier I CRCs are awarded to individuals who are outstanding researchers in their fields, and acknowledged as world leaders (see htto://www.chairs.gc.ca for details). Digital Scholarship in the Humanities and Fine and Performing Arts is expanding in the College. The College is a co-sponsor of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (held at the University of Victoria) and as of January 1st 2014 will host the first Michael Ridley Digital Humanities Post-Doctoral position (in conjunction with the McLaughlin Library) at the University of Guelph. In addition, a number of digital-related projects are active in the College: the Orlando Project and Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory (both in conjunction with the University of Alberta); the Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare Project; the CFI-funded 1871 Census Project; the Media Education Project Portal; and the MCRI-funded Improvisation, Communities and Social Practice Project (publisher of an online, open access academic journal, Critical Studies in Improvisation). The successful candidate will hold a PhD (or equivalent) in a relevant area of the Humanities or Fine and Performing Arts, and will have a distinguished record of achievement in digital applications, teaching, and research. The candidate must be recognized as a world leader in his/her chosen research field. The ability to lead teams of colleagues and students working on digital projects in different areas is essential, as is a successful record in having received relevant external research grants. The successful candidate will have a demonstrated track-record of theorizing digital scholarship and knowledge mobilization. The successful candidate will teach at both graduate and undergraduate levels, supervise graduate students, and lead research initiatives. S/he will be resident in an academic unit, but will engage in activities that benefit a wide range of disciplines within the College of Arts and beyond. This Chair is a transformative position that will ignite future research, moving digital studies forward at the University of Guelph. Among the areas which the CRC will develop, we put particular emphasis on: born-digital scholarship and changing methods for liberal arts research; interfaces and tools for cultural collections and research; social and community-supported collaboration and knowledge production; cyber-infrastructure, sustainability, and interoperability; new technologies and their cultural impact. Although candidates of all nationalities are encouraged to apply, priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents (all applicants should clearly indicate their status as a Canadian citizen or permanent resident). The University of Guelph is committed to the principles of employment equity. The search committee will begin considering applications on February 15, 2014. Applicants should submit a current C.V. along with a statement of research interests, a research proposal (maximum of five pages) for the purpose of the CRC nomination, a teaching dossier, and the names and addresses of four referees to: Dr. Donald Bruce Dean, College of Arts 0005 MacKinnon Bldg. University of Guelph 50 Stone Rd. Guelph, ON N1G 2W1 Inquiries may be directed to: don.bruce@uoguelph.ca All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. The University of Guelph is committed to equity in its policies, practices, and programs, supports diversity in its teaching, learning and work environments, and ensures that applications for members of underrepresented groups are seriously considered under its employment equity policy. All qualified individuals who would contribute to the further diversification of our University community are encouraged to apply. *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1386685621_2013-12-10_siemens@uvic.ca_28644.1.2.txt http://www.uoguelph.ca/facultyjobs/postings/ad13-31.shtml --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 02:00:51 +0000 From: "Flanders, Julia" Subject: call for applications: Postdoc in Gender and Digital Humanities, Northeastern University Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Digital Humanities Northeastern University The Northeastern University Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program; the Northeastern NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks; and the Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities announce a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship to begin July 1, 2014. Specialization may be in any area of social sciences or humanities, with a clear commitment to feminist interdisciplinary work in both gender/sexuality studies and digital humanities. We welcome textual, theoretical, or empirical projects in any field or period that examine questions at the intersection of digital humanities and feminism, gender, and sexuality. Research proposals should involve substantive engagement with both digital humanities and feminist/gender studies; the strongest proposals will include a project component and will address the complex intersections of gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity. Areas of particular interest include the transmission, circulation, and organization of social movements for gender and sexual equity; sexual and racial communities, cultures, and markets, particularly as these are inflected by digital culture; memes of gender or sexuality that inform digital humanities theory and practice; expressive uses of media in the construction of gendered and raced subjectivities; feminist investigations of digital representational practices and systems. Applicants should have received the PhD in a relevant field between May 2010 and May 2014 and have college or university teaching experience. Fellows will present their work to the WGSS and Digital Humanities community and will teach one course in the WGSS program each semester. One course may be Introduction to WGSS or another undergraduate course that will cultivate a broad audience. The other course should integrate Digital Humanities and WGSS. In addition, the fellow will engage with the theoretical and applied work of the NULab, contributing to collaborative digital humanities research projects as appropriate, and contributing to the NULab’s work on theorizing digital humanities practice from a feminist perspective. Fellows will be encouraged to participate in the Northeastern Humanities Center seminar series and in the intellectual life of WGSS, NULab, and of the College. The fellowship offers the successful candidate a unique platform for professional advancement: financial and material support for independent research; the ability to develop substantive interdisciplinary teaching expertise; and the opportunity to play a key role in nurturing the growing digital humanities community at Northeastern University. To apply, visit the College of Social Sciences and Humanities faculty positions website at http://northeastern.edu/cssh/faculty-positions. All applications should include a letter of interest, curriculum vita, five-page project proposal that clearly lays out a project at the intersection of Digital Humanities and Gender Studies, a writing sample of no more than twenty-five pages, a one-page proposal for an undergraduate course (other than the Introduction), and provide the names of three referees or a dossier service. For fullest consideration, applications should be submitted by January 1, 2014. Northeastern University is an Equal Employment 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7384477BE; Wed, 11 Dec 2013 10:58:49 +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 8124D77B6; Wed, 11 Dec 2013 10:58:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 58EDA77B2; Wed, 11 Dec 2013 10:58:38 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131211095838.58EDA77B2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 10:58:38 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.611 call for book proposals: Anthem 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. 27, No. 611. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 12:19:56 +0000 From: Paul Arthur Subject: Call for book proposals - Anthem Scholarship in the Digital Age Call for book proposals below, please see http://www.anthempress.com/anthem-scholarship-in-the-digital-age -- ANTHEM SCHOLARSHIP IN THE DIGITAL AGE Anthem Scholarship in the Digital Age investigates the global impact of technology and computing on knowledge and society. Tracing transformations in communication, learning and research, the groundbreaking titles in this series demonstrate the far-reaching effects of the digital revolution across disciplines, cultures and languages. Series Editors Paul Arthur – University of Western Sydney, Australia Willard McCarty – King’s College London, UK Patrik Svensson – Umeå University, Sweden Editorial Board Edward Ayers – University of Richmond, USA Katherine Hayles – Duke University, USA Marsha Kinder – University of Southern California, USA Mark Kornbluh – University of Kentucky, USA Lewis Lancaster – University of California, Berkeley, USA Tara McPherson – University of Southern California, USA Janet Murray – Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Peter Robinson – University of Saskatchewan, Canada Geoffrey Rockwell – University of Alberta, Canada Marie-Laure Ryan – University of Colorado, Boulder, USA Paul Turnbull – University of Queensland, Australia Proposals We welcome submissions of proposals for challenging and original works that meet the criteria of this series. We make prompt editorial decisions. Our titles are published simultaneously in print and ebook editions and are subject to peer review by recognized authorities in the field. Should you wish to send in a proposal for a collection of essays, a single or multi-authored monograph, or a course reader, please contact us at: proposal@wpcpress.com PROFESSOR PAUL ARTHUR Dr R. Marika Visiting Chair of Australian Studies (2013-14) University of Cologne, Germany Professor of Digital Humanities The University of Western Sydney School of Humanities and Communication Arts Locked Bag 1797 Penrith NSW 2571 T +61 2 9685 9410 | F +61 2 9685 9075 E p.arthur@uws.edu.au | W paularthur.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D772177BA; Wed, 11 Dec 2013 11:12:41 +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 1715877AC; Wed, 11 Dec 2013 11:12:34 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E3AAE7780; Wed, 11 Dec 2013 11:12:31 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131211101231.E3AAE7780@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 11:12:31 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.612 events: TaTeX for editions; German 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. 27, No. 612. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Malte Rehbein (39) Subject: Fristverlängerung 'Digital Humanities - methodischer Brückenschlag oder "feindliche Übernahme"?' [2] From: maurizio lana (49) Subject: winter school on LaTeX for critical editions --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 19:30:46 +0100 From: Malte Rehbein Subject: Fristverlängerung 'Digital Humanities - methodischer Brückenschlag oder "feindliche Übernahme"?' Announcement in German on the first annual conference of the Association of Digital Humanities in the German speaking countries, Passau, 25-28 March 2014: Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, Beiträge zur Tagung der Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (DHd) vom 25.-28. März 2014 in Passau können nun noch bis zum *1. Januar 2014* eingereicht werden. Rund ums Konferenzmotto 'Digital Humanities - methodischer Brückenschlag oder "feindliche Äbernahme"? -- Chancen und Risiken der Begegnung zwischen Geisteswissenschaften und Informatik' erwarten Sie kontroverse Diskussionen, Präsentationen von aktueller Forschung und anwendungsnahen Projekten der DH im deutschsprachigen Raum und Workshops. Die wichtigsten Informationen: - Keynote-Vorträge: Prof. Dr. John Nerbonne (Universität Groningen, Präsident der European Association for Digital Humanities): Die Informatik als Geisteswissenschaft und Prof. Dr. Katja Kwastek (Freie Universität Amsterdam): Vom Bild zum Bild. Digital Humanities jenseits des Texts - Tagungs-Website: http://www.dhd2014.uni-passau.de - Call for Papers: http://www.dhd2014.uni-passau.de/call-for-papers - Einreichungen: https://www.conftool.pro/dhd2014 - Programmkomitee: Prof. Dr. Tara Lee Andrews, Universität Bern; Prof. Dr. Andreas Fickers, Université du Luxembourg; Prof. Dr. Reinhard Förtsch, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Berlin; Prof. Dr. Gerhard Lauer, Universität Göttingen; Prof. Dr. Claudine Moulin, Universität Trier; Prof. Dr. Malte Rehbein, Universität Passau; Dr. Thomas Stäcker, Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel; Prof. Dr. Manfred Thaller, Universität zu Köln. Wir freuen uns auf Ihren Beitrag, und auf bald in Passau Malte Rehbein -- Prof. Dr. Malte Rehbein Lehrstuhl für Digital Humanities Universität Passau Innstraße 40 / NK 430 D-94032 Passau fon: +49.851.509.3450 (Sekretariat -3451) email: malte.rehbein@uni-passau.de web: http://www.uni-passau.de/rehbein --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:56:09 +0100 From: maurizio lana Subject: winter school on LaTeX for critical editions [my apologies for unavoidable crossposting] dear all, I am pleased to announce the "winter school on LaTeX for critical editions" which will be held in Vercelli, Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, January 27-31 2014. The school is endorsed by the italian Associazione per l'Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale (AIUCD) and by the European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH). The scientific committee is made by Raffaella Tabacco full professor of Latin literature and Maurizio Lana researcher of librarianship at Università del Piemonte Orientale; and Ermanno Malaspina, associate professor of Latin literature and Andrea Balbo researcher of Latin literature at Università di Torino. The school which is aimed particularly but not exclusively to postgraduate and postdoc students will teach from scratch how to build a critical edition of a classical text (testbed made by 1 short Latin text with a small tradition - no more than 4-5 mss) using LaTeX so to have files ready for typographic printing: comparison of /mss/, /stemma/ generation, bibliography management, and so on. The school will be taught in English. The lessons are divided between 2 days of general LaTeX which will be taught by Claudio Beccari (emeritus of Politecnico di Torino) of Gruppo utilizzatori Italiani di TeX (GuIT) and moderator of its forum; and 3 days of philological LaTeX which will be taught by Guido Milanese (of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano), an Italian scholar which uses LaTeX for textual studies. There are 12 places available, enrollment is free, all the interested people should write to m.lana@lett.unipmn.it and attach a motivational letter which will be evaluated by the scientific committee should the requests exceed the available places. Deadline for the requests is January 10 2014. At the end of every section of the school (general LaTeX; philological LaTeX) the participants will receive a certificate of attendance. [a note on 'split enrollment': it is possible to ask to enroll only for the 2 initial days on general LaTeX; enrollment for the 3 philological days only must be supported by proof of knowledge of at least basic LaTeX] The five school days will offer some social events (visit to the Vercelli Book; evening/night in Turin for some wandering around in the young people places; ...). Accommodation will be available in the university residence, and at an agreed price in a hotel in Vercelli. Practical details will be mailed to the attending people. See you in Vercelli! for the organizing committee maurizio lana ------- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6866277A7; Fri, 13 Dec 2013 06:08:52 +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 295907781; Fri, 13 Dec 2013 06:08:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2B818777E; Fri, 13 Dec 2013 06:08:38 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131213050838.2B818777E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 06:08:38 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.613 "digital humanities" auf Deutsch? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 613. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 14:52:34 +0000 From: "Lele, Amod" Subject: Re: 27.612 events: TaTeX for editions; German Digital Humanities In-Reply-To: <20131211101231.E3AAE7780@digitalhumanities.org> "Announcement in German on the first annual conference of the Association of Digital Humanities in the German speaking countries, Passau, 25-28 March 2014: Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, Beiträge zur Tagung der Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum... -- Prof. Dr. Malte Rehbein Lehrstuhl für Digital Humanities" Fascinating to me that the Germans seem to have chosen to leave the term "Digital Humanities" untranslated. Does anyone know how and why this came to be - why they don't just refer to "Digitalgeisteswissenschaften" or the like? Best, Amod. -- Amod Lele, PhD Educational Technologist, Information Services & Technology Lecturer, Philosophy Visiting Researcher, Center for the Study of Asia Boston University Office: 617-358-6909 Mobile: 617-645-9857 lele@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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D6AAD77AC; Fri, 13 Dec 2013 06:09:10 +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 A261C77B4; Fri, 13 Dec 2013 06:09:01 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2BAD4779B; Fri, 13 Dec 2013 06:09:00 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131213050900.2BAD4779B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 06:09:00 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.614 job at 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 614. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 10:13:00 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Senior Data Scientist, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge Applications are invited for a new post of Senior Data Scientist in the MRC Epidemiology Unit within the University of Cambridge. The post will play a key role in the development of InterConnect, a European FP7 funded project that will create a network for research to explain the difference in risk of diabetes and obesity between population. The core of the network will be a technology platform that provides the infrastructure to generate common format (i.e. harmonised) datasets across participating epidemiological studies and to allow federated analysis of these datasets without the need to physically pool data in a central location. The successful applicant will be expected to have experience of PHP, MySQL and standard web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and Ajax. Strong understanding of SQL and basic statistical processing are also pre-requisites. Future developments in the project may lead on to wider use of programming techniques using advanced programme languages such as java and also distributed computer systems such as Cassandra and Hadoop. The role-holder will also have a good appreciation of the scientific needs that shape the technology platform and be able to form an effective communication bridge between disciplines to provide common understanding and direction to the technical goals of the project. For informal enquiries please contact Dr Rebecca Stratford (rs635@medschl.cam.ac.uk, +44(0)1223 769125). For further information and detials of how to apply, please see http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/2754/ Closing date: 2 February 2014 Interview date: 24 February 2014 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6C4D677BE; Fri, 13 Dec 2013 06:09:32 +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 63AA877B9; Fri, 13 Dec 2013 06:09:25 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0DCC977AC; Fri, 13 Dec 2013 06:09:22 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131213050923.0DCC977AC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 06:09:22 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.615 Creative Commons licensing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 615. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 11:35:01 -0700 From: John Simpson Subject: CC 4.0 Hello fellow DHers, Since so many projects in DH are now using Creative Commons licenses it should be noted here that as of last week the 4.0 license versions have been released. Why does this version matter? According to the official email blurb: ********* More than any CC license before, Version 4.0 reflects the power of our global community. We have spent the past six years working with hundreds of volunteers worldwide — literally, some of the best minds in copyright law and open licensing on the planet — to translate and adapt CC licenses to local laws in more than 60 countries. In the process, we’ve learned a lot about how our licenses work internationally. That is why Version 4.0 is the most internationally enforceable set of licenses to date. 4.0 won’t need to be adapted for use in every country. It just works. Everywhere. ********* There are other new bells and whistles, but that should be enough to catch your interest. So, review your current licensing, visit the site to find out all the details on 4.0, and consider updating. http://creativecommons.org/ -John John Simpson Postdoctoral Fellow INKE and Text Mining & Visualization for Literary History University of Alberta _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A151377C4; Fri, 13 Dec 2013 06:13:40 +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 8E061777E; Fri, 13 Dec 2013 06:13:31 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C3F277794; Fri, 13 Dec 2013 06:13:29 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131213051329.C3F277794@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 06:13:29 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.616 events: DHSI; Haifa THATcamp; evolutionary computing; DHBenelux; digital comics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 616. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ernesto Priego (60) Subject: #loncon3 Digital Comics panel deadline approaching [2] From: Marijn Koolen (41) Subject: DHBenelux 2014 Conference - save the date [3] From: Yael Netzer (9) Subject: Registration is open now -- Haifa THATcamp - Ben Yehuda Hackathon [4] From: "Jordanous, Anna" (45) Subject: CfP: Special Session on "Evolutionary Computation for Music, Art, and Creativity" [5] From: "James O'Sullivan" (55) Subject: DHSI Colloquium 2014 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 15:30:52 +0000 From: Ernesto Priego Subject: #loncon3 Digital Comics panel deadline approaching Hello everyone, Apologies for cross-posting. Just a reminder the deadline for abstract submission is approaching. (31st December 2013). If anyone in the DH communities is interested but would need more time, just drop me a line. We are flexible and know this is a very busy time. Call for Papers Diversity in Speculative Fiction: Digital Comics Panel Loncon 3, 72nd World Science Fiction Convention http://loncon3.org/ Thursday 14 to Monday 18 August 2014, London, UK #loncon3 @academicloncon3 *T*he academic programme http://loncon3.org/academic_faqs.php at Loncon 3, the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention http://loncon3.org/ , is offering the opportunity for academics from across the globe to share their ideas with their peers and other convention attendees. To reflect the history and population of the host city, London, United Kingdom, the theme of the academic programme is “Diversity”. This is a call for academic papers on digital comics. Proposals are particularly welcome on the works (and adaptations of the work) of the Guests of Honour http://www.loncon3.org/goh.php , London as a location and under-represented areas of research in digital comics, particularly those fitting within the ‘speculative fiction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_fiction ‘ label. By digital comics we mean any comics (printed or not) making uses of digital technologies, as well as media-specific comics made to be read on digital devices (online comics, webcomics, motion comics, mobile comics). Examples of these may include, but are not limited to: - Digital comics: media, medium, form, genre? - Digital comics and market diversity in the comics publishing industry - Digital archives of comics and questions of digitisation and preservation - London, geolocation, psychogeography and mobile comics - Connections between computer technologies and speculative fiction in digital comics - Adaptation, translation and transmediality in digital comics - Representation of alternative bodies, gender and sexual orientations in digital comics - Digital comics by black and ‘minority ethnic’ authors and publishers - Representation of characters of different ethnic origin in digital comics - Social class and digital comics: issues of access, representation, production - Approaches to non-English language digital comics The deadline for submission is 31 December 2013. Participants will be notified by 1 February 2014. All presenters must have acquired convention membership by 1 May 2014. All the info: http://blog.comicsgrid.com/2013/09/call-for-papers-diversity-speculative-fiction-digital-comics/ Please share with students, colleagues, etc. All the best, Dr Ernesto Priego Lecturer in Library Science Acting Course Director, MSc/MA Electronic Publishing City University London http://epriego.wordpress.com/ @ernestopriego Editor-in-Chief, *The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship * http://www.comicsgrid.com/ Subscribe to the Comics Grid Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/iOYAj --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 15:19:36 +0100 From: Marijn Koolen Subject: DHBenelux 2014 Conference - save the date In-Reply-To: <52A9BF6B.8090408@uva.nl> Save the Date: DHBenelux Conference, 12 & 13 June 2014 Website: http://dhbenelux.org/dhbenelux-2014-conference/ The DHBenelux conference is a yearly event to promote Digital Humanities research in Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. The conference serves as a platform for the growing community of DH researchers to meet, present and discuss their latest results and demonstrate tools and projects. DHBenelux 2014 is Hosted by Huygens ING and the Dutch National Library, 12-13 June 2014 in The Hague, the Netherlands. The conference programme will consist of: - Oral presentations - Poster and demo market - Discussion Panel on Digital Humanities We hope to announce the keynote speaker very shortly. We invite submissions of abstracts on any aspect of digital humanities, especially on interdisciplinary work and new developments in Digital Humanities. We particularly encourage PhD students and junior researchers to submit abstracts. Abstracts are limited to a maximum of 500 words. Important dates: The deadline for submitting abstracts is 1 March 2014. Notification of acceptance is send on 15 March 2014. The deadline for revised abstracts is on 1 April 2014. Location and Venue: The first DHBenelux conference will be held on 12-13 June, 2014 at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands and the National Library of the Netherlands, located in the Hague, the Netherlands. More details about location, registration and submission will be send in January. On behalf of the program committee -- Marijn Koolen Assistant professor of Digital Humanities University of Amsterdam Institute for Logic, Language & Computation Science Park 107 Room F2.44 1098 XG Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel: 020 525 7256 E-mail: marijn.koolen@uva.nl Web: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mhakoole --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 09:43:07 +0000 From: Yael Netzer Subject: Registration is open now -- Haifa THATcamp - Ben Yehuda Hackathon In-Reply-To: <52A9BF6B.8090408@uva.nl> THATCamp, Haifa University, February 2014 http://haifa2014.thatcamp.org/ The Haifa THATcamp will take place at the Haifa University on February 17-18 and will bring together students, scholars and professionals from the humanities, computer science, software development and natural language processing to work together on the textual corpus of the Ben-Yehuda Project, an open access collection of Hebrew prose, poetry and non-fiction literature. The event is meant to be a step towards the advancement of digital humanities in Israel while promoting and enriching this important cultural resource and availing to the community of scholars and the reading public alike. בתאריכים 17-18 בפברואר יתכנסו באוניברסיטת חיפה חוקרי מדעי הרוח – ספרות, מקרא, תלמוד והיסטוריה – עם אנשי מדעי המחשב, ניהול מידע ובלשנות חישובית, ועם מפתחי תוכנה מן האקדמיה ומחוצה לה, לעבודה משותפת על הקורפוס הטקסטואלי של פרויקט בן-יהודה (benyehuda.org/ http://benyehuda.org/ ). פרויקט בן-יהודה הוא מפעל התנדבותי המעלה לרשת מזה 14 שנה ספרות עברית, שירה, מסות ומאמרים, בפורמט HTML, זמין ופתוח לציבור הרחב. עם השנים הפך למאגר הטקסטים המרכזי של הספרות העברית החדשה. בשנים האחרונות התפתחו כלים ושיטות לעבודה עם טקסט דיגיטלי, הפותחים אפשרויות וגישות חדשות למחקר במדעי הרוח. מטרתו של 'הקאתון בן-יהודה' לפרוץ דרך לתחום מדעי הרוח הדיגיטליים בארץ ובתוך כך לקדם את הנכס התרבותי של מאגר הטקסטים ואת השימוש בו בקרב קהילת החוקרים והציבור הרחב כאחד. ברוח מדעי הרוח הדיגיטליים הארוע ייערך כ'הקאתון'/ THATcamp (על הפורמט של THATcamps אפשר לקרוא כאן: thatcamp.org/about/ ). משמע, המשתתפים עצמם יעלו יוזמות ורעיונות לפרויקטים, במושב שיוקדש לכך בסוף היום הראשון, ויתחלקו לצוותי עבודה. מהרו להרשם, מספר המקומות מוגבל Join Israeli Digital Humanities הצטרפו לאגודה הישראלית למדעי הרוח דיגיטליים http://www.thedigin.org/digital-humanities-israel/ קבלו הודעות על אירועים http://www.meetup.com/Digital-Humanities-Israel/ ------ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 11:34:12 +0000 From: "Jordanous, Anna" Subject: CfP: Special Session on "Evolutionary Computation for Music, Art, and Creativity" In-Reply-To: <52A9BF6B.8090408@uva.nl> Call for Papers: Special Session on "Evolutionary Computation for Music, Art, and Creativity" 2014 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2014) 6-11 July 2014, Beijing, China http://www.ieee-wcci2014.org/ ================================================ AIM AND SCOPE: Evolutionary computation (EC) techniques, including genetic algorithm, evolution strategies, genetic programming, particle swarm optimization, ant colony optimization, differential evolution, and memetic algorithms, have shown to be effective for search and optimization problems. Recently, EC gained several promising results and becomes an important tool in computational creativity, such as in music, visual art, literature, architecture, and industrial design. The aim of this special session is to reflect the most recent advances of EC for Music, Art, and Creativity, with the goal to enhance autonomous creative systems as well as human creativity. This session will allow researchers to share experiences and present their new ways for taking advantage of EC techniques in computational creativity. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, EC technologies in the following aspects: - Generation of music, visual art, literature, architecture, and industrial design - Algorithmic design in creative intelligence - Optimization in creativity - Development of hardware and software for creative systems - Evaluation methodologies - Assistance of human creativity - Computational aesthetics - Emotion response - Human-machine creativity IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission: 20 Dec, 2013 Acceptance notification: 15 Mar, 2014 Final paper submission: 15 Apr, 2014 Early Registration: 15 Apr, 2014 PAPER SUBMISSION: 1. Information on the format and templates for papers can be found at http://www.ieee-wcci2014.org/Paper%20Submission.htm 2. Papers should be submitted via the IEEE CEC 2014 paper submission site http://ieee-cis.org/conferences/cec2014/upload.php 3. Select [SS3.EC03: Evolutionary Computation for Music, Art, and Creativity] in the Main Research topic dropdown list 4. Fill out the input fields, upload the PDF file of your paper and finalize your submission by the deadline of December 20, 2013 ORGANIZERS: Chuan-Kang Ting National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan. Francisco Fernández de Vega University of Extremadua, Spain. Palle Dahlstedt University of Gothenburg, Sweden. -- Dr 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/ --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 18:26:54 +0000 From: "James O'Sullivan" Subject: DHSI Colloquium 2014 In-Reply-To: <52A9BF6B.8090408@uva.nl> Proposals are now being accepted for presentations at the DHSI Colloquium for the Digital Humanities, to be held in June 2014 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 each day. Presentations will be informal and will take the form of brief, high-impact demonstrations and presentations (5 minutes). This change in format reflects and facilitates the diverse, dynamic, and exciting research that continues to spur the growth of the DHSI community. The colloquium welcomes presentations by individuals and 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. 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. Submissions are welcome from emerging and established scholars alike (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; alt-academics; academic professionals; and those in technical programs). Submissions are welcome as either short 5-minute dynamic papers/presentations, or as 5-minute project demonstrations. Please submit abstracts via https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dhsi2014. Deadline for submissions is January 15, 2014. Submissions will be peer-reviewed, with authors being notified by late February 2014. For more information, contact James O’Sullivan (josullivan.c@gmail.com) and/or Mary Galvin ( galvin.mg@gmail.com). *ABOUT 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 http://dhsi.org/www.dhsi.org . *REGISTRATION*: In recent years, courses have filled up quickly. We encourage applicants interested in attending the DHSI to register as soon as possible. A number of sponsored tuition scholarships are also available. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:22:40 +0000 From: "Jordan, Timothy" Subject: Special Issue of New Media & Society on the Democratization of Hacking & Making In-Reply-To: <7793D00D-CFD1-4C07-ABAF-132C6C6DD4DE@usc.edu> Call For Papers: Special Issue of New Media & Society on the Democratization of Hacking & Making Research on hacker culture has historically focused on a relatively narrow set of activities and practices related to open-source software, political protest, and criminality. Scholarship on making has generally been defined as hands-on work with a connection to craft. By contrast, “hacking” and “making” in the current day are increasingly inroads to a more diverse range of activities, industries, and groups. They may show a strong cultural allegiance or map new interpretations and trajectories. These developments prompt us to revisit central questions: does the use of hacking/making terminologies carry with them particular valences? Are they deeply rooted in technologies, ideologies or cultures? Are they best examined through certain intellectual traditions? Can they be empowering to participants, or are they merely buzzwords that have been diluted and co-opted by governmental and business entities? What barriers to entry and participation exist? The current issue explores and questions the growing diversity of uses stemming from this turn of hacking towards more popular uses and democratic contexts. Submissions that employ novel methodological and theoretical perspectives to understand this turn in hacking are encouraged. They should explore new opportunities for conversations and consider hacking as rooted in a specific phenomena, culture, environment, practice or movement. Criteria for admission in this special issue include rigor of analysis, caliber of interpretation, and relevance of conclusions. Topics may include: - Disparities of access and representation, such as gender, race and ethnicity - Open-access environments for learning and production, such as hacker and maker spaces - “Civic hacking” and open data movements on city, state and national levels - Integration of hacking and making within industries - Historical analyses of making/hacking such as phreaking and amateur computing - Popularization of terms like “hacker” in newspapers, magazines and other publications - Open-source hardware and software movements - Appropriation of technology - Hacking in non-western contexts, such as the global south and China - Political implications of a popular shift in hacker/maker culture Please email 400 word abstract proposals, along with a short author biography, by May 1, 2014 to aschrock@usc.edu and jhunsinger@wlu.ca. Final selected articles will be due during September 2014 and will undergo peer review. Andrew Schrock USC Annenberg Doctoral Candidate Twitter: @aschrock Email: aschrock@usc.edu Phone: 714.330.6545 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 409DC77B4; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 08:02:25 +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 CC6AE7796; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 08:02:16 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 634317797; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 08:02:14 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131214070214.634317797@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 08:02:14 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.618 "digital humanities" auf Deutsch X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 618. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Dr. Hartmut Krech" (71) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.613 "digital humanities" auf Deutsch? [2] From: Patrick Sahle (67) Subject: Re: 27.613 "digital humanities" auf Deutsch? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 13:33:00 +0100 From: "Dr. Hartmut Krech" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.613 "digital humanities" auf Deutsch? In-Reply-To: <20131213050838.2B818777E@digitalhumanities.org> Amod, way back in 2000, on November 11, to be precise, I wrote an editorial for my internet portal Kulturanthropologie (Cultural Anthropology), then hosted by meOme AG of Berlin, that later became ntree AG to finally dissolve with the New Economy bubble, giving it the title: "Digitale Kulturwissenschaft: Verändert das Internet die Kulturwissenschaft?" I described the intent of said Digital Cultural Science as resulting from the traditional motif "Kulturgüter zu dokumentieren, in technischer Form aufzubewahren und weltweit zu verbreiten." My leader has been available ever since at the following URL: http://www-user.uni-bremen.de/~kr538/001111.html As an independent scholar, I have been living off less than 400 Euros per month plus rent during the past decades, while Germany has become the world leader in exports. H-GERMAN once asked me to review "Worldly Provincialism, German Anthropology in the Age of Empire." Perhaps this may help to answer the second part of your question. Best regards, Hartmut http://ww3.de/krech > Fascinating to me that the Germans seem to have chosen to leave the term > "Digital Humanities" untranslated. Does anyone know how and why this came > to be - why they don't just refer to "Digitalgeisteswissenschaften" or the > like? > > Best, Amod. > > -- > Amod Lele, PhD > Educational Technologist, Information Services & Technology > Lecturer, Philosophy > Visiting Researcher, Center for the Study of Asia > Boston University > Office: 617-358-6909 > Mobile: 617-645-9857 > lele@bu.edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 13:52:59 +0100 From: Patrick Sahle Subject: Re: 27.613 "digital humanities" auf Deutsch? In-Reply-To: <20131213050838.2B818777E@digitalhumanities.org> > Fascinating to me that the Germans seem to have chosen to leave the term > "Digital Humanities" untranslated. Does anyone know how and why this came > to be - why they don't just refer to "Digitalgeisteswissenschaften" or the > like? That's quite easy. 1. "Digitale Geisteswissenschaften" even for Germans is too long and awkward as a label that you would have to utter twice a minute in a lecture or once a sentence in a text 2. I think we liked to keep the reference to the global community avoiding the impression that this could be a national thing or a "German Sonderweg" In fact, we used "Digitale Geisteswissenschaften" once for a brochure on study programs in DH - to have an even broader term that would span Digital Humanities and other denominations: http://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de/dh-degrees-2011 , http://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de/Dokumente/BroschuereWeb.pdf Best, Patrick -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH) http://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de/ (Substitute, Professorship on Digital Humanities) Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing http://www.i-d-e.de (Managing Director) Postal: Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH), Universität zu Köln, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, D-50923 Köln Office: Universitätsstr. 22, Attic floor right Telephone: +49 - (0)221 - 470 3894 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Publication: Patrick Sahle, Digitale Editionsformen - http://www.i-d-e.de/schriften/s7-9-digitale-editionsformen Further information: http://www.uni-koeln.de/~ahz26 http://www.uni-koeln.de/%7Eahz26 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C5A5477B6; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 08:17:01 +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 61AFB7793; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 08:16:54 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 657567796; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 08:16:51 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131214071651.657567796@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 08:16:51 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.619 the social conditions of our work X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 619. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 18:24:58 +0200 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the social conditions of our work At the still ongoing Twelfth Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT12, http://www.bultreebank.org/TLT12/) António Branco (Lisbon), in "Reliability and Meta-reliability of Language Resources: Ready to initiate the Integrity Debate", provoked vigorous discussion that badly needs to spread out into the rest of the academic world. He raised the question of how the development of language resources could aspire to first class status as scientific work ("scientific" here meant in the European sense). But at least for me what jumped out of this question was great concern for the social conditions of intellectual work. These, I would argue, lead rather directly to the shocking problems Branco detailed in his paper: the extent not just of fraud and carelessness in scientific work ("scientific" now meant in the usual Anglophone sense) but the failure to be able to verify, i.e. replicate, results across the natural sciences and medicine. Branco detailed "worrying signs that, in what concerns mature and well established scientific fields, scientific activities and results may be untrustable to an extent larger than the possibly expected and acceptable. That this issue has recently hit the mass media is but an indicator of the volume and relevance of these signs, whose assessment and discussion became unavoidable across all sectors of the international scientific system." From the mass media he cited the following: "Unreliable Research: Trouble at the Lab", The Economist, 19 October 2013. Michael Hiltkik, "Science has Lost its Way, at a big Cost to Humanity", Los Angeles Times, 17 October 2013. Carl Zimmer, "A Sharp Rise in Retractions Prompts Calls for Reform", The New York Times, 16 April 2012. Sharon Begley, "In Cancer Science, Many 'Discoveries' don't Hold up", Reuters, 28 March 2012. Gautam Nail, "Scientists' Elusive Goal: Reproducing Study Results", The Wall Street Journal, 2 December 2011. The accepted and much publicized goal of scientific research, we all know, is to produce results that are totally independent of the researcher, time and place. Results have to be replicable. Some of the not-holding-up is indeed due to fraud, some to carelessness, some to hurry. But there are two issues here that concern those of us not in the natural sciences. The social issue is the pressure put on academics for publishable results and how some, or perhaps many, respond. During this same workshop Fr Roberto Busa's meticulousness was cited as the ideal that it is. But, I thought, consider the social conditions under which that great Jesuit scholar worked, and compare those with the conditions which afflict most of us now. Is this not an issue about which we should raise our collective voice? Why, I wonder, do we appear to be so helpless in the face of the corps of managers? The other issue is raised e.g. by Evelyn Fox Keller in her subtle and powerful essay, "The Dilemma of Scientific Subjectivity in Postvital Culture", in The Disunity of Science: Boundaries, Contexts, and Power, ed. Peter Galison and David J. Stump (Stanford, 1996). This issue is the systematic erasure of the human actor in scientific research -- the creation of the abstract "scientist" in the 2nd half of the 19C "who could speak for everyman but was no-man, in a double sense: not any particular man, and also a site for the not-man within each and every particular observer." Keller cites Brian Rotman's very fine study, Signifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero, in which he studies "the progressive loss of the anteriority of things to signs throughout European culture". So, a social problem and a philosophical problem, tightly interconnected. Like the scholars at this conference we have yet to figure out how to assess much of what we do. So, perhaps, at least as far as the philosophical problem is concerned, we have a chance to work out a way of saying "good" that can stand and be relied on without having to mean "good for everyman, and therefore no-man". But, then, the social problem cannot be avoided. The mindless, compelled rush into print, the silly chasing of public impact exercises, the following of grant money rather than one's developing interests, the bandwagon jumping etc. etc. harms us all. Do we lack the courage of our convictions because we've lost the convictions? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 6FA8077C3; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 08:19:27 +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 033C07797; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 08:19:19 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0444F7796; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 08:19:15 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131214071916.0444F7796@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 08:19:15 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.620 jobs: CLIR postdocs; project manager position X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 620. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Owen Williams (7) Subject: Two Folger opportunities [2] From: Dot Porter (143) Subject: CLIR post-doc in early modern data curation at Penn [3] From: "Dalmau, Michelle Denise" (5) Subject: CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship in Data Curation for Early Modern Studies: Deadline, 12/27/2013! --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 15:29:11 +0000 From: Owen Williams Subject: Two Folger opportunities Two very different Folger positions are available for early modernists with some digital humanities experience. Please help us get the word out to suitable candidates. The first is for a postdoctoral CLIR-Folger Digital Communities Fellow to contribute to ongoing digital initiatives at the Library and to help plan and implement new ones, especially those involving data curation: http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/applicants/dc-ems The application deadline is 27 December 2013. Applicants must have received a Ph.D. after January 1, 2009, but before the two-year fellowship begins. The position is held in the Folger Institute, but the fellow will collaborate with interdepartmental teams. As was introduced during the fall meeting, the second is for a Project Manager for the IMLS-funded Early Modern Manuscripts Online (EMMO) project: http://www.folger.edu/Content/About-Us/Employment-and-Internships/#EMMO Heather Wolfe will be the Project Manager's supervisor, and the employment term is for three years. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 11:09:38 -0500 From: Dot Porter Subject: CLIR post-doc in early modern data curation at Penn Thrilled to share this announcement, and apologies for cross-posting. Please share widely. Deadline is December 27. Feel free to contact me with any questions. Full description and application details: http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/applicants/pennsylvania-ems2014 Dot ******* University of Pennsylvania *P**e**n**n Provenance Project Fellow* The University of Pennsylvania Libraries seek an innovative and energetic CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for Early Modern Studies to play an integral role in the working life of the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at Penn’s Van Pelt Library, including overseeing the transition of the Penn Provenance Project (PPP) and its data to a new platform. *P**e**n**n Provenance Project (PPP)* Through its faculty and library resources, the University of Pennsylvania has long been at the forefront of book history and material text research, especially in the early modern era. Building on this strength, the Kislak Center is actively becoming a node for provenance history research. This research is essential for understanding how texts moved through the early modern world, what kinds of books collectors and libraries of the period valued, and the nature of print and manuscript cultural production. The fellow will play a key role in developing this field through his or her research and involvement in working with book historical data at the Kislak Center through the Penn Provenance Project. Born out of a CLIR hidden collections grant, the PPP was created by the Kislak Center’s cataloging team which has captured more than 12,000 images of provenance markings, bookstamps, and bindings. Dating largely from the early modern period, these invaluable witnesses to the history of book culture and circulation are available to the world through Flickr for viewing, comment, and identification (http://www.flickr.com/people/58558794@N07/). The Penn Provenance Project differs from many other provenance initiatives in that it places digital images of markings, stamps, and inscriptions alongside bibliographic information. This visual data allows researchers and the public to compare physical objects all around the world and will eventually enable scholars to survey the landscape of early modern book culture with ease and precision. There have been over one million page views of content from the site and the project has proved useful in identifying a number of previously unknown book owners. The global community for the site includes people from many backgrounds, including experts in paleography from Germany as well as non-academics like Pedro Joaristi who identified one of his father’s books based on our photographs. The Kislak Center is now poised to develop the Penn Provenance Project well beyond the boundaries of our own collections in order to help identify and curate marks of ownership from book and manuscript holdings worldwide. Currently a wealth of information about early modern book owners and libraries exists within the PPP’s Flickr site but this data is largely unstructured and is not in easy machine-readable conversation with other resources. The CLIR fellow will be an integral part of the Penn Provenance Project team as it plans and executes the transition from Flickr and will have the responsibility of curating the data generated by the expanded project. In order to bring as many data sources to bear on the project as possible, the fellow will work closely with several partner institutions. For example, the curators of rare books and manuscripts at the Folger Library have agreed to participate in growing the PPP by contributing provenance information from their rich early modern holdings. The fellow will ensure that all data gathered and generated by the PPP and partners is available openly and linked with larger early modern data repositories like the Consortium of European Research Libraries’ (CERL) online provenance database. *P**e**n**n Provenance Project Fellow responsibilities:* - Project management: ensuring the project stays on time and others' tasks are done in a timely manner - Data mapping and transformation: working with colleagues to implement a data model and managing the movement of data from Flickr to a new repository - Bringing in new data: working with colleagues to ingest images and provenance descriptions from both Penn and partner institutions into the PPP. - Expanding the range of partner participants: offering guidance and instruction to the faculty, students, and library staff that will be generating new data for the project. - Linking data: working with colleagues and partners to ensure that PPP data is linked with other data sources in the field, such as the VIAF and CERL authority files. - Promoting use of the PPP: through teaching, independent research, papers, online or live presentations, workshops and/or symposia that help scholars, students, librarians, and the general public understand the significance of provenance data to Early Modern Studies. - Strategic development of the PPP: planning and experimenting with innovative ways of displaying and analyzing the project’s data. At Penn the fellow will report to Will Noel (Director – Kislak Center) and receive mentoring and guidance from experts in the field. These include, Dot Porter (Curator of Digital Research Services), Doug Emery (Digital Content Programmer), Zack Lesser (Associate Professor, Department of English), Peter Stallybrass (Professor, Department of English) as well as the wider Philadelphia history of the book community. The fellow will also be a member of the English Department at Penn and will have access to the resources and faculty of that body. He or she will also have the opportunity to participate in the programs of the Kislak Center and the English Department including organizing seminars on best digital practices, delivering lectures, and curating exhibitions. The fellow will help plan, solicit contributions, and speak at the seventh annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age in 2015. This will provide the fellow with a platform for presenting new developments in the field of early modern data curation, including those to which he or she has contributed. *Qualifications* The candidate will hold a PhD in an area of early modern studies, with a concentration in the history of the book. Working knowledge of at least one non-English language is preferred. Experience with prior digital projects and some knowledge of programming preferred. Prior work experience in special collections is desirable. *About the Kislak Center* The Kislak Center is the product of a $17 million renovation project and houses an extraordinary collection of rare books and manuscripts. Its mission is to bring its collections together with modern technology and a wide base of patrons in order to provide access to and understanding of our common cultural and intellectual heritage. The fellow will benefit from the combined skills and knowledge of the Kislak Center’s curators, researchers, and technology professionals as well as the faculty of various humanities departments and the wider resources of the University. The Kislak Center has a deep commitment to provenance research and book history and the fellow will be able to draw upon the resources and expertise already extant here. For instance, the Center already supports the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts (SBDM). The SBDM is the largest repository of manuscript provenance data in the world, currently containing over 200,000 records, with more being added each day, representing the movements of approximately 90,000 manuscripts. The records in the SBDM represent not only a wealth of data on manuscripts produced in the early modern period but also records of countless book transactions and sales from that era. In addition, the Kislak Center hosts digital facsimiles of more than 3,000 manuscript books from the early modern period in its collections, which might fruitfully be used in the Penn Provenance Project. The Center also has extensive expertise in working with data. The Curator for Digital Research Services, for example, is a co-Director of the Mellon-funded Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA) project to aggregate data on digitized medieval collections of manuscripts and other objects. -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter@gmail.com Personal blog: dotporterdigital.org Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance: http://www.mesa-medieval.org MESA blog: http://mesamedieval.wordpress.com/ MESA on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MedievalElectronicScholarlyAlliance *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 17:04:02 +0000 From: "Dalmau, Michelle Denise" Subject: CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship in Data Curation for Early Modern Studies: Deadline, 12/27/2013! The Indiana University Libraries, with support from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, are seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow to work on advancing scholarly and research data curation practices and services in Early Modern Studies. The Fellow will be based organizationally in the Libraries, with a joint appointment in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science in the College of Arts and Sciences, and will collaborate with librarians, technologists, and faculty to further the state of data curation knowledge and practice for early modern scholars by establishing best practices, refining workflows, and building tools that will inevitably extend support for humanities data curation initiatives across Indiana University. The Fellow will contribute primarily to The Chymistry of Isaac Newton project (http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/newton), an online, scholarly and critical edition of Sir Isaac Newton's alchemical manuscripts comprised of nearly a million words, which have been transcribed and encoded according to the Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange (TEI) with the likelihood of expanding collaborations in related disciplines. The application deadline is December 27, 2013. Please consult the full post for more information: http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/applicants/indiana-ems2014. For details on how to apply, see: http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/applicants. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 0C52577CC; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 08:20:36 +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 267E277A0; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 08:20:29 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 570177797; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 08:20:26 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20131214072026.570177797@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 08:20:26 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.621 proposals for HathiTrust projects due 16 Dec. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 19:20:42 +0000 From: "Senseney, Megan Finn" Subject: Reminder: Letters of Intent due 12/16 for Prototyping Projects for the HathiTrust Research Center ***Reminder: The deadline for letters of intent is this Monday, 16 December!*** The HathiTrust Research Center http://www.hathitrust.org/htrc is seeking proposals for prototyping projects to define and implement a tool or service that will help scholars better identify and select relevant resources at scale from the HathiTrust http://www.hathitrust.org/ corpus and/or facilitate the construction of large-scale worksets useful for scholarly analyses. Grants of $40,000 will be offered to each of four successful respondents to be conducted over a nine-month period beginning April 2014. Workset Creation for Scholarly Analysis: Prototyping Project (WCSA) is generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation http://mellon.org/ . A complete copy of the RFP is attached to this email and available online at: http://worksets.htrc.illinois.edu/worksets/?page_id=20. RFP Schedule: RFP Available: 22 November 2013 Letters of Intent Due (preferred): 16 December 2013 Final Proposals Due: 13 January 2014 Shortlist Meeting Invitations Issued: 20 January 2014 Shortlist Meeting: 20 February 2014 Award Notification: No later than 15 March 2014 Program Description (see the full RFP for more detail): The HathiTrust (HT) is a large digitized-text corpus (> 10 million volumes) of keen interest to researchers working in a wide range of scholarly disciplines. To tap the analytic potential of this large and diverse corpus, to tame it and make it useful to them, many researchers need the wherewithal to gather together, into a kind of personal digital carrel, cohesive and coherent subsets of HT texts (potentially tens or hundreds of thousands of volumes or parts of volumes) amenable to the in depth forms of analysis they want to do. The attributes on which they seek to collocate digitized texts are not always recorded in standard bibliographic descriptions. The HTRC will collaborate with four independent sub-awardees in conducting individual prototyping projects to develop and validate the potential of specific algorithms, services and/or tools that can enable the creation of large and small scale worksets of digitized texts and parts of digitized texts for scholarly analysis in ways not currently feasible. We are seeking proposals from engaged teams of digital humanists, librarians and computer scientists. We anticipate that the proposals received will approach the problem in a variety of different and complementary ways. Proposed prototype experiments must respond to real scholar needs and requirements. Respondents are urged to contact htrc.wcsa@gmail.com, in advance of proposal submission to discuss eligibility, project details, prerequisites, and HTRC support with a member of the project team. Prime award project PIs are: J. Stephen Downie, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois Tim Cole, University Library, University of Illinois Beth Plale, Data to Insight Center, Indiana University -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 360007798; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 08:23:51 +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 697A7779B; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 08:23:43 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id EC825779B; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 08:23:40 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131214072340.EC825779B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 08:23:40 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.622 events: The Connected Past X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 622. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 02:21:15 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Brughmans Subject: Registration open The Connected Past conference in Paris The Connected Past conference (French version below) We would like to invite you to The Connected Past conference on network analysis in archaeology and history, held 26 April in Paris (just after the Computer Applications and Quantitative methods in Archaeology conference in Paris). More info and a programme can be found below or on our website: http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/conference-2014/ . Registration is free but since places are limited tickets will be allocated on a first-come-first-serve basis. Looking forward to seeing you there! The Connected Past A satellite conference at CAA 2014, Paris Held Saturday April 26th 2014 in Sciences Po, rooms Albert Sorel and Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, 27 rue Saint-Guillaume, 75007 Paris (metro Saint-Germain-des-Prés or Rue du Bac). Building A on this map. With the Support of Sciences Po, the DYREM research program, Médialab, the CAA committee, and the French network of historical network analysis. Organisers: Claire Lemercier (CNRS, Sciences Po, Paris), Tom Brughmans (University of Southampton), The Connected Past steering committee.   The conference aims to: * Provide a forum for the presentation of network-based research applied to archaeological or historical questions * Discuss the practicalities and implications of applying network perspectives and methodologies to archaeological and historical data in particular * Strengthen the group of researchers interested in the potential of network approaches for archaeology and history * Foster cross-disciplinary dialogue and collaborative work towards integrated analytical frameworks for understanding complex networks * Stimulate debate about the application of network theory and analysis within archaeology and history in particular, but also more widely, and highlight the relevance of this work for the continued development of network theory in other disciplines Read the complete call for papers The conference will be held immediately after the CAA conference (Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology), also happening in Paris, allowing participants to easily attend both – but participants from other disciplines, especially history, are also most welcome. A “The Connected Past” practical workshop, “Introduction to network analysis for archaeologists” will also be organized during CAA2014 in Paris (see the CAA programme). Oral presentations will be limited to 15 minutes so as to leave room for discussion. Most talk will be given in English, but some might be given in French and accompanied by English abstracts and presentations. French questions or answers will be welcome and translated during the debates. Posters will also be displayed and, in addition to specific conversations taking place during the pauses, their authors will be given 2 minutes each for a very short oral presentation. There are no attendance fees. Although this event is free of charge, registration is required and the number of places is limited. Places will be allocated on a first-come-first-serve basis. The Connected Past is a community led by a multi-disciplinary international steering committee. It aims to provide discussion platforms for the development of original and critical applications of network and complexity approaches to archaeology and history. To this purpose The Connected Past organises international conferences, focused seminars and practical didactic workshops. Programme All the presentations and posters have been confirmed, but the exact programmeis still subject to minor changes Saturday 26 April 9-9.45 Welcome coffee and introduction 9.45-11 First session: Mobility through networks Eivind Heldaas Seland: Tracing trade routes as networks: From Palmyra to the Persian Gulf in the first three centuries CE Henrik Gerding and Per Östborn: Network analyses of the diffusion of Hellenistic fired bricks Marie Lezowski: Cohesion through mobility : the networks of relics in 17th-century Lombardy 11-11.15 Coffee break 11.15-12.30 Second session: Dynamics and cross-period comparisons Habiba, Jan C. Athenstädt and Ulrik Brandes: Inferring Social Dynamics from Spatio-Temporal Network Data in the US Southwest Ana Sofia Ribeiro: Resilience in times of Early Modern financial crises: the case study of Simon Ruiz network, 1553-1606 Marion Beetschen: Social Network Analysis as a Complementary Methodological Tool in History 12.30-13.45 Lunch break 13.45-15 Third session: Cross-cultural networks Angus A. A. Mol and Floris W. M. Keehnen: Tying up Columbus: A historical and material culture study of the networks that resulted from the first European voyages into the Caribbean (AD 1492-1504) Francisco Apellaniz: Cooperating in Complex Environments: Cross-cultural Trade, Commercial Networks and Notarial Culture in Alexandria (Egypt) : 1350-1500 Florencia Del Castillo and Joan Anton Barceló: Inferring the intensity of Social Network from radiocarbon dated Bronze Age archaeological contexts 15-15.15 Coffee break 15-15.50 Fourth session: Political interactions Stanley Théry: Social network analysis between Tours notables and Louis XI (1461-1483) Laurent Beauguitte: Models of historical networks: A methodological proposal 15.50-16.45 Final session, including a very short (2 minutes) oral presentation for each poster, discussion of the posters and final general discussion Posters by: Zeynep Aktüre: The Ancient Theatre Network in the Mediterranean: A Structuralist Interpretation Inspired from Fernand Braudel’s Three Planes of Historical Time Thibault Clérice and Anthony Glaise: Network analysis and distant reading: The Cicero’s Network Damian Koniarek, Renata Madziara and Piotr Szymański: Towards a study of the structure of the business & science social network of the 2nd Polish Republic Susana Marcos: Familial alliances, social links et geographical network. The example of the province of Lusitania in the Roman Empire (to be confirmed) Stefania Merlo Perring: The ChartEx Project. Reconstructing spatial relationships from medieval charters: a collaboration between Data Mining and Historical Topography Sébastien Putniak: Archaeology as practical mereology: an attempt to analyze a set of ceramic refits using network analysis tools Grégoire van Havre: Interactions and network analysis of a rock art site in Morro do Chapéu, Bahia, Brazil Beatrice Zucca Micheletto: Network analysis and gender's studies: some issues from the Italian case (Turin, 17th-18th centuries) 16.45 Drinks and informal discussion —- French version —– The Connected Past Dans le cadre du congrès CAA 2014 (informatique et méthodes quantitatives en archéologie) à Paris Un événement organisé par le réseau “The Connected Past” Avec le soutien de Sciences Po Paris, du programme de recherche DYREM, du Médialab, the CAA committee, et du groupe Res-Hist, Réseaux et Histoire Samedi 26 avril 2014 à Sciences Po, amphithéâtres Albert Sorel et Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, 27 rue Saint-Guillaume, 75007 Paris (métro Saint-Germain-des-Prés ou Rue du Bac) Organisation : Claire Lemercier (CNRS, Sciences Po, Paris), Tom Brughmans (University of Southampton), le comité scientifique de The Connected Past “The Connected Past” est un groupe de chercheurs doté d’un comité scientifique international et interdisciplinaire. Son objectif est d’offrir des lieux de discussion autour du développement d’applications originales des approches en termes de réseaux et de complexité en archéologie et en histoire. Pour cela, il organise depuis 2011 des colloques, séminaires et ateliers de formation. Les objectifs de la journée sont de : * Proposer un lieu commun de présentation pour des recherches appliquant des approches des réseaux à des questions archéologiques ou historiques * Discuter les spécificités et les implications de ces approches pour ces questions et types de données particuliers * Contribuer à la constitution d’un groupe de chercheur.se.s intéressé.e.s par le potentiel de ces approches en archéologie et en histoire * Encourager le dialogue interdisciplinaire et la recherche collective dans le domaine des réseaux complexes * Faire vivre les débats sur l’application des théories et méthodes sur les réseaux, en histoire, archéologie, et en retour dans d’autres disciplines. Lire l'appel à comunications complet en versions anglaise et française. La journée de Paris se tiendra dans la foulée du congrès d’archéologie CAA, afin de permettre à ses participants d’être présents s’ils le souhaitent ; mais les propositions pour la journée émanant d’autres disciplines et notamment de l’histoire sont tout à fait bienvenues, indépendamment de toute participation au congrès CAA. Les présentations orales seront limitées à 15 minutes, de manière à laisser un temps important aux discussions. La plupart des communications orales seront présentées en anglais, mais certaines seront en français avec des résumés et supports visuels en anglais. Il sera possible d’intervenir en français dans les discussions. Des posters seront également affichés et, en plus des discussions auxquelles ils pourront donner lieu pendant les pauses, une session sera dédiée à leur présentation orale très rapide (2 minutes) et à une discussion générale à leur sujet. Il n’y a pas de frais d’inscription, mais, du fait de la taille des amphithéâtres, il est nécessaire de s’inscrire au préalable (en cas d’inscriptions trop nombreuses, seuls les premiers pourront entrer !). Notez enfin deux autres événements connexes auxquels nous vous encourageons également à participer * Un atelier pratique “The Connected Past” dans le cadre de la CAA : introduction aux réseaux sociaux pour archéologues (en anglais), voir CAA. * Les 9-11 avril 2014 à Toulouse, les secondes rencontres Res-Histsur l’analyse de réseaux en histoire, avec des invités étrangers, des présentations de recherches en cours et des ateliers pratiques de formation. Programme (certains détails d'organisation interne peuvent changer) Samedi 16 avril 9h-9h45 Accueil, café, introduction 9h45-11h Première session : Réseaux et mobilités Eivind Heldaas Seland : Tracing trade routes as networks: From Palmyra to the Persian Gulf in the first three centuries CE Henrik Gerding et Per Östborn : Network analyses of the diffusion of Hellenistic fired bricks Marie Lezowski : Cohesion through mobility : the networks of relics in 17th-century Lombardy 11h-11h15 Pause café 11h15-12h30 Deuxième session : Dynamique des réseaux et comparaisons entre périodes Habiba, Jan C. Athenstädt et Ulrik Brandes : Inferring Social Dynamics from Spatio-Temporal Network Data in the US Southwest Ana Sofia Ribeiro : Resilience in times of Early Modern financial crises: the case study of Simon Ruiz network, 1553-1606 Marion Beetschen : Social Network Analysis as a Complementary Methodological Tool in History 12h30-13h45 Pause déjeuner 13h45-15h Troisième session : Echanges inter-culturels Angus A. A. Mol etFloris W. M. Keehnen : Tying up Columbus: A historical and material culture study of the networks that resulted from the first European voyages into the Caribbean (AD 1492-1504) Francisco Apellaniz : Cooperating in Complex Environments: Cross-cultural Trade, Commercial Networks and Notarial Culture in Alexandria (Egypt) : 1350-1500 Florencia Del Castillo etJoan Anton Barceló : Inferring the intensity of Social Network from radiocarbon dated Bronze Age archaeological contexts 15h-15h15 Pause café 15h-15h50 Quatrième session : Interactions politiques Stanley Théry : Social network analysis between Tours notables and Louis XI (1461-1483) Laurent Beauguitte : Models of historical networks: A methodological proposal 15h50-16h45 Dernière session. Courtes présentations orales (2 mn) des posters, discussions des posters et discussion générale Posters de : Zeynep Aktüre : The Ancient Theatre Network in the Mediterranean: A Structuralist Interpretation Inspired from Fernand Braudel’s Three Planes of Historical Time Thibault Clérice et Anthony Glaise : Network analysis and distant reading: The Cicero’s Network Damian Koniarek, Renata Madziara et Piotr Szymański : Towards a study of the structure of the business & science social network of the 2nd Polish Republic Susana Marcos : Familial alliances, social links et geographical network. The example of the province of Lusitania in the Roman Empire (to be confirmed) Stefania Merlo Perring : The ChartEx Project. Reconstructing spatial relationships from medieval charters: a collaboration between Data Mining and Historical Topography Sébastien Putniak : Archaeology as practical mereology: an attempt to analyze a set of ceramic refits using network analysis tools Grégoire van Havre : Interactions and network analysis of a rock art site in Morro do Chapéu, Bahia, Brazil Beatrice Zucca Micheletto : Network analysis and gender's studies: some issues from the Italian case (Turin, 17th-18th centuries) 16h45 Pot de clôture et discussions informelles _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 897EB7A34; Mon, 16 Dec 2013 06:37:00 +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 83AF37A18; Mon, 16 Dec 2013 06:36:50 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 46E4C7A17; Mon, 16 Dec 2013 06:36:48 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131216053648.46E4C7A17@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 06:36:48 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.623 "digital humanities" auf Deutsch X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 623. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 15:07:28 +0100 From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.618 "digital humanities" auf Deutsch In-Reply-To: <20131214070214.634317797@digitalhumanities.org> I agree that "Digitale Geisteswissenschaften" is long but the 'European Summer School in Digital Humanities "Culture & Technology"' is called in German 'Europäische Sommeruniversität in Digitalen Geisteswissenschaften "Kulturen & Technologien"'. This long denomination is used in every publication in German. Best, Elisabeth Am 14.12.2013 08:02, schrieb Humanist Discussion Group: > That's quite easy. > > 1. "Digitale Geisteswissenschaften" even for Germans is too long and > awkward as a label that you would have to utter twice a minute in a > lecture or once a sentence in a text > 2. I think we liked to keep the reference to the global community > avoiding the impression that this could be a national thing or a "German > Sonderweg" > > In fact, we used "Digitale Geisteswissenschaften" once for a brochure on > study programs in DH - to have an even broader term that would span > Digital Humanities and other denominations: > http://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de/dh-degrees-2011 , > http://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de/Dokumente/BroschuereWeb.pdf > > Best, Patrick > > -- 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 71E1F7A7E; Mon, 16 Dec 2013 06:49:14 +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 5C8E77A2F; Mon, 16 Dec 2013 06:49:05 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id ADA917A2E; Mon, 16 Dec 2013 06:49:03 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131216054903.ADA917A2E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 06:49:03 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.624 jobs: another CLIR postdoc X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 624. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 22:57:44 +0000 From: Daniel Powell Subject: Six Degrees of Francis Bacon - CLIR Postdoc Position Six Degrees of Francis Bacon is hiring an Early Modern Data Curation Fellow. The position is a 2 year postdoc, $60k + benefits. Application deadline is Dec. 27th. Please alert any possible candidates or consider applying yourself! Further particulars at the link below: http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/applicants/carnegie-ems2014 Best wishes, Chris -- Christopher Warren Assistant Professor of English Literary and Cultural Studies Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Ave. English Department Baker-Porter Hall 259 Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA http://www.cmu.edu/hss/english/people/faculty/bios/warren-christopher.html -- Daniel Powell Doctoral Candidate Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory Department of English University of Victoria _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AC8E37A7F; Mon, 16 Dec 2013 06:50:48 +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 50CB17A2F; Mon, 16 Dec 2013 06:50:39 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9CA8F7A2E; Mon, 16 Dec 2013 06:50:37 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131216055037.9CA8F7A2E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 06:50:37 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.625 events: Applying Peirce; digital art and visual 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. 27, No. 625. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Amirouche Moktefi Subject: CFP - Applying Peirce II (Helsinki & Tallinn, 2014) [2] From: Øyvind_Eide (42) Subject: Digital Art and Visual Studies in Passau --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 17:24:21 +0200 From: Amirouche Moktefi Subject: CFP - Applying Peirce II (Helsinki & Tallinn, 2014) Call for Papers Applying Peirce: The Second International Conference on Peirce's Thought and Its Applications Helsinki, Finland & Tallinn, Estonia (22-25 April 2014) Research in Charles Sanders Peirce's thought has grown rapidly both within and outside the arena of philosophy on the global level. Peirce's pioneering contributions to philosophy, pragmatism, logic, the theory of signs, philosophy of science and to numerous other fields are currently being explored not only in philosophy but also in other sciences and in art studies. The second installment of the Applying Peirce conference, first held in Helsinki in 2007, brings together Peirce scholars and researchers to explore and discuss Peirce's thought and applications in diverse fields. The meeting takes place in the twin cities of Helsinki (22-23 April) and Tallinn (24-25 April), connected by a two-hour ferry ride. The programme consists of several workshops and a selection of contributed papers. The organizers invite submissions on any topic in accordance to the theme of the conference. We encourage proposals that explore the applicability of Peirce's thought to current questions and problems in various disciplines across the sciences and the arts that identify the leading edge on Peirce studies. Please send *an abstract of 300-500 words to info@nordprag.org by 1 February 2014* (in pdf, rtf or doc format). Notifications of acceptance will be sent by 8 February 2014. Further details will be found on the website of the conference at: http://www.nordprag.org/ap2.html Separate calls for the thematic workshops will be launched shortly by their organizers. Chair of the organizing committee: Prof. Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 09:28:42 +0100 From: Øyvind_Eide Subject: Digital Art and Visual Studies in Passau Dear colleagues, There will be a series of public lectures in Digital Art and Visual Studies in Passau in January-March next year, made possible by a cooperation between the chair of Digital Humanities and the chair or History of Art/Visual Studies. The lectures will take place at the University of Passau, Germany and will be given in German. The programme is as follows: Passauer Gespräche zur digitalen Kunst- und Bildgeschichte Mittwoch, 8. Januar 2014, 18-20 Uhr, (PHIL) HS 4 Hubertus Kohle, München Museum und Web 2.0 Mittwoch, 22. Januar 2014, 18-20 Uhr, Atelier in der Kunstpädagogik Christian Thanhäuser, Ottensheim und Falk Nordmann, Berlin, Künstlergespräch Zeichnen: analog und digital Mittwoch, 29. Januar 2014, 18-20 Uhr, (PHIL) HS 4 Christoph Wagner, Regensburg Iconic turn, Neurological turn, Digital turn Zu einigen Perspektiven der Kunstgeschichte im digitalen Zeitalter Mittwoch, 5. Februar 2014, 18-20 Uhr, (IM) HS 12 Georg Schelbert, Berlin Digitale Kunstgeschichte – Ein Landschaftsbild Donnerstag, 27. März 2014, 16-17 Uhr, (WiWi) HS 8 Katja Kwastek, Amsterdam Keynote im Rahmen der Digital Humanities Jahrestagung in Passau Vom Bild zum Bild. Digital Humanities jenseits des Texts Konzeption und Planung: Malte Rehbein und Jörg Trempler You are all invited to participate in these public lectures. Please get in touch if you have any questions. Kind regards, Øyvind Eide -- Dr. Øyvind Eide Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Lehrstuhl für Digital Humanities URL: http://www.phil.uni-passau.de/rehbein.html Universität Passau Innstr. 40 (Nikolakloster) 94032 Passau Büro: NK 429 fon: +49.851.509.3454 (Sekretariat .3451) fax: +49.851.509.3452 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 649CE7A7F; Mon, 16 Dec 2013 06:54:45 +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 72F5B7A2E; Mon, 16 Dec 2013 06:54:36 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 155157A18; Mon, 16 Dec 2013 06:54:34 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131216055434.155157A18@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 06:54:34 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.626 the social conditions of our work -- and another report X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 626. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Dr. Hartmut Krech" (28) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.619 the social conditions of our work [2] From: Willard McCarty (20) Subject: another report --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 09:30:58 +0100 From: "Dr. Hartmut Krech" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.619 the social conditions of our work In-Reply-To: <20131214071651.657567796@digitalhumanities.org> Willard, please allow me to take sides with your statement and emphasize the aspect of "responsibility" in scientific research, for which you cite several papers that appeared in 2012-2013. Responsibility in the sense of verification and validation, but also responsible authorship, rings as a new idea to my ears, although we may ask if this approach is anything new since Socrates' dialogues. Only yesterday, in an inconspicuous article on "Gut Bacteria Vary with Diet," The Scientist, December 13, 2013, http://www.the-scientist.com//?articles.view/articleNo/38643/title/Gut-Bacteria-Vary-with-Diet/ I came across a statement by Mayo Clinic gastroenterologist Purna Kashyap, whom I may perhaps quote as exemplary: "With discovery comes responsibility. Once you make this big finding, it needs to be tested appropriately." Isn't it a surprising and gratifying experience to read your extended commentary on "scientific responsibility" this morning? Best, Hartmut http://ww3.de/krech Am 14.12.2013 08:16, schrieb Humanist Discussion Group: > But at least for me what jumped out of this > question was great concern for the social conditions of intellectual > work. These, I would argue, lead rather directly to the shocking problems > Branco detailed in his paper: the extent not just of fraud and carelessness > in scientific work ("scientific" now meant in the usual Anglophone sense) > but the failure to be able to verify, i.e. replicate, results across the natural > sciences and medicine. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 05:47:53 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: another report In-Reply-To: <20131214071651.657567796@digitalhumanities.org> In addition to those reports on questionable practices in the STEM disciplines, thanks to António Branco I can add the following: > Mara Hvistendahl, "China's Publication Bazaar: A Science > investigation has uncovered a smorgasbord of questionable practices > including paying for author's slots on papers written by other > scientists and buying papers from online brokers", Science 342 (29 > November 2013): 1035-9; www.sciencemag.org As Editor of a journal, and so in close contact with a journal publisher, I can certainly attest to signs of questionable practices along such lines. But again, before wagging fingers, let's look to the social conditions which affect and afflict those who cannot resist the pressure, which really means us all. Further comment? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CF2537AA0; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 08:26:28 +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 764397A96; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 08:26:16 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 30E377A97; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 08:26:14 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131217072614.30E377A97@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 08:26:14 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.627 the social conditions of our work X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 627. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 09:55:13 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Re: 27.619 the social conditions of our work In-Reply-To: <20131214071651.657567796@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, Two comments: 1. You are right to stress that the pursuit of research funding has create pressures which distort research funding. Another discussion of this to add to the excellent list which you provide is: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=trial-sans-error-how-pharma-funded-research-cherry-picks-positive-results&page=2 However, scientific research is expensive, and often simply will not take place unless it is funded. We all have an interest in well-funded pharmaceutical research. I personally would be happy to pay more taxes to ensure that there is a vibrant scientific research culture which is not dependent on commercial interests, but I suspect that this is not a view which command widespread assent. The same issues apply with Digital Humanities. DH is potentially expensive and that creates pressure on researchers to find money to fund their research ideas. 2. I don’t think we should assume that older generations of researchers were all as scrupulous as Fr Busa. One need only think of the controversy around Cyril Burt to show that this is by no means a new problem (A good new discussion of the Burt controversy is by Plucker, J. A. (Ed.). (2013). Human intelligence: Historical influences, current controversies, teaching resources: http://www.intelltheory.com/burtaffair.shtml). Burt’s motives remain obscure: some have ascribed them to illness, others to an overweening sense of self-aggrandisement (the besetting sin of academics, far more worrying than pursuit of research income): http://www.education.auckland.ac.nz/webdav/site/education/shared/hattie/docs/the-burt-controversy-%281991%29.pdf. This pursuit of respectability and social prestige appears to have been in the past a major factor in scientific fraud, as the series of fraudulent discoveries (including perhaps Piltdown Man) associated with the name of Charles Dawson suggest: http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/caah/landscapeandtownscapearchaeology/piltdown_man_a.html. Maybe the issue is not that scientific fraud is becoming more commonplace, but rather that the motives are changing - it is nowadays more frequently a case of financial survival, whereas in the past fraud was undertaken in pursuit of fame and fortune. 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 14 Dec 2013, at 07:16, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 619. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 18:24:58 +0200 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: the social conditions of our work > > > At the still ongoing Twelfth Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic > Theories (TLT12, http://www.bultreebank.org/TLT12/) António Branco > (Lisbon), in "Reliability and Meta-reliability of Language Resources: > Ready to initiate the Integrity Debate", provoked vigorous discussion > that badly needs to spread out into the rest of the academic world. He > raised the question of how the development of language resources could > aspire to first class status as scientific work ("scientific" here meant > in the European sense). But at least for me what jumped out of this > question was great concern for the social conditions of intellectual > work. These, I would argue, lead rather directly to the shocking problems > Branco detailed in his paper: the extent not just of fraud and carelessness > in scientific work ("scientific" now meant in the usual Anglophone sense) > but the failure to be able to verify, i.e. replicate, results across the natural > sciences and medicine. > > Branco detailed "worrying signs that, in what concerns mature and well > established scientific fields, scientific activities and results may be > untrustable to an extent larger than the possibly expected and > acceptable. That this issue has recently hit the mass media is but an > indicator of the volume and relevance of these signs, whose assessment > and discussion became unavoidable across all sectors of the > international scientific system." > > From the mass media he cited the following: > > "Unreliable Research: Trouble at the Lab", The Economist, 19 October 2013. > Michael Hiltkik, "Science has Lost its Way, at a big Cost to Humanity", > Los Angeles Times, 17 October 2013. > Carl Zimmer, "A Sharp Rise in Retractions Prompts Calls for Reform", The > New York Times, 16 April 2012. > Sharon Begley, "In Cancer Science, Many 'Discoveries' don't Hold up", > Reuters, 28 March 2012. > Gautam Nail, "Scientists' Elusive Goal: Reproducing Study Results", The > Wall Street Journal, 2 December 2011. > > The accepted and much publicized goal of scientific research, we all > know, is to produce results that are totally independent of the > researcher, time and place. Results have to be replicable. Some of the > not-holding-up is indeed due to fraud, some to carelessness, some to hurry. > But there are two issues here that concern those of us not in the > natural sciences. > > The social issue is the pressure put on academics for publishable > results and how some, or perhaps many, respond. During this same > workshop Fr Roberto Busa's meticulousness was cited as the ideal that it > is. But, I thought, consider the social conditions under which that > great Jesuit scholar worked, and compare those with the conditions which > afflict most of us now. Is this not an issue about which we should > raise our collective voice? Why, I wonder, do we appear to be so helpless > in the face of the corps of managers? > > The other issue is raised e.g. by Evelyn Fox Keller in her subtle and > powerful essay, "The Dilemma of Scientific Subjectivity in Postvital > Culture", in The Disunity of Science: Boundaries, Contexts, and Power, > ed. Peter Galison and David J. Stump (Stanford, 1996). This issue is the > systematic erasure of the human actor in scientific research -- the > creation of the abstract "scientist" in the 2nd half of the 19C "who > could speak for everyman but was no-man, in a double sense: not any > particular man, and also a site for the not-man within each and every > particular observer." Keller cites Brian Rotman's very fine study, > Signifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero, in which he studies "the > progressive loss of the anteriority of things to signs throughout > European culture". > > So, a social problem and a philosophical problem, tightly interconnected. > > Like the scholars at this conference we have yet to figure out > how to assess much of what we do. So, perhaps, at least as far as the > philosophical problem is concerned, we have a chance to work out a way > of saying "good" that can stand and be relied on without having to mean > "good for everyman, and therefore no-man". But, then, the social problem > cannot be avoided. The mindless, compelled rush into print, the silly chasing > of public impact exercises, the following of grant money rather than one's > developing interests, the bandwagon jumping etc. etc. harms us all. Do we > lack the courage of our convictions because we've lost the convictions? > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital > Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital > Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2CDC97AA5; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 08:28:04 +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 642E97AA0; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 08:27:54 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 21C457A98; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 08:27:53 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131217072753.21C457A98@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 08:27:53 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.628 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. 27, No. 628. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Wim Van-Mierlo (13) Subject: PhD Studentships through the Institute of English Studies [2] From: Seth van Hooland (18) Subject: PhD positions available for TIC-Belgium project --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 09:43:13 +0000 From: Wim Van-Mierlo Subject: PhD Studentships through the Institute of English Studies This message is for potential PhD students based in the UK with an interest in textual scholarship, scholarly editing and historical bibliography. Through the School of Advanced Study, the Institute of English Studies is a member of the London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP). Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council London, LAHP offers up to 80 studentships for the academic year 2014-15. Details about the competition are available from the website, at http://www.lahp.ac.uk/studentships. The deadline is 31 January. Candidates interested in applying can contact me in the first instance. Please note that only UK/EU students are eligible to apply (though awards to EU students will be ‘fees only’). Please circulate to anyone who may be interested. Wim Dr Wim Van Mierlo Acting Director Institute of English Studies University of London Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU http://ies.sas.ac.uk The University of London is an exempt charity in England and Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (reg. no. SC041194) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 16:32:01 +0100 From: Seth van Hooland Subject: PhD positions available for TIC-Belgium project Dear colleagues, For the project “Transnational Intellectual Cooperation (TIC) Belgium” we are currently looking for three PhD-students and one scientific collaborator. Building on the latest innovations in digital humanities, network analysis, and elaborating a newly developed Virtual Research Environment for the study of international organizations, this project opens new perspectives on the history of social reform in the period 1815-1914, with a special emphasis on the Low Countries. The project shows the ways in which local and national welfare policies and legal regimes emerged in this period and demonstrates that such innovations were deeply embedded in transnational networks. Within this broader context, it focuses on the involvement of reformers from the Low Countries, and highlights their activities at home and abroad. The overall aim of the project is to demonstrate the interconnectedness of local activism, national reform agendas and the transnational circulation of ideas and practices related to welfare and legal reform, and to make an empirical contribution to the understanding of the transnational field of social and legal reform as both a social and discursive field. We aim to demonstrate this, firstly, by looking at the range and relative strength of domestic, national and transnational ties of a carefully selected focus group and secondly, by examining the framing of issues and ‘mental maps’ of the reformers in question, as these can be gleaned from reform discourses on social an legal change from the 19th century to the First World War. The project is divided into four interrelated subprojects: - PhD 1 en PhD 2 (Ghent University - Maastricht University): Networks of rooted cosmopolitans in the Low Countries (1815-1914) - PhD 3 (Université Catholique Louvain): The international intellectual background of socio-legal reforms in Belgium: dynamics of success and failure. Prosopography, power positions and publications - PhD 4 (Université libre de Bruxelles): Applying Linked Data principles in historical research (not vacant) - Development of the Virtual Research Environment (Ghent University), archives inventory, coordination digitization and document processing (State Archives) More information available on http://tic.ugent.be. 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 01F1B7AA8; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 08:29:08 +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 56DC17A9E; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 08:29:00 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E66B37A9E; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 08:28:57 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131217072857.E66B37A9E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 08:28:57 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.629 events: corpus linguistics; biography X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 629. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 14:52:23 +0100 From: Greta Franzini Subject: Leipzig eHumanities Seminar: Amir Zeldes & Paul Arthur Dear all, This week's Leipzig eHumanities seminar features two talks: Amir Zeldes: "Corpus Linguistics Tools for Sahidic Coptic" Paul Arthur: "Online Environments for Biographical Research" In: Room P801 (Paulinum, 8th floor), University of Leipzig On: Wednesday 18th December 2013 At: 3:15 PM to 4:45 PM Attendance at the seminar is free of charge. *ALL WELCOME* For further information, please visit: http://www.e-humanities.net/events/2013-ehum-seminar-call.html -- Greta Franzini Research Associate Digital Humanities Department of Computer Science University of Leipzig Augustusplatz 10-11 04109 Leipzig, Germany Phone: +49 341 97 32330 Email: franzini@informatik.uni-leipzig.de Web: www.dh.uni-leipzig.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 834797AA9; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 08:29:54 +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 11A147AA5; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 08:29:45 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0DCD07AA2; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 08:29:41 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131217072942.0DCD07AA2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 08:29:41 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.630 on the trustworthiness of models X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 630. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 09:56:00 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: modelling and simulation Many here, I expect, will be interested in science writer Jon Turney's article in Aeon Magazine, "A model world. In economics, climate science and public health, computer models help us decide how to act. But can we trust them?", found at http://aeon.co/magazine/world-views/should-we-trust-scientific-models-to-tell-us-what-to-do/. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B0CFE7AA2; Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:18:31 +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 3ABA33019; Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:18:21 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BB60B7AAD; Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:18:18 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131218081818.BB60B7AAD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:18:18 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.631 the social conditions of our work X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 631. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 13:22:36 +0100 From: "Dr. Hartmut Krech" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.627 the social conditions of our work In-Reply-To: <20131217072614.30E377A97@digitalhumanities.org> Willard, your words have surprised me not a few times when you seem to view your professional place with the eyes of an outsider like myself. An "independent" scholar lacking institutional support will soon lose his dedication and determination when he keeps on experiencing the same disenfranchisement over and over again. Perhaps this word is not too pretentious, if you accept that our personalities are socially defined by what we do and that we are successful in what we are doing. To aggregate perhaps 20,000 quotations for a vocabulary of 5,000 terms from a corpus that is not yet entirely machine-readable may take decades and the dedication that only an individual scholar is able to procure. Then please imagine the disappointment, discouragement, and perhaps understandable anger when the knowledge to be secured is treated, so to speak, in an edited volume by "institutionalized science workers" (scientists or scholars) in chapters of ten pages' length each. Even a good hypothesis will take its time. And the best and furthest reaching ideas are the simplest. I'm not arguing here for the "gentleman amateur" the likes of Sir Hans Sloane or James Smithson, founders of the British Museum and the institution behind the U.S. National Museum. One might even remind here of Elias Ashmole's acquisition strategy (poor Hester Tradescant drowned when she refused to cede her deceased husband's collection). And it may be true that independent scholars especially from the fields of science and engineering may become economically successful in their own business enterprises. But for the traditional humanities, you have very well made the point that we are still lacking rules of social responsibility. Apart from the subject of any scientific study, the point of view is also important. Who would deny such an insight? Rules of social responsibility may turn out just as important or even more important than the methodology of falsification in the sciences that relies upon the co-operation of and examination by as many informed scientists as possible. Quite the contrary, within the humanities, we should secure a place for the independent scholar and for the "apparatus" that he carries around with himself. If we fail to view the borders of our field to be wider than some university department or professional organization, we will soon be swamped by irrelevant edited volumes where nobody is really cognizant of the entire subject. Jumping upon bandwaggons that nobody drives. Thank you. Best regards, Hartmut http://ww3.de/krech Am 17.12.2013 08:26, schrieb Humanist Discussion Group: > The mindless, compelled rush into print, the silly chasing >>of public impact exercises, the following of grant money rather than one's >>developing interests, the bandwagon jumping etc. etc. harms us all. Do we >>lack the courage of our convictions because we've lost the convictions? _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 2F5337AB5; Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:19:44 +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 084DA7AB2; Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:19:35 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 814517AAD; Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:19:33 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131218081933.814517AAD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:19:33 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.632 postdoc at Alberta; PhD studentships at Roehampton X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 632. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Arianna Ciula (36) Subject: AHRC TECHNE PhD studentships - University of Roehampton (UK) [2] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (29) Subject: CLR/DLF Postdoctoral Fellow --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 13:31:49 +0000 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: AHRC TECHNE PhD studentships - University of Roehampton (UK) AHRC Studentships (PhD and masters) available at the University of Roehampton (London, UK) through the TECHNE Doctoral Training Partnership TECHNE (Greek: craft) (http://www.techne-research.co.uk) is an AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership, a Consortium of 7 higher education institutions, including the University of Roehampton, based in London and the South-East of the UK. Over 5 years (2014-2019), TECHNE will award around 176 PhD studentships and 25 masters studentships at its partner institutions. University of Roehampton applicants for PhD study are eligible to apply through the university for TECHNE Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) studentships (stipend and fee waiver) to start 1st October 2014. TECHNE PhD students will benefit from a rich and diverse development programme, with a focus on interdisciplinarity and developing career potential both within and beyond academia. The programme includes input and placement opportunities provided by TECHNE’s 13 partner organisations in the cultural sector (e.g. the Barbican, Victoria & Albert Museum, Natural History Museum, Museum of London, British Film Institute and Rose Theatre). At Roehampton, we cover a broad range of subjects in the arts and humanities, and we have the research expertise to supervise in most of the subject areas covered by TECHNE. To find out more about our areas of specialism and particular research interests, and for further information on how to apply for TECHNE studentships please go to: Website: http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/Courses/Graduate-School/TECHNE-AHRC-Doctoral-Training-Partnership/ General enquiries: contact Amy Brown in the Graduate School (Graduateschool [at] roehampton.ac.uk, tel. +44 (0) 20 8392 3619) The deadline for TECHNE applications for PhD studentships is the 19th February 2014. Information about how to apply for a TECHNE Masters studentships will be available early in 2014. ==== Dr Arianna Ciula Research Facilitator - Department of Humanities University of Roehampton London SW15 5PH http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/humanities/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 20:03:52 -0700 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: CLR/DLF Postdoctoral Fellow University of Alberta Libraries CLIR/DLF Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation and Web Archives University of Alberta Libraries (UAL) in cooperation with the Humanities Computing Program (HuCo) seeks a postdoctoral fellow to engage in the research, planning, creation and implementation of tools and services related to web archives. Working with UAL, Humanities Computing, and other interested partners, this fellowship position will be responsible for identifying and investigating potential use cases for digital scholarship made possible using web archives, and for identifying the requirements that follow from better understanding the need for improved access and manipulation of the data. Academic libraries are awakening to the value of web archives as an important component of cultural and scholarly record. However, the challenges of discovery, access and utility of these collections as they affect the needs of the researchers and end users they wish to serve is a relatively young field of study. While interest in web archives is growing, partly as a result of the impermanence readily observed with the web, many researchers remain unaware of the existence of national and institutional web archives. Those who are aware and attuned to web archiving programs, e.g. Humanities Computing communities, now look to the library as a partner. Libraries must enable better access to the data in order to satisfy the computational demands of digital scholarship. Duties & Responsibilities Identify existing research about the scholarly use of web archives in order to help the Libraries better understand weaknesses, gaps, and opportunities in the current research environment Examine and make recommendations around web archive-related service design addressing the needs of research communities, as well as other audiences, e.g. undergraduates, non-academic audiences Identify opportunities for the development of tools and services that would better support using web archived data captured in WARCs for research, with a specific focus on serving the needs of the digital humanities scholar Collaborate with Digital Initiatives and Collections teams on the development of collections and supporting functions, e.g. metadata that would better address scholarly requirements; enabling participatory collection building and the use/integration of archiving tools by campus research teams Research approaches for archiving online game culture, including the possibility of crowdsourcing the gathering of Canadian game culture documents; collaborate with a PhD candidate funded to work on game archiving Work with UAL to better communicate the goals and value of the web archiving program and its available collections to prospective audiences Develop tools and means to support scholarly interactions with web archived content, e.g. data mining, visualization, content analysis, topic modelling Support the overall work of the Libraries as it looks to scale web archiving collections activity to levels that will satisfy DH and other communities Required Qualification PhD in relevant areas of study, e.g. Library and Information Science, Archival Studies, Computing Science, Humanities and Social Sciences. Desired Qualifications Background in DH-related research, computing, or evidence of interest/experience with digital research technologies and platforms Knowledge and experience of relevant programming languages and scripts Fundamental skills in designing and conducting research Excellent project management and interpersonal communication skills Ability to work both independently and with teams Strong curiosity and passion for digital preservation, linked data, visualization, or similar areas of interest Role The fellow will report directly to the Digital Initiatives Coordinator, Libraries, and be a member of the Digital Initiatives unit. The fellow should expect to be an active contributor to a variety of relevant teams, and will be partnering with researchers in the Humanities Computing Program to support research projects using web archives. Professional Development Support The fellow may be eligible to receive local support for professional development and research sharing activities in addition to the CLIR/DLF program support. Salary Salary will be the CAD equivalent of $60,000 USD at time of appointment. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2DAF67AB9; Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:20:59 +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 BC7647AA9; Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:20:50 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4165B7AAA; Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:20:49 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131218082049.4165B7AAA@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:20:49 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.633 events: digital initiatives; LaTeX for editions X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 633. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Hugh Burkhart (51) Subject: Digital Initiatives Symposium: Call for Proposals [2] From: maurizio lana (11) Subject: winter school on LaTeX for critical editions --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 18:38:23 +0000 From: Hugh Burkhart Subject: Digital Initiatives Symposium: Call for Proposals Digital Initiatives Symposium When: April 9, 2014 Where: University of San Diego Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/digital-initiatives-symposium-tickets-9504204331 Proposals are now being accepted for the first annual Digital Initiatives Symposium, a day-long event focused on digital elements of library ecosystems and featuring a bepress Digital Commons user group meeting, hosted by Copley Library at the University of San Diego. The symposium's inaugural year will focus on digital initiatives and institutional repositories. With the growing popularity of institutional repositories, libraries are looking for new and increasingly diverse ways to integrate them more fully into library and university systems: as platforms for library publishing, as components of research data management plans, and as part of long-term preservation solutions. We are accepting proposals for 45-minute concurrent sessions and 1½-hour panel discussions. We welcome proposals on innovative uses and sites for repositories throughout the library and the university, and on practical, theoretical, organizational or administrative topics related to institutional repositories. We are particularly interested in sessions that consider · Innovative, “non-traditional,” or expanded repository services · Integrating repositories into other library initiatives, digital or otherwise · Integrating repositories into university initiatives outside the library (e.g., managing ETD workflows through repositories) · Liaison librarians, disciplines, and institutional repositories · Repositories as tools for research and pedagogy · Repositories in public, special, or other non-academic libraries · Institutional repositories and the scholarly communication lifecycle · Digital initiatives and copyright Submission Guidelines and Selection Criteria Panel discussions: 90 minutes Concurrent sessions (case studies, white papers, demonstrations, or panels): 45 minutes Please plan to leave 10-15 minutes for questions. Submissions must include: · Session title · Presenters’ names, titles, and affiliations · A brief abstract, no more than 300 words (If accepted, the abstract will be used as part of the program and published along with conference proceedings.) · A longer description of the session, approximately 500 words · A brief statement on learning outcomes for the session · Technology or other requirements Submissions will be evaluated based on the relevance of the topic and potential to advance thinking about digital initiatives and institutional repositories. Acceptance is competitive. Registration will be waived for accepted presenters. More about the Program · The day will feature two panel discussions and a number of concurrent sessions to explore these and other questions about institutional repositories. We welcome participants from all sizes and types of institutions and at all stages of IR development, from those running robust programs to those just exploring the idea of repositories. · The symposium will feature two keynote addresses: Lorraine Haricombe, Dean of the University of Kansas Libraries Lee Van Orsdel, Dean of University Libraries at Grand Valley State University · The day will end with a bepress Digital Commons user group session. This session will be led by bepress and is intended for people already working with Digital Commons and those interested in learning more. Submit proposals and questions to Kelly Riddle, Digital Initiatives Librarian at the University of San Diego, at kriddle@sandiego.edu or 619-260-6850. Important Dates January 27, 2014: Proposal submission deadline February 15, 2014: Notification of acceptance February 20, 2014: Selected presenters must confirm presentations March 15, 2014: Registration deadline -- Hugh Burkhart – Assistant Professor, Reference Librarian Copley Library, University of San Diego San Diego, CA 92110-2492 (619)260-2366 hburkhart@sandiego.edu Subject Guides: http://tinyurl.com/hburkhart Copley Library: Explore ▪ Discover ▪ Succeed --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 00:06:23 +0100 From: maurizio lana Subject: winter school on LaTeX for critical editions dear all, the deadline for the "winter school on LaTeX for critical editions" (January 27-31 2014, Vercelli, Università del Piemonte Orientale; see Humanist issue nr. 27.612) which was originally set on January 10 2014 will be brought forward to December 31, 2013. the reason is that enrolled people must have the time to choose the best flights, should they want to do that. see you in Vercelli! maurizio -- Maurizio Lana +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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5DC067AB9; Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:25:27 +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 BEE2B7AAA; Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:25:18 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7A8EE7AA2; Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:25:16 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131218082516.7A8EE7AA2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:25:16 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.634 pubs: post-avant-garde; open fragmentary texts; biblical studies; 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. 27, No. 634. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Zaagsma, Gerben" Subject: Special issue BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review on Digital History [2] From: Greta Franzini (31) Subject: Announcement: Leipzig Open Fragmentary Texts Series (LOFTS) [3] From: Willard McCarty (24) Subject: a new book [4] From: Litteraria Pragensia (57) Subject: 3 NEW TITLES FROM LITTERARIA PRAGENSIA BOOKS --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 10:13:59 +0000 From: "Zaagsma, Gerben" Subject: Special issue BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review on Digital History Dear friends and colleagues, Please allow me to point you to the special issue on Digital History of the BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review that was just published. http://www.bmgn-lchr.nl/index.php/bmgn/issue/view/515/ Please share as appropriate and my apologies for any cross-posting. With kind regards, Gerben Zaagsma http://www.bmgn-lchr.nl/index.php/bmgn/issue/view/515/ Special issue BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review on Digital History Is the digital revolution causing a complete transformation of historical research? Are new search methods changing the way we do history? The latest issue of the BMGN – Low Countries Historical Review, the leading academic journal for the history of the Low Countries, focuses on Digital History. In this special issue Dutch and Belgian historians reflect on the challenges posed by the digital revolution for their profession. It is available now in open access via www.bmgn-lchr.nl http://www.bmgn-lchr.nl . The printed version will be presented during the first Dutch THATCamp in The Hague on January 14, 2014. This Digital History issue focuses on the methodological changes brought about by technological developments. It deals with the digitisation of analogue archives and its consequences for historians and the heritage sector, working with big data in huge research projects as well as small-scale digital historical research, the relationship between digital history and public history, the question how historical awareness and history itself changes in the digital age, and other topics. It also features a debate on ‘the end of Humanities 1.0’. Table of Contents Articles (guest-edited by Gerben Zaagsma) - On Digital History (Gerben Zaagsma) - The Scent of the Digital Archive. Dilemmas with Archive Digitisation (Charles Jeurgens) - Big Data for Global History. The Transformative Promise of Digital Humanities (Joris van Eijnatten, Toine Pieters and Jaap Verheul) - Digital Historical Research. Context, Concepts and the Need for Reflection (Hinke Piersma and Kees Ribbens) - History as Dialogue. On Online Narrativity (Chiel van den Akker) - Public History in a Digital context. Back to the Future or back to Basics? (Fien Danniau) Forum (edited by Geert Janssen and Kaat Wils) - Introduction (Geert Janssen and Kaat Wils) - A Smell of Higher Honey. e-Humanities Perspectives (Inger Leemans) - Veins filled with the Diluted Sap of Rationality. A Critical Reply to Rens Bod (Andreas Fickers) - A Higher Form of Hermeneutics? The Digital Humanities in Political Historiography (Marnix Beyen) - Who’s Afraid of Patterns? The Particular versus the Universal and the Meaning of Humanities 3.0 (Rens Bod) ------- Dr. Gerben Zaagsma Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Lichtenberg-Kolleg - the Göttingen Institute of Advanced Study Geismar Landstraße 11 D-37083 Göttingen Germany tel: +49-551-39-10750 http://www.lichtenbergkolleg.uni-goettingen.de http://gerbenzaagsma.org --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 17:47:59 +0100 From: Greta Franzini Subject: Announcement: Leipzig Open Fragmentary Texts Series (LOFTS) Dear all, The Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig is pleased to announce a new effort within the Open Philology Project http://www.dh.uni-leipzig.de/wo/open-philology-project/ : the /Leipzig Open Fragmentary Texts Series (LOFTS)/. In the first phase of LOFTS we invite public discussion as we finalize the goals, technological methods and editorial practices. The /Leipzig Open Fragmentary Texts Series/ is a new effort to establish open editions of ancient works that survive only through quotations and text re-uses in later texts (i.e., those pieces of information that humanists call "fragments"). As a first step in this process, the Humboldt Chair announces the Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (DFHG) Project , whose goal is to produce a digital edition of the five volumes of Karl Müller's /Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (FHG)/ (1841-1870), which is the first big collection of fragments of Greek historians ever realized. For further information, please visit: http://www.dh.uni-leipzig.de/wo/open-philology-project/the-leipzig-open-fragmentary-texts-series-lofts/ -- Greta Franzini Research Associate Digital Humanities Department of Computer Science University of Leipzig Augustusplatz 10-11 04109 Leipzig, Germany Phone: +49 341 97 32330 Email: franzini@informatik.uni-leipzig.de Web: www.dh.uni-leipzig.de --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 11:49:09 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: a new book Some here will be, and many should be :-), interested in a new book in our field, Digital Humanities in Biblical, Early Jewish and Early Christian Studies, ed. Claire Clivaz, Andrew Gregory and David Hamidovic (Brill, 2013). My push from prediction to moral injunction is explained in part by the opening statement in Clivaz's Introduction: > The essays in this book are written not only for specialists in the > related field of biblical, Jewish and Christian studies, but also for > scholars across the spectrum of the humanities and social sciences > who share a common interest in trying to understand changes in the > ways in which we read and write in a setting where more and more > information and data is being made available at increasingly faster > rates. The part that isn't explained is (here I go out on one of my favourite limbs) an imperative I think we should live by, namely to attempt to see in manifestations of digital humanities the common digital humanities being manifested. It is our "nihil a me alienum puto", highly demanding to live by, but so rewarding! And here is an example. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 15:22:04 +0100 From: Litteraria Pragensia Subject: 3 NEW TITLES FROM LITTERARIA PRAGENSIA BOOKS *3 NEW TITLES RECENTLY RELEASED FROM LITTERARIA PRAGENSIA BOOKS* WWW.LITTERARIAPRAGENSIA.COM *THE ORGAN-GRINDER'S MONKEY: CULTURE AFTER THE AVANT-GARDE* by Louis Armand ISBN 978-80-7308-466-0 (paperback). 266pp. Publication date: October 2013. http://litterariapragensia.wordpress.com/2013/10/05/the-organ-grinders-monkey/ “Armand is unafraid to ask the most basic questions, to go beyond the zone in which most cultural discussions operate in order to ask what underlies our capacity for thought, for imaging, for communication. Time and again he takes his reader to the edge of what is thinkable, subjecting familiar concepts to stringent analysis and casting an original light on old debates.”–Derek Attridge Theorising the “poetic turn” in cultural discourse from the 1950s to the present, *The Organ Grinder’s Monkey* examines the post-avant-garde condition mapped out in the work of an international roster of artists, writers, philosophers and film-makers, from Neo-Dada to the New Media, including Andy Warhol, Jean-Luc Godard, Cy Twombly, Jacques Derrida, Rosalind Krauss, Samuel Beckett, Harold Rosenberg, Clement Greenberg, Alain Badiou, Dusan Makavejev, Marjorie Perloff, Michael Dransfield, Charles Olson, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Veronique Vassiliou, Guy Debord, Joshua Cohen, Pierre Joris, Philippe Sollers, Karen Mac Cormack, Marshall McLuhan, Lukas Tomin, John Kinsella, and Vincent Farnsworth. *ALEPHBET: ESSAYS ON GHOST WRITING, NUTSHELLS & INFINITE SPACE* by Darren Tofts ISBN 978-80-7308-479-0 (paperback) 142pp Publication date: November 2013 http://litterariapragensia.wordpress.com/2013/11/19/alephbet/ *Alephbet *is a selection of essays on the uncanny prescience of the writer Jorge Luis Borges for the age of cyberspace and beyond. Darren Tofts explains how in the 1990s he turned his practice as a literary theorist towards media studies of the emergent internet and its remote time-spaces of interaction and presence at a distance. De rigueur at the time, the perception of similarities between the worlds of literature and cyberspace are here inflected with Borges’s profound and inscrutable influence. Looking back to this convergence of one form of textual alchemy with another, Tofts is startled by those moments when Borges’s fiction anticipated ways of understanding the ambience of the computer network, often creeping unknowingly into his writing to announce the other zones of social media that we now take for granted. *TEXT & WORK: THE MENARD CASE* eds. Tomas Koblizek, Petr Kotatko & Martin Pokorny ISBN 978-80-7308-483-7 (paperback) 200pp Publication date: November 2013 http://litterariapragensia.wordpress.com/2013/12/01/work-text/ The influence and reputation of 'Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote,' is easily comparable to the impact of groundbreaking theoretical texts. Numerous philosophers, aestheticians and theorists of literature, music, or visual arts have been induced by this short story by J.L. Borges to reconsider the status of the literary work of art, to rethink the relationship between work and text. The essays collected here move from analyses of the identity of the literary work of art, as it is explicitly established by Borges’s narrator, to arguments that simply employ the Menard case as an opportunity for discussing broader issues of literary studies and the philosophy of literature. *TO REQUEST A REVIEW COPY, PLEASE WRITE TO: INFO@LITTERARIAPRAGENSIA.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id ACE7F7AB7; Wed, 18 Dec 2013 11:38:19 +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 129267AB3; Wed, 18 Dec 2013 11:38:15 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C6CB17AAD; Wed, 18 Dec 2013 11:38:13 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131218103813.C6CB17AAD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 11:38:13 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.635 PhD studentships for 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. 27, No. 635. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 10:34:30 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: funding for the PhD in Digital Humanities at King's Potential students in the UK/EU who are interested in the PhD in Digital Humanities programme at King's College London (http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/study/pgr/index.aspx) should be aware of studentships offered by the London Arts and Humanities Partnership, http://www.lahp.ac.uk/. Please note that the rather confusing rubric "computational studies", listed under Panel C, Cultures and Heritage, Library and Information Studies, at http://www.lahp.ac.uk/about-lahp/subject-areas, is intended to include digital humanities. Note the application deadline: 31st January 2014, 17:00 GMT. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 09:28:02 +0000 From: James Stark Subject: BSHS Undergraduate Archive Grants Are you an undergraduate student writing a dissertation on a topic in the history of science, technology and medicine who would benefit from consulting archives? Or are you a supervisor who feels that your dissertation student(s) would make the most of the opportunity to include relevant primary archival material? If so, then why not apply for one of the OEC archive grants awarded by the British Society for the History of Science? These awards, of up to £150, are specifically designed to cover travel, or similar costs, associated with archival visits. Please send a completed application form (attached) to outreach@bshs.org.uk, to whom any further queries should be directed. Grant recipients will be invited to write a short account of their most exciting archival find for the BSHS magazine, Viewpoint http://www.bshs.org.uk/publications/viewpoint . For more details of this and other grant schemes run by the BSHS, see: http://www.bshs.org.uk/outreach-and-education/outreach-and-education-committee-grants. The deadline for applications is 4pm on Friday 17th January 2014. Successful applicants will be notified by Friday 14th February 2014. -- Dr James F. Stark Research Fellow The Making of Modern Anthrax, 1875-1920 (Pickering & Chatto, 2013) Leeds Humanities Research Institute University of Leeds LEEDS LS2 9JT UK Twitter: @KingTekkers http://www.twitter.com/KingTekkers / @ArtsEngaged web: leeds.academia.edu/JamesFStark http://leeds.academia.edu/JamesFStark phone: +44 (0)1133432021 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2C25C7AC1; Thu, 19 Dec 2013 11:59:39 +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 B033C7AAF; Thu, 19 Dec 2013 11:59:30 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E89CA7AA5; Thu, 19 Dec 2013 11:59:28 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131219105928.E89CA7AA5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 11:59:28 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.637 events: text, speech, dialogue; performing arts; research seminars; visualisation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 637. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Mcdaid, Sarah" (22) Subject: EVA London 2014: Reminder - call for proposals deadline 10 Jan [2] From: TSD 2014 (99) Subject: TSD 2014 - Preliminary Announcement [3] From: Doug Reside (29) Subject: CFP Extended: Digital Humanities and the Performing Arts in NYC [4] From: Christian Fuchs (56) Subject: CAMRI Research Seminars: Spring 2014 Programme@U of Westminster --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 10:59:10 +0000 From: "Mcdaid, Sarah" Subject: EVA London 2014: Reminder - call for proposals deadline 10 Jan ELECTRONIC VISUALISATION AND THE ARTS (EVA) LONDON 2014 ************************************************* Tuesday 8th July - Thursday 10th July 2014 Venue: British Computer Society, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7HA www.eva-london.org CALL FOR PROPOSALS Deadline: 10th January 2014 ******************************************************************************** ELECTRONIC VISUALISATION TECHNOLOGIES IN ART, MUSIC, DANCE, THEATRE, THE SCIENCES AND MORE Offers of papers, demonstrations, panel sessions and workshops by 10th January 2014 We are looking for varied session types. We invite proposals for papers, demonstrations, short performances, workshops or panel discussions. We especially invite presentations on topical subjects, and the newest and cutting edge technologies and applications for the 2014 conference themes. Demonstrations are as welcome as are more formally presented papers. 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. Themes for EVA London 2014 are: * Computer Arts and Electronics * Data and Scientific Visualization * Digitally Enhanced Reality and Everyware * Music and Performance * Open Source and Technologies * Virtual Cultural Heritage 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. *********************************************************** 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 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 13:27:14 +0000 From: TSD 2014 Subject: TSD 2014 - Preliminary Announcement ********************************************************* TSD 2014 - PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT ********************************************************* Seventeenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2014) Brno, Czech Republic, 8-12 September 2014 http://www.tsdconference.org/ The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association. Venue: Brno, Czech Republic TSD SERIES TSD series 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. 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 (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and disambiguation, 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) Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. [...] KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Ralph Grishman, New York University, USA Bernardo Magnini, FBK - Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions. Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal interactions. CONFERENCE PROGRAM The conference program will include oral presentations and poster/demonstration sessions with sufficient time for discussions of the issues raised. IMPORTANT DATES March 15 2014 ............ Submission of abstract March 22 2014 ............ Submission of full papers May 15 2014 .............. Notification of acceptance May 31 2014 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration August 3 2014 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts August 10 2014 ........... Notification of acceptance for demonstrations sent to the authors September 8-12 2014 ...... Conference date The contributions to the conference will be published in proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the conference. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the conference is English. ADDRESS All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to Ales Horak, TSD 2014 Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63 fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20 email: tsd2014@tsdconference.org The official TSD 2014 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/ LOCATION Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a population of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is located in the south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known for a wide range of cultural, natural, and technical sights. South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural center of the region. Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Eindhoven, Rome and Prague and by trains or buses from Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km). --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:41:29 -0500 From: Doug Reside Subject: CFP Extended: Digital Humanities and the Performing Arts in NYC *Call for Papers* Theatre Library Association and SIBMAS are pleased to announce their 2014 Conference: *Body, Mind, Artifact: Reimagining Collections* June 10-13, 2014 John Jay College New York City This will be a truly international event for professionals involved in libraries, archives, and museums of the performing arts, located in the heart of New York’s theatre district. The conference also celebrates the 60th anniversary of SIBMAS. We invite Papers on the following three major themes: *- Dance Preservation* *- Digital Humanities and the Performing Arts* *- Artifacts and Ephemera* Please review the detailed Call for Papers. Papers should not exceed 20 minutes and may be given in either English or French. Proposals may be submitted online through the Conference Website. http://www.sibmas.org/conferences/new-york-2014-invitation Submission deadline is 15 January 2014. For additional information, please contact: Nancy Friedland Conference Co-Chair nef4@columbia.edu Alan Jones Conference Co-Chair A.Jones@rcs.ac.uk --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 17:32:13 +0000 From: Christian Fuchs Subject: CAMRI Research Seminars: Spring 2014 Programme@U of Westminster CAMRI RESEARCH SEMINARS, SPRING 2014 University of Westminster Harrow Campus (Metropolitan Line: Northwick Park) Full programme as pdf: http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/CAMRISem2014.pdf Web overview of the programme: http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/research-seminars Everyone is welcome to join our seminars, registration for one or several events is possible per e-mail (christian.fuchs@uti.at) January 15, 2014: 14:00-16:00 Johanna Sumiala (University of Helsinki, Finland) Youth Street Politics in the Media/on the Street http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/research-seminars/youth-street-politics-in-the-mediaon-the-street January 22, 2014: 14:00-16:00 Revisiting the Political Economy of Communication: A Conversation with Nicholas Garnham www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/research-seminars/revisiting-the-political-economy-of-communication-a-conversation-with-nicholas-garnham February 19, 2014: 18:00-21:00 Professorial Inauguration Lecture Christian Fuchs (University of Westminster) Social Media and the Public Sphere http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/research-seminars/social-media-and-the-public-sphere Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-lecture-series-2013-2014-social-media-and-the-public-sphere-tickets-7899322085 February 26, 2014: 18:00-21:00 Professorial Inauguration Lecture Graham Meikle (University of Westminster) Sharing and Social Media http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/research-seminars/social-media-and-sharing Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-lecture-series-2013-2014-sharing-and-social-media-tickets-7899354181 March 5, 2014, 14:00-16:00 Stephen Harper (University of Portsmouth) Did Somebody Say Neoliberalism? Marxism and the Discourse of Critical Media Studies http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/research-seminars/did-somebody-say-neoliberalism-marxism-and-the-discourse-of-critical-media-studies March 19, 2014, 14:00-16:00 Matthew Powers (University of Washington-Seattle, USA) Can NGOs Do Journalism? Understanding the Information Work of Humanitarian and Human Rights NGOs http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/research-seminars/can-ngos-do-journalism-understanding-the-information-work-of-humanitarian-and-human-rights-ngos March 26, 2014: 14:00-16:00 Jonathan Hardy (University of East London) Critical Political Economy of Communications – A Mid-Term Report: The First Fifty Years and the Future. http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/research-seminars/critical-political-economy-of-communications-a-mid-term-report-the-first-fifty-years-and-the-future. April 2, 2014: 14:00-16:00 Jörg Becker (University of Marburg, Germany) Journalism and Media/Communication Studies under Hitler: The Example of Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, her Nazi Ideology and the Spiral of Silence http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/research-seminars/journalism-and-mediacommunication-studies-under-hitler-the-example-of-elisabeth-noelle-neumann-her-nazi-ideology-and-the-spiral-of-silence _______________________________________________ Catac mailing list Catac@philo.at http://philo.at/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catac _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E53957AB3; Thu, 19 Dec 2013 12:24:44 +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 5F7F17AA2; Thu, 19 Dec 2013 12:24:36 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 394257AA0; Thu, 19 Dec 2013 12:24:34 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131219112434.394257AA0@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 12:24:34 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.638 pubs: mechanizing thoughts; looking for Mr Goodbar once 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. 27, No. 638. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (26) Subject: Mechanization of Thought Processes [2] From: Willard McCarty (122) Subject: looking for Mr Goodbar once more --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:47:50 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Mechanization of Thought Processes Occasionally I run across an unexpected treasure. Such happened a few minutes ago when searching for the meaning of an "Uttley Machine". The treasure in question is the 2-volume proceedings of the conference on "Mechanization of Thought Processes" held at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, 24-27 November 1958 -- the very year that Herbert Simon and Alan Newell published their rather optimistic (if that's the right word) predictions. These volumes may be downloaded in pdf format from Volume 1: http://aitopics.org/sites/default/files/classic/TeddingtonConference/Mechanisation%20of%20Thought%20Processes%20Vol.%201.pdf and Volume 2: http://aitopics.org/sites/default/files/classic/TeddingtonConference/Mechanisation%20of%20Thought%20Processes%20Vol.%202.pdf The aitopics.org site contains many treasures -- but no obvious way to find this one from the top-level site as far as I was able to tell after ca 5 minutes of trying. I attach the title page and table of contents. Yours, WM *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1387385521_2013-12-18_willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk_19704.2.pdf -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 10:35:44 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: looking for Mr Goodbar once more Allow me to draw your attention to "An Overview of the Digital Humanities" by Don Waters, published in Research Library Issues: A Report from ARL, CNI, and SPARC 284 (2013), downloadable from http://publications.arl.org/rli284/. As many here will know Waters is Program Officer, Scholarly Communications and Information Technology, at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which has funded much of the work in digital humanities in the U.S. and some elsewhere. As a result he is in a very good position to cast eyes over the scene and report on what he sees. His status as a concerned outsider is an important qualification. In particular Waters holds up to the light the well broadcast claims made these days for digital humanities, finds them mostly, shall we say, insubstantial, but also finds promise for better in a distinction between fundamental kinds of questions we ask, how something is possible and why it is possible. The distinction he draws from medievalist Stephen Nichols, who gets it from John McDowell's Kantian philosophy in his John Locke lectures 1990-91 at Oxford, published later as Mind and World (Harvard 1994, 1996). As should be expected, other philosophers argue with McDowell, but his is good philosophical territory for us as it centres on Quine's "tribunal of experience" and the agonies that follow from standing before that tribunal to answer for one's scholarly deeds. But Stephen Nichols' article, "The anxiety of irrelevance: Digital humanities and contemporary critical theory" (downloadable from academia.edu), establishes the basic intellectual ground and genre for Waters' essay and so is more immediately to the point. For digital humanities this genre began in print, as far as I know, with Cambridge philosopher and linguist Margaret Masterman's 1962 article, "The Intellect's New Eye", in the Times Literary Supplement. I've written many times about the long history of this anxious genre, whose embarrassing questions were muffled for a time by the onset of the Web but which, as Walters demonstrates, is back with us in full force. Unfortunately, like many these days, he prefers to relegate our antediluvian history to the supposedly irrelevant past denoted by the term "humanities computing". This past does give considerable force to his whistle-blowing by alerting us to the many, many times that particular whistle has been blown before -- and heard by almost no one, it would seem. I am particularly fond of Rosanne Potter's laconic sentence of 1989, that our thing had not been rejected, rather neglected, and her sharp follow-up in a retrospective review of 1991. But what Walters' whistle-blowing gains from the history that he fails to mention gives it perhaps more force than his argument can sustain. Don't get me wrong -- his Overview is very good medicine, but more thought, and more scholarship, is needed. Once the bogosity of the claims made from the current bandwagon has been exposed, the Emperor duly jeered for his lack of clothing &c &c, we get down to the historical question of why from the very beginning of commentary on digital humanities / humanities computing in the early 1960s have scholars again and again turned away from the collision of the humanities with our techno-scientific instrument to focus on its domestication as a labour-saving device for the pursuit of old questions, i.e. perpetually relevant questions in old dress. The literature of the time makes it quite clear scholars were afraid of what the machine would do to them and to scholarship. Their fear is a rich and powerful clue that survives the obvious explanations (mostly the Cold War and automation). This clue leads us to the question of the human, which has only become more urgent esp with progress in the biological sciences. But, then, those who pay no attention to the sciences wouldn't know. Precisely because this question is so urgent to everyone else, and for everyone, it is profoundly disappointing to see (despite the powerful work ongoing in the history, philosophy and sociology of the sciences) these sciences cleaved yet again from the humanities -- I suspect to keep safe that old dress -- by assigning questions of how something is possible to the sciences, questions of why to the humanities. Do we not constantly, as a matter of course, wonder in these humanities how it is that we know what we know? Do we not propose formulations, then test them, then reformulate, on and on? At first blush one might say this is nothing other than modelling, a well known style of reasoning from the sciences that computing necessarily involves. But, should we not be asking, what difference does the use of a techno-scientific instrument make? At first blush one might think (as the proverbial person from Mars might observe) that we have also taken on experiment as a style of reasoning. Ok, trying things out is human nature, doesn't require a computer. But when it is done with a computing system, should we not be asking, what difference does the machine make? Or, to venture into relatively untrodden ground, though we create fictional worlds all the time -- some might say, we only do that -- when we stage a simulation by means of computing (get it as realistic as you wish) one must ask, what are we doing that is different? And -- BIG QUESTION -- what sort of a difference are those differences making? These days, as Walters notes, the difference mostly broadcast goes under the name of "distant reading" for scholars of literature, more generally under the name of "big data". In 1991 Anthony Kenny's criterion for success in digital humanities was accomplishment of something otherwise impossible, which is a favourite of the distant readers and big data miners. This sounds good until you look carefully with Jon Agar at the claims on behalf of computing made by the first generation of scientists to use them. In "What difference did computers make?", Social Studies of Science 36.6 (2006): 869-907, he notes that "while the computer might have radically changed in form over the last five decades, a recurring rhetoric can be heard throughout -- assertions that certain developments in science would have been impossible without computers" (870). Well, yes and no, it turns out. Closely inspected, the justification argument leads us away from Kenny's criterion to better questions. For the medium- to long-term, my big question: how is scholarly enquiry changing? (I don't know that we have much hope of answering this one, though we can speculate.) For the present: what is happening in every move we make with our machines, in every encoding of a text, in every algorithmic transformation? God (and/or the Devil) is in the (cognitive) detail. Already this note is too long. Let me summarize. As Walters argues, it's time (as it has been for the last half-century) to shed the hype and stress digital humanities seriously, intellectually, to test its strength and to strengthen it. But I doubt we can get very far in our latest iteration by continuing to ignore the past, to attempt to keep the humanities and the sciences apart, to manacle digital humanities by equating its value to the yield from instrumental, utilitarian service. We would get further by not limiting the discussion to activities in the United States, with a quick look over the border to Canada and a mention of the great Italian Jesuit Roberto Busa. (As an American originally I am allowed to say such things). IATH at Virginia is only one of many centres in an historical progression of increasingly academic and scholarly institutional forms around the world. We would get further by asking how disciplines grow and prosper and by noticing the wrongheadedness if not illegitimacy of defining disciplines. Who, for example, could answer that question on behalf of English or computer science, both notoriously polymorphic? I was the one whom Walters quotes anonymously, responding to the Day in the Life question, "How do you define the digital humanities?" with "I try not to" -- because I think defining a role / form of life / discipline doesn't get us very far. The question I would ask is, what do you do when playing the role of a digital humanist? I suspect it was Geoffrey Rockwell's intention when (as I recall) he started that Day in the Life event. And why are we so cursedly anxious about our responses to what it is that we do? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 552147A32; Fri, 20 Dec 2013 07:23:05 +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 BE33D7A0D; Fri, 20 Dec 2013 07:22:57 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 936EC7A0F; Fri, 20 Dec 2013 07:22:55 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131220062255.936EC7A0F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 07:22:55 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.639 an apology X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 639. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 16:27:04 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: an apology In my note on Don WATERS' essay I managed to get his surname right only once, in every other instance inserting a spurious L before the T. Apart from accepting my apologies for an error that sneaked by what I thought was a careful proofreading, I ask only that you refrain from medicalizing it :-). I wonder: do we refer any longer to "absent minded" professors? And has anyone written about the phenomenon of medicalizing either behaviours or conditions that are not reasonably within the domain of medical diagnosis? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 33DC27A33; Fri, 20 Dec 2013 07:28:39 +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 E7A567A0F; Fri, 20 Dec 2013 07:28:30 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C40AD79E1; Fri, 20 Dec 2013 07:28:28 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131220062828.C40AD79E1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 07:28:28 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.640 call for nominations: Succeed Award X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 640. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 21:36:51 +0100 From: Marco_BÜCHLER Subject: Succeed Award - Call for nominations Imágenes integradas 3 Succeed Awards - Call for Nominations The Succeed project is proud to announce the Succeed Awards for text digitisation programmes. Objective The Succeed awards will recognise the successful implementation of a digitisation programme, especially those exploiting the latest technology and the output of research for the digitisation of historical text. 1. The winners will be invited to the awards ceremony during the Digitisation Days, when distinguished personalities and leading institutions in the digitisation domain will participate. 2. The awards will not convey an additional cash prize, the stress being in the recognition of leading initiatives and the world-wide dissemination of these achievements. The Succeed project looks for the widest impact of this recognition. Eligibility Institutions with active digitisation programmes are eligible for the awards. Consortia are also eligible if represented for this purpose by a single institution. Members of the Succeed consortium cannot apply for the awards. Criteria The committee will take into account: 1. Evidence of the results (efficiency, quality) produced by integration of technology in the digitisation workflow. 2. Extensibility (potential replication/adaptation) of the experience to other institutions. 3. Impact on the preservation of cultural heritage. 4. Sustainability, coordination with other initiatives, collaborative character. Deadlines The candidatures must be received before February 15, 2014 (23:59, CET) and the results will be announced before April 15, 2014. Submissions Nominations must be signed by a representative of the candidate institution and submitted online using the Succeed _platform_ http://www.succeed-project.eu/submission . The nomination must be written in English according to the provided _template_ http://succeed-project.eu/sites/default/files/SucceedAwardsForm.rtf . Committee 1. Milagros del Corral, UNESCO 2. Jill Cousins, Europeana 3. Frank Frischmuth, German Digital Library 4. Michael Keller, Stanford University Library 5. Steven Krauwer, Utrecht University 6. Andrew Prescott, King's College London For additional information, please visit _www.succeed-project.eu/succeed-award__s_ http://www.succeed-project.eu/succeed-awards _ _or contact us at _succeed@ua.es_ . *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1387485721_2013-12-19_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_6943.1.1.2.png http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1387485721_2013-12-19_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_6943.2.pdf -- Marco BܜCHLER Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (GCDH) Papendiek 16 37073 Göttingen (Heynehaus) eMail : mbuechler@e-humanities.net Web : http://www.gcdh.de/ Profil : http://www.gcdh.de/en/people/team/marco-buechler/ Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/marco.buechler LinkedIn : http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=15098543&trk=tab_pro Twitter : https://twitter.com/mabuechler l-h _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 973657A7E; Fri, 20 Dec 2013 07:31:02 +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 E8E6C7A13; Fri, 20 Dec 2013 07:30:56 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A84647A0F; Fri, 20 Dec 2013 07:30:54 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131220063054.A84647A0F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 07:30:54 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.641 job at Trinity College Dublin X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 641. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 02:36:39 +0000 From: Alexander O'Connor Subject: Job Posting: GIS Web Developer Web-Developer for GIS on the Fagel Project, Trinity College Dublin Fagel Map Project The Fagel archive contains one of the finest pre-1800 cartographic collections anywhere in the world, unsurpassed in terms of quality and standard of preservation. The Fagel material is practically unknown outside of Trinity College Dublin yet it includes the finest surviving examples of seventeenth and eighteenth century Dutch, French and German cartography, as well as complete sets of coloured town plans for every major settlement in the ‘known’ world, hundreds of contemporary battle plans and the first detailed maps of many countries as and when they were first surveyed. Building on the success of Trinity College’s Down Survey of Ireland map project (http://downsurvey.tcd.ie), the Fagel collection is to be made available to the public for the first time. The Fagel project (2014-15) will create an open access web portal which includes digital images of the entire Fagel cartographic collection. This project, in direct collaboration with Google, will allow access to images through both a Google Maps interface, whereby the user can point to a place on a modern globe, select a date and the appropriate map(s) will appear, or through traditional keyword and faceted search. Image characteristics will include location, date, cartographer, place of publication, as well as various themes. Themed search will enable the user to browse maps by type; for example, charts, military plans or colonial maps. The Fagel portal will be the largest single source of pre-1800 cartography anywhere in the world. Job Description: Web-Developer for GIS on the Fagel Project, TCD Contract: Full time, fixed term --€“ 12-month post (approx. April 2014-April 2015) Salary: 37,750-‚40,003 euro per annum Job Specification: 1. Geo-Referencing of Image Data 2. Encoding of Geographic Data 3. Database Development 4. Web Front-End Development 5. Identify research projects related to the Fagel Collection Desirable Skills and Experience: 1. Google Maps / ARCGIS 2. PHP 3. Javascript - JQuery 4. HTML, CSS 5. XML 6. MySQL 7. Strong initiative in developing research projects 8. Ability to work independently and as part of a multi-disciplinary team 9. Experience of the following would be an advantage (but is not a necessity): MARC-XML; Leaflet JS; 3D Terrain Modelling. Candidates should submit a cover letter (600-1000 words) expressing your suitability for the position together with a full curriculum vitae to include the names and contact details of 3 referees (email addresses if possible) to Séamus Lawless - Seamus.Lawless@scss.tcd.ie with the subject heading "Fagel Web-Developer for GIS". -- Dr. Alexander O'Connor Research Fellow CNGL Knowledge & Data Engineering Group School of Computer Science & Statistics Trinity College, Dublin _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9DA357A67; Fri, 20 Dec 2013 07:36:38 +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 E7ABE79E1; Fri, 20 Dec 2013 07:36:29 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5F93379B1; Fri, 20 Dec 2013 07:36:27 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131220063627.5F93379B1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 07:36:27 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.642 pubs: Stanford LitLab's Pamphlet 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 642. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 06:08:52 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Literary Lab: Pamphlet 6 This is to announce the availability of the following new publication: Franco Moretti, "'Operationalizing': or, the function of measurement in modern literary theory". Pamphlet 6. Stanford: Stanford Literary Lab. It is attached for your convenience. Previous Pamphlets can be found at http://litlab.stanford.edu. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 09:30:43 +0000 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: job opening for project officer NUIM There is an opening for a project officer at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, at An Foras Feasa, the Digital Humanities Research Centre, beginning February 2014. It is a six-month maternity replacement. Further details are available here http://humanresources.nuim.ie/vacancies.shtml Applications will close 8 January 2014. with all best wishes susan -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Trinity 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9FA037AA9; Sat, 21 Dec 2013 10:19:56 +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 8C0987A76; Sat, 21 Dec 2013 10:19:45 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 362677A65; Sat, 21 Dec 2013 10:19:43 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131221091943.362677A65@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 10:19:43 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.644 events: ontology; linguistics; archaeology; cultural heritage; genetics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 644. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Marco_BÜCHLER (77) Subject: DATeCH 2014 - Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage: 2nd Call for papers [2] From: Anne Jamieson (43) Subject: Symposium: "Nurturing Genetics", Leeds, 29 June-2 July 2014 [3] From: Till Mossakowski (131) Subject: CfP: Ontology competition at FOIS 2014 (Formal Ontology in Information Systems) [4] From: "Kiril Simov" (187) Subject: First CFP: 3rd Workshop on LINKED DATA IN LINGUISTICS (LDL- 2014): Multilingual Knowledge Resources and Natural Language Processing [5] From: "Downs, Mary" (16) Subject: NEH at AIA/APA --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 21:26:54 +0100 From: Marco_BÜCHLER Subject: DATeCH 2014 - Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage: 2nd Call for papers Call for papers: Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage (DATeCH) 2014 Madrid 19-20 May, 2014 The DATeCH international conference brings together researchers and practitioners looking for innovative approaches for the creation, transformation and exploitation of historical documents in digital form. Important dates * 7 January 2014 - Paper submission deadline * 28 February 2014 - Decision notification * 31 March 2014 - Camera-ready papers due * 19-20 May 2014 - Conference Target audience The workshop aims to foster interdisciplinary work and linking together participants engaged in the following areas: * Text digitization and OCR. * Digital humanities. * Image and document analysis. * Digital libraries and library science. * Applied computational linguistics. * Crowdsourcing. * Interfaces and human-computer interaction. Topics Topics of interest are all those related to the practical and scientific goals listed above, such as: * OCR technology and tools for minority and historical languages. * Methods and tools for post-correction of OCR results. * Automated quality control for mass OCR data. * Innovative access methods for historical texts and corpora. * Natural language processing of ancient languages (Latin, Greek). * Visualization techniques and interfaces for search and research in digital humanities. * Publication and retrieval on e-books and mobile devices. * Crowdsourcing techniques for collecting and annotating data in digital humanities. * Enrichment of and metadata production for historical texts and corpora. * Data created with mobile devices. * Data presentation and exploration on mobile devices. * Ontological and linked data based contextualization of digitized and born digital scholarly data resources. Venue The conference will take place in the Biblioteca Nacional de España (Madrid), in the framework of the Digitisation Days http://www.succeed-project.eu/digitisation-days (19-20 May, 2014) organised by the Succeed Support Action. [...] Submission The following criteria will be applied to all communications submitted to DATeCH 2014 (http://datech2014.info/submissions http://datech2014.org/submissions ): * Only original material will be accepted. * All communications will be peer reviewed and published in the proceedings of the conference. * The authors of the best contributions will be invited to prepare an extended version for a collective publication of selected papers in an indexed journal (an additional reviewing process will be applied). Contact For additional information, please visit www.datech2014.info http://www.datech2014.info or send an email to datech@digitisation.eu DATeCH 2014 is supported by: http://www.succeed-project.eu http://www.digitisation.eu -- Marco BܜCHLER Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (GCDH) Papendiek 16 37073 Göttingen (Heynehaus) eMail : mbuechler@gcdh.de Web : http://www.gcdh.de/ Profil : http://www.gcdh.de/en/people/team/marco-buechler/ Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/marco.buechler LinkedIn : http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=15098543&trk=tab_pro Twitter : https://twitter.com/mabuechler l-h --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 08:42:26 +0000 From: Anne Jamieson Subject: Symposium: "Nurturing Genetics", Leeds, 29 June-2 July 2014 In-Reply-To: [The following is not obviously in digital humanities, but any event at which Evelyn Fox Keller speaks qualifies for her characteristic attention to the language of science, esp in the life sciences. --WM] NURTURING GENETICS: REFLECTIONS ON A CENTURY OF SCIENTIFIC AND SOCIAL CHANGE An international and interdisciplinary symposium University of Leeds, 29 June-2 July 2014 To mark both the upcoming centenary of The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity (1915) by T. H. Morgan et al. and the completion of the Leeds-based Genetics Pedagogies Project, which has developed and trialled a de-Mendelized genetics curriculum, the Project team is hosting a three-day symposium on a century of change in and out of genetics, featuring talks from scholars across the disciplines. In keeping with the ambitions of the project, gene-environment interaction and its complexities will be in the foreground throughout. The symposium will take place at Devonshire Hall, near the University of Leeds campus, from the afternoon of Monday 30 June to the morning of Wednesday 2 July 2014. The opening keynote address will be given by Prof. Evelyn Fox Keller (MIT). The full programme is appended below. All are welcome, though space is limited, and registration in advance is required. To register, or for more information, please email the Project Fellow, Dr Annie Jamieson, at A.K.Jamieson@leeds.ac.uk . The registration fee, which includes a wine reception, lunch, and tea/coffee throughout, is £30.00. Affordable accommodation is available on-site. We would be grateful if you could circulate this email to colleagues and students who may be interested. ******************** Monday 30th June 15:00 Registration and check-in to accommodation 17:00 Prof. Gregory Radick (HPS, Leeds): Welcome/Introduction 17:30 Prof. Evelyn Fox Keller (STS, MIT): "From Gene Action to Reactive Genomes" 18:30-19:30 Reception (wine and canapés) 19:30 onwards Dinner at local restaurant/s Tuesday 1st July Session 1: Eugenics and its Legacies 09:30 Dr. Chris Renwick (History, York): "Alexander Carr Saunders, Julian Huxley and Gene-Environment Interaction in Interwar British Sociology" 10:15 Dr. James Tabery (Philosophy, Utah): "Gene-Environment Interaction in the 21st Century: Its Rise, Its Fall, Its Rise?" 11:00 Coffee Session 2: Hybridizations: Genetics, Agriculture, Medicine 11:30 Dr. Helen Curry (HPS, Cambridge): "Creation versus Conservation: Competing Strategies for the Management of Genetic Diversity in 20th-Century Agriculture" 12:15 Dr. Steve Sturdy (STS, Edinburgh): "Making Genomic Medicine: New Knowledge, New Politics" 13:00 Lunch Session 3: Towards a Better Handling of Complexity in the Clinic 14:00 Prof. Gholson Lyon (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory): "Genetic Complexity and Neuropsychiatric Disorders" 14:45 Dr. Barbara Potrata (Leeds Institute of Health Sciences): "After the Diagnosis: The Impact of Genetic Diagnosis" 15:30 Coffee Session 4: Towards a Better Handling of Complexity in the Classroom 16:00 Dr. Niklas Gericke (Environment and Life Sciences, Karlstad): "Epistemological Foundations for Genetics Education: The Issue of Conceptual Variation and Multiple Models" 16:45 Dr. Annie Jamieson (HPS, Leeds): "Leave the Monk in the Garden: Results of the Genetics Pedagogies Project" 17:30 End 19:30 Gala Conference Dinner Wednesday 2nd July 09:30 Roundtable/Discussion sessions 11:00 Coffee/ End Wed PM Optional excursion to the Yorkshire spa town of Ilkley for lunch and a talk plus, weather permitting, brief walking tour related to Darwin's visit there in 1859 (contact Annie Jamieson for further details) ******************** For more on the Genetics Pedagogies Project, see http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/homepage/399/the_genetics_pedagogies_project For more on the Leeds Centre for History and Philosophy of Science, see http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/40006/centre_for_history_and_philosophy_of_science Funding for this symposium, and for the Project, has been generously provided by the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, University of Cambridge, as part of its Uses and Abuses of Biology programme. For more on the programme, see http://www.uabgrants.org/ And finally, for the anniversary minded: note that 2015 will also mark 150 years after Gregor Mendel gave two talks in Brünn on his remarkable experiments in plant hybridization. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 11:57:24 +0000 From: Till Mossakowski Subject: CfP: Ontology competition at FOIS 2014 (Formal Ontology in Information Systems) In-Reply-To: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Ontology competition at the 8th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems FOIS 2014, September 22-25, 2014, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/all.html http://www.iaoa.org/fois/ ----------------------------------- DEFINITION AND SCOPE ----------------------------------- FOIS papers often refer to ontologies which are not publicly available, or to ontologies whose relations to other ontologies are not clearly specified. The aim of the FOIS 2014 ontology competition is (1) to encourage ontology authors to make their ontologies publicly available and (2) to subject them to evaluation according to a set of pre-determined criteria. Submission is not restricted to ontologies accompanying FOIS research papers. The criteria to be used in the competition were identified at the Ontology Summit 2013 and summarized at http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2013_Communique): Informal Criteria 1. Can ontologically naive speakers understand the ontology and agree with one another as well as with the ontology engineers about its design and the meaning of its terms? (Intelligibility) 2. Does the ontology accurately represent its domain? (Fidelity) 3. Is the ontology well-built and are design decisions followed consistently? (Craftsmanship) 4. Does the representation of the domain fit the requirements for its intended use? (Fitness) 5. Does the deployed ontology meet the requirements of the information system of which it is part? (Deployability) Logically formalizable criteria 6. Is the ontology consistent? 7. Does the ontology satisfy its intended consequences? 8. Do intended models satisfy the ontology? 9. Has the ontology been aligned/linked with other ontologies? 10. Has an OWL version of the ontology been (formally) linked to a FOL version? Criteria for links 11. Do links represent an interesting logical relationship between ontologies? 12. Do links relate domain and foundational ontologies? 13. Do links provide a logical relation between different versions of one ontology formulated in different languages? 14. Do links provide the basis for an interesting combination of ontologies? Each paper should a non-empty subset of these criteria. Papers suggesting ways to detail these criteria are welcome as well, as long as they are accompanied by some sample ontology submitted for evaluation. ------------------------------ FORMAT ------------------------------ Each submission should consist of A: 1. one or more ontologies, and possibly links between these, and 2. a paper describing the ontologies, addressing at least some of the above criteria. or B: 1. one or more links between existing ontologies, and 2. a paper describing the links, addressing at least some of the above questions. The paper can either be a regular FOIS paper (that then will be reviewed both within the main FOIS conference and in the competition track, with independent acceptance decision), or a short paper focusing on the description of the ontology/ontologies (and possibly links) that is reviewed only in the competition track. Note that links may be formulated as alignments in the ontology alignment format, see http://alignapi.gforge.inria.fr/format.html. However, the focus of the competition will not be on mapping individual terms, but on links carrying also some logical relation between the axioms of the involved ontologies, like e.g. theory interpretations. Logical links between versions in different languages (e.g. OWL and FOL) are of particular interest. Submissions may have been published previously, but any prior publication must be cited in the paper. However, the verbatim reproduction of previous work is not encouraged - and submissions should explicitly address as many of the fourteen above-mentioned criteria as possible. At the conference, the best submission(s) will be rewarded a prize. ----------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------- Paper Submission Deadline: March 3, 2014 Ontology/Link Submission Deadline: March 10, 2014 Notification: May 5, 2014 Ontology and Paper Final Version Due: June 30, 2014 Conference Dates: September, 22-26, 2014 ----------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ----------------------------- Ontologies, links and the paper should be submitted simultaneously. Ontologies and links should be uploaded to some repository of the Open Ontology Repository initiative, see http://www.oor.net Whilst these repositories share common goals, they have different specialisations: some support exclusively OWL and related languages, whilst the COLORE repository focuses on Common Logic, and the Ontohub.org repository specialises on supporting a variety of languages. Moreover, some repositories are more domain-specific, e.g. Bioportal focuses on biomedical ontologies, etc. In any case, all submissions will be mirrored at one site in order to give reviewers (and later FOIS participants) a compact access to the ontologies and links. Submitters should contact mossakow@iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de for details about how to add their ontologies and links to some repository. Submitted short papers must not exceed 6 pages (including the bibliography). Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format. Submission should be prepared in accordance with the IOS ormatting guidelines found at http://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/latex-and-word-tools-for-book-authors/ The Easychair submission page can be found at (please select the competition track): https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2014 Short papers will be published within the FOIS proceedings volume in the IOS Press series 'Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications'. -------------------------------------------- COMPETITION ORGANISATION -------------------------------------------- Competition committee: Aldo Gangemi (Université Paris 13 & CNR-ISTC, France) Barry Smith (The State University of New York, Buffalo, USA) Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University, USA) Christoph Benzmüller (FU Berlin, Germany) Fabian Neuhaus (University of Magdeburg, Germany) Florian Probst (SAP Research, Germany) Jérôme Euzenat (INRIA & LIG, France) Matthew Horridge (Stanford University, USA) Michael Gruninger (University of Toronto, Canada) Oliver Kutz (University of Bremen, Germany) Robert Hoehndorf (University of Cambridge, UK) Till Mossakowski (University of Magdeburg, Germany) (chair) Vinay Chaudhri (SRI International, Menlo Park, USA) --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 17:17:10 +0200 From: "Kiril Simov" Subject: First CFP: 3rd Workshop on LINKED DATA IN LINGUISTICS (LDL-2014): Multilingual Knowledge Resources and Natural Language Processing In-Reply-To: <20131219112434.394257AA0@digitalhumanities.org> First Call for Papers 3rd Workshop on LINKED DATA IN LINGUISTICS (LDL-2014): Multilingual Knowledge Resources and Natural Language Processing Tuesday, May 27, 2014, Reykjavik (Iceland) Collocated with the 9th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC-2014) http://ldl2014.org/ The explosion of information technology has led to a substantial growth in quantity, diversity and complexity of linguistic data accessible on the Web. The lack of interoperability between linguistic and language resources represents a major challenge that needs to be addressed, in particular, if information from different sources is to be combined, such as machine-readable lexicons, corpus data and terminology repositories. The Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL) workshop series provides a forum to discuss these types of resources, strategies to address issues of interoperability between them, protocols to distribute, access and integrate this information and technologies and infrastructures developed on this basis. The goal of the workshop is twofold. First, we will assemble researchers from various fields of linguistics, natural language processing, knowledge management and information technology to present and discuss principles, case studies, and best practices for representing, publishing and linking mono- and multilingual linguistic and knowledge data collections, including corpora, grammars, dictionaries, wordnets, translation memories, domain specific ontologies etc. In this sense, we particularly invite contributions discussing the application of the Linked Open Data paradigm to linguistic data as it might provide an important step towards making linguistic data: i) easily and uniformly queryable, ii) interoperable and iii) sharable over the Web using open standards such as the HTTP protocol and the RDF data model [1]. The adaptation of some processes and best practices to multilingual linguistic resources and knowledge bases acquires also new relevance in this context. Some processes may need to be modified to accommodate the publication of resources that contain information in several languages. Also the linking process between linguistic resources in different languages poses important research questions, as well as the development and application of freely available knowledge bases and crowdsourcing to compensate the lack of publicly accessible language resources for various languages. Secondly, we will provide researchers on natural language processing and semantic web technologies a platform to present case studies and best practices on the exploitation of linguistic resources exposed on the Web for Natural Language Processing applications, or other content-centered applications such as content analytics, knowledge extraction, etc. The availability of massive linked open knowledge resources raises the question how such data can be suitably employed to facilitate different NLP tasks and research questions. Following the tradition of earlier LDL workshops, we encourage contributions to the Linguistic Linked Open Data (LLOD) cloud [2] and research on this basis. In particular, this pertains to contributions that demonstrate an added value resulting from the combination of linked datasets and ontologies as a source for semantic information with linguistic resources published according to as linked data principles. Another important question to be addressed in the workshop is how Natural Language Processing techniques can be employed to further facilitate the growth and enrichment of linguistic resources on the Web. The intended audience includes linguists, NLP engineers and researchers from any field of computer science interested in the application of Semantic Web formalisms and related technologies to language data, empirically-working linguists and lexicographers interested in the representation, exchange and interlinking of knowledge resources, linguistic data and metadata, and developers of infrastructures for linguistic data and other researchers with an interest in both aspects. Background and History ========================= This workshop brings together two community efforts, the Open Linguistics Working Group of the Open Knowledge Foundation (OWLG), and the W3C Ontology-Lexica Community Group. LDL-2014 is also supported by a recently started EU Support Action: LIDER (Linked Data as an enabler of cross-media and multilingual content analytics for enterprises across Europe), which aims to provide an ecosystem for the establishment of linguistic linked open data, as well as media resources metadata, for a free and open exploitation of such resources in multilingual, cross-media content analytics across Europe. The workshop is continuing a series of workshops on the application of the Linked Data paradigm to linguistic data that have been initiated and organized by the Open Linguistics Working Group: The First Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL-2012) was conducted in March 2012 at the University of Frankfurt am Main/Germany, and collocated with the 34th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS-2012). The Workshop on Multilingual Linked Open Data for Enterprises (MLODE-2012) was conducted in September 2012 at the University of Leipzig/Germany, and collocated with the 3rd Conference on Software Agents and Services for Business, Research and E-Science (SABRE-2012). The Second Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL-2013) was conducted in Sep 2013 at CNR in Pisa/Italy, and collocated with the 6th International Conference on the Generative Lexicon (GL2013). Linguistic Linked Data Challenge ================================== There is a data challenge associated to the Linguistic Linked Data Workshop. In addition to regular workshop papers, we will accept dataset description of 4-6 pages describing new linguistic dataset published on the web as linked data. These linguistic datasets include, but are not limited to, lexica, terminologies, semantic networks, annotated and parallel corpora, multimodal resources, typological databases and linguistic metadata. The data challenge committee will review and evaluate data according to four dimensions, with prizes of up to -700, funded by the LIDER project, awarded to the highest scoring datasets. The criteria for the Linguistic Linked Data Challenge include: - Availability - Use of Linked Data and RDF. - Hosted on a publicly accessible server and be available both during the period of the evaluation and beyond. - Use of an open license. - Quality of Resource - Represents useful linguistic information. - Reuses relevant standards and models. - Contains multiple levels of annotation. - Linking - Links to external resources. - Reuse of existing properties and categories. - Impact/usefulness of the resource - Relevant and likely to be reused by many researchers in NLP and wider fields. - Uses linked data to improve the quality of and access to the resource. Details of the challenge will be announced in a separate call for contributions, see http://ldl2014.org/challenge.html for up-to-date information. Topics of interest ===================== We invite contributions related (but not limited) to the following topics: 1. Use cases and project proposals for the creation, publication or application of linguistic data collections that are linked with other resources 2. Modelling linguistic data and metadata with OWL and/or RDF 3. Ontologies for linguistic data and metadata collections as well as cross- lingual retrieval 4. Descriptions of data sets following Linked Data principles 5. Applications of such data, other ontologies or linked data from any subdiscipline of linguistics (may include work in progress or project descriptions) 6. Application and applicability of (Linguistic) Linked Open Data in NLP 7. NLP contributions to (Linguistic) Linked Open Data 8. Challenges of multilinguality and the use of LOD and collaboratively constructed open resources for knowledge extraction, machine translation and other NLP tasks. 9. Legal and social aspects of Linguistic Linked Open Data 10. Best practices for the publication and linking of multilingual knowledge resources Submission & Publication ========================== We accept submission of both long (up to 8 pages) and short papers (up to 4 pages) to be presented as long or short oral presentation at the workshop. The papers of the workshop will be published as online proceedings. In addition, we aim for a journal special issue as post-conference proceedings in which a selected amount of papers presented at the workshop will be published. When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.), to enable their reuse, replicability of experiments, including evaluation ones, etc. If this data (or parts of it) are provided as Linked Data, then please also consider to participate in the Linguistic Linked Data Challenge (http://ldl2014.org/challenge.html). For contact data, stylesheets, up-to-date details on submission and the workshop itself, please consult our website: http://ldl2014.org. Timeline =========== Submission deadline: Fri, Feb 7, 2014 Notification of acceptance: Fri, Mar 7, 2014 Camera-ready paper: Fri, Mar 21, 2014 Workshop: Tue, May 27, 2014 Please note that due to synchronization with the main conference, NO EXTENSIONS can be given. [...] References ============ [1] Chiarcos, C., J. McCrae, P. Cimiano, C. Fellbaum (2013), Towards open data for linguistics: Lexical Linked Data. In: Oltramari et al. (eds.) New Trends of Research in Ontologies and Lexical Resources. Springer, Heidelberg. [2] Chiarcos, C., S. Nordhoff, S. Hellmann (2012, eds.), Linked Data in Linguistics. Representing and Connecting Language Data and Language Metadata, Springer, Heidelberg. [3] Oltramari, A., P. Vossen, L. Qin, L., E. Hovy (2013, eds.), New Trends of Research in Ontologies and Lexical Resources, Springer, Heidelberg. --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 19:04:33 +0000 From: "Downs, Mary" Subject: NEH at AIA/APA In-Reply-To: <20131219112434.394257AA0@digitalhumanities.org> NEH Program Officer, Mary Downs, will be at the upcoming Archaeological Institute of America and American Philological Association meetings in Chicago (Jan 2-5) and is available to meet with those interested in learning more about NEH funding opportunities: See details: http://www.neh.gov/divisions/preservation/in-the-field/program-officer-mary-downs-attend-2014-aiaapa-annual-meeting Please circulate to interested parties, Thanks and best wishes, Mary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Senior Program Officer Division of Preservation and Access National Endowment for the Humanities 1100 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, DC 20506 202-606-8456 Visit the NEH Website at www.neh.gov http://www.neh.gov/ Follow the Division on Twitter: @NEH_PresAccess [Color Horizontal GIF version] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 14B617AC7; Sat, 21 Dec 2013 10:21:05 +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 81BF07AA5; Sat, 21 Dec 2013 10:21:04 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2DC3C7A94; Sat, 21 Dec 2013 10:21:02 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131221092102.2DC3C7A94@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 10:21:02 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.645 pubs: on curiosity and curiosities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 645. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:21:04 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the Web of curiosities Those here who like to connect up the Web with its historical forebears and cultural circumstances will, I expect, find James Delbourgo's review article, "Triumph of the Strange", in the Chronicle of Higher Education for 9 December, valuable. Delbourgo reviews Brian Dillon's intriguing Curiosity: Art and the Pleasures of Knowing, both an exhibition touring the UK and the Netherlands 2013-14 and, with Marina Warner, a volume of essays, excerpts, descriptions, and photographs published by the Hayward Gallery. Delbourgo discusses both the epistemology of collected but apparently unconnected things, re-emergent in our time, and the politics. He writes, > Edward Snowden's revelations about the NSA raise > fundamental questions about the intersection of curiosity, the > Internet, and political power. Is the Internet liberating curiosity as > never before, or bending it to corporate profit and state > surveillance? In David Weinberger's heroic vision, spelled out in > Everything Is Miscellaneous (2007), the Wunderkammer web > democratically breaks down both intellectual and social barriers, > allowing us to "confront the miscellaneous directly in all its > unfulfilled glory." This dream of the Internet as virtual > Wunderkammer is a dream of both free navigation and total > information; a naïve dream, that is, at once epistemological and > political, of unmediated knowledge. There's much more. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CB70B7AC7; Sat, 21 Dec 2013 10:30:32 +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 587BC7A94; Sat, 21 Dec 2013 10:30:26 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8B6317A8A; Sat, 21 Dec 2013 10:30:24 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131221093024.8B6317A8A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 10:30:24 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.646 Solstitial greetings from 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. 27, No. 646. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 09:09:22 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: solstitial greetings By custom that began long ago -- back in the mists of time when digital humanities was known as computing in or, more tentatively, and the humanities, and soon then to become humanities computing -- I am this morning exercising editorial privilege to send out greetings on the northern hemispheric winter solstice, for me and for many others in anticipation of Christmas. Three years ago I began making a traditional English Christmas pudding (Delia's recipe), which, after some adjustments in the amount of suet, I seem to have done acceptably well. Last year I attempted a traditional Christmas cake, which during childhood I knew as fruit cake, and despite warnings of how difficult it would be to get right, managed to produce one better, my partner declared, than her Irish mother's. So, much encouraged, I am trying my luck again. Both pudding and cake have been faithfully watered with the proper liquids. Other preparations are well underway. This morning one of the London papers is promising snow for Christmas, the rest lament the coming of much rain, but whichever it turns out to be, I will enjoy a traditional cozy time in the warmth and very much hope the same, or equivalent pleasures, for everyone. In the places in which I have lived, the news broadcasts of television and radio have always seemed to me to communicate a sense of community life, even in big cities where sometimes one's imagination needs to work assiduously to maintain that sense. Recently someone hoping to be a doctoral student here described a project to study the imagining of metaphorically diasporic communities created online -- like this one, I suppose. But yesterday a treasured friend wrote that recently he had begun to detect signs of strain in the often remarked collegiality of digital humanists, signs that this remarkable collegiality might be giving way to the competitiveness characteristic of older disciplines. He reported that a friend of his had taken this to be a sign of the discipline's maturation. Like my friend I hope for maturity but not for any attenuation of communal warmth. I won't say that I began writing this note with the intention of stoking that particular fire, but the thought that I might be helping against an emotional chill does keep me from regarding all this as silly, and so deleting the note and starting over. I cannot recall when it was that I noticed a shifting of the imbalance between notices of events on Humanist and adverts for jobs, but I think this occurred sometime during 2013. Perhaps it was in 2012. (Where is that much hoped-for doctoral candidate in sociology to study the almost 3 decades of Humanist?) I also note that both of the first two holders of doctorates awarded by King's College London in digital humanities, Luke Blaxill and ؘyvind Eide, are gainfully employed (in more than one sense), the former as Drapers' Company Junior Research Fellow, Hertford College Oxford, the latter as Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Lehrstuhl für Digital Humanities, Universität Passau. There will be others to report on in the next year or so. Don Waters' essay, on which I recently commented, shows us that we have much work to do in clarifying the significance of the work we are doing, but unless we fulfill the dark fantasy played out in The Terminator (1984) or one of its many Cold War kin, the discipline will, I think, survive current distractions and actually begin to fulfil some of the promise -- this promise being, of course, like the leather purse in the folktale. It is good, is it not, to be a bit worried about whether we belong? Those Cold War fantasies point to an alienness, I like to argue, which both keeps us at the margins and guarantees that the practice we instantiate is a cornucopia for the humanities. What if perpetual youth means that digital humanities never gets to sit in one of the comfy chairs? It must, however, maintain its place at the table. Yesterday two books popped through my postal slot: John G. Kemeny's Man and the Computer (1972), developed from his Man and Nature Lectures, The American Museum of Natural History, 1971; and Thomas P. Hughes' Rescuing Prometheus: Four Monumental Projects that Changed the Modern World (1998). Kemeny, who worked with John von Neumann, was a mathematician and philosopher, at that time President of Dartmouth College, argues in the former book that, as he says, "a new species is born... that within the last generation man has acquired an important symbiote... the high-speed computer" (p. 3). He's quite serious about blurring the distinction. In the latter book Hughes describes the work of the Air Defense Systems Engineering Committee (ADSEC, U.S.), also known as the Valley Committee after its prime mover, MIT professor George E. Valley. After WWII Valley became quite worried about the capability of the U.S. to defend itself against Soviet nuclear missile attack, hence the Committee. In its October 1950 report, from which Hughes quotes, Valley et al, persuaded that the idea of a "system" was generally unfamiliar, troubled themselves to describe exactly what they had in mind. The heavy influence of cybernetics will be obvious: > The word [system] itself is very general. . . [as for instance] the "solar > system" and the "nervous system," in which the word pertains to > special arrangements of matter.... The Air Defense System, then, is an > organism. . . . What then are organisms? They are of three kinds: > animate organisms which comprise animals and groups of animals, > including men; partly animate organisms which involve animals > together with inanimate devices such as in the Air Defense System; > and inanimate organisms such as vending machines. All these organisms > possess in common: sensory components, communication facilities, data > analysing devices, centers of judgement, directors of action, and > effectors, or executing agencies.... It is the function of an > organism... to achieve some defined purpose. (pp. 21f) By 1950 Roberto Busa was well on his way with the Index Thomisticus -- a component, one might say, of an organism with a rather different purpose. By 1970 the first journal in digital humanities, Computers and the Humanities, was four years old, reporting on other such organisms. About the same time Stafford Beer, who had set up a cybernetic system of government for Chilean President Salvador Allende, was advising corporations on how to structure themselves as organisms, e.g. in The Brain of the Firm (1972), whose title is quite literally meant. The book is complete with neurophysiological diagrams and descriptions. Easy to laugh at now, perhaps, but at the time such thoughts were quite seriously intended and persuasively argued by brilliant people. Andrew Pickering, author e.g. of The Cybernetic Brain (Chicago, 2010), calls this a vision of an alternative future. Ours, changing what needs to be changed? Visions of sugarplums this is not, but how can any of us resist such thoughts dancing in our heads? Happy holidays to all! And by the way, if anyone here can lay hands on that October 1950 ADSEC report, now declassified but *very* hard to find, please stuff a pdf of it into my virtual stocking. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B0DD05FEB; Mon, 23 Dec 2013 10:21:47 +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 5631B5FE5; Mon, 23 Dec 2013 10:21:38 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4A74F5FE5; Mon, 23 Dec 2013 10:21:36 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131223092136.4A74F5FE5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 10:21:36 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.647 disciplinary labels X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 647. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 09:09:38 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: disciplinary labels In "Technology is not the problem", in Speaking Minds: Interviews with twenty eminent cognitive scientists, ed. Baumgartner and Pyer (Princeton 1995), Herbert Simon's interviewer remarks that, "The word cognitive science exists in German, but there has been, until now, no established interdisciplinary research program behind [cognitive science]". Simon replies, > There does not have to be a real thing for every noun -- take > philosophy. The reason why the term cognitive science exists over > here and why we have a society is that people found it convenient to > have conversations across disciplinary boundaries: psychology, > philosophy, linguistics, and Artificial Intelligence. A few > anthropologists are wandering in now. Cognitive science is the place > where they meet. It does not matter whether it is a discipline. It is > not really a discipline yet. Whether cognitive science departments > survive or whether people want to get their degrees in psychology and > computer science remains to be seen. Here (at Carnegie-Mellon > University) we decided that we will still give degrees in computer > science and cognitive psychology, not in cognitive science. These are > just labels for the fact that there is a lot of conversation across > disciplines. The interviewer again: "In Europe, labels are treated like boundaries." Simon: > We have this danger here, too. Nouns are tyrants. People think that if > there is a noun, there must be an idea behind it. The world is much more > fluid than that. (p. 234) Again, all the best for Christmas! Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0E5346061; Tue, 24 Dec 2013 11:09:15 +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 CA1236005; Tue, 24 Dec 2013 11:09:07 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2A640604A; Tue, 24 Dec 2013 11:09:05 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131224100905.2A640604A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 11:09:05 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.648 disciplinary labels 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 648. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Dr. Hartmut Krech" (44) Subject: Re: 27.647 disciplinary labels [2] From: Willard McCarty (48) Subject: more on disciplines --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 12:34:05 +0100 From: "Dr. Hartmut Krech" Subject: Re: 27.647 disciplinary labels In-Reply-To: <20131223092136.4A74F5FE5@digitalhumanities.org> Isn't creating new areas or subjects of research very much like falling in love? It happens quite easily and happens quite often, but only the experienced stick to it. The inflation of Genglish terms and tokens in German academia has already been subject to criticism, e.g. in a conference of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences this year. It may in fact lead to overgrazing common fields, if resources remain as limited. It looks like an inverse of the beggar- thy-neighbour strategy to me.- Thank you for having tolerated my mere human presence intermingling with sometimes perhaps useful bits of information. Best regards, Hartmut http://ww3.de/krech Am 23.12.2013 10:21, schrieb Humanist Discussion Group: > In "Technology is not the problem", in Speaking Minds: Interviews with > twenty eminent cognitive scientists, ed. Baumgartner and Pyer (Princeton > 1995), Herbert Simon's interviewer remarks that, "The word cognitive > science exists in German, but there has been, until now, no established > interdisciplinary research program behind [cognitive science]". Simon > replies, > >> >There does not have to be a real thing for every noun -- take >> >philosophy. The reason why the term cognitive science exists over >> >here and why we have a society is that people found it convenient to >> >have conversations across disciplinary boundaries: psychology, >> >philosophy, linguistics, and Artificial Intelligence. A few >> >anthropologists are wandering in now. Cognitive science is the place >> >where they meet. It does not matter whether it is a discipline. It is >> >not really a discipline yet. Whether cognitive science departments >> >survive or whether people want to get their degrees in psychology and >> >computer science remains to be seen. Here (at Carnegie-Mellon >> >University) we decided that we will still give degrees in computer >> >science and cognitive psychology, not in cognitive science. These are >> >just labels for the fact that there is a lot of conversation across >> >disciplines. > The interviewer again: "In Europe, labels are treated like boundaries." > > Simon: > >> >We have this danger here, too. Nouns are tyrants. People think that if >> >there is a noun, there must be an idea behind it. The world is much more >> >fluid than that. > (p. 234) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 09:57:41 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: more on disciplines In-Reply-To: <20131223092136.4A74F5FE5@digitalhumanities.org> Disciplinary training at the doctoral level (like training-wheels on a bicycle?) are a necessary beginning, but there's more. This morning I've come across the following in Tony Grafton's Introduction to the English translation of Horst Bredekamp's The Lure of Antiquity and the Cult of the Machine (Markus Wiener / Princeton 1995). "In the present book-length essay", Grafton writes, > Bredekamp performs what the German art historian Aby Warburg defined > long ago as the central task of cultural history: he forces his way > past the "border police" who normally keep each scholarly discipline > distinct from the rest, and shows that modern ways of organizing > knowledge do not and cannot do justice to vital aspects of social and > cultural history. (p. xi) There is a necessary tentativeness, productive of the questioning which keeps scholarship from becoming dogma, which needs rescuing from that which disciplines make of what they consider. In his book Bredekamp thus demonstrated, Grafton writes, that the "cabinet of curiosities", which is its focus, > was in fact something more than a collection of splendid works of art > and nature. It was the alembic in which a new view of nature took > shape -- one which showed , visually and vividly, that nature and art > had histories, and emphasized the radical changes that nature > underwent over time as its powers and resources were exploited in > novel ways. (xii) Grafton concludes, > And it shows that even the most sensitive and erudite cultural > historians have gone wrong because they have treated visual documents > as illustrations of doctrines stated more clearly in verbal ones, > rather than as independent evidence for the history of ideas about > nature. (xiii) The word I want to focus on here is "independent", to argue for the independence of mind that can discern the independence, or tentative, or qualified interdependence of intellectual objects on each other. We go into other disciplines with respect that fosters understanding of how their practitioners do what they do, and why, in their own terms. We don't bring computing with us -- perhaps we once did, but by now it's already there. One of our jobs, I would think, is to see not just change in manner of work within this or that discipline (because scholars within it choose to do new things) but also to see the altering forces at work, to see (as Grafton said) the alembic at work and to stoke its fires, assist in the transformation and perhaps run away with its products. Nice, agreeable collaborative arrangements have their place and function. But what about the creative force of digital humanities? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7504C6068; Tue, 24 Dec 2013 11:09:39 +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 93DD36062; Tue, 24 Dec 2013 11:09:34 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id EC727605E; Tue, 24 Dec 2013 11:09:32 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131224100932.EC727605E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 11:09:32 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.649 the Digital Vercelli 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. 27, No. 649. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 09:00:37 +0000 From: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco Subject: Announcing the Digital Vercelli Book (beta) After years of hard work, the Digital Vercelli Book is now online! This is a beta version though, lacking several features that will be present in the final edition, scheduled for publication in 2014. At the moment only two texts, The Dream of the Rood and Homily 23, are available: the plan is to improve the current user interface and software on the basis of the suggestions and comments that will be sent to us, publish the revised software at some point next year and then progressively put online all the texts after a final cross-revision has been accomplished. Read the full announcement here: http://vbd.humnet.unipi.it/?p=2047. Browse the Digital Vercelli Book (beta) at this URL: http://vbd.humnet.unipi.it/beta/. Send feedback to the project team here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1YlJp_78gZANsyDRU0EKhusJWpjLP8mQ6bwOYvcdkb0o/viewform. Any comment and/or suggestion will be very much appreciated. R -- Roberto Rosselli Del Turco roberto.rossellidelturco at unito.it Dipartimento di Studi rosselli at ling.unipi.it Umanistici Then spoke the thunder DA Universita' di Torino Datta: what have we given? (TSE) Hige sceal the heardra, heorte the cenre, mod sceal the mare, the ure maegen litlath. (Maldon 312-3) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0CEE661EB; Fri, 27 Dec 2013 09:50:51 +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 D008361E7; Fri, 27 Dec 2013 09:50:39 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 27F8261DE; Fri, 27 Dec 2013 09:50:38 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131227085038.27F8261DE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 09:50:38 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.650 disciplinary labels 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 650. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2013 00:55:10 +0100 From: "Dr. Hartmut Krech" Subject: Re: 27.648 disciplinary labels and boundaries In-Reply-To: <20131224100905.2A640604A@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, You seem to argue for the 'tentative' as a concomitant of interdisciplinary or rather post-disciplinary research. It is well in place, not only between traditional areas of research and teaching, or when new technology like computing (or scientific illustration for that matter) redefines the argumentative structure within the professions, but also when scholars from widely differing scientific traditions (e.g. China and Western Europe and America) begin to negotiate a common ground of discourse. On the other hand -- the Sokal hoax may still ring in some readers' ears --, the 'independence' claimed and exploited in post-modern thinking will leave few, if any traces. When I read that the early modern 'cabinets of curiosities' showed "that nature and art had histories," I remember Plinii Naturalis Historia and don't have a great mind to read the book. I feel that digital humanities, not the least because you keep on raising the question, is on a good way of becoming a discipline by giving guidance to divergent and sometimes disparate approaches, where one may also discuss perspectives like Badiou's ontology that do not seem to pertain to Digital Humanities at first sight. Best regards, Hartmut http://ww3.de/krech Am 24.12.2013 11:09, schrieb Humanist Discussion Group: > The word I want to focus on here is "independent", to argue for the > independence of mind that can discern the independence, or tentative, or > qualified interdependence of intellectual objects on each other. [...] > Nice, agreeable collaborative arrangements have their place and > function. But what about the creative force of 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 28A2E61F1; Fri, 27 Dec 2013 09:51:47 +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 C3CC361E3; Fri, 27 Dec 2013 09:51:39 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 58CEE61E3; Fri, 27 Dec 2013 09:51:37 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131227085137.58CEE61E3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 09:51:37 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.651 help with old 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. 27, No. 651. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 12:02:16 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: help with old software An old mate of mine has written to ask for help with databases created in the distant past in PC software called IdeaList. He has a Windows copy of IdeaList bought some 20 years ago but has lost the product key. Bekon, the company who bought the software from Blackwells, has long since disappeared. Would anyone here know how the databases might be unlocked, or perhaps more accurately, opened up in any current software? Thanks for any suggestions. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D7D6161F1; Fri, 27 Dec 2013 09:52:19 +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 7040A61F0; Fri, 27 Dec 2013 09:52:12 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0FC2B61ED; Fri, 27 Dec 2013 09:52:09 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131227085210.0FC2B61ED@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 09:52:09 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.652 EU copyright review X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 652. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 10:52:23 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Copyright review The EU is currently undertaking a review of copyright regulations in the European Union and has launched a very detailed survey which may be of interest to members of this seminar. http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/consultations/2013/copyright-rules/docs/consultation-document_en.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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B70126212; Sat, 28 Dec 2013 10:05:42 +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 EDA4C61A7; Sat, 28 Dec 2013 10:05:26 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 43E8161A3; Sat, 28 Dec 2013 10:05:24 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131228090524.43E8161A3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 10:05:24 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.653 help with old 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. 27, No. 653. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Michael Fraser (6) Subject: RE: 27.651 help with old software? [2] From: Alexander O'Connor (45) Subject: Re: 27.651 help with old software? [3] From: Norman Gray (15) Subject: Re: 27.651 help with old software? [4] From: David Berry (53) Subject: Re: 27.651 help with old software? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 09:11:23 +0000 From: Michael Fraser Subject: RE: 27.651 help with old software? In-Reply-To: <20131227085137.58CEE61E3@digitalhumanities.org> Have you tried sending your request to the Idealist Google group? . Assuming anyone is still listening, someone might be willing to load and export your friend's databases. Mike Briefly sent from a mobile device > On 27 Dec 2013, at 08:51, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 651. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 12:02:16 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: help with old software > > An old mate of mine has written to ask for help with databases created > in the distant past in PC software called IdeaList. He has a Windows > copy of IdeaList bought some 20 years ago but has lost the product key. > Bekon, the company who bought the software from Blackwells, has long > since disappeared. Would anyone here know how the databases might be > unlocked, or perhaps more accurately, opened up in any current software? > > Thanks for any suggestions. > > Yours, > WM > > -- > Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital > Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital > Humanities, University of Western Sydney --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 09:37:50 +0000 From: Alexander O'Connor Subject: Re: 27.651 help with old software? In-Reply-To: <20131227085137.58CEE61E3@digitalhumanities.org> Some links I found http://osbloggery.blogspot.ie/2007/12/after-idealist.html?m=1 http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2234465?uid=3738232&uid=2460338175&uid=2460337855&uid=2&uid=4&uid=83&uid=63&sid=21103178546377 Perhaps a virtual box or dosbox virtual machine could be used to keep the software running? Alternately if your friend could post some simple examples of the data the coders of the list might be able to disentangle the data. -- Dr. Alexander O'Connor Alex.OConnor@scss.tcd.ie --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 12:20:12 +0000 From: Norman Gray Subject: Re: 27.651 help with old software? In-Reply-To: <20131227085137.58CEE61E3@digitalhumanities.org> Willard, hello. I don't know where your friend has looked so far, but it appears there's a Google group associated with the program at , and there's a ragtaggle group of lost souls lamenting in the comments at http://osbloggery.blogspot.co.uk/2007/12/after-idealist.html . There may be some further help findable there. The other possibility -- depending on what the goal is -- is to simply reverse-engineer the IdeaList storage format. Depending on what it looks like inside, and what your friend wants to get from inside outside, this could be anywhere on a spectrum from an afternoon's work to orders of magnitude more. Best wishes, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 14:31:37 +0000 From: David Berry Subject: Re: 27.651 help with old software? In-Reply-To: <20131227085137.58CEE61E3@digitalhumanities.org> Hi Willard, There is a discussion here with lots of tips in the comments.. http://osbloggery.blogspot.co.uk/2007/12/after-idealist.html Best David --- Dr. David M. Berry Reader Silverstone 316 School of Media, Film and Music University of Sussex, Falmer, East Sussex. BN1 8PP http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/125219 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D405D6218; Sat, 28 Dec 2013 12:24:16 +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 C94DB6210; Sat, 28 Dec 2013 12:24:11 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A3D9A620E; Sat, 28 Dec 2013 12:24:09 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131228112409.A3D9A620E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 12:24:09 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.654 puppets in a wired 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. 27, No. 654. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 11:06:24 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: puppets in a wired world Many here will, I expect, be interested in an article from the New York Review of Books, 7 November 2013, that I put away then to read later, which turned out to be now. It is Sue Halpern's "Are we puppets in a wired world?", still available at http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/nov/07/are-we-puppets-wired-world/. Allow me to quote from a few paragraphs at the end, where Halpern's attention turns to the ambitions of DARPA in "its quest for an algorithm that will sift through all manner of seemingly disconnected Internet data to smoke out future political unrest and acts of terror". She quotes from Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier's Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think. To anyone who has read the promotional journalism and fellow-traveller academic literature from the 1960s onward, the future tense of Schönberger and Cukier's title, plus the words "revolution" and "transform", already tell the tale. But in case you haven't, here's Halpern's quotation: > In the future—and sooner than we may think—many aspects of our world > will be augmented or replaced by computer systems that today are the > sole purview of human judgment…perhaps even identifying “criminals” > before one actually commits a crime. She comments, > The assumption that decisions made by machines that have assessed > reams of real-world information are more accurate than those made by > people, with their foibles and prejudices, may be correct generally > and wrong in the particular; and for those unfortunate souls who > might never commit another crime even if the algorithm says they > will, there is little recourse. In any case, computers are not > “neutral”; algorithms reflect the biases of their creators, which is > to say that prediction cedes an awful lot of power to the algorithm > creators, who are human after all.... > > But the real bias inherent in algorithms is that they are, by nature, > reductive. They are intended to sift through complicated, seemingly > discrete information and make some sort of sense of it, which is the > definition of reductive. But it goes further: the infiltration of > algorithms into everyday life has brought us to a place where metrics > tend to rule. This is true for education, medicine, finance, > retailing, employment, and the creative arts. There are websites that > will analyze new songs to determine if they have the right stuff to > be hits, the right stuff being the kinds of riffs and bridges found > in previous hit songs. So, we are not the only ones to be suffering under the whip of impact. Let the boosters of big data take note, or more than note; let them acquire the ability to think and act critically. But I give the last admonitory words to Halpern: > There is so much that has been good—which is to say useful, > entertaining, inspiring, informative, lucrative, fun—about the > evolution of the World Wide Web that questions about equity and > inequality may seem to be beside the point.... But while we were > having fun, we happily and willingly helped to create the greatest > surveillance system ever imagined, a web whose strings give > governments and businesses countless threads to pull, which makes > us…puppets. The free flow of information over the Internet (except in > places where that flow is blocked), which serves us well, may serve > others better. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2949761DD; Sun, 29 Dec 2013 11:29:29 +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 483FC604C; Sun, 29 Dec 2013 11:29:17 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5F368604C; Sun, 29 Dec 2013 11:29:15 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131229102915.5F368604C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 11:29:15 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.655 two from Stanford: code poetry; neuromorphic emulations X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 655. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Rovira (12) Subject: Code Poetry Slam [2] From: Willard McCarty (10) Subject: brains and machines --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 15:43:04 -0500 From: James Rovira Subject: Code Poetry Slam Interesting article: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/december/code-poetry-slam-122013.html -- Dr. James Rovira Associate Professor of English Tiffin University http://www.jamesrovira.com Blake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety Continuum 2010 http://jamesrovira.com/blake-and-kierkegaard-creation-and-anxiety/ Text, Identity, Subjectivity http://scalar.usc.edu/works/text-identity-subjectivity/index --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 09:32:49 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: brains and machines Knowledgeable commentary on John Markoff's "Brainlike Computers, Learning From Experience", New York Times for 28 December, at http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/29/science/brainlike-computers-learning-from-experience.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20131229&_r=0 would be most welcome. In particular I recommend attention, via that article, to the Stanford Brains in Silicon project, http://www.stanford.edu/group/brainsinsilicon/, and esp the work of Kwabena Boahen. Note his May 2005 Scientific American article, "Neuromorphic Microchips", and the scattered hints on what he and his colleagues have in mind. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 846226172; Mon, 30 Dec 2013 10:14:41 +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 135D46148; Mon, 30 Dec 2013 10:14:30 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7FE8D6118; Mon, 30 Dec 2013 10:14:28 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131230091428.7FE8D6118@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 10:14:28 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.656 AI --> massive unemployment? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 656. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 14:59:50 -0600 From: "Robert A. Amsler" Subject: AI Could Create Massive Unemployment within 20 years In-Reply-To: <20131229102915.5F368604C@digitalhumanities.org> Computers Jump to the Head of the Class Michael Fitzpatrick The New York Times, 29 December 2013 TOKYO — If a computer could ace the entrance exam for a top university, what would that mean for mere mortals with average intellects? This is a question that has bothered Noriko Arai, a mathematics professor, ever since the notion entered her head three years ago. “I wanted to get a clear image of how many of our intellectual activities will be replaced by machines. That is why I started the project: Can a Computer Enter Tokyo University? — the Todai Robot Project,” she said in a recent interview. Tokyo University, known as Todai, is Japan’s best. Its exacting entry test requires years of cramming to pass and can defeat even the most erudite. Most current computers, trained in data crunching, fail to understand its natural language tasks altogether. Ms. Arai has set researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Informatics, where she works, the task of developing a machine that can jump the lofty Todai bar by 2021. [For the remainder see http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/30/world/asia/computers-jump-to-the-head-of-the-class.html?emc=edit_tnt_20131229&tntemail0=y] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id EB95F6143; Tue, 31 Dec 2013 11:14:25 +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 76D2A613F; Tue, 31 Dec 2013 11:14:16 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 90C046133; Tue, 31 Dec 2013 11:14:14 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131231101414.90C046133@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 11:14:14 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.657 AI --> massive unemployment X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 657. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: John Simpson (50) Subject: Re: 27.656 AI --> massive unemployment? [2] From: Willard McCarty (83) Subject: technology and unemployment --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 10:13:49 -0500 From: John Simpson Subject: Re: 27.656 AI --> massive unemployment? In-Reply-To: <20131230091428.7FE8D6118@digitalhumanities.org> Some marginalia for the article "Computers Jump to the Head of the Class" The project described in the article looks like nice variation of the Turing Test. How odd that it isn’t mentioned in the article at all, especially since Queen Elizabeth provided a rare royal pardon to Turing only five days prior to publication.[1] The fear that machines will lead to massive unemployment goes back to the industrial revolution with inventions like the power loom, the Arkwright frame, and the cotton (en)gin(e). Perhaps the most relevant historical figure for to consider who made similar prognostications in this regard is Norbert Wiener who tells us that: “…the situation is that probably two to three years we will see the automatic factory well understood and its use beginning to accelerate production. Five years from now will see in the automatic assembly line something of which we possess the complete know how, and of which we possess a vast backlog of parts. Furthermore, social reforms do not get made in war. At the end of such a war, we shall find ourselves with a tremendous backlog of parts and know-how, which is extremely tempting to anybody that wants to make a quickie fortune and get out from under, and leave the rest of the community to pick up the pieces. That may very well happen. If that does happen, heaven help us, because we will have an unemployment compared with which the great depression was a nice little joke.” [2] (Wiener also provides two nice allusions for our relationship with technology at the end of the article by drawing on the fable of the monkey’s paw and the legends of genies.) Of course what such technologies have often done historically is produce new kinds of labour and labour organization as much as some forms are made obsolete (Unfortunately much of this has been menial to the point of slavery, both metaphorically and literally) and so considering how labour will change is probably a more suitable question to consider than how it will be reduced. The article considers this at the end, quoting Kenneth Brant, a research director at Gartner, as claiming that "This optimistic scenario I call Homo Ludens, or ‘Man, the Player,’ because maybe we will not be the smartest thing on the planet after all. Maybe our destiny is to create the smartest thing on the planet and use it to follow a course of self-actualization.” The title of the scenario will ring bells for any gaming theorists and those interested in play since it is the same as the title of a seminal work on playing by Johan Huizinga.[3] While what Gartner is describing seems reasonably related to Huzinga’s work Bernard Suits’ The Grasshopper, which playfully considers the meaning of life by imagining how we should respond to a utopian situation where there is, practically speaking, no work for us to do, seems a better fit for further consideration.[4] [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/24/world/europe/alan-turing-enigma-code-breaker-and-computer-pioneer-wins-royal-pardon.html [2] Wiener, Norbert. “Men, Machines, and the World About.” In Medicine and Science, edited by Iago Galdston, 13–28. New York Academy of Medicine. Lectures to the Laity: 16. New York, International Universities Press, 1954., 1954. Note that finding this in the original publication is likely to prove rather difficult. Fortunately it has been reprinted in The New Media Reader by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort: http://www.newmediareader.com/ [3] http://books.google.ca/booksid=oZgA8UDf3_4C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false [4] http://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Grasshopper.html?id=EMcDI4m0BpsC Note that this Google preview is of a second edition (of sorts) put out by Broadview press. While this version offers new material it unfortunately does not include the beautiful illustrations included when first published that added much to the character of the work. John Simpson Postdoctoral Fellow, INKE and Text Mining & Visualization for Literary History University of Alberta @symulation On Dec 30, 2013, at 4:14 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 656. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 14:59:50 -0600 > From: "Robert A. Amsler" > Subject: AI Could Create Massive Unemployment within 20 years > In-Reply-To: <20131229102915.5F368604C@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Computers Jump to the Head of the Class > Michael Fitzpatrick > The New York Times, 29 December 2013 > > TOKYO — If a computer could ace the entrance exam for a top university, what would that mean for mere mortals with average intellects? This is a question that has bothered Noriko Arai, a mathematics professor, ever since the notion entered her head three years ago. > > “I wanted to get a clear image of how many of our intellectual activities will be replaced by machines. That is why I started the project: Can a Computer Enter Tokyo University? — the Todai Robot Project,” she said in a recent interview. > > Tokyo University, known as Todai, is Japan’s best. Its exacting entry test requires years of cramming to pass and can defeat even the most erudite. Most current computers, trained in data crunching, fail to understand its natural language tasks altogether. > > Ms. Arai has set researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Informatics, where she works, the task of developing a machine that can jump the lofty Todai bar by 2021. > > [For the remainder see http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/30/world/asia/computers-jump-to-the-head-of-the-class.html?emc=edit_tnt_20131229&tntemail0=y] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 09:57:22 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: technology and unemployment In-Reply-To: <20131230091428.7FE8D6118@digitalhumanities.org> Although now quite old Robert Heilbroner's "The Impact of Technology: The Historic Debate", in John T. Dunlop, ed., Automation and Technological Change (Prentice Hall, 1962), gives an excellent overview of the historical arguments from Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations to the early 1960s. Much of what is said in this long debate will be familiar to those who have read the arguments and counter-arguments with respect to the computer, esp during the early years. But Heilbroner goes further than many. So, I think it is worth quoting from the end of his chapter for his bringing into focus the question of the end to which the much advanced benefits are directed: > Once again, however, there is here a larger problem than that of > economics alone. For in its widest implications the problem of > secular "adjustment" brings us again to a consideration of how the > human personality and the social organism become acclimated to the > new environment which technology creates for them. > > And here we return again to the "positive" aspect of technology to > which we have previously referred. Throughout the historic debate we > have noted a continuing counterpoint of argument between those who, > on the one hand, have emphasized the cramping, the stultifying, the > "dehumanizing" aspect of technology, and those who have replied by > stressing its basic gifts of wealth and leisure. If, as we have > noted, there are few celebrants of the industrial process as a tonic > for the human spirit, there have been many who have sought to justify > its relentless advance in terms of the gradual limitation, even the > elimination, of work itself. To them the machine offers the ultimate > reward of an escape from the historic indenture of man to scarcity > and toil. > > But the question is: escape into what?... [A]lready one can ask if > the disorders of contemporary society are not traceable in some > degree to a superfluity of some kinds of wealth and to an inadequate > opportunity to perform challenging work.... This is the largely overlooked question of "leisure", which all too often turns out to be unemployment. Few other than Heilbroner, during this period at least, ask what actually leisure amounts to. One finds much handwaving about opportunities to become educated and enjoy the finer high-brow things of life. But serious consideration of consequences is rare. Norbert Wiener, in The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society (1950), for example, was one of the few, though when reading him it is good to have read Peter Galison's "The Ontology of the Enemy: Norbert Wiener and the Cybernetic Vision", Critical Inquiry 21.1 (1994): 228-66. Heilbroner concludes: > Even the "simplest" of questions-the over-all impact of technology on > employment and output-is still only uncertainly understood. Far less > do we comprehend the effect of technology on "man," and still less > again its enormous pressure on the moulding of society. > > Insofar as this ignorance reflects the disparity between our crude > instruments of social inquiry and the delicate refinement of the > problems, our lack of understanding can only be ruefully accepted. > Unfortunately, however, our ignorance is not merely the result of the > obduracy of the issues. It is symptomatic as well of a failure to > mount a bold intellectual assault upon the problem itself. Adrift on > a furious current of technology, we allow ourselves to be swept > along, trusting to the blind forces at work to bring us safely to > some unknown but unquestioned destination. It need hardly be pointed > out that this belief in the benign social impact of technology may > turn out to have been the most tragic of all contemporary faiths. > Hence, while there is still time left, we must peer courageously > ahead, take audacious triangulations on our course, seek to combine > empiricism and speculation on the grand scale. Perhaps now, as the > perils and promise of technology seize our imaginations and crowd our > awareness as never before, it may be possible to launch such an > effort to understand and guide our fate. For in this age of technical > virtuosity Man will surely never ride Things unless he is prepared to > ask questions which today do not often seem to occur to him. His final metaphor looks back to the question he asks at the beginning: > At least in the Western world, where the typical landscape is > industrial, where human life is sustained by the ceaseless operation > of an enormous technical apparatus, where mechanical contrivances > have penetrated into the smallest interstices of private life, it is > not mere rhetoric to ask if Things are not already in the saddle, > riding Man. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D4F406149; Tue, 31 Dec 2013 11:16:39 +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 46CB46139; Tue, 31 Dec 2013 11:16:31 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AABE46136; Tue, 31 Dec 2013 11:16:28 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20131231101628.AABE46136@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 11:16:28 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.658 events: MLA session; basic vs applied 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. 27, No. 658. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Brian Croxall (19) Subject: Methods and More for ACH Session at 2014 MLA [2] From: Graeme Gooday (121) Subject: Conference: "Basic and Applied Research". Bonn, 20 Feb 2014 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 12:18:35 -0500 From: Brian Croxall Subject: Methods and More for ACH Session at 2014 MLA On Friday, January 10 from 5:15-6:30pm in Sheraton I at the Sheraton Chicago, the ACH will sponsor a session, "Beyond the Digital" (#402, http://www.mla.org/program_details?prog_id=402&year=2014), at the Modern Language Association’s Convention. The conceit of this panel is that panelists will speak about the results of their scholarship and NOT their methods, with the hope of re-familiarizing digital scholarship to the MLA audience. In the end, we hope to show, digital humanities work is still about finding interpretations of literary and/or linguistic texts and objects. As a corollary, we’ve asked the panelists to write blog posts to outline their methods. Those posts have been published today and we encourage you to look at the exciting work being conducted with topic modeling, stylometrics, network visualizations, and more at http://ach.org/2013/12/30/methods-and-more-for-beyond-the-digital-at-mla-2014/. Best wishes for the new year, Brian Croxall -- Brian Croxall, PhD | Digital Humanities Strategist | Lecturer of English | Emory University --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 23:53:49 +0000 From: Graeme Gooday Subject: Conference: "Basic and Applied Research". Bonn, 20 Feb 2014 Conference: "Basic and Applied Research". Historical Semantics of a Key Distinction in 20th Century Science Policy > Date: 20-22 February 2014 > Location: Bonner Universitätsforum, Heussallee 18-24, 53113 Bonn, Germany > > The conference brings together researchers from the interdisciplinary > field of science studies to discuss the origins, meanings and > transformations of the distinction between “basic research” and “applied > research” in the course of the 20th century. The aim is to compare how > this key distinction of science and research policy has been handled by > diverse ideological regimes of the 20th century, for example by the > totalitarian regimes during World War II, by the liberal-democratic > regimes of the West or by the socialist regimes of the East during the > Cold War era, by decolonized states in the Commonwealth and by the > recent innovation regimes of supranational entities such as the EU. > > In the last decades, several authors have noticed with surprise that the > basic/applied distinction and the notorious linear model of innovation > persist both within science stud-ies and in science and innovation > policy, although they have been deconstructed as analytically flawed. > Thus, on the one hand, it is common usage to distinguish between “basic > research” and “applied research” while, on the other hand, the > inadequacy of the-se categories is often debated. This paradox can be > solved if one analyzes the respective concepts as historical semantics. > Such a change of perspective raises some central questions that will be > addressed in the contributions to the conference: Which specific terms > have been used in different historical and national contexts? What is > the pragmatic function underlying the different forms of usage? Do these > opposing notions epitomize diverging ideas or ideologies concerning the > goal of science in general? What kind of careers and trajectories did > these concepts have, when observing them in retrospect? For example, why > did the idea of “basic research” become so important after 1945? > > Program > > Thursday, 20 February 2014 > > 2:00 – 2:45 pm Introduction: > The Role of Semantics in Science Policy and in Science Studies (David > Kaldewey/University of Bonn and Désirée Schauz/University of Technology, > Munich) > > 2:45 – 5:30 pm Longue-durée Perspectives on the Basic/Applied > Distinction > Basic Research and Innovation: The ‘New’ Semantic Pair > (Benoît Godin/Institut national de la recherche scientifique, University > of Montreal) > Talking, and Not Talking, about ‘Applied Science’: Promoting a Culture of the Twentieth Century Public Sphere (Robert Bud/The Science Museum, London) > Coffee break > From ‘Natural’ Authority to Tactics and the Conduct of Conducts. The Politics of Knowledge Between the 1950s and the 2000s (Dominique Pestre/L’École des Haute Études en > Sciences Sociales, Paris) > > 5:30 – 7:30 pm Academic and Industrial Research > Rewriting Applied Science: Purifying Histories of Knowledge-Making (Graeme > Gooday/University of Leeds) > The Entrepreneur, the Laboratory, the Investor and the State: Changing Concepts of Innovation in the Twentieth Century (Lea Haller/Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) > 7:30 pm Dinner > > Friday, 21 February 2014 > > 9:00 – 11:45 am German Research Policy in Fascist, Liberal and Communist > Contexts > Science Policy in Search of New Semantics: Basic Research in the Era of the Second World War (Désirée Schauz/University of Technology, Munich) > ‘Grundlagenforschung’ and ‘Anwendungsforschung’ in Science Policy Contexts in Western-Germany after World War II (Gregor Lax/University of Bielefeld) > Coffee break > Basic and Applied Research in GDR Science Policy (Manuel Schramm/Technical University of Chemnitz) > > 11:45 am – 3:30 pm Research policy in Communist Countries > From ‘Planning Science’ to ‘Goal-oriented Research’: Soviet Science Policy in Cross-ideological Encounters (Alexei Kojevnikov/University of British Columbia) > Lunch break > Theory versus (Policy Oriented) Empirical Research: Economics in State-Socialist Hungary after Stalin (György Péteri/Norwegian University of Science &Technology, Trondheim) > White Flags in a Red Tide: Debates Over Basic vs. Applied Research in the > Politics of Science in Modern China (Zuoyue Wang/California State Polytechnic University, Pomona) > > 3:30 – 5:30 pm Research Strategies in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts > Why Was Fundamental Research Deemed Necessary for Colonial Development > after 1940? (Sabine Clarke/University of York) > Coffee break > On the Necessity of a Disjunction: Science, Government and Industrialisation in > Free India (Jahnavi Phalkey/King’s College London) > > 5:30 – 7:30 pm American Research Policy in National and Transnational > Perspective Basic Research as a Political Symbol (Roger Pielke/University of Colorado Boulder) > Regulating the Transnational Circulation of Knowledge: Dissolving the Basic/Applied Science Distinction (John Krige/Georgia Institute of Technology) > > Saturday, 22 February 2014 > > 9:00 am – 12:30 pm Old and New Semantics in the 21th Century > Basic and Applied Research: How Engineers and Industrial Scientists Use the Distinction (Rudolf Stichweh/University of Bonn) > The Emergence of the European Research Council: Hijacking Basic Research by Geopolitical and Market Semantics (Tim Flink/Social Science Research Center Berlin) > Coffee break > ‘Tackling the Grand Challenges’: The New Rhetorics of Applied Research in EU Science Policy (David Kaldewey/University of Bonn) > Concluding Discussion > > The conference fee is 50€ (reduced 25€) and includes coffee and > beverages, dinner on Thursday and lunch on Friday. > Please register by February 1, 2014. For further information, please > visit our website: www.fiw.uni-bonn.de/fiw-veranstaltungen > > The conference is supported by the Rectorate of the University of Bonn, > the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Forum Internationale > Wissenschaft (FIW). > Organizers: > David Kaldewey > Forum Internationale Wissenschaft, University of Bonn, Heussallee 18-24, > D-53113 Bonn, kaldewey@uni-bonn.de > > Désirée Schauz > Munich Centre for the History of Science and Technology, c/o Deutsches > Museum, D-86306 Munich, desiree.schauz@mzwtg.mwn.de > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Dr. Désirée Schauz > Münchner Zentrum für Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte > c/o Deutsches Museum Museumsinsel 1 > 80538 München > Tel.: 089-2179.407, Fax: 089-2179.408 > Email: Desiree.Schauz@mzwtg.mwn.de > Homepage: http://www.fggt.edu.tum.de/personen/desiree-schauz/ > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5FA206193; Wed, 1 Jan 2014 10:42:31 +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 277DD618E; Wed, 1 Jan 2014 10:42:23 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A001A618B; Wed, 1 Jan 2014 10:42:21 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140101094221.A001A618B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 10:42:21 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.659 DH Awards once were closing :-) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 659. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 13:31:46 +0000 From: James Cummings Subject: Reminder: DH Awards Nominations closing [FYI, with apologies for Humanist being a somewhat less than a last-minute creature, with an editor who found himself elsewhere, doing other things, last night. Happy 2014 all! --WM] Just a reminder that nominations for the open DH Awards 2013 close today Tuesday 31 December at Midnight GMT. === The annual open DH Awards 2013 are now accepting nominations! Please nominate any Digital Humanities resource you feel deserves to win in any of this year's categories. The open DH Awards 2013 are openly nominated by the community and openly voted for by the public as a DH awareness activity. There are no financial prizes, just the honour of having won and an icon for your website. Nominations will be open until 31 December 2013 (midnight GMT), voting will take place in January 2014. Please note that the nominations must be for projects/resources/sites that were launched/finished/created in 2013. To nominate something for the DH Awards 2013 visit the nominations page at: http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/nominations/ The categories we are accepting nominations for the open Digital Humanities Awards 2013 are: === *Best DH tool or suite of tools* Nominations for this category should be for a tool or suite of tools created by members of the DH community, used for enabling, encouraging, and/or accomplishing DH work. *Best DH contribution not in the English language* Nominations for this category should be for DH resources or publications that are not in the English language. *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. *Best DH blog post, article, or short publication* Nominations for this category should be for a specific short DH publication (peer-reviewed or not) whether article, blog post, or other publication. *Best DH visualization or infographic* Nominations for this category should be for a graphic, infographic, or visualization created for or by the DH community. *Best DH project for public audiences* Nominations for this category should be for a DH project designed to be used by audiences primarily outside of higher education, including educators, students, enthusiasts, genealogists, engaged citizens, etc. === Again, to nominate something for the DH Awards 2013 visit the nominations page at: http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/nominations/ If you have any questions please see http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/faqs2013/ or ask at james@dhawards.org or tweet @DHawards James Cummings 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id ED6E4619E; Wed, 1 Jan 2014 10:49:53 +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 3FA926196; Wed, 1 Jan 2014 10:49:45 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DF30B6190; Wed, 1 Jan 2014 10:49:43 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140101094943.DF30B6190@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 10:49:43 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.660 computers, teams and individual initiative X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 660. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 11:19:48 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: computers and teamwork In their consideration of "The Man-Computer Relationship", Science NS 138.3543 (23 Nov 1962), David L. Johnson and Arthur L. Kobler begin with Norbert Wiener's concern that a computer-directed military defense system may arrive at a solution for victory that is truly Pyrrhic, "that the machine may produce a policy which would win a nominal victory on points at the cost of every interest we have at heart, even that of national survival". Their basic argument, much like the one Marvin Minsky made about modelling, is that in the conception of any such system human beings must be included, or as Minsky said, in modelling the relationship is always ternary: object, model, modeller. They consider the problem of fitting human values, such as beauty and responsibility, into the equation, or as they say, as parameters in the system. (Here, you may object, the whole question is distorted by framing the entire situation in terms of a computing system, but never mind -- for the moment.) One aspect of forgetting the human which they consider at some length is, they say, the tendency of their contemporaries (and our tendency too?) to run away from the necessary involvement as individuals, to hide in the presumed authority of machines and teams. They frame the question in terms of decision-making systems by then integral to commerce and the military: > The consideration of values in such decisional contexts leads > directly to our concern with the frailty of man. Two of the most > responsible and respectable of contemporary social-psychological > commentators have characterized to-day's man as increasingly "other > directed" (5) and pressed toward "escape from freedom" (6). Faced > with increasing complexity and massive responsibility, man has > tended more and more to work in groups, and committee decision is > now commonplace. One major consequence is the decrease in individual > identity and the loss of individual responsibility. The computer, > coming at this time in man's progress, can and does play a special > role in enabling man to escape the freedom of responsible choice. > After all, who can be held responsible for a decision by a computer? > Moreover, the increased complexity of the world man faces makes him > more aware of his own limitations. Such awareness leads to feelings > of inadequacy, and the desire and need for, someone or something > outside himself that has the qualities he feels lacking in > himself-solidity, infallibility, and so on. He looks for the father, > the leader, God, scientific truth. The computer has the proper aura. > It can be perfect; it can be right; it can be very nearly > in-fallible; it can produce the truth. Already, in its infancy, it > can solve problems quickly that would have taken man many lifetimes > to solve. It can make systematic sense out of a gigantic mass of > apparently disorganized information. In its solid, efficient, > light-flashing way it acts without obsessive hesitation-as if it is > sure, as if it knows. It acts without emotional involvements, > without commitments, in a manner which can be called objective. > > 5. D. Riesman et al., The Lonely Crowd (Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, > 1950). > 6. E. Fromm, Escape from Freedom (Rinehart, New York, 1941). Such accusation directed at the human-machine relationship is not rare, at least during this period. But I find it particularly interesting that group-work comes under fire as well, and for the same reason. This is not so common, though quite a prominent and remarkable change in research work, esp in the sciences, e.g. in Alvarez's "factory physics" at Berkeley. They continue: > Most subject to the hypnotic effect of the computer are those whose > direct contact with computer operation and programming is limited. > Scientists trained in the design and operation of computing devices > frequently must recognize the limitations of mechanization in > communication with human systems. Often, however, these men are > the very ones who are working within such a rigid discipline that > computers are able to solve their problems, and they may read into > this ability the ability to solve all problems. In effect a design for digital humanities, whose disciplinary companions are not so rigid? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id F01EC6191; Wed, 1 Jan 2014 12:24:58 +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 48672618C; Wed, 1 Jan 2014 12:24:50 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 04FA8615F; Wed, 1 Jan 2014 12:24:48 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140101112449.04FA8615F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 12:24:48 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.661 and a gift for the New Year X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 661. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2014 10:47:48 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: and a gift for the New Year Two quotations, from the closing Anthology in a most marvellous book and catalogue of the current exhibition its title names, Curiosity: Art and the Pleasures of Knowing (Hayward, 2013). The first is from physicist Richard Feynman's "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out": > Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, > irreverent and original manner possible. The second is the last in the book, from David Foster Wallace's posthumous novel, The Pale King. I recommend you read the following with Jon Agar's fine book, The Government Machine: A Revolutionary History of the Computer (MIT, 2003) firmly in mind (for Turing's machine operationalizes bureaucracy perfectly): > I discovered, in the only way that a man ever really learns anything > important, the real skill that is required to succeed in a > bureaucracy.... The key is the ability, whether innate or > conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the > meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex. To be, in a > word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune > to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish. Happy New Year 2014! Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 813F461CF; Thu, 2 Jan 2014 10:21:13 +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 B538661C9; Thu, 2 Jan 2014 10:21:04 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 59EC561BC; Thu, 2 Jan 2014 10:21:02 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140102092102.59EC561BC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 10:21:02 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.662 returns of the day X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 662. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Alan Corre (2) Subject: Happy [2] From: Andrew Brook (9) Subject: Re: 27.661 and a gift for the New Year --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 07:35:50 -0600 (CST) From: Alan Corre Subject: Happy And a happy new year to you too, Willard, and thanks for all you do for us! Alan --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 18:05:14 -0500 From: Andrew Brook Subject: Re: 27.661 and a gift for the New Year In-Reply-To: <20140101112449.04FA8615F@digitalhumanities.org> Thanks, Willard. All the best in 2014 to you!! Andrew -- Andrew Brook, D.Phil. Chancellor's Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science President, 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9959861D5; Thu, 2 Jan 2014 10:22:55 +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 7F7C061CA; Thu, 2 Jan 2014 10:22:46 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8497E61C9; Thu, 2 Jan 2014 10:22:44 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140102092244.8497E61C9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 10:22:44 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.663 effects? (1) of lower-cost tech; (2) of unsatisfiable curiosity X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 663. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Dave Postles" (13) Subject: lower-cost technology [2] From: Willard McCarty (21) Subject: the inexhaustible pleasures of the Web --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 12:03:42 -0000 From: "Dave Postles" Subject: lower-cost technology In-Reply-To: <20140101112449.04FA8615F@digitalhumanities.org> What are people's opinions about the potential impact of lower-cost kit on digital learning? As they are so inexpensive, I've bought the Mozilla/ZTE Firefox OS phone and the Datawind Ubislate (the entry-level one which is currently available) out of pure interest. Both have been produced for developing countries, the former for the market and the latter for the India public education system and now for the market. I'm particularly interested in whether the Ubislate could be rolled out in HE - i.e. given to all undergrads. There are potential issues in that both are underpowered (smaller amount of RAM) and the Ubislate pushes advertisements. OTOH, they just seem so inexpensive that they could be distributed gratis. -- http://www.historicalresources.myzen.co.uk (research and pedagogy) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2014 13:08:23 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the inexhaustible pleasures of the Web In-Reply-To: <20140101112449.04FA8615F@digitalhumanities.org> > Again, the pleasure and delight of knowledge and learning surpass all > others.... In all other pleasures there is a satiety, and after use > their verdure fades; which shows they are but deceits and fallacies, > and that it was the novelty which pleased, not the quality; whence > voluptuous men frequently turn friars, and ambitious princes > melancholy. But of knowledge there is no satiety, for here > gratification and appetite are perpetually interchanging, and > consequently this is good in itself, simply, without fallacy or > accident. Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning, Book I, p. 83 (ed. Davey) No satiety from the Web, that's for sure. So two questions: (1) in general, or in principle, how do we call a halt in any defensible way, and in what way(s) precisely? (2) in what direction, with what effects, is this relentless desire for more pushing us? Any ideas? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 725F361AB; Fri, 3 Jan 2014 10:24:58 +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 4CA6C61A7; Fri, 3 Jan 2014 10:24:49 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 674F26191; Fri, 3 Jan 2014 10:24:47 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140103092447.674F26191@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 10:24:47 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.664 lower-cost 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 664. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 15:25:41 +0000 From: "Brookes, Stewart" Subject: lower-cost technology In-Reply-To: <20140102092244.8497E61C9@digitalhumanities.org> Hi Dave, > Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 12:03:42 -0000 > From: "Dave Postles" > Subject: lower-cost technology > In-Reply-To: <20140101112449.04FA8615F@digitalhumanities.org> > > What are people's opinions about the potential impact of lower-cost kit on > digital learning? I'm not so interested in super-cheap clones of stuff we already have, except that it, of course, increases access. More exciting is the kind of kit that encourages experimentation and innovation and what seems to me real learning about how systems work, e.g. http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs This might just be nostalgia, as I grew up in the UK, programming and designing software on RISC OS (which the Rasperry Pi runs: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2338). Best, Stewart -- If you want to build a community of palaeographers, teach people to long for the endless immensity of manuscripts. www.digipal.eu: where the longing starts... _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id EDD9C61A8; Fri, 3 Jan 2014 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 0492461A6; Fri, 3 Jan 2014 10:26:12 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 592E761A4; Fri, 3 Jan 2014 10:26:10 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140103092610.592E761A4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 10:26:10 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.665 ADHO membership-only rates X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 665. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 10:06:44 -0600 From: Lisa Spiro Subject: ADHO Announces Members-Only Rates The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO, http://adho.org/) is pleased to announce new membership-only rates, which we hope will remove any financial barriers to participation. By selecting the membership-only option, members of ADHO and its constituent organizations (The European Association for Digital Humanities, Association for Computers and the Humanities, Canadian Society for Digital Humanities / Société canadienne des humanités numériques, centerNet, Australasian Association for Digital Humanities, and Japanese Association for Digital Humanities) will not receive LLC: The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, but will be eligible for reduced conference rates and other benefits. To join ADHO and all of its constituent organizations under the membership-only option, select "Membership - Society fee" at Oxford University Press' web page for ADHO membership and LLC subscriptions ( http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/litlin/access_purchase/price_list.html ). Membership-only rates are set based upon the scholar’s home country, using Oxford University Press’ list of countries eligible for subscription for free or at reduced rates. Members from “A” list countries will receive free membership, while those from “B” list countries will receive reduced rates of 25 USD. All other members under the membership-only option will pay a modest 40 USD. ADHO Steering Committee Chair Neil Fraistat notes: “While we hope that most members will continue subscribing to LLC as part of their membership, we are delighted to be able to make membership in ADHO more widely affordable, and we are grateful to Oxford University Press for their support in making this important shift to member-only rates. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 09:30:32 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: ACRH-3 and TLT12 Proceedings online On behalf of the organizers I'm pleased to announce that the Proceedings volumes of the following conferences are now online: (1) The Third Workshop on Annotation of Corpora for Research in the Humanities (ACRH-3), at http://www.bultreebank.org/ACRH-3/ACRH-3Proceeding.pdf (including a special section in celebration of Fr Roberto Busa) and (2) The Twelfth Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT12), at http://www.bultreebank.org/TLT12/TLT12Proceedings.pdf Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C215460FD; Sat, 4 Jan 2014 07:30:01 +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 A18DC6113; Sat, 4 Jan 2014 07:29:53 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 615E36097; Sat, 4 Jan 2014 07:29:51 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140104062951.615E36097@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 07:29:51 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.667 why don't girls compute? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 667. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 13:51:29 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Why don't girls compute? Comments on the following would be welcome. How different is the situation now? And how is it different? > WHY DON'T GIRLS compute? There still seems to be a popular feeling > that computers are terrifically technical and whoever understands > them, or even manages to use one at home, must be some kind of weird > boffin. Boys' stuff, so the myths tell us. Luckily the myth is in the > process of being blown away. More than 20,000 computers are being > sold each month in Britain, largely thanks to Clive Sinclair; it > would be hard to maintain that we are finding another 20,000 boffms > every four weeks. Yet of those 20,000 newcomers to the market each > month the vast majority are still boys. > > It is hard to tell whether parents deliberately buy computers for > their sons rather than their daughters, or whether it is the sons who > demand of their parents that they have a computer for their > birthdays. Whichever it is, the girls are not computing. > > At the recent ZX Micro Faire in London, the girls were outnumbered by > approximately 100 to one. Parents must take a certain amount of the > blame for this - perhaps they still feel that it is not quite proper > for girls to compute. If that is the case, they are doing the next > generation of girls a great disfavour. For the up-and-coming > generation a knowledge of how computers work will be of immense value > when looking for work in today's bleak job climate. Being able to > program a Sinclair ZX machine is obviously no qualification for a job > but at least it opens one's eyes to the possibility of learning how > to program to a professional standard. Maybe some will even be > sufficiently encouraged to try and start their own software > companies; there are already many precedents of young entrepreneurs > earning more from their hobbies than their parents do in their > full-time jobs. > > The other culprits are the schools. It is often in schools that the > segregation between the arts and the sciences, between the girls and > the boys, begins in earnes!. The boys are sent to the science > laboratories and the girls are left with the so-called soft options. > The result is seen at every computer exhibition. > > It is the teachers, not the girls, who are responsible for advising > parents that the best chance of academic success for their daughters > lies in languages, biology and domestic science. Part of the problem > is that compllting is not yet regarded as a soft option. Learning the > l00-odd key words in the vocabulary of Basic is a doddle compared to > mastering the intricate irregularities of French, Spanish or German. > Let's tell the teachers to think again. > > Editorial, Your Computer Magazine (November 1981) Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E87A06169; Sat, 4 Jan 2014 07:33:59 +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 B4787612C; Sat, 4 Jan 2014 07:33:50 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0D6DF60BF; Sat, 4 Jan 2014 07:33:48 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140104063349.0D6DF60BF@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 07:33:48 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.668 serendipity; or, this weird Perry Mason thing; or, Netflix reverse-engineers Hollywood X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 668. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 06:15:56 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: serendipity; or, this weird Perry Mason thing; or, Netflix reverse-engineers Holywood In my experience serious implications for digital humanities seldom arise from work that is simultaneously mysterious and delightfully (even wake-up-the-neighbours-by-laughing-out-loud-at-6am) funny. But thanks to fellow Humanist Neven Jovanović, I am able to pass on just such a thing for your contemplation. It is described in some detail by Alexis C. Madrigal, in "How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood", The Atlantic, 2 January, at http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/how-netflix-reverse-engineered-hollywood/282679/. The (I suspect) very few Perry Mason fans among us will be gratified but perhaps not as puzzled as the rest of us, unless that puzzle be why we are not as rapt by Raymond Burr and Barbara Hale as they are. True, the metaphor of the legal trial is a powerful one, used for the most serious purposes e.g. throughout the Judeo-Christian Bible ("I know that my Redeemer liveth", for example). But still, how many years has it been since you watched Perry Mason, if ever? To Netflix without delay? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4BEA16176; Sat, 4 Jan 2014 07:35:50 +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 74F59612C; Sat, 4 Jan 2014 07:35:43 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BCD4E6041; Sat, 4 Jan 2014 07:35:41 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140104063541.BCD4E6041@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 07:35:41 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.669 digital history workshopalooza X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 669. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 12:08:14 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: digital history Workshopalooza See Claire Potter's article, "AHA Day 1: Digital History Workshopalooza", Chronicle of Higher Education, 2 January 2014, in the Tenured Radical column, http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/tenuredradical/2014/01/aha-day-1-digital-history-workshopalooza/?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en. I think it would be especially interesting for us to know, and especially from an historian in the know, what was not discussed/presented as much as what was. It would also be good to have an historian who lives on this (i.e. my) side of the Pond comment on the degree to which the Workshopalooza as reported was a particularly American phenomenon -- other than the obvious. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DB58C612C; Sat, 4 Jan 2014 07:41:14 +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 B6CEA6097; Sat, 4 Jan 2014 07:41:05 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 59D3B603D; Sat, 4 Jan 2014 07:41:03 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140104064103.59D3B603D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 07:41:03 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.670 lower-cost 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 670. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Dave Postles" (11) Subject: Re: 27.664 lower-cost technology [2] From: Willard McCarty (14) Subject: Raspberry Pi --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 09:46:05 -0000 From: "Dave Postles" Subject: Re: 27.664 lower-cost technology In-Reply-To: <20140103092447.674F26191@digitalhumanities.org> RPi is fine, particularly for Python coding, although you could do the same some time ago with the olpc (with python tutorials integrated). Anything which encourages the use of Linux, on the desktop as well as on servers and embedded, is fine with me, The problem with the RPi is still that it has only sold 1m units, so it's impact is fairly confined. There are, of course, many other single-board PCs (SBPCs) out there. Python is useful for digital humanities (especially for corpus linguistics). I have a suspicion, however, that it's (RPi's) impact, welcome as it is, is being overhyped. -- http://www.historicalresources.myzen.co.uk (research and pedagogy) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 10:01:24 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Raspberry Pi In-Reply-To: <20140103092447.674F26191@digitalhumanities.org> In my youth, during the time when digital computers were first being widely publicized, there were such things as the Geniac (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geniac), designed and marketed by Edmund C. Berkeley, who wrote Giant Brains, or Machines That Think (1949). But what I knew about and reached for were the kits from which one could built radio transmitters and receivers, voltmeters using only basic components (resistors, capacitors etc) and simple tools (wire-cutter, soldering iron, screwdriver etc). So I wonder, how does the Raspberry Pi compare in its extent and kind of influence? I was building devices from kits at ca. age 8. I've never actually seen a Geniac, but from the description it doesn't seem that it would teach anyone any techno-creative skills & the joy of making things. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D10CC6178; Sat, 4 Jan 2014 07:41:46 +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 576FA6130; Sat, 4 Jan 2014 07:41:38 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 735536125; Sat, 4 Jan 2014 07:41:36 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140104064136.735536125@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 07:41:36 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.671 returns of the day X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 671. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 15:13:35 +0100 From: "Dr. Hartmut Krech" Subject: Re: 27.662 returns of the day In-Reply-To: <20140102092102.59EC561BC@digitalhumanities.org> All good things come in threes ... Thank you, Willard, and a happy new year to you and your family. Hartmut Am 02.01.2014 10:21, schrieb Humanist Discussion Group: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 662. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: Alan Corre (2) > Subject: Happy > > [2] From: Andrew Brook (9) > Subject: Re: 27.661 and a gift for the New Year > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 07:35:50 -0600 (CST) > From: Alan Corre > Subject: Happy > > And a happy new year to you too, Willard, and thanks for all you do for us! > > Alan > > > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 18:05:14 -0500 > From: Andrew Brook > Subject: Re: 27.661 and a gift for the New Year > In-Reply-To: <20140101112449.04FA8615F@digitalhumanities.org> > > Thanks, Willard. All the best in 2014 to you!! 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0FF9C6170; Sun, 5 Jan 2014 10:49:57 +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 C469C5F92; Sun, 5 Jan 2014 10:49:50 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 730665F8A; Sun, 5 Jan 2014 10:49:47 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140105094947.730665F8A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 10:49:47 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.672 girls and computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 672. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 15:02:29 +1100 From: Suzana Sukovic Subject: Re: 27.667 why don't girls compute? In-Reply-To: <20140104062951.615E36097@digitalhumanities.org> Willard and all, The question is still pertinent as we all know. Before I say something about the question and possible answers, I have to say I am not not a programmer, but I've been involved with IT and teaching for a long time. Firstly, the question itself. "Compute" means to use computers. Girls do "compute" nowadays. However, they code and design IT systems less frequently. In the last 20 years the everyday use has changed, but a major difference between males and females in their involvement with IT has remained. It seems there are a few factors at play, roughly around 3 connected areas: 1. Girls' interests 2. Cultural issues around gender and geek cultures 3. The way computers are presented and taught. I won't dissect them all, but I'd like to mention briefly the issue of interest in and value of "soft skills". Girls are often more interested in people than in machines. Social aspects of learning are very important to teenage girls. Women in computing tend to deal with issues of use and interaction with computers more frequently than men. However, "soft" skills and approaches to teaching computers are usually seen as less valuable than "hard" ones. Our understanding of computers is, hopefully, reaching a point when we can start to appreciate complexities of factors underpinning computer use. As it happens at this time of the year, I have read numerous futuristic predictions recently. Many of them are about technology in our time. And most are wrong. In order to make more accurate predictions about IT (arising from better understanding), we need more humanities and social sciences - more "soft" skills. It isn't necessarily about women in IT, but it is about skills women often have. More importantly, it is about a perception of what matters and what is valued. It is also about recognising a range of skills as IT-related and fostering them adequately. On a more practical note, what can be done to enhance girls' engagement with IT? It has to start early. High school is a good time to engage girls or make sure their interests aren't lost under peer and other social pressures. Ongoing discussions about DH education are focused on universities, but it starts or should start much earlier. A few suggestions: - Avoid a "one size fits all" approach. In my school we run digital storytelling workshops, Minecraft club and started a simple game-coding workshop. Different students attend all these activities and discover different abilities in the process. Most students, male and female, see computers as a tool. Show them how they can "compute" to do something they want to do. - Build interest and confidence - the biggest surprise to girls who made a leap of faith when they joined the coding workshop is that they can do it. Now we talk about doing more coding. We'll see how it goes, but they are excited to give it a go. - Change a "cool" factor - nerds, geeks and alike aren't cool among the majority of teenage girls I see every day. I believe it can be changed. A few schools and clubs aren't enough, but all contributions count to build a momentum. Ideas and suggestions on and off the list are most welcome. Regards, Suzana Dr Suzana Sukovic *Head of Learning Resource Centre* St Vincent's College|Locked Bag 2700|Potts Point, NSW, 1335 Tel: (02) 9368 1611 ext 215|Fax: (02) 9356 2118 *Research Associate, The University of Sydney* *Co-Chair, ALIA Research Advisory Committee* Contact Me [image: LinkedIn] http://s.wisestamp.com/links?url=http%3A%2F%2Flinkd.in%2Fg2F4gu [image: Facebook] http://s.wisestamp.com/links?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FSuzanaSukovic%23!%2F [image: Twitter] http://s.wisestamp.com/links?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsuzanasukovic On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 667. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 13:51:29 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: Why don't girls compute? > > > Comments on the following would be welcome. How different is the > situation now? And how is it different? > > > WHY DON'T GIRLS compute? There still seems to be a popular feeling > > that computers are terrifically technical and whoever understands > > them, or even manages to use one at home, must be some kind of weird > > boffin. Boys' stuff, so the myths tell us. Luckily the myth is in the > > process of being blown away. More than 20,000 computers are being > > sold each month in Britain, largely thanks to Clive Sinclair; it > > would be hard to maintain that we are finding another 20,000 boffms > > every four weeks. Yet of those 20,000 newcomers to the market each > > month the vast majority are still boys. > > > > It is hard to tell whether parents deliberately buy computers for > > their sons rather than their daughters, or whether it is the sons who > > demand of their parents that they have a computer for their > > birthdays. Whichever it is, the girls are not computing. > > > > At the recent ZX Micro Faire in London, the girls were outnumbered by > > approximately 100 to one. Parents must take a certain amount of the > > blame for this - perhaps they still feel that it is not quite proper > > for girls to compute. If that is the case, they are doing the next > > generation of girls a great disfavour. For the up-and-coming > > generation a knowledge of how computers work will be of immense value > > when looking for work in today's bleak job climate. Being able to > > program a Sinclair ZX machine is obviously no qualification for a job > > but at least it opens one's eyes to the possibility of learning how > > to program to a professional standard. Maybe some will even be > > sufficiently encouraged to try and start their own software > > companies; there are already many precedents of young entrepreneurs > > earning more from their hobbies than their parents do in their > > full-time jobs. > > > > The other culprits are the schools. It is often in schools that the > > segregation between the arts and the sciences, between the girls and > > the boys, begins in earnes!. The boys are sent to the science > > laboratories and the girls are left with the so-called soft options. > > The result is seen at every computer exhibition. > > > > It is the teachers, not the girls, who are responsible for advising > > parents that the best chance of academic success for their daughters > > lies in languages, biology and domestic science. Part of the problem > > is that compllting is not yet regarded as a soft option. Learning the > > l00-odd key words in the vocabulary of Basic is a doddle compared to > > mastering the intricate irregularities of French, Spanish or German. > > Let's tell the teachers to think again. > > > > Editorial, Your Computer Magazine (November 1981) > > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital > Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital > Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 152F36174; Sun, 5 Jan 2014 10:52:59 +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 F05EE6043; Sun, 5 Jan 2014 10:52:54 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 11D425F8A; Sun, 5 Jan 2014 10:52:51 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140105095252.11D425F8A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 10:52:51 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.673 lower-cost 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 673. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Dave Postles" (65) Subject: Re: 27.670 lower-cost technology [2] From: "Brookes, Stewart" (18) Subject: Re: 27.670 lower-cost technology [3] From: Bob Blair (3) Subject: Re: 27.670 lower-cost technology --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 09:42:30 -0000 From: "Dave Postles" Subject: Re: 27.670 lower-cost technology In-Reply-To: <20140104064103.59D3B603D@digitalhumanities.org> Mea culpa - it should have been 'its ... impact', of course. > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 670. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: "Dave Postles" (11) > Subject: Re: 27.664 lower-cost technology > > [2] From: Willard McCarty (14) > Subject: Raspberry Pi > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 09:46:05 -0000 > From: "Dave Postles" > Subject: Re: 27.664 lower-cost technology > In-Reply-To: <20140103092447.674F26191@digitalhumanities.org> > > RPi is fine, particularly for Python coding, although you could do the > same some time ago with the olpc (with python tutorials integrated). > Anything which encourages the use of Linux, on the desktop as well as on > servers and embedded, is fine with me, The problem with the RPi is still > that it has only sold 1m units, so it's impact is fairly confined. There > are, of course, many other single-board PCs (SBPCs) out there. Python is > useful for digital humanities (especially for corpus linguistics). I have > a suspicion, however, that it's (RPi's) impact, welcome as it is, is being > overhyped. > > -- > http://www.historicalresources.myzen.co.uk (research and pedagogy) > > > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 10:01:24 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: Raspberry Pi > In-Reply-To: <20140103092447.674F26191@digitalhumanities.org> > > In my youth, during the time when digital computers were first being > widely publicized, there were such things as the Geniac > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geniac), designed and marketed by Edmund > C. Berkeley, who wrote Giant Brains, or Machines That Think (1949). But > what I knew about and reached for were the kits from which one could > built radio transmitters and receivers, voltmeters using only basic > components (resistors, capacitors etc) and simple tools (wire-cutter, > soldering iron, screwdriver etc). > > So I wonder, how does the Raspberry Pi compare in its extent and kind > of influence? I was building devices from kits at ca. age 8. I've never > actually seen a Geniac, but from the description it doesn't seem that it > would teach anyone any techno-creative skills & the joy of making things. > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital > Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital > Humanities, University of Western Sydney -- http://www.historicalresources.myzen.co.uk (research and pedagogy) http://davelinux.info/joomla/index.php (personal - sometimes very!) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 19:21:59 +0000 From: "Brookes, Stewart" Subject: Re: 27.670 lower-cost technology In-Reply-To: <20140104064103.59D3B603D@digitalhumanities.org> On 3 Jan 2014 Dave Postles wrote: [snip] > The problem with the RPi is still that it has only sold 1m units, so it's impact is fairly confined. They claim nearly 2.3 million sales, which is a million more than, say, the BBC Micro which arguably had a huge impact on programming in its day (in the UK): http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2320518/raspberry-pi-closes-in-on-23-million-sales > There are, of course, many other single-board PCs (SBPCs) out there. Python is > useful for digital humanities (especially for corpus linguistics). I have > a suspicion, however, that it's (RPi's) impact, welcome as it is, is being > overhyped. There *is* a lot of hype, but I think that the hype is encouraging awareness of computing kits and programming in general. I miss the days of school kids wielding soldering irons and typing in code and all the things that got me interested in this field. Rasperry Pi et al. are the start of a return to that approach. Best, Stewart -- 8 out of 10 owners who expressed a palaeographic preference said their cat prefers DigiPal: http://digipal.eu --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 13:01:52 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Blair Subject: Re: 27.670 lower-cost technology In-Reply-To: <20140104064103.59D3B603D@digitalhumanities.org> The cost of hardware has long been small compared to the labor necessary to do meaningful work in DH. I could have paid for hundreds of computers if I had been working at my normal hourly rate while I marked up and annotated Selden's "Table-Talk", and that's just one fairly small project. Low-price hardware is a Good Thing, but it's significant mainly on the consumer side of DH. 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D44366170; Sun, 5 Jan 2014 10:54:16 +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 EF09F5EBC; Sun, 5 Jan 2014 10:54:13 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C6E715EBC; Sun, 5 Jan 2014 10:54:11 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140105095411.C6E715EBC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 10:54:11 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.674 ADHO announcements: new SIG; conference code of conduct X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 674. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Lisa Spiro (31) Subject: ADHO Announces a New SIG, Linked Open Data [2] From: Lisa Spiro (19) Subject: ADHO Announces a New Conference Code of Conduct --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 06:29:14 -0600 From: Lisa Spiro Subject: ADHO Announces a New SIG, Linked Open Data The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) is pleased to announce the formation of its third Special Interest Group, Linked Open Data (DH-LOD). Linked Open Data conveys the idea of the Web as platform for loosely-coupled, distributed services that offer data in an accessible, open way, following the Linked Data principles as described by Tim Berners-Lee. A large number of digital humanities (DH) projects generate data. When this data is published as LOD, both scholars and machines are able to combine data from different projects, creating new datasets for research. DH is making extensive use of open source software and open access venues for publication. The same reasons for releasing research reporting and software products under open licenses--transparency, serendipity and social responsibility--should encourage us to release our research data as LOD as well. The mission of the ADHO LOD SIG is to bridge between the DH community and the semantic web community, encouraging and facilitating the interconnection and interoperability of open online Humanities resources by raising awareness of new developments (both content and technology) and discussing and developing best practices. The SIG encourages membership from all fields and all regions of the globe. A website ( http://adho.org/lod/), Twitter account (https://twitter.com/dh_lod) and listserv (http://lists.digitalhumanities.org/mailman/listinfo/lod) for the LOD SIG have been created to encourage and facilitate communication among members. If you are interested in linked open data, please join the SIG by signing up for the listserv. -- Lisa Spiro, Ph.D. Chair of ADHO's Communications Committee Blog: http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/ Twitter: @lisaspiro Phone: 832-341-0380 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 15:33:31 -0600 From: Lisa Spiro Subject: ADHO Announces a New Conference Code of Conduct To encourage a welcoming, inclusive climate for participants at its annual Digital Humanities conference, the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) has released a new code of conduct, available at http://adho.org/administration/conference-coordinating-program-committee/adho-conference-code-conduct. This code of conduct lays out broad principles to foster a safe, welcoming conference environment that respects personal, cultural, and linguistic differences. Neil Fraistat, Chair of ADHO’s Steering Committee, remarks: “In issuing a code of conduct for its principal conference, ADHO joins other organizations such as code4lib, the American Library Association, the Digital Library Federation, and the Association for Computing Machinery. We are especially grateful to Bethany Nowviskie, who has been guiding our Inclusivity Initiative, for her leadership in producing the conference code.” -- Lisa Spiro, Ph.D. Chair of ADHO's Communication Committee Blog: http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/ Twitter: @lisaspiro Phone: 832-341-0380 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 934DC61DE; Sun, 5 Jan 2014 10:57:04 +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 548AF619A; Sun, 5 Jan 2014 10:56:59 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2A72E6198; Sun, 5 Jan 2014 10:56:57 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140105095657.2A72E6198@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 10:56:57 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.675 events: computational linguistics for literature; textual 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. 27, No. 675. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Marco_BÜCHLER (107) Subject: DATeCH 2014 - Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage: Final Call for papers; Extended deadline [2] From: Anna Kazantseva (24) Subject: Final CfP: Third Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 07:46:10 +0100 From: Marco_BÜCHLER Subject: DATeCH 2014 - Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage: Final Call for papers; Extended deadline Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage: Call for papers Madrid 19-20 May, 2014 The DATeCH international conference brings together researchers and practitioners looking for innovative approaches for the creation, transformation and exploitation of historical documents in digital form. Important dates * 7 January 2014 - Paper submission deadline * *14 January 2014 - Author list and paper title submission deadline * * *17 January 2014 - Final paper submission deadline* * 28 February 2014 - Decision notification * 31 March 2014 - Camera-ready papers due * 19-20 May 2014 - Conference Target audience The workshop aims to foster interdisciplinary work and linking together participants engaged in the following areas: * Text digitization and OCR. * Digital humanities. * Image and document analysis. * Digital libraries and library science. * Applied computational linguistics. * Crowdsourcing. * Interfaces and human-computer interaction. Topics Topics of interest are all those related to the practical and scientific goals listed above, such as: * OCR technology and tools for minority and historical languages. * Methods and tools for post-correction of OCR results. * Automated quality control for mass OCR data. * Innovative access methods for historical texts and corpora. * Natural language processing of ancient languages (Latin, Greek). * Visualization techniques and interfaces for search and research in digital humanities. * Publication and retrieval on e-books and mobile devices. * Crowdsourcing techniques for collecting and annotating data in digital humanities. * Enrichment of and metadata production for historical texts and corpora. * Data created with mobile devices. * Data presentation and exploration on mobile devices. * Ontological and linked data based contextualization of digitized and born digital scholarly data resources. Venue The conference will take place in the Biblioteca Nacional de España (Madrid), in the framework of the Digitisation Days http://www.succeed-project.eu/digitisation-days (19-20 May, 2014) organised by the Succeed Support Action. Programme committee The programme committee is chaired by Apostolos Antonacopoulos (Salford University) and Klaus U. Schulz (Ludwig-Maximilians UniversitÀt) and integrated by: * Aly Conteh, The British Library * Basilis Gatos, Demokritos National Center for Scientific Research * Bruce Robertson, Mount Allison University * Christoph Ringlstetter, Ludwig-Maximilians UniversitÀt * Christopher Blackwell, Furman University * Claudine Moulin, UniversitÀt Trier * David Doermann, University of Maryland * Enrique Vidal, Universitat PolitÚcnica de ValÚncia * François Bry, Ludwig-Maximilians UniversitÀt * Gregory Crane, UniversitÀt Leipzig * GÃŒnter MÃŒhlberger, UniversitÀt Innsbruck * Joan Andreu Sánchez, Universitat PolitÚcnica de ValÚncia * Laura Mandell, Texas A&M University * Lou Burnard, TEI Board * Malte Rehbein, UniversitÀt Passau * Marco BÃŒchler, Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities * Martin MÃŒller, Northwestern University * Neel Smith, College of Holy Cross * Rose Holley, National Archives of Australia * Simone Marinai, Università degli Studi di Firenze * Stefan Gradmann, Humboldt-UniversitÀt zu Berlin * Stoyan Mihov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences * Thierry Paquet, Université de Rouen * Tomaz Erjavec, Institut Jožef Stefan Submission The following criteria will be applied to all communications submitted to DATeCH 2014 (http://datech2014.info/submissions http://datech2014.org/submissions ): * Only original material will be accepted. * All communications will be peer reviewed and published in the proceedings of the conference. * The authors of the best contributions will be invited to prepare an extended version for a collective publication of selected papers in an indexed journal (an additional reviewing process will be applied). Contact For additional information, please visit www.datech2014.info http://www.datech2014.info or send an email to datech@digitisation.eu DATeCH 2014 is supported by: http://www.succeed-project.eu http://www.digitisation.eu -- Marco BܜCHLER Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (GCDH) Papendiek 16 37073 Göttingen (Heynehaus) eMail : mbuechler@gcdh.de Web : http://www.gcdh.de/ Profil : http://www.gcdh.de/en/people/team/marco-buechler/ Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/marco.buechler LinkedIn : http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=15098543&trk=tab_pro Twitter : https://twitter.com/mabuechler l-h --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 13:11:03 -0500 From: Anna Kazantseva Subject: Final CfP: Third Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature Third Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature April 27, 2014, Göteborg, Sweden, co-located with EACL 2014 https://sites.google.com/site/clfl2014a/ Third and Last Call for Papers (with apologies for multiple postings) The purpose of the series of ACL workshops on Computational Linguistics for Literature is to bring together researchers fascinated with literature as a unique type of data which pose distinct challenges. We invite papers on original unpublished work in this broad area. In particular, we hope to see papers which explore how the state-of-the-art NLP methods can help solve existing research problems in the humanities, or perhaps suggest new problems. Literary texts revolve around the human condition, emotions, social life and inner life. Naturally, such data abound in common-sense knowledge but are very thin on technical jargon. Can tools and methods developed in the ACL community help process literary data? When do they work, when do they fail and why? What new instruments do we need in order to work with prose and poetry, on a large or small scale? Are there computational solutions of noteworthy problems in the Humanities, Information Science, Library Sciences and other similar disciplines? Here are some of the topics of interest to the workshop: - the needs of the readers and how these needs translate into meaningful NLP tasks; - searching for literature; - recommendation systems for literature; - computational modelling of narratives, computational narratology, computational folkloristics; - summarization of literature; - differences between literature and other types of writing as relevant to computational linguistics; - discourse structure in literature; - emotion analysis for literature; - profiling and authorship attribution; - identification and analysis of literary genres; - building and analyzing social networks of characters; - generation of literary narrative, dialogue or poetry; - modelling literary dialogue for generation. We will consider regular papers which describe experimental methods or theoretical work, and we will gladly welcome position papers. The NLP community does not study literature often enough, so it is important to discuss and formulate the problems before proposing solutions. The submission deadline is January 23, 2014. Anna Feldman, Anna Kazantseva, Stan Szpakowicz _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_RED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8000161AF; Mon, 6 Jan 2014 07:12:41 +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 E004D617A; Mon, 6 Jan 2014 07:12:25 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 073466178; Mon, 6 Jan 2014 07:12:22 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140106061223.073466178@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 07:12:22 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.676 lower-cost 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 676. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Dave Postles" (56) Subject: Re: 27.673 lower-cost technology [2] From: "Dave Postles" (1) Subject: RPi and technology --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 14:20:04 -0000 From: "Dave Postles" Subject: Re: 27.673 lower-cost technology In-Reply-To: <20140105095252.11D425F8A@digitalhumanities.org> Mea culpa again then. My information was from one of the Linux (Format/User & Developer) magazines a few months ago. FWIW, I think that we need to see more of Linux/BSD on the desktop, which may well come about as new economic powers and developing nations have their 'national' distros in their educational systems (Brazil, Venezuela, Russia, Philippines). These young people will be encouraged to explore the full power of OpenSource, including Python. I suspect that our reliance on proprietary systems in the far west will merely prolong consumer compliance. Access is just one side of an equation, of course, but it is important to bring down the cost. It is most important of all to equalize access. Part of the development of low-cost technology will, again, be the stimulation of access in the wider world, which will generate wider appreciation of the technology and its being opened up in all senses. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 19:21:59 +0000 > From: "Brookes, Stewart" > Subject: Re: 27.670 lower-cost technology > In-Reply-To: <20140104064103.59D3B603D@digitalhumanities.org> > > On 3 Jan 2014 Dave Postles wrote: > > [snip] > >> The problem with the RPi is still that it has only sold 1m units, so >> it's impact is fairly confined. > > They claim nearly 2.3 million sales, which is a million more than, say, > the BBC Micro which arguably > had a huge impact on programming in its day (in the UK): > > http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2320518/raspberry-pi-closes-in-on-23-million-sales > >> There are, of course, many other single-board PCs (SBPCs) out there. >> Python is >> useful for digital humanities (especially for corpus linguistics). I >> have >> a suspicion, however, that it's (RPi's) impact, welcome as it is, is >> being >> overhyped. > > There *is* a lot of hype, but I think that the hype is encouraging > awareness of computing > kits and programming in general. I miss the days of school kids wielding > soldering irons and > typing in code and all the things that got me interested in this field. > Rasperry Pi et al. are > the start of a return to that approach. > > Best, Stewart > -- > 8 out of 10 owners who expressed a palaeographic preference said their cat > prefers > DigiPal: http://digipal.eu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 16:50:33 -0000 From: "Dave Postles" Subject: RPi and technology In-Reply-To: <20140105095252.11D425F8A@digitalhumanities.org> http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/05/kano-children-programming-crowdsourcing-computer-kickstarter _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BFD9661B9; Mon, 6 Jan 2014 07:16:57 +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 01C446182; Mon, 6 Jan 2014 07:16:49 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CB8EB617A; Mon, 6 Jan 2014 07:16:46 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140106061646.CB8EB617A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 07:16:46 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.677 digital history: U.S. presidential conversations X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 677. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 16:30:09 -0500 From: "Holly C. Shulman" Subject: Re: 27.669 digital history workshopalooza In-Reply-To: <20140104063541.BCD4E6041@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, Having just come across this comment/question in regard to “digital history workshopalooza” at the 2014 AHA I would like to take the opportunity to point interested readers to another session that took place on Friday at the same convention. Entitled “Historians, Journalists, Documentary Editors, and the Challenges of Getting It Right: Nixon and China” it included one award winning instance of the possibilities of digital history/digital archives. David Coleman, editor of the Nixon Tapes located at the Miller Center at UVA, participated in this round table and shared with the audience the complexities and solutions of presenting taped (in this case in the White House) conversations, or oral documents, in ways impossible to render in a traditional print publication. The tapes and transcripts can be accessed at: http://millercenter.org/presidentialrecordings. For a taste of how the Nixon recordings will look and function once fully published, its sister publication, the Johnson White House tapes, can be accessed at: http://presidentialrecordings.rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/. Coleman’s work demonstrates an instance of digital technology/digital humanities married to serious scholarship. The result is something new that I believe digital historians and digital humanists should be aware of. I look forward to any comments by your readers. With thanks, Holly Shulman On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 1:35 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 669. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 12:08:14 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: digital history Workshopalooza > > > See Claire Potter's article, "AHA Day 1: Digital History > Workshopalooza", Chronicle of Higher Education, 2 January 2014, in the > Tenured Radical column, > > http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/tenuredradical/2014/01/aha-day-1-digital-history-workshopalooza/?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en > . > > I think it would be especially interesting for us to know, and > especially from an historian in the know, what was not > discussed/presented as much as what was. It would also be good to have > an historian who lives on this (i.e. my) side of the Pond comment on the > degree to which the Workshopalooza as reported was a particularly > American phenomenon -- other than the obvious. > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital > Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital > Humanities, University of Western Sydney -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_RED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6912F61B9; Mon, 6 Jan 2014 07:18:12 +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 C11F461AF; Mon, 6 Jan 2014 07:18:03 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B825161AC; Mon, 6 Jan 2014 07:18:01 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140106061801.B825161AC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 07:18:01 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.678 girls and computing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 678. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Dave Postles" (1) Subject: Re: 27.672 girls and computing [2] From: Michael Fraser (29) Subject: Re: 27.672 girls and computing --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 14:23:35 -0000 From: "Dave Postles" Subject: Re: 27.672 girls and computing In-Reply-To: <20140105094947.730665F8A@digitalhumanities.org> http://www.womenwhotech.com/opensource.html --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2014 15:39:44 +0000 From: Michael Fraser Subject: Re: 27.672 girls and computing In-Reply-To: <20140105094947.730665F8A@digitalhumanities.org> On 05/01/14 09:49, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [...] > > It seems there are a few factors at play, roughly around 3 connected > areas: 1. Girls' interests 2. Cultural issues around gender and geek > cultures 3. The way computers are presented and taught. Whilst I do not claim any academic expertise in biological determinism, nature vs nurture, or the formation of gender identity, whether in connection with girls and computing or later career choices, I would like to make mention of the movement against the gender stereotyping of toys. In particular, readers may be interested in the Let Toys Be Toys campaign that is lobbying retailers "to stop limiting childrenÂ’s interests by promoting some toys as only suitable for girls, and others only for boys", http://www.lettoysbetoys.org.uk/why-it-matters/ (and for examples, see http://www.lettoysbetoys.org.uk/the-let-toys-be-toys-2013-silliness-awards/ ). Given that there remain retailers (and some manufacturers) who have ideas from a previous age about what toys or books boys and girls _should_ be interested in, this 'social construction' of playtime may persist in discouraging exploration of various aspects of computing from an early age. (I also came across this article, Martincic, C. J., Bhatnagar, N. "Will Computer Engineer Barbie impact young women's career choices?" Information Systems Education Journal, 10:6 (2012): 4-14. http://isedj.org/2012-10/N6/ISEDJv10n6p4.html ) Mike -- Dr Michael Fraser | Director of Infrastructure Services | IT Services | University of Oxford | 7-19 Banbury Road, Oxford | http://www.it.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id F168760BC; Mon, 6 Jan 2014 07:20:53 +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 9B36361B9; Mon, 6 Jan 2014 07:20:44 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D0DB261AF; Mon, 6 Jan 2014 07:20:42 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140106062042.D0DB261AF@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 07:20:42 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.679 events: Sprint for Open 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. 27, No. 679. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 12:25:45 +0000 From: Samuel Moore Subject: Sprint for Open Literature, London, 25th January 2014 SPRINT FOR OPEN LITERATURE Calling all those with an interest in bringing the humanities online: The Open Knowledge Foundation's Open Literature project is one dedicated sprint away from being ready to go online. This open service will offer anyone the opportunity to upload, analyse, present and annotate public-domain texts; it builds on the functionality of the OKF's recent Open Shakespeare and Textus Projects http://textusproject.org/ to become a tool of use to a great range of scholars in the humanities. - *When*: 25th January 2014, 11am – 6pm (if 11am is too early for youit’s OK to join later!) - *Where*: Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton Street, London, WC1X 9NG - *Who*: Anyone interested in literature, philosophy and taking these online - *Signup*: http://www.meetup.com/OpenKnowledgeFoundation/London-GB/1070532/ - *Mailing list*: For updates, please join the Open Humanities mailing list: open-humanities@lists.okfn.org More details about the day, including an overview of potential activities, are available on the Open Humanities Website: http://humanities.okfn.org/open-literature-sprint-jan-2014/ If you have any questions, contact: james.harriman-smith@okfn.org -------------- Samuel Moore Panton Fellow in Open Data, Open Knowledge Foundation PhD Student, King's Digital Humanities Twitter: @samoore_ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6C5966226; Tue, 7 Jan 2014 08:54:10 +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 E246161FF; Tue, 7 Jan 2014 08:53:54 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 95D38621E; Tue, 7 Jan 2014 08:53:52 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140107075352.95D38621E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 08:53:52 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.680 girls & computing; lower-cost 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. 27, No. 680. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Adrian Miles (8) Subject: Re: 27.676 lower-cost technology [2] From: Daniel Allington (23) Subject: Re: 27.678 girls and computing --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 17:21:59 +1100 From: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 27.676 lower-cost technology In-Reply-To: <20140106061223.073466178@digitalhumanities.org> hi all might also be worth noting that Kano uses Rasperry Pi and while not available it’s kickstarter campaign (aiming for $100k) raised 1.5 million including 10,000 people purchasing the product. Certainly would indicate some interest. [insert appropriate closing] Adrian Miles vogmae.net.au https://www.vizify.com/adrian-miles +61 (03) 9925 3157 Sent with Mail Pilot --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 10:41:57 +0000 From: Daniel Allington Subject: Re: 27.678 girls and computing In-Reply-To: <20140106061801.B825161AC@digitalhumanities.org> On 6 Jan 2014, at 06:18, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2014 15:39:44 +0000 > From: Michael Fraser > Subject: Re: 27.672 girls and computing > In-Reply-To: <20140105094947.730665F8A@digitalhumanities.org> > > Whilst I do not claim any academic expertise in biological determinism, > nature vs nurture, or the formation of gender identity, whether in > connection with girls and computing or later career choices, I would > like to make mention of the movement against the gender stereotyping of > toys. That's a very interesting point. On a pre-Christmas visit to a large toyshop in the UK, I was struck by how heavily some manufacturers have invested in producing 'boy' and 'girl' versions of what are essentially the same toys, such as Nerf blasters and LEGO bricks. In many cases, it appears that the 'girl' versions are in some way the odd ones out. For example, the Nerf blasters with photographs of boys on the boxes are simply branded 'Nerf', whereas the Nerf blasters with photographs of girls on the boxes are branded 'Nerf Rebelle', with what I felt to be some incredibly clumsy gender stereotyping: the Heartbreaker Bow and the Pink Crush Crossbow in particular. Perhaps I shouldn't mention the availability of child-sized, princess-pink hunting rifles in the US. Is it only a matter of time before someone releases a pink-themed 'Linux Princess' distro in a misguided attempt to prepare girls for careers in systems administration? Best wishes Daniel PS. I hope somebody's going to bring Sherry Turkle's work into this discussion before long. Dr Daniel Allington Lecturer in English Language Studies Centre for Language and Communication The Open University www.danielallington.net -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 79AE8622C; Tue, 7 Jan 2014 08:58:50 +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 73DB56224; Tue, 7 Jan 2014 08:58:39 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 370FD6223; Tue, 7 Jan 2014 08:58:37 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140107075837.370FD6223@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 08:58:37 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.681 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. 27, No. 681. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Alexander Gelbukh (CFP)" (14) Subject: Deadline reminder: CICLing 2014 [2] From: Greta Franzini (23) Subject: Leipzig eHumanities Seminar: Frank Binder [3] From: Hugh Houghton (10) Subject: Call for Papers: Digital Humanities in Biblical Studies and Early Jewish and Christian Studies [4] From: James O'Sullivan (22) Subject: DHSI Colloquium 2014 [5] From: Luke Stark (25) Subject: CfP: Quantifying Affect and Emotion, Past and Present - Open panel at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), August 20-23 2014, Buenos Aires --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 08:23:30 +0000 From: "Alexander Gelbukh (CFP)" Subject: Deadline reminder: CICLing 2014 15th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics Kathmandu, Nepal - April 6-12, 2014. Dear colleague, Just a reminder on CICLing 2014 deadline: Jan 7, but contact us for late submissions or just submit while the system is open. KEYNOTE: Jerry Hobbs (ISI), Bing Liu (U. Illinois), Suresh Manandhar (U. York); Special guest: Jens Allwood (U. Gothenburg). PLACE: Kathmandu, Nepal - April 6-12, 2014. CULTURAL PROGRAM: tours by Kathmandu, Buddhist monasteries, Chariot festival. TOPICS: All topics related to computational linguistics, NLP, HLT, information retrieval, opinion mining, etc. PUBLICATION: Springer LNCS + special issues of journals. CFP: www.CICLing.org/2014 Thank you! Alexander www.Gelbukh.com --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 10:37:32 +0100 From: Greta Franzini Subject: Leipzig eHumanities Seminar: Frank Binder Dear all, This week's Leipzig eHumanities seminar will be given by Frank Binder, who will be talking about: */"From Collaborative Data Editing to Library Catalogues: Towards a 'Sharable Data Strategy' for the GeoBib Project"/* In: Room P801 (Paulinum, 8th floor), University of Leipzig On: Wednesday 8th January 2014 At: 3:15 PM to 4:45 PM Attendance at the seminar is free of charge. *ALL WELCOME* For further information, please visit: http://www.e-humanities.net/events/2013-ehum-seminar-call.html -- Greta Franzini Research Associate Digital Humanities Department of Computer Science University of Leipzig Augustusplatz 10-11 04109 Leipzig, Germany Phone: +49 341 97 32330 Email: franzini@informatik.uni-leipzig.de Web: www.dh.uni-leipzig.de --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 10:47:05 +0000 From: Hugh Houghton Subject: Call for Papers: Digital Humanities in Biblical Studies and Early Jewish and Christian Studies Dear all, The SBL program group "Digital Humanities in Biblical Studies and Early Jewish and Christian Studies" would like to advertise a call for papers for its sessions at the International SBL meeting, jointly with the European Association of Biblical Studies, in Vienna from 6-10th July 2014. We expect papers on: (1) The creation and structuring of digital data representing the texts and artefacts relevant to Biblical Studies, Early Jewish Studies and Early Christian Studies (2) The digital analysis of said data (linguistics, stylometrics, stemmatology, network analysis, etc.), the presentation, rendering and visualisation of data and its analysis, and critical analysis of the social and cultural aspects of the digitisation of research and society in relation to the aforementioned texts and artefacts. For more information and to submit a proposal, please see the following webpage (mind the wrap): http://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_CallForPaperDetails.aspx?MeetingId=24&VolunteerUnitId=574 The unit chairs can also be contacted there, although I will also be happy to respond to any questions. The deadline is 4th February 2014. Many thanks, Hugh Houghton --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 15:41:24 +0000 From: James O'Sullivan Subject: DHSI Colloquium 2014 Hello all, Only 9 days until the close of DHSI 2014's call for colloquium submissions. The DHSI Colloquium is a wonderful opportunity to present your work to the DH community, and the sessions are always well attended. This year, we have decided to add proceedings to the Colloquium, so those of you that do present will have the opportunity to pursue publication thereafter. Further details of this will be made available in June. For those of you attending DHSI that haven't already done so, we would encourage you to submit a paper. The DHSI Colloquium is a peer reviewed gathering held in high regard amongst DHers, but it is also an informal occasion at which emerging and established scholars alike can share their projects, ideas and research in a collegiate and constructive manner. Our Colloquium is carried out in a friendly environment, with a welcoming atmosphere, where debate is always amicable. It's a showcase run by the DH community for the DH community. The call for papers is reiterated as follows: Call for Papers: DHSI Colloquium, 3-6 June 2014 Open to all DHSI attendees, the colloquium starts on the second day of the institute and takes place during sessions that begin each day. Presentations will be informal and will take the form of brief, high-impact demonstrations and/or presentations (5 minutes). This change in format reflects and facilitates the diverse, dynamic, and exciting research that continues to spur the growth of the DHSI community. The colloquium welcomes presentations by individuals and teams of two or more presenters. We invite proposals of 200-300 words for these presentations. 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. Submissions are welcome from emerging and established scholars alike (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; alt-academics; academic professionals; and those in technical programs). Please submit abstracts via https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dhsi2014. Deadline for submissions is January 15, 2014. Submissions will be peer-reviewed, with authors being notified by late February 2014. For more information, contact Mary Galvin (galvin.mg@gmail.com) and/or James O’Sullivan (josullivan.c@gmail.com), or alternatively dhsi2014@easychair.org. -- James O'Sullivan @jamescosullivan http://twitter.com/jamescosullivan Web: josullivan.org http://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 --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 13:19:41 -0500 From: Luke Stark Subject: CfP: Quantifying Affect and Emotion, Past and Present - Open panel at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), August 20-23 2014, Buenos Aires Call for Papers Open Panel: Quantifying Affect and Emotion, Past and Present Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), August 20-23 2014, Buenos Aires, Argentina In an age of “Big Data,” the enumeration of feelings has become big business. Increasingly sophisticated facial recognition algorithms, techniques of textual sentiment analysis, and sensors able to monitor gait and body language have all made emotion increasingly legible as digital code and algorithmic input. Yet the entanglement of feelings with enumeration is not new - the tracking and quantification of emotion has been a feature of techno-scientific discourse since the early 19th century. Affect and emotion have long been subject to what historian of medicine Otniel Dror terms "discoursing in numbers": the translation and integration of feeling into the realms of the calculable and predictable. This open panel aims to bring together scholars working on the history of techniques and technologies for enumerating affect and emotion with those exploring contemporary digital modes of emotional tracking and quantification. The panel welcomes papers from a wide range of disciplines, particularly work that combines historical and contemporary sites of analysis. Possible panel themes and topics include, but are not limited to: By what means have feelings been variously quantified, categorized, classified and integrated into numerical discourses throughout history? How are contemporary practices of emotional quantification and tracking descended from or in contrast to historical examples of these techniques? When and where have the particularities of changing scientific practice shaped technical and popular understandings of feeling, both historically and in the present? In what ways are existing regimes of scientific knowledge around emotion being revised in view of new techno-scientific developments, and how are these epistemic shifts changing our personal understanding of emotion itself? How are quotidian practices of daily self-tracking and the idea of the "quantified self" shaping contemporary views of feeling and affect? Please submit a paper abstract (250 words) electronically via the conference website: http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ssss/4s14/. Please also forward a copy of the abstract to luke.stark@nyu.edu. The deadline for submitting your abstract is February 28, 2014. Accepted authors will be notified by April 1, 2014. For further information, please contact Luke Stark at luke.stark@nyu.edu *** Luke Stark Ph.D. Candidate Department of Media, Culture, and Communication The Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development New York University 239 Greene Street, 8th Floor New York, NY 10003 tel: (1) 646.530.0400 fax: (1) 212.995.4046 email: luke.stark@nyu.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C1504622D; Tue, 7 Jan 2014 08:59:43 +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 AA726622C; Tue, 7 Jan 2014 08:59:33 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0E7C3622C; Tue, 7 Jan 2014 08:59:31 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20140107075932.0E7C3622C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 08:59:31 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.682 U.S. Presidential conversations now accessible 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. 27, No. 682. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 11:57:52 -0500 (EST) From: David Sewell Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.677 digital history: U.S. presidential conversations In-Reply-To: <20140106061646.CB8EB617A@digitalhumanities.org> On Mon, 6 Jan 2014, Holly C. Shulman wrote: > For a taste of how the > Nixon recordings will look and function once fully published, its sister > publication, the Johnson White House tapes, can be accessed at: > http://presidentialrecordings.rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/. As HUMANIST readers may have found if they followed this link, this edition of the Presidential Recordings of LBJ from the University of Virginia Press is a by-subscription publication. I've just created a login ID that can be used to access the full content from now through 20 January. When prompted (generally when clicking on a conversation link), enter these credentials: username: HUMANIST password: LBJ2014 In the second half of this year, UVA Press will be launching a revised platform for the presidential recordings series that will expand beyond Johnson to include Nixon conversations. We expect that a subset of the content will be open-access. David Sewell [Most of the publications of ROTUNDA, UVA Press's digital scholarly imprint, are sustained by purchase fees, a consequence of our original mandate as a Mellon Foundation-funded entity to develop a sustainable business model. Where funding has permitted, we've released open-access content. Notably, everything on Founders Online (http://founders.archives.gov/) derives from ROTUNDA content, and is free to the public thanks to federal funding and a collaborative agreement with the US National Archives.] -- David Sewell, Editorial and Technical Manager ROTUNDA, The University of Virginia Press PO Box 400314, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4314 USA Email: dsewell@virginia.edu Tel: +1 434 924 9973 Web: http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id ABF166234; Tue, 7 Jan 2014 09:00:28 +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 CBA3F6233; Tue, 7 Jan 2014 09:00:16 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0F344622D; Tue, 7 Jan 2014 09:00:13 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140107080014.0F344622D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 09:00:13 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.683 call for papers: Democratization of Hacking & Making X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 683. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 13:00:14 -0500 From: jeremy hunsinger Subject: cfp: the Democratization of Hacking & Making Call For Papers: Special Issue of New Media & Society on the Democratization of Hacking & Making Research on hacker culture has historically focused on a relatively narrow set of activities and practices related to open-source software, political protest, and criminality. Scholarship on making has generally been defined as hands-on work with a connection to craft. By contrast, “hacking” and “making” in the current day are increasingly inroads to a more diverse range of activities, industries, and groups. They may show a strong cultural allegiance or map new interpretations and trajectories. These developments prompt us to revisit central questions: does the use of hacking/making terminologies carry with them particular valences? Are they deeply rooted in technologies, ideologies or cultures? Are they best examined through certain intellectual traditions? Can they be empowering to participants, or are they merely buzzwords that have been diluted and co-opted by governmental and business entities? What barriers to entry and participation exist? The current issue explores and questions the growing diversity of uses stemming from this turn of hacking towards more popular uses and democratic contexts. Submissions that employ novel methodological and theoretical perspectives to understand this turn in hacking are encouraged. They should explore new opportunities for conversations and consider hacking as rooted in a specific phenomena, culture, environment, practice or movement. Criteria for admission in this special issue include rigor of analysis, caliber of interpretation, and relevance of conclusions. Topics may include: • Disparities of access and representation, such as gender, race and ethnicity • Open-access environments for learning and production, such as hacker and maker spaces • “Civic hacking” and open data movements on city, state and national levels • Integration of hacking and making within industries • Historical analyses of making/hacking such as phreaking and amateur computing • Popularization of terms like “hacker” in newspapers, magazines and other publications • Open-source hardware and software movements • Appropriation of technology • Hacking in non-western contexts, such as the global south and China • Political implications of a popular shift in hacker/maker culture Please email 400 word abstract proposals, along with a short author biography, by May 1, 2014 toaschrock@usc.edu and jhunsinger@wlu.ca. Final selected articles will be due during September 2014 and will undergo peer review. Jeremy Hunsinger Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. --Byron _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DD828622C; Wed, 8 Jan 2014 08:50:30 +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 068016226; Wed, 8 Jan 2014 08:50:10 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 397775FA3; Wed, 8 Jan 2014 08:50:08 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140108075008.397775FA3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 08:50:08 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.684 girls & computing -- and lower-cost 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 684. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: John Levin (24) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.680 girls & computing; lower-cost technology [2] From: Norman Gray (48) Subject: Re: 27.673 lower-cost technology; and 27.672 girls and computing --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 09:25:44 +0000 From: John Levin Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.680 girls & computing; lower-cost technology In-Reply-To: <20140107075352.95D38621E@digitalhumanities.org> > That's a very interesting point. On a pre-Christmas visit to a large toyshop in the UK, I was struck by how heavily some manufacturers have invested in producing 'boy' and 'girl' versions of what are essentially the same toys, such as Nerf blasters and LEGO bricks. In many cases, it appears that the 'girl' versions are in some way the odd ones out. For example, the Nerf blasters with photographs of boys on the boxes are simply branded 'Nerf', whereas the Nerf blasters with photographs of girls on the boxes are branded 'Nerf Rebelle', with what I felt to be some incredibly clumsy gender stereotyping: the Heartbreaker Bow and the Pink Crush Crossbow in particular. Perhaps I shouldn't mention the availability of child-sized, princess-pink hunting rifles in the US. Is it only a matter of time before someone releases a pink-themed 'Linux Princess' distro in a misguided attempt to prepare girls for careers in systems administration? > > Best wishes > > Daniel > No princess linux distro that I know if, but how about a pink desktop theme for ubuntu? http://www.noobslab.com/2011/11/pink-theme-for-ubuntu-1110-unity-for.html See also: Pink computer (toy) for girls: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lexibook-Computer-Secret-Musical-Keyboard/dp/B000QVZFAI Phone cases in pink "for girls": http://www.amazon.co.uk/iPhone-Genuine-Leather-Holder-Protectors-Pink/dp/B00AEH9A46 And more: http://www.techij.com/2013/02/best-iphone-cases-cheap-girls.html And what about 'Della', Dell's 'computer for women': http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Della_computers Tech sector is just as bad as the toys'. John -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com http://twitter.com/anterotesis --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 11:24:52 +0000 From: Norman Gray Subject: Re: 27.673 lower-cost technology; and 27.672 girls and computing In-Reply-To: <20140105095252.11D425F8A@digitalhumanities.org> Greetings. I think these two recent threads may be intimately connected (look out for low-flying kites, below). Dave Postles wrote: > RPi is fine, particularly for Python coding, although you could do the > same some time ago with the olpc (with python tutorials integrated). > Anything which encourages the use of Linux, on the desktop as well as on > servers and embedded, is fine with me, The problem with the RPi is still > that it has only sold 1m units, so it's impact is fairly confined. There > are, of course, many other single-board PCs (SBPCs) out there. Python is > useful for digital humanities (especially for corpus linguistics). I have > a suspicion, however, that it's (RPi's) impact, welcome as it is, is being > overhyped. I have limited but concrete experience with RPis. It seems to me that the thing that's special about the RPi is not that it does anything that hasn't been done before -- other such systems exist -- but that it represents an impressively managed set of trade-offs, in the service of a particular interesting target. That target is: 1. It's cheap: if you fry the thing, because you shorted the wrong pair of pins, it's irritating but not a disaster. 2. It's intimately connected with hardware: as well as connectors to standard gadgetry, the board has prominent support (the double row of pins in one corner) for connections to low-level hardware, namely transistors and capacitors and integrated circuits and things you've soldered up yourself. But 3. It's well integrated: it's not just for the sort of folk who already know how to design their own electronics. It's easy to get started, and the RPi Foundation have made a start on creating a helpful community round that. Achieving both 1 and 3 at the same time is I think a significant technical and design achievement. Thus I think it _does_ link to the picture that Willard painted: > But > what I knew about and reached for were the kits from which one could > built radio transmitters and receivers, voltmeters using only basic > components (resistors, capacitors etc) and simple tools (wire-cutter, > soldering iron, screwdriver etc). > > So I wonder, how does the Raspberry Pi compare in its extent and kind > of influence? I was building devices from kits at ca. age 8. The RPi is the sort of thing that young Willard could have investigated with a soldering iron and an 8-year-old eye-gleam, _and_ that is very different from what 'computing' has meant in the last few decades. And that leads to my point. Amongst a number of interesting points, Suzana Sukovic said: > It seems there are a few factors at play, roughly around 3 connected areas: > 1. Girls' interests > 2. Cultural issues around gender and geek cultures > 3. The way computers are presented and taught. If the RPi is indeed different from what 'computing' has meant for the last 50 years, then it represents an opportunity to broadly disrupt 'computing'/geek culture; the RPi represents a bit of cultural barricade broken down. In particular (and this point isn't fully worked out, so forgive some clumsiness), I think it would be possible and entertaining to use the RPi to subvert some stereotypes about gender and technology, and about the distinction between computing and electronics. Plunging into those stereotypes... * Computers are about binary things (which boys like, As Any Fule Kno); electronics is much more inflected (which girls like, as any fule...), and never certainly in one state or another. * Computers proceed, instruction by instruction, from one stable state to another; electronics is much more dynamic, with one part of a system interacting unpredictably with another. * Computer systems are constructed by the composition of components with well-defined interfaces; electronics is much more physical, like cooking (which...). And so on. Viewed through the right spectacles, electronics could surely be presented as much more feminine than masculine, or more yin than yang (if that makes the argument go better), without any danger of the result being written off, as Suzana fears, as merely 'soft computing skills'. And RPis mean that this subversion is more naturally backed up with practice, rather than being merely a paper exercise. That would be RPi impact. There's presumably a link here to the fashionably increasing visibility of 'makers'. Also, one of my prime associations with this sort of electronics (I'm not a hardware person, and have only bumped into this recently) is Adafruit http://www.adafruit.com/about/ , which is definitely not toys for boys. (I fear this may be heading off at a tangent from Digital Humanities) 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 36270622D; Wed, 8 Jan 2014 08:50:54 +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 11BE16232; Wed, 8 Jan 2014 08:50:45 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 309A4622B; Wed, 8 Jan 2014 08:50:43 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140108075043.309A4622B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 08:50:43 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.685 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 685. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 14:30:15 +0000 From: "Graham, Wayne (wsg4w)" Subject: Job Posting: Digital Humanities Developer, University of Virginia's Scholars' Lab For the web version, see http://www.scholarslab.org/announcements/are-you-our-new-digital-humanities-developer/ Are you an enthusiastic software developer with an interest in the humanities or cultural heritage? The internationally-recognized Scholars’ Lab is seeking a digital humanities software engineer to join its innovative Research and Development group. At theUniversity of Virginia http://www.virginia.edu/ -based Scholars’ Lab, you’ll work on projects like Neatline http://neatline.org/ and collaborations with UVa faculty and students, mentor graduate fellows, and help teach in our Praxis Program http://praxis.scholarslab.org/ . In addition to contributing to all of these facets of digital humanities work at Virginia, you will also be eligible for ”20% time,” where you are encouraged to pursue your own (often collaborative) R&D project or scholarship. As a Digital Humanities software engineer reporting to the Head of R&D for the Scholars’ Lab, you will be responsible for building, testing, and debugging code, developing documentation, and helping to manage our server infrastructure. You should possess a fine attention to detail and a high level of accountability and responsibility. We’re looking for someone who enjoys technical challenges, likes to figure out how things work, and stays involved in the latest web and digitial humanities technologies. You will need to fit in with a creative and collaborative group of software engineers to help create the next generation of scholarly interfaces. We particularly encourage applications by women developers and members of other under-represented groups. Demonstrated ability with one (or more) of the following: * Your Github/Bitbucket/other repository * Your Open Source Work * Your awesome blog * Code samples from side projects * Your production website (handling real traffic) * Ability to work with technical and non-technical collaborators Duties and Responsibilities * Build, test, and debug open source software * Estimate effort for software projects * Brainstorm and prototype new concepts and approaches into real things * Server and service deployments, server and database installations and configuration management * Ability to draft and communicate design concepts * Writing and updating internal documentation of systems and processes * Knowledge of systems and network security issues and trends * Maintain distinct environments such as development, staging, and production Qualifications * Experience with configuration management systems and concepts (e.g. puppet, chef, Ansible, cfengine) * Experience building web applications * Knowledge (or ability to learn) our technology stack, which includes: * Ruby/Ruby on Rails/Sinatra * PHP/Omeka * MySQL/PostgreSQL/PostGIS * JavaScript/CoffeeScript (Backbone, Ember, jQuery) * Testing frameworks (PHPUnit, RSpec, Cucumber, Jasmine) * git * Cocoon * JSP * Capistrano/Vagrant * Passion for growing your skills, tackling interesting work and challenging problems * Ability to design and write well-structured, maintainable, well-documented code that balances beauty and pragmatism * Strong communication skills * Experience in the digital humanities is a plus To Apply For full details, and to apply for this position, see the official posting (posting number 0613484 if you search Jobs@UVa). The University of Virginia is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, strongly committed to achieving excellence though cultural diversity. The University actively encourages applications and nominations from members of underrepresented groups. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 30E2E6239; Wed, 8 Jan 2014 08:51:29 +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 B3A606231; Wed, 8 Jan 2014 08:51:20 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2B86F622F; Wed, 8 Jan 2014 08:51:18 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140108075118.2B86F622F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 08:51:18 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.686 ACH elections in progress X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 686. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 12:28:46 -0500 From: ACH Secretary Subject: Reminder/Alert: ACH elections in progress Dear all, For those of you who are ACH or joint ADHO members, I write to remind you that ACH elections are in progress! This year is a big one: we are electing a new President, a new Vice-President, and three new Executive Council members. In addition, there's a set of major constitution amendments and updates up for your consideration. An email went out to the membership in December, and a reminder will be going out soon. The second mailing will include those who have recently (since last October) joined ACH, directly or through ADHO. The voting period closes on January 23rd. If you did not receive a ballot email with your subscription number and a voting token, and you joined before last October, please email me at secretary@ach.org, and I will look into it for you. Many thanks! -- Vika Zafrin, Secretary Association for Computers and the Humanities http://www.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 30C5A623E; Wed, 8 Jan 2014 08:52:50 +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 9B7E3623A; Wed, 8 Jan 2014 08:52:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 905F76230; Wed, 8 Jan 2014 08:52:38 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140108075238.905F76230@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 08:52:38 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.687 events: classicists in London; Americanists in Washington X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 687. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Simon Mahony (35) Subject: Digital Classicist London CFP 2014 [2] From: Matthew Wilkens (4) Subject: CFP: Digital Americanists at ALA 2014 (deadline 21 Jan 2014; conference 22-25 May 2014) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 12:07:59 +0000 From: Simon Mahony Subject: Digital Classicist London CFP 2014 The Digital Classicist London seminars have since 2006 provided a forum for research into the ancient world that employs digital and other quantitative methods. The seminars, hosted by the Institute of Classical Studies, are on Friday afternoons from June to mid-August in Senate House, London. We welcome contributions from students as well as from established researchers and practitioners. We welcome high-quality papers discussing individual projects and their immediate context, but also 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 should have an academic research agenda relevant to at least one of those fields. 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). To submit a proposal for consideration, email an abstract of approximately 500 words to s.mahony@ucl.ac.uk by midnight UTC on March 9th, 2014. Further information and details of past seminars are available at: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/index.html -- Simon Mahony Senior 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 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/people/simonmahony [1] www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/courses/mamsc [2] www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 13:22:09 -0500 From: Matthew Wilkens Subject: CFP: Digital Americanists at ALA 2014 (deadline 21 Jan 2014; conference 22-25 May 2014) CFP: Digital Americanists at the 2014 American Literature Association (abstracts due Jan 21; conference May 22-25, Washington, DC) The Digital Americanists Society solicits abstracts (250 words) for papers and/or full panels to be included in the Society's pre-arranged session at ALA 2014 (Washington, DC, May 22-25, 2014). The Digital Americanists are eager to constitute a panel of the most exciting DH work happening in American Studies. If you have a panel idea, we'd be happy to hear about it; email us at digitalamericanists@gmail.com as soon as possible. In keeping with the Digital Americanists' commitment to a broad understanding of American literature, culture, and digital media, we are pleased to consider submissions that address any facet of the relationship between those terms. Submissions from early-career scholars and members of underrepresented groups are especially encouraged. Deadline for submissions is January 21, 2014. Send abstracts and questions by plain text email to digitalamericanists@gmail.com. For more information about the Digital Americanists Society, see http://digitalamericanists.org/. For information about the ALA and the 2014 conference, see http://americanliteratureassociation.org/. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0F25F6114; Thu, 9 Jan 2014 08:28:02 +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 CD1916038; Thu, 9 Jan 2014 08:27:51 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0747D6025; Thu, 9 Jan 2014 08:27:47 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140109072748.0747D6025@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 08:27:47 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.688 pubs: Moretti on measurement X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 688. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 19:13:56 -0000 From: "Dave Postles" Subject: measurement in literary theory In-Reply-To: <20140108075008.397775FA3@digitalhumanities.org> https://newleftreview.org/II/84/franco-moretti-operationalizing?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLR84 I'm awaiting the delivery of my hard copy, but there is an abstract on the website. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AF5A26029; Thu, 9 Jan 2014 08:28:45 +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 052C95FAE; Thu, 9 Jan 2014 08:28:36 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 060965FC1; Thu, 9 Jan 2014 08:28:33 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140109072834.060965FC1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 08:28:33 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.689 intro to programming at TAMU X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 689. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 23:03:31 -0600 From: Laura Mandell Subject: Intro to Humanities Programming Class PLEASE ANNOUNCE: Programming for Humanists: A Continuing Education Course offered by the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture at Texas A&M University. Teachers: Laura Estill, Laura Mandell, Matthew Christy, Violeta Ilik (for TEI and XSLT), Quinn Dombrowski and Dave Rettenmaier (for Drupal), Luis Meneses (for Processing). Yes, yes, we know: this semester's offerings are not really "programming" but coding. We begin with code but move onto programming in subsequent semesters. Please send us your non-coding humanists: this is a very gentle, and, we hope, welcoming introduction. *Course Description*: We will explore the role of XML (eXtensible Markup Language) and XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations, themselves XML documents) in digital library and digital humanities projects. We will be teaching best practices in the process of building digital editions and their metadata: TEI (the set of XML tags created by the Text Encoding Initiative), RDF (Resource Description Framework), and XSLT. This course aims to teach librarians, scholars, and those involved in creating digital editions of texts, digital archives, eBooks, and digital cultural heritage exhibits a scripting language that allows for easy manipulation of metadata, pictures, and text, making it possible to create eBooks, websites of images along with keyed texts, databases, and online finding aids. Additionally, we will help people transfer their TEI documents into open-source content management systems to create websites (Wordpress, Omeka) and online databases (Drupal). Finally, we will begin teaching this semester some programming languages such as Processing which allows for visualizing data. Furthermore, the course helps people confront the sometimes very difficult editing questions raised by encoding materials in TEI as well as to understand how to troubleshoot and debug their XSLTs: toward the end of the semester, we ask students to bring their problems to class and then all work together to solve them. *Syllabus* The current class Syllabus is available at http://www.programming4HUManists.org/XSLTClassSchedule.html *Course Requirements and Results* Anyone can attend the course *for free* through videoconference or google hangouts. However, to receive a training certificate in the areas covered, one must enroll via the Texas A&M Continuing Education Program at the following costs: 1. $1,300 per semester per individual 2. $2,500 per program (up to and including 5 attendees) 3. For members of the Texas Digital Humanities Consortium, the costs is $750 per individual or $1,500 per program (5 attendees). Participants only need to enroll in order to receive the certificate because the course is “pass” (for attending) / “fail” (for not). *Meeting Details* This course will meet for two hours every Friday morning, 9:00 am to 11:00 am U.S. Central time, every Friday except TAMU Spring Break and Good Friday, between January 17 and May 2, 2014. The schedule of topics and readings is available here: http://www.programming4HUManists.org -- Laura Mandell Director, Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture Professor, English Texas A&M University p: 979-845-8345 e: idhmc@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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 40A9E6165; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:15:37 +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 5791B612A; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:15:28 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CFFED612A; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:15:26 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140110081526.CFFED612A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:15:26 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.690 job at Yale; NEH Summer Program grants; essay 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. 27, No. 690. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Education (16) Subject: Grant Opportunity: Direct an NEH Summer Program in 2015 [2] From: "Noelle A. Baker" (12) Subject: Boydston Essay Prize [3] From: Colin McCaffrey (87) Subject: Digital Humanities Job at Yale --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 21:08:36 +0000 From: Education Subject: Grant Opportunity: Direct an NEH Summer Program in 2015 *DIRECT AN NEH SUMMER PROGRAM IN 2015* The National Endowment for the Humanities is accepting applications for grants to direct a summer program for college faculty or schoolteachers on a humanities topic of your expertise. For examples, see this year's list of NEH summer programs: http://www.neh.gov/divisions/education/summer-programs. Why direct an NEH summer program? * Directors influence their fields of expertise through intense collegial study, often resulting in participants' publications. * Directors strengthen teaching and research at the undergraduate and K-12 levels. * Directors join a distinguished roster of NEH summer program leaders and bring distinction to their home institutions. * Directors choose participants from across the country, including graduate students. * Directors receive compensation ($15,000-$22,500) based on the duration of the program. Interested in applying? Consult the application guidelines: * NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes: http://www.neh.gov/grants/education/summer-seminars-and-institutes * NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops: http://www.neh.gov/grants/education/landmarks-american-history-and-culture-workshops-school-teachers The deadline to propose a summer program for Summer 2015 is March 4, 2014. We strongly encourage you to discuss your proposal with NEH staff, who will answer questions and critique drafts. Call (202) 606-8500 or send e-mail to sem-inst@neh.gov or landmarks@neh.gov. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 15:35:25 +0000 From: "Noelle A. Baker" Subject: Boydston Essay Prize 2014 Boydston Essay Prize Call for Nominations The Association for Documentary Editing invites nominations for the 2014 Boydston Essay Prize. The prize will be awarded to the best essay or review published between 1 July 2011 and 31 December 2013, the primary focus of which is the editing of a volume of works or documents. The award carries a cash honorarium of $300. Eligible essays may have been published in digital and print journals, monographs, and collections. Please submit nominations and citations in the body of an e-mail, and attach essays or reviews to be considered as Rich Text Format (RTF), MS Word, or PDF to the address below. Self-nominations are welcome. The prize will be awarded at the ADE annual meeting in July 2014. Nominations are by 31 January 2014. Noelle Baker noelle.baker@me.com Noelle A. Baker, Ph.D. Editorial Consultant, The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau 110 Ridgewood Ave. Davenport, IA 52803 noelle.baker@me.com http://noelleabaker.com --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 18:15:27 -0500 From: Colin McCaffrey Subject: Digital Humanities Job at Yale Original Posting Date28-Nov-2013STARS Requisition number23739BRDepartmentITS Academic IT SolutionsUniversity Job TitleAcademic Technology AnalystPosting Position TitleAcademic Technology Specialist for the HumanitiesBargaining UnitNoneJob CategoryManagerial & ProfessionalType of EmploymentFull TimeDuration TypeFixedIf Fixed Duration, Period2 years from date of hireIf Fixed Duration, is continuation possible?YesSalary GradeP5Work LocationCentral CampusWorksite Address55 Whitney AveWork WeekStandard (M-F equal number of hours per day)Total # of hours to be worked:37.5Position Focus:Digital Humanities is a rapidly growing area of scholarship and teaching at Yale University. Reporting to the Sr. Director for Educational Technologies, the position will interact with a diverse range of collaborators including faculty, curators, research staff, Librarians, and Academic Technologists to facilitate the use of digital technologies in the Humanities. This position will partner with faculty and graduate students in Humanities departments, developing, deploying and supporting technologies in support of the unique aspects of Humanities scholarship and teaching; recommending strategic directions, participating in prioritizing projects, and tracking and disseminating advancements in the field. This position will move between independent work, one-on-one collaborations with faculty, and project work with colleagues in Academic IT Solutions. This position is for a two-year term appointment, with the possibility of further extension.Principal Responsibilities1. Maintains an up-to-date and detailed knowledge and understanding of the research and teaching interests and activities of faculty. 2. Actively engages with scholars on aspects of technology in support of all phases of their work, including grant proposal preparation, selection and budgeting of technology solutions, and the delivery of technologies throughout the project. Coordinates cross-functional digital project teams as needed, and collaborates with those providers to ensure the highest level of support is available to faculty. 3. Provides the leadership and technical expertise necessary to envision and execute exceptional, innovative projects. . Within the corresponding departments, this will involve innovations in technology-enabled pedagogy and scholarship. 4. Researches, analyzes and evaluates potential projects, Fellow-driven and faculty-driven; designs, develops and executes project plans in collaboration with faculty and graduate students. 5. Identifies and pursues opportunities for external funding.. 6. Provides advice and consultation on technology aspects matters relating to teaching and research technology; this may range from custom programming and data base methods to web-based application development and data visualization. 7. Organizes campus-wide discussions, and identifies new opportunities to advance the University’s activities in this domain. 8. Collaborates with an extended cohort of other professionals, including Library specialists, and other teaching and IT specialists across the campus. These collaborations will be directed towards the development of technology solutions that cross the disciplines and bring value to the University research and teaching landscape. 9. Teaches or co-teaches classes and workshops. 10. Engages professionally in related scholarship through professional organization activities, publication and/or presentation of research. 11. Develops new competencies among staff and expand institutional knowledge of current and emerging best practices, tools, and standards. 12. May perform other duties as assigned.Required Education and ExperiencePhD (attained or expected). Must have University teaching experience, either as a graduate student, teaching fellow, or faculty member.Required Skill/Ability 1:Excellent interpersonal, instructional, oral and written communication skills.Required Skill/Ability 2:A proven record of success in implementing technology projects and bringing them to a successful conclusion.Required Skill/Ability 3:Knowledge of the principles, practices and future trajectories of teaching and research in the digital humanities.Required Skill/Ability 4:Proven ability to manage a complex workload.Required Skill/Ability 5:Demonstrated ability to establish effective, on-going relationships with varied levels of a diverse faculty, staff, and students.Preferred Education, Experience and Skills:1. A PhD in a field of Humanities, and a record of digital scholarship in the Humanities. 2. University teaching experience. 3. Experience in supporting users of computer technology in an academic setting.Weekend Hours Required?OccasionalEvening Hours Required?OccasionalDrug ScreenNoHealth ScreeningNoBackground Check RequirementsAll external candidates for employment will be subject to pre-employment background screening for this position, which may include motor vehicle and credit checks based on the position description and job requirements. All offers are contingent on successful completion of a background check. Please visit www.yale.edu/hronline/careers/screening/faqs.html for additional information on the background check requirements and process.Posting DisclaimerThe intent of this job description is to provide a representative summary of the essential functions that will be required of the position and should not be construed as a declaration of specific duties and responsibilities of the particular position. Employees will be assigned specific job-related duties through their hiring departments. https://sjobs.brassring.com/1033/ASP/TG/cim_jobdetail.asp?SID= ^Kw1R7hOJuaCT3o9Dz67vITOPEwvA3nMaDLNgh9fqN8jRMwhtfSrBkJAhuRNL79Z3&jobId=597544&type=search&JobReqLang=1&recordstart=1&JobSiteId=5248&JobSiteInfo=597544_5248&GQId=1134&partnerid=25053&siteid=5248 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B89C86178; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:16:52 +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 E3A9C6161; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:16:45 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 239266156; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:16:44 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140110081644.239266156@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:16:44 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.691 events: DH2014 workshop proposals invited X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 691. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 10:55:31 +0000 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Call for Proposals for Pre Conference Workshops, DH2014 Dear Digital Humanists, Please circulate the call for proposals for pre conference workshops for DH2014 widely, thanks! Melissa --- Call for Pre-Conference Workshops: Digital Humanities 2014. Digital Humanities 2014 (“Digital Cultural Empowerment”) – Call for Pre-conference workshops Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Hosted by the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL); 8-11 July, 2014; http://dh2014.org/ ; @DH2014Lausanne Workshop proposal deadline: 11:59pm GMT on Friday, 21st February 2014 I. General Information The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submissions of proposals for pre-conference workshops 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.The paper, poster, and panel deadlines have passed, and we are now looking for proposals for pre-conference workshops and tutorials (proposal max of 1500 words). Workshop and pre-conference tutorial proposals are due at midnight GMT on 21st February 2014, with notice of acceptance by 17th March 2014. An electronic submission form will be available soon on the conference website http://dh2014.org/. 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, Melissa Terras m.terras@ucl.ac.uk. 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) http://dh2014.org/call-for-paper/practical-information-for-workshops-and-tutorials-organization/ • 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. ----------------- Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE CITP FHEA Director, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities Professor of Digital Humanities 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/ Twitter: @melissaterras _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A0C736173; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:20:41 +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 B727B617C; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:20:33 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id ED9666156; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:20:31 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140110082031.ED9666156@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:20:31 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.692 Moretti on measurement X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 692. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Center for Comparative Studies" (6) Subject: Re: 27.688 pubs: Moretti on measurement [2] From: Willard McCarty (9) Subject: Moretti's article --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 11:06:28 +0100 From: "Center for Comparative Studies" Subject: Re: 27.688 pubs: Moretti on measurement Thank you for this suggestion. I have purchased Moretti's article, payed it, and never received the file! Francesco Stella --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 08:13:40 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Moretti's article Although I've not done a line-by-line comparison of the article in question to the Stanford Literary Lab Pamphlet 6, under the same title, my guess is that it is identical -- but free. See http://litlab.stanford.edu/?page_id=255. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C394C60BC; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 08:51:12 +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 F347E6013; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 08:51:03 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CEEE5600B; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 08:51:01 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140111075101.CEEE5600B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 08:51:01 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.693 in search 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. 27, No. 693. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 10:49:45 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: in search of a book I would very much like to have a copy of the following, which I cannot locate for sale anywhere: Computers for the Humanities? A Record of the Conference Sponsored by Yale University on a Grant from IBM. New Haven CN: Yale University Press, 1965. Please let me know if you have one you're willing to sell, and if so, for how much. Many thanks. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E535E39FC; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 08:52:15 +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 8203D60A7; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 08:52:07 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C97A55F5C; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 08:52:04 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140111075204.C97A55F5C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 08:52:04 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.694 fellowship at the Bodleian X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 694. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:55:18 +0000 From: Alexandra Franklin Subject: Byrne-Bussey Marconi Fellowship, Bodleian Libraries Byrne-Bussey Marconi Fellowship Awards a Fellowship for up to four months, to be taken at the Bodleian Libraries, for research in the history of science. Research proposals in the history and science of wireless communication or the wireless industry will be especially favoured. Applicants intending to use the Marconi Archives at the Bodleian Library and the Marconi Collection at the Museum of the History of Science will be preferred. Fellows will be reimbursed expenses of up to £1,000 per month for up to four months, to cover travel and accommodation expenses incurred as a result of the research visit. Applicants must be at postdoctoral level or above at the time of application. The fellowship must be taken up during the period September 2014 to August 2015. Application Deadline: 17 January 2014 See the Visiting Fellowships webpage, http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships for details of how to apply Dr Alexandra Franklin Co-ordinator, Centre for the Study of the Book Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts Bodleian Library Oxford OX1 3BG Tel.: +44 (0) 1865 277006 e-mail: alexandra.franklin@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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 239B56100; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 08:53:32 +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 2ACF060A8; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 08:53:23 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BA1F660A8; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 08:53:21 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140111075321.BA1F660A8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 08:53:21 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.695 events: DHBenelux Conference 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. 27, No. 695. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 10:26:52 +0100 From: Marijn Koolen Subject: DHBenelux 2014 Conference - 1st Call for Abstracts 1st Call for Abstracts: DHBenelux Conference, 12 & 13 June 2014 Website: http://dhbenelux.org/dhbenelux-2014-conference/ The DHBenelux conference is a yearly event to promote Digital Humanities research in Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. The conference serves as a platform for the growing community of DH researchers to meet, present and discuss their latest results and demonstrate tools and projects. DHBenelux 2014 is Hosted by Huygens ING and the Dutch National Library, 12-13 June 2014 in The Hague, the Netherlands. The conference programme will consist of: - Oral presentations - Poster and demo market - Discussion Panel on Digital Humanities Keynote speaker: Melissa Terras http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/people/melissaterras (UCL http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/ ). We invite submissions of abstracts on any aspect of digital humanities, especially on interdisciplinary work and new developments in Digital Humanities. We particularly encourage PhD students and junior researchers to submit abstracts. Abstracts are limited to a maximum of 500 words. Note that this call is not limited to researchers in the Benelux. Anyone can submit an abstract. Important dates: The deadline for submitting abstracts is 1 March 2014. Notification of acceptance is send on 15 March 2014. The deadline for revised abstracts is on 1 April 2014. Location and Venue: The first DHBenelux conference will be held on 12-13 June, 2014 at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands and the National Library of the Netherlands, located in the Hague, the Netherlands. More details about location, registration and submission will be published on the website soon. Organisers: - Karina van Dalen-Oskam - Mike Kestemont - Marijn Koolen Programme Committee: - Karina van Dalen-Oskam (Huygens) - Ida Nijenhuis (Huygens) - Lotte Wilms (KB) - Steven Claeyssens (KB) - Irene Haslinger (KB) - Mike Kestemont (Antwerpen) - Walter Daelemans (Antwerpen) - Marijn Koolen (Amsterdam) - Christoph Verbruggen (Gent) - Björn-Olav Dozo (Liège) - Marten Duering (Luxemburg, CVCE) - Martijn Stevens (Nijmegen) - Antal van den Bosch (Nijmegen) - Rens Bod (Amsterdam) - Folgert Karsdorp (Meertens) - Corina Koolen (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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 139656134; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 08:55:55 +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 137366100; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 08:55:47 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C6B3360F7; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 08:55:44 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140111075544.C6B3360F7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 08:55:44 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.696 job at the Hammer, UCLA X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 696. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 01:05:57 +0000 From: Leslie Cozzi Subject: Project Manager for Digital Initiatives, UCLA Project Manager for Digital Initiatives UCLA Hammer Museum The UCLA Hammer Museum is seeking to hire a Project Manager for Digital Initiatives to oversee a new online platform that will make our collections, exhibitions, and programs more dynamic and accessible to both scholarly and general audiences. Funded by a 3-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Project Manager for Digital Initiatives will be responsible for direct management of all aspects of the project, from initial research and infrastructure development to content creation and dissemination. A complete job description is attached and instructions for submitting applications are posted on our website: http://hammer.ucla.edu/about/employment_and_internships.html We are seeking an advanced graduate student with a background in both art history and digital humanities or information studies. We would be very grateful if you could forward this posting to any students that you feel would be qualified candidates. Many thanks for your assistance, Leslie Cozzi Curatorial Associate Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts/Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90024 (310) 443-7076 www.hammer.ucla.edu *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1389426721_2014-01-11_lcozzi@hammer.ucla.edu_25717.2.docx _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DDBFC618F; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 10:54:53 +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 379E8614E; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 10:54:34 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B212C6147; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 10:54:25 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140112095425.B212C6147@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 10:54:25 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.697 events: gender and product design X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 697. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 09:30:56 +1100 From: Suzana Sukovic Subject: CHI 2014 Workshop Call for Participation: Perspectives on Gender and Product Design - Deadline for submissions is 17th January 2014 In-Reply-To: <35993FCB-EAF3-4D71-9372-89EF71595962@blueyonder.co.uk> Dear all, For all of you interested in issues related to girls/women and technology, here is an interesting call for proposals. Regards Suzana ----- *CHI 2014 Workshop Call for Participation: Perspectives on Gender and Product Design * * Submission Deadline: January 17th, 2014Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: February 10th, 2014Workshop Date & Location: Saturday April 26th 2014, Toronto, CA* Interactive technologies have a profound mediating effect on the way we obtain and contribute to knowledge, relate to each other and contribute to society. Often, "gender" is not a factor that is explicitly considered in the design of these technologies. Technologies might also be designed with idealised models of gendered "users"–designed for men, designed for women, designed for the "average user" who could be male or female. But the impact of this is not very well understood, and it is unclear how "gender" might influence use and design of interactive technologies by users of any gender. Given the impact and potential ramifications of technological products on society, it is imperative that we more deeply understand the tacit and explicit models of gendered practice that underlie design choices. We need to inclusively accommodate and integrate different perspectives in shaping our modern day technologies. This workshop focuses on the bringing to the fore different perspectives of how gender affects technology design, adoption, appropriation, and possible resistance. We address what is missing from the discussion, and why, and consider what, if anything, needs to change in design methods and perspectives, to account for possible gender differences in perceived product value, ease of use, and delightful experiences. Examples of places where we believe change may need to occur include: - low representation of nuanced gender perspectives within design processes in the technology sector and within fields related to technology production, including computer science and engineering, and also design, design research, and related fields - the lack of discussion regarding gender impact in the fields related to technology design, including the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) whose very charter is to be "user-centric" and inclusive - low grant support for academic research which looks at the representation of gendered perspectives in our current discourse, which in turn leads to a lack of reliable, informative and actionable technology & gender research - the lack of focus on production of gender-agnostic design/development environments, including software tools and collaborative design/development settings - the lack of research and understanding of gender impact on technology design and use This workshop will address these barriers with respect to the tools, technologies, and processes we experience and design, both in industry and academia. The workshop will take place as part of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Toronto, CA, on Saturday April 26th 2014. We invite participation in this workshop by anyone with a substantial interest in this area, and/or related experience and expertise. Focusing topics and questions include: - *Framing the discussion: From your perspective, is gender an important topic for designers and developers of interactive products? Should we focus our critical and practical energies on Women, on Gender, or on Diversity/Inclusivity? What role(s) should there be for gender politics in the debate?* - *Gender-related knowledge and practice in academic, consultancy and corporate HCI and UX as a profession*: What is the current status of gender as a topic in the HCI/UX field of work? What are points of view on gender research in HCI? What conflicts, if any, exist? - *Gender-sensitive products*: Does truly gender-neutral design exist? If so, is this a desirable goal? If it is a desirable goal, what has been done toward this goal, what still needs to be addressed? - *Gender-sensitive design processes and practices:* Reflecting on creators of software and of interactive products, what are best practices for producing gender-sensitive designs? What are the most effective work practices, work processes and team structures that produce gender-sensitive designs? What challenges exist and what needs to be done to overcome identified challenges in product creation and promotion? Are there requirements gathering methods, design processes and evaluation methods that are specific to different gendered perspectives? Please submit a position paper (maximum of 4 pages) detailing your background, and interest and experience in this topic. Participants will be selected on the basis of their potential to contribute to the overall discussion and the workshop goals. To participate in this workshop, position papers must be submitted by January 17th 2014. Please use the CHI Extended Abstracts format http://chi2014.acm.org/authors/format . Submissions should be sent to* technology.design.perspectives@gmail.com * *If accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the workshop in Toronto on April 26th 2014. Mandatory registration requires a one day workshop registration PLUS at least a one day conference registration.* For more information see: https://sites.google.com/site/technologydesignperspectives/ or email us at *technology.design.perspectives@gmail.com * *Organisers* Daniela K. Busse, Samsung Research, USA Shaowen Bardzell, Indiana University, USA Anke M. Brock, IRIT, Univ. Toulouse, France Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University, USA Elizabeth F. Churchill, eBay, USA Susan M. Dray, Dray & Associates, Inc., USA Allison Druin, University of Maryland, USA Karen Holtzblatt, InContext Design, USA Dianne Murray, Interacting with Computers, UK Anicia Peters, Iowa State University, USA Gayna Williams, If She Can I Can, 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 847D7619C; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 10:56:36 +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 EFDFD6190; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 10:56:25 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3D37F618F; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 10:56:24 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140112095624.3D37F618F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 10:56:24 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.698 A Cabinet of Curiosity: The Library's Dead 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. 27, No. 698. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 09:15:58 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: A Cabinet of Curiosity: The Library's Dead Time This is for those of us who take particular interest in the processes and materialities of research. "A Cabinet of Curiosity: The Library's Dead Time", an exhibition at the University of Illinois, is "an attempt to create an alternative archive of librarianship and the library... [and] an aesthetic embodiment of scholarship" framed by the metaphor of the late Renaissance Wunderkammer, or cabinet of wonders, for which since the very late 20th Century we seem to have regained prodigious sympathy -- simultaneously with the onset of the Web. See, for example, http://www.libraryasincubatorproject.org/?p=4052 and the curators Bonnie Mak and Julia Pollack's "The Performance and Practice of Research in The Library's Dead Time", Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America 32.2 (Autumn 2013): 202-21 (in JSTOR). For the background see Lorraine Daston, "All Curls and Pearls", rev of Neil Kenny, The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany, London Review of Books 27.2 (23 June 2005): 37-8; and her earlier book with Katherine Park, Wonders and the Order of Nature (1998). Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7307761B3; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 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 AFA3C61AF; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 07:18:39 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5DBD961A3; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 07:18:38 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140113061838.5DBD961A3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 07:18:38 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.699 pubs: Transforming Peer Review 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. 27, No. 699. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 01:19:42 +0000 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Transforming Peer Review Bibliography Digital Scholarship has released the Transforming Peer Review Bibliography, which includes selected English-language articles that are useful in understanding significant transformations to the peer review process. http://digital-scholarship.org/tpr/tpr.htm It is concerned with major changes to peer review, such as open peer review (excluding just revealing the identity of traditional peer reviewers) and post-publication review. Most sources have been published from January 2010 through December 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. Also from Digital Scholarship: Altmetrics Bibliography http://digital-scholarship.org/alt/altmetrics.htm Translate (oversatta, oversette, prelozit, traducir, traduire, tradurre, traduzir, or ubersetzen) this message: http://digital-scholarship.org/announce/tpr-a.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9936461BD; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 07:10:25 +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 28CE161A1; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 07:10:12 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id F2F1061A3; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 07:10:09 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140114061009.F2F1061A3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 07:10:09 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.700 girls & 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. 27, No. 700. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 09:23:22 +1100 From: Suzana Sukovic Subject: Re: 27.684 girls & computing -- and lower-cost technology In-Reply-To: <20140108075008.397775FA3@digitalhumanities.org> Interesting points. I didn't know about pink rifles, but I imagine girls at my school would be amused. All these pink toys are clearly a product of binary imagination. I wonder what Kristeva would say. You convinced me to look more seriously into RPi. Norman, thanks for suggesting Adafruit - I never heard about it (not that I am an expert in electronics). Regards, Suzana Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 684. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: John Levin (24) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.680 girls & computing; lower-cost technology [2] From: Norman Gray (48) Subject: Re: 27.673 lower-cost technology; and 27.672 girls and computing --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 09:25:44 +0000 From: John Levin Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.680 girls & computing; lower-cost technology In-Reply-To: <20140107075352.95D38621E@digitalhumanities.org> > That's a very interesting point. On a pre-Christmas visit to a large toyshop in the UK, I was struck by how heavily some manufacturers have invested in producing 'boy' and 'girl' versions of what are essentially the same toys, such as Nerf blasters and LEGO bricks. In many cases, it appears that the 'girl' versions are in some way the odd ones out. For example, the Nerf blasters with photographs of boys on the boxes are simply branded 'Nerf', whereas the Nerf blasters with photographs of girls on the boxes are branded 'Nerf Rebelle', with what I felt to be some incredibly clumsy gender stereotyping: the Heartbreaker Bow and the Pink Crush Crossbow in particular. Perhaps I shouldn't mention the availability of child-sized, princess-pink hunting rifles in the US. Is it only a matter of time before someone releases a pink-themed 'Linux Princess' distro in a misguided attempt to prepare girls for careers in systems administration? > > Best wishes > > Daniel > No princess linux distro that I know if, but how about a pink desktop theme for ubuntu? http://www.noobslab.com/2011/11/pink-theme-for-ubuntu-1110-unity-for.html See also: Pink computer (toy) for girls: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lexibook-Computer-Secret-Musical-Keyboard/dp/B000QVZFAI Phone cases in pink "for girls": http://www.amazon.co.uk/iPhone-Genuine-Leather-Holder-Protectors-Pink/dp/B00AEH9A46 And more: http://www.techij.com/2013/02/best-iphone-cases-cheap-girls.html And what about 'Della', Dell's 'computer for women': http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Della_computers Tech sector is just as bad as the toys'. John -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com http://twitter.com/anterotesis --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 11:24:52 +0000 From: Norman Gray Subject: Re: 27.673 lower-cost technology; and 27.672 girls and computing In-Reply-To: <20140105095252.11D425F8A@digitalhumanities.org> Greetings. I think these two recent threads may be intimately connected (look out for low-flying kites, below). Dave Postles wrote: > RPi is fine, particularly for Python coding, although you could do the > same some time ago with the olpc (with python tutorials integrated). > Anything which encourages the use of Linux, on the desktop as well as on > servers and embedded, is fine with me, The problem with the RPi is still > that it has only sold 1m units, so it's impact is fairly confined. There > are, of course, many other single-board PCs (SBPCs) out there. Python is > useful for digital humanities (especially for corpus linguistics). I have > a suspicion, however, that it's (RPi's) impact, welcome as it is, is being > overhyped. I have limited but concrete experience with RPis. It seems to me that the thing that's special about the RPi is not that it does anything that hasn't been done before -- other such systems exist -- but that it represents an impressively managed set of trade-offs, in the service of a particular interesting target. That target is: 1. It's cheap: if you fry the thing, because you shorted the wrong pair of pins, it's irritating but not a disaster. 2. It's intimately connected with hardware: as well as connectors to standard gadgetry, the board has prominent support (the double row of pins in one corner) for connections to low-level hardware, namely transistors and capacitors and integrated circuits and things you've soldered up yourself. But 3. It's well integrated: it's not just for the sort of folk who already know how to design their own electronics. It's easy to get started, and the RPi Foundation have made a start on creating a helpful community round that. Achieving both 1 and 3 at the same time is I think a significant technical and design achievement. Thus I think it _does_ link to the picture that Willard painted: > But > what I knew about and reached for were the kits from which one could > built radio transmitters and receivers, voltmeters using only basic > components (resistors, capacitors etc) and simple tools (wire-cutter, > soldering iron, screwdriver etc). > > So I wonder, how does the Raspberry Pi compare in its extent and kind > of influence? I was building devices from kits at ca. age 8. The RPi is the sort of thing that young Willard could have investigated with a soldering iron and an 8-year-old eye-gleam, _and_ that is very different from what 'computing' has meant in the last few decades. And that leads to my point. Amongst a number of interesting points, Suzana Sukovic said: > It seems there are a few factors at play, roughly around 3 connected areas: > 1. Girls' interests > 2. Cultural issues around gender and geek cultures > 3. The way computers are presented and taught. If the RPi is indeed different from what 'computing' has meant for the last 50 years, then it represents an opportunity to broadly disrupt 'computing'/geek culture; the RPi represents a bit of cultural barricade broken down. In particular (and this point isn't fully worked out, so forgive some clumsiness), I think it would be possible and entertaining to use the RPi to subvert some stereotypes about gender and technology, and about the distinction between computing and electronics. Plunging into those stereotypes... * Computers are about binary things (which boys like, As Any Fule Kno); electronics is much more inflected (which girls like, as any fule...), and never certainly in one state or another. * Computers proceed, instruction by instruction, from one stable state to another; electronics is much more dynamic, with one part of a system interacting unpredictably with another. * Computer systems are constructed by the composition of components with well-defined interfaces; electronics is much more physical, like cooking (which...). And so on. Viewed through the right spectacles, electronics could surely be presented as much more feminine than masculine, or more yin than yang (if that makes the argument go better), without any danger of the result being written off, as Suzana fears, as merely 'soft computing skills'. And RPis mean that this subversion is more naturally backed up with practice, rather than being merely a paper exercise. That would be RPi impact. There's presumably a link here to the fashionably increasing visibility of 'makers'. Also, one of my prime associations with this sort of electronics (I'm not a hardware person, and have only bumped into this recently) is Adafruit http://www.adafruit.com/about/ , which is definitely not toys for boys. (I fear this may be heading off at a tangent from Digital Humanities) 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AD64761C9; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 07:11:15 +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 143A561C2; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 07:11:05 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7E8AD61B3; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 07:11:03 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140114061103.7E8AD61B3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 07:11:03 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.701 TAPoR 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. 27, No. 701. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:29:18 -0700 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: TAPoR 2.0 TAPoR 2.0 (http://tapor.ca) needs your help: 1. Historical Tools We have been reviewing historical tools (73 at last count.) The idea is to create a record of the innovative text analysis instruments developed. We need your help to improve this. See http://tapor.ca/tools/filterbytag?tag=legacy If you were involved in one of these tools or used them we would appreciate corrections, suggestions, or comments. 2. Ratings and Tweets We need your help rating tools and commenting on them. Our tool Ratings are now shown by Google. (Try Googling for "Voyant Tools" and you will see examples.) You can also Tweet a tool or recommend it on Google +. If you have used a tool we have an entry for, please rate it and/or leave a comment. Encourage your students to do so too. The developers appreciate the feedback. 3. Adding Tools If you know of a text analysis tool we haven't created an entry for you can now create a draft entry that will show up as a draft entry. We will then review it. 4. Exposing our Data We now expose data about each tool in a structured way for search engines or other uses. Contact us if you want to scrape our tool information. We are happy to have other tool sites subsume our entries if it helps the community. 5. Peer Reviews We are developing ideas for true peer-review of tools and curated lists of recommended tools. We would like to hear from people who have ideas on how this can be done, would like to review tools, or would like to curate a list. People have complained that tool development isn't recognized academic work. TAPoR and other projects like Bamboo DiRT (http://dirt.projectbamboo.org/) are trying to provide places for the discovery and review of tools. Help us support those who develop the tools we use. Best, Geoffrey Rockwell _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id EDD6561C9; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 07:13:52 +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 4A59561CD; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 07:13:44 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2695761C1; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 07:13:42 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140114061342.2695761C1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 07:13:42 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.702 events: standards; distant reading; epigraphy; Texan 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. 27, No. 702. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Kai Jakobs (116) Subject: Final CfP: Standardisation and Innovation - European Academy of Management [2] From: Greta Franzini (23) Subject: Leipzig eHumanities Seminar: Mike Kestemont [3] From: Gabriel Bodard (35) Subject: EpiDoc Workshop, London, April 28-May 1, 2014 [4] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (5) Subject: CFP for 1st Texas Digital Humanities Conference --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:04:03 +0100 From: Kai Jakobs Subject: Final CfP: Standardisation and Innovation - European Academy of Management Folks, The European Academy of Management are holding their annual conference in Valencia, Spain (very nice place, btw) on 4 - 7 June 2014. This is the first time that a track on 'Standardisation and Innovation' will be a dedicated part of the conference (well, that's what we're aiming at). Below you will find the CfP. The submission deadline is 16 January, so you'd better start thinking (and writing) .... You may find more information about the conference on http://www.euram-online.org/conference/2014/ . Greetings from Aachen. Cheers, Kai. EURAM 2014: Valencia Track Number: 06_01 Track Name: Standardisation and Innovation Special Interest Group: Innovation By now, many academics, policy makers and practitioners have accepted that standardisation is not the adversary of innovation as which it has been portrayed until not so long ago. These days, some scholars consider standards as both a constraint for and an enabler of innovation, others see them as a common basis upon which innovation can flourish. The European Commission now recognizes standardisation as an essential instrument to enhance innovation and competitiveness in Europe. However, the precise nature of the inter?relation between both still remains largely unclear. This Track aims to improve this situation. To this end, it will bring together scholars, researchers and practitioners that have a stake in research into standardisation and innovation. This will be a highly multi?disciplinary group of people, with backgrounds including, but by no means limited to, Business Studies, Management Studies, Economics, History, Law, Sociology, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, and Policy Studies. Thus, the track will provide an opportunity for experts from these very different communities to meet, interact, exchange views and ideas and, ultimately, come to a better understanding of the mutual dependencies between standardisation and innovation. While such a better understanding is clearly desirable for the academic community, it has also potentially significant practical ramifications. Not least due to the associated IPR issues, standardisation has become a multi?billion Dollar business. Accordingly, a better understanding of how to use standards as an enabler of innovation, and how to prevent them from becoming a constraining factor, is of considerable interest to both for companies and policy makers. The Track will look at both the role of standardisation (the process) and of standards (the resulting product) in relation to innovation. That is, it will try to find answers to the questions: * How can standards be deployed as an enabler of innovation? * How can standardisation be used as a platform for (open) innovation? * How to better understand the overlapping concepts of standards, dominant designs and platforms? Proponents ---------- Knut Blind TU Berlin; Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University; Fraunhofer FOKUS. Kai Jakobs RWTH Aachen. Henk de Vries Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus University. Keywords: Standardisation, Innovation, Dominant designs, Standards, Platforms Submission guidelines EURAM 2014 -------------------------------- Please, follow these guidelines and formatting instructions to prepare and submit your paper. RULE OF 3: Please note that you may be listed as an author or co-author on up to 3 submitted papers. 1. Each paper can only be submitted to ONE topic or track. 2. Submitted papers must NOT have been previously published and if under review, must NOT appear in print before EURAM 2014 Conference. 3. To facilitate the blind review process, remove ALL authors identifying information, including acknowledgements from the text, and document/file properties. (Any submissions with author information will be automatically DELETED). 4. The entire paper (title page, abstract, main text, figures, tables, references, etc.) must be in ONE document created in PDF format. 5. The maximum length of the paper is 40 pages (including ALL tables, appendices and references). The paper format should follow the European Management Review Style Guide. 6. Use Times New Roman 12pitch font, double spaced, and 1?inch (2.5 cm) margin all around. 7. Number all of the pages of the paper. 8. No changes in the paper title, abstract, authorship, and actual paper can occur AFTER the submission deadline. 9. Check that the PDF File of your paper prints correctly and ensure that the file is virus free. 10. Submissions will be done on?line on the EURAM 2014 website from December 1st 2013 till January 16th 2014. 11. Only submissions in English shall be accepted for review. 12. In case of acceptance, the author or one of the co-authors should be available to present the paper at the conference. 13. In case of acceptance, each author can present only one paper at the conference. 14. Particularly good and relevant papers will be considered for inclusion in the Handbook of Standards and Innovation (Edward Elgar Publishers) or for a special of the Int. J. of IT Standards & Standardisation Research (igi Global). ________________________________________________________________ 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: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 11:30:52 +0100 From: Greta Franzini Subject: Leipzig eHumanities Seminar: Mike Kestemont Dear all, This week's Leipzig eHumanities seminar will be given by Mike Kestemont, who will be talking to us about: */"A Distant Reading of a Distant Past: Computational Text Analysis and Medieval Literature"/* In: Room P801 (Paulinum, 8th floor), University of Leipzig On: Wednesday 15th January 2014 At: 3:15 PM to 4:45 PM Attendance at the seminar is free of charge. *ALL WELCOME* For further information, please visit: http://www.e-humanities.net/events/2013-ehum-seminar-call.html -- Greta Franzini Research Associate Digital Humanities Department of Computer Science University of Leipzig Augustusplatz 10-11 04109 Leipzig, Germany Phone: +49 341 97 32330 Email: franzini@informatik.uni-leipzig.de Web: www.dh.uni-leipzig.de --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:06:27 +0000 From: Gabriel Bodard Subject: EpiDoc Workshop, London, April 28-May 1, 2014 We invite applications for a 4-day training workshop on digital editing of epigraphic and papyrological texts, to be held in the Institute of Classical Studies, London, April 28-May 1, 2014. The workshop will be taught by Gabriel Bodard (KCL), Simona Stoyanova (Leipzig) 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, the US Epigraphy Project, Vindolanda Tablets Online and the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri. The workshop will introduce participants to the basics of XML markup and give hands-on experience of tagging textual features and object descriptions in TEI, as well as use of the tags-free Papyrological Editor (papyri.info/editor). No technical skills are required, 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 charlotte.tupman@kcl.ac.uk with a brief description of your reason for interest and summarising your relevant skills and background, by Friday, February 21st, 2014. -- Dr Gabriel BODARD Researcher in Digital Epigraphy Digital Humanities King's College London Boris Karloff Building 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/ --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:07:57 -0700 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: CFP for 1st Texas Digital Humanities Conference The 1st annual Texas Digital Humanities Conference, co-sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at University of Houston, the Humanities Research Center and Fondren Library at Rice University, and the Institute for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture at Texas A&M University, welcomes submissions for twenty-minute individual papers and poster presentations for a conference on the theme of networks in the humanities. Keynote speakers include Erez Lieberman Aiden (of Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine, and Google Labs), Geoffrey Rockwell (Alberta), Tanya Clement (University of Texas at Austin), and Elijah Meeks (Stanford). The conference will begin with a keynote address on the evening of Thursday, April 10th, and will conclude with a hackfest on the afternoon of Saturday, April 12. The deadline for submissions is February 15, 2014. Submissions and requests for more information should be sent to texdhc@gmail.com. For more information see: http://www.txdhc.org/?page_id=5 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 9AC4362A1; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 07:11:04 +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 3DAEB6298; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 07:10:50 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 60C2F6295; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 07:10:48 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140115061048.60C2F6295@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 07:10:48 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.703 PhD studentships at Southampton X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 703. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 22:04:21 +0000 From: "Isaksen L." Subject: Web Science PhD places, University of Southampton Hi all The University of Southampton has 10 fully funded PhD places in Web Science which may be of interest to Humanities graduates with a strong research interests in the Web or Internet (many of our current students come from Humanities backgrounds). This is a 4-year Integrated PhD which includes an MSc component so a Masters qualification is not required. Please feel free to inform any interested parties or get in touch if you have any queries. All the best Leif —— Dr Leif Isaksen Lecturer in Archaeology Co-Director, Web Science Postdoctoral Training University of Southampton The Web Science Doctoral Training Centre at the University of Southampton is part of a £250 million investment in the future of UK science and technology by the RCUK Digital Economy Programme, providing fully funded studentships for 4 year PhD training in Web Science. The combined masters and PhD degree has no fees to pay and a £13,863 a year stipend to study the World Wide Web. Any student from any discipline can study Web Science. You can apply now for one of 10 fully funded studentships. The Web is a foundational technology that supports a mobile infrastructure of social networks and big data services, powering the emerging digital economy. Web Science explores the impact of the Web on all aspects of human society, from the individual right through to national and global scales, on the one hand investigating the technical capabilities of its distributed information infrastructure and on the other scrutinising the public policy and social practices that have made it a transformative global phenomenon. This four-year PhD in Web Science will equip students to become leaders in the emerging Digital Economy. The course begins with a one-year taught programme that provides a broad basis for understanding the technology of the Web and the social context in which the technology operates. The remaining three year research programme involves input from industry and government partners and has a multi-disciplinary supervision team combining fields such as Computer Science, Information Technology, Law, Economics, Sociology, Psychology, Humanities, Management, Education, Geography and Maths. For more information go to: http://dtc.webscience.ecs.soton.ac.uk/study/scholarship-opportunities/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D764F62A5; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 07:11:57 +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 1D2C1629E; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 07:11:50 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B0658629A; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 07:11:48 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140115061148.B0658629A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 07:11:48 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.704 events: markup; book 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. 27, No. 704. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: igalina (21) Subject: Reminder deadline for CfP Ages of the Book International Conference [2] From: Tommie Usdin (35) Subject: Balisage 2014 Call for Participation --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 17:54:21 +0000 From: igalina Subject: Reminder deadline for CfP Ages of the Book International Conference In-Reply-To: Just a reminder that the deadline for the Ages of the Book International Conference is the 14th of February. Ages of the Book International Conference 2014 Dates: October 13 -17, 2014 Hosted by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico Deadline for submissions: February 14th 2014 Call for papers The aim of the conference is to bring together specialists from diverse fields of study, such as written and printed culture, visual design and communication, editing and the publishing industry, history, literature and new technologies, for discussion of academic, scientific, technical and economic issues that will advance our knowledge on the written word throughout history. The conference will explore the wide range of traditions and innovations surrounding the composition of texts manifest in distinct periods and in different regions of the world, from the early production of codices through to present day electronic books. The organizing committee invites abstract submissions on subjects such as epigraphy, calligraphy and paleography, editorial design, typography, printing processes, ecdotics, textual and graphic editing, electronic publishing and technology applied to editing. Additional topics for consideration are transmission of texts, textual and visual disposition, page design, typography and illustrations in books, text-image relationships, ornamentation, initialing, reading styles and methods, use and management of color in the transmission of texts, usability, design and navigation for screen, e-book interface design and visual ergonomics. The main thematic areas are the manuscript, printed and electronic book. The conference will be held at the Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas (Institute for Bibliographic Studies) of the UNAM in Mexico City from 13th to the 17th of October 2014. All abstract submissions must be received by February 14th 2014. All abstracts will be reviewed by an international committee. Authors will be notified of the results May 6th 2014. For more information about submissions, key dates and registration please visit our website: http://www.edadesdellibro.unam.mx *Please distribute widely* ---------- Dra. Isabel Galina Russell Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) igalina@unam.mx @igalina --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 17:29:38 -0500 From: Tommie Usdin Subject: Balisage 2014 Call for Participation In-Reply-To: Balisage: The Markup Conference 2014 August 5 — 8, 2014, Washington, DC, USA August 4, 2014 — Pre-conference Symposium Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center, just outside Washington, DC Balisage is the premier conference on the theory, practice, design, development, and application of markup. We solicit papers on any aspect of markup and its uses; topics include but are not limited to: - Cutting-edge applications of XML and related technologies - Integration of XML with other technologies (e.g., content management, XSLT, XQuery) - Performance issues in parsing, XML database retrieval, or XSLT processing - Development of angle-bracket-free user interfaces for non-technical users - Deployment of XML systems for enterprise data - Design and implementation of XML vocabularies - Case studies of the use of XML for publishing, interchange, or archiving - Alternatives to XML - Expressive power and application adequacy of XSD, Relax NG, DTDs, Schematron, and other schema languages Detailed Call for Participation: http://balisage.net/Call4Participation.html About Balisage: http://balisage.net/Call4Participation.html Instructions for authors: http://balisage.net/authorinstructions.html Key dates: - 28 March 2014 — Peer review applications due - 18 April 2014 — Paper submissions due - 18 April 2014 — Applications for student support awards due - 20 May 2014 — Speakers notified - 11 July 2014 — Final papers due - 4 August 2014 — Pre-conference Symposium - 5–8 August 2014 — Balisage: The Markup Conference For more information: info@balisage.net or +1 301 315 9631 Balisage: The Markup Conference There is Nothing As Practical As A Good Theory ====================================================================== Balisage: The Markup Conference 2014 mailto:info@balisage.net August 5-8, 2014 http://www.balisage.net Preconference Symposium: August 4, 2014 +1 301 315 9631 ====================================================================== _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 910836361; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 07:33:02 +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 997C3635D; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 07:32:53 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7C3CA6302; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 07:32:51 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140116063251.7C3CA6302@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 07:32:51 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.705 on succeeding X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 705. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 06:23:35 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: success Allow me to commend to your attention Tim Parks account of writers' ambitions in "Writing to win", NYR Blog, New York Review of Books, 11 January, http://tinyurl.com/on3ch7u, and to hope that in your reading you make it to the last two sentences. Translating the moral to our story shouldn't be difficult. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 587316369; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 07:33:28 +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 58C7C6361; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 07:33:21 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 74A7D6361; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 07:33:19 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140116063319.74A7D6361@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 07:33:19 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.706 DHCommons' Editorial 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. 27, No. 706. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:05:53 -0700 From: Ryan Cordell Subject: DHCommons' Founding International Editorial Board http://digitalhumanities.org/centernet/2014/01/dhcommons-founding-international-editorial-board/ DHCommons has a new editorial board! As centerNet's flagship publication, DHCommons has taken on the task of peer reviewing mid-stage digital humanities projects from around the world in multiple languages. These new board members will assist the Founding Co-Editors-in-Chief Ryan Cordell (Northeastern University), Isabel Galina (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), and Laurent Romary (Humboldt Universität Berlin and INRIA) to prepare DHCommons' Vision Statement, Submission Guidelines, and Review Guidelines. We look forward to issuing our initial call for projects early in 2014. Board members were chosen through a rigorous nomination process to represent the geographic, linguistic, disciplinary, institutional and cultural variation of the Digital Humanities Community. Given their deep and wide-ranging expertise, we know they will greatly enhance this exciting new publication and help DHCommons achieve its goal: to help certify through peer review the value of long-standing, influential, but unfinished projects to colleagues unfamiliar with the contours of digital humanities research. DHCommons Founding International Editorial Board Anne Baillot, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Cheryl E. Ball, Illinois State University Marin Dacos, Centre pour l'Édition Électronique ouverte (CLÉO) Rebecca Frost Davis, St. Edward's College Jason Ensor, University of Western Sydney Jieh Hsiang, National Taiwan University Tara McPherson, University of Southern California Rafael Pérez y Pérez, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Cuajimalpa Torsten Reimer, Imperial College London Roopika Risam, Salem State University Geoffrey Rockwell, University of Alberta Patrick Sahle, University of Cologne _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D2A1E636B; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 07:35:23 +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 802256364; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 07:35:13 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B10A2635E; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 07:35:11 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140116063511.B10A2635E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 07:35:11 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.707 events: authorship; e-research; 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. 27, No. 707. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Brett D. Hirsch" (28) Subject: CFP: Beyond Authorship (24-27 June 2014) [2] From: kcl - cerch (19) Subject: Centre for e-Research seminar series - Spring Term 2014 [3] From: "Bordalejo, Barbara" (7) Subject: Call for papers and workshop proposals GO::DH/RedHD conference May 19 to 23 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 14:19:06 +0800 From: "Brett D. Hirsch" Subject: CFP: Beyond Authorship (24-27 June 2014) BEYOND AUTHORSHIP 24-27 June 2014 University of Newcastle Australia This symposium seeks to move beyond authorship as the primary focus of corpus-based studies in early modern literature, to consider broader questions of language and style, genre and form, influence and adaptation; to interrogate the new literary histories enabled by electronic text corpora, and the new methods of analysis they make possible. Confirmed speakers include Douglas Bruster, Gabriel Egan, Jonathan Hope, MacDonald P. Jackson, Lynne Magnusson, and Michael Witmore. The convenors, Hugh Craig and Brett D. Hirsch, invite proposals for long and short papers (20/40 min) and quick-fire poster presentations (5 min). For consideration, abstracts should be received by email to and before 14 February 2014. To download a poster/flyer and for more details, visit http://notwithoutmustard.net/beyond-authorship/ -- Dr Brett D. Hirsch ARC Discovery Early Career Research Fellow and 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 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:47:15 +0000 From: kcl - cerch Subject: Centre for e-Research seminar series - Spring Term 2014 Dear all, Apologies for cross-posting. We are pleased to announce some fascinating talks coming up in the Spring Term 2014 Centre for e-Research seminar series. Seminars are held fortnightly on Tuesdays during term time at 6.15pm (unless otherwise stated) in the Anatomy Museum, on the 6th floor, King's College London, Strand Campus. Seminars are followed by drinks and nibbles. The first seminar of this series is next week, on Tuesday 21st January, with Paolo Gerbaudo speaking on "Info-viz and political activism". More details and abstract below. Also below, is the full programme for this term, with further details at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/seminars/2013-14.aspx. All the best, Valentina Asciutti 21st Jan: Info-viz and political activism. Paolo Gerbaudo (King's College London) Abstract: Info-visualisation is a practice that has been widely utilised in contemporary digital culture, in order to get to grips with the complex patterns emerging from huge sets of data. Among the different categories utilising info-viz, including programmers, marketers, financial analysts, security personnel, and government advisors, also activists have found in info-viz a powerful visual language to get to grips with the complexity of social grievances and economic problems in a highly complex and globalised world. In my presentation I will look at the political positioning of info-visualisation as a radical political language in collectives such as Bureau d-Etudes and RTMark, as well as drawing on my own work infondoalmar.info. I will discuss the extent to which info-viz can constitute a platform for radical politics, and look at some possible lines of future development of these practices. Speaker bio: Paolo Gerbaudo (1979) is lecturer in Digital Culture and Society at King's College London. He has worked as a reporter for the Italian Left newspaper Il Manifesto and has been involved in anti-corporate, global justice and ecologist campaigns. His current research focuses on the use of new media and social media by social movements and emerging digital parties. He is the author of Tweets and the Streets (2012), a book analysing social media activism in the popular protest wave of 2011, from the Arab Spring, to the indignados and Occupy Wall Street. He has a PhD from Goldsmiths College, where he worked under the supervision of Professor Nick Couldry. He has previously taught at Middlesex University and the American University in Cairo. He is currently the convenor of the Digital Culture and Political Protest module at King's College London. The event is free of charge but registration is required. Eventbrite link for registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cerch-seminar-info-viz-and-political-activism-paolo-gerbaudo-kings-college-london-tickets-10115123607 Spring Term (2014) * 21st Jan: Info-viz and political activism. Paolo Gerbaudo (King's College London) * 4th Feb: Exploring very large collections of texts by creating structured unbiased samples. Pieter Francois (Oxford) * 18th Feb: Let's consider some new technologies for musicians, music learners, and music teachers. Anita Pincas (Institute of Eduction) * 4th March: Founders & Survivors: Tasmanian Convict Life Courses in Historical Context. Professor Janet McCalman (Centre for Health & Society, University of Melbourne), Dr Rebecca Kippen (Centre for Health & Society, University of Melbourne), Ms Sandra Silcot (Centre for Health & Society, University of Melbourne), Dr Len Smith (Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, Australian National University). * 25th March: Network analysis and distant reading on a Latin corpus. Thibault Clerice (King's College London) and Anthony Glaise (UFR de Grec, Paris IV - Sorbonne) --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 05:21:42 +0000 From: "Bordalejo, Barbara" Subject: Call for papers and workshop proposals GO::DH/RedHD conference May 19 to 23 Dear colleagues, GO::DH and RedHD are organising a conference and series of workshops on 19-20 May (Workshops) and 21-23 May (conference). The deadline for proposals is January 20th. Paper proposals should be submitted via the easy chair system. Instructions can be found here: http://humanidadesdigitales.net/index.php/encuentro2014/encuentro2014-en We are also organizing two days of workshops for the 19th and 20th of May, immediately before the conference. If you would like to offer a workshop on any aspect of Digital Humanities, please contact me privately with your ideas. We are interested both in workshops for users and developers. Some examples of workshops that might be offered are: Omeka, Phyton, TEI, WordPress, Juxta and Web design for DHers among others. But other topics are certainly welcome. BB _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C8B07636F; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 07:36:15 +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 50FBD6369; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 07:36:06 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 37B0A635F; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 07:36:05 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140116063605.37B0A635F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 07:36:05 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.708 pubs: sentic computing; Great Depression interviews; what is a 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 708. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (12) Subject: what is a word? [2] From: "Davis, Shannon" (7) Subject: The Great Depression Interviews [3] From: Erik Cambria (37) Subject: CFP: Sentic Computing @ Springer CogComp --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:13:46 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: what is a word? In discussions of text-analysis the question of what a word is tends to come up. I've recently stumbled on a discussion of this question in the collection of papers on linguistics kept by the Sussex Department of English. See http://www.sussex.ac.uk/english/creativearts/publications/linguisticspapers. Others to be recommended? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:16:53 +0000 From: "Davis, Shannon" Subject: The Great Depression Interviews Washington University Digital Library Services and Visual Media Resource Lab are proud to announce the release of a new collection, The_Great_Depression Interviews. More than 110 hours of interview from Blackside's seven-part documentary series, which debuted in 1993, were digitized for the collection that includes fully searchable transcripts of 148 interviews and accompanying video. To read more about the collection, see the Libraries' What's_New blog or view the full collection at http://digital.wustl.edu/greatdepression. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 23:04:19 +0000 From: Erik Cambria Subject: CFP: Sentic Computing @ Springer CogComp Submissions are invited for a Springer Cognitive Computation special issue on Sentic Computing. For more information, please visit http://sentic.net/cogcomp RATIONALE The opportunity to capture the opinions of the general public 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 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 to sentiment analysis mainly rely on parts of text in which opinions 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. Concept-level approaches, instead, use Web ontologies or semantic networks to accomplish semantic text analysis. This helps the system grasp the conceptual and affective information associated with natural language opinions. By relying on large semantic knowledge bases, such approaches step away from blindly using keywords and word co-occurrence counts, and instead rely on the implicit meaning/features associated with natural language concepts. Superior to purely syntactical techniques, concept-based approaches can detect subtly expressed sentiments. Concept-based approaches, in fact, can analyze multi-word expressions that do not explicitly convey emotion, but are related to concepts that do. Sentic computing, in particular, is 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 recognize, interpret, and process opinions and sentiments over the Web. 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. TOPICS This special issue focuses on the introduction, presentation, and discussion of new approaches that further develop and apply sentic computing models, techniques, and tools, for the design of emotion-sensitive applications in fields such as social media marketing, human-computer interaction, and e-health. The main motivation for the special issue, in particular, is to further explore how the passage from (unstructured) natural language to (structured) machine-processable data can be implemented, in potentially any domain, through the application of sentic computing or an ensemble of sentic computing and other approaches. Articles are thus invited in areas such as weakly supervised learning, active learning, transfer learning, novel neural and cognitive models, data mining, pattern recognition, knowledge-based systems, information retrieval, natural language processing, and big data computing. Topics include, but are not limited to: • Sentic computing for social media marketing • Sentic computing for big social data analysis • Sentic computing for social media visualization and retrieval • Sentic computing for biologically inspired opinion mining • Sentic computing for cognitive and affective modeling • Sentic computing for metaphor detection and understanding • Sentic computing for patient opinion mining • Sentic computing for opinion spam detection • Sentic computing for online advertising • Sentic computing for social network modeling and analysis • Sentic computing for multi-modal sentiment analysis • Sentic computing for human-agent, -computer, and -robot interaction • Sentic computing for image analysis and understanding • Sentic computing for user profiling and personalization • Sentic computing for aided affective knowledge acquisition • Sentic computing for multi-lingual sentiment analysis • Sentic computing for time-evolving sentiment tracking • Sentic computing for cross-domain evaluation The special issue also welcomes papers on specific application domains of sentic computing, e.g., influence networks, customer experience management, intelligent user interfaces, multimedia management, computer-mediated human-human communication, enterprise feedback management, surveillance, and art. To be considered, authors will need to clearly establish relevance of their paper to the scope of the special issue and the journal. Authors will be required to follow the Author's Guide for manuscript submission to Cognitive Computation. TIMEFRAME February 15th, 2014: Paper submission deadline March 15th, 2014: Notification of acceptance April 15th, 2014: Final manuscript due June, 2014: Publication SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The Cognitive Computation special issue on Sentic Computing will consist of papers on novel methods and techniques that further develop and apply big data analysis tools and techniques in the context of opinion mining and sentiment analysis. Some papers may survey various aspects of the topic. The balance between these will be adjusted to maximize the issue's impact. Authors are required to follow Cognitive Computation's Instructions for Authors and to submit their papers through Editorial Manager, after specifing the name of the special issue. All articles are expected to successfully negotiate the standard review procedures for Cognitive Computation. ORGANIZERS • Erik Cambria, National University of Singapore (Singapore) • Amir Hussain, University of Stirling (UK) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9B94862DE; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:54:43 +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 A66B86253; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:54:34 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 47C466194; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:54:33 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140117105433.47C466194@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:54:33 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.709 more on "what is a 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. 27, No. 709. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 09:11:52 -0600 (CST) From: Clai Rice Subject: Re: what is a word? In-Reply-To: <20140116063605.37B0A635F@digitalhumanities.org> ----- Original Message ----- > Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:13:46 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: what is a word? > > In discussions of text-analysis the question of what a word is tends > to come up. I've recently stumbled on a discussion of this question in > the collection of papers on linguistics kept by the Sussex Department of > English. See > http://www.sussex.ac.uk/english/creativearts/publications/linguisticspapers. > Others to be recommended? > R. M. W. Dixon & Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (eds.), Word: a cross-linguistic typology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. This volume is useful for an advanced introduction to the difficulties of defining the term 'word' for linguistics. It does not systematically consider issues of computation, text analysis or orthography. Clai Rice _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 93B106361; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:55:32 +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 406EA6323; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:55:24 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8CC326276; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:55:22 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140117105522.8CC326276@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:55:22 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.710 3D scanners? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 710. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 08:49:21 +0100 From: Øyvind Eide Subject: 3D scanners Dear colleagues, We are considering buying at least one 3D scanner for small objects, to be used in teaching and for small digitisation projects. It would be good to find something relatively cheap and user friendly. Are there any guides or surveys of such equipment focusing on usability in a cultural heritage/digital humanities context? I would also be happy to hear about any practical experience you may have in this area. With kind regards, Øyvind Eide -- Dr. Øyvind Eide Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Lehrstuhl für Digital Humanities URL: http://www.phil.uni-passau.de/rehbein.html Universität Passau Innstr. 40 (Nikolakloster) 94032 Passau Büro: NK 429 fon: +49.851.509.3454 (Sekretariat .3451) fax: +49.851.509.3452 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 335CA6372; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:56:20 +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 E0C8F6324; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:56:11 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C0D3262EC; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:56:09 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140117105609.C0D3262EC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:56:09 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.711 job at Simon Fraser (Canada) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 711. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 19:48:10 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Publishing@SFU seeks Assistant Professor Assistant Professor, Publishing Program The Publishing Program at Simon Fraser University invites applications for a one-year, limited-term position in Publishing with a focus on digital media and interactive publishing. The position is at the Assistant Professor level, effective September 2014 and will carry responsibilities inclusive of teaching research, and service. Candidates are expected to hold a PhD with a specialization related to digital media and interactive publishing. Experience in new media and online production as well as academic publication is preferred. The successful candidate will participate in graduate and undergraduate teaching and in shaping the future of the Publishing Program and its associated research centre. Publishing@SFU is a future-focused program with professional undergraduate and graduate offerings and a multifaceted research program, and is well integrated with book, magazine, journal, and online publishing industries across North America. It is internationally known for its Master of Publishing (MPub), Undergraduate Minor in Print and Digital Publishing, and professional Workshop programs. The program encompasses such areas as the open web platform, semantic web, user experience, information architecture, collaboration technologies and workflows, all as they are applied in book and periodical publishing. Publishing@SFU is located at the downtown Vancouver Harbour Centre campus of SFU. Interested candidates are advised to review the nature of the program (http://www.ccsp.sfu.ca/). All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. Simon Fraser University is committed to employment equity and encourages applications from all qualified men and women. All appointments are subject to funding. Under the authority of the University Act, personal information that is required by the University for academic appointment competitions will be collected. For further details, please seehttp://www.sfu.ca/vpacademic/faculty_openings/Collection_Notice.html Applications should include a CV, a short professional profile inclusive of aims and objectives, a summary of teaching experience and approach, and a statement of research interests. Applications should be submitted electronically by Friday February 14th, 2014, and should be addressed to: Prof. Rowland Lorimer, Director 
lorimer@sfu.ca Publishing@SFU Simon Fraser University 515 W. Hastings St. Vancouver BC, Canada V6B 5K3 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 505E16386; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:56:45 +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 5F91C6387; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:56:38 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0E0CF6366; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:56:36 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20140117105637.0E0CF6366@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:56:36 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.712 Digital Humanities Israel 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. 27, No. 712. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 17:08:07 +0000 From: Sinai Rusinek Subject: Digital Humanities Israel Dear all, Having been (somewhat enviously) following this list for quite some time now, I am delighted to finally make a happy announcement, introduce DHIsrael to the members of this list, and tell you a little about our past and present activity. During 2013, a Digital Humanities initiative supported by seed money from the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, worked to expose the field to Israeli audiences and to connect the people interested in various aspects of DH with each other and with scholars from abroad. With additional sponsorship and help from the National Library, the School of Philosophy and Religions at the Hebrew University and the Science, Technology and Society department at Bar-Ilan university, we organized four events: a conference on Hebrew Manuscripts in the Digital Age (in Hebrew), a workshop on Text and Textuality in the Digital Age, a conference and workshop titled "Scholarly use of Web archives - Studying Israeli Politics on the Web", and a workshop on the use of Computer Technology in the Study of Historical Networks. The talks from the two latter events are in English and available online. A community of interest that started to form in these meetings grew quickly with the help of our Facebook and Meet-up groups, and in the end of 2013 we established the DHIsrael association. Starting January 2014 DHIsrael holds a monthly event that will be dedicated to certain theme or subfield of the digital humanities, each taking place in a different location. In addition, the first THATcamp in the area, also named the Ben-Yehuda Hackathon, will take place next month in Haifa. As a DH community, we may be late bloomers, still devoid of funding sources and still struggling with the challenges of Right-to-Left scripts, but the near future looks promising for DH in Israel and around it. In the meantime, we will be happy to meet any Digital Humanists who happen to drop by - please contact us if you plan to be here! Happy 2014 from Jerusalem, Sinai Sinai Rusinek Polonsky post-doctoral fellow Van Leer Jerusalem Institute Editor Contributions to the History of Concepts http://www.historyofconcepts.org/ The DigIn Initative http://www.thedigin.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C41C063A7; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:58:02 +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 7A5246391; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:57:54 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id ADF606388; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:57:52 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140117105752.ADF606388@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:57:52 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.713 pubs: D-Lib for January/February; IJHSS 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. 27, No. 713. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Richard Duff (37) Subject: Call for Papers: International Journal of Humanities and Social Science [2] From: Bonnie Wilson (62) Subject: The January/February 2014 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available. --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 00:40:06 -0800 (PST) From: Richard Duff Subject: Call for Papers: International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Call for Papers: International Journal of Humanities and Social Science (IJHSS) ISSN 2220-8488 (Print), 2221- 0989 (Online)    International Journal of Humanities and Social Science (IJHSS)is an open access, peer-reviewed and refereed international journal published by Center for Promoting Ideas, USA. The main objective of IJHSS is to provide an intellectual platform for the international scholars. IJHSS aims to promote interdisciplinary studies in humanities and social science and become the leading journal in humanities and social science in the world.   The journal publishes research papers in the fields of humanities and social science such asanthropology, business studies, communication studies, corporate governance ,criminology, cross-cultural studies ,demography, development studies, economics, education, ethics, geography, history, industrial relations, information science, international relations, law, linguistics, library science, media studies, methodology, philosophy, political science, population Studies, psychology, public administration, sociology, social welfare, linguistics ,literature, paralegal, performing arts (music, theatre & dance), religious studies ,visual arts, women studies and so on.   The journal is published in both print and online versions.   The journal is now indexed with and included in Cabell’s, Ulrich’s, DOAJ, Index Copernicus International, EBSCO and Gale. Moreover the journal is under the indexing process with ISI, ERIC, Econlit, Scopus and Journalseek.   IJHSS publishes original papers, review papers, conceptual framework, analytical and simulation models, case studies, empirical research, technical notes, and book reviews.   IJHSS is inviting papers for Vol. 4 No. 2 which is scheduled to bepublished on February 28, 2014. . Last date of submission:January31, 2014.However, an early submission will get preference in case of review and publication process.   Send your manuscript to the editor at editor@ijhssnet.com, or  editor.ijhss@hotmail.com   For more information, visit the official website of the journal www.ijhssnet.com   With thanks,  Dr. J. Sabrina Mims-Cox The Chief Editor, International Journal of Humanities and Social Science (IJHSS) Contact: editor@ijhssnet.com, editor.ijhss@hotmail.com     --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 13:46:46 +0000 From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The January/February 2014 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available. Greetings: The January/February 2014 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This is a special issue on the topic of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) with guest editors Fran Berman, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Ross Wilkinson, Australian National Data Service; and John Wood, The Association of Commonwealth Universities. The issue contains five 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 DataVis.ca, courtesy of Michael Friendly, Professor of Psychology, Chair of the graduate program in Quantitative Methods at York University. The guest editorial is: Building Global Infrastructure for Data Sharing and Exchange Through the Research Data Alliance by Fran Berman, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Ross Wilkinson, Australian National Data Service; John Wood, The Association of Commonwealth Universities The articles include: Synthesis of Working Group and Interest Group Activity One Year into the Research Data Alliance by Beth Plale, Indiana University Data Type Registries: A Research Data Alliance Working Group by Daan Broeder, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics; Laurence Lannom, Corporation for National Research Initiatives Improving Access to Recorded Language Data by Simon Musgrave, Monash University, Australian National Corpus Opening and Linking Agricultural Research Data by Esther Dzale Yeumo Kabore, French National Institute for Agricultural Research; Devika Madalli, Indian Statistical Institute; Johannes Keizer, Food and Agriculture Office of the United Nations Organizational Status of RDA by Mark A. Parsons, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute The conference reports are: Data Identification and Citation — The Key to Unlocking the Promise of Data Sharing and Reuse by Adam Farquhar, British Library and DataCite; Jan Brase, DataCite Big Humanities Data Workshop at IEEE Big Data 2013 by Tobias Blanke, Goettingen Centre for Digital Humanities, Department of Digital Humanities, Kings College London; Mark Hedges, King's College London; Richard Marciano, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 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 2014 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E676262C8; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 11:20:53 +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 8078962D0; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 11:20:43 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id F0FD562BF; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 11:20:41 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140118102041.F0FD562BF@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 11:20:41 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.714 3D scanners X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 714. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (52) Subject: Re: 27.710 3D scanners? [2] From: Hannah Scates Kettler (90) Subject: Re: 27.710 3D scanners? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:05:01 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Re: 27.710 3D scanners? In-Reply-To: <20140117105522.8CC326276@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Øyvind, The University of Kent Archaeology laboratory has recently acquired a 3D laser scanner and is making very effective use of it: http://www.kent.ac.uk/news/stories/IronAgeHelmet/2012 The technician who manages the scanner is Lloyd Bosworth: his e-mail is l.bosworth@kent.ac.uk 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 2014, at 10:55, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 710. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 08:49:21 +0100 > From: Øyvind Eide > Subject: 3D scanners > > > Dear colleagues, > > We are considering buying at least one 3D scanner for small objects, to be used in teaching and for small digitisation projects. It would be good to find something relatively cheap and user friendly. > > Are there any guides or surveys of such equipment focusing on usability in a cultural heritage/digital humanities context? I would also be happy to hear about any practical experience you may have in this area. > > With kind regards, > > Øyvind Eide > > -- > Dr. Øyvind Eide > Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter > Lehrstuhl für Digital Humanities > URL: http://www.phil.uni-passau.de/rehbein.html > > Universität Passau > Innstr. 40 (Nikolakloster) > 94032 Passau > Büro: NK 429 > > fon: +49.851.509.3454 (Sekretariat .3451) > fax: +49.851.509.3452 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 10:11:03 -0600 From: Hannah Scates Kettler Subject: Re: 27.710 3D scanners? In-Reply-To: <20140117105522.8CC326276@digitalhumanities.org> Hello Øyvind, It really depends on how much detail you are wanting to capture, and what kinds of objects you want to scan. I have personally used the NextEngine 3D scanner (laser - about £1855) to scan archaeological artifacts and the PAMCO/3D SOM Pro set up (digital photography - £849 for imaging software) to "scan" a modern art collection. Laser scanning, as you might imagine, captures a much higher level of surface detail -and therefore produces larger files. It is perfect for scanning archaeological artifacts when detail is necessary for analysis.The NextEngine system is really user friendly. It does not take long to learn, especially if one reads the short manual. It produces nice 3D meshes, but color-capture is not the best quality. There are ways round that in a 3rd party software such as Photoshop, which handles 3D in the later versions, or other 3D software like Blender (freeware), but require a higher level of skill. Using digital photography is usually enough to capture an object, but it creates a relatively flat 3D model and does sometimes require quite a bit of post processing to get a decent 3D mesh. For the purposes of the art collection, object were usually boxes or objects that did not have a lot of surface detail. What was necessary was higher texture or material detail that the photography was able to reproduce. Digital photography systems are also the cheaper option and can be done with the right software and a camera phone. 3D SOM Pro is becoming much more useable, and seems to be focusing efforts to develop ways to edit the 3D model natively, which was a major upgrade from version 2 of the software. Some texture touch-up is usually necessary in a 3rd party software. 3D SOM Pro is user friendly but the process takes longer than laser scanning in my experience. I do not recommend the PAMCO turntable. It is dense, not very intuitive and crashes. A lot. There are a lot more specifics I could go into about the process pros and cons, but that is my general impression regarding these two 3D scanning systems. I do not know of any surveys on 3D scanning, but there are many guides out there. The guides are specific to particular 3D scanning systems because the strengths and weaknesses of each 3D scanner really depends on the object, capture method and the software combination. Though there are overarching issues like the degraded texture quality of lower priced laser scanners, and the problems capturing concave objects with photogrammetry, they are usually discussed in relation to a specific 3D scanner. I wish I could be more help here. I'm sure someone else will know more than I on the subject. I would also like to piggy-back off Øyvind's call and ask if there are any standard file types for maintaining/preserving the 3D files other than the ISO COLLADA file type which no one seems to be using. And whether there has been talk about a 3D preservation method that also packages a rendering capability. I look forward to further discussion! Best wishes, Hannah Scates Kettler _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9FD6B632A; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 11:21:22 +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 3590662C8; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 11:21:21 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7750662D7; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 11:21:19 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140118102119.7750662D7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 11:21:19 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.715 events: computational models of narrative X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 715. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:52:22 -0500 From: Mark Finlayson Subject: 2nd CFP: 5th Computational Models of Narrative Workshop (CMN'14) ANNOUNCEMENT (2nd CFP) Fifth Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN'14) Special Focus: The Neuroscience of Narrative July 31 - August 2, 2014 Quebec City Conference Center, Quebec City, Canada http://narrative.csail.mit.edu/cmn14/ Important Dates: April 4, 2014. Submission deadline. May 9, 2014. Notification of acceptance. May 30, 2014. Final versions due. July 23-26, 2014. CogSci 2014. July 27-31, 2014. AAAI-14. July 26-31, 2014. CNS 2014. July 31 - August 2, 2014. Workshop in Quebec City. 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 at multiple levels: from the psychological and cognitive impact of narratives to our ability to model narrative responses computationally. Special Focus: Neuroscience This inter-disciplinary workshop will be an appropriate venue for papers addressing fundamental topics and questions regarding narrative. The workshop will be held in association with the following meetings: - The 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society - The 28th Conference on Artificial Intelligence - The 23rd Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting Papers should be relevant to issues fundamental to the computational modeling and scientific understanding of narrative. The workshop will have a special focus on the neuroscience of narrative, meaning we especially welcome papers relevant to the neuroscientific and cognitive aspects of narrative. Regardless of its topic, reported work should provide some sort of insight of use to computational modeling of narratives. 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 are the neural correlates of narrative or narrative processing? - How can we study narrative from a neuroscientific or cognitive point of view? - 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 are appropriate formal or computational representations for narrative? - How should we evaluate computational and formal models of narrative? Organizers: - Mark A. Finlayson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) - Jan Christoph Meister (University of Hamburg, Germany) - Emile Bruneau (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Program Committee - Floris Bex (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) - Fritz Breithaupt (Indiana University, USA) - Rossana Damiano (Università di Torino, Italy) - Kerstin Dautenhahn (University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom) - David K. Elson (Google, USA) - Pablo Gervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) - Richard Gerrig (SUNY Stony Brook, USA) - Andrew Gordon (University of Southern California, ICT USA) - Valerie G. Hardcastle (University of Cincinnati, USA) - Chris Honey (University of Toronto, Canada) - Ken Kishida (Virginia Tech, USA) - Benedikt Löwe (U. Hamburg, Germany / U. Amsterdam, The Netherlands) - Jeff Lowenstein (University of Illinois, USA) - Inderjeet Mani (Yahoo, USA) - Jan Christoph Meister (University of Hamburg, Germany) - Livia Polanyi (Stanford University, USA) - Marie-Laure Ryan (USA) - Erik T. Mueller (IBM, USA) - Moshe Shoshan (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) - Timothy Tangherlini (University of California at Los Angeles, USA) - Mariët Theune (University of Twente, The Netherlands) - Emmett Tomai (Pan American University, USA) - Atif Waraich (Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom) - Patrick Henry Winston (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) - R. Michael Young (North Carolina State Univeristy, USA) - Jeff Zacks (Washington University of St. Louis, 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 18D4B62AF; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 11:22:14 +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 EF1436349; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 11:22:05 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7E132633D; Sat, 18 Jan 2014 11:22:03 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140118102203.7E132633D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 11:22:03 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.716 DANRW: system for long-term 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. 27, No. 716. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:39:34 +0100 From: Johanna Puhl Subject: DANRW -- a functionally complete system for long-term preservation Dear friends and colleagues, We are proud to announce that the DANRW Software-Suite – a functionally complete system for long-term preservation for cultural heritage objects – is now available on GitHub. Our developers have been working on it since 2011 at the Institute for Humanities Computer Science (HKI), University of Cologne, and it has now gotten to a state, where it is going through its final tests. In three months it will be handed over to the contracting body – the state of North Rhine-Westphalia – and the project partners who will become responsible for regular operations. For further information including links to the software documentation please consult the project website or contact us via mail. With best regards the DA-NRW-Developer-Team @ HKI The DANRW-Software consists of 4 parts: SIP-Builder This tool creates Submission Information Packages (SIPs) that are compliant with the DA-NRW archival system. The SIP-Builder makes use of the BagIt-standard developed by the Library of Congress. ContentBroker The ContentBroker is the central software tool inside the DA-NRW infrastructure. It processes most of the ingest steps inside the DA-NRW and produces AIPs, it also invokes iRODS (cf.: https://www.irods.org/) for the replication of AIPs on all hardware-nodes inside the DA-NRW. The ContentBroker is a hybrid Java tool. It is a distributed open source server application that runs on all nodes within the preservation system. Users can choose one node inside the DA-NRW infrastructure as central access point for ingest. Each node within the archive infrastructure runs iRODS and the ContentBroker. The technology used is RedHat 6 servers and Java as well as C-code up to a small degree. DA-Web The DA-NRW Web Console (DA-Web) provides several tools for ingesting institutions. These web-tools can be used to monitor the ingest progress and to retrieve data packages from the archive. The web console is the central access point for institutions. Presentation Repository The Presentation Repository hosts data packages that are created for web presentation and is operated on one node inside the DA-NRW infrastructure. The repository is managed via Fedora and provides an OAI-PMH interface for the harvesting of presentable content through web-services, like the one of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, that also functions as a pre-aggregator for Europeana. Additionally Fedora offers the query of different kinds of metadata for different search-purposes. Copyright © 2014 - Das Digitale Archiv NRW. Ein Prototyp für digitale Langzeitarchivierung. Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6DFB062C5; Sun, 19 Jan 2014 11:49:44 +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 2E4D461DF; Sun, 19 Jan 2014 11:49:33 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BD88D61DE; Sun, 19 Jan 2014 11:49:31 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140119104931.BD88D61DE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 11:49:31 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.717 reparations? relations? 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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 (25) Subject: stages in disciplinary development [2] From: Willard McCarty (31) Subject: instrumental reparations --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 13:01:53 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: stages in disciplinary development Allow me to share with you the following from Michael Oakeshott's "The activity of being an historian" (1962) -- because it states simply and clearly where I think we may now be with this discipline of ours: > ... a direction of attention, as it is pursued, may hollow out a > character for itself and become specified in a 'practice'; and a > participant in the activity comes to be recognized not by the results > he achieves but by his disposition to observe the manners of the > 'practice'. Moreover, when an activity has acquired a certain > firmness of character, it may present itself as a puzzle, and thus > provoke reflection; for, there may come a point at which we not only > wish to acquire and exercise the skill which constitutes the > activity but may wish also to discern the logic of the relation of > this activity (as it has come to be specified) to others and to > ascertain its place on the map of human activity. What, do you suppose, is the logic of the relation of our activity to others in the humanities and beyond? Where are we on the map of human activity? Or is the mapping metaphor quite wrong because it introduces the constraints of geographical space? Comments? Yours, WM ----- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 16:23:38 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: instrumental reparations The argument that technologies extend human abilities, as they seem so clearly to do, we more or less take for granted. This leads to the idea of the enhanced, super-human cyborgian, and so to the implication that as we are biologically we are really rather pitiful -- a technologically unclothed poor forked creature. It is interesting to note, however, that in the minds of 17C scientists the new technologies were prosthetic in the proper sense, offering restoration of what had been lost. Thus Robert Hooke, in the Preface to Micrographia (1665, in the Internet Archive): > By the addition of such artificial Instruments and methods, there may > be, in some manner, a reparation made for the mischiefs, and > imperfection, mankind has drawn upon it self, by negligence, and > intemperance, and a wilful and superstitious deserting the Precepts > and Rules of Nature, whereby every man, both from a deriv'd > corruption, innate and born with him, and from his breeding and > converse with men, is very subject to slip into all sorts of errors. The difference this change of perspective makes is worth contemplating: not getting beyond our inferior natural state, about which we can do nothing except become something else, but recovering to some degree that which we have lost. The belief in the Fall of Man that Hooke would have taken for granted can no longer be assumed, but this does shift the burden of proof: you would already know thus-and-such that computing shows us were you not so [add your favourite derogatory adjective indicating a mental failing]. Of course one has to be cautious here. Bacon wrote with strength against "the sciences that one would" be true. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3D49962D2; Sun, 19 Jan 2014 11:52:48 +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 5B8C361DE; Sun, 19 Jan 2014 11:52:37 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 545EF6063; Sun, 19 Jan 2014 11:52:34 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140119105235.545EF6063@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 11:52:34 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.718 events: Norbert Wiener; Culture, Technology, 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. 27, No. 718. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Kreinovich, Vladik" (5) Subject: Wiener conference [2] From: Charles Ess (58) Subject: CaTaC'14 - keynote speakers and date change --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 00:31:15 +0000 From: "Kreinovich, Vladik" Subject: Wiener conference Dear Friends, As many of you know, 2014 is the year of 120th anniversary of the birth of Norbert Wiener, father of cybernetics, and 50th anniversary of his death (and 100th anniversary of his first interval-related paper). To commemorate this anniversary, IEEE, the world's largest engineering society, organizes a conference "Driving Technology's Future: Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century", in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 24-26, 2013; see http://21stcenturywiener.org/ for the details about the conference. Since Wiener's work encompassed many aspects of science, technology, and medical applications, this conference may be of interest to many people on this list. Submissions are organized in two stages: first, the authors submit a short abstract by January 31, 2014. Authors of submitted abstracts will received useful referees' feedback, and by using this feedback, authors should submit full papers by March 1, 2014. Detailed instructions for submitting abstracts and full papers are given on the conference website, see http://21stcenturywiener.org/instructions-to-authors-and-students/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 15:27:07 +0000 From: Charles Ess Subject: CaTaC'14 - keynote speakers and date change Dear Humanists, CaTaC'14: Culture, Technology, Communication: Celebration, Transformation, New Directions --­ important updates. Please distribute and cross-post as appropriate. Conference website: http://www.catacconference.org/ On behalf of the Organizing Committee, I¹m very pleased to note that CaTaC¹14 will be enlivened and inspired by two keynote speakers: Andrew Feenberg, Canada Research Chair in the Philosophy of Technology, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. Andrew is among the most significant and influential contemporary philosophers of technology. His work is rooted in Critical Theory and phenomenology, and emphasizes the critical requirements for democratic approaches to technology. Judith Simon, Institute of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Austria; Institute for Technology Assessment, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Judith's research focuses on epistemic dimensions of ICTs, and is rooted in STS and feminist philosophy. Her ideas on distributed epistemic responsibility in sociotechnical environments play an important role in the Onlife Manifesto, a project of the European Commission that seeks to foster more humane and sustainable technology development. Please also the note change of dates: June 18-20, 2014. NB! June is a busy month for conferences and tourism in Oslo. We strongly urge potentially interested participants to explore the resource lists on the conference website of recommended accommodations and book as early as possible. Notifications of acceptance will be issued sufficiently early (March 28, 2014) so as to allow cost-free reservation cancellation if need be. Important Dates:Submission of papers (short or full), panel proposals: 16 February 2014 Notification of acceptance: 28 March 2014 Final formatted papers (for conference proceedings): 18 April 2014 Information regarding submission procedures will be available soon. Registration fees will be announced in early February. We look forward to welcoming you to Oslo next June! - charles ess Professor in Media Studies Conference Co-organizers: Charles Ess (Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo) Maja van der Velden (Department of Informatics, University of Oslo) Organizing Committee José Abdelnour-Nocera (School of Computing and Technology, University of West London) Herbert Hrachovec (Philosophy Department, University of Vienna) Leah Macfadyen (Evaluation and Learning Analytics, University of British Columbia) Patrizia Schettino (Communication Studies, Università della Svizzera italiana) Ylva Hård af Segerstad (Department of Applied Information Technology at the University of Gothenburg/Chalmers) Andra Siibak (Media Studies, University of Tartu) Michele M. Strano, Program Chair (Communication Studies, Bridgewater College) Satomi Sugiyama (Communication and Media Studies, Franklin College Switzerland) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 54C3161BD; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 07:25:19 +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 39E0261AF; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 07:25:07 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 289F1619B; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 07:25:06 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20140120062506.289F1619B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 07:25:06 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.719 the concepts, knowledge-making, and practices of the black box 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. 27, No. 719. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 11:55:34 -0600 From: Paul Fishwick Subject: Re: 27.717 reparations? relations? In-Reply-To: <20140119104931.BD88D61DE@digitalhumanities.org> > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 13:01:53 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: stages in disciplinary development > > > Allow me to share with you the following from Michael Oakeshott's "The > activity of being an historian" (1962) -- because it states simply and > clearly where I think we may now be with this discipline of ours: > >> ... a direction of attention, as it is pursued, may hollow out a >> character for itself and become specified in a 'practice'; and a >> participant in the activity comes to be recognized not by the results >> he achieves but by his disposition to observe the manners of the >> 'practice'. Moreover, when an activity has acquired a certain >> firmness of character, it may present itself as a puzzle, and thus >> provoke reflection; for, there may come a point at which we not only >> wish to acquire and exercise the skill which constitutes the >> activity but may wish also to discern the logic of the relation of >> this activity (as it has come to be specified) to others and to >> ascertain its place on the map of human activity. > > What, do you suppose, is the logic of the relation of our activity to > others in the humanities and beyond? Where are we on the map of > human activity? Or is the mapping metaphor quite wrong because it > introduces the constraints of geographical space? > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > Willard: Let me suggest that one difference which seems to separate digital humanities from the larger enterprise of the humanities, is a turning point in philosophy. In particular, an appreciation for the concepts, knowledge-making, and practices that are behind the black box, driving the tool. Examples can be found throughout the DH literature from the use of graph theory to characterize and visualize abstract relationships of people and places to the use of the scientific method defined by an empirical approach to research (e.g., not limited by the traditional data-set-size-of-one scholarly approach). -p Paul Fishwick, PhD Chair, ACM SIGSIM Distinguished Chair of Arts & Technology and Professor of Computer Science Director, Creative Automata Laboratory The University of Texas at Dallas Arts & Technology 800 West Campbell Road, AT10 Richardson, TX 75080-3021 Home: utdallas.edu/atec/fishwick Blog: creative-automata.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1643D61B7; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 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 3A33361A8; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 07:25:53 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6A52261A7; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 07:25:50 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140120062550.6A52261A7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 07:25:50 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.720 humanities computing at Columbia? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 720. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 18:59:17 -0500 From: Alex Gil Subject: Humanities Computing at CU Hi all, I'm trying to write a history of digital humanities at Columbia U.. Can anyone in the list know what was going on pre-90's at Columbia U? 1950's-1980's? I would appreciate if you could point me to the right literature or give me anecdotal accounts. Cheers, 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6CC66DAA; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:42:12 +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 E565661BA; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:42:00 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id F02156174; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:41:58 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140121074158.F02156174@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:41:58 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.721 M.A. fellowship 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. 27, No. 721. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 18:00:49 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Digital Humanities Research Fellowship (M.A.), McGill University, deadline Jan 30, 2014 In-Reply-To: > From: Suzanne Moody > > Date: Monday, January 20, 2014 at 9:53 AM > Subject: Digital Humanities Research Fellowship (M.A.), McGill University, deadline Jan 30, 2014 Please help us publicize an exciting new graduate student research opportunity in the digital humanities. The Digging into Data/Global Currents team at McGill University is offering a 2-year master’s fellowship based in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. The deadline for applications is Jan 30, 2014, for studies commencing in the Fall 2014 semester. Complete details are included in the attached PDF announcement. Questions can be addressed to alayne.moody@mcgill.ca. Thank you for sharing this opportunity within your network of students and colleagues in the digital humanities. Also, please feel free to post this fellowship announcement to any listservs, websites, newsletters or any other type of public forum geared toward the digital humanities. *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1390256221_2014-01-20_siemens@uvic.ca_29145.1.2.txt http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1390256221_2014-01-20_siemens@uvic.ca_29145.2.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 26DA361FB; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:43:10 +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 C0FB261C6; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:43:00 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 991A761C6; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:42:58 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140121074258.991A761C6@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:42:58 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.722 events: Tasovac on historical dictionaries (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. 27, No. 722. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 10:29:19 +0100 From: Greta Franzini Subject: Leipzig eHumanities Seminar: Toma Tasovac **Apologies for cross-posting. Please forward to interested parties.** Dear all, This week's Leipzig eHumanities seminar will be given by Toma Tasovac, who will be talking to us about: *"Historic Dictionaries as a Challenge for Digital Humanities"* In: Room P801 (Paulinum, 8th floor), University of Leipzig On: Wednesday 22nd January 2014 At: 3:15 PM to 4:45 PM Attendance at the seminar is free of charge. *ALL WELCOME* For further information, please visit: http://www.e-humanities.net/events/2013-ehum-seminar-call.html -- Greta Franzini Research Associate Digital Humanities Department of Computer Science University of Leipzig Augustusplatz 10-11 04109 Leipzig, Germany Phone: +49 341 97 32330 Email: franzini@informatik.uni-leipzig.de Web: www.dh.uni-leipzig.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7BC956207; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:45:11 +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 998A761F2; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:45:01 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9066E61CC; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:44:59 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140121074459.9066E61CC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:44:59 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.723 pubs: social media; images from the Wellcome X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 723. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Christian Fuchs (44) Subject: New book: Christian Fuchs - Social Media: A Critical Introduction [2] From: "Harkins, Phoebe" (20) Subject: Thousands of years of visual culture made free through Wellcome Images --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 14:14:10 +0000 From: Christian Fuchs Subject: New book: Christian Fuchs - Social Media: A Critical Introduction Christian Fuchs. 2014. Social Media. A Critical Introduction. London: Sage. Paperback ISBN 9781446257319 Hardcover ISBN 9781446257302 More information: http://fuchs.uti.at/books/social-media-a-critical-introduction/ Now more than ever, we need to understand social media - the good as well as the bad. We need critical knowledge that helps us to navigate the controversies and contradictions of this complex digital media landscape. Only then can we make informed judgements about what's happening in our media world, and why. Showing the reader how to ask the right kinds of questions about social media, Christian Fuchs takes us on a journey across social media, delving deep into case studies on Google, Facebook, Twitter, WikiLeaks and Wikipedia. The result lays bare the structures and power relations at the heart of our media landscape. This book is the essential, critical guide for understanding social media and for all students of media studies and sociology. Readers will never look at social media the same way again. Sample chapter: Twitter and Democracy: A New Public Sphere? http://www.uk.sagepub.com/upm-data/58967_Fuchs__Social_Media.pdf Introduction: http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/introduction.pdf CONTENTS: 1. What is a Critical Introduction to Social Media? 1 I. FOUNDATIONS 29 2. What is Social Media? 31 3. Social Media as Participatory Culture 52 4. Social Media and Communication Power 69 II. APPLICATIONS 95 5. The Power and Political Economy of Social Media 97 6. Google: Good or Evil Search Engine? 126 7. Facebook: A Surveillance Threat to Privacy? 153 8. Twitter and Democracy: A New Public Sphere? 176 9. WikiLeaks: Can We Make Power Transparent? 210 10. Wikipedia: A New Democratic Form of Collaborative Work and Production? 235 III. FUTURES 251 11. Conclusion: Social Media and its Alternatives – Towards a Truly Social Media 253 References 267 Index 289 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 16:08:12 +0000 From: "Harkins, Phoebe" Subject: Thousands of years of visual culture made free through Wellcome Images Hi everyone As you may have seen from our blog and Twitter, we’ve made some changes to Wellcome Images! 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More details can be found on the Wellcome Library blog: http://wellc.me/1e2uSqf If you need any further assistance please don’t hesitate to contact images@wellcome.ac.uk All the very best for now, Phoebe Phoebe Harkins Communications Co-ordinator Wellcome Library Wellcome Trust Gibbs Building 215 Euston Road London NW1 2BE, UK T +44 (0)20 7611 8628 F +44 (0)20 7611 8369 E p.harkins@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomelibrary.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id EDCA76224; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:45:51 +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 7D01D6206; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:45:42 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 943E961FB; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:45:40 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140121074540.943E961FB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:45:40 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.724 BA 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. 27, No. 724. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:11:25 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: BA in Digital Culture at King's College London The Department of Digital Humanities is delighted to announce the launch of the new BA Digital Culture programme of study. A degree analyzing digital culture that covers the consequences and meaning of digitization and the internet in areas such as social media, gaming, digital memory, economy, politics and more. Research techniques for analyzing data in relation to digitization and the internet are also taught (no programming is required for the degree). The only single honours degree in digital culture and internet studies taught by a dedicated team in a unique location in central London. For more information see http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/study/ug/digitalculture.aspx. -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 537E4625D; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 07:44:01 +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 B3A0D624B; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 07:43:49 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 83340624D; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 07:43:47 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140122064347.83340624D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 07:43:47 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.725 events: personalized multilingual access; digital activism X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 725. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Alexander O'Connor (49) Subject: CFP 1st International Workshop on Personalised Multilingual Information Access (PMIA 2014) [2] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (24) Subject: Digital Activism --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 10:36:29 +0000 From: Alexander O'Connor Subject: CFP 1st International Workshop on Personalised Multilingual Information Access (PMIA 2014) --------------- Call for Papers --------------- The 1st International Workshop on Personalised Multilingual Information Access (PMIA 2014) http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~steichen/PMIA2014 held in conjunction with the 22nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP), Aalborg, Denmark, July 7-11, 2014. -------- Overview -------- With the unrelenting rise in global content production and usage, information systems increasingly need to handle 1) a growing variety of user differences (including language, culture, situational context), and 2) ever expanding heterogeneous and multilingual data sources (including corporate content, user-generated content, multimedia content). This full-day workshop aims tackle these challenges by bringing together researchers working on cross-/multilingual information access, multilingual semantic web, interactive search, information seeking, exploratory search, personalised search, personalisation for web and hypermedia, and recommender systems. The aim is to share, discuss, and combine ideas for novel solutions that support users according to their particular language abilities, as well as other characteristics (e.g. culture, domain expertise) and contexts (e.g. intent, topic) that influence what and how information should be retrieved, composed, and presented. The workshop aims to both advance the current state of the art in personalised multilingual information access, as well as to develop a detailed roadmap that identifies the most pressing current and future research challenges (e.g. novel information access interfaces, evaluation of complex systems). Themes of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: • Individual user characteristics that influence information access, e.g. language proficiency, culture, user intent, topic domain • Modeling of user profiles, e.g. multilingual data collection, model creation, model exploitation • Novel interfaces, e.g. result presentation beyond the ranked list paradigm, presentations of content in multiple languages on a single screen, document summarisation • Adaptive systems for personalised multilingual information access, e.g. personalised search, recommender systems • Tools and methods for multilingual and cross lingual search • Content analysis and processing, e.g. knowledge extraction, duplication detection • Content translation and localisation • Multilingual semantic web, including search and extraction • External knowledge resources for personalised multilingual information access (e.g. ontologies) • Domain modeling (e.g. adaptation to different domains) • Issues and dangers of personalisation, e.g. over-personalisation (also known as “the filter bubble”), privacy issues • Personalisation of multilingual tools • Evaluation methods and metrics for personalised information access, e.g. how to evaluate compositions from multiple languages, aggregate search evaluation. ----------- Submissions ----------- We encourage submissions from diverse backgrounds and aim to promote the exchange of ideas between researchers working in the above-mentioned areas. In addition, submissions that focus on non-English data, or research with a clear application in a multilingual scenario are equally welcome. We invite submissions of more established ideas and methods as long papers (8 pages), preliminary work as short papers (4 pages), and demo/poster papers (2 pages). For full details on the submission format and procedure, please refer to the Submission Instructions page athttp://www.cs.ubc.ca/~steichen/PMIA2014/submission.html. Papers will be selected based on originality, quality, and ability to promote discussion. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings and published by CEUR. Extended versions of selected workshop papers may be included in a special journal issue (TBD). At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop. --------------- Important dates --------------- Apr 01, 2014: Submission Deadline May 01, 2014: Notification to Authors May 15, 2014: Camera-ready Due Jul 07 or 11, 2014: Workshop day -------------------- Organizing Committee -------------------- Ben Steichen (University of British Columbia, Canada) - steichen@cs.ubc.ca Maristella Agosti (University of Padua, Italy) - agosti@dei.unipd.it Séamus Lawless (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) - seamus.lawless@scss.tcd.ie Vincent Wade (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) - vincent.wade@scss.tcd.ie For further questions please contact a member of the organising committee. -- Dr. Alexander O'Connor Knowledge & Data Engineering Group Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Alex.OConnor@scss.tcd.ie --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 13:52:38 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Digital Activism DIGITAL ACTIVISM #NOW conference Information Politics, Digital Culture and Global Protest Movements King’s College London – April 4th 2014 Confirmed speakers: Clare Birchall, Gabriella Coleman, Paolo Gerbaudo, Joss Hands, Tim Jordan and Guobin Yang Twitter: @KingsDCS #DigitalActivismNow #DAconf Facebook: http://on.fb.me/HXs2Hf Blog: http://wp.me/p1BSEo-29 Sign up at http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-activism-now-tickets-9047139237 The so-called web 2.0 of social network sites was invented as a business strategy to react to the dot-com bust and, as revealed by the NSA scandal, it has been heavily used by the state as a tool of surveillance. Yet, this space has also seen the rise of new powerful forms of digital activism, as seen in the adoption of Facebook and Twitter as means of mass mobilisation in the context of the Arab revolutions, the Spanish indignados and of Occupy Wall Street. These contradictions raise a number of burning questions for contemporary digital activists. What are the real opportunities and threats for digital activism at the time of social network sites and big data? How can protest movements make use of the power of mass diffusion and collective coordination afforded by social media without falling prey of state monitoring or cultural banalisation? And is it better to invest energy in creating alternative and non-commercial communication platforms or in "occupying" the digital mainstream? The "Digital Activism #Now" conference will explore emerging digital protest practices at a time of increasing diffusion of social media and progressive massification and commercialisation of the web. By gathering leading international researchers and activists we will examine how digital activists are making use of the affordances of the social web. Moreover, we will debate the main issues of contention among contemporary digital activists, faced with increasing possibilities of mass outreach but also with new dangers. Among the issues covered by the conference will feature the role of social network sites in contemporary protests, hacktivism at the time of Anonymous and Lulzsec, the activist use of digital culture, internet memes, and online pranks, as means of digital propaganda and the politics of transparency and secrecy in digital whistleblowing. The conference is supported by the Culture, Media and Creative Industries and Digital Humanities Departments, by the China Lau Institute and the North America Institute, all at King’s College London. 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 06A0B6264; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 07:45:05 +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 89A6C6259; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 07:44:56 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9F4876255; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 07:44:54 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140122064454.9F4876255@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 07:44:54 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.726 nominations for an award: automated deduction X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 726. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 20:16:29 +0000 From: Geoff Sutcliffe Subject: Herbrand Award Nominations, 2014 This message was originally submitted by geoff@CS.MIAMI.EDU to the humanist list at LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU. If you simply forward it back to the list, using a mail command that generates "Resent-" fields (ask your local user support or consult the documentation of your mail program if in doubt), it will be distributed and the explanations you are now reading will be removed automatically. If on the other hand you edit the contributions you receive into a digest, you will have to remove this paragraph manually. Finally, you should be able to contact the author of this message by using the normal "reply" function of your mail program. ----------------- Message requiring your approval (54 lines) ------------------ Herbrand Award: Call for Nominations Martin Giese Secretary of AAR and CADE On behalf of the CADE Inc. Board of Trustees The Herbrand Award is given by CADE Inc. to honour a person or group for exceptional contributions to the field of Automated Deduction. At most one Herbrand Award will be given at each CADE or IJCAR meeting. The Herbrand Award has been given in the past to Larry Wos (1992) Woody Bledsoe (1994) Alan Robinson (1996) Wu Wen-Tsun (1997) Gerard Huet (1998) Robert S. Boyer and J Strother Moore (1999) William W. McCune (2000) Donald W. Loveland (2001) Mark E. Stickel (2002) Peter B. 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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. 27, No. 727. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 06:43:32 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: digital knowledge? This is not a psychoanalytic question, or even a psychological one, rather my attempt to dredge for emergent meanings: what comes to mind when you read the phrase "digital knowledge"? I'd be grateful for any sort of response, here on Humanist. Many thanks. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 36CC662A5; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 07:36:36 +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 1045A62A6; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 07:36:25 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AE0136260; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 07:36:22 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140123063622.AE0136260@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 07:36:22 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.728 digital knowledge X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 728. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: sneha (30) Subject: Re: 27.727 digital knowledge? [2] From: Joris van Zundert (50) Subject: Re: 27.727 digital knowledge? [3] From: Martin Mueller (61) Subject: Re: 27.727 digital knowledge? [4] From: James Smithies (18) Subject: RE: 27.727 digital knowledge? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 13:45:30 +0500 From: sneha Subject: Re: 27.727 digital knowledge? In-Reply-To: <20140122065152.D2A6A6256@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Prof. McCarty, An immediate response to the phrase would be: any knowledge that is produced or better perhaps, mediated by the use of digital tools, methods or spaces. Best wishes, Sneha. On 22.01.2014 11:51, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 727. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist [1] > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 06:43:32 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: digital knowledge? > > This is not a psychoanalytic question, or even a psychological one, > rather my attempt to dredge for emergent meanings: what comes to mind > when you read the phrase "digital knowledge"? I'd be grateful for any > sort of response, here on Humanist. > > Many thanks. > > Yours, > WM Links: ------ [1] http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 12:12:28 +0100 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Re: 27.727 digital knowledge? In-Reply-To: <20140122065152.D2A6A6256@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, My immediate–and weirdly enough until now my only–association is with the title of a book: Wouters, P. et al. eds., 2013. *Virtual Knowledge: Experimenting in the Humanities and the Social Sciences*, Cambridge, MA, USA/London UK: MIT. Warmly recommended reading from where I am sitting. But besides that I instantly loved the title for its seeming paradoxicality. What the authors mean by virtual knowledge is the knowledge that might be gained, the knowledge that may be pushed forward by 'research dreams' (another term they use/coin). This pertains also to digital humanities where we often find the utopic contrasting with the distopic predictions about its often still unrealized potential. Best --Joris On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 727. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 06:43:32 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: digital knowledge? > > This is not a psychoanalytic question, or even a psychological one, > rather my attempt to dredge for emergent meanings: what comes to mind > when you read the phrase "digital knowledge"? I'd be grateful for any > sort of response, here on Humanist. > > Many thanks. > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital > Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital > Humanities, University of Western Sydney -- 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.* --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 17:13:23 +0000 From: Martin Mueller Subject: Re: 27.727 digital knowledge? In-Reply-To: <20140122065152.D2A6A6256@digitalhumanities.org> There is a way in which knowledge is knowledge,but common qualifiers for 'knowledge' are 'full', 'some', 'no', 'partial', 'detailed', 'tacit'. I can think of two ways of parsing 'digital' in 'digital knowledge.' One refers to the digital as the source. You got this knowledge from digital data mediated through special tools. Applied statistics and visualization are big here. There is something like a New Empiricism, and it is accompanied by new forms of numeracy. Visualizations are numeracy in disguise. Humanities scholars are having a hard time coming to terms with this. They like to "theorize" the digital and think that somehow or other there must be more to it. But there may not be more to it than that. Instead of theorizing the digital it may be more helpful to think in practical terms about how to square old-fashioned scholarly and critical endeavours with the opportunities that cheap and fast numeracy and visualization have created. The second has to do with time (and so, come to think of it, does the first). James Gleick's 'Faster' comes to mind. The good thing about this is that the time cost of many operations has dropped. The bad thing about it is the temptation to use novelty and speed as criteria of knowledge. An old story in many ways: Pascal lamented 'divertissement' and the inability of people to sit still. Tom Friedman's column in the Times today talks about education and a student who explained to her teacher that she couldn't complete her homework because she is too busy texting and tweeting. Martin Mueller Professor of English and Classics Northwestern University On 1/22/14 12:51 AM, "Humanist Discussion Group" wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 727. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 06:43:32 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: digital knowledge? > >This is not a psychoanalytic question, or even a psychological one, >rather my attempt to dredge for emergent meanings: what comes to mind >when you read the phrase "digital knowledge"? I'd be grateful for any >sort of response, here on Humanist. > >Many thanks. > >Yours, >WM >-- >Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital >Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital >Humanities, University of Western Sydney > > >_______________________________________________ >List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist >Listmember interface at: >http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php >Subscribe at: >http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 20:22:11 +0000 From: James Smithies Subject: RE: 27.727 digital knowledge? In-Reply-To: <20140122065152.D2A6A6256@digitalhumanities.org> Hi Willard, I'll have a go at this one, although I'll need to resort to a list. Digital Knowledge, to me, should be understood in the same way scholars go about understanding the analog form of your question. It's just that the term 'digital' requires a certain focus: - Digital Knowledge, in the abstract, is a continuation of 'Knowledge' as we have always known it, delivered via digital technologies instead of analog. - It is dependent on binary logic and information theory that allow it to be not only delivered in its final form, but manipulated. Manovich's and Kirschenbaum's ideas are useful here. This allows digital knowledge to be stored, transmitted, intercepted and manipulated in a variety of ways and for a variety of reasons relating to product design, security, access to infrastructure (etc). - Digital Knowledge is transmitted either via hard disks or Internet infrastructure. Internet infrastructure itself is controlled (in a variety of ways, depending on political, commercial and cultural orientation) by governments, international agencies, and commercial companies. Much (most?) knowledge stored on the Internet is not publically available. - Much digital knowledge is delivered (by individuals, governments, companies etc etc) via the World Wide Web and dependent on Internet protocols including TCP/IP and HTTP, as well as HTML. A broad variety of other file formats and programming languages are also used. The scale of the WWW is such that specialized algorithms need to be used to enable efficient searches. These algorithms are sometimes designed and controlled by commercial or government entities. - Digital Knowledge can be organized using both human-created hierarchical and relational taxonomies and ontologies, and machine-created taxonomies and ontologies derived from algorithms. - It is presented to users via various digital computing devices and software applications that are designed and marketed for a range of personal, commercial, academic, governmental (etc) purposes. It is therefore mediated, to some degree, by the design decisions and technological affordances / constraints that produced those tools. - Access to digital knowledge is both controllable (in a naïve sense, ignoring hackers etc) and variable, depending on access to devices, infrastructure, and/or commercial / governmental / personal access controls. I could go on, and perhaps stumble in some places, but you get my point. My answer is problematic, admittedly. The first line basically claims that digital knowledge is knowledge and moves on from there; that first line is sort of an kludge. The subsequent ones merely attempt to enumerate the characteristics of digital technologies used to create and transmit 'knowledge'. They were required, in a different form, even after Diderot did his work in the 18thC, of course (this thing called 'analog knowledge' is dependent on publishing markets, librarians, quality of paper and ink, political bias and censorship laws etc etc). I'll click Send on this, but expect to be mulling it over all day. - James Smithies Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities University of Canterbury New Zealand -----Original Message----- From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [mailto:humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 7:52 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 20A426245; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 07:37:34 +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 2434D5FCA; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 07:37:26 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 02D345EBC; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 07:37:23 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140123063724.02D345EBC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 07:37:23 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.729 digital art media 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. 27, No. 729. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 16:01:22 +0000 From: Oya Yildirim Rieger Subject: Digital Media Art Preservation Survey Dear Colleagues, I'm writing to invite your participation in a digital media art preservation project currently underway at Cornell University. This project aims to develop scalable preservation strategies for complex, interactive, born-digital media artworks, using the collections of Cornell's Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art as a test bed (http://goldsen.library.cornell.edu/). In developing a preservation framework that will address the needs of the broadest range of archive users, we seek the input of artists, researchers, educators, curators, and others who work with interactive digital artworks and artifacts. Would you please take a few minutes to respond to this questionnaire about your practices? https://cornell.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_6mPEBGQWr2K4nmR Depending on your responses, we estimate that this questionnaire will take 10-25 minutes to complete. Information about questionnaire results will be published and made available to the broader media archives community. Information about this preservation initiative is available at: http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2013/02/humanities-grant-helps-library-preserve-digital-art Feel free to contact Mickey Casad, project manager, at mir9@cornell.edu for more information. Many thanks for your help with this investigation, and apologies for any cross-postings. Yours on behalf of the project team, Oya Y. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 10:36:36 +0000 From: Segal Jerome Subject: 7 Doctoral student positions (HPS), University of Vienna (Austria) University of Vienna, Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies, in cooperation with the Faculties of Life Sciences, Mathematics, Philosophy/Education and Physics The Doctoral Program (“DK program”) „The Sciences in Historical, Philosophical and Cultural Contexts“ announces the award of up to 7 fully paid doctoral student positions (Category a) and up to 6 associate positions (Category b, for students with other basic support) for up to 4 years beginning 1 October 2014. With the support of the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF), the University of Vienna offers a Ph.D. program, the aims of which are: to offer a structured interdisciplinary curriculum in History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies of Science with the collaboration of international visitors, and to make possible the joint supervision of dissertations by historians/philosophers of science and natural scientists/mathematicians. Positions in the program are funded for up to 3 years; PhD students who complete 6 months stay abroad will be awarded a 4th year of support. Participation in the curriculum is required; members of the DK program (in Category a and Category b) must therefore reside continuously in Vienna. Participation once or more in the annual „Vienna International Summer University“ in the first half of July is also part of the program. Recipients of fully paid studentships (Collegiates, Category a) are employed according to the provisions of the FWF and the standard labor contract (Kollektivvertrag) of the University for 30 hours/week at the University of Vienna. Involvement in teaching is possible beginning in the second year of the program; remuneration for such activity will be additional to basic funding. Health and social insurance will be covered by the University. Tuition fee ex emption, additional support for students with children, and funding for research and research related travel expenses are included. Associates of the program (Category b) are not employed by the University within the framework of the DK program, but may enter into other research-related employment – including employment by the University of Vienna. Associates must complete all curriculum requirements and also have the right to apply for funding for research or research related travel expenses. Employment requirements: Completed advanced degree (Magister/Diplom/Master) in History, Philosophy, History of Science, History and Philosophy of Science, a relevant natural, social or cultural science or Mathematics. Applicants with one or more relevant BA/BSc degrees may be considered in exceptional cases. Proposed research topics should be relevant to at least one of the topic areas of the DK program. Information on the program’s aims, faculty, topic areas and possible dissertation topics can be found at the following web site: http://dk-sciences-contexts.univie.ac.at/ For information about the „Vienna International Summer University,“ see the web site: www.univie.ac.at/ivc/VISU. Projects in other topic areas are permissible, with appropriate explanation. Application procedure: An application for a studentship (Category a) or an associate position (Category b) in the DK program, „The Sciences in Historical, Philosophical and Cultural Contexts“ must be supported by the following documentation in German or English: * A cover letter stating the reasons for applying; * Curriculum vitae; * Documentation of previous studies and copies of all university degrees received; * A brief exposé of the proposed dissertation project (maximum 5 pages) with bibliography (maximum one page), stating the relation of the proposed project to the research topic areas of the program (see web site) or the reasons for proposing a project outside the topic areas; * Two letters of recommendation, one of which being preferably from the advisor of the latest degree thesis. These should be sent separately by the deadline date either by E-mail or by post to the Coordinator (address below). Applications for paid studentships (Category a) and for Associate positions (Category b) must be submitted with the same supporting materials. Applicants for paid studentships (Category a) may be offered associate positions (Category b). Deadline and Addresses for applications: Applications will be considered during April and May, and admissions announced by the end of June 2014. Short listed applicants will be invited to Vienna for a personal interview. Applicants residing in Europe will receive reimbursement for travel to the interview; applicants residing outside Europe will be interviewed by telephone or video conference. Study in the program will begin on 1 October 2014. Applications are due by 17 March 2014, and may be addressed to the Job Center of the University of Vienna, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Vienna, Austria (jobcenter@univie.ac.at) (key number 4638), or directly to the DK program, „The Sciences in Historical, Philosophical and Cultural Contexts“ via dk-application2014@univie.ac.at. Application by E-mail with attachments (MS Word or PDF format please) is preferred; applications by post should be sent via priority air mail (latest postmark: 17 March). Contact for inquiries: Speaker: Prof. Dr. Mitchell Ash: Tel.: +431 4277 40837 (Administrator: - 40871) E-mail: mitchell.ash@univie.ac.at Vice-Speakers: Prof. Dr. Gerd B. Müller: Tel. +431 4277 56700 (Administrator: - 56701) E-mail: gerhard.mueller@univie.ac.at Prof. Dr. Carola Sachse: Tel.: +431 4277 41207 (Administrator: - 41218) E-mail: carola.sachse@univie.ac.at. Prof. Dr. Friedrich Stadler: Tel.: +431 4277 41209 (Administrator: - 41229) E-mail: friedrich.stadler@univie.ac.at. Coordinator: Univ.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Jérôme Segal: Tel.: +431 4277 40872 E-mail: jerome.segal@univie.ac.at. Dr. Jérôme SEGAL Universität Wien / University of Vienna Coordinator of the Ph.D. Program „The Sciences in Historical, Philosophical and Cultural Contexts“ http://dkplus-sciences-contexts.univie.ac.at/ 1090 Wien, Maria-Theresien-Straße 3/27 T: +43-1-4277-408 72 E-Mail: jerome.segal@univie.ac.at [Inline image 1] ________________________________ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BF69A62B2; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 07:44:14 +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 41F786260; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 07:44:05 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 898FD5EB7; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 07:44:03 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140123064403.898FD5EB7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 07:44:03 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.731 events: DH showcase; manuscript studies; 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. 27, No. 731. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (98) Subject: Call for Papers- Western Balkan Information Literacy Conference June 11th-14th 2014 [2] From: "Stokes, Peter" (19) Subject: Medieval and Modern Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age (MMSDA) 2014 [3] From: Louis Chartrand (24) Subject: VitrineHN / DHShowcase 2014 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 09:53:29 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Call for Papers- Western Balkan Information Literacy Conference June 11th-14th 2014 Western Balkan Information Literacy Conference JUNE 11th-14th 2014 Juni na Uni 2014. - Hotel "Opal" Bihać, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Conference website: http://conference.bibliotekabihac.com/ Call for Papers Theme: Embracing relentless change: Information literacy and lifelong learning in a digital age: For all who are engaged in learning in this information rich society the challenge to achieve information literacy is vital in capitalising on the diverse and often overwhelming range of information choices with which we are continually faced. This is confounded further by the rise of digital and social media tools which doubtless have brought with them some stunning innovations and some colossal challenges. Information Literacy can help us discover, critically evaluate and generate new information to cradle these new diverse digital media forms which are as inspiring and transformational as they are formidable and at times impenetrable. Information literacy and lifelong learning are vital for active participation of individuals everywhere in social, cultural and political contexts- in the Western Balkans, in Europe and indeed worldwide. They enable us to learn how to learn. They are crucial in helping us realise educational and professional goals and aspirations. Harnessed together Information literacy and lifelong learning help us successfully survive and compete in the 21st century- in this digital age, a time of relentless change. Main Themes and Topics: Western Balkan Information Literacy Conference. A. Information literacy in the modern world• information literacies (media literacy, digital literacy, visual literacy, financial literacy, health literacy, cyber wellness) • Information Literacy and academic libraries • Information literacy and adult education • Information literacy and blended learning • Information literacy and distance learning • Information literacy and public libraries • Information literacy and the knowledge economy • Information Literacy in the modern world (e.g. web 2.0 ; web 3.0 ; mobile technologies ; YouTube, trends, emerging technologies and innovation; growth of digital resources; gaming and application software (apps); digital reference tools; tiered reference services). • The future of information literacy • Workplace information literacy B. Librarians as support to the lifelong learning process • Digital empowerment and reference work • Information Literacy across the disciplines • Information literacy and digital preservation • Information Literacy and online learning (e.g. self-paced IL modules) • Information Literacy and Virtual Learning Environments • Innovative IL approaches • Instructional design and performance for information literacy (e.g. teaching practice, session design, lesson plans, self-paced student modules) • Integrating information literacy into the curriculum • Putting information literacy theory into practice • Supporting users need through library 2.0 and beyond • Student engagement with Information Literacy C. Media and information literacy – theoretical approaches (standards, assessment, collaboration, etc.) • Information literacy and Artificial intelligence • Information Literacy and information behaviour • Information literacy and reference services: cyber reference services, virtual reference services, mobile reference services, expert crowd sourcing, global reference volunteers • Information literacy cultural and contextual approaches • Information literacy evaluation and assessment • Information literacy in different cultures and countries • Information literacy project management • Information literacy theory (models, standards, indicators, Moscow Declaration etc.) • Measuring in information literacy instruction assessment D. New aspects of education/strategic planning, policy, and advocacy for information literacy in a digital age • Branding, promotion and marketing for information literacy • Cross –sectorial; and interdisciplinary collaboration and partnerships for information literacy • Information literacy policies and development • Leadership and Governance for information literacy • Strategic planning for IL • Strategies in e-learning to promote self-directed and sustainable learning in the area of information literacy skills. Paper submission: Submissions in any of the following forms are accepted: • Full paper to be published in conference proceedings • Presentation • Roundtable discussion • Poster session • Train-the-trainers workshop • PechaKucha Papers submission dateline: Friday 16 May 2014 Important Dates Paper submission deadline May 16, 2014 Notification of acceptance May 31, 2014 Dissemination of final programme June 03, 2014 Deadline for authors to submit slides June 05, 2014 For further information: please see the Western Balkan Information Literacy Conference website for additional details at: http://conference.bibliotekabihac.com/ Please note: all expenses, including registration for the conference, travel, accommodation etc., are the responsibility of the authors/presenters. No financial support can be provided by the Conference Committee, but a special invitation can be issued to authors. Regards Padraig Kirby MSc (LIS) BA (Hons) HdipLIS Senior Library Assistant The Library Limerick Institute of Technology, Moylish park Limerick Ireland 00353 61 293516 Padraig.Kirby@lit.ie --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 14:43:55 +0000 From: "Stokes, Peter" Subject: Medieval and Modern Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age (MMSDA) 2014 Medieval and Modern Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age (MMSDA) 28 April – 2 May 2014, Cambridge and London We are very pleased to announce the fifth year of this course, now funded by the Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network (DiXiT), and run by DiXiT with the Institute of English Studies (London), the University of Cambridge, the Warburg Institute, and King’s College London. For the first time, the course will run in two parallel strands: one on medieval and the other on modern manuscripts. The course is open to any arts and humanities doctoral students working with manuscripts. It involves five days of intensive training on the analysis, description and editing of medieval or modern manuscripts to be held jointly in Cambridge and London. Participants will receive a solid theoretical foundation and hands-on experience in cataloguing and editing manuscripts for both print and digital formats. The first half of the course involves morning classes and then afternoon visits to libraries in Cambridge and London. Participants will view original manuscripts and gain practical experience in applying the morning’s themes to concrete examples. In the second half we will address the cataloguing and description of manuscripts in a digital format with particular emphasis on the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). These sessions will also combine theoretical principles and practical experience and include supervised work on computers. The course is free of charge but is open only to doctoral students (PhD or equivalent). It is aimed at those writing dissertations relating to medieval or modern manuscripts, especially those working on literature, art or history. Some bursaries will be available for travel and accommodation. There are eighteen vacancies across the medieval and modern strands, and preference will be given to those considered by the selection panel likely to benefit most from the course. Applications close on 14 February 2014 but early registration is strongly recommended. Please also note that -- for the first time -- this course is now available free of charge for students anywhere in the world as long as they are currently enrolled in a recognised PhD programme (or equivalent). Many thanks to DiXiT and the European Commission's Marie Curie Actions for the funding that has allowed this. For further details see http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/mmsda.html or contact dixit-mmsda@uni-koeln.de - Please circulate widely! - -- 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 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 11:55:17 -0500 From: Louis Chartrand Subject: VitrineHN / DHShowcase 2014 *Conference Invitation — DHShowcase / VitrineHN 2014 * The Laboratoire d'analyse cognitive de l'information (LANCI), in collaboration with the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques (CRIHN) is pleased to invite you to the DHShowcase Annual Conference, which is to be held on January 24, 2014 at UQAM. The DHShowcase provides a flexible platform for the promotion and dissemination of innovative transdisciplinary research from both senior and junior scholars from Montreal. While offering an open and casual venue for dialogue, the DHShowcase demonstrates how the meeting between technology and the liberal arts can foster creativity and innovation in the humanities. Themes such as digitization, recommendation engines, or computer-assisted analysis of non-digital media (such as dance) will be explored in French and in English by scholars from various institutions in Montreal. *When*: *Friday, January 24, 2014, from 1:00 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.* (including a 45 min. break for refreshments and snacks) *Where*: *University of Quebec in Montreal, DS pavilion, Room DS-R510, free attendance. **Web*: http://www.lanci.uqam.ca/DHShowcase/index.en.html *Contacts*: Louis Chartrand (lochartrand@gmail.com), Davide Pullizoto ( davide.pulizzotto@gmail.com) and Mohamed Chahid (chahidm@hotmail.com) In cheerful anticipation of your presence, Digitally yours, The DHShowcase 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B751F62CD; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 07:44:43 +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 4BE3862AF; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 07:44:37 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 98B1262C5; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 07:44:34 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140123064434.98B1262C5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 07:44:34 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.732 new MA at Loyola Chicago X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 732. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 14:31:03 -0600 From: Steve Jones Subject: MA in DH at Loyola Chicago Dear colleagues, We’re now accepting applications to the M.A. program in Digital Humanities at Loyola University Chicago for fall 2014 semester. Some assistantships are available. Information on the curriculum is available at the CTSDH website: http://www.luc.edu/ctsdh/academics/maindigitalhumanities/ Information on admission, including a link to apply, is here: http://www.luc.edu/ctsdh/academics/admission/ Application is free. Please refer interested students to the program and encourage them to email me directly with any questions. Thanks, Steve ______ Steven Jones Professor of English Co-Director, CTSDH Loyola University Chicago 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 0A709620B; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 10:15:16 +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 E0F7861EE; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 10:15:05 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AEA1561BA; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 10:15:04 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140125091504.AEA1561BA@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 10:15:04 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.733 digital knowledge X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 733. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 14:10:00 +0100 From: "Dr. Hartmut Krech" Subject: Re: 27.727 digital knowledge? In-Reply-To: <20140122065152.D2A6A6256@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, Having suppressed a sort of giggling to myself and having corrected my register error by looking up the pertinent definitions in the OED: "4.A.4 Of, pertaining to, or using digits [digit n. 3]; spec. applied to a computer which operates on data in the form of digits or similar discrete elements (opp. analogue computer)." and "5. a.II.5.a The fact of knowing a thing, state, etc., or (in general sense) a person; acquaintance; familiarity gained by experience." I turned to the handy and perhaps still useful distinction between knowledge, data, and information. The most pronounced definition of knowledge was perhaps given by Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814) in his 'Wissenschaftslehre' (science of sciences) in 1794: "§ 1. Das Wesen der Wissenschaft bestände sonach, wie es scheint, in der Beschaffenheit ihres Inhalts und dem Verhältnisse desselben zu dem Bewusstseyn desjenigen, von welchem gesagt wird, dass er wisse [...]" (1798, 38) "As it seems, the substance of knowledge would then consist in the character of its content matter and the relationship of the same to the consciousness of whom it is said that he knows [...]" (my attempt at translation). In short, knowledge is conscience, that is to say, it is inseparable from a knower, a person who knows or apprehends. Of course, here lies the difficulty when we try to subsume 'digital knowledge' under a principle that has guided intellectual reflexion for several centuries. Developing his concept of knowledge further, Fichte posits: "Kein Satz ist ohne Gehalt oder ohne Form möglich. Es muss etwas seyn, wovon man weiss, und etwas, das man davon weiss." (1798, 48) "No proposition is possible without its content matter and its form. There must be something that is known by someone and something of which one knows." (again my translation) Applied to the problem at hand, the definition of 'digital knowledge', digital knowledge would be any knowledge that is known by an individual or a group of people in 'digital' form. Such a definition, if accepted, implies two preconditions: (1) the existence of any 'systems' of things that qualify as things that can be known because of their systematicity (Fichte will call it "das teilbare Nicht-Ich," the "divisible Non-Ego") and (2) a knowledge of or proficiency in digital forms. Hope that this will help to understand 'digital knowledge.' Best, Hartmut http://ww3.de/krech Am 22.01.2014 07:51, schrieb Humanist Discussion Group: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 727. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 06:43:32 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: digital knowledge? > > This is not a psychoanalytic question, or even a psychological one, > rather my attempt to dredge for emergent meanings: what comes to mind > when you read the phrase "digital knowledge"? I'd be grateful for any > sort of response, here on Humanist. > > Many thanks. > > Yours, > WM > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D43FF629D; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 10:17:51 +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 E33846018; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 10:17:41 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CF5C36016; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 10:17:39 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140125091739.CF5C36016@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 10:17:39 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.734 job at Princeton X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 734. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 16:12:32 +0000 From: Jean Moyer Subject: Associate Director, Digital Humanities Center, job posting *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1390639921_2014-01-25_jmcgill@princeton.edu_6223.1.2.jpeg http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1390639921_2014-01-25_jmcgill@princeton.edu_6223.1.1.2.txt Digital Humanities Center: Associate Director Professional Specialist Princeton University seeks an innovative leader to help build a nationally significant faculty research center that will support collaborative technology-based projects and will foster and develop inter-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary partnerships. This individual will work closely with the Faculty Director and advisory board to develop and support the infrastructure and intellectual community of the Digital Humanities Center in the short- and long-term. Princeton seeks someone who will both inform the vision of the Digital Humanities Center as well as ensure its smooth and effective operation. The Associate Director reports directly to the Faculty Director, with a secondary reporting relationship to the Deputy University Librarian. (For detailed position description: http://library.princeton.edu/staff/jobs/digital-humanities-associate-director.) Responsibilities: · Builds alliances to advance the Center’s goals and strategic plan. The Associate Director will bring vision and enthusiasm to the role of establishing a sustainable Digital Humanities Center at Princeton. He or she will represent the Center, serving as a liaison with Princeton University faculty, the Office of Information Technology, and the University Library. He or she will communicate and lead programmatic interactions with related organizations in the United States and abroad. The Associate Director will work closely with the Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations to raise funds to support the goals outlined in the five-year plan of the center. These goals include the creation and implementation of the postdoctoral and graduate student fellowship program and assistance in creating a graduate student alternative-academic (alt-ac) training program. The Associate Director will also engage in grant-writing and will help inform faculty about grant opportunities for short and long-term funding from sources both on and off campus. The Associate Director will work with representatives from the University Library, Office of Information Technology, McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning, Humanities Council, and other University departments, centers, and programs as needed to develop programs, resources, and infrastructure to promote digital scholarship. · Coordinates, with the University Library and the Office for Information Technology, research projects led by faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students. The Associate Director will assist in project definition and analysis, including advising about project scope, requirements and specifications, and project design. He or she will evaluate and integrate existing tools for digital scholarship, and participate in the development of new applications to support digital scholarship. These applications may address needs related to digital content creation, content storage, content discovery, text analysis, data visualization and the manipulation and/or analysis of digital media. * Advises the Director and the Advisory Board about the trends and directions in the fields associated with the Center’s mission. The Associate Director will keep abreast of new methodologies and practices relevant to digital humanities. He or she will update the Faculty Director and the Advisory Board regularly on practices, standards, events, and other developments relevant to the Center’s long-term goals. · Executes policy and strategic direction for the Center and assumes responsibility for its operations. The Associate Director develops the Center’s budget, in collaboration with the Faculty Director. The Associate Director is responsible for careful and appropriate management of the administrative allowance, endowed funds, and grants or sponsored research. The Associate Director monitors spending and provides regular and timely analysis and projections of the available funds. He or she ensures that all internal deadlines are met and that the Center is compliant with all internal guidelines and external regulations. The Associate Director is responsible for recruiting, developing, and retaining talented and qualified staff, and for coordinating the use of the Center’s resources (space, equipment, personnel). Essential Qualifications: The Princeton University Digital Humanities Center seeks a professional with a proven track record in the emerging field of digital humanities with the ability to be diplomatic, build consensus, and utilize discretion. The position is ideally suited for someone with experience in an “alt-ac” position and requires: · Ph.D. in the humanities, library sciences, social sciences, or a related discipline · Minimum of 5 years’ experience with project management for academic research · Demonstrated experience in an administrative position that includes supervisory experience · Demonstrated experience in budget management and oversight of financial operations · Excellent oral and written communication skills · Excellent organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities · Ability to anticipate and initiate appropriate action in support of the Director and Center faculty · Excellent interpersonal skills · Demonstrated leadership, problem-solving, and decision-making skills · Successful grant-writing experience · Experience with current technologies for digital scholarship and the ability to advise on hardware and software purchasing and implementation Preferred qualifications: · Project-management experience with a significant digital humanities project · Understanding of emergent best practices in the digital humanities · Experience working with a nationally or internationally known digital humanities center Compensation and Benefits: Princeton offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits program that is responsive to the needs of its diverse staff. The comprehensive benefits program includes health and life insurance coverage, pension benefits, flexible spending accounts, income protection in the event of short- and long-term disabilities, benefits for employee education, children's tuition grants, as well as 24 vacation days a year, 9 holidays and 2 personal days. Nominations and Applications: Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Applications will be accepted only from the Jobs at Princeton website: http://www.princeton.edu/jobs and must include a resume, cover letter, and a list of three references with full contact information. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER. Jean Moyer Executive Asst. to University Librarian Princeton University One Washington Road Princeton, NJ 08544 609-258-3171 [pu tiger leaping.bmp] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4A9256267; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 10:20:37 +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 B076E629D; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 10:20:28 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id F2B7D61C5; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 10:20:26 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20140125092026.F2B7D61C5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 10:20:26 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.735 European Association of Digital Humanities (formerly ALLC): new visual identity 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. 27, No. 735. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 11:43:01 +0000 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: EADH new visual identity Dear colleagues, A quick note to inform you that the European Association of Digital Humanities (EADH, formerly ALLC) has officially changed its visual identity: http://www.eadh.org On behalf of the EADH executive committee, thanks to all that were involved in making this happen. Best wishes, Arianna Ciula EADH secretary _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 87E8C62CE; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 10:24:36 +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 E8BC362C7; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 10:24:27 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B9C5762C4; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 10:24:25 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140125092425.B9C5762C4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 10:24:25 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.736 events: methods in libraries; Spring Academy in DH; mss studies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 736. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Pierazzo, Elena" (20) Subject: Medieval and Modern Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age (MMSDA) - DiXiT Camp 1 [2] From: Crombez Thomas (23) Subject: Call for Participants - Antwerp EADH Spring Academy in Digital Humanities 2014 [3] From: "Conf@isast.co" (63) Subject: Reminder, QQML2014, 6th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference, 27 - 30 May 2014, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 16:33:53 +0000 From: "Pierazzo, Elena" Subject: Medieval and Modern Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age (MMSDA) - DiXiT Camp 1 Medieval and Modern Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age (MMSDA) - DiXiT Camp 1 28 April – 2 May 2014, Cambridge & London We are very pleased to announce the fifth year of this course, funded by the Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network (DiXiT), and run by DiXiT with the Institute of English Studies (London), the University of Cambridge, the Warburg Institute, and King’s College London. For the first time, the course will run in two parallel strands: one on medieval and the other on modern manuscripts. The course is open to any arts and humanities doctoral students working with manuscripts. It involves five days of intensive training on the analysis, description and editing of medieval or modern manuscripts to be held jointly in Cambridge and London. Participants will receive a solid theoretical foundation and hands-on experience in cataloguing and editing manuscripts for both print and digital formats. The first half of the course involves morning classes and then afternoon visits to libraries in Cambridge and London. Participants will view original manuscripts and gain practical experience in applying the morning’s themes to concrete examples. In the second half we will address the cataloguing and description of manuscripts in a digital format with particular emphasis on the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). These sessions will also combine theoretical principles and practical experience and include supervised work on computers. The course is free of charge but is open only to doctoral students (PhD or equivalent). It is aimed at those writing dissertations relating to medieval or modern manuscripts, especially those working on literature, art or history. Some bursaries will be available for travel and accommodation. There are eighteen vacancies across the medieval and modern strands, and preference will be given to those considered by the selection panel likely to benefit most from the course. Applications close on 14 February 2014 but early registration is strongly recommended. For further details see http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/mmsda.html or contact dixit-mmsda@uni-koeln.de - Please circulate widely! - -- 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, 23 Jan 2014 17:25:57 +0000 From: Crombez Thomas Subject: Call for Participants - Antwerp EADH Spring Academy in Digital Humanities 2014 Call for Participants Antwerp EADH Spring Academy in Digital Humanities 2014 Sponsored by EADH European Association for Digital Humanities and by the Departments of Literature and Linguistics of the University of Antwerp http://dighum.uantwerpen.be/dighum/eadh_spring_academy Organizing committee • Mike Kestemont (mike.kestemont@uantwerpen.be) • Thomas Crombez (thomas.crombez@uantwerpen.be) • Walter Daelemans • Dirk Van Hulle We now invite applications for the Spring Academy in Digital Humanities offered by the University of Antwerp. Our intensive, full-week program takes place from 31 March to 4 April 2014. The target audience consists of (early-stage) researchers in the Humanities, who wish to apply digital methods in their own research practice but who, so far, have had little or no significant initiation to the use of digital methods. The focus is on text analysis using the popular scripting language Python, which is rapidly becoming the standard programming language for computational text analysis in Digital Humanities. Covered topics include: • basic text processing tasks • using text-mining toolkits such as Pattern and NLTK • applications of text processing (e.g., sentiment mining, topic classification, automatic clustering) • XML parsing (e.g., TEI-XML) in Python For the workshop, the instructors will make use of a so-called Python notebook – a successful and engaging teaching format. Python notebooks are a course book and coding ‘sandbox’ at once. Experience with previous EADH and DARIAH-DE Summer Schools in Nijmegen and Göttingen has shown that this format is extremely engaging for researchers who have had no significant exposure to digital methods yet. The following team of dynamic and experienced Python instructors have kindly confirmed their participation in the intensive full-week teaching program: • Folgert Karsdorp (Meertens Institute), one of the Python instructors in the Nijmegen Spring School • Matthew Munson (University of Göttingen), Dariah-DE, organizer of the Göttingen Summer School • Tom De Smedt (Sint Lucas Antwerpen College of Art), main developer of the Pattern package for Python and experienced Python instructor The participation fee for the Spring Academy is 100 euros, and includes five days of instruction together with lunches and coffee breaks. The workshop takes place on the City Campus of the University of Antwerp, which is located in the historical city centre. All participants are expected to arrange for their own accommodation. We can waive the participation fee for two applicants, but we are unable to cover travel expenses. Researchers who wish to apply for the fee waiver should include a brief motivation. Participants are expected to bring their own laptop. Installation instructions will follow shortly before the workshop starts. Previous experience in programming or statistics is not required. Please apply by sending your cv to Mike Kestemont (mike.kestemont@uantwerpen.be) before 21 February 2014. Applications will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 01:58:53 +0000 From: "Conf@isast.co" Subject: Reminder, QQML2014, 6th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference, 27 - 30 May 2014, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey We invite you to submit a paper /abstract /poster /workshop to the 6th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2014), 27 - 30 May 2014, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey. The New Abstract submission deadline is approaching (www.isast.org ) * If you already have submitted your contribution ignore this message. However, you can visit the QQML Journal to see the 2013 papers and visitor and download statistics at http://www.qqml.net/journal_issues.html . Call for Abstracts, Papers or Special Session Proposals QQML2014 Dear Colleagues, It is our great pleasure to announce the 6th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference ((QQML2014), 27 - 30 May 2014, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey: http://www.isast.org/qqml2014.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 6th QQML2014 was scheduled during the previous 5th QQML2013 Conference. It was also decided that the 7th QQML 2015 International Conference will be organized in Paris, France. QQML2009, QQML2010, QQML2011, QQML2012 and QQML2013 were successful events both from the number and quality of the presentations and from the post conference publications in the QQML Journal, in other Journals and Books. QQML2014 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: secretar@isast.org or from the electronic submission at the web page: http://www.isast.org/abstractsubmission.html You may also send Abstracts/Papers to be included in the proposed sessions, to new sessions or as contributed papers at the web page: http://www.isast.org/abstractsubmission.html Registrations are registration forms are available from: http://www.isast.org/qqml2014registration.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/ The abstracts and full papers should be in compliance to the author guidelines: http://www.isast.org/ 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 2014 Conference and Student Research Presentations to: the secretariat of the conference 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 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 779D662D7; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 10:25:16 +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 84A1962BE; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 10:25:07 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 30B2462C9; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 10:25:05 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140125092505.30B2462C9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 10:25:05 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.737 Signs and Society 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. 27, No. 737. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 02:49:58 +0000 From: "Kyung-Nan (Linda) Koh" Subject: Signs and Society cfp _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9364562A1; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 10:29:21 +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 C32E161BA; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 10:29:12 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3374761C5; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 10:29:11 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140125092911.3374761C5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 10:29:11 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.738 programmes: undergrad at Canterbury (NZ); MA at King's London & Humboldt 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. 27, No. 738. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Hedges, Mark" (3) Subject: MA in Digital Curation at King's College London and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin [2] From: James Smithies (19) Subject: University of Canterbury Digital Humanities Programme 2014 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 09:29:14 +0000 From: "Hedges, Mark" Subject: MA in Digital Curation at King's College London and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin The Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London and the Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin are pleased to announce their new MA in Digital Curation, with entry starting in Autumn 2014. The MA in Digital Curation is a two-year international programme, run jointly by King's and Humboldt, that responds to the increasing demand for digitally literate professionals to manage and curate the digital information and digital assets of organisations across the public and private sectors, including education, research and memory institutions, as well as wider industry. This unique joint programme allows students to spend a year each in two of Europe's most vibrant cities - Berlin and London - with the opportunities to engage with the rich culture and heritage of both cities. For more information see http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/study/pgt/madc/index.aspx --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 01:23:22 +0000 From: James Smithies Subject: University of Canterbury Digital Humanities Programme 2014 The UC CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquakes Digital Archive (ceismic.org.nz) is fully operational, and looking forward to a productive year. We're now spreading the word about our next initiative, which is to deliver New Zealand's first Digital Humanities teaching programme. Details are available at http://www.arts.canterbury.ac.nz/digital_humanities/ and http://dh.canterbury.ac.nz. This year our programme will offer three taught papers at 300 and 400 level, and opportunities for original postgraduate research. The papers offered are: ENGL345 Digital Literary Studies DIGI401 Introduction to digital Humanities DIGI402 Humanities and New Media DIGI480 Research Essay If you know of anyone interested in our programme, please direct them to our web site or suggest they contact someone in our team: james.smithies@canterbury.ac.nz; paul.millar@canterbury.ac.nz; christopher.thomson@canterbury.ac.nz. Regards, James Smithies Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities Associate Director, UC CEISMIC Digital Archive University of Canterbury This email may be confidential and subject to legal privilege, it may not reflect the views of the University of Canterbury, and it is not guaranteed to be virus free. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and erase all copies of the message and any attachments. Please refer to http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/emaildisclaimer for more 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 91EE5114D; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 09:57:21 +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 D1AC76192; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 09:57:11 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 14DBD618E; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 09:57:07 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140126085708.14DBD618E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 09:57:07 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.739 digital knowledge X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 739. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 10:34:17 -0600 From: Paul Fishwick Subject: Re: 27.733 digital knowledge In-Reply-To: <20140125091504.AEA1561BA@digitalhumanities.org> From the standpoint of someone working in both analog and digital computing, I’d like to suggest subsequent, and perhaps more intense, discussion on what is being proposed as “digital knowledge.” Despite the digital underpinnings of modern computer architectures, humans are primarily analog due to our physiology. An example can be seen in the desktop metaphor separating us from the computer operating system. In the illusion that we are “copying File X into Folder Y”, most of us have found that the apparently continuous dragging of icon representing X into an icon representing Y results in the copy operation. There is nothing digital about this from the human’s perspective — the underlying computer architecture is digital by definition and design, but does that mean that if quantum computation appears on the scene as early as tomorrow, the field you have developed will become quantum humanities whose purpose is to investigate quantum knowledge? Paul Fishwick, PhD Chair, ACM SIGSIM Distinguished Chair of Arts & Technology and Professor of Computer Science Director, Creative Automata Laboratory The University of Texas at Dallas Arts & Technology 800 West Campbell Road, AT10 Richardson, TX 75080-3021 Home: utdallas.edu/atec/fishwick Blog: creative-automata.com On Jan 25, 2014, at 3:15 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 733. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 14:10:00 +0100 > From: "Dr. Hartmut Krech" > Subject: Re: 27.727 digital knowledge? > In-Reply-To: <20140122065152.D2A6A6256@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Dear Willard, > > Having suppressed a sort of giggling to myself and having corrected my > register error by looking up the pertinent definitions in the OED: > > "4.A.4 Of, pertaining to, or using digits [digit n. 3]; spec. applied to a > computer which operates on data in the form of digits or similar discrete > elements (opp. analogue computer)." > > and > > "5. a.II.5.a The fact of knowing a thing, state, etc., or (in general sense) > a person; acquaintance; familiarity gained by experience." > > I turned to the handy and perhaps still useful distinction between > knowledge, data, and information. The most pronounced definition of > knowledge was perhaps given by Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814) in his > 'Wissenschaftslehre' (science of sciences) in 1794: "§ 1. Das Wesen der > Wissenschaft bestände sonach, wie es scheint, in der Beschaffenheit ihres > Inhalts und dem Verhältnisse desselben zu dem Bewusstseyn desjenigen, von > welchem gesagt wird, dass er wisse [...]" (1798, 38) "As it seems, the > substance of knowledge would then consist in the character of its content > matter and the relationship of the same to the consciousness of whom it is > said that he knows [...]" (my attempt at translation). In short, knowledge > is conscience, that is to say, it is inseparable from a knower, a person who > knows or apprehends. Of course, here lies the difficulty when we try to > subsume 'digital knowledge' under a principle that has guided intellectual > reflexion for several centuries. > > Developing his concept of knowledge further, Fichte posits: "Kein Satz ist > ohne Gehalt oder ohne Form möglich. Es muss etwas seyn, wovon man weiss, > und etwas, das man davon weiss." (1798, 48) "No proposition is possible > without its content matter and its form. There must be something that is > known by someone and something of which one knows." (again my translation) > Applied to the problem at hand, the definition of 'digital knowledge', > digital knowledge would be any knowledge that is known by an individual or a > group of people in 'digital' form. Such a definition, if accepted, implies > two preconditions: (1) the existence of any 'systems' of things that qualify > as things that can be known because of their systematicity (Fichte will call > it "das teilbare Nicht-Ich," the "divisible Non-Ego") and (2) a knowledge of > or proficiency in digital forms. > > Hope that this will help to understand 'digital knowledge.' > > Best, > Hartmut > http://ww3.de/krech > > Am 22.01.2014 07:51, schrieb Humanist Discussion Group: >> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 727. >> Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London >> www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >> Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >> >> >> >> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 06:43:32 +0000 >> From: Willard McCarty >> Subject: digital knowledge? >> >> This is not a psychoanalytic question, or even a psychological one, >> rather my attempt to dredge for emergent meanings: what comes to mind >> when you read the phrase "digital knowledge"? I'd be grateful for any >> sort of response, here on Humanist. >> >> Many thanks. >> >> Yours, >> WM _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C394A6199; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 09:58:29 +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 610C76195; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 09:58:20 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 03CE26194; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 09:58:17 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140126085818.03CE26194@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 09:58:17 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.740 job at the Medieval Academy 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. 27, No. 740. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 00:38:43 -0600 From: Gene Lyman Subject: Executive Director, Medieval Academy of America With apologies for the cross-listing: The Medieval Academy of America invites applications to serve as Executive Director of the world’s largest scholarly organization devoted to the study of the Middle Ages. The Executive Director is appointed for a five-year term by the Council; the term is renewable. The position of Executive Director is of vital importance to the successful fulfillment of the mission of the Medieval Academy of America. As its highest-ranking professional employee, the incumbent is responsible for representing the organization’s members, their elected leadership, and the vibrant programs in Medieval Studies whose role in contemporary society and culture we support. Working from the Academy office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in collaboration with and reporting to the organization’s elected Board (a sixteen-member Council which includes the officers – president, first- and second-vice presidents, and treasurer), the Executive Director proposes, develops and implements policies and programs addressing the present and future needs of a national and international community of medieval scholars. For Further details, including contact information for nominations, see http://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/executive-director-medieval-academy-of-america/ Screening of applications will begin 15 February 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8F3F861B0; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 09:59:13 +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 8852961A3; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 09:59:04 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 592616199; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 09:59:02 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140126085902.592616199@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 09:59:02 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.741 events: editing historical documents X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 741. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 22:14:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Karachuk Subject: Editing Institute Welcomes Applications for 2014 The Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) welcomes applications for the 43rd Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents, to be held 20–24 July 2014 in Louisville, Kentucky. The Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents is an annual five-day workshop for individuals new to the field of historical documentary editing. With the needs of the participants as a guide, experienced documentary editors provide instruction in the principles and practices of documentary editing and insight into the realities of work on a documentary edition. Documentary editing is the craft of preparing historical writings or literary works for publication in print or online. The goal is to produce an authoritative edition of the material, with an accurate transcription of the original manuscript and an editorial framework that advances understanding of the text and context. Participants in the Editing Institute might be joining the staff of an existing documentary editing project or launching their own. Since its inception in 1972, the Editing Institute has trained more than 500 individuals. These include not only full-time documentary editors but also college and university faculty and graduate students, archivists and librarians, government historians, public historians, and independent scholars. The faculty for the 2014 Editing Institute will include: Cathy Moran Hajo (Margaret Sanger Papers at New York University), Ondine Le Blanc (Massachusetts Historical Society), Jennifer Stertzer (Papers of George Washington at the University of Virginia), and Bob Karachuk (Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library at Mississippi State University). The Editing Institute charges no tuition, and travel stipends will be provided to participants living outside the Louisville area. Admission, however, is competitive. The deadline for applications is 15 March. For an application or more information, please e-mail Bob Karachuk, ADE Education Director, ade-educationdir@documentaryediting.org. The Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents is administered by the Association for Documentary Editing under a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), an affiliate of the National Archives. --Boundary_(ID_cf2rqRmGYUIKoDbmRMkN1g) Content-type: multipart/related; boundary"Boundary_(ID_nGhBiKMR+e+toG4Km48Kdw)"; type"text/html" --Boundary_(ID_nGhBiKMR+e+toG4Km48Kdw) Content-type: text/html; charsetwindows-1252 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable
The Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) welcomes applications for the 43rd Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents, to be held 20–24 July 2014 in Louisville, Kentucky.

The Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents is an annual five-day workshop for individuals new to the field of historical documentary editing. With the needs of the participants as a guide, experienced documentary editors provide instruction in the principles and practices of documentary editing and insight into the realities of work on a documentary edition.

Documentary editing is the craft of preparing historical writings or literary works for publication in print or online. The goal is to produce an authoritative edition of the material, with an accurate transcription of the original manuscript and an editorial framework that advances understanding of the text and context.

Participants in the Editing Institute might be joining the staff of an existing documentary editing project or launching their own. Since its inception in 1972, the Editing Institute has trained more than 500 individuals. These include not only full-time documentary editors but also college and university faculty and graduate students, archivists and librarians, government historians, public historians, and independent scholars.

The faculty for the 2014 Editing Institute will include: Cathy Moran Hajo (Margaret Sanger Papers at New York University), Ondine Le Blanc (Massachusetts Historical Society), Jennifer Stertzer (Papers of George Washington at the University of Virginia), and Bob Karachuk (Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library at Mississippi State University).

The Editing Institute charges no tuition, and travel stipends will be provided to participants living outside the Louisville area. Admission, however, is competitive. The deadline for applications is 15 March.

For an application or more information, please e-mail Bob Karachuk, ADE Education Director, ade-educationdir@documentaryediting.org.

The Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents is administered by the Association for Documentary Editing under a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), an affiliate of the National Archives.
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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. 27, No. 742. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 07:49:27 -0500 From: Victoria Scott Subject: Sources on the philosophy of algorithms and searching Hello! I am very interested in the way algorithms are being used to predict consumer, political, psychological behavior, and I am wondering what the key texts are on the subject. I would like to have a sense of the breadth of the discussion, both pro and con, if poss. Also it has come to my attention that searching is really the essence of the Internet, in a literal and also philosophical sense, and I would also like know if people have some interesting suggestions for that subject. Thank you, Victoria H.F. Scott *Theodore Randall International Chair in Art and DesignAlfred UniversityThe Art History Guild * _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, T_FRT_CLICK autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 332BF61F2; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 09:46:41 +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 0D58C61E8; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 09:46:33 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BE5E261E7; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 09:46:30 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140127084630.BE5E261E7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 09:46:30 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.743 DHd: Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 743. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 22:14:00 +0000 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: DHd (Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum) associate organization of EADH Die Vorstände von DHd und EADH freuen sich, mitteilen zu dürfen, dass der Verband *Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum* nunmehr offiziell als Regionalverband assoziiert ist mit der *European Association of Digital Humanities* (EADH) und damit zugleich im internationalen Dachverband Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) repräsentiert ist. Mitglieder von DHd haben aufgrund der Assoziierung zusätzlich automatisch den Status eines Vollmitglieds von EADH und erwerben so - ohne zusätzliche Gebühren - Anspruch auf alle entsprechenden Leistungen von EADH und ADHO (Konferenzrabatte, Antragsberechtigung für Stipendien und Fördermaßnahmen, etc.). Der Bezug der EADH-Verbandszeitschrift "LLC. The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities" ist dabei optional. Unter www.dighum.de wird ab dem 1.2.2014 das Formular zur Beantragung der DHd-Mitgliedschaft freigeschaltet. Wenn Sie bereits Mitglied von EADH sind, aber zugleich Mitglied von DHd werden möchten, können Sie dies dann auf der Website "per Klick" beantragen - es entstehen Ihnen keine zusätzlichen Kosten für die Doppelmitgliedschaft. ----------------------------------------------------------- The executive committees of DHd and EADH are happy to announce that DHd (Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum) is now officially an associate organization of the *European Association of Digital Humanities*(EADH) and thereby represented in the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO). Members of DHd are automatically also members of EADH and will enjoy the same rights (subject to the membership category selected) such as conference fee discounts, eligibility for bursary applications, etc.. The application form for DHd membership will be activated at www.dighum.deas of 1 February 2014. Existing EADH members who would also like to become DHd members will be able to apply for double membership “by click” and at no additional cost. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 00B3B30A3; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 09:47:20 +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 0D94261F2; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 09:47:12 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id EEA7E61ED; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 09:47:09 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140127084709.EEA7E61ED@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 09:47:09 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.744 chronology of concordancing in images X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 744. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 20:25:25 -0600 From: "Robert A. Amsler" Subject: [ Longman Mini-Concordancer screenshot] This interactive history of concordance software might interest Humanist readers. http://timemapper.okfnlabs.org/muranava/history-of-computerised-corpus-tools ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9D27261F6; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 09:55:14 +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 51CB76125; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 09:55:05 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8CB4E6125; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 09:55:03 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140127085503.8CB4E6125@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 09:55:03 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.745 digital knowledge X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 745. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Dr. Hartmut Krech" (19) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.739 digital knowledge [2] From: Willard McCarty (86) Subject: Re: 27.739 digital knowledge --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 12:17:35 +0100 From: "Dr. Hartmut Krech" Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.739 digital knowledge In-Reply-To: <20140126085708.14DBD618E@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Professor Fishwick, If discussed within Fichte's model as (perhaps) the starting point of all distinctions between knowledge, data, and information and therefore in contrast to (perhaps) Chevreuil's definition of the 'fact' ("le fait est une abstraction précise," 1856) as (perhaps) the starting point of our understanding of 'data', then all human knowledge will always be analog. The question arises, if and how in quantum computing we can speak of 'form' and therefore of 'quantum knowledge'. Best regards, Hartmut http://ww3.de/krech Am 26.01.2014 09:57, schrieb Humanist Discussion Group: > There is nothing digital > about this from the human's perspective -- the underlying computer architecture is > digital by definition and design, but does that mean that if quantum computation > appears on the scene as early as tomorrow, the field you have developed will become > quantum humanities whose purpose is to investigate quantum knowledge? --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 08:40:47 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Re: 27.739 digital knowledge Very interesting. But first a quibble. Both "analogue" and "digital" are forms of representation. An analogue representation (as in analogue computing) is based on an analogy to something that happens elsewhere but cannot easily be manipulated. One of the early machines I caught sight of was an analogue machine set up to study the mammalian circulatory system. Harold Hazen's and Vannevar Bush's Differential Analyzer used mechanical moving parts to solve differential equations; the analogy involved was, I would guess, to steps taken in the mathematical process. Bush, I think, preferred analogue computing because one could see the mathematical process in the equipment, could in fact learn the calculus by studying the machine. (He writes somewhere, as I recall, of an assistant who learned his calculus exactly in this way.) To complicate matters, Turing's abstract machine was analogue in that it was based on an analogy to paper tape moving through a physical read/write device -- but of course digital in its operations. McCulloch's and Pitts model of the brain as a Turing Machine was also based on an analogy but proposed a digital operation for brain "circuits". It would seem that "analogue" is rapidly taking on the meaning of "not digital". But isn't this rather unfortunate? The new meaning covers up some very interesting questions, opens up the whole question of analogical conceptualizing. Do we do anything else? Paul's example of dragging and dropping in a GUI is indeed of an operation analogous to what humans physically do, and as he points out, it is invisibly translated into digital operations we cannot see. Based on that fact Brian Cantwell Smith has argued that the genius of the digital computer is that it renders digital representation irrelevant. Sometimes, yes, i.e. very sophisticated machinery allows us to ignore how what we observe is done but does not compel us to ignore it. Not paying attention to the yes/no choices being operationalized allows you to enjoy the music, work with the output etc, but paying attention to them opens up a powerful discipline, i.e. digital humanities. If we had quantum computing then we would have a whole new set of problems and methods to work on. Our questions would grow radically. If digital computing faded from prominence, as analogue computing did, would there be no more "digital humanities"? Would the power of thinking in digital terms diminish or become irrelevant? Digital has the advantage of being elegantly simple yet powerful. Quantum computing is powerful in theory, but simple? What would remain, I suppose, is the intersection of a mathematical process or logic with the study of human cultural artefacts. When it comes, if it does, let's hope we're up to the challenge, Perhaps "humanities computing" will turn out to be a better term after all because it is more inclusive, less specific to the conceptual basis of a particular form of symbol manipulation. Comments? Yours, WM On 26/01/2014 08:57, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 739. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 10:34:17 -0600 > From: Paul Fishwick > Subject: Re: 27.733 digital knowledge > In-Reply-To:<20140125091504.AEA1561BA@digitalhumanities.org> > > >> From the standpoint of someone working in both analog and digital computing, > IÂ’d like to suggest subsequent, and perhaps more intense, discussion on what is being > proposed as “digital knowledge.” Despite the digital underpinnings of modern > computer architectures, humans are primarily analog due to our physiology. An > example can be seen in the desktop metaphor separating us from the computer > operating system. In the illusion that we are “copying File X into Folder Y”, most of > us have found that the apparently continuous dragging of icon representing X > into an icon representing Y results in the copy operation. There is nothing digital > about this from the humanÂ’s perspective — the underlying computer architecture is > digital by definition and design, but does that mean that if quantum computation > appears on the scene as early as tomorrow, the field you have developed will become > quantum humanities whose purpose is to investigate quantum knowledge? > > Paul Fishwick, PhD > Chair, ACM SIGSIM > Distinguished Chair of Arts& Technology > and Professor of Computer Science > Director, Creative Automata Laboratory > The University of Texas at Dallas > Arts& Technology > 800 West Campbell Road, AT10 > Richardson, TX 75080-3021 > Home: utdallas.edu/atec/fishwick > Blog: creative-automata.com -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1C0296237; Tue, 28 Jan 2014 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 42EDB622E; Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:29:14 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1FE39622D; Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:29:12 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140128062912.1FE39622D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:29:12 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.746 digital knowledge; philosophy of algorithms X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 746. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Alexander O'Connor (47) Subject: Re: 27.742 philosophy of algorithms and searching? [2] From: Nathan Kelber (23) Subject: Re: 27.745 digital knowledge [3] From: Joris van Zundert (34) Subject: Re: 27.745 digital knowledge --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 10:16:02 +0000 From: Alexander O'Connor Subject: Re: 27.742 philosophy of algorithms and searching? In-Reply-To: <20140127084531.82D2C6122@digitalhumanities.org> The three communities to consider are the recommender systems, adaptive hypermedia and social media communities Journals and Conferences (conferences are generally the best source in my personal view) http://recsys.acm.org/ http://www.icwsm.org/2014/index.php http://www2014.kr/ http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/deconstructing-recommender-systems http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/04/netflix-recommendations-beyond-5-stars.html http://www.mlsurveys.com/ http://www.exp-platform.com/Documents/2012-09%20ACMRecSysNR.pdf http://www.umuai.org/ http://recsyswiki.com/wiki/List_of_RecSys-relevant_Conferences Perhaps these links will help? On 27 Jan 2014, at 08:45, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 742. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 07:49:27 -0500 > From: Victoria Scott > Subject: Sources on the philosophy of algorithms and searching > > > Hello! > > I am very interested in the way algorithms are being used to predict > consumer, political, psychological behavior, and I am wondering what the > key texts are on the subject. I would like to have a sense of the breadth > of the discussion, both pro and con, if poss. > > Also it has come to my attention that searching is really the essence of > the Internet, in a literal and also philosophical sense, and I would also > like know if people have some interesting suggestions for that subject. > > Thank you, > Victoria H.F. Scott > > *Theodore Randall International Chair in Art and DesignAlfred UniversityThe > Art History Guild * -- Dr. Alexander O'Connor Knowledge & Data Engineering Group Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Alex.OConnor@scss.tcd.ie --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 10:12:14 -0500 From: Nathan Kelber Subject: Re: 27.745 digital knowledge In-Reply-To: <20140127085503.8CB4E6125@digitalhumanities.org> The term "digital humanities" has a specific rhetorical history told in brief by Matthew Kirschenbaum in his article: "What Is Digital humanities and What's It Doing in English Departments?" ( http://mkirschenbaum.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/kirschenbaum_ade150.pdf) I agree that the term can be misleading for outsiders but it has also been incredibly effective for establishing and mobilizing the field. Digital humanists, as humanists, are concerned with far more than digital things. For me, the word "digital" signals an investment by humanists into discrete, mathematical, and technical ways of thinking. It is not an attempt to embody or describe everything that computing is or can be (e.g. analog, continuous, mechanical, quantum). Rather, it is a disciplinary imposition which calls for humanists to account for the technical aspects of humanities research. Its rhetorical force comes from its insistence on the importance of numeracy alongside literacy; Digital humanities insists that the logical processes of numbers (i.e. digits) are a legitimate form of humanities engagement and argumentation. -- Nathan Kelber LTU Lecturer College of Arts and Sciences http://nkelber.com @nkelber on Twitter --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 00:33:46 +0100 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Re: 27.745 digital knowledge In-Reply-To: <20140127085503.8CB4E6125@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, I agree with your argument, in any case "humanities computing" captures more of an essence of the field. However, is "humanities computing" inclusive enough? How do we understand 'computing' in general? My association is with the mathematics, the way one can approach objects to make their properties and behavior computable–symbol manipulation as you say indeed. On the other hand 'computing' can be understood also simply as "using a computer". In that case it would also cover the work of our friends and colleagues that are more on the medium-shift side of the business, e.g. the ones creating digital resources such as digital editions. But would (or should) it also cover that third group of people that are studying the use of computers and computing in creating humanistic artifacts and the Internet as a new realm of humanistic expression–thus computing as the object not as the tool? On the larger scale of things: should "humanities computing" or "digital humanities" eventually both not just disappear? Once computing and the digital (or quantum) medium is pervasive in our history and society, does it not follow that a very decent chunk of plain "humanities" will be occupied with that ubiquitous computing component as a matter of fact? There must come a time–not now yet fairly soon–that "digital humanities" or "humanities computing" would sound particularly pleonastic. 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7CB30628F; Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:30:51 +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 308E86281; Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:30:42 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 929BE6281; Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:30:39 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140128063039.929BE6281@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:30:39 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.747 recognising academic contributions? National Library of Scotland 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. 27, No. 747. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (14) Subject: National Library of Scotland New Developments [2] From: Colin Greenstreet (60) Subject: Recognising and tracking academic contributions to academic/public history digital collaborations --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 10:23:50 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: National Library of Scotland New Developments The National Library of Scotland is a partner in the development of an exciting new project at Kelvin Hall, Glasgow which will create new purpose-built research facilities for moving image, sound and digital content. These new facilities will offer access to the Scottish Screen Archive (previously located at Hillington), Sound Scotland and digital content currently only available through the NLS Reading Rooms in Edinburgh. This digital content includes e-books, newspapers, digitised manuscripts, maps, magazines and other content. from the Library. A survey is being carried out to assist in the design of these new NLS facilities and services. Please help us by completing a questionnaire if you are interested in research or in finding out about Scotland's moving images/films or sound heritage. All completed questionnaires will be entered into a prize draw for two £50 Amazon vouchers. For the questionnaire see http://surveys.scotinform.co.uk/NLS%20Kelvin%20Hall/snnls_kelvin_hall.htm?id=1EyD_ [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, 28 Jan 2014 06:01:17 +0000 From: Colin Greenstreet Subject: Recognising and tracking academic contributions to academic/public history digital collaborations Dear Willard, I am getting in touch with a question regarding the MarineLives project, an academic/public history project, which I founded and co-direct with fellow volunteer, Jill Wilcox. We run the project with the help of a voluntary leadership and advisory team. Our project goal is the collaborative transcription, linkage and enrichment of primary manuscripts from the High Court of Admiralty, London, 1650-1669. See: [ http://marinelives-theshippingnews.org/blog/] My question is triggered by Seth Denbo's blog piece yesterday (17th Jan. 2014) for the American Historical Association on the Professional Evaluation of Digital Scholarship by Historians [ http://blog.historians.org/2014/01/committee-professional-evaluation-digital-scholarship-historians/. In his blog, Seth announces the creation of a Committee to be led by Professor Edward Ayers to evaluate issues related to the evaluation of digital scholarship, and makes reference to output from the earlier Working Group on Evaluating Public History Scholarship [ https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/september-2010/tenure-promotion-and-the-publicly-engaged-academic-historian-a-report ]. I'm not an academic, and therefore have absolutely no interest in tenure - in the business world, from which I come from, there has been no such thing as tenure for thirty years. Nevetheless, I understand the appeal of a steady job. I also understand the considerable pressure PhD candidates and early career scholars feel to demonstrate their scholarship in ways which will be rewarded tangibly as well as spiritually. So we have recently started a discussion amongst our current, past, and possible future academic contributors. The first question we have asked our Twitter followers/activists is simple: Will anyone thank me for working with @*annotatesources* ? @annotatesources, I should explain, is a second Twitter handle we have recently introduced, under the @marinelivesorg umbrella, to communicate with individuals who want to be more actively involved with annotating MarineLives material. We went on to reference Seth Denbo's blog piece on Professional Evaluation of Digital Scholarship by Historians The second question we have asked is around how our contributors would like to be recognised for their voluntary efforts? Specifically, we are exploring whether people would like us to embed their Twitter handles or Academia.edu IDs into wiki pages where they have made a contribution. Clearly not all academics use Twitter and not all have Academia.edu profiles. Some scholars use Twitter in a very chatty mode, and others in a more content oriented mode. And some scholars with Academia.edu pages might benefit from thinking more robustly about how they present themselves. Nevertheless, embedding some some of academic ID handle into our Google searchable wiki pages would provide a very simple method to record and track specific contributions. Examples of our content wikis (works in progress like all wikis) can be seen at Annotate HCA 13/73 http://annotatehca1373.wikispot.org/ and MarineLives-Tools http://marinelives-tools.wikispot.org/Front_Page What do you think, and what do the readers of the Humanist think about this simple idea? Best wishes, Colin Greenstreet Co-director, MarineLives Blog: http://marinelives-theshippingnews.org/blog/ Twitter 1: @marinelivesorg [for general news and content updates] Twitter 2: @annotatesources [for academic/public collaborative annotation of HCA 13/73] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B03866284; Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:31:35 +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 A8C246290; Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:31:26 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6EC0D6283; Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:31:25 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140128063125.6EC0D6283@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:31:25 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.748 job at Goettingen X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 748. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 13:40:43 +0000 From: "Soering, Sibylle" Subject: Jobs at Goettingen State & University Library Goettingen State & University Library is looking for a) a digital humanities and b) a metadata specialist for "IDIOM - Interdisciplinary Dictionary of Classic Mayan". Positioned in the Digital Humanities by its cooperation with the Virtual Research Environment TextGrid (www.textgrid.de) at the Goettingen State and University Library, IDIOM provides an innovative link between the humanities and information technology. Funded by the North-Rine Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts, the long term research project will be directed by Prof. Nikolai Grube of the Department of Anthropology of the Americans at Bonn University. Its goal is the analysis of all known hieroglyphic Mayan texts which will serve as the basis for the compilation and editing of a Classic Mayan language dictionary. Job postings and further details (in German): http://tinyurl.com/q3vf8qv (TextGrid infrastructure, data structure/XML/TEI) http://tinyurl.com/nc4p39x (Metadata and data modelling) About IDIOM: http://www.iae.uni-bonn.de/forschung/forschungsprojekte/laufende-projekte/idiom-dictionary-of-classic-mayan http://www.iae.uni-bonn.de/forschung/forschungsprojekte/laufende-projekte/idiom-dictionary-of-classic-mayan/idiom-english-project-description Application deadline: Feb. 15, 2014 -- Sibylle Söring, M.A. Research & Development Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen D-37070 Göttingen Papendiek 14 +49 551 39-13777 (Tel.) soering@sub.uni-goettingen.de http://www.textgrid.de http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de http://www.rdd.sub.uni-goettingen.de _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 34D89E45; Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:32:20 +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 50E266284; Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:32:11 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 32F586286; Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:32:09 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140128063209.32F586286@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:32:09 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.749 corpus representativeness; chronology of concordancing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 749. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: AMELIA DEL ROSARIO SANZ CABRERIZO (34) Subject: Re: 27.744 chronology of concordancing in images [2] From: Heather Froehlich (10) Subject: testing how representative a particular corpus is --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 10:09:27 +0100 From: AMELIA DEL ROSARIO SANZ CABRERIZO Subject: Re: 27.744 chronology of concordancing in images In-Reply-To: <20140127084709.EEA7E61ED@digitalhumanities.org> Please, don't forget : Textométrie. TXM: http://textometrie.ens-lyon.fr/?lang=fr Amelia Sanz Complutense University (MAdrid, Spain) 2014-01-27 Humanist Discussion Group > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 744. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 20:25:25 -0600 > From: "Robert A. Amsler" > Subject: [ Longman Mini-Concordancer screenshot] > > > This interactive history of concordance software might interest Humanist > readers. > > > http://timemapper.okfnlabs.org/muranava/history-of-computerised-corpus-tools > > ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > List info and archives at at: http://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: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:26:18 +0000 From: Heather Froehlich Subject: testing how representative a particular corpus is In-Reply-To: <20140127084709.EEA7E61ED@digitalhumanities.org> Corpora-L, a highly complementary listserv to the Humanist list, has been having a lively discussion about ways to address testing corpus representativeness. I suspect other topics from the past month are of interest to many members of Humanist list as well... This discussion is not ideally threaded, but you can read the responses here if you scroll down to the bottom of the page, beginning with Matías Guzmán Naranjo's question: http://mailman.uib.no/public/corpora/2014-January/subject.html#start --- Heather Froehlich PhD Student University of Strathclyde e: heather.froehlich@strath.ac.uk w: http://hfroehlich.wordpress.com t: @heatherfro _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CD6576291; Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:33:45 +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 EB64A622E; Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:33:36 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B9344622C; Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:33:34 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140128063334.B9344622C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:33:34 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.750 events: Portrait of an Eleventh-Century Cultural Broker (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. 27, No. 750. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:24:04 +0100 From: Greta Franzini Subject: Leipzig eHumanities Seminar: Sarah Savant Dear all, This week's Leipzig eHumanities seminar (the last in the series!) will be given by Sarah Savant. Sarah will be talking to us about: *"**Al-Tha?a-libi-'s Memorable Thima-r al-qulu-b fi- almud.a-f wa-l-mansu-b: A Portrait of an Eleventh-Century Cultural Broker"* In: Room P801 (Paulinum, 8th floor), University of Leipzig On: Wednesday 29th January 2014 At: 3:15 PM to 4:45 PM Attendance at the seminar is free of charge. *ALL WELCOME* For further information, please visit: http://www.e-humanities.net/events/2013-ehum-seminar-call.html On behalf of the Leipzig seminar Board, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our speakers and our guests for a stimulating and successful series! -- Greta Franzini Research Associate Digital Humanities Department of Computer Science University of Leipzig Augustusplatz 10-11 04109 Leipzig, Germany Phone: +49 341 97 32330 Email: franzini@informatik.uni-leipzig.de Web: www.dh.uni-leipzig.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C404E622E; Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:34:56 +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 8FF066291; Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:34:48 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DE2E56284; Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:34:45 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140128063445.DE2E56284@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:34:45 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.751 pubs: genetic edition of Beckett's L'Innommable / The Unnamable X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 751. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 14:20:33 +0000 From: Van Hulle Dirk Subject: Beckett's The Unnamable in the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project The Beckett Digital Manuscript Project The Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (www.beckettarchive.org) is pleased to announce the publication of the genetic edition of L'Innommable / The Unnamable, edited by Dirk Van Hulle and Shane Weller; technical realization: Vincent Neyt. This new module reunites all the relevant manuscripts held at three different holding libraries: the Harry Ransom Center (Austin, Texas), the University of Reading and Washington University, St Louis. The genetic edition offers: * 950 digital facsimiles and their transcriptions; * all pre-publication versions of the text: the French manuscript, a partial manuscript in French, the manuscript of the English version and two English typescripts; * facsimiles of 350 doodles with description; * a search engine; * digital collation tools to compare the different versions at sentence level. For more information on the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP), see www.beckettarchive.org. To subscribe to the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project, see the ASP/University Press Antwerp website for * Individual access * Institutional access [The Making of Samuel Beckett's L'Innommable / The Unnamable] The accompanying print volume, The Making of Samuel Beckett's L'Innommable / The Unnamable, will appear shortly, containing a bibliographic description of the manuscripts and an analysis of the work's genesis. Forthcoming modules of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project: * Krapp's Last Tape / La dernière bande * Beckett's Radio Plays * Molloy Malone meurt / Malone Dies * Watt _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id ECB1662E6; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 10:17:17 +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 E049B62DF; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 10:17:05 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8AE1C62DE; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 10:17:03 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140129091703.8AE1C62DE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 10:17:03 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.752 digital knowledge X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 752. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 06:14:03 -0600 From: Paul Fishwick Subject: Re: 27.746 digital knowledge; philosophy of algorithms In-Reply-To: <20140128062912.1FE39622D@digitalhumanities.org> On digital knowledge and digital humanities, it seems to me that the enterprise is a most useful and ambitious one, not to be discouraged. My reason for questioning the use of the “digital" qualification was based just as much, interestingly enough, on the future of computer science as on the future of the humanities. To explain this line of reasoning for the humanities first, the DH name brings welcome developments including: * the scientific method within humanities research (e.g., “big text, big data” which ultimately lead to empirical methods) * the use of computer science methodology (e.g., discrete mathematics—trees, graphs and higher level structures such as databases, networks) * the critical study of digital technology and its effects on culture and society * the use of digital technology to expand humanities research (e.g., virtual environments for cultural sensitivity and training, or web-based digital archives) To my point about computer science, the word “digital” restricts the nature of computing to digital methods whereas, historically, most computing has been analog. Willard’s mention of Bush’s DA architecture is a recent example for the 20th century. When we teach computer science, this analog history and relevance to computing’s foundations is diminished or entirely missing. As to whether analog computing should play a role in the social fabric of DH, this is a question for everyone on the list. Willard: your reference to the educational importance of the DA is something I briefly addressed in my blog entry here: http://creative-automata.com/2014/01/19/the-disappearing-trick-of-hitech/ -p Paul Fishwick, PhD Chair, ACM SIGSIM Distinguished Chair of Arts & Technology and Professor of Computer Science Director, Creative Automata Laboratory The University of Texas at Dallas Arts & Technology 800 West Campbell Road, AT10 Richardson, TX 75080-3021 Home: utdallas.edu/atec/fishwick Blog: creative-automata.com On Jan 28, 2014, at 12:29 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 746. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: Alexander O'Connor (47) > Subject: Re: 27.742 philosophy of algorithms and searching? > > [2] From: Nathan Kelber (23) > Subject: Re: 27.745 digital knowledge > > [3] From: Joris van Zundert (34) > Subject: Re: 27.745 digital knowledge > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 10:16:02 +0000 > From: Alexander O'Connor > Subject: Re: 27.742 philosophy of algorithms and searching? > In-Reply-To: <20140127084531.82D2C6122@digitalhumanities.org> > > > The three communities to consider are the recommender systems, adaptive hypermedia and social media communities > > Journals and Conferences (conferences are generally the best source in my personal view) > > http://recsys.acm.org/ > http://www.icwsm.org/2014/index.php > http://www2014.kr/ > > http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/deconstructing-recommender-systems > http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/04/netflix-recommendations-beyond-5-stars.html > http://www.mlsurveys.com/ > http://www.exp-platform.com/Documents/2012-09%20ACMRecSysNR.pdf > > http://www.umuai.org/ > http://recsyswiki.com/wiki/List_of_RecSys-relevant_Conferences > > Perhaps these links will help? > > On 27 Jan 2014, at 08:45, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > >> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 742. >> Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London >> www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >> Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >> >> >> >> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 07:49:27 -0500 >> From: Victoria Scott >> Subject: Sources on the philosophy of algorithms and searching >> >> >> Hello! >> >> I am very interested in the way algorithms are being used to predict >> consumer, political, psychological behavior, and I am wondering what the >> key texts are on the subject. I would like to have a sense of the breadth >> of the discussion, both pro and con, if poss. >> >> Also it has come to my attention that searching is really the essence of >> the Internet, in a literal and also philosophical sense, and I would also >> like know if people have some interesting suggestions for that subject. >> >> Thank you, >> Victoria H.F. Scott >> >> *Theodore Randall International Chair in Art and DesignAlfred UniversityThe >> Art History Guild * > > > -- > Dr. Alexander O'Connor > > Knowledge & Data Engineering Group > Trinity College Dublin, Ireland > > Alex.OConnor@scss.tcd.ie > > > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 10:12:14 -0500 > From: Nathan Kelber > Subject: Re: 27.745 digital knowledge > In-Reply-To: <20140127085503.8CB4E6125@digitalhumanities.org> > > > The term "digital humanities" has a specific rhetorical history told in > brief by Matthew Kirschenbaum in his article: "What Is Digital humanities > and What's It Doing in English Departments?" ( > http://mkirschenbaum.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/kirschenbaum_ade150.pdf) I > agree that the term can be misleading for outsiders but it has also been > incredibly effective for establishing and mobilizing the field. > > Digital humanists, as humanists, are concerned with far more than digital > things. For me, the word "digital" signals an investment by humanists into > discrete, mathematical, and technical ways of thinking. It is not an > attempt to embody or describe everything that computing is or can be (e.g. > analog, continuous, mechanical, quantum). Rather, it is a disciplinary > imposition which calls for humanists to account for the technical aspects > of humanities research. Its rhetorical force comes from its insistence on > the importance of numeracy alongside literacy; Digital humanities insists > that the logical processes of numbers (i.e. digits) are a legitimate form > of humanities engagement and argumentation. > > > -- > Nathan Kelber > LTU Lecturer > College of Arts and Sciences > http://nkelber.com > @nkelber on Twitter > > > > --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 00:33:46 +0100 > From: Joris van Zundert > Subject: Re: 27.745 digital knowledge > In-Reply-To: <20140127085503.8CB4E6125@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Dear Willard, > > I agree with your argument, in any case "humanities computing" captures > more of an essence of the field. > > However, is "humanities computing" inclusive enough? How do we understand > 'computing' in general? My association is with the mathematics, the way one > can approach objects to make their properties and behavior > computable–symbol manipulation as you say indeed. > > On the other hand 'computing' can be understood also simply as "using a > computer". In that case it would also cover the work of our friends and > colleagues that are more on the medium-shift side of the business, e.g. the > ones creating digital resources such as digital editions. > > But would (or should) it also cover that third group of people that are > studying the use of computers and computing in creating humanistic > artifacts and the Internet as a new realm of humanistic expression–thus > computing as the object not as the tool? > > On the larger scale of things: should "humanities computing" or "digital > humanities" eventually both not just disappear? Once computing and the > digital (or quantum) medium is pervasive in our history and society, does > it not follow that a very decent chunk of plain "humanities" will be > occupied with that ubiquitous computing component as a matter of fact? > There must come a time–not now yet fairly soon–that "digital humanities" or > "humanities computing" would sound particularly pleonastic. > > 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 07D53625B; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 07:53:03 +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 09AA46249; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 07:52:54 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E48945FC1; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 07:52:51 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140130065251.E48945FC1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 07:52:51 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.753 PhD studentship in Science and Technology Studies, 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. 27, No. 753. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 12:55:34 +0000 From: Jon Agar Subject: PhD studentship: Research Transplanted and Privatised: Post Office/British Telecom R&D in the Digital and Information Era PhD studentship: Research Transplanted and Privatised: Post Office/British Telecom R&D in the Digital and Information Era An AHRC-funded Science Museum/UCL CDP studentship, starting October 2014 Interested in pursuing graduate-level research into the modern history of innovation? This studentship might be for you. Opened in 1975, the Post Office's new research centre at Martlesham Heath was one of the largest telecoms research laboratories in Europe. Like its predecessor at Dollis Hill, it was a major state-owned centre for innovation: important Martlesham projects included the development of satellite base station techniques, digital telecommunications systems, optoelectronics, cable television, continuing development of submarine cables, videophones, microchip manufacture and the Prestel Viewdata service. In the early 1980s Post Office Telecommunications was privatised and renamed British Telecommunications in one of the most portentous acts of the Thatcher government. Research at Martlesham moved from the public to the private sector. Despite its significance, Martlesham has received almost no attention from historians. With rich archives becoming available, not least at BT Archives, historians can now examine how research and development was shaped by the movement from nationalised industry to fully private sector. This PhD project is an opportunity to open up one of the most significant locations of post-war British history of technology to historical inquiry. The PhD might address three motivating research questions: 1) What were the reasons and consequences of moving Post Office telecoms research from Dollis Hill to Martlesham Heath? 2) What explains the patterns of invention, innovation, product development and use in telecoms in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s? 3) How did research and development respond to privatisation? Relevant archives include BT Archives, the National Archives, and other collections. There may also be opportunities to conduct oral history research. This studentship is the third of three linked PhDs mapping Post Office research in the twentieth century. The title of the overall project is ‘“Research is the door to tomorrow”: the networks and culture of the Post Office Research Stations, Dollis Hill and Martlesham, c. 1910-1983’. The first (on early 20th century Post Office research, University of Leeds/Science Museum) and second (on mid-century Dollis Hill, University of Manchester) PhDs commenced in October 2013. This PhD studentship will be held at UCL, and the principal supervisor is Professor Jon Agar of UCL's Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS). The second supervisor is Dr Tilly Blyth of the Science Museum. UCL STS is a department which combines both history of science and studies of contemporary science (science communication, science policy studies, sociology of science). More information here: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts Interested applicants should send 1) a CV 2) a sample of writing, and 3) a covering letter to jonathan.agar@ucl.ac.uk by 28 February 2014. Interviews will be held on 12 March 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DD8536065; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 07:34:15 +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 742436050; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 07:33:57 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id EB70F6045; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 07:33:54 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140131063354.EB70F6045@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 07:33:54 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.754 PhD studentships at Durham X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 754. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 12:39:49 +0000 From: "EDDY M.D." Subject: Durham PhD Studentships in Philosophy of the Natural, Social and Policy Sciences Durham University - Two PhD Positions in Philosophy of the Natural, Social and Policy Sciences The Department of Philosophy at Durham University and Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society (CHESS) are inviting applications for two full-time, three-year PhD positions in philosophy of the natural, social and policy sciences, starting in October, 2014. Suitable candidates should have a Masters degree (with merit or distinction) or equivalent, an interest in science and policy and are expected to work in one of the six areas below. We are especially interested in work on these topics that interfaces with climate science, medicine, economics and other social sciences, and social policy. Evidence, conviction, endeavour The nature of evidence; policy deliberation,; policy formation and implementation; evidence-based medicine; evidence-based social policy; hierarchies of evidence; evidence amalgamation; non-randomised and randomised experiments; theory and practice of measurement. Expertise The nature of scientific expertise; problems of legitimacy and extension; experts in democracy; experts versus mechanical objectivity; the nature of tacit knowledge. Moral and social order Visions of well-ordered and disordered, decent and indecent societies; strategies of creating and maintaining order in society; the nature and role of institutions; justifying economic systems; studies of specific cases Narratives, modelling and representation Models and representation in science; representation in art versus representation in the sciences; literary methods and thought experiments in the sciences and humanities; narratives as evidence; understanding and narratives. Modality and power Causality and causal powers; theories of causation; causal inference; counterfactuals. Values in science and policy What role values play and why; whose values and who decides; well-ordered science; areas of special concern, e.g. genetic engineering, human subject research, politically sensitive issues where scientific results matter. Primary supervisors of PhD dissertations will be CHESS directors Professors Nancy Cartwright and Julian Reiss (julian.reiss@durham.ac.uk) or associate director Dr Wendy Parker. Successful candidates are expected to contribute to the research environment at the Centre. Application deadline is February 17, 2014. To apply for a post please go to the university online system at https://www.dur.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply/ and please note that candidates should also discuss their research proposal with a member of CHESS. Please send a CV, grade average and two-page research proposal to Nicola Craigs atn.j.craigs@durham.ac.uk. Dr Matthew D Eddy Durham University, Department of Philosophy, 50/51 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HN, United Kingdom. http://community.dur.ac.uk/m.d.eddy/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 254AB6065; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 07:34:46 +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 37830608C; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 07:34:37 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3DE246083; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 07:34:35 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140131063435.3DE246083@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 07:34:35 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.755 DH Awards 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. 27, No. 755. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:03:20 -0500 From: James Cummings Subject: DH Awards 2013: Voting Open! It is my pleasure to announce that the DH Awards 2013 is open for voting! http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/voting/ Digital Humanities Awards are a set of entirely open 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 (http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/committee/) reviewed each nomination. We're sorry if your nomination was not included, all decisions are final once voting opens. Please see http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/faqs2013/ for this and other frequently asked questions. Anyone is allowed to vote, yes anyone, but please only vote once. Please cast vote by looking at the nominations and following the link to voting form at http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/voting/ before midnight (GMT) on Friday 14 February 2013 when voting will be closed. Good luck! 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0B6596062; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 07:37:58 +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 5EDD86065; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 07:37:50 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CDA8E5F8C; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 07:37:48 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140131063748.CDA8E5F8C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 07:37:48 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.756 events: HTML5/XML; large 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. 27, No. 756. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Tommie Usdin (32) Subject: HTML5 and XML: a symposium [2] From: Centre for e-Research (53) Subject: Centre for e-Research talk: Pieter Francois, 6.15pm Tues 4 Feb, KCL, London --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 13:00:53 -0500 From: Tommie Usdin Subject: HTML5 and XML: a symposium CALL FOR PARTICIPATION HTML5 and XML: Mending Fences a Balisage pre-conference symposium a one-day symposium preceding Balisage: The Markup Conference Robin Berjon, chair Despite a decade of efforts dedicated to making XML the markup language of the Web, today it is HTML5 that has taken on that role. While HTML5 can in part be made to work with an XML syntax, reliance on that feature is rare compared to use of HTML5's own syntax. Over the years, the competition between these two approaches has led to animosity and frustration. But both XML and HTML5 are now clearly here to stay, and with the upcoming standardisation of HTML5 in 2014 it is now time to take stock and see how both technologies — and both communities — can coöperate constructively. There are many environments in which these two markup languages are brought to interact. Additionally, there is much that they can learn from one another. We are looking forward to sharing experiences and ideas that bring the two together. Topics include: We welcome proposals to present at the Symposium. Topics may include, but are not limited to: - Experiences (at any level of success) working with both HTML and XML - Applying XML tools to HTML5 and vice-versa - How Web technology built on XML can be brought to the HTML5 world - Capturing data and metadata in HTML, or in general extending or refining HTML for specific applications - Approaches to working with non-XML languages with an XML tool-set, including notably JSON as it is commonly used in conjunction with HTML Details: http://www.balisage.net/HTML5-XML/ information about Balisage: The Markup Conference: http://www.balisage.net/ Schedule: 18 April 2014 - Submissions due 20 May 2014 - Speakers notified 11 July 2014 - Final papers due 4 August 2014 - Symposium on HTML5 and XML 5-8 August 2014 - Balisage: The Markup Conference Questions: 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 2014 mailto:info@balisage.net August 5-8, 2014 http://www.balisage.net Preconference Symposium: August 4, 2014 +1 301 315 9631 ====================================================================== --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 18:05:50 +0000 From: Centre for e-Research Subject: Centre for e-Research talk: Pieter Francois, 6.15pm Tues 4 Feb, KCL, London Pieter Francois (Oxford), "Exploring very large collections of texts by creating structured unbiased samples." Centre for e-Research, King's College London 4 February, 6.15pm ----- Next week, on Tuesday 4th February at 6.15pm, Pieter Francois (Oxford) will be giving a talk in the Centre for e-Research seminar series at King's College London. The talk is on: "Exploring very large collections of texts by creating structured unbiased samples." More details are at the bottom of this email. The event is free of charge but please would you register beforehand, at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cerch-seminar-exploring-very-large-collections-of-texts-by-creating-structured-unbiased-samples-tickets-10115191811 Our seminars are held fortnightly on Tuesdays during term time at 6.15pm in the Anatomy Museum, on the 6th floor of King's Building, Strand Campus, King's College London: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/projects/completed/atm.aspx . Seminars are followed by drinks and nibbles. The full programme for this term can be found at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/seminars/2013-14.aspx. We hope you can join us. Regards, Anna Jordanous (CeRch) --- *Exploring very large collections of texts by creating structured unbiased samples* Pieter Francois (Oxford) Abstract: This presentation introduces the 'Sample Generator', a digital tool which allows users to generate structured unbiased samples of (digital) texts from the nineteenth century British Library holdings. Using the Sample Generator allows researchers to explore quickly a very large dataset (the British Library has approximately 1.8 million nineteenth century holdings) in a methodologically robust way. Furthermore the generated samples are easily citable and shareable. The overall intellectual background of the Sample Generator is that of the 'generative humanities' in which a creative process of going back and forth between data and the conceptual drawing board takes centre stage. In addition to saving valuable research time, the main contribution of the Sample Generator is that it is a hypothesis generating and testing tool. This presentation will address the ideas behind the Sample Generator, offer a hands on showcasing of its main functionalities and will finally demonstrate the value and potential of the Sample Generator by zooming in briefly on one case study, i.e. an analysis of the changes in nineteenth century travel routes in Europe. More details at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/seminars/2013-14/s8exploring.aspx -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 18FA26239; Sat, 1 Feb 2014 12:34:18 +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 D860A6207; Sat, 1 Feb 2014 12:34:09 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 16291614B; Sat, 1 Feb 2014 12:34:07 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20140201113408.16291614B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 12:34:07 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.757 postdoc at Kent 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="===============3182480760244248666==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============3182480760244248666== Content-Type: text/plain Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 757. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 12:31:42 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Kent Postdoc in Digital Humanities Eastern ARC Research Fellow (Digital Humanities) Ref HUM0508 Location Canterbury Job Type Research Contract Type Fixed Term Salary Type Per Annum Salary (£) 31644 - 36661 HUM0508, Eastern Arc, Closing date: 6 Mar 14 The Role Kent’s EARC Digital Humanities Fellow will be appointed from 1 August 2014 at Grade 7 pt 31 (£31,331), initially for a period of five years during which time s/he will be supported to gain his/her own external funding. If successful, the Fellow will be offered a permanent lectureship after five years. The Fellow will act as the focus and catalyst for interdisciplinary research within Kent and will facilitate interaction with the other Eastern ARC partners. The Kent EARC Fellow will focus on Digital Heritage; there will be a similar focus at UEA, whilst the focus at Essex will be Big Data. In addition, the Fellow will work with Kent’s Eastern ARC Thematic Lead, Prof Ray Laurence, to identify PhD projects for two Eastern ARC Students. More information about the position is available in the further particulars below. To discuss the position informally, contact Prof Ray Laurence. ----- Professor Ray Laurence Home Page and Contact details http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/classics/staff/RayLaurence/ For recent animated podcast http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juWYhMoDTN0 For most recent books http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ray-Laurence/e/B0045AV424/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1 For full list of publications http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=m9GWR98AAAAJ&hl=en Twitter: @raylaurence1 --===============3182480760244248666== 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 --===============3182480760244248666==-- Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 37E616242; Sat, 1 Feb 2014 12:51:29 +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 AD6CD6239; Sat, 1 Feb 2014 12:51:20 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2CC9D61CB; Sat, 1 Feb 2014 12:51:19 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140201115119.2CC9D61CB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 12:51:19 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.758 events: Drucker at QMUL; Rare Book School at Penn X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 758. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Chris Sparks (20) Subject: Digital Humanities Lecture at QMUL: Johanna Drucker, March 25th 2014 [2] From: Dot Porter (70) Subject: Rare Book School: The Medieval Mauscript in the 21st Century --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 17:32:59 +0000 From: Chris Sparks Subject: Digital Humanities Lecture at QMUL: Johanna Drucker, March 25th 2014 *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1391243821_2014-02-01_c.sparks@qmul.ac.uk_9387.2.pdf Dear all, You are warmly invited to a public lecture at QMUL entitled Visualizing Temporality: Modelling Time from the Textual Record, given by Professor Johanna Drucker (UCLA). The lecture will be at 6:30pm on Tuesday March 25th, in the ArtsTwo lecture theatre at QMUL's Mile End Campus and will be followed by a drinks reception. An e-invite is attached and further details are below. The event is free to attend, but you must book online via EventBrite here: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-humanities-with-professor-johanna-drucker-tickets-10114064439 Please forward the invitation to any interested parties you may know. VISUALIZING TEMPORALITY: MODELLING TIME FROM THE TEXTUAL RECORD Professor Johanna Drucker, UCLA What does time look like? We are all familiar with the standard timeline that measures out events with neat tick-marks, like the divisions on a ruler. Yet whilst very few of us really think about the past in this sort of methodical way, the tools we use in the digital realm impose an artificial sense of order and regularity to the unfolding of events. Taking an eighteenth-century reference work, Edmund Fry's Pantographia, as her case study, Professor Drucker will examine the various overlapping frameworks that authors use when assembling and organizing historical events. Her lecture will argue that the development of digital tools must be guided by humanities scholars if we are to represent the human past faithfully. Johanna Drucker is the inaugural Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. She is internationally known for her work in the history of graphic design, typography, experimental poetry, fine art, and digital humanities. In addition, she has a reputation as a book artist, and her limited edition works are in special collections and libraries worldwide. Her most recent titles include SpecLab: Digital Aesthetics and Speculative Computing (Chicago, 2009), and Graphic Design History: A Critical Guide (Pearson, 2008, 2nd edition late 2012). She is currently working on a database memoire, ALL, the online Museum of Writing in collaboration with University College London and King's College London, and a letterpress project titled Stochastic Poetics. A collaboratively written work, Digital_Humanities, with Jeffrey Schnapp, Todd Presner, Peter Lunenfeld, and Anne Burdick is forthcoming from MIT Press. Best wishes, Chris -- Dr Chris Sparks School of History Queen Mary, University of London Mile End Road London, E1 4NS 020 7882 6019 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 10:45:06 -0500 From: Dot Porter Subject: Rare Book School: The Medieval Mauscript in the 21st Century THE MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Rare Book School at the University of Pennsylvania I'm co-teaching a course at Rare Book School this summer, June 9-13 (RBS is located in Charlottesville, VA, but we are teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia). The course is THE MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, and we (Will Noel and myself) are hoping to get a good mix of students with primary interest in (medieval) manuscripts, primary interest in developing software for working with (digitized) manuscripts, and some with both. If this sounds like you please consider applying, and please share this message with colleagues who may be interested. You can also contact me off-list if you have any questions. Link to the course description (Application link in the left-hand menu): http://www.rarebookschool.org/courses/manuscripts/m95/ And I'm pasting the full description below: This course is designed to introduce students of both the digital humanities and manuscript studies to the concepts and realities of working with medieval manuscripts in the twenty-first century. Through the course, students and faculty will examine materials from the collections of the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts, as well as digitized versions of those materials and others. Students in the course will consider four issues relating to using medieval manuscripts in a digital world. The first issue is theoretical, considering the relationship between medieval manuscripts and their digital counterparts, and questioning the notion of digital surrogacy. What does "digital surrogacy" mean and how might it affect our consideration of the physical objects represented through the surrogate? The second issue is the practical one of imbuing best practices when creating digital assets out of medieval manuscripts. If we are to digitize manuscripts, how can we ensure that those digital versions are the best they can be? And again: what does that mean? The third issue concerns the present landscape for digital medieval manuscripts (and medieval studies more generally), including current publication technologies and the place of Open Data. The fourth issue is that of building resources with and for digitized medieval manuscripts. What tools are available to enable us to create something new? As a final project, students and faculty in the course will work together to build something new--either "hacking" an application to display and sort medieval manuscript data, or creating an exhibition using an existing platform (such as Omeka). The specific direction of the final project will depend upon the skill sets available in the room. Students should plan to bring a laptop with them to class. In their personal statement, applicants should indicate their background, special interests, and expectations from the course. They should clearly state their experience working with manuscripts or manuscript-related courses they have taken, as well as any experience using digital technologies. Although it is expected that some students will have some technological experience, it is not a requirement for the course. -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter@gmail.com Personal blog: dotporterdigital.org Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance: http://www.mesa-medieval.org MESA blog: http://mesamedieval.wordpress.com/ MESA on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MedievalElectronicScholarlyAlliance *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter@gmail.com Personal blog: dotporterdigital.org Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance: http://www.mesa-medieval.org MESA blog: http://mesamedieval.wordpress.com/ MESA on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MedievalElectronicScholarlyAlliance *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6C0636140; Mon, 3 Feb 2014 10:09:40 +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 2A58F3C04; Mon, 3 Feb 2014 10:09:30 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1C4765EBB; Mon, 3 Feb 2014 10:09:28 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140203090928.1C4765EBB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 10:09:28 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.759 taxonomy of scholarly activities and 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. 27, No. 759. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 07:44:35 +0000 From: "Munson, Matthew" Subject: DARIAH/DiRT Taxonomy, second round of feedback Dear Humanists, Last fall we opened for comments a draft of a taxonomy of scholarly activities and objects that will be used by multiple registries of digital humanities resources, including DARIAH, DiRT and DHCommons. We are very grateful for the feedback we received, and have spent the last few months revising the taxonomy in response to your comments. We have recently completed a major revision, and would like to open the taxonomy for feedback once again before we make it available for public use, and implement it on our respective sites. The latest draft of the taxonomy exists as a Google Doc here: http://goo.gl/QsAeTw Please leave comments in the document itself, or email the taxonomy coordinators listed at the end of this email. Feedback will be open until Sunday, February 9th. After that point, we will once again review and incorporate comments, with the goal of publishing the taxonomy and beginning to implement it in our directories in March. On behalf of all the coordinators in this project, I would like to thank you for your comments thus far, which we feel have significantly improved the taxonomy since the last version. We look forward to any additional feedback. Feel free at any time to email any or all of us with any questions you may have. Best, Matt Munson Coordinators: Luise Borek, borek@linglit.tu-darmstadt.de Quinn Dombrowski, quinnd@berkeley.edu Matthew Munson, mmunson@gcdh.de Jody Perkins, perkintj@miamioh.edu Christof Schöch, christof.schoech@uni-wuerzburg.de --- Matthew Munson Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (GCDH) Papendiek 16 37073 Göttingen GERMANY +49 (0)551-39-10 997 www: http://www.gcdh.de/en/people/team/matthew_munson/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A9E8B623A; Tue, 4 Feb 2014 09:42:39 +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 EC5166228; Tue, 4 Feb 2014 09:42:28 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2C10D620B; Tue, 4 Feb 2014 09:42:27 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140204084227.2C10D620B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 09:42:27 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.760 stats software? early career stories? characters not in UniCode? 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Desmond Schmidt (16) Subject: Characters not available in UniCode [2] From: Gabriele Civiliene (8) Subject: software for comparing stats data [3] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (36) Subject: Early career researchers' experiences? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 19:37:02 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: Characters not available in UniCode Dear Humanist, I often hear it claimed that there are many characters in old texts, particularly in early printed books, that are not in UniCode. The 15th century printed texts I have seen are all early Greek editions, and indeed they do have many ligatures, particularly at the ends of words, but all of these in my limited experience transliterate as ordinary sequences of known characters. What I want to know is, does anyone know of any *characters* in early books written in languages claimed to be represented in UniCode, that are not already in the standard? I do not mean *glyphs* (character shapes), because strictly speaking their representation is the responsibility of the font designer, not of the character encoding standard. I refer on this point to the UniCode FAQ: http://www.unicode.org/faq/ligature_digraph.html yours in hope Desmond Schmidt Queensland University of Technology --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 13:53:13 +0000 From: Gabriele Civiliene Subject: software for comparing stats data Hi, Can anyone suggest the software that would in simple ways compare one trend to another, measuring the points of difference and convergence, also showing which trends are more consistently closer to each other than not. Thanks! -- Gabriele Salciute-Civiliene PhD student, Dept of Digital Humanities, King's College London --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 14:52:52 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Early career researchers' experiences? > From: Peer Review College [mailto:peerreviewcollege@ahrc.ac.uk] > Sent: 03 February 2014 13:45 > Subject: AHRC and BA study on researchers post-PhD Dear colleague The AHRC and British Academy are supporting a study to understand the issues faced by individuals in the period immediately following the award of their doctorate. Part of the study is a survey for Early Career Researchers (ECRs) asking them about their experiences. This email is to ask if you could please circulate this email to any ECRs who you think might be interested and willing to help with this study. Brief details and a link to the survey can be found on our website: http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/News-and-Events/News/Pages/AHRC-and-British-Academy-Post-PhD-Study.aspx We are keen to get as full a picture as possible and any help you can provide in promoting the survey is very much appreciated. Kind regards Sue ******* Dr Sue Carver Head of Research Careers, Training and Peer Review Arts and Humanities Research Council Polaris House North Star Avenue Swindon SN2 1FL 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id EB224624E; Tue, 4 Feb 2014 09:43:41 +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 DDF5B2F6D; Tue, 4 Feb 2014 09:43:31 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AC5782F59; Tue, 4 Feb 2014 09:43:29 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140204084329.AC5782F59@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 09:43:29 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.761 job at 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. 27, No. 761. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 11:23:27 -0500 From: Dean Rehberger Subject: Director of Digital Humanities and Social Science Lab Director of Digital Humanities and Social Science Lab, Michigan State University, Department of History The Department of History at Michigan State University seeks a specialist in Digital Social Science and Humanities to coordinate its new digital initiative, LEADR (Lab for the Education and Advancement in Digital Research). The successful candidate will have knowledge of digital research methods and tools; experience developing collaborative research projects; strong oral and written communications skills; expertise with website development and design; and the ability to work with students and faculty members. The full time, annual year position is renewable annually, contingent upon funding and job performance. Salary is commensurate with experience. Travel and research budget negotiable. LEADR is a joint, forward-looking, student-centered venture of MSU History. The cutting-edge lab will be housed in Old Horticulture Hall, home of the MSU History Department. It will be a place for History and other MSU undergraduate and graduate students to develop innovative digital and web-based projects in collaboration with other students, faculty, and the digital humanities specialist who manages the lab. Duties • Establishing and managing LEADR; • Working with students and faculty members on digital projects; • Working with faculty and students on grant applications; • Working with faculty to develop curriculum around LEADR; • Working with faculty to develop internships around LEADR; • The job could involve offering an undergraduate course. Preferred Qualifications • Advanced degree (MA, PhD or ABD in a PhD program) in history digital humanities, library information or other humanities fields; • Knowledge of data mining and data visualization research and tools; • Knowledge of website development methodologies and applications. Applicants must apply at www.jobs.msu.edu. Posting #9013. There you will receive instructions about uploading a cover letter, CV and three confidential letters of recommendation. In addition, include on the cover letter a link to a website containing your CV and links to projects you have been involved with. Review of applications will begin on February 10 and continue until a hire is made. Michigan State University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Applications from women and members of minority groups are strongly encouraged. Persons with disabilities have the right to request and receive reasonable accommodation. Contact: Jeanna Whiting, whitin31@msu.edu Best Dean _____________________________ Matrix Michigan State University Natural Science Building 288 Farm Lane, Room 409 East Lansing MI 48824-1120 Direct: 517.353.4969 Main: 517.355.9300 Fax 517.355.8363 http://matrix.msu.edu http://www.historyhacks.org rehberge@msu.edu deanreh@gmail.com AIM: deanreh Twitter: @deanreh _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 575AC6256; Tue, 4 Feb 2014 09:44:22 +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 707D36257; Tue, 4 Feb 2014 09:44:13 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 668E26251; Tue, 4 Feb 2014 09:44:10 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140204084410.668E26251@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 09:44:10 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.762 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 762. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 11:36:16 -0500 From: Vika Zafrin Subject: ACH election results announced Dear Humanists, We are pleased to announce the results of the 2013 ACH elections. The amendments recently made to our Constitution and Bylaws by the ACH Executive Council have been ratified by the membership. The amended version is available on the ACH website: http://ach.org/about-ach/constitution/ Per the newly amended constitution, all new officer and Executive Council terms will begin at the close of the DH 2014 conference, to be held this July in Lausanne, Switzerland. Current officers and outgoing Exec members will serve until then. Elected to serve as ACH President for the 2014-2016 term is Stéfan Sinclair. Elected to serve as ACH Vice-President for the 2014-2016 term is Dot Porter. Elected to serve on the Executive Council for the 2014-2017 term, in alphabetical order, are Miriam Posner, Lisa M. Rhody, and Roopika Risam. On behalf of the ACH, we congratulate our newly elected representatives, and thank all of this year’s candidates for being willing to donate time to the organization. What a slate! We look forward to working with all of you, in ways formal and informal, in the coming year. -- Vika Zafrin, Secretary Association for Computers and the Humanities http://www.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 99C806266; Tue, 4 Feb 2014 09:45:53 +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 1C5096258; Tue, 4 Feb 2014 09:45:44 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 764126258; Tue, 4 Feb 2014 09:45:42 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140204084542.764126258@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 09:45:42 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.763 events: Web archiving, lectures, publications X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 763. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 13:58:42 +0000 From: Niels_Brügger Subject: PhD-Seminar, Web Archiving and Archived Web -- a new Research Method, a new Object of Study? PhD seminar Web Archiving and Archived Web — a new Research Method, a new Object of Study? Aarhus University, Denmark, 11-12 June 2014 Organised by the Danish Digital Humanities Lab/NetLab & Aarhus University, the PhD programme ‘ICT, Media, Communication and Journalism’ This PhD seminar focus on web archiving and web archives with a view to investigating the nexus between web archiving and web archives as a new research method and as a new object of study. The aim of the seminar is double. On the one hand it is to introduce web archiving as a research method to be used by scholars studying contemporary political, social, and cultural phenomena within the humanities and the social sciences, and, on the other hand, the aim is to introduce to the methodological and theoretical issues related to the use of existing (trans)national web archives, in the main in relation to historical studies involving the web. Participation as well as coffee and lunch are free of charge. Participants must pay for dinner, travel and accomodation themselves. The number of participants is limited to 20. Deadline for submission of application is Monday 24 March 2014. The lectures and the lecturers: • “Virtual Digs: Excavating, Preserving, and Archiving the Web”, Meghan Dougherty, Assistant Professor, Digital Communication, Loyola University Chicago • “A Data Driven Approach to Web Archive Research”, Anat Ben-David, post-doctoral researcher with the WebART project, University of Amsterdam • “Archiving web material for future research?”, Ditte Laursen, senior researcher and curator at the State Media Archive, State Library in Denmark • “Probing a nation’s web sphere”, Niels Brügger, Associate Professor, Aarhus University, Head of the Centre for Internet Studies Read the full call, including more about the course format, the venue, and how to enrol:http://www.netlab.dk/courses/ Very best, Niels Brügger ------------------------------------------------------------ LATEST PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS August 2013 Web historiography and Internet Studies: Challenges and perspectives, New Media & Society, 15(5), 752-764 Read more: http://nms.sagepub.com/content/15/5/752.abstract June 2013 Historical Network Analysis of the Web, Social Science Computer Review, 31(3), 306-321 Read more: http://ssc.sagepub.com/content/31/3/306.abstract March 2013 The Web and Digital Humanities: Theoretical and Methodological Concerns (w. N.O. Finnemann), Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 57(1), 66-80 Read more: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08838151.2012.761699 NIELS BRÜGGER, Associate Professor, PhD Director, the Centre for Internet Studies Department of Aesthetics and Communication Aarhus University Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Aarhus N Denmark Phone (switchboard) +45 8715 0000 Phone (direct) +45 8716 1971 Phone (mobile) +45 2945 3231 E-mail nb@imv.au.dk Webpage http://imv.au.dk/~nb Profile at LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/50a/555 Skype name: niels_bruegger The Centre for Internet Research http://cfi.au.dk NetLab http://netlab.dk The history of dr.dk, 1996-2006 http://drdk.dk LARM (Radio Culture and Auditory Resources Research Infrastructure) http://www.larm-archive.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 97C146268; Tue, 4 Feb 2014 09:47:02 +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 A39D16256; Tue, 4 Feb 2014 09:46:53 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5F0C7622A; Tue, 4 Feb 2014 09:46:52 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140204084652.5F0C7622A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 09:46:52 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.764 pubs: Digital Thoreau; cfp for War and Life 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. 27, No. 764. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven" (5) Subject: cfp: War and Life Writing [2] From: Joseph Easterly (19) Subject: Digital Thoreau takes Walden revisions and readers global --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 08:48:40 -0500 From: "Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven" Subject: cfp: War and Life Writing Call for papers: Papers are invited for publication in a thematic issue entitled War and Life Writing. Ed. Louise O. Vasvári and I-Chun Wang. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 17.2 (June 2015): http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb (Purdue University Press ISSN 1481-4374). Throughout history, humans share(d) similar experiences in war: they narrate their experiences and document suffering, trauma, dislocation, memory, etc. Life writing on war is often about (im)migration, separation, and dreams of return. The guest editors of the thematic issue on War and Life Writing invite studies on life writing in all its forms: auto/biography, memoir, testimony, diaries, letters, works in media other than print, as well as visual representation of war from all periods of human history (images are published in the journal, but only if copyright release documentation is obtained by the author of the article). The preferred theoretical background of work is comparative literature and (comparative) cultural studies. Articles in the journal are 6000-7000 words: for the style of the journal consult http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/clcwebstyleguide. Articles published in the journal are double-blind peer reviewed and indexed, among others, in the MLA International Bibliography, the Thomson Reuters ISI Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Scopus, etc. Please submit papers by 31 December 2014 to Louise O. Vasvári (Stony Brook University) at louise.vasvari@stonybrook.edu and to I-Chun Wang (National Sun Yat-sen University) at icwang@faculty.nsysu.edu.tw --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 17:47:57 +0000 From: Joseph Easterly Subject: Digital Thoreau takes Walden revisions and readers global “I desire to speak somewhere without bounds; like a man in a waking moment” Henry David Thoreau, Walden Friends, I'm writing to let you know about two milestones we've just reached at Digital Thoreau (http://digitalthoreau.org). First, Walden: A Fluid Text Edition is now available for use. This edition enables readers to track Henry David Thoreau's revisions to Walden across the seven manuscript versions he composed between 1846 and 1854. To create it, we've taken the critical apparatus of the manuscript versions first prepared by Ronald E. Clapper in his 1967 Ph.D. dissertation The Development of Walden: A Genetic Text and encoded it in TEI. When displayed in the Versioning Machine (http://v-machine.org), open-source software first developed under the editorship of Susan Schreibman, our TEI makes it possible to compare any of the seven versions with any other or with the base text, the Princeton University Press edition of Walden. To produce our fluid-text Walden, we worked closely with Prof. Clapper; Elizabeth Witherell, editor-in-chief of Princeton's The Works of Henry D. Thoreau; and Syd Bauman, XML Programmer-Analyst at Northeastern University Libraries. We gratefully acknowledge their assistance and the cooperation of Princeton University Press. Second, we've launched The Readers' Thoreau (http://commons.digitalthoreau.org), a website that embeds the published version of Walden in a social network, making it possible for readers to form groups to discuss Thoreau's classic in the margins of the text and in discussion forums. Funded largely by a State University of New York Innovative Instruction Technology Grant, The Readers' Thoreau is built entirely with open-source tools and has resulted in improvements to those tools that will benefit everyone who uses them. The social network is provided by Commons In A Box, a WordPress plugin developed at City University of New York, and the in-text social reading capability comes from another plugin, CommentPress. Christian Wach, the current lead developer of CommentPress, has written new code that tightens the integration between the two plugins and adds many new affordances to the CommentPress interface, including more granular visibility settings, the ability to "like" and feature comments, and the ability to let selected users enrich their comments with media. Readers will be able to filter the comments that are visible to them so that they see only those they care about. In addition, all readers will be able to follow discussion among a "panel of experts" — readers whose knowledge of Thoreau gives their contributions to the discussion added interest and value. We've seeded these expert comments with the late Thoreau scholar Walter Harding's annotations to his 1995 edition of Walden. Finally, I'd like to invite you to watch the development of a third project at Digital Thoreau, The Days of Walter Harding, Thoreau Scholar (http://walterharding.org). The Days is an ongoing effort by undergraduate digital humanists at SUNY Geneseo to explore the life and work of a pre-eminent Thoreauvian who helped to found the Thoreau Society in 1941, produced numerous scholarly books and articles on his subject — including the influential biography The Days of Henry Thoreau (1965) — and taught at Geneseo from 1956 to 1982, where he achieved the ranks of SUNY Distinguished Professor and University Professor. Using the open-source archiving platform Omeka, Geneseo students are digitizing materials from Harding's vast trove of Thoreauviana and organizing them into online exhibits. We're excited about all three of these projects. We hope you'll visit them at http://digitalthoreau.org, engage with them, and send us your feedback. With warm regards, Paul Schacht Professor and Chair Department of English Director, Digital Thoreau SUNY Geneseo Welles Hall 226 Geneseo, NY 14454 http://digitalthoreau.org Digital Thoreau is a collaborative enterprise of SUNY Geneseo, the Thoreau Society, and the Thoreau Institute of the Walden Woods Project Library. Special thanks to Princeton University Press for their generous cooperation. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 20CBA626C; Wed, 5 Feb 2014 10:02:08 +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 EC31E624C; Wed, 5 Feb 2014 10:01:53 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CB51F624A; Wed, 5 Feb 2014 10:01:51 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140205090151.CB51F624A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 10:01:51 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.765 characters not in UniCode X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 765. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 11:21:35 -0600 From: Laura Estill Subject: Re: 27.760 stats software? early career stories? characters not in UniCode? In-Reply-To: <20140204084227.2C10D620B@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Desmond (and all), For a list of characters that aren't currently in Unicode, see the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative (MUFI), which proposes new characters for inclusion in Unicode. This includes things like common scribal abbreviations, some of which made the transition to print. It does, however, also include ligatures and accents. http://www.mufi.info Best, Laura Dr. Laura Estill Assistant Professor of English Texas A&M University Co-editor, World Shakespeare Bibliography www.worldshakesbib.org On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 2:42 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 760. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 19:37:02 +1000 > From: Desmond Schmidt > Subject: Characters not available in UniCode > > > Dear Humanist, > > I often hear it claimed that there are many characters in old texts, > particularly in early printed books, that are not in UniCode. The 15th > century printed texts I have seen are all early Greek editions, and indeed > they do have many ligatures, particularly at the ends of words, but all of > these in my limited experience transliterate as ordinary sequences of known > characters. What I want to know is, does anyone know of any *characters* in > early books written in languages claimed to be represented in UniCode, that > are not already in the standard? I do not mean *glyphs* (character shapes), > because strictly speaking their representation is the responsibility of the > font designer, not of the character encoding standard. I refer on this > point to the UniCode FAQ: > http://www.unicode.org/faq/ligature_digraph.html > > yours in hope > > Desmond Schmidt > Queensland University of Technology _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1A949626E; Wed, 5 Feb 2014 10:03:47 +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 C918A6259; Wed, 5 Feb 2014 10:03:37 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 945C76249; Wed, 5 Feb 2014 10:03:36 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140205090336.945C76249@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 10:03:36 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.766 job at CIRCSE (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. 27, No. 766. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 10:23:12 +0000 From: Passarotti Marco Carlo Subject: Job announcement: Research Fellow in Language Resources for Latin (Milan, Italy) The CIRCSE Research Centre, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan, Italy), invites applications for a full-time, fixed-term Research Fellow position in the project Building and Integrating Advanced Language Resources for Latin funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR) within the programme "Futuro in Ricerca 2013" (FIR-2013). The project wants to enhance two available Latin treebanks (Latin Dependency Treebank: Classical Latin; Index Thomisticus Treebank: Medieval Latin) with semantic-pragmatic annotation, building a new lexical resource of Latin (a valency lexicon) and integrating all the resources in one common infrastructure to ease their on-line access and use. The task of the successful candidate will be to annotate data at both textual and lexical level and to apply and enhance natural language processing tools. Thorough understanding of Latin is required, as well as good knowledge of English. Preferential conditions: - PhD in Classics or Computational Linguistics; - attested research experience in one, or more of the following areas: use of stochastic or rule-based natural language processing tools; building and use of annotated corpora; building and use of computational lexica; - programming skills (Perl and/or Python); - theoretical and practical background in linguistic annotation of textual and/or lexical data at both syntactic and semantic/pragmatic level. The post is available for up to two years (1 year + 1 year). The salary for the first year is 19,370 Euros (1,470 monthly, after taxes). The full announcement and the application form can be downloaded at http://milano.unicatt.it/concorsi-assegni-di-ricerca-legge-240-2010-art-22 (see under: Decreto rettorale n. 758 del 30 gennaio 2014). Formal matter: although fluency in Italian is not a requirement, documents for application are in Italian. Do not hesitate to ask for help. Informal enquiries about this position should be sent to the Principal Investigator of the project, Dr. Marco Passarotti (marco.passarotti@unicatt.it). Deadline for application: March 3rd, 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CE0EF6272; Wed, 5 Feb 2014 10:07:17 +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 1DD9B6270; Wed, 5 Feb 2014 10:07:08 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E41FB6270; Wed, 5 Feb 2014 10:07:06 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140205090706.E41FB6270@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 10:07:06 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.767 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. 27, No. 767. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Alexandra Franklin (24) Subject: Symposium: THE ETHER [2] From: Carsten Timmermann (15) Subject: International Committee for the History of Technology - ICOHTEC 2014: Extended Deadline [3] From: Youakim Badr (54) Subject: CFP: The 6th International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (ACM MEDES 2014) [4] From: Charles Ess (16) Subject: CaTaC'14 - Oslo, June 17-20: website for submissions to CaTaC'14 now available [5] From: TSD 2014 (56) Subject: TSD 2014 - First Call for Papers [6] From: "Bod, Rens" (18) Subject: CfP: The Making of the Humanities IV, Rome, 16-18 October 2014 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 10:44:05 +0000 From: Alexandra Franklin Subject: Symposium: THE ETHER SYMPOSIUM: The lure of the ether 21 February 2014 10:00am - 4:30pm History Faculty University of Oxford George Street, Oxford Speakers : Imogen Clarke, 'The ether at the crossroads of classical and modern physics' Jaume Navarro, 'Ether and wireless: an old medium into new media' Richard Noakes, 'The ethereal in scientific cultures, 1880-1930' Richard Staley, 'Einstein's ether' Michael Whitworth, 'Ether and its Metaphors' 'All that is solid melts into air' ... In scientific theory and popular imagination, it was proposed up to the 19th century that electromagnetic waves must move, like the waves of an ocean, through an all-pervading medium. The ether was the material substance which was thought to be constantly vibrating with the force of many electromagnetic waves. But experiments and Einstein's theory of relativity challenged the very existence of this supposed substance, just at the time when radio was promoting the importance of the ether as the medium through which nation would speak to nation. What were the ripples, throughout cultural and intellectual life, of the demise of the ether? This event is free but booking is essential. Email bookcentre@bodleian.ox.ac.uk, with subject line: ETHER Dr Alexandra Franklin Co-ordinator, Centre for the Study of the Book Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts Bodleian Library Oxford OX1 3BG Tel.: +44 (0) 1865 277006 e-mail: alexandra.franklin@bodleian.ox.ac.uk --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 11:45:28 +0000 From: Carsten Timmermann Subject: International Committee for the History of Technology - ICOHTEC 2014: Extended Deadline 41st Symposium International Committee for the History of Technology Extended deadline : paper and session proposals for ICOHTEC 2014 are now accepted until 17 February 2014. The 41st Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology will be held in Brasov, Romania at the turn of July and August of 2014. The main theme of the meeting will be "Technology in Times of Transition". The general theme is tailored for the site, while the intention is to examine flexibility of technology to adjust to major societal transitions in the past and present. Times of transition refer to rapid and even revolutionary phases of history when major societal structures changed and nations had to bend to new conditions. Industrial revolutions of the 18th and 19th century, restructuring the economies during and after World War I, depression of the 1930s, post-war period of reshuffle and economic growth and collapse of the Soviet regime in the 1990s are examples of times of transition. In addition, the idea of the symposium is to promote dialogues between East and West as well as North and South and - if possible - also to compare experiences of various countries in the similar circumstances. ICOHTEC welcomes individual paper and poster proposals as well as the submissions of entire sessions to this symposium. The membership in ICOHTEC is NOT required to attend the meeting. Extended deadline for proposals is 17 February 2014 Please visit our website for more details http://www.icohtec.org Dr. Slawomir Lotysz Chair of the Programme Committee ICOHTEC 2014 Institute of Civil Engineering University of Zielona Gora ul. prof. Z. Szafrana 1 65-516 Zielona Góra, POLAND Email: s.lotysz@gmail.com --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 10:25:35 +0000 From: Youakim Badr Subject: CFP: The 6th International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (ACM MEDES 2014) *************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************** The 6th International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2014) In-Cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6 http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/14/ September 15-17, 2014 Buraidah-Al Qassim, Saudi Arabi 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 ------- MEDES 2014 seeks contributions in the following 10 areas: 1. Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure 2. Cloud computing 3. Emergent Intelligence 4. Service systems and Engineering 5. Trust, Security & Privacy 6. Data & Knowledge Management 7. Intelligent Web 8. Human-Computer Interaction 9. Networks and Protocols 10. Open Source 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 Deadline: 12 May 2014 Notification of Acceptance: 13 July 2014 Camera Ready: 07 August 2014 Conference Dates: 15-17 September 2014 Special Tracks: ---------------- Big Data Processing and Management Computational Intelligence 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. [...] Keynote Speakers ---------------- Fabien Gandon, INRIA, France Ton Kalker, DTS Incorporation, USA Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California, Irvine, USA Azer Bestavros, Boston University, USA Roger Lee, Central Michigan University, USA International Program Committee: -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list) --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 19:01:52 +0000 From: Charles Ess Subject: CaTaC'14 - Oslo, June 17-20: website for submissions to CaTaC'14 now available Dear HUMANISTS, Just a short note to inform those who are interested that the website for turning in papers and proposals for consideration for CaTaC’14 is now available: http://philo.at/ocs2/index.php/oslo14/ctnewd14/index For further details on the conference, including recently posted information, please see: http://www.catacconference.org/ Additional information – e.g., regarding conference fees – will also be available soon. Please pass on to any potentially interested colleagues – and many thanks in advance. Charles Ess 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 --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 21:18:10 +0000 From: TSD 2014 Subject: TSD 2014 - First Call for Papers ********************************************************* TSD 2014 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************* Seventeenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2014) Brno, Czech Republic, 8-12 September 2014 http://www.tsdconference.org/ The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association. Venue: Brno, Czech Republic THE SUBMISSION DEADLINES: March 15 2014 ............ Submission of abstracts March 22 2014 ............ Submission of full papers Submission of abstract serves for better organization of the review process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is necessary. TSD SERIES TSD series 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. TSD Proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index. Moreover, 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 (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and disambiguation, 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) Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. [...] --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 22:20:39 +0000 From: "Bod, Rens" Subject: CfP: The Making of the Humanities IV, Rome, 16-18 October 2014 The Making of the Humanities IV, Rome, 16-18 October 2014 http://makingofthehumanities.blogspot.com The fourth conference on the history of the humanities, "The Making of the Humanities IV", will take place in Rome from 16 till 18 October 2014. Goal of the Conference This is the fourth of a biennially organized conference that brings together scholars and historians interested in the cross-cultural history of the humanities (philology, art history, historiography, linguistics, logic, literary studies, musicology, theatre studies, media studies, a.o.). Theme of the 2014 Conference: Connecting Disciplines We welcome papers and panels on the history of the humanities that focus on any period or region. The theme of the 2014 conference will be Connecting Disciplines, with a special interest in comparing methods and patterns across disciplines -- both within and between regions (e.g. China and Europe). Confirmed Invited Speakers Fenrong Liu http://fenrong.net/ (Tsinghua University) Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) Helen Small (University of Oxford) Deadline for abstracts and panel proposals: 1 June 2014 For more information, see http://makingofthehumanities.blogspot.com Organization and Support Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome http://www.knir.it/en/ Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam Huizinga Institute of Cultural History (Working Group History of the Humanities) Rens Bod http://staff.science.uva.nl/~rens/ , Julia Kursell, Jaap Maat, Thijs Weststeijn _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8AEEA6280; Wed, 5 Feb 2014 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 EB9D06272; Wed, 5 Feb 2014 10:08:18 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6C460626F; Wed, 5 Feb 2014 10:08:16 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140205090816.6C460626F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 10:08:16 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.768 pubs: The Unbound Book (as a bound book...) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 768. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 21:28:23 +0000 From: "Kircz, Joost" Subject: The Unbound Book published Dear Colleagues, After our successful international conference The Unbound Book, we now produced an old-fashioned book. Check: http://e-boekenstad.nl/unbound/ for the conference and in particular http://e-boekenstad.nl/unbound/index.php/media/session-2-unbound-book/ for the video registration of all speakers and discussions. Ten extensive papers, along with an introduction and an integrated bibliography are now bound into a book published by Amsterdam University Press. Edited by Joost Kircz and Adriaan van der Weel, it contains a twelve page introduction by the editors and chapters by Arianne Baggerman, Miha Kovač, Bob Stein, Bernhard Rieder, Florian Cramer, Alain Griffard, Anne Mangen, Ray Siemens & Corina Koolen (& co-workers), and Joost Kircz & August Hans den Boef, a who=who, and 14 pages bibliography. The blurb reads: At the onset of the digital deluge, books had evolved to become the perfect reading machine. When using screen technology, it is one thing to identify what we lose in the process but quite another and, it might be argued, an ultimately more fruitful one, to identify how that screen technology might shape the activities that we always used paper for. Screen technology is likely to determine our learning and entertainment habits. Awareness and eventually new insights are essential if we are to have any hopes of influencing the direction in which screen technology can develop. This collection of essays addresses the question of what the digital revolution might mean for conventional paper books, and especially about the digital future of the long-form text popularly designated by the term ‘book’. The Unbound Book. Joost Kircz and Adriaan van der Weel (eds.) Amsterdam University press (www.aup.nl ) ISBN 978 90 8964 600 2 164 pages 156 x 234 mm Paperback 2013 €29.95 Just available on: amazon.co.uk For those of you who read Dutch we refer also to the twin conference Boek uit de Band : http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/unboundbook/ and http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/unboundbook/documentatie/videoregistratie/ for the video registration of contributions and discussions. Hope you like it. The organizing committee and the editors. Please feel free to distribute this announcement widely. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B081D616A; Thu, 6 Feb 2014 08:24:46 +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 7E5026128; Thu, 6 Feb 2014 08:24:30 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5FBB860B3; Thu, 6 Feb 2014 08:24:27 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140206072427.5FBB860B3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 08:24:27 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.769 characters not available in UniCode X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 769. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Cummings (29) Subject: Re: 27.765 characters not in UniCode [2] From: Alan Corre (8) Subject: Characters not available in Unicode --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 12:58:09 +0000 From: James Cummings Subject: Re: 27.765 characters not in UniCode In-Reply-To: <20140205090151.CB51F624A@digitalhumanities.org> On 05/02/14 09:01, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Dear Desmond (and all), > > For a list of characters that aren't currently in Unicode, see the Medieval > Unicode Font Initiative (MUFI), which proposes new characters for inclusion > in Unicode. This includes things like common scribal abbreviations, some > of which made the transition to print. It does, however, also include > ligatures and accents. http://www.mufi.info As part of the ENRICH project I helped to create a 'gaiji' bank at http://www.manuscriptorium.com/apps/gbank/ which was directly derived from the MUFI characters using the private-use-area at the time of the project. In each instance it gives a sample of XML encoding of the non-unicode character and the xml source of a element which could be included in a in the header of a TEI file. The TEI, as I'm sure you know, has long coped with the fact that there are characters not yet in Unicode (sometimes for perfectly acceptable reasons) which people wish to encode and document. In other cases they may wish to track particular scribal features or variants (e.g. single-compartment vs double-compartment 'a'). The TEI module for doing this 'gaiji' is documented at: http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/WD.html For some more information about the gaiji bank see: http://www.manuscriptorium.com/apps/gbank/docs/ENRICH%20Gaiji%20Bank.pdf Just some additional related information really. -James -- Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings@it.ox.ac.uk Academic IT Services, University of Oxford --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 11:25:21 -0600 (CST) From: Alan Corre Subject: Characters not available in Unicode In-Reply-To: <1696985272.8265200.1391620589430.JavaMail.root@uwm.edu> Thanks to Laura for drawing attention to the valuable MUFI initiative. I should like to make some additional remarks relevant to this issue. 1. Unicode is one of the miracles made possible by the digital revolution, and a great achievement. It aims to represent all the myriad symbols used by mankind from ancient times to represent speech, and is still a work in progress. Ligation in many cases is solved in a remarkable fashion. The Tamil syllabary starting at 0B83 hex represents no less than 326 symbols or combined symbols. They are represented by 1 or 2 hex numbers, occasionally three or four, and when these appear to the reader, they are ligated by the software as if by magic. Truly an excellent solution to a difficult problem. 2. Hebrew is very simple if only its consonantal form is taken into account, consisting of 22 letters + 5 which replace 5 of those letters (usually) at word ending. However, the are two ligatures, alef-lamed and ayin-lamed which occur frequently in older texts, and I found this troubling. With some help from Alan Wood, I found that there is a hex code for alef-lamed, but there is still a problem. The browsers handle this symbol in different ways, most quite unsatisfactory. Since there is purely a graphic issue, I have decided to represent the ligated forms by the separate forms, and simply note the fact. Unicode does take care of the upside down nun which occurs in the Pentateuch to mark off certain verses, as well as the numerous diacritics used in the Hebrew Bible. The vowels are also routinely inserted in Hebrew poetry. 3. While we are on the subject of unusual graphemes, I point out that the grapheme often erroneously called "Px", is actually a fancy R, originally an instruction from the physician to the pharmacist: "Take!" in Latin "recipe!", followed by the ingredients of his nostrum. I would also like to make a suggestion, for what it is worth, about the dollar sign $. Wikipedia offers so many hypotheses about its possible origin, that one may be sure the matter is still undecided. My suggestion is as follows. "dollar" is derived from the German word "thaler" (the "th" is replaced by "t" in current German) the root of which means "to count" and is cognate with English "tell", the older meaning of which is retained in the word "teller" applied to the individual who counts coins in the bank. The "reichsthaler" which might be rendered "government dollar" was a coin valued at 9 or 10 regular dollars. The storied "Maria Theresa dollar", forever dated 1740, was the standard international silver coin for centuries. Now long words sometimes get beheaded. "horologium" in Latin becomes "reloj" in Spanish, "relógio" in Portuguese. More to the point, 'sGravenhage is the fancy name for the Dutch city of den Haag, called in English "The Hague". The full original form was "des Graven Hage" meaning "the garden of the Count." ("des" in the genitive of the definite article.) I suggest that $ comes from the shortened form "*sthaler". Alan D. Corré Emeritus Professor of Hebrew Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 558E6624A; Thu, 6 Feb 2014 08:28:33 +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 5B9DB616A; Thu, 6 Feb 2014 08:28:24 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 92371616A; Thu, 6 Feb 2014 08:28:19 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140206072819.92371616A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 08:28:19 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.770 jobs: postdoc at Davidson; Assoc Director, Princeton X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 770. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Meredith Martin (38) Subject: Assoc Director, Digital Humanities Center, Princeton [2] From: "Sample, Mark" (6) Subject: Mellon Post-Doc in Digital Studies at Davidson College --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 12:44:06 -0500 From: Meredith Martin Subject: Assoc Director, Digital Humanities Center, Princeton Digital Humanities Center - Associate Director Professional Specialist Princeton University seeks an innovative leader to help build a nationally significant faculty research center that will support collaborative technology-based projects and will foster and develop inter-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary partnerships. This individual will work closely with the Faculty Director and advisory board to develop and support the infrastructure and intellectual community of the Digital Humanities Center in the short- and long-term. Princeton seeks someone who will both inform the vision of the Digital Humanities Center as well as ensure its smooth and effective operation. The Associate Director reports directly to the Faculty Director, with a secondary reporting relationship to the Deputy University Librarian Responsibilities Builds alliances to advance the Center’s goals and strategic plan. The Associate Director will bring vision and enthusiasm to the role of establishing a sustainable Digital Humanities Center at Princeton. He or she will represent the Center, serving as a liaison with Princeton University faculty, the Office of Information Technology, and the University Library. He or she will communicate and lead programmatic interactions with related organizations in the United States and abroad. The Associate Director will work closely with the Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations to raise funds to support the goals outlined in the five-year plan of the center. These goals include the creation and implementation of the postdoctoral and graduate student fellowship program and assistance in creating a graduate student alternative-academic (alt-ac) training program. The Associate Director will also engage in grant-writing and will help inform faculty about grant opportunities for short and long-term funding from sources both on and off campus. The Associate Director will work with representatives from the University Library, Office of Information Technology, McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning, Humanities Council, and other University departments, centers, and programs as needed to develop programs, resources, and infrastructure to promote digital scholarship. Coordinates, with the University Library and the Office for Information Technology, research projects led by faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students. The Associate Director will assist in project definition and analysis, including advising about project scope, requirements and specifications, and project design. He or she will evaluate and integrate existing tools for digital scholarship, and participate in the development of new applications to support digital scholarship. These applications may address needs related to digital content creation, content storage, content discovery, text analysis, data visualization and the manipulation and/or analysis of digital media. Advises the Director and the Advisory Board about the trends and directions in the fields associated with the Center’s mission. The Associate Director will keep abreast of new methodologies and practices relevant to digital humanities. He or she will update the Faculty Director and the Advisory Board regularly on practices, standards, events, and other developments relevant to the Center’s long-term goals. Executes policy and strategic direction for the Center and assumes responsibility for its operations. The Associate Director develops the Center’s budget, in collaboration with the Faculty Director. The Associate Director is responsible for careful and appropriate management of the administrative allowance, endowed funds, and grants or sponsored research. The Associate Director monitors spending and provides regular and timely analysis and projections of the available funds. He or she ensures that all internal deadlines are met and that the Center is compliant with all internal guidelines and external regulations. The Associate Director is responsible for recruiting, developing, and retaining talented and qualified staff, and for coordinating the use of the Center’s resources (space, equipment, personnel). Essential Qualifications The Princeton University Digital Humanities Center seeks a professional with a proven track record in the emerging field of digital humanities with the ability to be diplomatic, build consensus, and utilize discretion. The position is ideally suited for someone with experience in an “alt-ac” position and requires: PhD in the humanities, library sciences, social sciences, or a related discipline Minimum of 5 years experience with project management for academic research Demonstrated experience in an administrative position that includes supervisory experience Demonstrated experience in budget management and oversight of financial operations Excellent oral and written communication skills Excellent organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities Ability to anticipate and initiate appropriate action in support of the Director and Center faculty Excellent interpersonal skills Demonstrated leadership, problem-solving, and decision-making skills Successful grant-writing experience Experience with current technologies for digital scholarship and the ability to advise on hardware and software purchasing and implementation Preferred qualifications: Project-management experience with a significant digital humanities project Understanding of emergent best practices in the digital humanities Experience working with a nationally or internationally known digital humanities center Compensation and Benefits: Princeton offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits program that is responsive to the needs of its diverse staff. The comprehensive benefits program includes health and life insurance coverage, pension benefits, flexible spending accounts, income protection in the event of short- and long-term disabilities, benefits for employee education, children's tuition grants, as well as 24 vacation days a year, 9 holidays and 2 personal days. Nominations and Applications: Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Applications will be accepted only from the Jobs at Princeton website: http://www.princeton.edu/jobs and must include a resume, cover letter, and a list of three references with full contact information. https://library.princeton.edu/staff/jobs/digital-humanities-associate-director All best, Meredith Martin Associate Professor, Princeton University --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 20:54:44 +0000 From: "Sample, Mark" Subject: Mellon Post-Doc in Digital Studies at Davidson College The Davidson College Digital Studies program invites applications for a two-year Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellowship to begin August 1, 2014. Digital Studies at Davidson is an interdisciplinary program that gives students and faculty an opportunity to pursue coursework and research related to digital tools, cultures, and practices. We seek a recent humanities Ph.D. with significant experience in text or data analysis, GIS, sound studies, software studies, new media studies, or another branch of digital humanities. The area of specialization is open to any humanities discipline, including history, literature, language studies, the arts, classics, philosophy, religious studies, film and media studies, and gender and sexuality studies. The postdoctoral fellow will teach one course per semester at the introductory or advanced level. The fellow will also deliver an annual public lecture and offer a public workshop on digital tools or approaches. The fellow will be expected to provide guidance to student and faculty digital projects. Davidson College offers research support to postdoctoral fellows, including travel funding and access to the college's makerspace. Collaboration with college librarians, archivists, and instructional technologists is strongly encouraged. The director of Digital Studies will provide teaching and research mentorship to the postdoctoral fellow. Candidates should submit a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, two 1-page course proposals, a list of references, and a representative writing sample or digital project/portfolio. Apply online at https://jobs.davidson.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=53140. Queries may be directed to Mark Sample, Director of Digital Studies, masample@davidson.edu. Review of applications begins March 1, 2014. Davidson is a highly selective independent liberal arts college for 1,920 students located 20 minutes north of Charlotte. Davidson is strongly committed to achieving excellence and cultural diversity and welcomes applications from women, members of minority groups, and others who would bring additional dimensions to the college's mission. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 602C36178; Thu, 6 Feb 2014 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 00ED1621F; Thu, 6 Feb 2014 08:37:14 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C10486142; Thu, 6 Feb 2014 08:37:10 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140206073710.C10486142@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 08:37:10 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.771 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. 27, No. 771. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Tom Brughmans (53) Subject: Registration The Connected Past Paris 2014 [2] From: Alexander Hay (20) Subject: Digital.Humanities 2014 dates announced [3] From: Claire Clivaz (8) Subject: Vienna SBL/EABS July 2014: DH call for papers extended [4] From: "Wendrich, Willeke" (23) Subject: Call for contributions to 3DVR session at TAG 2014 [5] From: DigitalFrontiers (46) Subject: Call For Proposals: Digital Frontiers 2014 [6] From: "Keralis, Spencer" (32) Subject: The Business and Economics of Open Access - UNT's Fifth Symposium on Open Access - May 19-20, 2014 - Announcement & CFP --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 01:30:42 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Brughmans Subject: Registration The Connected Past Paris 2014 Apologies for cross-posting! Dear all, The free tickets to attend The Connected Past conference in Paris on 26 April are going fast but a few of them are still available. So if you would like to attend this event then grab your ticket soon via the registration page. The Connected Past Paris 2014 is a free one-day satellite conference to CAA 2014 that brings together historians and archaeologists to discuss common themes in network analysis. The full programme with abstracts can be found on the conference website. More info and a short programme are included below. Hope to see you there! Tom, Claire, and The Connected past steering committee http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/  --------------------------------------------------------- The Connected Past A satellite conference at CAA 2014, Paris Held Saturday April 26th 2014 in Sciences Po, rooms Albert Sorel and Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, 27 rue Saint-Guillaume, 75007 Paris (metro Saint-Germain-des-Prés or Rue du Bac). Building A on this map. With the Support of Sciences Po, the DYREM research program, Médialab, the CAA committee, and the French network of historical network analysis. Organisers: Claire Lemercier (CNRS, Sciences Po, Paris), Tom Brughmans (University of Southampton), The Connected Past steering committee. The conference will be held immediately after the CAA conference (Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology), also happening in Paris, allowing participants to easily attend both - but participants from other disciplines, especially history, are also most welcome. The conference aims to: * Provide a forum for the presentation of network-based research applied to archaeological or historical questions * Discuss the practicalities and implications of applying network perspectives and methodologies to archaeological and historical data in particular * Strengthen the group of researchers interested in the potential of network approaches for archaeology and history * Foster cross-disciplinary dialogue and collaborative work towards integrated analytical frameworks for understanding complex networks * Stimulate debate about the application of network theory and analysis within archaeology and history in particular, but also more widely, and highlight the relevance of this work for the continued development of network theory in other disciplines There are no attendance fees. Although this event is free of charge, registration is required and the number of places is limited. Registration to the event will open once the final programme is advertised in late November, and places will be allocated on a first-come-first-serve basis. A "The Connected Past" practical workshop, "Introduction to network analysis for archaeologists" will also be organized during CAA2014 in Paris (see the CAA programme). All the presentations and posters have been confirmed, but the exact programme is still subject to minor changes Saturday 26 April 9-9.45 Welcome coffee and introduction 9.45-11 First session: Mobility through networks Eivind Heldaas Seland: Tracing trade routes as networks: From Palmyra to the Persian Gulf in the first three centuries CE Henrik Gerding and Per Östborn: Network analyses of the diffusion of Hellenistic fired bricks Marie Lezowski: Cohesion through mobility : the networks of relics in 17th-century Lombardy 11-11.15 Coffee break 11.15-12.30 Second session: Dynamics and cross-period comparisons Habiba, Jan C. Athenstädt and Ulrik Brandes: Inferring Social Dynamics from Spatio-Temporal Network Data in the US Southwest Ana Sofia Ribeiro: Resilience in times of Early Modern financial crises: the case study of Simon Ruiz network, 1553-1606 Marion Beetschen: Scientists in Swiss Committees of Experts (1910-2010): Power and Academic Disciplines Through Networks 12.30-13.45 Lunch break 13.45-15 Third session: Cross-cultural networks Angus A. A. Mol and Floris W. M. Keehnen: Tying up Columbus: A historical and material culture study of the networks that resulted from the first European voyages into the Caribbean (AD 1492-1504) Francisco Apellaniz: Cooperating in Complex Environments: Cross-cultural Trade, Commercial Networks and Notarial Culture in Alexandria (Egypt) : 1350-1500 Florencia Del Castillo and Joan Anton Barceló: Inferring the intensity of Social Network from radiocarbon dated Bronze Age archaeological contexts 15-15.15 Coffee break 15-15.50 Fourth session: Political interactions Stanley Théry: Social network analysis between Tours notables and Louis XI (1461-1483) Laurent Beauguitte: Models of historical networks: A methodological proposal 15.50-16.45 Final session, including a very short (2 minutes) oral presentation for each poster, discussion of the posters and final general discussion Posters by: Thibault Clérice and Anthony Glaise: Network analysis and distant reading: The Cicero’s Network Damian Koniarek, Renata Madziara and Piotr Szymański: Towards a study of the structure of the business & science social network of the 2nd Polish Republic Susana Marcos: Familial alliances, social links et geographical network. The example of the province of Lusitania in the Roman Empire (to be confirmed) Stefania Merlo Perring: The ChartEx Project. Reconstructing spatial relationships from medieval charters: a collaboration between Data Mining and Historical Topography Sébastien Plutniak: Archaeology as practical mereology: an attempt to analyze a set of ceramic refits using network analysis tools Grégoire van Havre: Interactions and network analysis of a rock art site in Morro do Chapéu, Bahia, Brazil 16.45 Drinks and informal discussion --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 15:26:50 +0000 From: Alexander Hay Subject: Digital.Humanities 2014 dates announced In-Reply-To: <20140204084652.5F0C7622A@digitalhumanities.org> Digital.Humanities 2014 dates announced The University of Oxford has officially confirmed the dates and schedules for this year's Digital.Humanities at Oxford Summer Schools 2014 (DHOxSS) event. Taking part between 14-18 July 2014 at Wolfson College and Oxford's IT Services department, the event offers a choice of five day workshop for each delegate and a series of evening and social events. The first of the five workshops is Introduction to Digital Humanities, which will provide a thorough overview of theory and practice. Second, Taking control: practical scripting for Digital Humanities projects will give attendees the chance to learn scripting and technologies and data formats like Javascript, XLST and CSV. Data Curation and Access for the Digital Humanities will meanwhile demonstrate the best ways to manage, interpret and appraise digital research data. The fourth workshop, A Humanities Web of Data: Publishing, Linking and Querying on the Semantic Web, will show attendees how to publish their research in a way that allows it to be made available as Linked Data, as well as how to query RDF fata using SPARQL. Finally, An Introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative will give attendees a thorough grounding in how to produce digital editions of primary sources using TEI's new P5 guidelines and an introduction to markup and XML. Evening events will include a poster session, walking tours, a public lecture by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) and various great opportunities to network and socialise. While registration has not yet been launched, projected fees for the full five days of the event are £475 for students, £575 for academics and £675 for those from commercial organisations. This covers all the courses, food, drink and social events. However, accommodation will not be included but can be booked at extra cost as part of the registration process. http://www.software.ac.uk/news/2014-02-05-digitalhumanities-2014-dates-announced Kind regards, - Alexander -- Alexander Hay PhD Policy & Communications Consultant Electronics & Computer Science Faculty of Physical & Applied Sciences Building 32 Room 4067 University of Southampton --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 17:33:34 +0100 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: Vienna SBL/EABS July 2014: DH call for papers extended In-Reply-To: <20140204084652.5F0C7622A@digitalhumanities.org> European Association of Biblical Studies / Society for Biblical Literature 2014 INTERNATIONAL MEETING Dear all, The call for papers of the EABS/SBL meeting in Vienna (6-10 July) has been extended until the 11th of February at 11:59pm EST. The DH EABS group/ SBL consultation still welcome papers proposals: http://sbl-site.org/Meetings/Congresses_CallForPaperDetails.aspx?MeetingId=24&VolunteerUnitId=595 http://sbl-site.org/Meetings/Congresses_CallForPaperDetails.aspx?MeetingId=24&VolunteerUnitId=574 Claire Clivaz, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Juan Garces, David Hamidovic, Hugh Houghton and Dan Machiela --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 16:53:10 +0000 From: "Wendrich, Willeke" Subject: Call for contributions to 3DVR session at TAG 2014 In-Reply-To: <20140204084652.5F0C7622A@digitalhumanities.org> Dear All, Contributions are sought to a session at the Theoretical Archeology Group 2014 in Urbana Champaign. Please contact me directly before March 1 if you are interested to participate. I will submit the final list of participants to this session on March 7. Information on the conference can be found at https://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=1195202 The session title and abstract are: Convergence in 3D: theorizing recording, reconstruction and recreation of three-dimensional space and the experience within. This session assesses the theory of 3D: what is the importance of (re)constructing space; does a reconstruction represent a particular viewpoint (e.g. that of the elite, or the disenfranchised); how might Virtual Reality misrepresent; how can we express uncertainty and ambiguity; how are arguments made and displayed; above all, how can we study past environments as lived spaces? The context for human domestic, social and divine interaction is created, built, and shared space, much of which is traced in archaeology, but little of which is actually within our grasp. Creating and building the space requires investment of either capital or cooperation, and results in a complex material expression that is multi-layered: the same space might reflect shelter, safety, power, piety, posturing, negotiations, justice, or threat. Sharing space is a sign of social or ritual belonging. Location, orientation, context, building materials, decoration, re-use and cleanliness all potentially inform us on what the space might be about. Added to that are the experiential aspects of space: the light, the sound, the smells, the movement of people. Essential to understanding ancient buildings is to not focus on floor plan, but on the space above. Archaeological fieldwork is seeing an enormous rise in three-dimensional recording through laser scanning and photogrammetry. On a parallel effort the use of Virtual Reality three-dimensional reconstructions is a well-developed field, with an emphasis on experiential technologies, such as the reconstruction of light effects and soundscapes. We invite contributors who combine a theoretical approach of three-dimensionality with the practice of (re)constructing in 3D: participants who have either used three-dimensional recording in the field as a basis for three-dimensional spatial research, or who have created virtual reality (re)constructions based on archaeological and historical data. Willeke Wendrich Joan Silsbee Chair of African Cultural Archaeology Prof. Egyptian Archaeology UCLA Dept. of NELC / Cotsen Institute of Archaeology 397 Humanities Building 415 Portola Plaza PO Box 951511 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1511 +1 310 206 1496 wendrich@humnet.ucla.edu Director Center for Digital Humanities Editorial Director Cotsen Institute Press Editor-in-chief UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology http://uee.ucla.edu/ Co-director UCLA Fayum Project http://www.archbase.com/fayum/ Digital Karnak: http://dlib.etc.ucla.edu/projects/Karnak AEGARON: http://dai.aegaron.ucla.edu/ --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 17:51:36 +0000 From: DigitalFrontiers Subject: Call For Proposals: Digital Frontiers 2014 In-Reply-To: <20140204084652.5F0C7622A@digitalhumanities.org> Call for Proposals: The University of North Texas Libraries and Digital Scholarship Co-Operative seek submissions of conference presentations based on the use of digital archives, social media, and digital tools for humanities research for the third annual Digital Frontiers Conference and THATCamp, September 18-20, 2014 at UNT. Submissions may include individual papers, fully-constituted panels, birds-of-a-feather discussions, hands-on tutorials, audio-visual/multimedia, or posters. We encourage contributions from anyone who creates or uses digital collections, including scholars, educators, genealogists, archivists, technologists, librarians, and students. We welcome submissions from local and regional historical and genealogical societies, and anyone working in the public humanities. The goals of this conference are to bring a broad community of users together to share their work across disciplinary and administrative boundaries, and to explore the value and impact that digital resources have on education and research. Possible Topics * Specific ways digital libraries have changed the state of research * Digital tools and methods for conducting research * Using digital collections in the classroom * Using digital libraries for research on any humanities topic Proposal Types Digital Frontiers is accepting proposals for: * Individual papers/presentations * Panels or Roundtables * Birds-of-a-Feather Discussions * Hands-on Tutorials & Workshops * Posters (36" x 48") Individual Papers/Presentations Abstracts should be no more than 250 words in length; proposals for fully constituted panels or roundtables should include abstracts for each presentation. Panels Toward achieving the conference goals, we encourage panels to be organized to represent a range of professional backgrounds and experience. Proposals that include diverse perspectives (i.e. faculty, students, community members, and/or archivists) will be given preference over homogenous panels. We also encourage alternative panel formats (pecha kucha, lightning talks followed by small group discussions, or others) that will facilitate dialogue and enlarge participation. Please submit one 100-word abstract for the overarching panel theme, along with 250-word abstracts for each paper. Posters Project updates, single-institution case studies, and preliminary research can be presented as an academic poster. Proposals should be in the form of an abstract of 250 words describing the topic to be presented. Please do not submit the final poster! Further guidelines and specifications will be provided upon acceptance. Birds-of-a-Feather Briefs Birds-of-a-feather sessions are networking opportunities in which presenters will lead an informal discussion about a chosen topic for fellow practitioners. Proposals should be in the form of an abstract of 250 words describing the topic to be discussed. Hands-On Tutorials Share your knowledge about a research tool, software, or methodology. In 250 words, explain what kind of tutorial you plan to provide and how this tutorial is intended to benefit the audience. Digital Frontiers is growing and we are excited to work with individuals to ensure that you are able to participate. Due to anticipated number of submissions, the program planning committee may request that an individual's contribution be presented in an alternate format such as a Birds of a Feather Brief. Peer Review A panel of scholars will review proposals and make recommendations to the Program Committee. Deadline April 15, 2014 Submissions * Submit proposals online. * With all submissions, please include a brief professional bio (100 words or less - do not send CVs) and specify any A/V or other technical needs with your proposal. Conference Timeline * April 15, 2014: proposals due * May 2, 2014: notification of acceptance * September 18-19, 2014: Conference * September 20, 2014: THATCamp Spencer D. C. Keralis Conference Director UNT Digital Scholarship Co-Operative Sycamore Hall Suite 119/Office 121 digitalfrontiers@unt.edu (940) 369-6884 Digital Frontiers http://disco.unt.edu/digitalfrontiers | @DigiFront --[6]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 18:05:23 +0000 From: "Keralis, Spencer" Subject: The Business and Economics of Open Access - UNT's Fifth Symposium on Open Access - May 19-20, 2014 - Announcement & CFP In-Reply-To: <20140204084652.5F0C7622A@digitalhumanities.org> The University of North Texas Libraries are delighted to announce this year's Open Access Symposium, focused this year on the topic of the Business and Economics of Open Access. This year's symposium will be held in Ft. Worth, Texas, with a conference reception and dinner at the remarkable Modern Art Museum. Please consider proposing a session; we hope to see you there! The Business and Economics of Open Access: UNT's Fifth Annual Open Access Symposium The UNT Libraries invites you to attend The Business and Economics of Open Access. UNT's fifth annual Open Access Symposium will take place May 19-20, 2014 at the UNT Health Sciences Center in Fort Worth, Texas. Dr. Peter Binfield (PeerJ) will deliver a keynote address. Registration is now open. This year for the first time we are soliciting proposals for Alternative Events to provide additional opportunities for participants to network and share information (see Call For Proposals below). The 2014 symposium will examine the economics, business models, and practice of Open Access (OA) publications. For the purpose of delving more deeply and analytically into these aspects of successful OA, economics should be broadly understood as all of the opportunities and challenges of OA publications at either the micro or macro level that contribute to long term sustainability of OA publications. What lessons has the field learned to date about effective strategies for sustaining OA publications? How do OA publications fit into the larger cycle of scholarly communication? This symposium will bring together researchers, press directors, librarians, administrators, and other OA stakeholders with an interest in engaging with these topics. Registration Registration is now open! Early-bird registration is available until March 31. Visit https://conference.library.unt.edu/openaccess2014/register to register. Early Bird Registration: $175 Regular Registration: $195 Lodging information: http://openaccess.unt.edu/symposium/2014/info/accommodations-2014-open-access-symposium Transportation Information: http://openaccess.unt.edu/symposium/2014/info/transportation-information-2014-open-access-symposium Alternative Events Call for Proposals We seek submissions of Alternative Events to supplement the Symposium progam and provide additional opportunities for attendees to network and participate. Alternative events can include panels, fishbowl sessions, birds-of-a-feather or affinity group sessions, wildcard sessions, demos/exhibitions, or hands-on workshops. Proposals should not exceed 1000 words in length, and should follow the format described below. Alternative events will be reviewed by the Open Access Symposium Program Committee for appropriateness to the conference theme and evidence of inclusivity of participation. Please use the structure described below (Required Submission Information) to organize and prepare your proposal. Submit your proposal in PDF format to OASymposium@unt.edu. The goals of this conference are to bring a broad community of users together to share their work and explore the value and impact of Open Access on education and research. Required Submission Information: * Title: Event title * Organizer(s): Names and affiliations of the organizers * Abstract: Include a description of the proposal 150-250 words. In your abstract, address each of the following: * Purpose and Intended Audience: Please state the audience to which your proposal is designed to appeal and the goals and/or expected outcomes for your presentation. * Proposed activities including agenda, ramp-up (development), and follow-through: Describe how your presentation will be organized. The format is up to you: we welcome creative and innovative ideas for presentations of all kinds. * Relevance to the Conference/Significance to the Field: Provide a brief explanation of how this presentation will appeal to the audience both with respect to content and format. * Length: Indicate the length of your presentation (sessions are typically 75 minutes in length, but other setups are possible). * Special requests/equipment needs: If there are any special equipment needs, room set-up requirements, list them here. Alternative events requiring informal, flexible spaces will be accommodated. Best Regards, Spencer D. C. Keralis Director for Digital Scholarship, Research Associate Professor UNT Digital Scholarship Co-Operative Sycamore Hall Suite 119/Office 121 spencer.keralis@unt.edu (940) 369-6884 DiSCo http://disco.unt.edu/ | @UNTDiSCo http://twitter.com/UNTDisco _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 296516259; Thu, 6 Feb 2014 08:38:16 +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 0A6D36220; Thu, 6 Feb 2014 08:38:07 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 54BCD6220; Thu, 6 Feb 2014 08:38:05 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140206073805.54BCD6220@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 08:38:05 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.772 MA at King's College London: Skype Open Day X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 772. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 09:55:20 +0000 From: Stuart Dunn Subject: MA Skype Open Day, DDH, King's College London In-Reply-To: <52EFC54F.2040002@kcl.ac.uk> Dear all, Potential applicants for the MA in Digital Humanities at King's College London may be interested in the 'Skype Open Day' we are holding on Wednesday 26th February, 12.00-14.00 GMT. See the programme webpage for details of how to register: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/study/pgt/madh/index.aspx Please disseminate this to any students who might be interested. Places are limited, and strictly first come first served. -Stuart -- --------------------------------- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0BE472D16; Fri, 7 Feb 2014 08:52:54 +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 6319161DE; Fri, 7 Feb 2014 08:52:43 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7E84561EE; Fri, 7 Feb 2014 08:52:41 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140207075241.7E84561EE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 08:52:41 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.773 job at MPIWG (Berlin); scholarships for preservation training (London), library research (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. 27, No. 773. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Elizabethann Boran (21) Subject: Edward Worth Library 2014 Research Fellowship. [2] From: Jochen Schneider (12) Subject: JOB: Editorial Assistant MPIWG Berlin [3] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (18) Subject: Scholarships to attend DPTP in April 2014 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 09:53:46 +0000 From: Elizabethann Boran Subject: Edward Worth Library 2014 Research Fellowship. List members may be interested in the notice below for a one-month research fellowship at the Worth Library in Dublin. Fellowships at the Edward Worth Library, Dublin The Edward Worth Library, Dublin, is offering a one month research fellowship, to be held in 2014, to encourage research relevant to its collections. The Worth Library is a collection of 4,400 books, left to Dr Steevens’ Hospital by Edward Worth (1676-1733), an early eighteenth-century Dublin physician. The collection is particularly strong in three areas: early modern medicine, early modern history of science and, given that Worth was a connoisseur book collector interested in fine bindings and rare printing, the History of the Book. Research does not, however, have to be restricted to these three key areas. Further information about the collection and our catalogues may be found on our website: www.edwardworthlibrary.ie The closing date is Wednesday 2 April 2014. For further details and application procedures please contact: Dr Elizabethanne Boran, Librarian, The Edward Worth Library, Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland E-mail: elizabethanne.boran@hse.ie Dr Elizabethanne Boran, Librarian, The Edward Worth Library (1733), Dr Steevens' Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland. Tel: 00 353 1 635 2215. www.edwardworthlibrary.ie http://www.edwardworthlibrary.ie/ The Edward Worth Library is on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/edwardworthlibrary --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 12:28:02 +0100 From: Jochen Schneider Subject: JOB: Editorial Assistant MPIWG Berlin The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science is seeking to appoint an Editorial assistant part-time (50%). The post is tenable from April 1, 2014 (earlier start negotiable) until September 30, 2016. The newly appointed colleague will join the team of the Max Planck Research Group "Art and Knowledge in Premodern Europe, " (Director: Prof. Dr. Sven Dupré). Candidates with experience in academic management and editorial tasks in a university, research institute or academic publishing environment, a working knowledge of German and excellent written and spoken English are invited to apply: native English speaker preferred. We are seeking a colleague with a genuine interest in academic work and basic historical knowledge. Candidates are expected to have comprehensive digital literacy (EndNote, Zotero, PhotoShop and Office), internet skills and the ability to work in a team and to contribute to collegiality. Job profile The set up and day to day management of academic publication projects, articles, reviews, and edited volumes, to be executed by yourself with the support of a student assistant. Responsibilities include email correspondence with authors and publishers, proofreading, copy editing, formatting according to publishers style sheet, and the creation of shared bibliographies and indexes. In addition image research and acquisition of both digital files and permission to publish plays an important role. Maintaining the web presence of the publication projects on the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science website rounds off your duties. We offer A highly diversified and fascinating task in a family friendly and international atmosphere. Salary will be within the range of TVOD 10, bandwidth see http://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tvoed/bund?id=tvoed-bund-2013; part-time (50%). Candidates of all nationalities are encouraged to apply. The Max Planck Society is committed to promoting handicapped individuals and encourages them to apply. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Candidates are requested to upload a cover letter, curriculum vitae including references (Zeugnisse) and certificates of qualification on: https://s-lotus.gwdg.de/mpg/mbwg/editiondupre_2014_02.nsf/application by Feb 24, 2014. For questions concerning the Max Planck Research Group on Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe, please see here or contact Sven Dupré. For questions relating to the online application procedure please contact officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de. For administrative questions concerning the position or the Institute, please contact Claudia Paaß, Head of Administration, or Jochen Schneider, Research Coordinator. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 14:41:36 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Scholarships to attend DPTP in April 2014 In-Reply-To: <20727f0c64994618a1351e5018b45a40@winhexbeeu17.win.mail> Dear All, I'm pleased to announced four fully-funded scholarships to attend the Digital Preservation Training Programme at the University of London Union, London, 7th-9th April 2014. 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. There is more detail about the course online at http://www.dptp.org/ Attendance at the Digital Preservation Training Programme costs £700 per person (excluding VAT). However, the Digital Preservation Coalition is pleased to offer four 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 twelfth 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 fifty five scholarships to attend this course. The deadline for applications is 21st March. For more details and a link to the application process see: http://www.dpconline.org/newsroom/latest-news/1134-dpc-offers-4-scholarships-to-attend-dptp-training-course-in-april 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 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. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Graeme Gooday (23) Subject: CFP: Society for the History of Technology, Annual meeting 6-9 November, 2014 [2] From: Ray Siemens (101) Subject: Digital Libraries 2014 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 18:49:30 +0000 From: Graeme Gooday Subject: CFP: Society for the History of Technology, Annual meeting 6-9 November, 2014 Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Annual Meeting - Dearborn, Michigan 6-9 November, 2014   Call for Papers and Sessions     Formed in 1958, SHOT is an interdisciplinary and international organization concerned not only with the history of technological devices and processes but also with technology in history, the development of technology, and its relations with society and culture --that is, the relationship of technology to politics, economics, science, the arts, and the organization of production, and with the role it plays in the differentiation of individuals in society.   Accordingly, the Program Committee invites paper and session proposals on any topic in a broadly defined history of technology, including topics that push the boundaries of the discipline. The Committee welcomes proposals for individual papers or complete sessions from researchers at all levels. We also welcome proposals from all researchers, whether veterans or newcomers to SHOT's meetings, and regardless of primary discipline. Submitters are encouraged to propose sessions that include a diverse mix of participants: multinational origins, gender, graduate students and junior scholars with senior scholars, significantly diverse institutional affiliations, etc.   For the 2014 meeting the Program Committee welcomes proposals of three formats: . Individual papers . Sessions of 3 or 4 papers. . Unconventional sessions; that is, session formats that diverge in useful ways from the typical 3 or 4 papers with comment. These might include round-table sessions and workshop-style sessions with pre-circulated papers. SHOT allows paper presentations at consecutive meetings but rejects submissions of papers that are substantially the same as previous accepted submissions.  Submissions covering the same fundamental topic should explain the difference(s) with the prior presentation.   Specific instructions related to submissions (abstract, CV, etc.) are on the SHOT 2014 Call for Papers webpage (http://www.historyoftechnology.org/call_for_papers/).   The Program Committee has established a Facebook page to facilitate collaboration in establishing sessions: https://www.facebook.com/login.php?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fgroups%2F679068282131880%2F. Alternatively, postings to the sci-med-tech listserv (http://www.h-net.org/~smt/) can also facilitate collaboration and session-forming.   ***The deadline for proposals is 31 March 2014 *** Society for the History of Technology | David Lucsko | Department of History | 310 Thach Hall | Auburn University | AL | 36849-5207 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 21:29:56 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Digital Libraries 2014 In-Reply-To: <2FF906F7-BF45-4D06-888B-D0753F2030B8@city.ac.uk> Call for Papers In 2014 the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) and the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) will be held together as the International Digital Libraries Conference (DL2014) in London, UK. The combined DL conference will be the major international scientific forum on digital libraries for 2014, bringing together researchers and developers as well as content providers and users. The focus of the joint conference is on on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, organizational, and social issues. Important dates Full and short papers due: March 16, 2014, 11.59pm HAST Posters, Panels, and Demonstrations due: March 23, 2014, 11.59pm HAST Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2014 Camera ready version due: June 8, 2014 Workshop, Tutorial, and Panel submissions due: March 2, 2014, 11.59pm HAST Notification of acceptance: April 27, 2014 Doctoral Consortium submissions due: June 15, 2014 Notification of acceptance: July 6, 2014 End of early registration: TBA Conference dates: September 8 - 12, 2014 Tutorials and Doctoral Consortium date: September 8, 2014 Workshop dates: September 11 - 12, 2014 Conference Scope The themes of the 2014 TPDL/JCDL combined conference will follow the theme of ‘preserving the past - finding the future’. Digital collections face two major challenges: organising and conserving material across time, and enabling users to discover the material they need in increasingly large collections. In terms of ‘preserving the past’, example issues include the demands of digitisation of physical materials, the digital preservation of material so it remains accessible, and the systematic classification and indexation of large collections across social and technological change. In contrast, when ‘finding the future’, sophisticated discovery tools, effective library policies, support for linked data, and supporting the user’s interpretation and analysis of content are examples of the key challenges that face the communities of DL practitioners and researchers. The conference welcomes internationally leading insights into both research problems and practical complexities. Contributions from digital humanities, digital preservation, hypertext and information retrieval researchers are as much a vital part of the digital library community’s interests as core DL research, and submissions on these and other related topics are strongly encouraged. Conference Topics General areas of interest for DL 2014 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 architectures * Digital library and Web Science curriculum development * Digital library conceptual models and formal issues * 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 Retrieval and browsing * Information visualization * Interfaces to information for novices and experts * Interoperability and Information integration * Linked data and its applications * Personal digital information management * Retrieval and browsing * Scientific data curation, citation and scholarly publication * Semantic web issues in digital libraries * 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 Technical Research Paper Submissions The DL conference will have a single set of proceedings for accepted research papers and there will be one stream of submissions. Authors may choose between full 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 and abstracts and incomplete papers will not be reviewed. All papers must be original contributions. The material must therefore not have been previously published or be under review for publication elsewhere. 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 4 pages. All contributions must be written in English and must follow the ACM formatting guidelines (templates available for authoring in LaTex2e and Microsoft Word). Papers must be submitted in PDF format via the conference's EasyChair submission page (to be announced). 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. Practice Submissions Track To complement the program of papers with a strong research focus, for this special track we invite contributions capturing practitioners point of view on the topics covered by the conference. Papers are invited that report on strong case studies, provide best practice guidelines, or highlight theoretical and practical challenges encountered that are not properly addressed by existing solutions. In contrast to research papers, which will be evaluated on their novelty and innovativeness and solid theoretical foundations, practice paper tracks will be evaluated based on the applicability of the lessons learned to a broader community, and the solidity of the underlying study or practice gained for working digital libraries. Papers on the practice of digital libraries are encouraged in both long and short formats (10 and 4 pages respectively). Contributions should emphasise the methods through which effective DL systems are created, maintained, run or managed, and be supported by evidence that demonstrates the impact of the presented technique on tangible outcomes for service quality or organisational benefits. Submission is via our EasyChair page. Digital Humanities Submissions Track Submissions on the specific theme of digital humanities are invited in both long (10 pages) and short format (4 pages max.) Contributions are welcome that report reflections or analysis on any aspect of digital libaries and digital humanities. Example concerns include the use of DLs by humanities scholars, analysis methods and tools for DH researchers, and digital collection development for humanists. Submission is via the EasyChair conference management system. Poster and Demonstration Submissions Posters permit presentation of late-breaking results in an informal, interactive manner. Poster proposals should consist of a title, an extended abstract, and contact information for the authors. Accepted posters will be displayed at the conference and may include additional materials, space permitting. Abstracts of posters will appear in the proceedings. Demonstrations are meant to showcase innovative digital libraries technology and applications. This format allows the presentation of work directly to conference participants in a high-visibility setting. Demonstration proposals should consist of a title, an extended abstract, and contact information for the authors. Abstracts of accepted demonstrations will appear in the proceedings. The submissions of posters and demonstrations must not exceed 2 pages. Proposals must be written in English and must follow the ACM formatting guidelines. They are to be submitted in PDF format via the conference's EasyChair submission page. 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, and will be designed to address a topic of particular interest to those building digital libraries. 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 will be accepted. However, 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 format. The extended abstract must not exceed 2 pages and should describe: * The panel topic, if possible formulated as a provocative question * The issues to be discussed, including a brief list of different perspectives (e.g. for or against) * How the panel will be organized, including a brief biography of the moderator and each prospective panellist. * Explicit confirmation that each speaker has indicated a willingness to participate in the session if the proposal is accepted. * Any special requirements. Panel proposals should be submitted via the conference’s EasyChair page. For more information about potential panel proposals, please contact the Panel co-chairs. 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: * The tutorial title, an abstract (1-2 paragraphs, to be used in conference programs) * A description or topical outline of the tutorial (1-2 paragraphs, to be used for evaluation), * The duration (half- or full-day) * The expected number of participants * A brief description of the target audience, including level of experience (introductory, intermediate, advanced) * The learning objectives * A brief biographical sketch of the presenters * References to related previous tutorials, or previous instances of the same tutorial * Contact information for the presenters Tutorial proposals are to be submitted in PDF format via the conference's EasyChair submission page. 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, the 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 a 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 PDF format via the conference's EasyChair submission page. Doctoral Consortium 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 research. Submissions relating to any aspect of digital library research, development, and evaluation are welcomed, including: technical advances, usage and impact studies, policy analysis, social and institutional implications, theoretical contributions, interaction and design advances, and innovative applications in the sciences, humanities, and education. Doctoral consortium proposals are to be submitted in PDF format via the conference's EasyChair submission page. All Submissions According to the registration regulation for DL 2014, inclusion of papers in the proceedings is conditional upon registration of at least one author per paper. Dr. George Buchanan Reader in Digital Libraries and Human-Computer Interaction City University 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 18F17626F; Sat, 8 Feb 2014 09:52:12 +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 4CCF46269; Sat, 8 Feb 2014 09:51:58 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5D1EA623A; Sat, 8 Feb 2014 09:51:56 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140208085156.5D1EA623A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 09:51:56 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.775 jobs: short-term in Dorset; mapping for the National Library of Wales X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 775. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (60) Subject: Cynefin : Mapio Cymru [2] From: Cat Rushmore (94) Subject: short term paid jobs in Dorset: cataloguer and scanner. --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 15:11:37 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Cynefin : Mapio Cymru Begin forwarded message: > From: Nia Daniel > Subject: Cynefin : Mapio Cymru > Date: 7 February 2014 14:48:12 GMT > To: > Reply-To: Nia Daniel > > Cynefin : Mapio Cymru > > Bydd cyllid a ddarperir gan CDL yn sicrhau bod fersiynau esgobaethol o fapiau degwm Cymru, a gedwir gan Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru (LlGC), yn cael eu hadfer, eu digido a’u rhoi ar-lein. Bydd grant o £ 486,000 i'r Cyngor Archifau a Chofnodion Cymru (CACC) yn golygu y bydd mapiau graddfa fawr gynharaf Cymru yn parhau i fod yn adnodd hanesyddol pwysig ar gyfer cenedlaethau'r dyfodol. Mae'r prosiect 'Cynefin: Mapio Cymru' yn cael ei arwain gan CACC yn gweithio mewn partneriaeth â LlGC ac archifdai awdurdodau lleol ledled Cymru. > > Gwahoddir ceisiadau am 3 swydd: > > Cynorthw-ydd Cadwraeth (dan hyfforddiant) > Band 2: £15,727 - £19,422, tymor Penodol dan 31 Mawrth 2016. Oriau: 37 awr yr wythnos. Dyddiad Cau: 19 Chwefror 2014 > > Cynorthwy-ydd Digido (Prosiect Cynefin) > Band 1: £13,370 - £14,803 (pro rata), Tymor Penodol tan 31 Mawrth 2016, Oriau: 18.5 yr wythnos (yn gweithio Mercher, Iau a Gwener), Dyddiad Cau: 19 Chwefror 2014 > > Swyddog Delweddau (Prosiect Cynefin) > Band 2: £15,727 - £19,422 (pro rata), Hyd y Swydd: Tymor Penodol tan 31 Mawrth 2016. Oriau: 18.5 yr wythnos (yn gweithio Mercher, Iau a Gwener), Dyddiad Cau: 19 Chwefror 2014 > > Manylion pellach ar y wefan: > www.llgc.org.uk/cy/am-llgc/gweithiwch-gyda-ni/swyddi/ > > ---------------- > > Cynefin: Mapping Wales’ Sense of Place’ > > Funding provided by HLF will ensure that diocesan versions of the tithe maps of Wales, currently held by the National Library of Wales (NLW), are restored, digitised and made available online. The £486,000 grant to the Archives and Records Council Wales (ARCW) will mean that what many regard as the earliest large-scale maps of Wales will continue to be an important historical resource for future generations. The project ‘Cynefin: Mapping Wales’ Sense of Place’ is led by ARCW working in partnership with the NLW and local authority record offices throughout Wales. > > Applications are invited for the following 3 posts: > > Digitisation Assistant (Cynefin Project) > Band 1: £13,370 - £14,803 (pro rata). Fixed Term until 31 March 2016. Hours: 18.5 (working Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Closing Date: 19 February 2014 > See website for job description http://www.llgc.org.uk/en/about-us/work-with-us/jobs/ > > > Imaging Officer (Cynefin Project) > Band 2: £15,727 - £19,422 (pro rata). Fixed Term until 31 March 2016. Hours: 18.5 working Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Closing Date: 19 February 2014 > See website for job description http://www.llgc.org.uk/en/about-us/work-with-us/jobs/ > > > Conservation Assistant (under training). > Band 2: £15,727 - £19,422. Fixed Term until 31 March 2016. Hours: 37. Closing Date: 19 February 2014 > See website for job description http://www.llgc.org.uk/en/about-us/work-with-us/jobs/ > > > -- > Nia Mai Daniel > > Pennaeth Uned Llawysgrifau, Delweddau, Mapiau a Cherddoriaeth > Head of Manuscripts, Visual Images, Maps and Music Unit > > Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru National Library of Wales > > nia.daniel@llgc.org.uk Ffôn / Phone 01970 632878 > > Un o lyfrgelloedd mawr y byd One of the great libraries of the world > http://www.llgc.org.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 16:05:13 +0000 From: Cat Rushmore Subject: short term paid jobs in Dorset: cataloguer and scanner. Freelance cataloguer (archives) fixed term project assistant. £20,000 per annum pro rata (£80 per day for a period of ten days, payable in one lump sum of £800) Location: SSE Heritage collection & archive, Christchurch, Dorset (former Museum of Electricity) Job start and end date Monday 3rd March 2014 – Fri 14th March 2014 (10 working days) Application closing date Weds 19th Feb 2014 Main purpose and scope of the job Develop existing outline archive listings for the SSE archive at the former Museum of Electricity. Suggest historically interesting and visually appealing images to be scanned by scanning assistants, using your historical/archival experience. Position in project Reports To: John Beckerson (project manager) Works alongside 2x scanning assistants Duties and key responsibilities Take existing top level summaries of archive holdings (supplied) and develop these to the next level. Prioritise material linked to upcoming exhibition themes of (a) Women and Electricity and (b) Electricity at War. Output lists as structured digital data (eg on Excel) ready to import into MODES or use MODES (data flows to be confirmed) Other responsibilities Report any pressing conservation issues found in the archive to the Project Manager. Re-box material from commercial boxes into archival boxes as it is catalogued and/or checked, and label boxes with their contents in a manner that efficiently links them to new and existing listings. Qualifications A recognised library and/or archive qualification, or: Sufficient archive volunteer or paid experience to demonstrate cataloguing competence, proven via references from a qualified archivist plus appropriate samples of work. SKILLS AND ABILITIES Essential: Good archive catalogue and listing skills. IT skills, especially with databases. Good working knowledge of 19th and 20th century British history. Excellent written English writing skills. Excellent spelling. EXPERIENCE Experience of archive listing and cataloguing. Experience of appropriate database use. KNOWLEDGE Essential: Knowledge of how to list archives to current standards. Desirable: Interest/knowledge in/of the history of technology.  PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS Friendly temperament and able to work happily in a small team. Ability to work in Christchurch, Dorset for a short period Quick and decisive approach to work. Ability to climb steps and lift archive boxes. Personal resolve and adaptability to undertake work in a mostly unstaffed site in a small new team. Good at taking the initiative to overcome everyday practical problems and get the job done.  To see work so far: visit http://sseheritage.org.uk/ To apply: Send a CV to john@beckerson.co.uk  ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Freelance scanning assistant (archives) £70 per day for a period of 18 days, payable in one lump sum of £1,260 Location: SSE Heritage collection & archive, Christchurch, Dorset (former Museum of Electricity) Job start and end date Monday 3rd March 2014 – Weds 26th March 2014 (18 working days) Application closing date Weds 19th Feb 2014 Main purpose and scope of the job Working for the first ten days alongside an archival assistant, select historically interesting and visually appealing images to be scanned, using your historical knowledge and awareness of SSE priorities (a briefing will be given) Remove and replace items from storage in a manner consistent with good archive practice. Work in a way that fits in with the needs of the archivist sharing your space and listing the archive. Position in project Reports To: John Beckerson (project manager) Works alongside 1x scanning assistant, 1x assistant archivist Duties and key responsibilities Select and scan images from the SSE archive, and enter them into MODES database with appropriate metadata Prioritise material linked to upcoming exhibition themes of (a) Women and Electricity and (b) Electricity at War. If items to be scanned have not been accessioned, allocate a number after a briefing by the assistant archivist. Other responsibilities Report any pressing conservation issues found in the archive to the Project Manager. Work in a way that does not disrupt archive listings and the work of the assistant archivist  Person specification Qualifications A degree in history or equivalent qualification demonstrating strong historical knowledge, especially of c.19th and c.20th Britain, to generate full and accurate descriptions and dates of images. Skills & abilities Excellent IT skills, especially with databases. Good working knowledge of 19th and 20th century British history. Excellent written English writing skills. Excellent spelling. Very good general computer skills. Desirable: Knowledge of MODES software or similar. Experience Proven experience of image scanning and re-sizing. Proven experience of appropriate database use. Desirable: Experience in an archive or museum environment. Knowledge Knowledge of how to scan images, import into databases and add descriptive metadata (place, person, data, copyright etc). Desirable: Interest/knowledge in/of the history of technology. Personal attributes A friendly temperament to swap and rotate duties with the other scanning assistant and work with the assistant archivist. Able to work happily in a small team. Ability to work in Christchurch, Dorset for a short period. Quick and decisive approach to work to a deadline. Ability to climb steps and lift archive boxes. Personal resolve and adaptability to undertake work on a mostly unstaffed site within a small new team. Good at taking the initiative to overcome everyday practical problems and get the job done. A liking for structured data and creating order from disorder. To see work so far: visit http://sseheritage.org.uk/ To apply: Send a CV to john@beckerson.co.uk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BA7786279; Sat, 8 Feb 2014 09:55:56 +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 5812A626C; Sat, 8 Feb 2014 09:55:47 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0470C6268; Sat, 8 Feb 2014 09:55:45 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140208085546.0470C6268@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 09:55:45 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.776 events: concept-level sentiment analysis; science and 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. 27, No. 776. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: George Vlahakis (9) Subject: "Science and Literature" Conference, Athens 10-11 July 2014 [2] From: Erik Cambria (40) Subject: [Call for Participations] WWW'14 Tutorial on Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 04:08:53 -0800 From: George Vlahakis Subject: "Science and Literature" Conference, Athens 10-11 July 2014 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on SCIENCE & LITERATURE 10-11 JULY 2014 ATHENS, GREECE www.coscilit.org Dear Colleagues, I would like to inform you that the deadline for submission of proposals for presentation in the internation conference on "Science and Literature" has been extended until 15th of February 2014. For more details you may visit www.coscilit.org. For the organising committee George N. Vlahakis --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 09:43:30 +0000 From: Erik Cambria Subject: [Call for Participations] WWW'14 Tutorial on Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis World Wide Web conference Seoul, Korea Participants are invited to the WWW’14 tutorial on Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis, which will be held within the World Wide Web conference this April in Seoul, Korea. The tutorial aims to provide its participants means to efficiently design models, techniques, tools, and services for concept-level sentiment analysis and their commercial realizations. The tutorial draws on insights resulting from the recent IEEE Intelligent Systems special issues on Concept-Level Opinion and Sentiment Analysis and the IEEE CIM special issue on Computational Intelligence for Natural Language Processing. The tutorial includes a hands-on session to illustrate how to build a concept-level opinion-mining engine step-by-step, from semantic parsing to concept-level reasoning. BACKGROUND AND MOTIVATIONS As the Web rapidly evolves, Web users are evolving with it. In an era of social connectedness, people are becoming increasingly 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. Concept-level sentiment analysis focuses on a semantic analysis of text through the use of web ontologies or semantic networks, which allow the aggregation of conceptual and affective information associated with natural language opinions. By relying on external knowledge, such approaches step away from blind use of keywords and word co-occurrence count, but rather rely on the implicit features associated with natural language concepts. Unlike purely syntactical techniques, concept-based approaches are able to detect also sentiments that are expressed in a subtle manner, e.g., through the analysis of concepts that do not explicitly convey any emotion, but which are implicitly linked to other concepts that do so. The bag-of-concepts model can represent semantics associated with natural language much better than bags-of-words. In the bag-of-words model, in fact, a concept such as cloud computing would be split into two separate words, disrupting the semantics of the input sentence (in which, for example, the word cloud could wrongly activate concepts related to weather). The analysis at concept-level allows for the inference of semantic and affective information associated with natural language text and, hence, enables comparative fine-grained feature-based sentiment analysis. Rather than gathering isolated opinions about a whole item (e.g., iPhone5), users are generally more interested in comparing different products according to specific features (e.g., iPhone5’s vs Galaxy S3’s touchscreen), or even sub-features (e.g., fragility of iPhone5’s vs Galaxy S3’s touchscreen). In this context, the construction of comprehensive common and common-sense knowledge bases is key for feature-spotting and polarity detection, respectively. Common-sense, in particular, is necessary to properly deconstruct natural language text into sentiments – for example, to appraise the concept small room as negative for a hotel review and small queue as positive for a post office, or the concept go read the book as positive for a book review but negative for a movie review. TUTORIAL PROGRAM • Introduction (5 mins) • New Avenues in Sentiment Analysis Research - From Heuristics to Discourse Structure (5 mins) - From Coarse to Fine-Grained Analysis (5 mins) - From Keywords to Concepts (10 mins) • Concept-Level Models - Knowledge acquisition models (10 mins) - Emotion categorization models (10 mins) - Vector space models (10 mins) • Concept-Level Techniques - Analogical reasoning (10 mins) - Parallel analogy (10 mins) - Spreading activation (10 mins) • Concept-Level Tools - Sentiment resources (15 mins) - Common knowledge repositories (15 mins) - Aspect mining and polarity detection (10 mins) • Building a Concept-Level Opinion-Mining Engine - Semantic parsing (15 mins) - Sentic API (15 mins) - Application Samples (20 mins) • Conclusion (5 mins) IMPACT AND RELEVANCE The World Wide Web Conference is a global event bringing together key researchers, innovators, decision-makers, technologists, and business experts trying to make meaning out of Web data. Within this research and business area, opinion mining and sentiment analysis have become increasingly important subtasks in recent years. However, there are still many challenges, including social information understanding and integration, that need to be addressed. For these reasons, a tutorial on concept-level sentiment analysis is strongly relevant to WWW’14. 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. The audience is expected to have basic computer science skills, but psychologists and sociologists are also very welcome. The tutorial not only covers state-of-the-art approaches to concept-level sentiment analysis, but also provides information about techniques and tools to be used for practical opinion mining. ABOUT THE TUTOR Erik Cambria received his BEng and MEng with honors in Electronic Engineering from the University of Genova, in 2005 and 2008 respectively. In 2011, he has been awarded a PhD in Computing Science and Mathematics, following the completion of an industrial Cooperative Awards in Science and Engineering (CASE) research project, funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), which was born from the collaboration between the University of Stirling and the MIT Media Laboratory. Today, Erik is the lead investigator of a MINDEF-funded project on Commonsense Knowledge Representation & Reasoning at the National University of Singapore (Temasek Laboratories) and an associate researcher at the MIT Media Laboratory (Synthetic Intelligence Project). His interests include AI, Semantic Web, KR, NLP, opinion mining and sentiment analysis, affective and cognitive modeling, intention awareness, HCI, and e-health. Erik is also chair of several international conferences, e.g., Extreme Learning Machines (ELM), and workshop series, e.g., ICDM SENTIRE. He is on the editorial board of Springer Cognitive Computation and he is a guest editor of many other leading AI journals. Erik is also a fellow of the Brain Sciences Foundation, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Taiwan University, Microsoft Research Asia, and HP Labs India. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6A44B6239; Sun, 9 Feb 2014 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 71A7B6260; Sun, 9 Feb 2014 08:07:32 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E81CC622E; Sun, 9 Feb 2014 08:07:30 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20140209070730.E81CC622E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 08:07:30 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.777 characters not in UniCode 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="===============3110552959548683308==" Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org --===============3110552959548683308== Content-Type: text/plain Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 777. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 10:00:42 +0100 From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: 27.760 characters not in UniCode? at digilibLT - digital library of late latin texts we deal also with scientific texts. many characters , mainly but not only units of measure of those texts are missing in Unicode. after a rather quick recognition with the help of david paniagua (universidad de salamanca), simona musso and valentina rinaldi (both of università  del piemonte orientale) who work for the library digilibLT, we can list these groups of characters: * roman numerals with multiplier mark * greek numerals with multiplier mark: see a list with images of missing characters at https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1SZjoqdPETSaTlnd0ROOHJiUXM/edit?usp=sharing * units of measure: for a list, see the PDF doc at https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1SZjoqdPETSX2h6MEVtN1ZVMWM/edit?usp=sharing where many characters are listed which don't have a Unicode code which represents them (see all the characters which are described with"null" or with more than 2 Unicode codes); other characters in the document show a Unicode code and a glyph but that couple really refers to another 'entity' which happens to have the same glyph: it is the case for example of sescuncia which happens to have the same glyph of the british currency "pound" so when your code has sescuncia you put in the digital 'rendering' of the text the glyph of the british pound. this should be avoided, but to avoid it you need a specific character in Unicode for sescuncia, even if its glyph is identical to an already existing one * ligatures: for a list of ligatures for units of measure at https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1SZjoqdPETSSzhjbXM5QUFrekk/edit?usp=sharing. they can obviously be replaced by their disconnected elements, but if we want to produce a diplomatic edition it is not the same to reproduce, and offer to the reader, the ligature which because of its peculiar stroke could have lead to a certain error, or to read the single elements whose strokes cannot be mis-read or misinterpreted. so probably we need also specific characters for ligatures. best maurizio PS: desmond, why are you doing this catalogue of missing Unicode characters? can we hope in an initiative towards Unicode consortium to enrich the definitions of the encoding? :-)) -- The knowledge gap between rich and poor is widening. I. H. Witten, D. Bainbridge, D. M. Nichols, How to build a digital library, p. 26 ------- 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/ che cosa sono le digital humanities: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JqLst_VKCA ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università del Piemonte Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925 ------- 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/ che cosa sono le digital humanities: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JqLst_VKCA ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università del Piemonte Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925 --===============3110552959548683308== 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 --===============3110552959548683308==-- Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CF44A6291; Sun, 9 Feb 2014 08:11:58 +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 D042C6280; Sun, 9 Feb 2014 08:11:47 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CD73F626F; Sun, 9 Feb 2014 08:11:40 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140209071144.CD73F626F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 08:11:40 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.778 events: Thinking with Things 1500-1940 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 778. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 16:10:04 +0000 From: Lesley Steinitz Subject: CFP - Thinking with Things 1500-1940 Workshop Call For Papers Thinking with Things, 1500-1940: An interdisciplinary material culture workshop for graduate students and early career scholars 25th April 2014 Keynote speaker: Dr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge Closing Remarks: Dr Katy Barrett, Royal Museums, Greenwich Thinking with Things is a one-day workshop to be held on Friday 25thApril, 2014 at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), at the University of Cambridge. Research students from any discipline within the arts, social sciences, and humanities are invited to submit proposals for papers, and/or panels of three papers, that consider how 'things' can put a new perspective on the past. This workshop is affiliated with the 'Things: Comparing Material Cultures' seminar series at CRASSH http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/things Over the past thirty years, the 'material turn' has reformed the way in which many historians approach the past, but attention to the 'stuff' of history has concerned archaeologists, art historians, anthropologists and sociologists for some time. From shoes to anatomical specimens, from people to paintings, from durable glass and porcelain to fragile fabrics and ephemeral foodstuffs, a vast array of 'things' are now subject to the researcher's gaze, offering valuable windows into the experience of historical actors and the objects that mediated past social and cultural interactions. The recognition that material objects are worthy subjects of scholarship is the premise of the successful CRASSH Graduate Seminar 'Things'. Now in its third year, 'Things' began life as a series whose primary object was the study of material culture in the so-called consumerist 'long eighteenth century', taking the format of regular sessions of two papers on related themes and/or objects presented by scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds. Today, the series incorporates a longer chronological span, but retains its original focus on the material lives of the past and continues to attract scholars of all stripes to speak on a range of topics. The aim of this workshop is to give graduate students (at both PhD and Masters level) and early career scholars a chance to present their work and to participate in discussion in the lively, welcoming and highly interdisciplinary space that 'Things' has created. Following the model of the 'Things' series, the conference will be structured around a series of panels that focus on particular types of objects or particular thematic questions (such as issues of methodology or themes like industrialisation). We encourage applications for 20-minute papers (or panels of 3 such papers) along the following themes (broadly construed) in relation to the period 1500-1940: · Methodologies of material culture · Material culture and modernity · Print and advertising: books, newspapers, posters, magazines,packaging and ephemera · Material culture of religion: art, icons, buildings · Objects of desire: fashion, clothing and luxury · Eating and drink: festivals, cooking, eating paraphernalia, and food itself · Scientific and medical objects: tools, images, teaching materials · Industrial objects: mass production machines and the objects they make · War: memorials, diaries, uniforms · Gendered things · Cultures of collecting & travel Abstracts of no more than 300 words, accompanied by a brief biographical note of no more than 100 words stating degree status and any institutional affiliation, should be sent to ThinkingThingsCRASSH@gmail.com by *3rd March 2014.* This conference is being organised by Lesley Steinitz, Michelle Wallis and Mike Ashby (University of Cambridge). This workshop has been made possible due to funding from the University of Cambridge History Faculty, and organisational assistance and facilities from CRASSH. We are unable to cover travel or accommodation costs for speakers, though we are happy to help book affordable accommodation for those participants that require it. We would encourage participants to request accommodation early, as college guest rooms are in high demand. Lesley Steinitz PhD Candidate, Faculty of History, 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 90E57629A; Sun, 9 Feb 2014 08:14:31 +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 1CC0C6250; Sun, 9 Feb 2014 08:14:22 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 893506250; Sun, 9 Feb 2014 08:14:19 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140209071419.893506250@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 08:14:19 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.779 Greek & Latin resources: the Digital Loeb and the Perseus & Leipzig 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 779. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Gregory Crane (45) Subject: the Perseus Corpus and the Leipzig Corpus of Open Greek and Latin [2] From: Gregory Crane (7) Subject: Perseus and Open Philology comments on the new Digital Loeb --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 17:15:00 -0500 From: Gregory Crane Subject: the Perseus Corpus and the Leipzig Corpus of Open Greek and Latin Dear List Members, I have prepared a brief description of two projects. (1) the Perseus Corpus of Open Greek and Latin -- essentially and revision of the source texts in Perseus (and including a number not yet available on the Perseus site) and (2) the Leipzig Corpus of Open Greek and Latin, which will build upon, but should be much larger than, the initial Perseus Corpus. Downloading the Leipzig Corpus will get you the Perseus Corpus as well. We have resources in hand to begin the Leipzig Corpus and new materials should start to appear in 2014 and in early 2015 but our hope is to add another 300 million words of Greek and Latin TEI EpiDoc XML and we are submitting a proposal to the German Science Foundation Digitization and Cataloging Program. I am looking for feedback. The DFG program requires matching funds -- you match 1 euro and DFG can give you 2 euros. Because of the Humboldt Chair, we can make the match but we need to get started if we want a chance at a second possible 3 year cycle beginning during the five year Humboldt startup funding. We hope to submit the proposal by March 1. You can find a fuller description below: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16IOgJ1zqR2Hf6JK27qUDrJQ_VZP-w2xne8jQnb0P_1I/edit The current working abstract for the proposal follows: The Open Philology Project proposes to use public domain editions (including under German law editions published as late as 1991 when the project concludes in 2017) as the foundation for the Leipzig Corpus of Open Greek and Latin, available under a CC-BY-SA license, including both Classical and Byzantine Greek as well as Latin works produced both during and after Classical antiquity. Our goal is to provide comprehensive coverage of surviving Greek and Latin sources composed through 600 CE, to begin providing multiple editions for many works aligned with one another, and to provide a solid foundation for Byzantine Greek and the massive body of post-classical Latin. Building directly upon more than 25 years of continuous research and development by the Perseus Digital Library, upon recent breakthrough work on OCR for Classical Greek, upon scanned books available from mass digitization projects and upon preliminary work begun at Leipzig in May 2013, the Leipzig Corpus contains three components: (1) c. 400 million words of corrected OCR source texts, with FRBR-work based metadata, including least one edition of every major extant work produced through 600 CE as well as substantial initial coverage of post-classical materials, including corrected transcriptions of the textual notes and Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) XML encoding that captures at least one established citation scheme; (2) automatically generated metadata for all texts and curated metadata for as much of the collection as possible (including lemmatization and morpho-syntactic analysis, classification and identification of named entities, identification of text reuse). --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 18:25:34 -0500 From: Gregory Crane Subject: Perseus and Open Philology comments on the new Digital Loeb Hi All, I was asked -- prodded might be a more accurate term -- to write something about the new announcement for the Digital Loeb. You can see a draft at https://docs.google.com/document/d/16PLd_WYInwWLoxnbuGBrNgnR_U5ZdZRo80fImMjH13U/edit?usp=sharing I will ultimately shift that to the Perseus and Open Philology Blogs at Tufts and Leipzig. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9731E632D; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 07:00:39 +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 773276316; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 07:00:28 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3708562FD; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 07:00:26 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140210060026.3708562FD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 07:00:26 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.780 characters not in UniCode X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 780. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 19:43:43 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: Re: 27.777 characters not in UniCode In-Reply-To: <20140209070730.E81CC622E@digitalhumanities.org> Hi Maurizio, thank you very much for this information. It is most helpful, and thank you also to James, Alan and Laura for their references. I have now a wealth of information to fight back against the criticism of an argument, which I will explain briefly since Maurizio asks. It is simply that I was trying to make the case that the nature of interpretation when transcribing a character is different from that employed when using markup. If one sees an encodable Unicode character you can only choose to encode it or not - so this interpretation is binary. You might not be interested in that text. For example, do you encode the running header on a printed page? But no (sane) person would dispute that a clear "T" is a "T", even though in principle they could. So pragmatically this is not really an interpretation, or it is a different one from recording a simple textual feature like italics, which does need markup. For then I have a choice of a dozen codes in a dozen markup languages to represent it. But a character these days is mostly Unicode, and if not it can be easily translated one for one into Unicode. The counter-argument went like this: there are some characters not in Unicode that require markup to represent them. In TEI you would use to define it and to use it. But that's markup, and hence it's a clear and unambiguous character that needs interpretation to represent it. But this situation is no different from seeing a maths formula for which you need MathML or TEX, or an inline graphic. So all those things can be lumped together as "markup" and you are left with the original argument: if the character is in UniCode and the glyph is clear and non-ambiguous, then it is not really interpretative. And that covers most of the text that you transcribe. So the argument that you can't separate markup from text because it is all interpretative is weak. At least on technological grounds you reduce the amount of interpretation in the transcription by an order of magnitude when you remove the markup, including the non-Unicode characters and maths (why not?). What remains contains some kinds of interpretation like spaces and tabs and carriage returns, which are admittedly formats, but it's trivial compared to the interpretation involved in deciding ways to record other textual features that can't be represented via Unicode "text". On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 777. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 10:00:42 +0100 > From: maurizio lana > Subject: Re: 27.760 characters not in UniCode? > > > at digilibLT - digital library of late latin texts we deal also with > scientific texts. many characters , mainly but not only units of measure > of those texts are missing in Unicode. > after a rather quick recognition with the help of david paniagua > (universidad de salamanca), simona musso and valentina rinaldi (both of > università del piemonte orientale) who work for the library digilibLT, > we can list these groups of characters: > > * roman numerals with multiplier mark > * greek numerals with multiplier mark: see a list with images of > missing characters at > > https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1SZjoqdPETSaTlnd0ROOHJiUXM/edit?usp=sharing > * units of measure: for a list, see the PDF doc at > > https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1SZjoqdPETSX2h6MEVtN1ZVMWM/edit?usp=sharing > where many characters are listed which don't have a Unicode code > which represents them (see all the characters which are described > with"null" or with more than 2 Unicode codes); other characters in > the document show a Unicode code and a glyph but that couple really > refers to another 'entity' which happens to have the same glyph: it > is the case for example of sescuncia which happens to have the same > glyph of the british currency "pound" so when your code has > sescuncia you put in the digital 'rendering' of the text the glyph > of the british pound. this should be avoided, but to avoid it you > need a specific character in Unicode for sescuncia, even if its > glyph is identical to an already existing one > * ligatures: for a list of ligatures for units of measure at > > https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1SZjoqdPETSSzhjbXM5QUFrekk/edit?usp=sharing > . > they can obviously be replaced by their disconnected elements, but > if we want to produce a diplomatic edition it is not the same to > reproduce, and offer to the reader, the ligature which because of > its peculiar stroke could have lead to a certain error, or to read > the single elements whose strokes cannot be mis-read or > misinterpreted. so probably we need also specific characters for > ligatures. > > best > maurizio > > PS: desmond, why are you doing this catalogue of missing Unicode > characters? can we hope in an initiative towards Unicode consortium to > enrich the definitions of the encoding? > :-)) > > -- > The knowledge gap between rich and poor is widening. > I. H. Witten, D. Bainbridge, D. M. Nichols, > How to build a digital library, p. 26 > ------- > 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/ > che cosa sono le digital humanities: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JqLst_VKCA > ------- > Maurizio Lana - ricercatore > Università del Piemonte Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici > via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925 > ------- > 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/ > che cosa sono le digital humanities: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JqLst_VKCA > ------- > 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1296F6338; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 07:02:58 +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 13D7B6331; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 07:02:51 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AD70C632F; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 07:02:48 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140210060248.AD70C632F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 07:02:48 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.781 Global Outlook: call for nominations X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 781. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 03:52:50 +0000 From: "O'Donnell, Dan" Subject: Global Outlook Digital Humanities Call for Nominations Hi all, Since it would be really nice to encourage diversity among our candidates (and upcoming executive), let me encourage you to circulate this call for nominations and also to paraphrase it or translate it into other languages if you think that might encourage participation from underrepresented groups. In the period December 2013-January 2014, proposed bylaws were circulated for comment to the community (the bylaws can be found here: http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/proposed-bylaws/). These bylaws had been approved by the ad hoc executive we established a year ago to oversee the first year of the organisation. The bylaws establish the procedure by which GO::DH shall be governed in the future. They call for the election of an 8 member executive, from which a chair shall be chosen. The executive will also be responsible for appointing all officers. Normally, the executive will be elected to staggered two year terms, with half the executive up for election each year. For the first year, all positions on the executive are open: half the vacancies will be for a one year (renewable) term, the other half for a two year (renewable) term. Normally, the nominations and elections will occur in January. For a variety of reasons, not least of which was the need to circulate the bylaws for comment, we are one month late this year. I have recently been given funding to hire an administrative assistant, Mia Angelica Alcantara-Santiago, who has agreed to serve as returning officer and chair of the nominations committee for this first election (in future years, these positions will be held by a member of the executive who is not up for reelection). We would like, therefore, to open nominations for candidates for the executive of GO::DH. Any member of our mailing list may stand for election and self-nominations are very welcome. If you would like to nominate somebody for election (including yourself), please email Mia Angelica at caedmon@uleth.ca. She will need the name and email address of the nominee. Please ensure that your nominee is willing to stand for election. Please also ask the nominee if they would prefer to stand for a one or a two year term (both terms are renewable; in the future, all terms will be two years). In keeping with the goals and mandate of GO::DH, we strongly encourage diversity in our nominees: there are no linguistic, geographic, or other requirements for office and we encourage nominees from all countries and speakers of all languages to apply. Nominations will close February 15. A ballot will then be prepared with the candidates names and members of the mailing list will be asked to select up to eight names for election. The ballot will close, one week after it opens and the first elected GO::DH executive will be announced. Dan -- --- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AAAB26184; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 07:03:18 +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 17BC2633A; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 07:03:10 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 93D236339; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 07:03:07 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140210060307.93D236339@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 07:03:07 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.782 how some others see us X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 782. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2014 16:17:02 +0000 From: David Zeitlyn Subject: how some others see us How others/parallel disciplines see us: http://sociologicalimagination.org/archives/14642 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=lYK4auAAAAAJæ ORCID Researcher id 0000-0001-5853-7351 Scopus Author ID 6602478625 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 97965633F; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 07:03:51 +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 D66EF6334; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 07:03:44 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C4B2B6334; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 07:03:42 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140210060342.C4B2B6334@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 07:03:42 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.783 Perseus and Leipzig 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 783. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 17:15:00 -0500 From: Gregory Crane Subject: the Perseus Corpus and the Leipzig Corpus of Open Greek and Latin Dear List Members, I have prepared a brief description of two projects. (1) the Perseus Corpus of Open Greek and Latin -- essentially and revision of the source texts in Perseus (and including a number not yet available on the Perseus site) and (2) the Leipzig Corpus of Open Greek and Latin, which will build upon, but should be much larger than, the initial Perseus Corpus. Downloading the Leipzig Corpus will get you the Perseus Corpus as well. We have resources in hand to begin the Leipzig Corpus and new materials should start to appear in 2014 and in early 2015 but our hope is to add another 300 million words of Greek and Latin TEI EpiDoc XML and we are submitting a proposal to the German Science Foundation Digitization and Cataloging Program. I am looking for feedback. The DFG program requires matching funds -- you match 1 euro and DFG can give you 2 euros. Because of the Humboldt Chair, we can make the match but we need to get started if we want a chance at a second possible 3 year cycle beginning during the five year Humboldt startup funding. We hope to submit the proposal by March 1. You can find a fuller description below: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16IOgJ1zqR2Hf6JK27qUDrJQ_VZP-w2xne8jQnb0P_1I/edit The current working abstract for the proposal follows: The Open Philology Project proposes to use public domain editions (including under German law editions published as late as 1991 when the project concludes in 2017) as the foundation for the Leipzig Corpus of Open Greek and Latin, available under a CC-BY-SA license, including both Classical and Byzantine Greek as well as Latin works produced both during and after Classical antiquity. Our goal is to provide comprehensive coverage of surviving Greek and Latin sources composed through 600 CE, to begin providing multiple editions for many works aligned with one another, and to provide a solid foundation for Byzantine Greek and the massive body of post-classical Latin. Building directly upon more than 25 years of continuous research and development by the Perseus Digital Library, upon recent breakthrough work on OCR for Classical Greek, upon scanned books available from mass digitization projects and upon preliminary work begun at Leipzig in May 2013, the Leipzig Corpus contains three components: (1) c. 400 million words of corrected OCR source texts, with FRBR-work based metadata, including least one edition of every major extant work produced through 600 CE as well as substantial initial coverage of post-classical materials, including corrected transcriptions of the textual notes and Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) XML encoding that captures at least one established citation scheme; (2) automatically generated metadata for all texts and curated metadata for as much of the collection as possible (including lemmatization and morpho-syntactic analysis, classification and identification of named entities, identification of text reuse). _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D8EC56372; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 07:23:10 +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 16678636A; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 07:23:06 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2D7D5636A; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 07:23:04 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140211062304.2D7D5636A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 07:23:04 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.784 characters not in UniCode X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 784. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 10:34:46 +0100 From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.780 characters not in UniCode In-Reply-To: <20140210060026.3708562FD@digitalhumanities.org> Il 10/02/14 07:00, Humanist Discussion Group ha scritto: > Hi Maurizio, > thank you very much for this information. It is most helpful, and thank you > also to James, Alan and Laura for their references. I have now a wealth of > information to fight back against the criticism of an argument, which I > will explain briefly since Maurizio asks. thank you very much desmond for this insight into you critical thoughts. my question was an interested one because as a side effect of your request i was brought to think more throughly to the problem caused by missing Unicode characters. recalling what i wrote, one could use the currency pound Unicode character to represent the symbol for sescuncia because they share the same glyph. this can happen because we are 'people of print' but if we read the text at digital level (character encoding) no late latin text can contain a 'currency pound' symbol. similarly for thousand of other cases (for example when one unlocks ligatures). or, from another point of view: we cannot but do this real mistake at digital level because doing it we at least have something working smoothly at visual/print level. what i mean is: how one (person or group) could start an initiative for bringing into Unicode those missing characters? with 1)no worry for the glyphs, which can arrive later (the true problem is that of having the character codes); and 2) no worry for building a complete list because this could stop the initiative before it starts. best maurizio -- erano anni felici, anche se noi non ce n'eravamo accorti (Anni felici, Daniele Luchetti) ------- 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/ che cosa sono le digital humanities: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JqLst_VKCA ------- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4F737636C; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 07:24:51 +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 0AAE56369; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 07:24:47 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C9F176335; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 07:24:44 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140211062444.C9F176335@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 07:24:44 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.785 postdoc at MPIWG/V&A X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 785. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:49:24 +0100 From: Jochen Schneider Subject: Postdoctoral Fellowship Max Planck Institute for the History of Science/Victoria and Albert Museum 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 in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum (contact: Dr. Marta Ajmar, Head of Postgraduate Programme, V&A/RCA History of Design, Victoria and Albert Museum, London) announces one postdoctoral fellowship for three months between January 1 and December 31, 2015. The tenure of the fellowship is to be divided between the two institutes: the first and third month will be spent at the MPIWG, the second month at the V&A. The fellow will be offered research facilities at both institutions. 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 a 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 proposals 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. Projects related to ongoing projects at the Max Planck Research Group Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe will receive preference. The proposal should make clear how the project would benefit from the resources and contribute to the research culture of the Victoria and Albert Museum. 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 relevant 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 Institute for the History of Science covers the round trip travel costs from the fellow’s home institution and a round trip Berlin-London. The Victoria and Albert Museum is the United Kingdom’s national museum of art, craft and design. It offers an encyclopaedic resource in its collections of the visual arts from Europe and Asia, of both historical and contemporary importance, and is a powerhouse of skills and expertise. Research relating to the arts and humanities takes place across the institution and is expressed in the form of gallery development, temporary exhibitions, books which range from the popular to the highly academic, journal articles, website material, conferences and colloquia. It supports collections-based research in all areas of art and design, ensuring that exhibition, publication and gallery projects are enhanced by the most relevant and up-to-date scholarship and benefit from appropriate academic partnerships and funding opportunities. The V&A houses the National Art Library, a major public reference library for art and design. Further outstanding expertise and resources relevant to the joint fellowship can be found in the V&A’s curatorial collections and Conservation department. In close scholarly proximity to the V&A are other key ‘Albertopolis’ institutions dedicated to science, technology, art and design – the Science Museum, the Natural History Museum, Imperial College and the Royal College of Art. Many research projects are located in the Research department, which supports a wide number of exhibition research teams, a further group of scholars and the V&A/RCA Postgraduate Programme in the History of Design. It produces a number of publications and web-based outputs (Online Journal, Research Report, Research Bulletins) and oversees seminars and workshops to support the development of staff research and subject expertise. The Visiting Fellow will be based in the Research department and be expected to participate to the vibrant research culture of the department and the V&A/RCA History of Design community. S/he will be expected to contribute a research seminar during the period of the fellowship. 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. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Candidates are requested to submit a cover letter, 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 two names of referees who have agreed to write a letter of recommendation to: https://s-lotus.gwdg.de/mpg/mbwg/vadupre_2014_03.nsf/application Deadline for submission: 1 April 2014 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 (mailto: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. For enquiries concerning the Victoria and Albert Museum’s component of the fellowship, please contact Dr. Marta Ajmar, Head of Postgraduate Programme, V&A/RCA History of Design, Victoria and Albert Museum (m.ajmar@vam.ac.uk). For more information about the V&A and its resources, visit the website (http://www.vam.ac.uk/; http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/n/national-art-library/; http://collections.vam.ac.uk/; http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/c/conservation-department/; http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/r/research-department/; http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/m/ma-history-of-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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 157F6637A; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 07:28:17 +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 19B156370; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 07:28:07 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E9CF96318; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 07:28:05 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140211062805.E9CF96318@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 07:28:05 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.786 events: visualising literary & linguistic networks; DHBenelux X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 786. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: jcorbett@umac.mo (43) Subject: cfp LINGUISTIC AND LITERARY CARTOGRAPHIES: VISUALISING LINGUISTIC AND LITERARY NETWORKS [2] From: Marijn Koolen (54) Subject: DHBenelux 2014 Conference - submission deadline approaching --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:44:48 +0800 From: jcorbett@umac.mo Subject: cfp LINGUISTIC AND LITERARY CARTOGRAPHIES: VISUALISING LINGUISTIC AND LITERARY NETWORKS LINGUISTIC AND LITERARY CARTOGRAPHIES: VISUALISING LINGUISTIC AND LITERARY NETWORKS- ESSE SEMINAR Convenors: Marina Dossena, Univerrsity of Bergamo, Italy, marina.dossena@unibg.it John Corbett, University of Macau, Macao SAR, jcorbett@umac.mo This seminar to be held as part of the 12th ESSE conference in Kosice, Slovakia (29th August to 2nd September 2014), invites participation from scholars involved in the visualisation of linguistic, literary and historical relationships. There has recently been an upsurge of interest in linguistic and literary cartographies, and in particular the use of digital media to map linguistic change, literary data and historical networks. The seminar offers an opportunity for researchers this area to showcase their work in progress, and to share good practice in the development of methodologies and software. We anticipate that the session will be of interest to those working in the areas of historical corpora, correspondence and social networks, lexicography and the digital humanities. Abstract Submission We invite abstract submissions (max 200 words) for individual paper presentations by 28 February 2014 directly to the conveners ( jcorbett@umac.mo and marina.dossena@unibg.it ). The following information should be included in the abstracts: Name & Surname Affiliation E-mail Title of paper Equipment needed (all seminar rooms will be equipped with a computer and a projector) According to the conference guidelines, presenters will be asked to circulate reduced versions of their papers in advance of the seminar, and they will have 15 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussions. Proponents will be informed about the acceptance of their papers by 31 March 2014, and ESSE conference registration will open on 1 April 2014. Please do feel free to contact the seminar conveners in case you have any queries. ESSE Conference information more generally is available at http://kaa.ff.upjs.sk/en/event/4/12th-esse-conference#toc-home With best wishes John Corbett Professor of English, University of Macau www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 09:23:40 +0100 From: Marijn Koolen Subject: DHBenelux 2014 Conference - submission deadline approaching DHBenelux 2014 -- 12 & 13 June, The Hague, The Netherlands Submission deadline approaching: Conference website: http://dhbenelux.org/dhbenelux-2014-conference/ Author instructions: http://dhbenelux.org/2014-submissions/ Submissions via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dhbenelux2014 The DHBenelux conference is a yearly event to promote Digital Humanities research. DHBenelux 2014 is Hosted by Huygens ING and the Dutch National Library, 12-13 June 2014 in The Hague, the Netherlands. Important dates: The deadline for submitting abstracts is 1 March 2014. Notification of acceptance is send on 15 March 2014. The deadline for revised abstracts is on 1 April 2014. Keynote speaker: Melissa Terras (UCL). We invite submissions of abstracts on any aspect of digital humanities, especially on interdisciplinary work and new developments in Digital Humanities. We particularly encourage PhD students and junior researchers to submit abstracts. Abstracts are limited to a maximum of 500 words. Note that this call is not limited to researchers in the Benelux. Anyone can submit an abstract. Organisers: - Steven Claeyssens - Karina van Dalen-Oskam - Mike Kestemont - Marijn Koolen Programme Committee: - Rens Bod (Amsterdam) - Antal van den Bosch (Nijmegen) - Steven Claeyssens (KB) - Walter Daelemans (Antwerpen) - Karina van Dalen-Oskam (Huygens) - Björn-Olav Dozo (Liège) - Marten Duering (Luxemburg, CVCE) - Irene Haslinger (KB) - Folgert Karsdorp (Meertens) - Mike Kestemont (Antwerpen) - Corina Koolen (Amsterdam) - Marijn Koolen (Amsterdam) - Ida Nijenhuis (Huygens) - Martijn Stevens (Nijmegen) - Christoph Verbruggen (Gent) - Lotte Wilms (KB) -- Marijn Koolen Assistant professor of Digital Humanities University of Amsterdam Institute for Logic, Language & Computation Science Park 107 Room F2.44 1098 XG Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel: 020 525 7256 E-mail:marijn.koolen@uva.nl Web:http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mhakoole _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E79F76441; Wed, 12 Feb 2014 07:43:04 +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 768B66439; Wed, 12 Feb 2014 07:42:56 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2205A643A; Wed, 12 Feb 2014 07:42:55 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140212064255.2205A643A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 07:42:55 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.787 characters not in UniCode X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 787. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 20:33:00 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: Re: 27.784 characters not in UniCode In-Reply-To: <20140211062304.2D7D5636A@digitalhumanities.org> Maurizio, Perhaps you don't need a character for sescuncia. There was already a Unicode proposal in 2006 for Roman weights and measures: http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06173-roman-coinage.pdf This says that sescuncia can be easily composed from semuncia and hyphen. Sumuncia already exists - it has code 10192. So I guess the idea is that you code it as two characters and then overprint them using a format, or edit a font and get it that way. There's also a procedure for introducing new characters into Unicode, but they won't accept ligatures, since this is a font issue.(That's what they say, not me). http://www.unicode.org/pending/proposals.html hope this helps Desmond On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 784. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 10:34:46 +0100 > From: maurizio lana > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.780 characters not in UniCode > In-Reply-To: <20140210060026.3708562FD@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Il 10/02/14 07:00, Humanist Discussion Group ha scritto: > > Hi Maurizio, > > thank you very much for this information. It is most helpful, and thank > you > > also to James, Alan and Laura for their references. I have now a wealth > of > > information to fight back against the criticism of an argument, which I > > will explain briefly since Maurizio asks. > thank you very much desmond for this insight into you critical thoughts. > > my question was an interested one because as a side effect of your > request i was brought to think more throughly to the problem caused by > missing Unicode characters. > > recalling what i wrote, one could use the currency pound Unicode > character to represent the symbol for sescuncia because they share the > same glyph. this can happen because we are 'people of print' but if we > read the text at digital level (character encoding) no late latin text > can contain a 'currency pound' symbol. similarly for thousand of other > cases (for example when one unlocks ligatures). or, from another point > of view: we cannot but do this real mistake at digital level because > doing it we at least have something working smoothly at visual/print level. > > what i mean is: how one (person or group) could start an initiative for > bringing into Unicode those missing characters? with 1)no worry for the > glyphs, which can arrive later (the true problem is that of having the > character codes); and 2) no worry for building a complete list because > this could stop the initiative before it starts. > > best > maurizio > > > > -- > erano anni felici, anche se noi non ce n'eravamo accorti > (Anni felici, Daniele Luchetti) > ------- > 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/ > che cosa sono le digital humanities: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JqLst_VKCA > ------- > 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 375196448; Wed, 12 Feb 2014 07:47:37 +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 93CFA643F; Wed, 12 Feb 2014 07:47:28 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B827D643E; Wed, 12 Feb 2014 07:47:26 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140212064726.B827D643E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 07:47:26 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.788 events: logic & language; music; 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. 27, No. 788. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: EAGLE Project (38) Subject: EAGLE to hold a conference on Digital Cultural Heritage in Paris. CfP and Registration open [2] From: kcl - cerch (17) Subject: CeRch Seminar: Let's consider some new technologies for musicians, music learners, and music teachers. [3] From: Quinn Harr (24) Subject: 2nd CFP: NASSLLI 2014 Student Session --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 00:35:40 +0100 From: EAGLE Project Subject: EAGLE to hold a conference on Digital Cultural Heritage in Paris. CfP and Registration open In-Reply-To: International Conference on Information Technologies for Epigraphy and Digital Cultural Heritage in the Ancient World We warmly invite you to the EAGLE 2014 International Conference on Information Technologies for Epigraphy and Digital Cultural Heritage in the Ancient World. Hosted by EAGLE Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy, École Normale Supérieure and Collège de France, Chaire Religion, institutions et société de la Rome antique, it is the second in a series of international events planned by this European and international consortium. The conference will be held September 29-30 and October 1, 2014, in Paris. Keynote lectures will be delivered by Susan Hazan (The Israel Museum), Tom Elliott (New York University) and Thomas Jaeger (European Commission). Please post and distribute widely, and feel free to address any questions to info@eagle-network.eu. For more information or to submit a proposals, visit the conference website at http://tinyurl.com/prklbr9. Thank you and Best Wishes! The Eagle2014 Organisers *** Conference Web-Page: http://tinyurl.com/prklbr9 Call for Participation: http://tinyurl.com/ooajhzs Important dates: Submission of Panel proposals: 31 March 2014 Submission of Papers (full, short): 30 April 2014 Submission of Posters, projects, demos: 30 April 2014 Response to the Authors: 7 June 2014 Camera-ready versions: 30 June 2014 *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1392099721_2014-02-11_info@eagle-network.eu_10002.2.x-zip Follow EAGLE on Facebook and Twitter! *** EAGLE – Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy, will be a new online archive for epigraphy in Europe, co-funded through the ICT - Policy Support Programme of the European Commission. The EAGLE Best Practice Network is part of Europeana, a multi-lingual online collection of millions of digitised items from European museums, libraries, archives and multi-media collections --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 14:12:47 +0000 From: kcl - cerch Subject: CeRch Seminar: Let's consider some new technologies for musicians, music learners, and music teachers. In-Reply-To: Dear all, Apologies for cross-posting. Please find below the details of next week's CeRch seminar: Date: Tuesday, 18th February 2014, from 6.15pm to 7.30pm (GMT) Location: Anatomy Museum Space, 6th Floor, King's College London (Strand Campus) http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/campuses/strand/Strand.aspx Attendance is free and open to all, but registration is requested: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cerch-seminar-lets-consider-some-new-technologies-for-musicians-music-learners-and-music-teachers-tickets-10115205853 The seminar will be followed by wine and nibbles. All the best, Valentina Asciutti Abstract: New music technologies, or apps, have the potential to be of considerable value to musicians, particularly to learners and teachers in classrooms or during private teaching. The quantity and range of these technologies is now considerable, such that, for instance, musicians have access to a wide range of sophisticated notation software that provides almost as many ways of writing and editing music as are available in word processing. The apps can be classified as pertaining to (a) the learning of content about music (b) the learning of the skills of performance (c) sharing performance and (d) creativity in music - with many sub-divisions in each section. The presentation will focus on the website - musicappsforlearning.weebly.com - in which the author has set out the apps according to the above classification, and will briefly explain the most important features of some examples in each category. The value of most of these new technologies is very similar to the value of much of the newest software in the general: to give musicians tools through which they can work more quickly and easily, and from which they can receive automated assistance. For instance, there are apps that enable transposition from one musical style to another, or that will flag up errors in playing a specific piece, or that exploit the power of multimedia. The general impact of these technologies is likely to be towards independence of learning, performance, and creativity. This in turn would enhance motivation among people - young or old - who might otherwise not expect to be able to learn or perform or compose music. This will be an interactive seminar with audience participation encouraged, i.e. rather than talk followed by questions, we hope for an ongoing dialogue between speaker and audience members. Speaker bio: Anita Pincas is Visiting Fellow, formerly Senior lecturer, at the Institute of Education, University of London. Though not a musician, she takes an active interest in music learning and creativity, having a singer-songwriter son. She has published on the comparison between language and music as different modes of communication. Her professional fields embrace most areas of education, with a special focus on language learning, which, she feels, is not a million miles away from music learning. Her major academic fields, in a long career, have been English language and literature, new technologies especially those relevant to learning and online and/or distance education. She has taught and supervised at all levels from bachelors, through masters and doctoral work. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:06:51 +0000 From: Quinn Harr Subject: 2nd CFP: NASSLLI 2014 Student Session In-Reply-To: Good afternoon, I'm writing to announce a special Student Session to be held at the 2014 North American Summer School for Logic, Language, and Information (NASSLLI). Would you kindly consider distribution the call for papers for this session (inserted as text below) to the graduate students in your department? Many thanks. Sincerely, Quinn Harr, Ph.D. Student UMCP Philosophy Department on behalf of the NASSLLI 2014 Student Session Program Committee -- CALL FOR PAPERS NASSLLI 2014 STUDENT SESSION June 23-27, 2014 University of Maryland, College Park The North American Summer School for Logic, Language and Information (NASSLLI) welcomes paper submissions for presentation at its Student Session. Submissions may be in any of the fields related to the school (logic and language, logic and computation, or language and computation) and should represent original, unpublished work by individuals who will not yet have received their Ph.D. by the time of the conference. The Student Session will co-occur with NASSLLI and provides students an excellent opportunity to present their work to experts in their field as well as to a broader, well-informed interdisciplinary audience. All submissions will be reviewed by at least three specialists who will provide commentary on the paper regardless of its acceptance status. Select accepted papers will also be considered for inclusion in a potential volume of the conference’s proceedings. Submissions should be prepared for blind review (i.e., should not contain any information identifying the author) and should be uploaded as a .pdf file to the Student Session’s EasyChair site. Submissions should not exceed 10 pages and should be formatted standardly (11 or 12 point font, 1 inch margins). No more than one-single authored and one co-authored paper should be submitted by an individual. (All co-authors should also be students.) Authors whose submissions have been accepted and who intend to present will be required to register for NASSLLI. IMPORTANT DATES: Submissions due: February 28, 2014 (by midnight) Notifications: April 14, 2014 WEBSITES: Submissions: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=stusnasslli14 NASSLLI 2014: http://www.nasslli2014.com/ CONTACT Quinn Harr at qharr@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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2354F644A; Wed, 12 Feb 2014 07:52:41 +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 A8EDA6444; Wed, 12 Feb 2014 07:52:34 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2A96E643E; Wed, 12 Feb 2014 07:52:33 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140212065233.2A96E643E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 07:52:33 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.789 why the wreckers' bots? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 789. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 06:41:58 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: wreckers, not hackers Yesterday I received (from Adafruit, may they be praised) a Raspberry Pi in the post. I was pulled by force of curiosity and an old hacker's passion (once satisfied by building voltmeters and other such kits) away from serious work to play with it long enough to rekindle a much GUI-muffled sense of computing's primal appeal. This led just now (as I gazed across my desk longingly at the Pi and its bits) to a marvellous change in my slightly earlier annoyance at yet another attempt of someone, more likely someone's machine, to flood Humanist with bogus subscriptions. That annoyance became a question: has anyone studied the activities of those who set up and run bots the whole purpose of which is to wreck the operations of others? Here is no (supposedly) high moral purpose to bring down the great military and intelligence centres, no Robin Hoodian or Julian Assangian or Ned Kellian cyber-bushranger and romantic outlaw but bots set up to do their mischief mindlessly, possibly yielding no direct pleasure at all to the instigator. I have great sympathy for the larrikin trickster but not for such as these, who aren't even present to shake one's fist at. It would be a fascinating study, would it not? Even, perhaps, a PhD in a social science. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4D31164F7; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:00:52 +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 54CBC64F5; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:00:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9922F64F0; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:00:38 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140213090038.9922F64F0@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:00:38 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.790 characters not in UniCode X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 790. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Susana Tavares Pedro (24) Subject: Re: 27.784 characters not in UniCode [2] From: maurizio lana (36) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.787 characters not in UniCode --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 10:11:54 +0000 From: Susana Tavares Pedro Subject: Re: 27.784 characters not in UniCode In-Reply-To: <20140211062304.2D7D5636A@digitalhumanities.org> Hi Maurizio, Have you heard of the Medieval Unicode Font Iniciative (Mufi)? http://helmer.aksis.uib.no/mufi/ Their goal is to add special "scholarly" characters to Unicode by submitting proposals to the committee. The Mufi character recommendation lists many characters that *are not* (ever or yet) admitted by Unicode but are nevertheless included in the Private Use area of all Mufi-compliant fonts (whic may be found here: http://www.mufi.info/fonts/ ). They accept new character proposals from other editors and researchers. Best, Susana T Pedro On Feb 11, 2014, at 6:23 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > what i mean is: how one (person or group) could start an initiative for > bringing into Unicode those missing characters? with 1)no worry for the > glyphs, which can arrive later (the true problem is that of having the > character codes); and 2) no worry for building a complete list because > this could stop the initiative before it starts. > > best > maurizio Susana Tavares Pedro susana.t.pedro@campus.ul.pt Centro de História Faculdade de Letras Universidade de Lisboa Alameda da Universidade 1600-214 Lisboa --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 11:30:44 +0100 From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.787 characters not in UniCode In-Reply-To: <20140212064255.2205A643A@digitalhumanities.org> Il 12/02/14 07:42, Humanist Discussion Group ha scritto: > Perhaps you don't need a character for sescuncia. There was already a > Unicode proposal in 2006 for Roman weights and measures: > http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06173-roman-coinage.pdf > This says that sescuncia can be easily composed from semuncia and hyphen. > Sumuncia already exists - it has code 10192. So I guess the idea is that > you code it as two characters and then overprint them using a format, or > edit a font and get it that way. hi desmond, thanks for the hint. but the very matter at stake - which is relevant for us all i think - is if we want or not to have a correspondence 1-to-1 between characters and glyphs. if we don't want the correspondence 1-to-1 we declare the irrelevance of the true digital level of text representation, and assume that the visible level where glyphs appear is the only relevant level. if instead we want the correspondence 1-to-1 we declare that we want to be able to read texts at the encoding level. why is this relevant? if i search for what i see as an A i simply search for an A; but if i see a "composed character" like the sescuncia which you describe, i don't know easily how to search for it when i see it in the text. and there are characters which can be composed in more than 1 way... best maurizio > There's also a procedure for introducing new characters into Unicode, but > they won't accept ligatures, since this is a font issue.(That's what they > say, not me). > http://www.unicode.org/pending/proposals.html > > hope this helps > Desmond ------- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 390FE64F9; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:01:37 +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 3652264F8; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:01:28 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B760B64F4; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:01:25 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140213090125.B760B64F4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:01:25 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.791 wreckers' bots X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 791. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Joris van Zundert (80) Subject: Re: 27.789 why the wreckers' bots? [2] From: Adrian Miles (7) Subject: Re: 27.789 why the wreckers' bots? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 09:33:30 +0100 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Re: 27.789 why the wreckers' bots? In-Reply-To: <20140212065233.2A96E643E@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, Eric Hellman released an insightful post on this on February 1st: http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.nl/2014/02/crowd-frauding-why-internet-is-fake.html It is most certainly fodder for research, not even just from the social science perspective. The implications might be political and economical on a global level. The motivation for the technology is quite simple (as always): it generates money-albeit in a warped malicious way. At some point commercial business will have a serious problem and incentive to counter the click fraud by bots. One can imagine the digital 'arms race' that could unfold: anti-bots that are supposed to be fighting bot spam being lured away from their job by fake attack sites etc... Like virus control it may be a profitable business someday rising from initial rather silly behavior. Play turned vandalism turned fraud turned business? No moral indeed, just pecunia. For me the more worrying problem is that these bots before all that may wreck the web to the point of many benevolent resource owners giving up on spam battling and locking down or even completely shutting down the free flow of valuable information. Best --Joris On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 789. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 06:41:58 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: wreckers, not hackers > > Yesterday I received (from Adafruit, may they be praised) a Raspberry Pi > in the post. I was pulled by force of curiosity and an old hacker's > passion (once satisfied by building voltmeters and other such kits) away > from serious work to play with it long enough to rekindle a much > GUI-muffled sense of computing's primal appeal. This led just now (as I > gazed across my desk longingly at the Pi and its bits) to a marvellous > change in my slightly earlier annoyance at yet another attempt of > someone, more likely someone's machine, to flood Humanist with bogus > subscriptions. That annoyance became a question: has anyone studied the > activities of those who set up and run bots the whole purpose of which > is to wreck the operations of others? Here is no (supposedly) high moral > purpose to bring down the great military and intelligence centres, no > Robin Hoodian or Julian Assangian or Ned Kellian cyber-bushranger and > romantic outlaw but bots set up to do their mischief mindlessly, > possibly yielding no direct pleasure at all to the instigator. I have great > sympathy for the larrikin trickster but not for such as these, who > aren't even present to shake one's fist at. > > It would be a fascinating study, would it not? Even, perhaps, a PhD in a > social science. > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital > Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital > Humanities, University of Western Sydney > -- 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: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 20:01:29 +1100 From: Adrian Miles Subject: Re: 27.789 why the wreckers' bots? In-Reply-To: <20140212065233.2A96E643E@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard a useful starting point could be Parikka, Jussi, and Tony D Sampson. The Spam Book: On Viruses, Porn, and Other Anomalies from the Dark Side of Digital Culture. Cresskill, N.J.: Hampton Press, 2009. Print. [insert appropriate closing] Adrian Miles Program Manager B. Media and Communication (Honours) https://www.vizify.com/adrian-miles Sent with Mail Pilot _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 88B356508; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:02:14 +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 A80BB64FC; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:02:06 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0870C64FA; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:02:03 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140213090204.0870C64FA@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:02:03 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.792 getting closer to the miraculous X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 792. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 13:26:22 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: getting closer to the miraculous Geoffrey Harpham, President and Director of the National Humanities Center (U.S.), has dedicated his column in the newsletter of the NHC for Fall 2013/Winter 2014, to the question of digital humanities. I quote the first three and then the last two paragraphs: > The humanities are often said to be in decline, but one area that is > indisputably in growth mode is the “digital humanities,” a loosely > defined and indeed constantly mutating and expanding set of scholarly > and pedagogical practices that draw heavily on computing technology. > Digital humanists are cropping up everywhere, attracting attention, > students, and funding, and for this and other reasons, the digital > humanities (DH) have become both ubiquitous and controversial. > > WhatÂ’s not to like? A lot, according to some, who charge that by > replacing scholarship with technical facility and deep thought with > razzle-dazzle, DH will actually weaken and corrupt the humanities rather > than reinvigorate them. In response, advocates have pointed out that if > their work is attracting attention and support, the humanities as a > whole benefit, and that in any event the mighty force of technology > cannot be denied. > > The question is hard to adjudicate in the abstract, so letÂ’s consider > the work of three scholars working in this mode, all of whom are > involved in the creation of a Triangle Digital Humanities Network that, > while centered at the National Humanities Center, draws on the human and > technological resources at our local universities. He goes on to discuss this work. He concludes as follows: > All three of these projects set off bells in the minds of some who > feel that cultural artifacts are best appreciated in their achieved > form, as printed words in a book or completed structures. But if the > point of humanistic scholarship is to bring us to a richer and deeper > encounter with the actuality of the past, then these projects > certainly qualify as humanistic. Indeed, they could all be understood > as attempts to undo a history of falsification wrought by the > processes of abstraction and reduction required to translate acts of > sometimes disorderly or impassioned creation taking place over time > into the finished artifacts or objects we can appreciate today. > > One understandable but mistaken belief about the humanities is that > they give us the past in a form that can serve as an anchor in the > seas of time and change, a still point in a turning world, a source > of reassuring stability. But this is precisely the wrong lesson to > draw from the past, and the opposite of what the humanities actually > teach us. In all their myriad forms, the humanities seek not just to > represent the artifacts, documents, or events of the past, but to > acquaint us with the dynamic processes that brought these things into > being. The authentic humanistic response to life is not veneration > but astonishment at, and gratitude for, the miraculous fact that, > from the tumult of history, anything worthy of enduring admiration > has survived at all. The humanities are all about that miracle, and > if digital technology can get us closer to it, IÂ’m all for it. For the whole article see http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/newsletter2013/nhcnewsfallwinter2013.pdf. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 883EF6502; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:02:48 +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 487CF6508; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:02:39 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id EDDB76501; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:02:37 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140213090237.EDDB76501@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:02:37 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.793 nominations for the Succeed Award? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 793. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 15:48:16 +0100 From: Marco_BÜCHLER Subject: Succeed Award - Final Call for Nominations In-Reply-To: <52B358E3.1020500@e-humanities.net> *Succeed Awards - Call for Nominations* The Succeed project is proud to announce the Succeed Awards for text digitisation programmes. Objective The Succeed awards will recognise the successful implementation of a digitisation programme, especially those exploiting the latest technology and the output of research for the digitisation of historical text. 1. The winners will be invited to the awards ceremony during the Digitisation Days, when distinguished personalities and leading institutions in the digitisation domain will participate. 2. The awards will not convey an additional cash prize, the stress being in the recognition of leading initiatives and the world-wide dissemination of these achievements. The Succeed project looks for the widest impact of this recognition. Eligibility Institutions with active digitisation programmes are eligible for the awards. Consortia are also eligible if represented for this purpose by a single institution. Members of the Succeed consortium cannot apply for the awards. Criteria The committee will take into account: 1. Evidence of the results (efficiency, quality) produced by integration of technology in the digitisation workflow. 2. Extensibility (potential replication/adaptation) of the experience to other institutions. 3. Impact on the preservation of cultural heritage. 4. Sustainability, coordination with other initiatives, collaborative character. Deadlines The candidatures must be received before *February 15, 2014 (23:59, CET)* and the results will be announced before April 15, 2014. Submissions Nominations must be signed by a representative of the candidate institution and submitted online using the Succeed _platform_ http://www.succeed-project.eu/submission . The nomination must be written in English according to the provided _template_ http://succeed-project.eu/sites/default/files/SucceedAwardsForm.rtf . Committee 1. Milagros del Corral, UNESCO 2. Jill Cousins, Europeana 3. Frank Frischmuth, German Digital Library 4. Michael Keller, Stanford University Library 5. Steven Krauwer, Utrecht University 6. Andrew Prescott, King's College London For additional information, please visit _www.succeed-project.eu/succeed-award__s_ http://www.succeed-project.eu/succeed-awards _ _or contact us at _succeed@ua.es_ . -- Marco BܜCHLER Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (GCDH) Papendiek 16 37073 Göttingen (Heynehaus) eMail : mbuechler@e-humanities.net Web : http://www.gcdh.de/ Profil : http://www.gcdh.de/en/people/team/marco-buechler/ Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/marco.buechler LinkedIn : http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=15098543&trk=tab_pro Twitter : https://twitter.com/mabuechler *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1392216721_2014-02-12_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_27106.2.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BAC8C6509; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:05:54 +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 6713364FE; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:05:45 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id F13B864F7; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:05:42 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140213090542.F13B864F7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:05:42 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.794 events: knowledge production; minimal 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. 27, No. 794. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: John Simpson (20) Subject: Kickstarting GO:DH Minimal Computing Working Group with DH2014 Workshop [2] From: "E. Natalie Rothman" (129) Subject: Call for Participants: Roots & Routes Summer Institute --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 12:51:22 -0800 (PST) From: John Simpson Subject: Kickstarting GO:DH Minimal Computing Working Group with DH2014 Workshop Dear Humanist Subscribers, Part of the Global Outlook::Digital Humanities (GO::DH) initiative was the creation of a working group focused on minimal computing.  This group is meant to ask questions about computer use that is decidedly *not* high-performance and to explore answers to these questions.  Both the maintenance and refurbishing of machines out of necessity and the use of new streamlined computing hardware like the Raspberry Pi belong squarely in the target area of this working group.  A short summary may be found at http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/working-groups/minimal-computing/ . Haven’t heard of the Minimal Computing Working Group?  This shouldn’t be a surprise, we haven’t done anything yet!  That changes now. We’d like to kickstart the working group into action by offering a workshop at DH2014 that will allow us an opportunity to get a survey of the state of minimal computing within the DH community and to set tasks for ongoing research and support in the area.  The tentative format for this half-day workshop is as follows: 1. A series of lightning talks (2-5 minutes) about current research or work being done with or in a minimal computing environment.  These would be drawn in advance with a CFP.  Those unable to attend the workshop but wishing to present would be invited to share videos. 2. A focused brainstorming session directed at collecting ideas and projects that the Minimal Computing Working Group or its members should consider pursuing.  It is hoped that some form of participation will be open to those not on site, but this will depend or the infrastructure that is available.  This goes for the third stage as well. 3. The selection of a set of tasks, directives, and/or projects that the minimal computing working group will coordinate and support.  These will follow directly from the previous stages but these might look something like programs to: * provide training to the DH community to use minimal computing tools * share/ship computing resources with/to areas that might better use them * track hardware and software use in the humanities on a global scale * provide or recommend packages of hardware and software that are effective and proven ******** What I am hoping to glean from the Humanist mailing list is what you think of this approach and whether or not you would be interested in this workshop and/or willing to participate (either in person or by sending a video or by participating in the discussion or in some other way). ******** I’d like to get the workshop application drafted this week so any responses to this in advance of Saturday, February 15, would be greatly appreciated. Looking forward to hearing from you so that we can put this working group on track to provide great service to the GO::DH community and DH more broadly as well. -John John Simpson Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Alberta INKE and Text Mining & Visualization for Literary History --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 21:53:51 -0500 From: "E. Natalie Rothman" Subject: Call for Participants: Roots & Routes Summer Institute Dear colleagues and students, We are delighted to announce the third of three annual Roots & Routes Summer Institutes on knowledge production in the premodern Mediterranean and in the Digital Age. The Institute, which will take place at the University of Toronto Scarborough from May 26th to June 3rd, 2014, is generously supported by the University of Toronto's Connaught Fund and is completely free of charge to all participants. We hope you can join us! Please read on for details on the Institute's format, theme, and application procedure (or go directly to http:// ocs.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/utsc/RRSI3/ to apply). Format: Unlike traditional academic conferences, the Roots & Routes Summer Institute features a combination of informal presentations, seminar-style discussions of shared materials, hands-on workshops on a variety of digital tools, and small-group project development sessions. Hosted by the University of Toronto Scarborough, the institute welcomes participants from a range of disciplines interested in engaging with digital scholarship; technical experience is not a requirement. Graduate students (MA and PhD), postdoctoral fellows and faculty are all encouraged to apply. Through its exciting roster of activities the Institute encourages participants to develop a more coherent and explicitly transdisciplinary analytical framework for their scholarship using digital tools and methodologies. Participants will explore new formats for conducting research and communicating their findings. By teaming up with information technology specialists and digital scholarship experts working outside the Mediterranean, participants will have a chance to build long-term collaborative projects to enhance their ongoing individual research agendas. In order to maximize the potential for future collaboration and broad, thematic conversations, groups will be composed of participants from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds and at different stages of their scholarly careers, from senior scholars to advanced undergraduates. Participants are encouraged to engage each other's materials, bring insights from their own fields of expertise to a broader methodological and conceptual discussion, and begin to draw out connections between what are often seen as disparate fields of knowledge. Annual Theme: This year's theme, "Sociability and Materiality," aims to capture a range of historical problems and their attendant methodological and epistemological challenges. Participants are invited to define and approach this theme from the position of their individual disciplines and research interests. For example, what place does "the Mediterranean" have in discussions about manuscript, print, and digital cultures and their interpretation? What can historians, art historians, archaeologists, and other scholars learn from one another when tackling these problems? (How) are themes such as sociability and materiality useful in the study of the premodern Mediterranean? How does the recent resurgence in the history of material culture speak to longer-term interest among historians of the book in the materiality of textual artifacts?How can attention to materiality and sociability make salient the various practices of knowledge production of different disciplinary traditions, and what do such practices entail? What new ways of envisioning archives (as processes as well as products) are being facilitated by digital technologies? How do digital media and methodologies change the ways in which we identify, access, and interpret historical records? What might "collaborative research" in digital environments have to learn from (and teach) the history of earlier forms of scholarly sociability? Bottom of Form Application Guidelines: To apply, please go to our online registration site, http:// ocs.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/utsc/RRSI3/. Applicants should submit by March 6, 2014 a CV and a brief proposal (up to 600 words) that includes a discussion of their current research and a specific object they would like to present and further develop digitally. This object may be a text, an artifact, a dataset, or a cluster of any of the above. Once accepted, participants will be asked to compile a bibliography of relevant readings to share with others in advance, as well as to install and become familiar with a few digital tools (e.g. Zotero), to allow us to explore more advanced features and digital skills at the institute itself. Participants are not expected to have prior programming knowledge or other advanced digital skills, but should be genuinely interested in the potential of digital tools to challenge and transform current research practices. Selection announcements will be made by March 20, 2014. **Participation in the Institute is free of charge. Travel and accommodation bursaries may be available for out-of-town graduate students. ** For more information about the Institute, check out our website: http:// serai.utsc.utoronto.ca/rrsi2014. Please contact the organizers at rrsi2014[at]utsc.utoronto.ca for further information or to get involved in the organizing process. Concurrent Local Events: We encourage and aim to facilitate interaction between the Roots and Routes Summer Institute attendees and the following concurrent local events. Details to follow. Berkshire_Conference_of_Women_Historians "Histories on the Edge / Histoires sur la br?che" May 22-25, 2014 Toronto, Canada http://berks2014.com In addition to an exciting roster of sessions on all aspects of the history of women, gender, and sexuality, this year's Berks will feature a Digital Lab where attendees will have an opportunity to interact with the people behind a range of international digital history projects. Detailed program coming soon. Congress_of_the_Humanities_and_Social_Sciences "Borders without Boundaries" May 24-30, 2014 Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada http://congress2014.ca In addition to over seventy scholarly associations meeting at Congress, this year's Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI@Congress) will convene Wednesday, May 28 to Friday, May 30 2014. For more details go to: http:// dhsi.org/events.php ___________ E. Natalie Rothman Associate Professor of History University of Toronto rothman@utsc.utoronto.ca http://blog.utsc.utoronto.ca/rothman _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D27656513; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:06:29 +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 21BE9650F; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:06:22 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1ED4A6509; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:06:20 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140213090621.1ED4A6509@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:06:20 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.795 nominations for Outstanding Contribution? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 795. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 00:00:32 +0000 From: Dean Irvine Subject: 2014 CSDH/SCHN Outstanding Contribution Award|Le Prix de contribution exceptionnelle CSDH/SCHN 2014 Please find below a snippet of a call for nominations from the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities/Société canadienne des humanitiés numériques. Full details available online at the links below. Deadline for nominations is 15 March 2014. Dean Irvine Vice-President, CSDH/SCHN Chair, CSDH/SCHN Outstanding Contribution Award Committee ************************* [version française suit] Call for submissions for the 2014 CSDH/SCHN Outstanding Contribution Award This award is given for an exemplary project or publication by a Canadian researcher, or a researcher at a Canadian institution, or a team based at Canadian institution. It recognizes a major contribution to the field of digital humanities, broadly conceived, by a Canadian researcher or team of researchers, or a researcher or team based at a Canadian institution, in the form of a recent scholarly publication or published software or tool contribution. For more information, please visit our site: http://csdh-schn.org/2014/02/11/contribution-nominations/ Appel à candidatures pour le Prix de contribution exceptionnelle CSDH/SCHN 2014 Description : Ce prix est remis pour un projet ou une publication exemplaire par un(e) chercheur(e) canadien(ne), ou un(e) chercheur(e) dans une institution canadienne, ou une équipe basée dans une institution canadienne. Ce prix est une reconnaissance pour une contribution significative dans le domaine des humanités numériques, conçue en grande partie par un(e) chercheur(e) canadien(ne), ou un(e) chercheur(e) dans une institution canadienne, ou une équipe basée dans une institution canadienne sous la forme d’une publication savante, d’un logiciel publié, ou d’une contribution sous forme d’outil récent. Pour plus d'information, veuillez consulter notre à http://csdh-schn.org/2014/02/11/contribution-nominations/ Dean Irvine Director/Directeur, Editing Modernism in Canada/L’édition du modernisme au Canada (EMiC/EmaC) Department of English Dalhousie University 6135 University Avenue Halifax, NS B3H 4P9 email: dean.irvine@dal.ca @irvined @EMiC_project _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A09DB63CD; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 06:07:04 +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 A00DF6364; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 06:06:55 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 517BA634A; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 06:06:53 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140214050653.517BA634A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 06:06:53 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.796 wreckers' bots X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 796. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Clark, Stephen" (50) Subject: RE: 27.791 wreckers' bots [2] From: Desmond Schmidt (52) Subject: Re: 27.789 why the wreckers' bots? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:19:12 +0000 From: "Clark, Stephen" Subject: RE: 27.791 wreckers' bots In-Reply-To: <20140213090125.B760B64F4@digitalhumanities.org> William Blake got the answer: "believe Christ & his Apostles that there is a Class of men whose whole delight is in Destroying. " (Preface to Milton) The bot-makers may not know each individual act of destruction, but they can reasonably guess that they are managing to destroy a lot. ________________________________________ From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] on behalf of Humanist Discussion Group [willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk] Sent: 13 February 2014 09:01 On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 789. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 06:41:58 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: wreckers, not hackers > > Yesterday I received (from Adafruit, may they be praised) a Raspberry Pi > in the post. I was pulled by force of curiosity and an old hacker's > passion (once satisfied by building voltmeters and other such kits) away > from serious work to play with it long enough to rekindle a much > GUI-muffled sense of computing's primal appeal. This led just now (as I > gazed across my desk longingly at the Pi and its bits) to a marvellous > change in my slightly earlier annoyance at yet another attempt of > someone, more likely someone's machine, to flood Humanist with bogus > subscriptions. That annoyance became a question: has anyone studied the > activities of those who set up and run bots the whole purpose of which > is to wreck the operations of others? Here is no (supposedly) high moral > purpose to bring down the great military and intelligence centres, no > Robin Hoodian or Julian Assangian or Ned Kellian cyber-bushranger and > romantic outlaw but bots set up to do their mischief mindlessly, > possibly yielding no direct pleasure at all to the instigator. I have great > sympathy for the larrikin trickster but not for such as these, who > aren't even present to shake one's fist at. > > It would be a fascinating study, would it not? Even, perhaps, a PhD in a > social science. > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital > Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital > Humanities, University of Western Sydney > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 20:19:27 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: Re: 27.789 why the wreckers' bots? In-Reply-To: <20140212065233.2A96E643E@digitalhumanities.org> Hi Willard, Actually I spent 4 years at the Information Security Institute investigating just these kinds of attacks. Have you received any extortion demands yet? It would be interesting to trace the sender's IP addresses, since these cannot be spoofed with this kind of attack, although they can be hidden. I suspect these are script kiddies or hacktivists rather than extortionists. But if you have a server it will be attacked. You must be prepared because it will happen again. You should add a CAPTCHA to the subscription web page to prevent illicit requests. That way the bots at least can be stopped. Desmond _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 58E5863D5; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 06:07:58 +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 BCB1963A2; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 06:07:49 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0A27A63A2; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 06:07:47 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140214050748.0A27A63A2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 06:07:47 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.797 quantifying classicists? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 797. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:03:10 +0100 From: Greta Franzini Subject: Call for Collaboration: Quantifying Classics students in the world CALL FOR COLLABORATION Digital Humanities Leipzig is in the process of quantifying the total number of students of Latin and Ancient Greek in the world (see our latest blogpost here: http://www.dh.uni-leipzig.de/wo/news-announcements/). Initial results are looking good (as you can see from the map) but we'd love to receive feedback and input from all of you. Are you able to help us? Any suggestions? Comments? Questions? Your help and opinions would be greatly appreciated! Thank you. -- Greta Franzini Research Associate Digital Humanities Department of Computer Science University of Leipzig Augustusplatz 10-11 04109 Leipzig, Germany Phone: +49 341 97 32330 Email: franzini@informatik.uni-leipzig.de Web: www.dh.uni-leipzig.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 24BDC6409; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 06:08:39 +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 39E1F63D3; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 06:08:32 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C14CB63A9; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 06:08:30 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140214050830.C14CB63A9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 06:08:30 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.798 grants: National Historical Publications & Records Commission (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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 798. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 15:47:34 -0500 From: Lucy Barber Subject: Proposed Changes to NHPRC Grant Programs The National Historical Publications & Records Commission, the grantmaking arm of the United States National Archives, has been revising its grant programs to better reflect the way people are accessing and using historical records, the goals of the National Archives for public access and open government, and the goal of the Administration for a better Digital Government. On our blog Annotation (http://blogs.archives.gov/nhprc), we have posted overviews of each of our six new programs along with drafts of the new grant announcements. Access to Historical Records - projects to support preserving and processing primary source materials. Literacy & Engagement with Historical Records -- projects to explore ways to improve digital literacy and encourage citizen engagement with historical records. Online Publishing of Historical Records - projects to publish historical records online, including, compiling, digitizing, transcribing, and annotating documentary source materials. Publishing Historical Records Online: Transition Support - projects to assist print-only documentary editions and documentary editions available only through paid subscriptions to complete their projects and/or provide free online access. State Board Programming Grants - projects by state historical records advisory boards to enhance access to historical records, increase citizen engagement with records, and provide learning and development opportunities for students, citizens and professional archivists. State Government Electronic Records -- projects to accession, describe, preserve, and provide access to state government electronic records of enduring value. We welcome your comments on the announcements on Annotation. In addition, each post includes information on webinars about these new programs that we will hold between February 19-26. These webinars are designed to provide direct contact with the NHPRC staff to ask questions and share your ideas. We need your feedback by Thursday, February 27th in order to meet the new schedule for the FY 2015 grants cycle. Sincerely, Lucy Barber --Lucy Barber Deputy Executive Director National Historical Publications & Records Commission, National Archives 700 Pennsylvania Ave, Room 114 Washington, DC 20408 202-357-5306 FAX 202-357-5914 www.archives.gov/nhprc _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 859F76289; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 06:09:14 +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 D1E11625B; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 06:09:06 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id F13756223; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 06:09:04 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140214050904.F13756223@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 06:09:04 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.799 Libretto is out and about X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 799. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 12:48:10 -0500 From: Doug Reside Subject: Announcing Libretto! For those interested, my NEH Startup Grant project, Libretto (formerly MOVER) has just been released. Blog here: http://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/02/11/announcing-libretto and Google Play Store link here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.nypl.libretto 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 63C5A642A; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 06:10:05 +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 6A18F63D5; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 06:09:56 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6F0A063D3; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 06:09:54 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140214050954.6F0A063D3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 06:09:54 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.800 events: education; gaming X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 800. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Zoe Michel (109) Subject: The 2014 International Conference on Education and Educational Technologies. [2] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (26) Subject: Replaying Japan --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 13:33:21 +0000 From: Zoe Michel Subject: The 2014 International Conference on Education and Educational Technologies. EET 2014 The 2014 International Conference on Education and Educational Technologies Prague, Czech Republic, April 2-4, 2014 http://tinyurl.com/education2014 Indexing in ISI, SCOPUS ------------------------------ Proceedings in CD-ROM and Books (Hard-Copy) in ISI, SCOPUS as in 2012 and 2013 The Proceedings of the Conferences will be published in CD-ROM and Hard-Copy (as book) with all the accepted and registered papers of the conferences and will be indexed in: ISI (Thomson Reuters), ELSEVIER, SCOPUS, Zentralblatt MATH, British Library, EBSCO, SWETS, EMBASE, CAS - American Chemical Society, EI Compendex, Engineering Village, DoPP, GEOBASE, Biobase, TIB|UB - German National Library of Science and Technology, American Mathematical Society (AMS), Inspec - The IET, Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory, Scholar Google. Journal Publications --------------------- >From each conference of our society in Prague, the best papers will be promoted for fast track /priority peer review and publication in ISI Journals. The other papers will be promoted to journals indexed in SCOPUS or in Springer Verlag volumes. Contact us for more details and the complete list of these journals that will host your papers. Review: ----------- All the papers are subject to peer, thorough, strict review by committees' members or 2 or 3 additional reviewers. Find the names of the reviewers in our site (Link: Books). The names of the Reviewers appear always in the Proceedings and are always sent to our Indexes (ISI, SCOPUS, etc...). Find them in our site. (Link: Books). Only reviewers with several recent publications in ISI and SCOPUS are used in our review process. Prague ---------- Prague: This magical city of bridges, cathedrals, gold-tipped towers and church domes, has been mirrored in the surface of the swan-filled Vltava River for more than ten centuries. Almost undamaged by WWII, Prague's medieval centre remains a wonderful mixture of cobbled lanes, walled courtyards, cathedrals and countless church spires all in the shadow of her majestic 9th century castle that looks eastward as the sun sets behind her. Prague is also a modern and vibrant city full of energy, music, cultural art, fine dining and special events catering to the independent traveller's thirst for adventure. It is regarded by many as one of Europe's most charming and beautiful cities, Prague has become the most popular travel destination in Central Europe along with Bratislava and Krakow. Millions of tourists visit the city every year. Prague was founded in the later 9th century, and soon became the seat of Bohemian kings, some of whom ruled as emperors of the Holy Roman Empire. The city thrived under the rule of Charles IV, who ordered the building of the New Town in the 14th century - many of the city's most important attractions date back to that age. The city also went under Habsburg rule and became the capital of a province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1918, after World War I, the city became the capital of Czechoslovakia. After 1989 many foreigners, especially young people, moved to Prague. In 1992, its historic centre was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. In 1993, Czechoslovakia split into two countries and Prague became capital city of the new Czech Republic" Special Sessions: ---------------- Qualified Colleagues can send us their proposals for Special Sessions. A honorarium will be given to special session organizers. Contact us. E-Library --------- Free Access for everybody, no username, no password to check the quality of our previous publications. Committees: ------------- Organizing Committee: General Chairs ------------------ Professor Philippe Dondon ENSEIRB-MATMECA, École Nationale Supérieure d'Électronique Informatique et Radiocommunications de Bordeaux 1 avenue du Dr Albert Schweitzer, B.P. 99 33402 Talence, Cedex France Professor D. Subbaram Naidu, IEEE Fellow, Idaho State University, USA Professor Imre Rudas, Obuda University, Budapest, Hungary Professor Bimal Kumar Bose Life Fellow IEEE, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Senior Program Chair ------------------ Professor Giovanni Fulantelli, National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Educational Technologies Palermo, Palermo Italy Program Chairs ------------------ Professor Cathy H. Qi, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA Professor D. Subbaram Naidu, IEEE Fellow, Idaho State University, USA Professor Sara De Freitas, Coventry University, UK Tutorials Chair --------------- Professor Toshio Okamoto, The University of Electro-Communications, UEC & KCG, Japan Special Session Chair --------------------- Professor Xiang Bai, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Workshops Chair ------------------ Professor Ronald Tetzlaff, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany Local Organizing Chair ------------------ Professor Klimis Ntalianis, Tech. Educ. Inst. of Athens (TEI), Athens, Greece Publication Chair ------------------ Professor Konstantinos G. Arvanitis, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece Professor Cornelia Aida Bulucea, University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania Publicity Committee ------------------ Professor Bharat Doshi, John Hopkins University, Mayrland, USA Professor Imre J. Rudas, Óbuda University, Budapest, Hungary International Liaisons ------------------ Professor Alexander Gegov, University of Portsmouth, UK Professor Peter Szolgay, Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Hungary Professor Imre Rudas, Obuda University, Hungary Professor Manuela Panoiu, Polytechnic University of Timisoara, Romania. [...] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:08:13 -0700 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Replaying Japan Call for Papers Replaying Japan Again: 2nd International Japan Game Studies Conference, 2014 We are pleased to announce that the International Conference on Japan Game Studies 2014 will be held at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, August 21-23, 2014. Proposals in Japanese are most welcome! <日本語での発表要旨も受け付けます。> This conference is organized in collaboration with the Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies, the Prince Takamado Japan Centre and the University of Alberta with support from the GRAND Network of Centres of Excellence. The conference is the third collaboratively organized conference focusing broadly on Japanese game culture, education and industry. It aims to bring together a large range of researchers and creators from a broad range of different country to present and exchange their work. We invite a broad range of posters/demonstrations and papers dealing with game culture, education and games and the Japanese game industry from the perspectives of humanities, social sciences, business or education. We encourage poster/demonstration proposals if you want to show a game or interactive. The range of possible topics includes (but is not limited to): • Cross cultural study of games and toys • East Asian Game Culture and Market (especially China) • Localization of games • Assessment of educational aspects of games • Preservation of games and game culture • Understanding player culture • Close readings of specific games • Comparative study of specific titles • Game theory • Game design • Game industry (in Japan and transnationally) • Marketing and financing the games industry • Games and transmedia phenomena • Games of chance Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words via email to , before April 1st, 2014. 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: Type of submission (poster/demonstration or paper), Title of submission, 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 April 15th, 2014. Abstracts will be accepted in English or Japanese. <日本語での発表要旨も受け付けます。> While the language of this conference will be English, Abstracts, Posters and PowerPoint slides will be translated into both languages. For those who can’t present in English there will be translation help on demand. For more information about the International Conference on Japan Game Studies 2014, visit the conference home page or write . <日本語での ご質問、お問合せ、及び日本語の研究発表要旨の提出は < rcgs@st.ritsumei.ac.jp>にお願いします。> _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1A8D86539; Sat, 15 Feb 2014 10:15:37 +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 10AAF63F7; Sat, 15 Feb 2014 10:15:19 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6934F646D; Sat, 15 Feb 2014 10:15:16 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140215091516.6934F646D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 10:15:16 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.801 postdoc at Bates College X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 801. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 14:41:30 -0500 From: Lisa Maurizio Subject: Job posting for 2-year Mellon The Department of History, Bates College, in Lewiston, Maine, invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellow, with a particular emphasis on pedagogical innovation. The fellowship is funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation and begins August 1, 2014. Candidates must complete the Ph.D. by September 1, 2014, and should be no more than three years out of their doctorate. This is a half-time teaching position with salary and benefits of a full-time assistant professor. The fellow will teach three courses during the academic year 2014-15 and two courses in 2015-16. The reduced teaching load is designed to support innovation in teaching and on-going professional research. Some funds to support scholarly work are also available. Bates is a highly selective liberal arts college and will provide an excellent climate for professional development and scholarship. We seek historians of the western Mediterranean between 300 and 1650 C.E., with strong preferences for those study Spain before 1500. The following areas of specialization are of particular interest: interfaith relations, the Mediterranean world, and/or the Atlantic world. We anticipate a close integration of this position among programs in History and Classical and Medieval Studies, so applicants should explain how their own work might complement some of the work of relevant members of these departments. The successful candidate must be interested in, and will conduct faculty workshops on, innovative teaching and research. The department recognizes that innovation can take many forms. Some possibilities could include techniques in the digital humanities; methods for attracting diverse groups to the study of history; pedagogies focused on different learning styles; creative ways of structuring assignments and the use of classroom time; techniques for connecting student learning to wider local and global communities; or creative approaches to promoting student engagement and interest in History at Bates. The college, the History Department, and the Classical and Medieval Studies Program are committed to enhancing the diversity of the campus community and the curriculum. The search committee expects candidates who can contribute to this goal to identify their strengths and experiences in this area. Applicants should submit electronically, in PDF format, to Nancy LePage, Project Specialist, 207-786- 6480 at academicservices@bates.edu, a letter of application, C.V., writing sample, teaching statement, and three letters of recommendation. Please include your last name and R2073 in the subject line of all submissions. Consideration of applications will begin on March 17, 2014, and continue until the position is filled. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check. For more information about the college, please visit the Bates website: www.bates.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6DAE9653F; Sat, 15 Feb 2014 10:16:10 +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 4E6F56543; Sat, 15 Feb 2014 10:16:01 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BF5DE653D; Sat, 15 Feb 2014 10:15:58 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140215091558.BF5DE653D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 10:15:58 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.802 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 802. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 23:17:13 +0000 From: Eleanor Lisney Subject: EVA- London Conference 2014: Research Workshop proposals, deadline 21th March In-Reply-To: ELECTRONIC VISUALISATION AND THE ARTS (EVA) LONDON 2014 ************************************************* Tuesday 8th July – Thursday 10th July 2014 Venue: British Computer Society, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7HA www.eva-london.org ​Calling Masters and PhD students working in visualisation! CALL FOR RESEARCH WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ​ ​*Deadline: end of day Friday 21st March 2014* ​ ******************************************************************************** ELECTRONIC VISUALISATION TECHNOLOGIES IN ART, MUSIC, DANCE, THEATRE, THE SCIENCES AND MORE ​Submit your proposal for the EVA London 2014 Research Workshop The Research Workshop will be held on Tuesday 8th July 2014, 2.00 – 6.00pm Catch the very latest research and share yours! Present and discuss your developing project in a supportive and informal environment with a sympathetic peer group and other EVA London delegates - and meet others who are working in this field. A 15 minute presentation on your ideas, plans or initial results will be followed by 5 minutes of questions and discussion. Send your proposal *by end of day Friday 21st March 2014* Write your proposal on the 1 page Research Workshop Proposal form (see link to download, top right). Your proposal must fit on *1 side of A4 only*, as in the form. Email your completed form to: Graham Diprose, EVA London Organising Committee, Research Workshop Coordinator grahamdiprose@gmail.com Subject line: EVA London Research Workshop Please also email Graham with any enquiries about the Research Workshop. Proposers will be notified of decisions on acceptance on 31st March 2014. For proposals that are accepted, *11th April 2014* is the deadline for submitting your final one page paper for publication. Details • Each presentation is 15 minutes, with 5 minutes for questions and discussion • If accepted, you will be offered a free registration bursary for the whole day. This will include attending morning conference presentations including the keynote speech, refreshments, lunch and an early evening reception - a chance to network after the workshop. • Each participant will receive an EVA London Certificate confirming that they have participated in the Research Workshop. • Your short Research Workshop paper will be published in the Conference Proceedings, which are published online and as a bound volume by the Chartered Institute for IT (BCS) • Your will be encouraged to attend EVA London next year, 2015, to make a full presentation and publication. Go to http://www.eva-london.org/eva-london-2014/propose-and-author/research-workshop-proposalsto download the forms *********************************************************** If this message was forwarded to you, join our mailing list to receive EVA London announcements (only) directly. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Marijana_Tomić (33) Subject: Summer school in the study of old books - proceedings - E- book [2] From: Charles Ess (29) Subject: CaTaC'14 - deadline extension, registration fees [3] From: Jenny Rock (5) Subject: special symposium: Art - Science interaction: How can we further the effect? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 23:07:36 +0100 From: Marijana_Tomić Subject: Summer school in the study of old books - proceedings - E-book Dear all, we are happy to announce that *Proceedings Summer school in the study of old books* are published as E-book on the address: http://www.unizd.hr/Portals/41/elektronicka_izdanja/Summer_school_in_the_study_of_old_books.pdf The Summer School in the Study of Old Books (Zadar, Croatia, 28th September to 2nd October 2009) was the first one in the series of summer schools that the Department of Library and Information Sciences, University of Zadar, organized primarily for doctoral students, but also for faculty members and interested practitioners. The specific field of interest of the first Summer School was the study of old books and the main goal was to acquaint participants with the most recent developments and newly emerged concepts in the fields of historical method and epistemology, old book research and bibliography, bibliographic information organisation and its relation to the archival context, conservation and preservation, and to provide practical introduction to old books collection management with contemporary approaches to digitisation. In this Proceedings thirteen delivered lectures are published together with a lecture on European heritage collections and a student’s essay supervised by the lecturer. We hope you will enjoy reading it and we would highly appreciate any feedback. Best regards Mirna Willer and Marijana Tomić, editors -- *dr. sc. Marijana Tomić, viša asistentica* *Sveuciliste u Zadru* *Odjel za informacijske znanosti* *Ulica dr. Franje Tudjmana 24i* *23000 Zadar* *+38523/345-054* *Marijana Tomić, PhD, research assistantUniversity of ZadarDepartement of Information SciencesDr. Franje Tuđmana 24i23000 Zadar, Croatia +38523/345-054* --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 05:04:57 +0000 From: Charles Ess Subject: CaTaC'14 - deadline extension, registration fees Dear HUMANISTS, On behalf of the Program Committee for CaTaC¹14, I¹m happy to announce A) the deadline for submissions has been extended to March 2, 2014, and B) our schedule of registration fees has been established: Full registration: early bird - closing date, April 4 - 250 USD; after April 4: 275 USD Reviewer: early bird - 225 USD: after April 4: 250 USD Author: early bird - 225 USD: after April 4: 250 USD Author and Reviewer: early bird - 200 USD: after April 4: 225 USD Student: early bird - 175 USD: after April 4: 200 USD Those familiar with the conference will recognize that these registration fees are ca. 50% of the norm for previous years. These reduced fees are made possible through various forms of support by the Department of Informatics and the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo. We hope these reduced fees will make participation in CaTaC¹14 more feasible and attractive for all interested in participating. For more details on the conference, please see http://www.catacconference.org/ For information on conference themes and tracks, and for submitting paper proposals, please go to http://philo.at/ocs2/index.php/oslo14/ctnewd14/schedConf/cfp Please cross-post and distribute as appropriate. Many thanks, - Charles Ess (Media and Communication, University of Oslo) Maja van der Velden (Informatics, University of Oslo) Herbert Hrachovec (Philosophy, University of Vienna) Michele Strano, Program Chair (Communication Studies, Bridgewater College) Leah Macfadyen (Evaluation and Learning Analytics, University of British Columbia) --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 01:34:49 +0000 From: Jenny Rock Subject: special symposium: Art - Science interaction: How can we further the effect? CALL FOR PAPERS: Art - Science interaction: How can we further the effect? XXth International Conference of the Society for Human Ecology: "Ecological Responsibility and Human Imagination" October 22 – 25 College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine USA http://societyforhumanecology.org/she-xx-2014/ Many understand the value of the arts in science thinking, creativity & education. The cross overs have been well documented from a historical perspective (e.g. many -if not all- renowned scientists have also been creatively involved in the arts). But how do we extend this appreciation more broadly? Many avenues have been tried, from platforms for facilitated collaboration at the professional level, to alternative education programmes, and festivals/public exhibitions. But still the two-culture dichotomy persists. Here we explore new/revised approaches for advancing the effect of science-art interaction. Simultaneously, we will confront related questions: can it go too far… is a degree of disciplinary boundary important? In particular, an art – science approach has been argued as extremely effective for raising awareness about ecological issues and engaging people both widely and deeply. In keeping with broader themes of the conference we will also examine the role of art – science in ecological awareness/remediation, and tackle tricky questions of whether art can have an overt message or purpose without sacrificing creative power. As the examples above indicate: we aim to not just celebrate art – science but to think about critical issues and hopefully find a way to expand its effect. Please join us! Email expressions of interest to jenny.rock@otago.ac.nz _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7DB526339; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 09:34:20 +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 4439D6250; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 09:34:09 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2D9B56203; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 09:34:07 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140218083407.2D9B56203@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 09:34:07 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.804 events: arts; art & science; cartography; 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. 27, No. 804. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jenny Rock (27) Subject: special symposium: Art - Science interaction: How can we further the effect? [2] From: Willard McCarty (13) Subject: critical cartography [3] From: Jean Gilmour Anderson (12) Subject: Digital Humanities and Arts conference call [4] From: Maximilian Schich (43) Subject: CFP: Arts, Humanities, and Complex Network at NetSci2014 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 01:34:49 +0000 From: Jenny Rock Subject: special symposium: Art - Science interaction: How can we further the effect? CALL FOR PAPERS: Art - Science For a special symposium: Art - Science interaction: How can we further the effect? XXth International Conference of the Society for Human Ecology: "Ecological Responsibility and Human Imagination" October 22 – 25 College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine USA http://societyforhumanecology.org/she-xx-2014/ Many understand the value of the arts in science thinking, creativity & education. The cross overs have been well documented from a historical perspective (e.g. many -if not all- renowned scientists have also been creatively involved in the arts). But how do we extend this appreciation more broadly? Many avenues have been tried, from platforms for facilitated collaboration at the professional level, to alternative education programmes, and festivals/public exhibitions. But still the two-culture dichotomy persists. Here we explore new/revised approaches for advancing the effect of science-art interaction. Simultaneously, we will confront related questions: can it go too far… is a degree of disciplinary boundary important? In particular, an art – science approach has been argued as extremely effective for raising awareness about ecological issues and engaging people both widely and deeply. In keeping with broader themes of the conference we will also examine the role of art – science in ecological awareness/remediation, and tackle tricky questions of whether art can have an overt message or purpose without sacrificing creative power. As the examples above indicate: we aim to not just celebrate art – science but to think about critical issues and hopefully find a way to expand its effect. Please join us! Email expressions of interest to jenny.rock@otago.ac.nz --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 11:30:08 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: critical cartography LIVINGMAPS 2014 SEMINAR SERIES: MAP IS NOT TERRITORY http://www.livingmaps.org.uk/ During the past decade the development of open source digital technologies has for the first time put the means of mapping in the hands of ordinary citizens. The ordinary person can now create maps that tell their own story, use GPS to plan journeys by land and sea, or go "geo-caching" and adventure into new and unfamiliar environments in search of buried treasure… -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:48:27 +0000 From: Jean Gilmour Anderson Subject: Digital Humanities and Arts conference call The Digital Humanities Humanities and Arts conference is back! The conference will be held in the iconic Naval College, Greenwich, August 31st-September 3rd 2014. This year the chosen theme is “communication futures” for the Digital Humanities, Creative Industries, Digital Libraries, Archives etc. To see the call for papers go to www.drha2014.co.uk/ ________________________________ Jean Anderson Honorary Research Fellow, English Language, University of Glasgow Charity number SC 004401 http://www.gla.ac.uk/subjects/englishlanguage/ Depute Convener, Scottish Language Dictionaries Charity number SC 032910 http://www.scotsdictionaries.org.uk --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 13:49:45 -0600 From: Maximilian Schich Subject: CFP: Arts, Humanities, and Complex Network at NetSci2014 CFP: We are delighted to invite submissions for Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks --- 5th Leonardo satellite symposium at NetSci2014 taking place in Berkeley at the Clark Kerr Campus of the University of California, on Tuesday, June 3, 2014. Submission: For submission instructions please go to: http://artshumanities.netsci2014.net/ Deadline for submission: March 28, 2014. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by April 7, 2014. Abstract: For the fifth time, it is our pleasure to bring together pioneer work in the overlap of arts, humanities, network research, data science, and information design. The 2014 symposium will follow our established recipe, leveraging 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 2014 symposium again strives to make further impact in the arts, humanities, and natural sciences. Running parallel to the NetSci2014 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 /and in a dedicated /Leonardo eBook/ MIT-Press: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007S0UA9Q Confirmed Keynote: Lada Adamic, Associate Professor, University of Michigan & Data Scientist, Facebook, USA As in previous years, we will feature three high-profile keynote speakers from the areas of cultural data science, network visualization, and network art. Best regards, The AHCN2014 organizers, Maximilian Schich, Roger Malina, Isabel Meirelles, and Meredith Tromble 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 School of Interdisciplinary Studies, San Francisco Art Institute, 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5A6C165CA; Wed, 19 Feb 2014 08:47:48 +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 1632264F5; Wed, 19 Feb 2014 08:47:38 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E928964F5; Wed, 19 Feb 2014 08:47:35 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140219074735.E928964F5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 08:47:35 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.806 PhD studentships & postdoc at Murcia (Spain) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 806. 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. 27, No. 805. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 10:54:25 +0000 From: "Baker, Drew" Subject: PhD-Fellowships & Post-Doc - Digital Cultural Heritage In-Reply-To: <000301cf2c92$f4c78ec0$de56ac40$@net> Dear Colleague, The Spanish Society of Virtual Archaeology, SEAV, is participating in the project “Initial Training Network for Digital Cultural Heritage: Projecting our Past to the Future” from the University of Murcia. Below you can find the full information about it: Call for 16 PhD-Fellowships and 4 Post-Doc Positions in the area of Digital Cultural Heritage All the calls available under www.itn-dch.eu http://www.itn-dch.eu/ The “Initial Training Network for Digital Cultural Heritage: Projecting our Past to the Future” with acronym ITN-DCH (www.itn-dch.eu), is the first and one of the largest Marie Curie fellowship projects in the area of the e-documentation / e-preservation and Cultural Heritage (CH) protection funded by the European Union under the FP7 PEOPLE research framework (http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/ ). The Project started on the 1st of October 2013 and it is a consortium comprising of 14 full partners and 9 associate members covering the entire spectrum of European CH actors, ranging from academia, research institutions, industry, museums, archives and libraries. The project aims to train 20 fellows (16 Early Stage Researchers and 4 Experienced Researchers – 500 person months) in the area of CH digital documentation, preservation and protection in order to create for them a strong academic profile and market oriented skills which will significantly contribute to their career prospects. The consortium and the fellows training programme will be supported by a prestigious advisory board. ITN-DCH aims -for the first time worldwide- to analyze, design, research, develop and validate an innovative multidisciplinary and inter-sectorial research training framework that covers the entire lifecycle of digital CH research for a cost– effective preservation, documentation, protection and presentation of cultural heritage. CH is an integral element of Europe and vital for the creation of a common European identity and one of the greatest assets for steering Europe’s social, economic development and job creation. However, the current research training activities in CH are fragmented and mostly design to be of a single discipline, failing to cover the whole lifecycle of Digital Cultural Heritage (DCH) research, which is by nature a multi-disciplinary and inter-sectorial research agenda. ITN-DCH targets all aspects of CH ranging from tangible (books, newspapers, images, drawings, manuscripts, uniforms, maps, artefacts, archaeological sites, monuments) to intangible content (e.g., music, performing arts, folklore, theatrical performances) and their inter-relationships. The project aims to boost the added value of CH assets by re-using them in real application environments (protection of CH, education, tourism industry, advertising, fashion, films, music, publishing, video games and TV) through research on (i) new personalized, interactive, mixed and augmented reality enabled e-services, (ii) new recommendations in data acquisition, (iii) new forms of representations (3D/4D) of both tangible /intangible assets and (iv) interoperable metadata forms that allow easy data exchange and archiving. The ITN-DCH project is seeking highly motivated and valuable researchers for PhD positions in the entire field of Digital Heritage, such as: Data Acquisition (Photogrammetry, Terrestrial laser scanning, GIS) and Computer Vision data processing, 3D reconstruction and modeling, symbolic, semantic and ontology representation, metadata, mixed and augmented reality technologies, CH e-services. All the fellows are supposed to travel between the project partners and attend a series of complementary training courses, scientific workshops and summer schools. The call for fellows is available on the ITN-DCH website: www.itn-dch.eu We hope this information will be interesting to you. Best regards, Lourdes G. Cerezuela INNOVA International Coordinator SEAV Community Manager Spanish Society of Virtual Archaeology, SEAV Virtual Archaeology International Network, INNOVA European Center for Innovation in Virtual Archaeology. INNOVA Center www.arqueologiavirtual.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8D24F64F6; Wed, 19 Feb 2014 08:48:18 +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 C2A0265DC; Wed, 19 Feb 2014 08:48:11 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id EB31865CF; Wed, 19 Feb 2014 08:48:09 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140219074809.EB31865CF@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 08:48:09 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.807 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. 27, No. 807. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:14:12 +0000 From: James Cummings Subject: DH Awards 2013 - Results Please Forward! === The DH Awards 2013 votes have been counted, and the results are now available at: http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/results/ Congratulations to all the winners, runners up, and indeed all those who got a chance to see and vote for the DH Awards 2013. The winners (and first and second runners up) for each category are listed at: http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/results/ The statistics we collected during DH Awards 2013 are available from: http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/statistics/ You may provide feedback at: http://tinyurl.com/dhawards2013-Feedback Many thanks to all who nominated and voted! -James -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DEB19624B; Wed, 19 Feb 2014 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 643136237; Wed, 19 Feb 2014 08:49:23 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1CAC86188; Wed, 19 Feb 2014 08:49:22 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140219074922.1CAC86188@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 08:49:22 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.808 events: book history; how to make a digital 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. 27, No. 808. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: igalina (14) Subject: Deadline extended Ages of the Book 2014 [2] From: Laura Mandell (29) Subject: Scholarships Available: how to make your digital project --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 23:06:26 +0000 From: igalina Subject: Deadline extended Ages of the Book 2014 The deadline for submissions for the 2014 Ages of the Book Conference has been extended to the 14th of March. Ages of the Book 2014 Mexico City, 13th to 17th October 2014 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM The aim of the conference is to bring together specialists from diverse fields of study, such as written and printed culture, visual design and communication, editing and the publishing industry, history, literature and new technologies, for discussion of academic, scientific, technical and economic issues that will advance our knowledge on the written word throughout history. The conference will explore the wide range of traditions and innovations surrounding the composition of texts manifest in distinct periods and in different regions of the world, from the early production of codices through to present day electronic books. Conference is divided into manuscripts, print and electronic books. More information available at: www.edadesdellibro.unam.mx ---------- Dra. Isabel Galina Russell Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) igalina@unam.mx @igalina --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 21:38:34 -0600 From: Laura Mandell Subject: Scholarships Available: how to make your digital project Dear Humanist: We write about an opportunity, a summer class during which you would learn how to make your digital project state-of-the-art so that it can pass peer review by the Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship (NINES; http://www.nines.org), 18thConnect (http://www.18thConnect.org), or the Medieval Electronic Scholarly Association (MESA; http://www.mesa-medieval.org). We will teach also, technically, how to submit your metadata to NINES and/or 18thConnect or MESA once your project has been accepted. Scholarships are being offered for this class which is not yet full at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute: go to http://www.dhsi.org and register for number 27. Projects accepted at any one of the nodes (18thConnect or NINES) are also accepted at the others, and the metadata you submit makes your project findable through them all. People interested in creating groups like NINES, 18thConnect, and MESA are also encouraged to apply. We hope you will join us this coming summer. Best, Laura Mandell of NINES/18thConnect, on behalf of Timothy Stinson and Dot Porter of MESA. -- Laura Mandell Director, Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture Professor, English Texas A&M University p: 979-845-8345 e: idhmc@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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9E45A6536; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 07:30:18 +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 DDA6663A3; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 07:30:07 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 729DB62E3; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 07:30:06 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140220063006.729DB62E3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 07:30:06 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.809 professorship at Stony Brook (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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 809. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 18:54:22 +0900 From: Charles Muller Subject: Digital Humanities Professorship Stony Brook University In-Reply-To: <20140219074809.EB31865CF@digitalhumanities.org> Stony Brook University (SBU), the leading research campus of The State University of New York (SUNY), invites applications for a tenure track assistant or associate professor in the Digital Humanities, to be appointed in an appropriate academic department. We seek applicants able to contribute to Stony Brook's thriving interdisciplinary environment, whose research and teaching exemplify how contemporary scholars and teachers can critically engage and employ digital technologies. Competitive candidates should have a portfolio of digital humanities projects that blend theoretical and critical perspectives with use of such digital tools and methods as text mining and analysis, data visualization, and digital culture analysis. Special attention will be given to candidates with experience in research and teaching collaborations in the humanities and in developing grants and funded projects. PhD must be in hand for the start of the position; exceptional candidates with equivalent experience will be considered. Salary and benefits are competitive. SBU, currently in a phase of growth and innovation, is a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU), enrolling over 25,000 students. The University offers over 300 degree programs, including 44 doctoral programs serving 2,300 students and 50 master’s programs with over 1,800 students. Stony Brook is among the leading public research universities in the Northeast, with a large and growing undergraduate and graduate population and a strong tradition of excellence in education across the Arts & Sciences, Engineering, Marine Sciences, Biomedical and Health Sciences. Stony Brook is committed to the highest standards of academic excellence, a diverse academic community, and ethical conduct in research and scholarship. Stony Brook University is an AA/EEO employer. We especially welcome applications from minority group members, women, persons with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply. Applicants should apply via AcademicJobsOnline.Orghttp://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/3776 (Position ID: 3776). Applicants should submit a cover letter, CV, a sample of work, an outline of current and future research interests, graduate transcripts, and three reference letters (to be submitted by the reference writers through AcademicJobsOnline.Org). Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. *************************************** Nancy Squires Dean, College of Arts and Sciences E3320 Melville Library Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY 11794-3391 (631) 632-6976 nancy.squires@stonybrook.edu -- --------------------------- 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 Twitter: @H_Buddhism _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6668465CE; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 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 A0DB4653B; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 07:30:26 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B3B7B6537; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 07:30:24 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140220063024.B3B7B6537@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 07:30:24 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.810 digital 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. 27, No. 810. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 11:44:01 +0000 From: Alexander Hay Subject: Re: Introducing digital classics. In-Reply-To: <20140214050904.F13756223@digitalhumanities.org> *Introducing digital classics* (http://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2014-02-18-introducing-digital-classics) By Giacomo Peru. As a member of the Software Sustainability Institute and classicist, I could not write my first blog post on anything but the relationship between Classics and IT. [1] For those who are not familiar with the subject, Classics is the study of the Greek and Roman world in the period that spans between, roughly, the start of the 1st millennium BC until around the 6th century AD. At the core of this field is the study of ancient Greek and Latin, the main languages of that world, of Classical Archaeology, which collects and study its material artefacts, and of Ancient History, which reconstructs ancient Mediterranean and Near-Eastern history by the means of texts and archaeological evidence. Beyond this tripartite division, the field has bred a number of ancillary disciplines, which can be regarded as disciplines in their own right, such as philology, linguistics, palaeography, philosophy, history of art, and others. We are all aware that IT has revolutionised all fields of knowledge and the traditional practices within them, and most of us are aware that the Humanities have a well-established digital branch. Yet some might still be surprised at how eagerly Classicists have endorsed the computerisation of their traditional scholarly tools. Digital Classics are then how classicists strive to integrate current digital tools with their traditional practices and needs. In future posts I will investigate the other directions taken by digital classicists. Yet for the sake of simplicity, I will keep the focus of this post on how the study of ancient Greek and Latin texts, a discipline named Classical Philology, has developed in the digital era. As it happens, the study of classical texts has always been highly data-intensive. Since the time of the great libraries at Pergamon and Alexandria in the 4th century BCE, scholars [2] have collected, catalogued, parsed, analysed, and commented on texts, and, based on the primary sources available to them, developed scholarly resources such as lexica, encyclopaedias, commentaries, and critical editions. [3] This work has been handed down from one generation to the next through the centuries, having survived the many wars, plagues, calamities, cultural and political upheavals and simple bad luck that have happened in the meantime. In the digital age, classicists now face a daunting amount of scholarly material, formed from primary sources and a very large body of scholarship. [4] This has been laboriously produced and preserved by a class of extremely disciplined and skilled scholars. Indeed the work of classical philologists has always been inherently best suited to a digital environment, rather than to a paper one as it grants them an ease of access and versatility that printed texts could never provide. Therefore, it is no surprise that classicists were among the first humanists to exploit the potential of computers in their work. Roberto Busa's Index Thomisticus, which began on IBM computers in the 1950s, and D. W. Packard's Concordance to Livy, which dates back to the late 60s, are notable cases in point. Since then, digital classics have evolved through several stages as can be seen in the work of one of its leading lights, Gregory Crane, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Perseus Digital Library. [5] Yet for the sake of brevity, let us look at the three main stages of this history. The first stage involved the Digital Incunabula. Originally, incunubula was a term first applied to the earliest printed books, but DI refers to digital collections of non-machine-actionable texts. Google Books and the Open Content Alliance (OCA) can be considered examples of these. More relevant to the field of Classics are the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG), JSTOR and the Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR). The TLG, started in 1972, is a digital library of texts that runs to over 100 million words. It is one of the most important resources of the field and is under copyright. This means you have to pay substantial subscription costs to access it. The texts contained in it mirror printed editions and can be searched in various ways to generate excerpts of those print sources. Other features of the TLG are the accuracy of the transcriptions and the encoded citation scheme through which scholars cite these sources. JSTOR is an archive of digitised publications, also protected by copyright and subscription costs, and BMCR, founded in 1990, is an online open access journal that publishes reviews of current works in the field. All these resources make access to the material much quicker and easier. Then there are machine-actionable knowledge bases, such as the aforementioned Perseus Digital Library, which was founded in 1987. Perseus is a resource to which I'm personally indebted because it helped me significantly with my dissertation thesis. [6] It was launched in the 80s with the aim of advancing far beyond the horizon of a semi-static digital resource such as the TLG and others. Instead, it is an environment that embraces both the textual and the material data of the classical world, and exposes this database to new forms of dynamic inquiry. Semantic text mark-up is the characteristic feature of projects like Perseus, and this introduces a whole new stream of revolutionary possibilities, whereby what for centuries has been dependent on the rigorous intellectual exertions of scholars can now carried out quite trivially by digital computation. Finally, Suda On Line (SOL) is a successful collaborative project started in 1997 as an online digital community that aimed to create the first comprehensive translation of a Byzantine encyclopedia called The Suda. This massive work of 625,000 words spread was across over 30,000 entries, the scale of which posed all manner of challenges to traditional scholars. Yet as of this month, nearly all of the entries have been translated by the SOL community. In addition, the resources provided by SOL share all the features already present in Perseus, such as all the text being fully XML encoded. In conclusion, these examples all have lessons for both digital classicists and the digital humanities overall. The challenge has been in each case how to digitise what are, after all, very large corpora of texts and to make them machine-actionable, so that they can be subject to the widest possible range of inquiries. How this has been achieved shows the way for future work, and also demonstrates the need for well developed methodologies and the possibilities of digital technology being exploited to the full. Footnotes: 1. This blog post draws significantly on the work of Prof. Gregory Crane (see n. 6 below). 2. Throughout the Middle Ages, being a scholar meant being a Classicist by default. 3. Critical editions are crucial tools in Classical Studies. Their methodology also draws interesting parallels to the software development process. 4. OCLC, for example, refers to over 20,500 works, all by or about Homer. 5. Professor Crane is now Open Access Officer for the University of Leipzig, responsible for developing its Open Philology Project which will eventually cover every academic program, from Biology and Chemistry to Greek and Latin. 6. Which was a sample of a commentary on Lysias' fouth oration, of which I disgracefully lost the master digital copy in the pre-cloud-computing era... -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E326265DF; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 07:32:35 +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 7E3736536; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 07:32:28 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7F3216536; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 07:32:27 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140220063227.7F3216536@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 07:32:27 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.811 events: WWI summer school; digital libraries X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 811. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Alexander O'Connor (41) Subject: Summer School: "Researching the First World War in a Digital Environment" - CENDARI Project [2] From: "Blanke, Tobias" (24) Subject: Call for Papers Digital Libraries 2014 - Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) and the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 15:22:19 +0000 From: Alexander O'Connor Subject: Summer School: "Researching the First World War in a Digital Environment" - CENDARI Project Begin forwarded message: > From: "Catherine O'Brien" > Subject: Summer School: "Researching the First World War in a Digital Environment" - CENDARI Project > Date: 19 February 2014 12:26:22 GMT > To: CENDARI > > Dear Colleagues, > > Researching the First World War in a Digital Environment > > CENDARI SUMMER SCHOOL | BERLIN | 21 – 25 JULY 2014 > > Applications are invited from historians and collections experts working within the CENDARI case study area of the First World War, particularly those who use Digital Humanities methods in their research. Bursaries are available for early career researchers. > > Please visit our Summer School webpage for more information, learning objectives and an online application form. > > Proposed Programme Highlights: > > Framing transnational and comparative research in the era of the First World War > Digital history at the First World War centenary: crowdsourcing, public history > Reconnecting dispersed collections > Curating my research data I: choices and challenges > Hands-on sessions: Building archival research guides > CENDARI is funded by the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme for Research. > > > -- > Catherine O'Brien > > CENDARI Communications Officer > Trinity Long Room Hub > Trinity College Dublin > Ireland > +353 (0)1 896 4274 > www.cendari.eu > -- Dr. Alexander O'Connor Knowledge & Data Engineering Group Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Alex.OConnor@scss.tcd.ie --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 18:00:21 +0000 From: "Blanke, Tobias" Subject: Call for Papers Digital Libraries 2014 - Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) and the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) In-Reply-To: International Digital Libraries Conference (DL2014) in London Please note the specific Digital Humanities theme at DL 2014. In 2014 the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) and the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) will be held together as the International Digital Libraries Conference (DL2014) in London, UK. http://dl2014.org/ The combined DL conference will be the major international scientific forum on digital libraries for 2014, bringing together researchers and developers as well as content providers and users. The focus of the joint conference is on on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, organizational, and social issues. Important dates Full and short papers due: March 16, 2014, 11.59pm HAST Posters, Panels, and Demonstrations due: March 23, 2014, 11.59pm HAST Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2014 Camera ready version due: June 8, 2014 Workshop, Tutorial, and Panel submissions due: March 2, 2014, 11.59pm HAST Notification of acceptance: April 27, 2014 Conference Scope The themes of the 2014 TPDL/JCDL combined conference will follow the theme of 'preserving the past - finding the future'. Digital collections face two major challenges: organising and conserving material across time, and enabling users to discover the material they need in increasingly large collections. In terms of 'preserving the past', example issues include the demands of digitisation of physical materials, the digital preservation of material so it remains accessible, and the systematic classification and indexation of large collections across social and technological change. In contrast, when 'finding the future', sophisticated discovery tools, effective library policies, support for linked data, and supporting the user's interpretation and analysis of content are examples of the key challenges that face the communities of DL practitioners and researchers. The conference welcomes internationally leading insights into both research problems and practical complexities. Contributions from digital humanities, digital preservation, hypertext and information retrieval researchers are as much a vital part of the digital library community's interests as core DL research, and submissions on these and other related topics are strongly encouraged. Different tracks for research and practice papers are offered. For further information see the Call for Papers page at: http://dl2014.org/cfp.html We are looking forward to seeing you in London! George Buchanan, General Chair Sally Jo Cunningham, Program Co-Chair Martin Klein, Program Co-Chair Andreas Rauber, Program Co-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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8963A655F; Fri, 21 Feb 2014 07:03:11 +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 5B58C654C; Fri, 21 Feb 2014 07:03:00 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E2F496543; Fri, 21 Feb 2014 07:02:57 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140221060257.E2F496543@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 07:02:57 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.812 petition in support of 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. 27, No. 812. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:03:34 +0100 From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: Institute of Romance Studies, University of Leipzig, under sincere threat - please sign petition Dear Digital Humanists, the Institute of Romance Studies of the University of Leipzig is under sincere threat (see below). As you might know, members of this institute are also part of the Digital Humanities community and are trying hard to integrate Digital Humanities into Romance Studies in general and to foster the institution of Digital Humanities at Leipzig University. Please help us to save the Institute of Romance Studies at the University of Leipzig by signing the petition at http://chn.ge/MDaRh3 With my best regards, Elisabeth Burr ___________________________________________________________ To the State Minister for Higher Education, Research and the Arts, Prof. Dr. Dr. Sabine Baroness von Schorlemer For the preservation of positions and competences at the Institute for Romance Studies of the University of Leipzig Petition of the Institute of Romance Studies of the University of Leipzig The State Government of the Free State of Saxony has decided to cut a large number of positions (1042) at Saxonian universities between 2016 and 2020. Every year will see approximately 24 positions axed from Leipzig University alone. A large number of the cuts will directly affect the Faculty of Philology. To date about 14 positions have been targeted for closure, but more cuts are sure to follow. The Institute of Romance Studies is also affected; its continued existence is uncertain. We call upon the State Ministry for Higher Education, Research and the Arts of the Free State of Saxony and the Rectorate of the University of Leipzig to withdraw the massive cuts of positions. The structural changes proposed by the Rectorate are particularly damaging to the Institute of Romance Studies in three main areas: I.the suppression of the Professorship for Spanish, Latin-American, Portuguese, and Brazilian Linguistics, including administrative and academic staff, to a total of 2.5 positions II.the “proportional” transfer of the Professorship for Francophone, French, and Italian Linguistics to another institute III.the suppression of the French/Francophone focus of the Professorship for Hispanic and Lusitanian Literature and Cultural Studies The Institute of Romance Studies rejects all three proposals from the Rectorate. The planned changes will result in a severe shortage in teaching capacity and are impossible to implement in an academically responsible way. The Rectorate's proposal means the end of an internationally recognized Romance Studies, especially as an independent discipline, at Leipzig University. We urge the Saxon State Parliament, the state government of the Free State of Saxony and the Rectorate of the University of Leipzig, to withdraw the planned cuts in positions and to allow the Institute of Roanance Studies to continue its work to the full. This petition is addressed to the President of the Saxon State Parliament, Dr. Matthias Rößler, to the State Minister for Higher Education, Research and the Arts/of the Free State of Saxony, Prof. Dr. Dr. Sabine Baroness von Schorlemer, and to the Rector of the University of Leipzig, Prof. Dr. Beate Schücking. We kindly ask you to support the Institute of Romance Studies as a central research and teaching discipline in Leipzig by signingthe petition http://chn.ge/MDaRh3and by passing it on to others. We thank you for your support. Best wishes, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alfonso de Toro Professor for French, Francophone, Spanisch, Latin-American and Portuguese Literature und Cultural Studies Director of the Institute for Romance Studies Director of the Ibero-American Research Centre Director of the Centre de Recherches Francophones de Leipzig Univ.-Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Burr Professor for French, Francophone, and Italian Linguistics Vice-Director of the Institute for Romance Studies Director of the Centre d'Études Québécoises _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 30650656F; Fri, 21 Feb 2014 07:05:31 +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 91875654C; Fri, 21 Feb 2014 07:05:21 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5F89F654C; Fri, 21 Feb 2014 07:05:19 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140221060519.5F89F654C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 07:05:19 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.813 events: 21C bibliography; linked data & semantic web; 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. 27, No. 813. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "adrian@csse.unimelb.edu.au" (39) Subject: Reminder: KR 2014 Doctoral Consortium - Call for Applications (Due 21 Feb 2014) [2] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (27) Subject: Web of Data Meetup [3] From: Molly Hardy (20) Subject: MLA CFP: Bibliography for the twenty-first century --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 22:31:59 +0000 From: "adrian@csse.unimelb.edu.au" Subject: Reminder: KR 2014 Doctoral Consortium - Call for Applications (Due 21 Feb 2014) This message was originally submitted by adrian@CSSE.UNIMELB.EDU.AU 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 (50 lines) ------------------ Reminder: KR 2014 Doctoral Consortium - Call for Applications (Due 21 Feb 2014) July 20-24, 2014 Vienna, Austria http://www.kr.org/KR2014/ The 14th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2014) invites PhD students to apply for the Doctoral Consortium program. Feb 21, 2014 : Deadline for application March 28, 2014 : Acceptance notification July 20-24, 2014 : Doctoral Consortium 1) AIMS AND SCOPE The Doctoral Consortium is a student mentoring program that introduces students to senior researchers with similar research interests. The aims of the consortium are: * to provide a forum for students to present their current research, and receive feedback from other students and senior researchers; * to promote contacts among PhD students working in similar areas; * to support students with information and advice on academic, research and industrial careers. 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. We encourage submissions from PhD students at any level, and from any topic area within Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. A number of student grants will be available to support student participation. 2) APPLICATION SUBMISSION Applications must be submitted via our online submission site (see below). Each application must contain the following materials: * Thesis summary: A description of the problem being addressed, your motivation for addressing the problem, proposed plan of research, the progress to date (what you have already achieved and what remains to be done), and related work. It must be four pages maximum in AAAI style (http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php). * Curriculum Vitae: A description of your background and relevant experience (research, education, employment). * Letter of recommendation: A letter from your thesis advisor that states that he/she supports your participation in the DC. * (Optional) You can suggest 3-5 potential mentors with similar research interests as you, who could give you good advice on technical aspects of your work, and/or your career. * (Optional) Specify 3 to 5 questions you would like to ask your mentor and give some keywords that describe you research interests The most preferred way of submission is to combine the thesis summary and the letter of recommendation (and, optionally, the list of suggested mentors) into a single PDF document. If you cannot do that, archive the documents into a single zip file. In either case, the resulting single file has to be submitted via the EasyChair system at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kr2014dc 3) IMPORTANT DATES Feb 21, 2014 : Deadline for application March 28, 2014 : Acceptance notification July 20-24, 2014 : Doctoral Consortium For further information, please contact the Doctoral Consortium chairs: Birte Glimm, University of Ulm (birte.glimm@uni-ulm.de) Adrian Pearce, University of Melbourne (adrianrp@unimelb.edu.au) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 23:20:42 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Web of Data Meetup • Tuesday, February 25, 2014 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM • Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Kings Building King's College London, London (map) • The Department of Informatics and the Web of Data Meetup is hosting a panel discussion about the use and potential of Linked Data and Semantic Web technologies. A number of professionals from various organisations such as the BBC, ODI, EuroMoney and Affectv will describe how they are currently using semantics and discuss what further work is needed to bring this emerging technology to the mainstream. This event is open to the public but please sign up through theWeb of Data Meetup page to guarantee a place. At this event, industry professionals will discuss how they are using linked data and semantics and what direction they would like to see research in this field go. The four panelists will each present their position for 10 minutes followed by a panel discussion. Speakers: - Fabio Colasanti, Data and Information Architect, EuroMoney - Tom Heath, Head of Research, ODI - Sofia Angeletou, Senior Data Architect, BBC - Pravin Paratey, CTO, Affectv NB: The map showed an incorrect location. The meeting is on the Strand Campus in the Anatomy Lecture Theatre on the 6th floor of the main building. http://www.kingsvenues.com/conferences-meetings/strand/alt.aspx More details can be found at the Department of Informatics website: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/events/eventsrecords/linkeddata.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 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 17:13:34 -0500 From: Molly Hardy Subject: MLA CFP: Bibliography for the twenty-first century Title of session: Bibliography for the twenty-first century Bibliography has long been integral to literary studies, textual studies, and book history. Not only does it serve an evidentiary purpose through documentation of the consulted literature, as in an enumerative bibliography, but it also reflects a rich scholarly enterprise in the form of analytical or critical bibliographies. How, then, are scholars adapting the study and documentation of material texts in the twenty-first century? What affordances, opportunities, challenges, or obstacles are offered to bibliography by digital transmission, transformation, and augmentation? >From established databases like EEBO that provide access to facsimiles and their bibliographic metadata, to library and scholarly projects that document and annotate publishing and material histories -- among the many, The Digital Walters http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/ , Dime Novels & Penny Dreadfuls http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/dp/pennies/home.html , or the expansion of the digital ESTC http://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/19828 -- a range of bibliographic projects are underway, and many more are being dreamed. Submission requirements:250-word abstracts Deadline for submissions: 15 March 2014 Contact person information: Dawn Childress (dawn@psu.edu) and Matt Cohen (matt.cohen@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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A8374657E; Fri, 21 Feb 2014 07:06:31 +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 79859656F; Fri, 21 Feb 2014 07:06:22 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id EC3AE6551; Fri, 21 Feb 2014 07:06:20 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140221060620.EC3AE6551@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 07:06:20 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.814 call for chapters: Internet 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. 27, No. 814. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:28:18 -0500 From: jeremy hunsinger Subject: Call for Abstracts for Chapters Volume 2 of the International Handbook of Internet Research Call for Abstracts for Chapters Volume 2 of the International Handbook of Internet Research (editors Jeremy Hunsinger, Lisbeth Klastrup, and Matthew Allen) Abstracts due June 1 2014; full chapters due Sept. 1 2015 After the remarkable success of the first International Handbook of Internet Research (2010), Springer has contracted with its editors to produce a second volume. This new volume will be arranged in three sections, that address one of three different aspects of internet research: foundations, futures, and critiques. Each of these meta-themes will have its own section of the new handbook. Foundations will approach a method, a theory, a perspective, a topic or field that has been and is still a location of significant internet research. These chapters will engage with the current and historical scholarly literature through extended reviews and also as a way of developing insights into the internet and internet research. Futures will engage with the directions the field of internet research might take over the next five years. These chapters will engage current methods, topics, perspectives, or fields that will expand and re-invent the field of internet research, particularly in light of emerging social and technological trends. The material for these chapters will define the topic they describe within the framework of internet research so that it can be understand as a place of future inquiry. Critique chapters will define and develop critical positions in the field of internet research. They can engage a theoretical perspective, a methodological perspective, a historical trend or topic in internet research and provide a critical perspective. These chapters might also define one type of critical perspective, tradition, or field in the field of internet research. We value the way in which this call for papers will itself shape the contents, themes, and coverage of the Handbook. We encourage potential authors to present abstracts that will consolidate current internet research, critically analyse its directions past and future, and re-invent the field for the decade to come. Contributions about the internet and internet research are sought from scholars in any discipline, and from many points of view. We therefore invite internet researchers working within the fields of communication, culture, politics, sociology, law and privacy, aesthetics, games and play, surveillance and mobility, amongst others, to consider contributing to the volume. Initially, we ask scholars and researchers to submit an 500 word abstract detailing their own chapter for one of the three sections outlined above. The abstract must follow the format presented below. After the initial round of submissions, there may be a further call for papers and/or approaches to individuals to complete the volume. The final chapters will be chosen from the submitted abstracts by the editors or invited by the editors. The chapter writers will be notified of acceptance by January 1st, 2015. The chapters will be due September 2015, should be between 6,000 and 10,000 words (inclusive of references, biographical statement and all other text). Each abstract needs to be presented in the following form: · Section (Either Foundations, Futures, or Critiques) · Title of chapter · Author name/s, institutional details · Corresponding author’s email address · Keywords (no more than 5) · Abstract (no more than 500 words) · References Please e-mail your abstract/s to: internet.research.handbook@gmail.com We look forward to your submissions and working with you to produce another definitive collection of thought-provoking internet research. Please feel free to distribute this CfP widely. Thank you Jeremy, Lisbeth, and Matt Jeremy Hunsinger Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail / - against microsoft attachments http://www.tmttlt.com You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. --Mark Twain _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 52B6D63C8; Sat, 22 Feb 2014 09:08:18 +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 3613363C4; Sat, 22 Feb 2014 09:08:03 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 148B86368; Sat, 22 Feb 2014 09:08:01 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140222080801.148B86368@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 09:08:01 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.815 postdocs at King's College London; job at CUNY Graduate Center X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 815. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Matthew K. Gold" (50) Subject: Job: Digital Humanities Coordinator, Full-Time (Graduate Center, CUNY) [2] From: "Rampton, Ben" (5) Subject: 2 post-doc positions on ERC Life Writing & digital media project at King's --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 16:22:45 -0500 From: "Matthew K. Gold" Subject: Job: Digital Humanities Coordinator, Full-Time (Graduate Center, CUNY) The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), a doctorate-granting institution of CUNY, is devoted to advancing original research and training graduate students in over 31 fields in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Full listing: http://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/02/21/digital-humanities-coordinator/ We are seeking a Digital Humanities Manager to help coordinate and expand a growing set of digital initiatives at the Graduate Center aimed at fostering new work that integrates digital tools and methods into the core research and teaching missions of the institution. We build community platforms, visualize cultural patterns in social media, explore new forms of the book, host a DH speaker series, help graduate students expand the integration of technology and pedagogy, foster transformation on issues of social justice, and collaborate with digital fellows on exciting digital projects. Based in the Provost's Office and reporting to the Advisor to the Provost for Digital Initiatives, the Digital Humanities Manager will join an institution with strong and clear support for digital initiatives and will be part of an enthusiastic and collaborative community of faculty members, students, and staff working together to explore new DH projects and opportunities. Responsibilities: * Manage the preparation and submission of more than three new grant proposals per year and maintain the management of successfully funded projects. * Manage administration of the GC Digital Praxis Seminar, which introduces new doctoral and master's students at the GC to DH texts, projects, and practices. * Work with the GC Digital Fellows Program and the Provost's Digital Innovation Grants program, managing the arrangement of workshops to help students improve their skills. * Maintain the management of the GC Digital Scholarship Lab and related equipment. * Serve as a liaison to academic programs, centers, and institutes partnered with GC Digital Initiatives. * Maintain the management of the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative. * Manage initiatives associated with digital initiatives that are part of the Graduate Center's Performance Management Process. * May supervise support staff. Apply now: http://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/02/21/digital-humanities-coordinator/ -- Best, Matt -- Matthew K. Gold, Ph.D. Executive Officer, M.A. Program in Liberal Studies Associate Professor of English & Digital Humanities City Tech & Graduate Center, City University of New York http://mkgold.net | @mkgold --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 07:04:54 +0000 From: "Rampton, Ben" Subject: 2 post-doc positions on ERC Life Writing & digital media project at King's King’s College London is advertising two postdoctoral positions (of 3 years and 5 years) to work on a new collaborative research project in Life Writing and digital media, funded by the European Research Council. It is called Ego-media: The impact of new media on forms and practices of self-presentation’, and is being led by Professor Max Saunders, the Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Institute. He will be joined by his Co-Director of the Centre for Life-Writing Research, Professor Clare Brant, and two other King’s academics: Alexandra Georgakopoulou, Professor of Discourse Analysis & Sociolinguistics at the Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication, and Professor Leone Ridsdale, from the Institute of Psychiatry. The project’s steering group also includes colleagues from Culture Media and Creative Industries, Digital Humanities, French, Medical Humanities, Medical Sociology, War Studies, and Education. The project aims to study the impact of new media on autobiographical narratives – an impact that is increasing as habits and practices of self-presentation evolve rapidly in response to constantly fast-changing technology. It will consider the implications of these new forms and practices for such notions as autobiography, selfhood, subjectivity, individuality, self-intelligibility, agency, creativity, privacy, and sociability. The closing date for applications is the 11th March. For further details of how to apply please see: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=14266 http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=14262 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 42639624B; Sat, 22 Feb 2014 09:09:24 +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 2538E609E; Sat, 22 Feb 2014 09:09:15 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5D6C23BF7; Sat, 22 Feb 2014 09:09:13 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140222080913.5D6C23BF7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 09:09:13 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.816 events: the Information Age; Artifactual 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 816. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Connelly Charlotte (30) Subject: CFP: 'Interpreting the Information Age': new avenues for research and display [2] From: Grant Wythoff (16) Subject: CFP MLA 2015: Artifactual Interpretation --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 10:41:36 -0000 From: Connelly Charlotte Subject: CFP: 'Interpreting the Information Age': new avenues for research and display Call for contributions 'Interpreting the Information Age': new avenues for research and display November 24th - 26th 2014 Science Museum, London Dear colleagues, In autumn 2014, the Science Museum will open a ground-breaking new permanent gallery, Information Age. The gallery will expose, examine and celebrate how information and communication technologies have transformed our lives over the last 200 years. To mark this launch, the Museum is hosting a three day conference which will discuss how the history and material culture of information can be made relevant for today's audiences, and celebrate the participation projects which have supported the gallery's development. We would welcome contributions from peers across the sector and beyond, to support this exciting conference. The details of the call can be found at the web address below - please send all proposals to research@sciencemuseum.ac.uk by Friday 28th March 2014. http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/about_us/new_research_folder/news_and_ev ents/Upcoming%20Events.aspx Kind regards, Charlotte Charlotte Connelly Content Developer - Information Age The Science Museum Exhibition Road London SW7 2DD Tel: 020 7942 4106 Email: charlotte.connelly@sciencemuseum.ac.uk 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, 21 Feb 2014 14:00:47 -0500 From: Grant Wythoff Subject: CFP MLA 2015: Artifactual Interpretation *Artifactual Interpretation | MLA 2015, Vancouver | January 8-11* This panel invites papers on methodologies for interpreting artifacts in the humanities. How do scholars trained in the practice of textual hermeneutics translate that expertise to material artifacts? Papers from the digital humanities, media archaeology, critical making, and all related fields are welcome. Please send 300-word abstracts and 100-word bios to gw2290@columbia.edu http://mailto:gw2290@columbia.edu by March 15. Best- Grant -- Grant Wythoff, PhD Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Humanities Lecturer, Department of English and Comparative Literature Columbia University http://wythoff.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 20BAE63C4; Sat, 22 Feb 2014 09:42:35 +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 91EC962EE; Sat, 22 Feb 2014 09:42:26 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6F99462E9; Sat, 22 Feb 2014 09:42:24 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140222084224.6F99462E9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 09:42:24 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.817 Busa and Cage: more work not less X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 817. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 08:31:29 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: more work not less I would guess that most of us here are familiar with Fr Busa's repeated insistence that computers should not be considered labour-saving devices, e.g. in "Why can a computer do so little?", ALLC Bulletin 4 (1976): 3, > Let me point out one consequence arising from the above. A t the > starting point of a new era there may be the temptation to ask the > new techniques to do things in the same way as before. See, for > example, some recent literature expressing critical remarks on > computer use. My statement is confirmed that using the computer to > prepare concordances, for example, with the same format and the same > features as before is a poor use of a computer. I feel sympathetic to > anyone in scholarly research who still thinks of using a computer > just to do things easier and faster. The processing of my Index > Thomisticus took one million man-hours for much less than five > thousand machine hours. In language processing the use of computers > is not aimed towards less human effort , or for doing things faster > and with less labour, but for more human work, more mental effort; we > must strive to know, more systematically, deeper, and better, what is > in our mouth at every moment, the mysterious world of our words. I just stumbled across another such statement from a rather different source. In their introduction to yet another invaluable edited collection (take that, research excellence frameworkers!) Mainframe Experimentalism: Early Computing and the Foundations of the Digital Arts (2012), Hannah B Higgins and Douglas Kahn quote John Cage, "Diary: Audience 1966", in A Year from Monday (1967), p. 50: > Are we an audience for computer art? The answer's not No; it's Yes. > What we need is a computer that isn't labor-saving but which > increases the work for us to do, that puns (this is [Marshall] > McLuhan's idea) as well as Joyce revealing bridges (this is [Norman > O.] Brown's idea) where we thought there weren't any, turns us (my > idea) not "on" but into artists. There is so much to learn from those technologically inclined artists of the 1950s-1970s, so much ammunition against the army of dull plodders. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 750486189; Sun, 23 Feb 2014 09:10:08 +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 B0C5763FE; Sun, 23 Feb 2014 09:09:55 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 470DD6125; Sun, 23 Feb 2014 09:09:43 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140223080943.470DD6125@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 09:09:43 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.818 Busa and Cage X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 818. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 19:54:50 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: Re: 27.817 Busa and Cage: more work not less In-Reply-To: <20140222084224.6F99462E9@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, This same point that Busa makes was posed as a question to a number of leading Italian academics already in 1962 in an article in Almanacco Letterario Bompiani, pp.143-144, 313-318. They were asked if the computer had changed the nature of their work "as some claim", or whether it merely made things easier. They all replied to the effect that nothing really had changed, except for Gianfranco Contini, who agreed, but added: "precisely because it will allow quantitative research that so far has been impossible, its heuristic significance will be revealing". My guess is that Marshall McLuhan is behind the change in attitude that Busa refers to, and is the chief of the "some who claim", since The Gutenberg Galaxy was published in that year. Desmond Schmidt Research Scientist Queensland University of Technology On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 817. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 08:31:29 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: more work not less > > I would guess that most of us here are familiar with Fr Busa's repeated > insistence that computers should not be considered labour-saving > devices, e.g. in "Why can a computer do so little?", ALLC Bulletin 4 > (1976): 3, > > > Let me point out one consequence arising from the above. A t the > > starting point of a new era there may be the temptation to ask the > > new techniques to do things in the same way as before. See, for > > example, some recent literature expressing critical remarks on > > computer use. My statement is confirmed that using the computer to > > prepare concordances, for example, with the same format and the same > > features as before is a poor use of a computer. I feel sympathetic to > > anyone in scholarly research who still thinks of using a computer > > just to do things easier and faster. The processing of my Index > > Thomisticus took one million man-hours for much less than five > > thousand machine hours. In language processing the use of computers > > is not aimed towards less human effort , or for doing things faster > > and with less labour, but for more human work, more mental effort; we > > must strive to know, more systematically, deeper, and better, what is > > in our mouth at every moment, the mysterious world of our words. > > I just stumbled across another such statement from a rather different > source. In their introduction to yet another invaluable edited > collection (take that, research excellence frameworkers!) Mainframe > Experimentalism: Early Computing and the Foundations of the Digital Arts > (2012), Hannah B Higgins and Douglas Kahn quote John Cage, "Diary: > Audience 1966", in A Year from Monday (1967), p. 50: > > > Are we an audience for computer art? The answer's not No; it's Yes. > > What we need is a computer that isn't labor-saving but which > > increases the work for us to do, that puns (this is [Marshall] > > McLuhan's idea) as well as Joyce revealing bridges (this is [Norman > > O.] Brown's idea) where we thought there weren't any, turns us (my > > idea) not "on" but into artists. > > There is so much to learn from those technologically inclined artists of > the 1950s-1970s, so much ammunition against the army of dull plodders. > > Yours, > WM > > -- > Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital > Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital > Humanities, University of Western Sydney > > > _______________________________________________ > List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Listmember interface at: > http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php > Subscribe at: > http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 77D31647E; Mon, 24 Feb 2014 07:20:13 +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 35B986280; Mon, 24 Feb 2014 07:20:04 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8148D6475; Mon, 24 Feb 2014 07:20:02 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140224062002.8148D6475@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 07:20:02 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.819 Busa and Cage X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 819. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 13:44:09 +0000 From: Martin Mueller Subject: Re: 27.818 Busa and Cage In-Reply-To: <20140223080943.470DD6125@digitalhumanities.org> There may be false alternatives hiding in the worry whether computers "merely" save time. There is a charming book by Jane Smiley, Iowa native, about John Atanasoff, another Iowa native, who according to her was "the man who invented the computer." She put her narrative in a wider context of scientists who ran up against the limits of human computation: if it takes too long to carry out a computation that is necessary to tackling a question, the question cannot be tackled. Vicky Kalogera, an astronomer and colleague of mine at Northwestern, once told me that in her mother's and certainly her grandmother's world mathematically gifted women were limited to being human computers or quantitative secretaries. The economist Michael Spence was described in the New York Times (February 18, 2014) as thinking in 2005 "about how the Internet, compressing time and distance, would strengthen supply chains around the world." In its early years, the toll booths in the Denver bypass (E-470) were staffed by extraordinarily courteous and cheerful attendants. They have been replaced by automatic cameras and workflows that depend critically on computers. Most of the women who were human computers for early twentieth-century physicists or astronomers found new and better things to do with their time. I am less sure about the employment opportunities for the toll booth attendants--mostly older and mostly women--who lost their jobs. Paul Krugmann worries about such questions. Just about everything good or bad associated with computers boils down -- and usually sooner rather than later -- to the time cost of operations. When something becomes literally "worthwhile" the calculus of the possible changes, often in unpredictable ways. "Had we but world enough and time" is a good phrase to remember. So is Ranganathan's fourth law of library science: "Save the time of the reader." Changes in speed and scale are the key factors in thinking about computers in the humanities. I am not at all sure, however, whether the cumulative effect in the so-called "Digital Humanities" differs in interesting ways from those changes in other disciplines or walks of life. And in all walks there is always the big question whether time saved is put to some other and better purpose. Another recent story in the Times talks about a failing high school student: how could she possibly do her homework (so she argued) when she had all this texting to do? Martin Mueller Professor emeritus of English and Classics Northwestern University On 2/23/14 2:09 AM, "Humanist Discussion Group" wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 818. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 19:54:50 +1000 > From: Desmond Schmidt > Subject: Re: 27.817 Busa and Cage: more work not less > In-Reply-To: <20140222084224.6F99462E9@digitalhumanities.org> > > >Dear Willard, > >This same point that Busa makes was posed as a question to a number of >leading Italian academics already in 1962 in an article in Almanacco >Letterario Bompiani, pp.143-144, 313-318. They were asked if the >computer had changed the nature of their work "as some claim", or >whether it merely made things easier. They all replied to the effect that >nothing really had changed, except for Gianfranco Contini, who agreed, >but added: "precisely because it will allow quantitative research that >so far has been impossible, its heuristic significance will be >revealing". My guess is that Marshall McLuhan is behind the change in >attitude that Busa refers to, and is the chief of the "some who claim", >since The Gutenberg Galaxy was published in that year. > >Desmond Schmidt >Research Scientist >Queensland University of Technology > >On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < >willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > >> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 817. >> Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London >> www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >> Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >> >> >> >> Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 08:31:29 +0000 >> From: Willard McCarty >> Subject: more work not less >> >> I would guess that most of us here are familiar with Fr Busa's repeated >> insistence that computers should not be considered labour-saving >> devices, e.g. in "Why can a computer do so little?", ALLC Bulletin 4 >> (1976): 3, >> >> > Let me point out one consequence arising from the above. A t the >> > starting point of a new era there may be the temptation to ask the >> > new techniques to do things in the same way as before. See, for >> > example, some recent literature expressing critical remarks on >> > computer use. My statement is confirmed that using the computer to >> > prepare concordances, for example, with the same format and the same >> > features as before is a poor use of a computer. I feel sympathetic to >> > anyone in scholarly research who still thinks of using a computer >> > just to do things easier and faster. The processing of my Index >> > Thomisticus took one million man-hours for much less than five >> > thousand machine hours. In language processing the use of computers >> > is not aimed towards less human effort , or for doing things faster >> > and with less labour, but for more human work, more mental effort; we >> > must strive to know, more systematically, deeper, and better, what is >> > in our mouth at every moment, the mysterious world of our words. >> >> I just stumbled across another such statement from a rather different >> source. In their introduction to yet another invaluable edited >> collection (take that, research excellence frameworkers!) Mainframe >> Experimentalism: Early Computing and the Foundations of the Digital Arts >> (2012), Hannah B Higgins and Douglas Kahn quote John Cage, "Diary: >> Audience 1966", in A Year from Monday (1967), p. 50: >> >> > Are we an audience for computer art? The answer's not No; it's Yes. >> > What we need is a computer that isn't labor-saving but which >> > increases the work for us to do, that puns (this is [Marshall] >> > McLuhan's idea) as well as Joyce revealing bridges (this is [Norman >> > O.] Brown's idea) where we thought there weren't any, turns us (my >> > idea) not "on" but into artists. >> >> There is so much to learn from those technologically inclined artists of >> the 1950s-1970s, so much ammunition against the army of dull plodders. >> >> Yours, >> WM >> >> -- >> Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital >> Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital >> Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CC7CA64DC; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 07:56:23 +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 B698A6415; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 07:56:14 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A8A9663F1; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 07:56:12 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140225065612.A8A9663F1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 07:56:12 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.820 Busa and Cage X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 820. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 08:50:01 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: false alternatives Martin Mueller makes an important point about false alternatives in dismissing quantitative questions, e.g. of speed, time or efficiency, in favour of qualitative ones. We set ourselves up to be caught unawares by threshold effects of the former. Suddenly something becomes possible because it is at human scale, and so humans run with it. But isn't what is false the binary choice, whichever direction you go? Thus stressing the importance of the quantitative is just as dangerous, or given the ease with which it can be demonstrated and measured, perhaps even more so. If the question is put in terms of saving labour, isn't the important matter what you do once labour has been saved, what your aim is in saving it? Use automation to get rid of your toll-booth collectors so as to increase profits? Use a vacuum cleaner so that you can keep a cleaner house? The dominant emphasis in early digital humanities on relieving drudgery, Louis Milic pointed out in 1966, meant that scholars were undertaking research defined by drudgery. (Milic's "The next step" in CHum 1.1, where he comments on this point, has to be among the very best critical articles examining work in the field.) Labour-saving had become their goal. They were falling into the trap Busa warned against and Cage would have none of. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2199A64FA; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 09:19:53 +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 2FBD66241; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 09:19:42 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E35866239; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 09:19:40 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140225081940.E35866239@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 09:19:40 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.821 a strong PhD programme? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 821. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 13:32:49 -0500 From: James Rovira Subject: Looking for Program Recommendations Dear Colleagues: A former student of mine is looking for strong Ph.D. programs that fit (at least somewhat) this description, or would facilitate this kind of study: "Literacy studies, specializing in literacy sponsorship and sociolinguistics of American subcultures, with particular interest in how advances in digital media/communication have affected sponsorship of literacy and language evolution." She's very bright -- one of a small handful of students whom I would recommend for Ph.D. study. Thanks very much, and emails off-list are welcome (jamesrovira@gmail.com). And, most of all, please don't hesitate to brag about your own program. Dr. James Rovira Associate Professor of English Tiffin University http://www.jamesrovira.com Blake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety Continuum 2010 http://jamesrovira.com/blake-and-kierkegaard-creation-and-anxiety/ Text, Identity, Subjectivity http://scalar.usc.edu/works/text-identity-subjectivity/index _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 689C06505; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 09:22:00 +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 F269F64FA; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 09:21:50 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 310726276; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 09:21:49 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140225082149.310726276@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 09:21:49 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.822 events: quantifying affect & emotion; 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. 27, No. 822. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (38) Subject: ArtsIT 2014 [2] From: Luke Stark (26) Subject: 4S Open Panel "Quantifying Affect and Emotion, Past and Present" - submissions due Friday! --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 09:00:52 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: ArtsIT 2014 ArtsIT 2014, November, Istanbul, Turkey - Call for Papers & Posters Call for Posters (http://artsit.org/2014/show/wip-papers) The ArtsIT 2014 poster session aims at presenting innovative and cutting-edge projects at the boundary between Arts and Information Technology performed by graduate students working in fields that are related to the aims and scope of the conference. Students working at art and technology related projects will have the possibility to present their findings to peers and discuss their topics with a panel of experts. Call for Papers Scope ArtsIT is meant to be a place where people in arts, with a keen interest in modern IT technologies, meet with people in IT, having strong ties to arts in their works. Now in its fourth edition, ArtsIT has become a leading scientific forum for dissemination of cutting-edge research results in the area of Arts, Design & Technology. The Istanbul conference aims to bring together leading researchers and practitioners from academia, arts and industry to present their innovative work and discuss all aspects and challenges in a stimulating environment. The event aims to foster trans-disciplinary alliances and co-operation between IT researchers, artists and industry members as well as to offer artists novel creative tools that expand the grammar of the traditional arts. The main focus of this edition is are presenting tools, systems, models, artworks/performances/shows, empirical studies that may enrich the possibilities for artists and creative people with working with new media technologies. Dr Anthony Lewis Brooks (aka Tony) PhD Associate Professor & Director SensoramaLab Medialogy Lecturer - URL http://medialogy.eu/ Web Profile URL - http://personprofil.aau.dk/103302 Department - AD:MT Phone: (+45) 21303015 | Email: tb@create.aau.dk | Aalborg University Esbjerg | Niels Bohrs vej 8 | Esbjerg Employee No. 103302 | VAT No.: DK 29102384 Aalborg University Web: www.en.aau.dk -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 23:24:29 -0500 From: Luke Stark Subject: 4S Open Panel "Quantifying Affect and Emotion, Past and Present" - submissions due Friday! A gentle reminder that 250-word abstracts for this open panel are due on Friday, February 28th - please circulate widely, with apologies for cross-posting! *** Open Panel: Quantifying Affect and Emotion, Past and Present Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), August 20-23 2014, Buenos Aires, Argentina In an age of “Big Data,” the enumeration of feelings has become big business. Increasingly sophisticated facial recognition algorithms, techniques of textual sentiment analysis, and sensors able to monitor gait and body language have all made emotion increasingly legible as digital code and algorithmic input. Yet the entanglement of feelings with enumeration is not new - the tracking and quantification of emotion has been a feature of techno-scientific discourse since the early 19th century. Affect and emotion have long been subject to what historian of medicine Otniel Dror terms "discoursing in numbers": the translation and integration of feeling into the realms of the calculable and predictable. This open panel aims to bring together scholars working on the history of techniques and technologies for enumerating affect and emotion with those exploring contemporary digital modes of emotional tracking and quantification. The panel welcomes papers from a wide range of disciplines, particularly work that combines historical and contemporary sites of analysis. Possible panel themes and topics include, but are not limited to: By what means have feelings been variously quantified, categorized, classified and integrated into numerical discourses throughout history? How are contemporary practices of emotional quantification and tracking descended from or in contrast to historical examples of these techniques? When and where have the particularities of changing scientific practice shaped technical and popular understandings of feeling, both historically and in the present? In what ways are existing regimes of scientific knowledge around emotion being revised in view of new techno-scientific developments, and how are these epistemic shifts changing our personal understanding of emotion itself? How are quotidian practices of daily self-tracking and the idea of the "quantified self" shaping contemporary views of feeling and affect? Please submit a paper abstract (250 words) electronically via the conference website: http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ssss/4s14/. Please also forward a copy of the abstract to luke.stark@nyu.edu. The deadline for submitting your abstract is February 28, 2014. Accepted authors will be notified by April 1, 2014. For further information, please contact Luke Stark at luke.stark@nyu.edu *** Luke Stark Ph.D. Candidate Department of Media, Culture, and Communication The Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development New York University 239 Greene Street, 8th Floor New York, NY 10003 tel: (1) 646.530.0400 fax: (1) 212.995.4046 email: luke.stark@nyu.edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: 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,BAYES_00, 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 5FE8C6509; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 09:25:11 +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 BCDBF6505; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 09:25:03 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 26C8F64EB; Tue, 25 Feb 2014 09:25:01 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140225082501.26C8F64EB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 09:25:01 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.823 pubs: selfies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 823. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 21:00:30 +0000 From: Lev Manovich Subject: Inntroducing selfiecity.net - analysis and visualization of thousands of selfies photos from five global cities Welcome to Selfiecity! http://selfiecity.net/ I'm excited to announce the launch of our new research project selfiecity.net. The website presents analysis and interactive visualizations of 3,200 Instagram selfie photos, taken between December 4 and 12, 2013, in Bangkok, Berlin, Moscow, New York, and São Paulo. The project explores how people represent themselves using mobile photography in social media by analyzing the subjects’ demographics, poses, and expressions. Selfiecity (http://softwarestudies.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=67ffe3671ec85d3bb8a9319ca&id=edb72af8ec&e=8a08a35e11) investigates selfies using a mix of theoretic, artistic and quantitative methods: * Rich media visualizations in the Imageplots section assemble thousands of photos to reveal interesting patterns. * An interactive component of the website, a custom-made app Selfiexploratory invites visitors to filter and explore the photos themselves. * Theory and Reflection section of the website contribute to the discussion of the findings of the research. The authors of the essays are art historians Alise Tifentale (The City University of New York, The Graduate Center) and Nadav Hochman (University of Pittsburgh) as well as media theorist Elizabeth Losh (University of California, San Diego). The project is led by Dr. Lev Manovich, leading expert on digital art and culture; Professor of Computer Science, The Graduate Center, CUNY; Director, Software Studies Initiative. [...] _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 650A063D1; Wed, 26 Feb 2014 07:07:02 +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 53965637B; Wed, 26 Feb 2014 07:06:43 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4C8726375; Wed, 26 Feb 2014 07:06:41 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140226060641.4C8726375@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 07:06:41 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.824 Busa and Cage X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 824. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 13:35:56 +0100 From: Domenico Fiormonte Subject: Re: 27.818 Busa and Cage In-Reply-To: <20140223080943.470DD6125@digitalhumanities.org> Thanks to Desmond Schmidt for remembering those pioneering years of humanities computing. Yes, the 1962 Almanacco was remarkable! Basically it was one of the starting points of the reflection on "computational philology" (let's call this way, although many would disagree). I remember reading something also by J.J. McGann on Gianfranco Contini's insights. The exciting story of the encounter between philology and computing in Italy was told a number of times, but for those interested there this seminal volume: _La pratique des ordinateurs dans la critique des textes._ Actes du colloque de Paris (29-31 mars 1978), publiés par Jean Irigoin et Gian Piero Zarri. Éd. du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1979. It would be interesting in the near future trying to build an interactive geo-historical map of digital/computational philology showing the polygenetic and transnational nature of this discipline (and in general of DH). Domenico > > Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 19:54:50 +1000 > From: Desmond Schmidt > Subject: Re: 27.817 Busa and Cage: more work not less > In-Reply-To: <20140222084224.6F99462E9@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Dear Willard, > > This same point that Busa makes was posed as a question to a number of > leading Italian academics already in 1962 in an article in Almanacco > Letterario Bompiani, pp.143-144, 313-318. They were asked if the > computer had changed the nature of their work "as some claim", or > whether it merely made things easier. They all replied to the effect that > nothing really had changed, except for Gianfranco Contini, who agreed, > but added: "precisely because it will allow quantitative research that > so far has been impossible, its heuristic significance will be > revealing". My guess is that Marshall McLuhan is behind the change in > attitude that Busa refers to, and is the chief of the "some who claim", > since The Gutenberg Galaxy was published in that year. > > Desmond Schmidt > Research Scientist > Queensland University of Technology > > On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < > willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 817. > > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > > > > > Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 08:31:29 +0000 > > From: Willard McCarty > > Subject: more work not less > > > > I would guess that most of us here are familiar with Fr Busa's repeated > > insistence that computers should not be considered labour-saving > > devices, e.g. in "Why can a computer do so little?", ALLC Bulletin 4 > > (1976): 3, > > > > > Let me point out one consequence arising from the above. A t the > > > starting point of a new era there may be the temptation to ask the > > > new techniques to do things in the same way as before. See, for > > > example, some recent literature expressing critical remarks on > > > computer use. My statement is confirmed that using the computer to > > > prepare concordances, for example, with the same format and the same > > > features as before is a poor use of a computer. I feel sympathetic to > > > anyone in scholarly research who still thinks of using a computer > > > just to do things easier and faster. The processing of my Index > > > Thomisticus took one million man-hours for much less than five > > > thousand machine hours. In language processing the use of computers > > > is not aimed towards less human effort , or for doing things faster > > > and with less labour, but for more human work, more mental effort; we > > > must strive to know, more systematically, deeper, and better, what is > > > in our mouth at every moment, the mysterious world of our words. > > > > I just stumbled across another such statement from a rather different > > source. In their introduction to yet another invaluable edited > > collection (take that, research excellence frameworkers!) Mainframe > > Experimentalism: Early Computing and the Foundations of the Digital Arts > > (2012), Hannah B Higgins and Douglas Kahn quote John Cage, "Diary: > > Audience 1966", in A Year from Monday (1967), p. 50: > > > > > Are we an audience for computer art? The answer's not No; it's Yes. > > > What we need is a computer that isn't labor-saving but which > > > increases the work for us to do, that puns (this is [Marshall] > > > McLuhan's idea) as well as Joyce revealing bridges (this is [Norman > > > O.] Brown's idea) where we thought there weren't any, turns us (my > > > idea) not "on" but into artists. > > > > There is so much to learn from those technologically inclined artists of > > the 1950s-1970s, so much ammunition against the army of dull plodders. > > > > Yours, > > WM > > > > -- > > Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital > > Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital > > Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLACK 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 D8DCE63FB; Wed, 26 Feb 2014 07:08:16 +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 3B33163B9; Wed, 26 Feb 2014 07:08:09 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 53ED663B5; Wed, 26 Feb 2014 07:08:07 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140226060807.53ED663B5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 07:08:07 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.825 The Humanities Matter X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 825. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 12:42:34 -0500 From: Kim Subject: Urgent: Humanities Matter Web Series and Travel Blog Do you believe the humanities matter? Support our Kickstarter! We have 8 days left in our Kickstarter campaign to secure the money for a trip that will document the faces of the humanities. Please help us make it happen! Follow us at @humbustour.*Email us at info@dhmakerbus.com. INFORMATION : https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/130281790/the-humanities-matter-webseries-and-travel-blog http://www.strikingly.com/humanitiesmatter Who: DHMakerBus (Kim Martin, Ryan Hunt, Beth Compton) and Alex Gil, together with the 4Humanities Collective. What: A KickStarter Campaign titled "The Humanities Matter". The goal is to raise $15 000 (or more!) towards a documentary-style web-series about the importance of humanities education. When: The bus trip that will be the focal point of the webseries takes place in late May and early June, leading up to the Digital Humanities Summer Institute. Where: 1. On the web - we'll be live tweeting and blogging the entire trip, as well as uploading our interviews as they take place along the way. 2. On the ground - All the way from Charlottesville, Virginia, through Montreal, Quebec and out to Victoria, British Columbia, we'll be travelling (by bus!) and talking to people from all walks of life who have one thing in common: they believe the humanities matter. Why: We live in a world where the arts and humanities are under constant threat. Our project seeks to show the value of the humanities, focusing on positive stories of how the humanities enrich lives. We want to show the human face of the humanities - the humanities matter because people matter. -- Kim Martin PhD Candidate DHMakerBus Co-founder Faculty of Information and Media Studies University of Western Ontario Twitter: @antimony27 Blog: http://howhumanistsread.com/ http://howhumanistsread.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 19AAB63FB; Wed, 26 Feb 2014 07:11:09 +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 043DB63B9; Wed, 26 Feb 2014 07:11:00 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9FAC763A3; Wed, 26 Feb 2014 07:10:57 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140226061057.9FAC763A3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 07:10:57 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.826 events: computational linguistics; Turing and Busa X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 826. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Davenport, Sarah" (14) Subject: UCLDH Guest Speaker: Professor Willard McCarty, 25th March 2014 [2] From: Alexander O'Connor (102) Subject: Second CFP: COLING 2014 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:49:20 +0000 From: "Davenport, Sarah" Subject: UCLDH Guest Speaker: Professor Willard McCarty, 25th March 2014 Professor Willard McCarty, 'What does Turing have to do with Busa? In celebration of the centennary plus one of Roberto Busa's birth’ Tuesday 25th March, 5.30pm G31, Foster Court, UCL We sometimes act as if the two -- the odd Englishman who invented digital computing and the formidable Italian who in the standard account began digital humanities -- were remote strangers to each other as much in thought as they were in life. In this talk I argue for their cognitive if not spiritual brotherhood. I argue that the coming together of digital computing machinery and traditional humanistic questions could be more obviously and more fully a bi-directional transformative collision with deeply fructifying outcome if only we ceased treating those two great progenitors as alien to each other. Willard McCarty is Professor of Humanities Computing, King’s College London, and Professor, Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney. All welcome, registration required. Please see our events pages for information on how to register: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/events/archive/25-mar-14-mccarty Sarah Davenport Centre Co-ordinator UCL Centre for Digital Humanities Department of Information Studies University College London Gower Street, WC1E 6BT tel: 020 7679 7204 | email: s.davenport@ucl.ac.uk 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 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:42:46 +0000 From: Alexander O'Connor Subject: Second CFP: COLING 2014 This might be of interest to humanists? Begin forwarded message: > From: John Judge > Subject: Second CFP: COLING 2014 > Date: 25 February 2014 11:39:51 GMT > To: undisclosed-recipients:; > > ********** Apologies for cross-posting ********** > > Second (Main) Call for Papers - Coling 2014 > > COLING 2014 > Dublin, Ireland, 23-29 August, 2014 > > The International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL) is pleased to announce the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2014), at Dublin City University (DCU, Dublin, Ireland). DCU is a young, dynamic and ambitious university with a mission to transform lives and societies through education, research and innovation. Most of the local organisers are from CNGL, Ireland's Centre for Global Intelligent Content (formerly the Centre for Next Generation Localisation), which embodies the leading position of Ireland in the global localisation/internationalisation business, a strong focus on language technologies including machine translation, computational linguistics and natural language processing, as well as on intelligent management, search, retrieval, transformation and adaptation of content. > > Coling will cover a broad spectrum of technical areas related to natural language and computation. The conference will include full papers (presented as oral presentations or posters), demonstrations, tutorials, and workshops. > > TOPICS OF INTEREST > > Coling 2014 solicits papers and demonstrations on original and unpublished research on the following topics, including, but not limited to: > > • pragmatics, semantics, syntax, grammars and the lexicon; > • cognitive, mathematical and computational models of language processing; > • models of communication by language; > • lexical semantics and ontologies; > • word segmentation, tagging and chunking; > • parsing, both syntactic and deep; > • generation and summarisation; > • paraphrasing, textual entailment and question answering; > • speech recognition, text-to-speech and spoken language understanding; > • multimodal and natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; > • information retrieval, information extraction and knowledge base linking; > • machine learning for natural language; > • modelling of discourse and dialogue; > • sentiment analysis, opinion mining and social media; > • multilingual processing, machine translation and translation aids; > • applications, tools and language resources; > • system evaluation methodology and metrics. > > In all relevant areas, we encourage authors to include analysis of the influence of theories (intuitions, methodologies, insights), to technologies (computational algorithms, methods, tools, data), and/or contributions of technologies to theory development. In technologically oriented papers, we encourage in-depth analysis and discussion of errors made in the experiments described, if possible linking them to the presence or absence of linguistically-motivated features. Contributions that display and rigorously discuss future potential, even if not (yet) attested in standard evaluation, are welcome. > > PAPER REQUIREMENTS > > Papers should describe original work; they should emphasise completed work or well-advanced ongoing research rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included. > > Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees. > Submissions presented at the conference should mostly contain new material that has not been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Papers that are being submitted in parallel to other conferences or workshops must indicate this on the title page, as must papers that contain significant overlap with previously published work. > > REVIEWING > > Reviewing will be double blind. It will be managed by an international Conference Program Committee consisting of Program Chairs, members of the Scientific Advisory Board and Area Chairs, who will be assisted by invited reviewers. > > Important Notice > > [1] In order to allow participants to be acquainted with the published papers ahead of time which in turn should facilitate discussions at Coling 2014, we have set the official publication date two weeks before the conference, i.e., on August 11, 2014. On that day, the papers will be available online for all participants to download, print and read. If your employer is taking steps to protect intellectual property related to your paper, please inform them about this timing. > > [2] While submissions are anonymous, we strongly encourage authors to plan for depositing language resources and other data as well as tools used and/or developed for the experiments described in the papers, if the paper is accepted. In this respect, we encourage authors then to deposit resources and tools to available open-access repositories of language resources and/or repositories of tools (such as META-SHARE, Clarin, ELRA, LDC or AFNLP/COCOSDA for data, and github, sourceforge, CPAN and similar for software and tools) and refer to them instead of submitting them with the paper, even though it will also be an open possibility (through the START system). The details will be given in the submission site for camera-ready versions of accepted papers. > > [3] There will be a separate call for demonstrations. Accepted papers on demonstrations will also be included in the proceedings. > > INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS > > For Coling 2014, there will be one category of research papers only. All of the papers will be included in conference proceedings, this time in electronic form only. > > The maximum submission length is 8 pages (A4), plus two extra pages for references. Authors of accepted papers will be given additional space in the camera-ready version to reflect space needed for changes stemming from reviewers comments. Authors can indicate their preference for presentation mode (i.e. oral or poster presentation) in the submission form, and the reviewers will recommend an appropriate mode of presentation to the program committee which will then decide. There will be no distinction in the proceedings between research papers presented orally vs. as posters. > > Papers shall be submitted in English, anonymised with regard to the authors and/or their institution (no author-identifying information on the title page nor anywhere in the paper), including referencing style as usual. Authors should also ensure that identifying meta-information is removed from files submitted for review. Papers must conform to official Coling 2014 style guidelines, which are available here http://www.coling-2014.org/doc/coling2014.zip. Submission and reviewing will be managed online by the START system. The only accepted format for submitted papers is in Adobe's PDF. > > Submissions must be uploaded on the START system (https://www.softconf.com/coling2014/main/) by the submission deadlines; submissions after that time will not be reviewed. To minimise network congestion, we request authors to upload their submissions as early as possible. > > IMPORTANT DATES > > February 2014: Opening of the submission website https://www.softconf.com/coling2014/main/ > March 21, 2014: Paper submission deadline > May 9-12, 2014: Author response period > May 23, 2014: Author notification > June 6, 2014: Camera-ready PDF due > August 11, 2014: Official paper publication date > August 25-29, 2014: Main conference > > > > -- > John Judge > > Research Fellow > CNGL - The Centre for Global Intelligent Content > META-NET CIO > COLING 2014 Local Chair > > Email: jjudge@computing.dcu.ie > Phone: +353 1 700 6729 > Skype: jjudge2 > http://www.cngl.ie > http://www.meta-net.eu > http://www.coling-2014.org -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 06DFE650F; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 07:41:59 +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 0684264FF; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 07:41:50 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3666664FC; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 07:41:48 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140227064148.3666664FC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 07:41:48 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.827 selfies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 827. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 11:11:25 +0000 From: "LEWIS R.M." Subject: RE: 27.823 pubs: selfies In-Reply-To: <20140225082501.26C8F64EB@digitalhumanities.org> In case people interested in Selfies haven't seen this - a very active Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/664091916962292/ 'The Selfies Research Network'. Dr Bex Lewis Research Fellow in Social Media and Online Learning CODEC, St John's College, Durham University http://bigbible.org.uk/; http://www.twitter.com/bigbible  bex.lewis@durham.ac.uk Sign up for the monthly newsletter: http://j.mp/bigbnews -----Original Message----- From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [mailto:humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: 25 February 2014 08:25 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2BD056511; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 07:46:50 +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 11F7B650F; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 07:46:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3809D6504; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 07:46:38 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140227064638.3809D6504@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 07:46:38 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.828 events: libraries; biblical, Jewish & early Christian mss; convict life X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 828. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: kcl - cerch (18) Subject: CeRch Seminar: Founders & Survivors: Tasmanian Convict Life Courses in Historical Context [2] From: (49) Subject: Information, 6th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2014) 27-30 May 2014, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey-new call [3] From: Claire Clivaz (5) Subject: Call for papers SBL/AAR 2014 in San Diego --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 13:52:01 +0000 From: kcl - cerch Subject: CeRch Seminar: Founders & Survivors: Tasmanian Convict Life Courses in Historical Context Founders & Survivors: Tasmanian Convict Life Courses in Historical Context Dear all, Please find below the details of next week's CeRch seminar: Date: Tuesday, 4th March 2014, from 6.15pm to 7.30pm (GMT) Location: Anatomy Museum Space, 6th Floor, King's College London (Strand Campus) http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/campuses/strand/Strand.aspx Attendance is free and open to all, but registration is requested: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cerch-seminar-founders-survivors-tasmanian-convict-life-courses-in-historical-context-prof-janet-tickets-10115219895 The seminar will be followed by wine and nibbles. All the best, Valentina Asciutti Abstract: Founders & Survivors is a multi-university and public collaborative project that is building a transnational and inter-generational data set of life courses generated from the UNESCO recognized convict records of Tasmania. This paper outlines the technical history of the project: mass digitization and archiving online of over 100,000 images; manual scholarly transcription; TEI standard XML data library based on automated and manual record matching and linkage; crowdsourcing using Google Docs to manage over 60 online volunteer genealogists; re-constitution of amalgamated life courses and record linkage; development of customized genealogical database for population and family analysis (Yggrasil); export to statistical programmes (SPSS, Stata). Three grants from the Australian Research Council have funded this work, and the outcomes have been (1) Hamish Maxwell-Stewart's nominal dataset of around 70,000 Tasmanian convicts using Deborah Oxley's transcriptions of the probation era, amplified by full transcriptions of 1 in 25 convicts and linkages to later criminal records (at the University of Tasmania); and (2) the Life Course project run by the authors which has completed life courses researched for all convicts from 91 convict shiploads, creating a reference population of 12,068 men (around 25% of the total) and 5,549 women (around 40% of the total), with another 6188 (at last count) from random ships (at the University of Melbourne). The proportion of convicts researched for life before, during and after sentence, marriage, fertility and death is around 37% of the total number of convicts for whom adequate records have survived. This sample is big enough to enable significant analysis on all-cause and cause-specific mortality; fertility; the life course effects of insult accumulation; temperament and survival; early life influences and intergenerational effects. None of this would have been possible without the combination of information technology, digitized archives, customized software and the thousands of hours of labour donated by volunteers, to the equivalent value of AUD 4 million! Speakers: Professor Janet McCalman (Centre for Health & Society, University of Melbourne), Dr Rebecca Kippen (Centre for Health & Society, University of Melbourne), Ms Sandra Silcot (Centre for Health & Society, University of Melbourne), Dr Len Smith (Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, Australian National University). --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 15:12:08 +0200 From: Subject: Information, 6th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2014) 27-30 May 2014, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey-new call Regarding the: 6th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2014) 27-30 May 2014, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey, http://www.isast.org Please see below the replies to the main questions posed and more information: 1. Yes, you can participate and attend the conference without presenting an abstract or paper. However, you should send the registration form to ask for an attendance permission 2. An Abstract accepted is mandatory for an oral or poster presentation 3. The paper is optional. If you submit a paper it will be considered for the Conference Proceedings and the post-conference publications in Books and the QQML Journal (www.qqml.net http://www.qqml.net/ ). Two new issues have been added. The e-journal is included in EBSCOhost and DOAJ. 4. The abstract submission deadline was extended to March 10, 2014 in order to include submissions of abstracts to the special sessions proposed and to the regular sessions as well. 5. Submissions of abstracts to special or contributed sessions could be sent directly to the conference secretariat at secretar@isast.org . Please refer to the Session Number (see below) to help the secretariat to classify the submissions. 6. Session organizers should notify the conference secretariat by March 10 and include the abstracts collected for their special sessions. 7. If you already have submitted your Abstract and you have not received a reply please notify the conference secretariat. Conference Excursions 1. A half day (14:30-19:30) conference excursion in the afternoon of the second day of the conference (28 May 2014) is scheduled: Visit of the classical Istanbul including some of Istanbul's major sights. 2. A full day Excursion in the day following the last day of the conference (31 May 2014). For more information and Abstract/Paper submission and Special Session Proposals please visit the conference website at: http://www.isast.org http://www.isast.org/ or send email to: secretar@isast.org Looking forward to welcoming you in Istanbul, With our best regards, 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 [...] --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 23:06:59 +0100 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: Call for papers SBL/AAR 2014 in San Diego Dear all, The consultation «Digital Humanities in Biblical Studies, Early Jewish and Christian Studies» welcomes papers for one of the two sessions organized at the next annual SBL/AAR meeting in San Diego, 22-25 November 2014. This session will focus on «Digital Manuscript Studies». We invite proposals exploring the practice and theory of digitizing ancient manuscripts of the Bible and other early Jewish and Christian literatures. Possible topics include Optical Character Recognition (OCR); multi-spectral imaging and other technologies of image enhancement; digital tools for paleography and codicology; and online editions more generally. Abstracts focused on specific projects, as well as more general and epistemological reflections, are welcome. http://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_CallForPaperDetails.aspx?MeetingId=25&VolunteerUnitId=612 Claire Clivaz and David Hamidovic, University of Lausanne (CH), co-chairs _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1EF456516; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 07:48:36 +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 0E20C6511; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 07:48:27 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3DD15650D; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 07:48:25 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140227064825.3DD15650D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 07:48:25 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.829 a social media lie detector? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 829. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 06:38:05 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: a social media lie detector? Two researchers from the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, are part of an EU project, PHEME, which aims automatically to detect four types of online rumours (speculation, controversy, misinformation, and disinformation) and to model their spread. "With partners from seven different countries, the project will combine big data analytics with advanced linguistic and visual methods. The results will be suitable for direct application in medical information systems and digital journalism." I note in particular the qualifying statement that, > However, it is particularly difficult to assess whether a piece of > information falls into one of these categories in the context of > social media. The quality of the information here is highly dependent > on its social context and, up to now, it has proven very challenging > to identify and interpret this context automatically. Indeed. Ovid would, I think, be amused: > tota fremit vocesque refert iteratque quod audit; > nulla quies intus nullaque silentia parte, > nec tamen est clamor, sed parvae murmura vocis, > qualia de pelagi, siquis procul audiat, undis > esse solent, qualemve sonum, cum Iuppiter atras > increpuit nubes, extrema tonitrua reddunt. > atria turba tenet: veniunt, leve vulgus, euntque > mixtaque cum veris passim commenta vagantur > milia rumorum confusaque verba volutant; > e quibus hi vacuas inplent sermonibus aures, > hi narrata ferunt alio, mensuraque ficti > crescit, et auditis aliquid novus adicit auctor. > illic Credulitas, illic temerarius Error > vanaque Laetitia est consternatique Timores > Seditioque recens dubioque auctore Susurri; > ipsa, quid in caelo rerum pelagoque geratur > et tellure, videt totumque inquirit in orbem. > > The whole place is full of noises, repeats all words and doubles what > it hears. There is no quiet, no silence anywhere within. And yet > there is no loud clamour, but only the subdued murmur of voices, like > the murmur of the waves of the sea if you listen afar off, or like > the last rumblings of thunder when Jove has made the dark clouds > crash together. Crowds fill the hall, shifting throngs come and go, > and everywhere wander thousands of rumours, falsehoods mingled with > the truth, and confused reports flit about. Some of these fill their > idle ears with talk, and others go and tell elsewhere what they have > heard; while the story grows in size, and each new teller makes > contribution to what he has heard. Here is Credulity, here is > heedless Error, unfounded Joy and panic Fear; here sudden Sedition > and unauthentic Whisperings. Rumour herself beholds all that is done > in heaven, on sea and land, and searches throughout the world for > news. Ovid, Met. 12.47-63 (Loeb edn) See http://www.pheme.eu/ for more. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 34E1263BC; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 07:53:39 +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 0FE4A63A6; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 07:53:27 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 914F7639E; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 07:53:24 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140228065324.914F7639E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 07:53:24 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.830 social media lie detector X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 830. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: maurizio lana (75) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.829 a social media lie detector? [2] From: Alun Edwards (12) Subject: RE: 27.829 a social media lie detector? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 08:59:00 +0100 From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.829 a social media lie detector? In-Reply-To: <20140227064825.3DD15650D@digitalhumanities.org> Il 27/02/14 07:48, Humanist Discussion Group ha scritto: > Two researchers from the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, > are part of an EU project, PHEME, which aims automatically to detect four > types of online rumours (speculation, controversy, misinformation, and > disinformation) and to model their spread. "With partners from seven > different countries, the project will combine big data analytics with > advanced linguistic and visual methods. The results will be suitable for > direct application in medical information systems and digital > journalism." this project implies that computers have an ability to subtly analyze the whole spectrum of meanings related to words and phrases that i never saw before in computers. nor in human beings. while modeling the spread of rumours seems much more viable. BTW: does anyone know how many millions € did they get and under which EU call? maurizio > I note in particular the qualifying statement that, >> However, it is particularly difficult to assess whether a piece of >> information falls into one of these categories in the context of >> social media. The quality of the information here is highly dependent >> on its social context and, up to now, it has proven very challenging >> to identify and interpret this context automatically. > Indeed. Ovid would, I think, be amused: > >> tota fremit vocesque refert iteratque quod audit; >> nulla quies intus nullaque silentia parte, >> nec tamen est clamor, sed parvae murmura vocis, >> qualia de pelagi, siquis procul audiat, undis >> esse solent, qualemve sonum, cum Iuppiter atras >> increpuit nubes, extrema tonitrua reddunt. >> atria turba tenet: veniunt, leve vulgus, euntque >> mixtaque cum veris passim commenta vagantur >> milia rumorum confusaque verba volutant; >> e quibus hi vacuas inplent sermonibus aures, >> hi narrata ferunt alio, mensuraque ficti >> crescit, et auditis aliquid novus adicit auctor. >> illic Credulitas, illic temerarius Error >> vanaque Laetitia est consternatique Timores >> Seditioque recens dubioque auctore Susurri; >> ipsa, quid in caelo rerum pelagoque geratur >> et tellure, videt totumque inquirit in orbem. >> >> The whole place is full of noises, repeats all words and doubles what >> it hears. There is no quiet, no silence anywhere within. And yet >> there is no loud clamour, but only the subdued murmur of voices, like >> the murmur of the waves of the sea if you listen afar off, or like >> the last rumblings of thunder when Jove has made the dark clouds >> crash together. Crowds fill the hall, shifting throngs come and go, >> and everywhere wander thousands of rumours, falsehoods mingled with >> the truth, and confused reports flit about. Some of these fill their >> idle ears with talk, and others go and tell elsewhere what they have >> heard; while the story grows in size, and each new teller makes >> contribution to what he has heard. Here is Credulity, here is >> heedless Error, unfounded Joy and panic Fear; here sudden Sedition >> and unauthentic Whisperings. Rumour herself beholds all that is done >> in heaven, on sea and land, and searches throughout the world for >> news. > Ovid, Met. 12.47-63 (Loeb edn) > > See http://www.pheme.eu/ for more. > > Yours, > WM -- 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 del latino tardo: http://www.digiliblt.unipmn.it/ a day in the life of DH2013: http://dayofdh2013.matrix.msu.edu/digiliblt/ che cosa sono le digital humanities: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JqLst_VKCA ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università del Piemonte Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici via Manzoni 8, 13100 Vercelli - tel. +39 347 7370925 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 13:04:52 +0000 From: Alun Edwards Subject: RE: 27.829 a social media lie detector? In-Reply-To: <20140227064825.3DD15650D@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, personally I use http://www.snopes.com/ and http://facecrooks.com/ as very good social media lie detectors. Ally -- Alun Edwards E: alun.edwards@it.ox.ac.uk T: @HurricaneAlly L: www.linkedin.com/in/alunedwards W: www.it.ox.ac.uk/infosec/ Communications Manager for Information Security, University of Oxford | http://runcoco.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ Manager of RunCoCo: how to run a community collection online | www.europeana1914-1918.eu/ Project Manager of Europeana 1914-1918 | http://blogs.it.ox.ac.uk/eet/ Education Enhancement Team Academic IT Services University of Oxford IT Services | 13 Banbury Road | Oxford OX26NN _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D71DF63C6; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 07:55:28 +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 00DFA63B7; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 07:55:20 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 428EC63AC; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 07:55:18 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140228065518.428EC63AC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 07:55:18 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.831 Busa and Cage X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 831. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 04:31:06 +0000 From: Stanislav Roudavski Subject: Busa and Cage Is the historical progression of computing in science illustrative here? Specifically, the transformative use of simulation/modelling? The following is from: Keller, Evelyn Fox (2003 [2000]). 'Models, Simulation, and 'Computer Experiments'', in The Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation, ed. by Hans Radder (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press), pp. 198-215, pp. 201, 202 "Computer simulation may have started out as little more than a mechanical extension of conventional methods of numerical analysis, where what was being "simulated" were the precomputer, handwritten equations and where the early deprecatory sense of the term was still very much in place, but such methods rapidly grew so effective that they began to challenge the status of the original, soon threatening to displace the very equations they were designed to simulate. Over the course of time, evolving practices of computer simulation generated qualitatively different ways of doing science in which the meaning as well as the site of "theory," of "modeling," and eventually of "experiment" and "data" all came in for similar dislocations: Simulation came to lose its earlier sense of ontological inferiority, its status of "pretender," but also its sense of epistemological inferiority, at first nothing more than a mechanization of the lowliest form of scientific work, numerical computation." [...] "Provisionally, I suggest three such stages: (i) the use of the computer to extract solutions from prespecified but mathematically intractable sets of equations by means of either conventional or novel methods of numerical analysis; (2) the use of the computer to follow the dynamics of systems of idealized particles ("computer experiments") in order to identify the salient features required for physically realistic approximations (or models); (3) the construction of models (theoretical and/or "practical") of phenomena for which no general theory exists and for which only rudimentary indications of the underlying dynamics of interaction are available. With the growing success of these practices, use of the new techniques (as well as reliance upon them) increased steadily, inevitably enhancing the perceived epistemological and even ontological value of the simulation in question." --- Dr Stanislav Roudavski The University of Melbourne Senior Lecturer in Digital Architectural Design Elseware Collective; ExLab Founding Partner personal: http://stanislavroudavski.net collaborative: http://elsewarecollective.com, http://www.exlab.org publications: http://unimelb.academia.edu/StanislavRoudavski/Papers tutorials: https://vimeo.com/exlab _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3A34463CA; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 07:57:12 +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 226F963C1; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 07:57:03 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2845763BC; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 07:57:01 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140228065701.2845763BC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 07:57:01 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.832 PhD studentships in art & design; postdocs in life-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. 27, No. 832. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (17) Subject: Postdocs Ego-media ERC project [2] From: Beryl Graham (30) Subject: AHRC-Funded PhD studentships --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 09:18:37 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Postdocs Ego-media ERC project Dear All, We are finally in a position to advertise the two postdoc positions for this project. I'd be very grateful if you could alert any likely candidates to the announcement below. With many thanks, Max Max Saunders Director, Arts and Humanities Research Institute Professor of English and Co-Director, Centre for Life-Writing Research King’s College London Room 6.40 Virginia Woolf Building 22 Kingsway London WC2B 6NR King’s College London is advertising two postdoctoral positions (of 3 years and 5 years) to work on a new collaborative research project in Life Writing and digital media funded by the European Research Council. It is called ‘Ego-media: The impact of new media on forms and practices of self-presentation’, and is being led by Professor Max Saunders, the Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Institute. He will be joined by his Co-Director of the Centre for Life-Writing Research, Professor Clare Brant, and two other King’s academics: Alexandra Georgakopoulou, Professor of Discourse Analysis & Sociolinguistics om the Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication, and Professor Leone Ridsdale, from the Institute of Psychiatry. The project’s steering group also includes colleagues from Culture Media and Creative Industries, Digital Humanities, French, Medical Humanities, Medical Sociology, War Studies, and Education. It aims to study the impact of new media on autobiographical narratives: an impact increasing as habits and practices of self-presentation evolve rapidly in response to constantly fast-changing technology. It will consider the implications of these new forms and practices for such notions as autobiography, selfhood, subjectivity, individuality, self-intelligibility, agency, creativity, privacy, and sociability. The closing date for applications is the 11th March. For further details of how to apply please see: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=14266 http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=14262 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 13:13:41 +0000 From: Beryl Graham Subject: AHRC-Funded PhD studentships Dear Mailing List, A rare opportunity for a funded PhD studentship with CRUMB or/and Design. Previous applicants are very welcome to apply. Please distribute. Details now available at http://nuweb2.northumbria.ac.uk/cdt/ Northumbria-Sunderland AHRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Art and Design invites high-quality applications for AHRC-funded studentships starting in October 2014, for PhD study in or across our Art and Design research groups.We welcome applications in: Design; Fine Art; Applied Arts, Glass and Ceramics; Digital Art, Curating; Visual and Material Culture; and History of Art. Application deadline - Monday 28th April, 12pm. Interviews - Monday 12 May and Wednesday 14 May, 2014. Before applying for an AHRC studentship, you should make preliminary enquiries with our subject specialists listed below to assess whether your area of research interest can be supervised and supported within the Northumbria-Sunderland CDT. ---- You might be particularly interested in: Digital Art / Curation: Professor Beryl Graham Design (Sunderland): Professor Beryl Graham --- What's different this year? 1. The UK/EU residency rules have become more open - see AHRC's Student Funding Guide pages 92 – 98) http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/SiteCollectionDocuments/Student-Funding-Guide.pdf . There are now Design studentships available as well as Curating New Media Art, so those interested in curating design, or open source or generative software design, might also be tempted to apply. Do feel free to chat informally with me about this if you are interested. Yours, Beryl ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beryl Graham, Professor of New Media Art http://www.crumbweb.org Research Student Manager, Art and Design MA Curating Course Leader http://www.macurating.net Faculty of Arts, Design, and Media, University of Sunderland The David Puttnam Media Centre, St Peter's Way, Sunderland, SR6 0DD Tel: +44 191 515 2896 Recent books: New Collecting: Exhibiting and Audiences Ashgate Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media MIT Press A Brief History of Curating New Media Art The Green Box _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 25F3263D8; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 07:59:24 +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 D5E0C639E; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 07:59:14 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2BE5A639E; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 07:59:13 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140228065913.2BE5A639E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 07:59:13 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.833 events: gender & archives; presence; library 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. 27, No. 833. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (32) Subject: Presence [2] From: Hugh Burkhart (39) Subject: Digital Initiatives Symposium [3] From: Jessica Beard (16) Subject: CFP: MLA 2015 Special Session Gender and the Archives --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 09:06:40 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Presence Call for Participation *15th International Conference on Presence (ISPR 2014)* 17th - 19th of March 2014, Vienna, Austria. http://presence2014.univie.ac.at Join us at this year's ISPR 2014 Presence conference in Vienna, Austria from 17th - 19th of March 2014 at the University of Vienna! Following a series of 14 successful Presence conferences, this conference will convey an overview over the latest developments in Virtual Reality (VR) research. International experts with diverse scientific backgrounds present their research and discuss both, their current findings and future perspectives. The focus is on the phenomenon of "Presence", which is commonly referred to as a sense of "being there" in a mediated environment (e.g., simulators and computer games). Registration fees for the ISPR 2014 Presence Conference at Vienna University are a low EUR 229 for academics and EUR 179 for students including a renewal of your annual ISPR membership. Use our online registration system (https://presence2014.univie.ac.at/registration/online-registration/) to register for the conference and the social dinner and to purchase extra copies of our hard-cover proceedings (https://presence2014.univie.ac.at/registration/events-materials/). We would also like to invite you to our two keynote-lectures which are *freely accessible* (without conference registration): http://presence2014.univie.ac.at/keynotes/ We look forward to seeing you! Anna Felnhofer & Oswald D. Kothgassner (Conference Chairs) Helmut Hlavacs & Ilse Kryspin-Exner (Co-Chairs) -- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Helmut Hlavacs Group Leader -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 19:57:11 +0000 From: Hugh Burkhart Subject: Digital Initiatives Symposium Wednesday, April 9, 2014, 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice, University of San Diego Join University of San Diego's Copley Library for a day-long event focused on digital elements of library ecosystems and institutional repositories as well as a bepress Digital Commons user group meeting. Featured keynote speakers will be: Lorraine Haricombe, Dean of the University of Kansas Libraries Lee Van Orsdel, Dean of University Libraries at Grand Valley State University Speakers and panelists include: Loretta Parham and Elizabeth McClenney, Atlanta University Center, Woodruff Library Anna Chiaretta Lavatelli, Kristi Ehrig-Burgess, Alan Renga, Rosa Longacre, Balboa Park Online Collaborative Joy Painter and George Porter, California Institute of Technology Michele Wyngard, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Mark Stover and Andrew Weiss, California State University Northridge Carmen Mitchell and Barbara Taylor, California State University San Marcos Steven Van Tuyl, Carnegie Mellon University Allegra Swift, Claremont Colleges Chris Vinson, Andrew Wesolek, Jill Bunch, Clemson University Debra Skinner, Georgia Southern University Terri Fishel, Macalester College Roger Smith, Cristela Garcia-Spitz, Matt Critchlow, University of California San Diego Frances Wright and Nichole Rustad, University of Dayton Ellen Ramsey, University of Virginia For the complete program, please visit our website. Who should attend? Librarians and other professionals interested in or involved with: Digital aspects of library ecosystems The development or maintenance of institutional repositories and other projects Register now at http://tiny.cc/f32hbx $35 registration includes lunch and afternoon refreshments. Please register by March 25, 2014. For further information visit www.sandiego.edu/library/symposium.php or contact Kelly Riddle at kriddle@sandiego.edu or 619-260-6850. -- Hugh Burkhart – Assistant Professor, Reference Librarian Copley Library, University of San Diego San Diego, CA 92110-2492 (619)260-2366 hburkhart@sandiego.edu Subject Guides: http://tinyurl.com/hburkhart Copley Library: Explore ▪ Discover ▪ Succeed --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 23:57:22 +0000 From: Jessica Beard Subject: CFP: MLA 2015 Special Session Gender and the Archives *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1393570021_2014-02-28_jbeard@ucsc.edu_1868.1.2.txt CFP: MLA 2015 Special Session Roundtable: Gender and the Archives This roundtable will discuss ways in which gender interacts with or impacts the collection, preservation, or very existence of archives and archival materials, broadly understood. Weencourage submissions from scholars working in all historical periods, those involved in Digital Humanities projects, or those who work with more unusual archives. Presenters will be given 8 minutes each. CV and 250-wd abstract by March 15, 2014 to Judith Scholes (judith.scholes@gmail.com http://gmail.com ) and Jessica Beard (jessicajbeard@gmail.com). -- ****************** Jessica Beard Doctoral Candidate UCSC Department of Literature http://www.emilydickinson.org/ http://altac2013.thatcamp.org http://hastac2014.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 96A906026; Sun, 2 Mar 2014 09:44:46 +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 204D36232; Sun, 2 Mar 2014 09:44:33 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E254760A8; Sun, 2 Mar 2014 09:44:30 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140302084430.E254760A8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 09:44:30 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.834 Busa and Cage -- and Gardin, and Barcelo X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 834. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 08:46:23 +0100 From: Manfred Thaller Subject: Re: 27.817 Busa and Cage: more work not less In-Reply-To: <20140222084224.6F99462E9@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, while I am unfortunately not able to find the precise quotation, I'd like to point to an author and his intellectual inheritance, which I still consider to be too easily overlooked. (Possibly, because most of his texts have been in French; admittedly for me, too, not really all that easily accesible.) I am talking about Jean Claude Gardin (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Gardin). He started off as a specialist on archaeological documentation, where he used computers at least as early as 1958/59, possibly already conceptualizing their use in 56 - this early stuff has not really been published. (He and Busa met for the first time in '62 at Wartenstein. He was a honored guest at at least one of the DBHSS series of conferences, with which Joe Raben tried for some time to resist what he considered an illegitimate reduction of Humanities Computing to textual applications by the ACH mainstream in the eighties.) The quotation I cannot find at the moment comes from these eighties, when Gardin had been converted completely into a theorist and wrote something like: "The point of using computers in archaeology is not to produce results, but to clarify archaeological thinking sufficiently much, that we actually could use computers to support it". (Despite the quotes, me paraphrasing from memory, not to be taken literally.) I always have been a bit ambivalent about his work, but that reflects more my position towards Artificial Intelligence (to which he has been particularly close at the time of the expert systems), than to his ideas directly. I definitely think that "saving labour", which ocasionally amounts to an apotheosis of something which is just clever text processing (DH as Microsoft Word++ ?), is not all that rewarding intellectually. Nevertheless I am usually doubtful about "computational" concepts which cannot be converted into software which is doing something concrete. And I have to admit, that Gardin can be read as saying that for the time being, we are unable to produce significant usable results by computers - a position I do NOT support. Having said so, one of the most impressive books in DH (my interpretation of it, at least) I have read in the last ten years, has been Juan A. Barcelo's Computational Intelligence in Archaeology, 2009 (incidentally including a foreword by J.C. Gardin and directly based on his thinking). I doubt that much labour will be saved by this book. I have even doubts, whether we will see anything practical coming out of it within the next ten years, at least. But it IS a consistent and systematic attempt at analyzing a discipline of the Humanities with the goal of showing, how it could be "automated" on various levels. Leaving the archaeologist to focus on the residue of things which could NOT be automated; an argument possibly reminding you of something. I would be very glad, if we could have similar "useless" books for other provinces of the Humanities as well ... Kind regards, Manfred _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5CD6F6105; Sun, 2 Mar 2014 09:45:25 +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 52D3F6126; Sun, 2 Mar 2014 09:45:15 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 000976125; Sun, 2 Mar 2014 09:45:11 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140302084512.000976125@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 09:45:11 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.835 Women Writers Online: free 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. 27, No. 835. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 04:10:02 +0000 From: "Flanders, Julia" Subject: Women Writers Online 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 That URL will shortly be changing as we move Women Writers Online to Northeastern University servers, following our institutional move. Stay tuned for more information. In the meantime, please browse and enjoy! best wishes, Julia Julia Flanders Director, Women Writers Project Director, Digital Scholarship Group Professor of Practice, Department of English Northeastern 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A20CB63EA; Sun, 2 Mar 2014 09:48:00 +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 80D0B6367; Sun, 2 Mar 2014 09:47:50 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AAB356149; Sun, 2 Mar 2014 09:47:47 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140302084747.AAB356149@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 09:47:47 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.836 events: PhD seminar on web archiving X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 836. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 14:27:43 +0000 From: Niels Brügger Subject: Re: PhD-Seminar, Web Archiving and Archived Web — a new Research Method, a new Object of Study? In-Reply-To: PhD seminar: Web Archiving and Archived Web — a new Research Method, a new Object of Study? Aarhus University, Denmark, 11-12 June 2014 The submission website for the PhD seminar 'Web Archiving and Archived Web — a new Research Method, a new Object of Study?’ is now open. Deadline for submission of application is Monday 24 March 2014. The seminar application consists of a one-page abstract. The abstract can be either a project description or an expression of interest in the field. Please visit the submission website http://webarc.netlab.dk/index.php/netlab/2014/index, create an account and submit your abstract. Best, Niels Brügger Read the full call, including more about the course format, the venue, and how to enrol:http://www.netlab.dk/courses/ LATEST PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS August 2013 Web historiography and Internet Studies: Challenges and perspectives, New Media & Society, 15(5), 752-764 Read more: http://nms.sagepub.com/content/15/5/752.abstract June 2013 Historical Network Analysis of the Web, Social Science Computer Review, 31(3), 306-321 Read more: http://ssc.sagepub.com/content/31/3/306.abstract March 2013 The Web and Digital Humanities: Theoretical and Methodological Concerns (w. N.O. Finnemann), Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 57(1), 66-80 Read more: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08838151.2012.761699 NIELS BRÜGGER, Associate Professor, PhD Director, the Centre for Internet Studies Department of Aesthetics and Communication Aarhus University Helsingforsgade 14, room 236 8200 Aarhus N Denmark Phone (switchboard) +45 8715 0000 Phone (direct) +45 8716 1971 Phone (mobile) +45 2945 3231 E-mail nb@imv.au.dk Webpage http://imv.au.dk/~nb Profile at LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/50a/555 Skype name: niels_bruegger The Centre for Internet Research, http://cfi.au.dk NetLab, http://netlab.dk Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities (BUDDAH), http://buddah.projects.history.ac.uk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CBD9F6400; Sun, 2 Mar 2014 09:49:03 +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 F2D9263B4; Sun, 2 Mar 2014 09:48:48 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id EBE9760A8; Sun, 2 Mar 2014 09:48:45 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140302084845.EBE9760A8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 09:48:45 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.837 pubs: wikibook: Nova pisarija (New 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. 27, No. 837. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 23:05:39 +0100 From: Miran gmail Subject: Wikibook Dear colleagues, I am expressing thanks to the Humanist discussion group I have been member of since 1994. The communication here stimulated the writing of the Wikibook *Nova pisarija* [New literacy, or, translated more precisely with an archaism, New scripture] (http://sl.wikibooks.org/wiki/Nova_pisarija) a lot. The book is intended to the Slovene students of literature and other humanities subjects and talks about the concepts of literacy and authorship, publishing in the information society, wikis in general and wikis in school, about the relation between local language and English as lingua franca, creative commons and copyright licenses, »wisdom of the crowd«, open acces, reviewing models, data privacy, checking credibility of publications (mastering genres and citation styles, avoiding misunderstanding in the communication in the discipline, plagiarism, citation industry etc.). It is not about how to write an academic assignment but how to participate at building the ifrastructure in the discipline with writing articles for Wikipedia, putting classics on Wikisource, manage seminar activity at Wikiversity.There are examples how to write and how to cite the encyclopedic entries, how to find and quote digitized resources, internet born resources, bibliographies, map layers, articles and monographs. There is a chapter on the use of social networks in academe, a chapter on style (how to shorten titels, segment the text, summarize it, how to link, avoid activism, manierism and hermetic expression, be concise and neutral, how to present the scholarship orally, how to make presentation attractive using infographic). One chapter is about how the information is organized in the discipline and how to search and find it, that is about the list vs. story concept. The last chapter summarizes what it has been written about Digital humanities on this site, and enumerates some empirical achievements in the Slovene literary scholarship. Instead of composing the book on my computer, I have chosen to write it directly onto the web, starting Nov. 2, 2012. It is not finished yet (if such enterprises could ever be considered finished), however, it is ready to go public and I am ready to accept the comments by the colleagues and their direct interventions in the text, be it in the form of corrections of typos and facts, and also as a collaborative complementation of stub chapters. I am sad (like Domenico Fiormonte -- http://lists.digitalhumanities.org/pipermail/humanist/2013-January/010599.html) about the fact that the books can expect just the echo within the language they are written in. I have to admit I was ignorant, too, not using much resources elswhere as in Slovene and in easy to get English, which is discriminatory and should be avoided in future. Maybe some of you will be curious enough to peep into the book (Google Chrome translates it in English in seconds), maybe find your names cited somewhere and contribute a valuable remark. -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A8402649B; Mon, 3 Mar 2014 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 87DAE63E3; Mon, 3 Mar 2014 09:52:33 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5E4F2639D; Mon, 3 Mar 2014 09:52:31 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140303085231.5E4F2639D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 09:52:31 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.838 Busa and Cage -- and Gardin X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 838. 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 (29) Subject: Busa and Cage -- and Gardin, and Barcelo [2] From: Willard McCarty (145) Subject: Gardin's logicist programme --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2014 19:03:52 +0100 From: Thomas.Gloning@germanistik.uni-giessen.de Subject: Busa and Cage -- and Gardin, and Barcelo In-Reply-To: (Manfred Thaller:) > while I am unfortunately not able to find the precise quotation ... Could it be this passage: << ... My position then, unchanged to this day, was that our primary concern should be the study of mental processes at work in archaeological reasoning, with a view to making them amenable to machine handling in a Turing sense ? that is, with or without computers. In other words, the goal was not primarily to introduce new information technology in our discipline, but rather to gain a better control of archaeological reasoning per se, through some kind of formalization (rather than mechanization) ... >> It comes from Gardin's article in Semiotica 77-1/3 (1989) 5-26. At the beginning of this article, Gardin gives a short autobiographical sketch of the early years 1955 ss. ("'Semiotics and Computers': The early years"). The basic idea, that formal/computational treatment contributes to rigour in a discipline, has its parallels, and Gardin alludes to some of them. As an aside: here is another early article in the tradition of the "mécanographie", mentioned by Gardin: Daumard, Adeline/ Furet, François: Méthodes de l'histoire sociale. Les Archives notariales et la mécanographie. In: Annales E.S.C., 14 (1959) 676-693. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27580055 The Gardin/Garelli article is also in Jstor: Gardin, Jean-Claude/ Garelli, Paul: ɉtude des établissements assyriens en Cappadoce par ordinateurs. In: Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales 16/5 (1961) 837-876. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27575653 All best, Thomas --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 08:44:07 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Gardin's logicist programme In-Reply-To: Thanks to Manfred Thaller for reminding us of the work of Jean-Claude Gardin. Years ago I summarized what I understood Gardin's argument to be; see (a) below. At the time my chief sources for his ideas in English were two: (1) "On the Way We Think and Write in the Humanities: A Computational Perspective", in Ian Lancashire, ed., Research in Humanities Computing 1: Selected Papers from the ALLC/ACH Conference, Toronto, June 1989 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991): 337-45. Gardin's abstract from the Conference Guide follows as (b). (2) "Interpretation in the Humanities: Some Thoughts on the Third Way", in Interpretation in the Humanities: Perspectives from Artificial Intelligence, ed. Richard Ennals and Jean-Claude Gardin. London: British Library, 1990: 22-59. Ennals deals with Gardin's argument in Chapter 2 of Artificial Intelligence and Human Institutions (Springer Verlag 1991). It would be good to have further discussion of his ideas. Yours, WM ----- (a) Humanities Computing (2005), 193f > The logicist programme of Gardin... has since 1980 sought > to reconstruct processes of reasoning in the humane sciences by > comparing the structures to which their argumentation is actually > reducible by logical methods to the output of expert systems that > embed the structures these arguments are supposed to follow. It is, > in other words, a study of disciplinary rhetoric with two results: > appraisal of this rhetoric and, by implication, recovery of the steps > taken in the discovery phase of the research but omitted from the > final argument. His programme aims to explore, as he says, ‘where the > frontier lies between that part of our interpretive constructs which > follows the principles of scientific reasoning and another part which > ignores or rejects themÂ’ (1990: 26). It is the opposite of modelling > in my sense in that it privileges the logical schema rather than > imperfectly articulated knowledge, but the point here is his use of > basic computer science to illuminate how we know (or not) what we say > we know. (b) Ian Lancashire, ed., The Dynamic Text: Conference Guide (5-10 June 1989) > Jean-Claude Gardin (CNRS, Paris), "On the Way We Think and Write in > the Humanities: A Computational Perspective" > > The picture that emerges from the literature on computers in the > humanities is that the present patterns of education and research are > bound to change as new information techniques (IT) are introduced in > the disciplines encompassed by that name. The emphasis, however, > seems to be more readily laid on institutional consequences rather > than on the evolution of historical or literary analysis itself. The > goal of the present paper is to restore some balance between these > two aspects by examining the probable effects of the spread of IT on > the substance and form of intellectual constructs in the humanities. > > The current view is that the objects or phenomena studied in the > human world are different in essence from the objects or phenomena of > nature; it is then argued that the game of science does not have the > same purport in the humanities as it has in the physical and > biological sciences. The position taken here is that, if such is the > case, it is incumbent upon the humanities as a "distinct" science to > define its own, alternative ways of reasoning. It so happens that the > information technology imposes the same requirement as we tend to use > it on ever higher levels of thought, beyond the sorting and counting > operations which were our major concern in the early decades of the > computing era. > > In the first part of this presentation, I shall try to demonstrate > this convergence between age-old epistemological issues hitherto left > to philosophers of science and emerging problems of more practical > import, related to the growth of IT in the humanities. More > specifically, we shall address ourselves to the philosophy of expert > systems, in order to stress the following points: (i) the formulation > of rules of reasoning is here essential, in whichever form we chose > to express them; (ii) this requirement does not disappear with the > introduction of parallel processing techniques; (iii) it applies to > the humanities in the same way as to the many sectors of science and > technology where expert systems have first been developed; (iv) the > standard dichotomy between the human and the natural sciences, from > an operational viewpoint, thus tends to be blurred, (v) unless > defined in new terms by underlining differences either in the > substance of the rules or in the conditions of their use, as one > moves from Matter to Man, Nature to Culture, etc. > > The following part of the paper will take up this last point, on the > basis of a number of case studies carried out in my own field, > archaeology. Their common goal is to elicit the logic (in a loose > sense of the term) that underlies the discursive practices observed > in the archaeological literature, in order to link observations to > conclusions or, conversely, hypotheses to facts. Logicist > schematizations of interpretive constructs have been proposed to that > end, which provide materials for the formulation of possible rules of > inference in computerized knowledge bases. The application of those > rules to new data, in a mechanistic fashion, is a way to assess the > range of their validity. > > The outcome of such experiments merely confirms everyone's > expectations, namely that we have very few rules of reasoning to go > by, strictly speaking, in the humanities. More precisely, the logic > of the argument that is supposed to legitimate the transition from a > set of proposition p to another set q, seems to call for such a wide > range of criteria, explicit or implicit (context, common sense, > creeds, etc.: the so-called 'C-factors') that it does not allow us to > decide between ' ' alternative interpretations of the same objects of > study (archaeological assemblages, historical sources, literary > works, etc.). This is no surprise, given the title of this conference > ("The Dynamic ~ext"). Yet, the mere fact of bringing out ambiguities > of this sort (p--> ql OR q2 OR q3 ... OR qn), in the structure of > actual knowledge bases, is enough to provoke heated discussions, > along the following lines. > > The stands taken with respect to multi-interpretation in the > humanities may be grouped in three broad classes. (1) The so-called > positivist attitude consists in regarding multivocal inferences, at > this atomistic level, as a provisional state of knowledge, subject to > progress. The word 'progress' is given a very concrete meaning: > C-factors have to be sought and added to the left part of our > provisional re-write formulas in order to give birth to rules, > however 'local' (in many senses of the word). (2) The so-called > post-modern position, conversely, is that multi-interpretation is the > normal state of affairs in the humanities, fully compatible, however, > with the status of the latter as a science in its own right. (3) The > third line of thought is in some way a logical consequence of that > position: essentially, it consists in trying to elucidate the > difference between scientific or scholarly constructs in the > preceding sense, associated with hermeneutics, and anyone's theories > about similar things, outside academia. In other words, granted that > interpretation processes in the humanities are "distinct" both from > the constrained ways of the natural sciences and from the unbounded > ways of literature or art, we are still left with open questions > regarding what those processes are, in actual practice. > > The final part of the paper presents arguments in favor of the third > position. One of them is a de facto argument: questions are being > raised with increasing vigor, both within academia and 'outside', > regarding the foundations of interpretive constructs in the > humanities. This new concern is an aspect of the cognitive > revolution, in which artificial intelligence and expert systems play > a part, though not necessarily the major one. Possible answers to > those questions will be reviewed in the conclusion. Some of them > imply substantial changes in our understanding of historical and > literary constructs, as regards both the rhetorical and the > theoretical requirements that constructs may be called upon to meet, > in the future, so as to strengthen their epistemological status. > > C.N.R.S. 23, rue du Maroc F. 75019 Paris France -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6D1F764A4; Mon, 3 Mar 2014 09:53:25 +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 2F355635D; Mon, 3 Mar 2014 09:53:16 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D136E649B; Mon, 3 Mar 2014 09:53:14 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20140303085314.D136E649B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 09:53:14 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.839 Orlando Project: free access X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 839. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 06:28:24 -0500 From: Susan Brown Subject: Orlando Project: free access for Women's History Month In-Reply-To: <20140302084512.000976125@digitalhumanities.org> Once again The Orlando Project is delighted to celebrate Women's History Month by making the textbase freely available for the month of March 2014, courtesy of Cambridge University Press. You can can access the site through the link at http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/orlando/?page_id=2787 or directly at http://orlando.cambridge.org/ If you encounter the login page, use the following credentials: Username: womenshistory2014 Password: orlando2014 Enjoy! Susan Brown Director, Orlando Project; Project Leader, Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory Professor Visiting Professor School of English and Theatre Studies English and Film Studies University of Guelph University of Alberta Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1 Canada Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E5 519-824-4120 x53266 780-492-7803 susan.brown@ualberta.ca sbrown@uoguelph.ca 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 44B4C64F9; Tue, 4 Mar 2014 08:13:12 +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 D3D2064F1; Tue, 4 Mar 2014 08:12:58 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E601C64F1; Tue, 4 Mar 2014 08:12:55 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140304071255.E601C64F1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 08:12:55 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.840 selfies X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 840. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Letters 1916 Project (23) Subject: RE: 27.827 selfies [2] From: Willard McCarty (12) Subject: selfies --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 10:06:23 +0000 From: Letters 1916 Project Subject: RE: 27.827 selfies To add to the discussion about selfies, I am currently working on the Letters of 1916 project http://dh.tcd.ie/letters1916/ . We are creating a crowd-sourced digital collection of letters written around the time of the Easter Rising in Ireland (1 November 1915 - 31 October 1916). In doing research for the project I came across possibly one of the earliest selfies -- from c 1865. It is a photograph in the National Library of Ireland (http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000183913) of Lady and Lord Clonbrock (Augusta Caroline Dillon née Crofton, and Luke Gerald Dillon, 4th Baron Clonbrock) who were skilled photographers. In this experimental photograph they used a camera on a tripod to capture an image of themselves reflected in a grand mirror. We have many letters from/to Lady Clonbrock in the Letters of 1916 collection. She was active in organising voluntary work on behalf of local men serving with the British Army during the First World War, and many of her correspondents are Irish soldiers in German Prisoner of War Camps thanking her for parcels or requesting clothing (particularly in the winter months) and cigarettes. We have lots of fabulous letters from 1916 -- many still awaiting transcription! Emma Clarke on behalf of the Letters 1916 Project Team http://dh.tcd.ie/letters1916 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 11:33:00 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: selfies When does a photo of a person taken by him- or herself become a selfie? Does the absence of the photographer from the scene disqualify a portrait photograph? Is a passport photo taken in a mechanically operated booth qualify and one taken in a studio more or less mindlessly by a photographer not? We seem to be saying that a group photo taken automatically does qualify. All groups no matter what size? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 177C764F7; Tue, 4 Mar 2014 08:13:47 +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 5946E64DB; Tue, 4 Mar 2014 08:13:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 569F764F4; Tue, 4 Mar 2014 08:13:37 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140304071337.569F764F4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 08:13:37 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.841 names for transcription types? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 841. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 09:36:27 -0600 From: Alan Bilansky Subject: Is there a name for this? Good people, I am wondering if there is a nice, efficient way of referring to two types of transcriptions of digitized texts and other media: on the one hand, transcriptions produced by OCR or voice recognition or even pattern recognition, with the goal of being accurate enough to locate the media (images of pages, etc) such as is done my Google Books; and on the other hand, human-keyed transcriptions with the goal of being accurate enough to serve as a surrogate of the texts themselves (such as the Text Creation Partnership's transcriptions of EEBO, ECCO and Evans). Thoughts? Thank you all in advance. Best, Alan -- Alan Bilansky alanbilansky@gmail.com (201) 743-8670 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: 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,BAYES_00, 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 7C96864FA; Tue, 4 Mar 2014 08:14:23 +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 4B8D764F4; Tue, 4 Mar 2014 08:14:16 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C0DFD64F6; Tue, 4 Mar 2014 08:14:14 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140304071414.C0DFD64F6@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 08:14:14 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.842 events: archives; Japanese pop 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. 27, No. 842. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (29) Subject: Information on Summer Program: The University of Tokyo, Interfaculty Intiatives in Information Studies [2] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (18) Subject: Archives and Society: Recording Keeping in Historical and Contemporary Perspective --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 10:56:54 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Information on Summer Program: The University of Tokyo, Interfaculty Intiatives in Information Studies Dear Sir or Madam, Warmest greeting from Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies (III) of The University of Tokyo. We would like to inform you that the Kadokawa Culture Promotion Foundation Media-Content Research Project in conjunction with the Kadokawa Culture Promotion Foundation will host a summer program focusing on Japanese pop culture. Each summer, the program will focus on a different aspect of Japanese media and popular culture. The main theme of the program for its first year is “media mix” (or “media convergence”). The goal of this year’s program is to better understand the ways in which Japanese pop culture circulates across multiple media platforms and commodity forms. The program will examine this transmedia movement between anime, manga and other media forms from both a theoretical and practitioner perspective. The features of the program are as follows: 1. Two-week program with the opportunity to be deeply engaged in the scene of Japanese pop culture through: a) Lectures taught by world-renown scholars, including Professors Ian Condry (MIT), Marc Steinberg (Concordia University), Eiji Otsuka (International Research Center for Japanese Studies) and Shunya Yoshimi (the University of Tokyo); b) Workshops that enabling the participants to experience the process of creation and production of media content; c) Field trips to the studios of some of Japan’s media creators and the archives of primary media resources located in Tokyo. 2. The program is targeted at currently-enrolled students (undergraduate and postgraduate students) who intend to pursue work related to Japanese media and popular culture in the future. While the program is mainly for students, the program is also open to those who have been engaged in the research, education, or business of media and popular culture. 3. Providing financial support: The program will offer (1) financial support up to 100,000 yen for travel expenses and (2) free accommodations for the period of the summer program (two weeks) with some limitation. The program details are available at the website below: http://kadokawa.iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp/summer2014/ We would be very grateful if you could disseminate the information on the program to relevant staff and students. Please contact us at the e-mail address: inquiry@kadokawa.iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp, iif you have any questions. Thanking you. Sachiko Soeda Project Specialist The Kadokawa Culture Promotion Foundation Research Project Interfaculty Initiatives in Information Studies The University of Tokyo ＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝ 東京大学大学院情報学環 添田　幸子 Tel:03-5841-7909（内27907) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 19:43:24 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Archives and Society: Recording Keeping in Historical and Contemporary Perspective April Events Archives and Society: Recording Keeping in Historical and Contemporary Perspective Wednesday 9 April 2014, 6pm - 7.30pm Chaired by: Adam Smyth This event will explore the challenges posed by record keeping in both its historical and contemporary contexts. It will raise questions about the relationship between archival practice and historical knowledge from the perspective of record custodians and record users. Bringing together professional historians, practising archivists and members of the public, it also seeks to encourage lively debate about future decision-making and the creation of policies in this critical area. Speakers: * Dr Filippo de Vivo, Birkbeck College, University of London * Professor Eric Ketelaar, University of Amsterdam * Dr Jesse Spohnholz, Washington State University * Dr Valerie Johnson, National Archives, Kew FREE. Seats allocated on a first come, first served basis. To find out more visit the British Academy website. Additional events are often added to the programme. To find out more visit: www.britishacademy.ac.uk/events If you have any questions about the above event please call the Events Team on 020 7969 5246 or email events@britac.ac.uk. The British Academy 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH 020 7969 5200 www.britishacademy.ac.uk http://www.britishacademy.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=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLACK 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 AB7596576; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:11:24 +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 A035B6501; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:11:11 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A16C464F7; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:11:09 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140305081109.A16C464F7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:11:09 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.843 selfies; transcription types X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 843. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Christian Thomas (40) Subject: Re: 27.841 names for transcription types? [2] From: Soraj Hongladarom (39) Subject: Re: 27.840 selfies --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 09:36:04 +0100 From: Christian Thomas Subject: Re: 27.841 names for transcription types? In-Reply-To: <20140304071337.569F764F4@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Alan, if I understand your question correctly, you might simply say: a) is uncorrected ('dirty') OCR, or, more generally speaking, uncorrected ('dirty') automated character/layout recognition b) is manual (single or double) keying/transcription. Somewhere between the two lies more or less intensively corrected versions of a). Hope that helps, best Christian Am 04.03.2014 08:13, schrieb Humanist Discussion Group: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 841. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 09:36:27 -0600 > From: Alan Bilansky > Subject: Is there a name for this? > > > Good people, > > I am wondering if there is a nice, efficient way of referring to two types > of transcriptions of digitized texts and other media: on the one hand, > transcriptions produced by OCR or voice recognition or even pattern > recognition, with the goal of being accurate enough to locate the media > (images of pages, etc) such as is done my Google Books; and on the other > hand, human-keyed transcriptions with the goal of being accurate enough to > serve as a surrogate of the texts themselves (such as the Text Creation > Partnership's transcriptions of EEBO, ECCO and Evans). > > Thoughts? > > Thank you all in advance. > > Best, > > Alan > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 16:15:09 +0700 From: Soraj Hongladarom Subject: Re: 27.840 selfies In-Reply-To: <20140304071255.E601C64F1@digitalhumanities.org> I think the difference is that a selfie is taken with a smart phone with the feature that enables the photo taker to see himself or herself on the screen while taking the picture. It's the "front camera" that differentiates it from the earlier form of photo taking. In older times people had to set up a camera, leave a short time before the shutter clicks and the rush to the prepared spot. But now we can hold a smart phone and watch ourselves in the picture exactly as the photo is being taken. Soraj On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 840. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 11:33:00 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: selfies > > When does a photo of a person taken by him- or herself become a selfie? > Does the absence of the photographer from the scene disqualify a > portrait photograph? Is a passport photo taken in a mechanically > operated booth qualify and one taken in a studio more or less mindlessly > by a photographer not? We seem to be saying that a group photo taken > automatically does qualify. All groups no matter what size? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital > Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital > Humanities, University of Western Sydney -- Soraj Hongladarom Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University Bangkok 10330, Thailand Tel. +66 (0) 2218 4756; Fax +66 (0) 2218 4755 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AC323657A; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:13:49 +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 5844A6576; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:13:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id F21F06570; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:13:37 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140305081337.F21F06570@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:13:37 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.844 call for participation: Atlas of Digital Humanities & Social Sciences in Spanish & Portuguese X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 844. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 00:14:21 +0000 From: Esteban Romero-Frías Subject: Atlas of Digital Humanities and Social Sciences in Spanish and Portuguese This just-released project may be of interest to some of you. [Mensaje en español debajo] Dear colleagues, We write to invite you to participate in a new project whose aim is to give visibility to the Spanish and Portuguese speaking community of digital scholars, Atlas of Digital Humanities and Social Sciences (#AtlasCSHD). The #AtlasCSHD is a new project in collaboration between GrinUGR and MapaHD. In order to collaborate we only ask you to fill in this brief form through which we will gather information about digital projects, research centres, researchers and other initiatives related to Internet and digital culture in the Social Sciences and the Humanities. The information provided will be included in the Atlas of Digital Humanities and Social Sciences http://www.atlascshd.org/ in Spanish and Portuguese, the resulting database will be openly available under a Creative Commons licence. We will be very grateful too if you could share the project through social media: Join the Atlas of Digital Humanities and Social Science in Spanish and Portuguese #atlascshd http://bit.ly/atlascshdform If you happen to have a suggestion or comment you can contact us here or directly on our email addresses below. Warm regards, Esteban Romero (GrinUGR, University of Granada; erf@ugr.es; @polisea) and Élika Ortega (CulturePlex Lab, University of Western Ontario; eortegag@uwo.ca; @elikaortega) ---- Estimados colegas: Les escribimos para invitarlos a participar en un nuevo proyecto que pretende dar visibilidad a la comunidad de académicos digitales en español y portugués: el Atlas de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Digitales (#AtlasCSHD). El #AtlasCSHD es un proyecto que surge de la colaboración entre GrinUGR y MapaHD avanzando en los trabajos ya realizados de forma autónoma. Para colaborar solamente es preciso que completen el siguiente formulario, en el que recogeremos información sobre proyectos digitales, centros de investigación, investigadores y otras iniciativas vinculadas con Internet y las culturas digitales en ciencias sociales y humanidades. La información será incluida en el Atlas de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Digitales http://www.atlascshd.org/ en español y portugués. Los resultados de esta exploración se incluirán en una base de datos abierta con licencias Creative Commons. Les agradecemos que compartan el proyecto en las redes sociales. Forma parte del Atlas de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Digitales en español y portugués #atlascshd http://bit.ly/atlascshdform Para cualquier consideración o sugerencia pueden contactarnos aquí o directamente en nuestros correos electrónicos Muchas gracias, Esteban Romero (GrinUGR, Universidad de Granada; erf@ugr.es; @polisea) & Élika Ortega (CulturePlex, University of Western Ontario; eortegag@uwo.ca; @elikaortega). --- Esteban Romero-Frías Web personal: http://estebanromero.com/ Twitter: @polisea http://twitter.com/polisea Coordinador de GrinUGR http://grinugr.org/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 92E5F6581; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:15:42 +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 0995964F7; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:15:35 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D7CA26296; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:15:32 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140305081532.D7CA26296@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:15:32 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.845 mining for diamonds vs mining for coal X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 845. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 14:25:30 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: mining for diamonds vs mining for coal For quite a while I have wondered about a source for the comparison of two very different sorts of research to mining for diamonds vs mining for coal. Success at last. The source I've found is Jacob T. Schwartz (1930-2009), mathematician and computer scientist at NYU. The following is attributed to him by Leon Kowarski, "The Impact of Computers on Nuclear Science" [itself a very interesting article from the early days], in Computing as a Language of Physics. Lectures presented at an International Seminar Course, 2-20 August 1971, Trieste, Italy. IAEA-STI-PUB-306. Eds. International Atomic Energy Agency, 27–37. Vienna: International Atomic Energy Agency: > Mathematics has always sought to reduce the unlimited natural > complexity of facts and ideas to a humanly manageable size; it is > like mining of diamonds from the surrounding rocks. But the > increasingly cheap power of machines enables us to manage far greater > masses of irreducible complexity; it is still an extraction process, > but it is more comparable to the other useful form of carbon - the > mining of coal. (p. 29) But Schwartz's metaphor can also be found, I just discovered, in "Computer Science", Chapter 7 of Discrete Thoughts: Essays on Mathematics, Science and Philosophy, by Mark Kac, Gian-Carlo Rota and Jacob T. Schwartz, 2nd edn (Boston: Birkhäuser, 2008) > In this quest for simplification, mathematics stands to computer > science as diamond mining to coal mining. The former is a search for > gems. Although it may involve the preliminary handling of masses of > raw material, it culminates in an exquisite item free of dross. The > latter is permanently involved with bulldozing large masses of > ore--extremely useful bulk material. It is necessarily a social > rather than an individual effort. (pp. 64-5) Let this be remembered by being repeatedly used! Perhaps also supplemented by other versions of other people? I'm a diamond-miner myself :-). Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 936916582; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:21:58 +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 C06EA651D; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:21:49 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 800876501; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:21:47 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140305082147.800876501@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:21:47 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.846 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. 27, No. 846. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Alan Liu (23) Subject: 4Humanities livestreamed event on "Global Humanities," March 12, 2014 [2] From: EAGLE Project (37) Subject: EAGLE to hold a conference on Digital Cultural Heritage in Paris. CfP and Registration open [3] From: "E. Natalie Rothman" (131) Subject: Deadline extended on Call for Participants: Roots & Routes Summer Institute [4] From: Leif Isaksen (68) Subject: CfP - Telling stories with maps: the geoweb, qualitative GIS and narrative mapping, Hestia2 @Birmingham, 30 April 2014 [5] From: "Young, John K" (12) Subject: 2014 STS Conference Registration --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 08:36:50 -0800 From: Alan Liu Subject: 4Humanities livestreamed event on "Global Humanities," March 12, 2014 GLOBAL HUMANITIES? 4Humanities.org will host a live-streamed event on "Global Humanities?" on March 12, 2014, noon-1:30 pm Pacific Standard Time. The featured participant will be Rens Bod, professor of digital humanities at University of Amsterdam, who will engage online with Alan Liu, David Marshall (Dean of Humanities & Fine Arts, University of California, Santa Barbara ), and others at UC Santa Barbara on the question of the humanities and global humanities. The questions are: How can we think comparatively about what the humanities mean in multiple areas of the world with educational and funding systems not necessarily commensurable with U.S.-style "liberal arts"? For example, how are the humanities and arts talked about elsewhere? How are their histories and traditions different? How are they positioned relative to other disciplines, institutions, and social sectors? How are their different functions interrelated--memorial, educational, critical, research-oriented, etc.? In both the past and the contemporary moment, how are humanities and arts differently valued or challenged around the world? The event will be livestreamed on YouTube from the event page at http://bit.ly/1bfikOs Suggested readings from Rens Bod's book and Geoffrey Galt Harpham's *The Humanities and the Dream of America* are available from the event page (request a login to download the readings from Lindsay Thomas: lindsaythomas@umail.ucsb.edu ). --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 16:59:33 +0100 From: EAGLE Project Subject: EAGLE to hold a conference on Digital Cultural Heritage in Paris. CfP and Registration open In-Reply-To: International Conference on Information Technologies for Epigraphy and Digital Cultural Heritage in the Ancient World We warmly invite you to the EAGLE 2014 International Conference on Information Technologies for Epigraphy and Digital Cultural Heritage in the Ancient World. Hosted by EAGLE Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy, École Normale Supérieure and Collège de France, Chaire Religion, institutions et société de la Rome antique, it is the second in a series of international events planned by this European and international consortium. The conference will be held September 29-30 and October 1, 2014, in Paris. Keynote lectures will be delivered by Susan Hazan (The Israel Museum), Tom Elliott (New York University) and Thomas Jaeger (European Commission). Please post and distribute widely, and feel free to address any questions to info@eagle-network.eu. For more information or to submit a proposals, visit the conference website at http://tinyurl.com/prklbr9. Thank you and Best Wishes! The Eagle2014 Organisers *** *** *** Conference Web-Page: http://tinyurl.com/prklbr9 Call for Participation: http://tinyurl.com/ooajhzs Important dates: Submission of Panel proposals: 31 March 2014 Submission of Papers (full, short): 30 April 2014 Submission of Posters, projects, demos: 30 April 2014 Response to the Authors: 7 June 2014 Camera-ready versions: 30 June 2014   Follow EAGLE on Facebook and Twitter! *** *** *** EAGLE – Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy, will be a new online archive for epigraphy in Europe, co-funded through the ICT - Policy Support Programme of the European Commission. The EAGLE Best Practice Network is part of Europeana, a multi-lingual online collection of millions of digitised items from European museums, libraries, archives and multi-media collections *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1393954921_2014-03-04_info@eagle-network.eu_8860.2.x-zip --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 11:50:46 -0500 From: "E. Natalie Rothman" Subject: Deadline extended on Call for Participants: Roots & Routes Summer Institute In-Reply-To: Roots & Routes: Summer Institutes on knowledge production in the premodern Mediterranean and in the Digital Age **Please note that the deadline for applications has been extended to March 21.** Dear colleagues and students, We are delighted to announce the third of three annual Roots & Routes Summer Institutes on knowledge production in the premodern Mediterranean and in the Digital Age. The Institute, which will take place at the University of Toronto Scarborough from May 26th to June 3rd, 2014, is generously supported by the University of Toronto's Connaught Fund and is completely free of charge to all participants. We hope you can join us! Please read on for details on the Institute's format, theme, and application procedure (or go directly to http:// ocs.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/utsc/RRSI3/ to apply). Format: Unlike traditional academic conferences, the Roots & Routes Summer Institute features a combination of informal presentations, seminar-style discussions of shared materials, hands-on workshops on a variety of digital tools, and small-group project development sessions. Hosted by the University of Toronto Scarborough, the institute welcomes participants from a range of disciplines interested in engaging with digital scholarship; technical experience is not a requirement. Graduate students (MA and PhD), postdoctoral fellows and faculty are all encouraged to apply. Through its exciting roster of activities the Institute encourages participants to develop a more coherent and explicitly transdisciplinary analytical framework for their scholarship using digital tools and methodologies. Participants will explore new formats for conducting research and communicating their findings. By teaming up with information technology specialists and digital scholarship experts working outside the Mediterranean, participants will have a chance to build long-term collaborative projects to enhance their ongoing individual research agendas. In order to maximize the potential for future collaboration and broad, thematic conversations, groups will be composed of participants from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds and at different stages of their scholarly careers, from senior scholars to advanced undergraduates. Participants are encouraged to engage each other's materials, bring insights from their own fields of expertise to a broader methodological and conceptual discussion, and begin to draw out connections between what are often seen as disparate fields of knowledge. Annual Theme: This year's theme, "Sociability and Materiality," aims to capture a range of historical problems and their attendant methodological and epistemological challenges. Participants are invited to define and approach this theme from the position of their individual disciplines and research interests. For example, what place does "the Mediterranean" have in discussions about manuscript, print, and digital cultures and their interpretation? What can historians, art historians, archaeologists, and other scholars learn from one another when tackling these problems? (How) are themes such as sociability and materiality useful in the study of the premodern Mediterranean? How does the recent resurgence in the history of material culture speak to longer-term interest among historians of the book in the materiality of textual artifacts?How can attention to materiality and sociability make salient the various practices of knowledge production of different disciplinary traditions, and what do such practices entail? What new ways of envisioning archives (as processes as well as products) are being facilitated by digital technologies? How do digital media and methodologies change the ways in which we identify, access, and interpret historical records? What might "collaborative research" in digital environments have to learn from (and teach) the history of earlier forms of scholarly sociability? Bottom of Form Application Guidelines: To apply, please go to our online registration site, http:// ocs.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/utsc/RRSI3/. Applicants should submit by March 21, 2014 a CV and a brief proposal (up to 600 words) that includes a discussion of their current research and a specific object they would like to present and further develop digitally. This object may be a text, an artifact, a dataset, or a cluster of any of the above. Once accepted, participants will be asked to compile a bibliography of relevant readings to share with others in advance, as well as to install and become familiar with a few digital tools (e.g. Zotero), to allow us to explore more advanced features and digital skills at the institute itself. Participants are not expected to have prior programming knowledge or other advanced digital skills, but should be genuinely interested in the potential of digital tools to challenge and transform current research practices. Selection announcements will be made by March 30, 2014. **Participation in the Institute is free of charge. Travel and accommodation bursaries may be available for out-of-town graduate students. ** For more information about the Institute, check out our website: http:// serai.utsc.utoronto.ca/rrsi2014. Please contact the organizers at rrsi2014[at]utsc.utoronto.ca for further information or to get involved in the organizing process. Concurrent Local Events: We encourage and aim to facilitate interaction between the Roots and Routes Summer Institute attendees and the following concurrent local events. Details to follow. Berkshire_Conference_of_Women_Historians "Histories on the Edge / Histoires sur la br?che" May 22-25, 2014 Toronto, Canada http://berks2014.com In addition to an exciting roster of sessions on all aspects of the history of women, gender, and sexuality, this year's Berks will feature a Digital Lab where attendees will have an opportunity to interact with the people behind a range of international digital history projects. Detailed program coming soon. Congress_of_the_Humanities_and_Social_Sciences "Borders without Boundaries" May 24-30, 2014 Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada http://congress2014.ca In addition to over seventy scholarly associations meeting at Congress, this year's Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI@Congress) will convene Wednesday, May 28 to Friday, May 30 2014. For more details go to: http:// dhsi.org/events.php ___________ E. Natalie Rothman Associate Professor of History University of Toronto rothman@utsc.utoronto.ca http://blog.utsc.utoronto.ca/rothman --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 15:45:49 -0500 From: Leif Isaksen Subject: CfP - Telling stories with maps: the geoweb, qualitative GIS and narrative mapping, Hestia2 @Birmingham, 30 April 2014 In-Reply-To: Telling stories with maps: the geoweb, qualitative GIS and narrative mapping Digital Humanities Hub, University of Birmingham, 30 April 2014 Dear all The third Hestia 2 workshop may well be of interest to folks on the list. All the best Leif ________________________________________ Call for papers We are inviting contributions to this one-day workshop, organized as part of the AHRC-funded Hestia2 initiative – a public engagement project based on the spatial reading and visualizing of texts (http://hestia.open.ac.uk). Among other activities, Hestia2 includes a seminar series aimed at exploring the different ways in which humanistic approaches to data visualization challenge and transform existing mapping practices. The first two seminars covered network analysis techniques and digital representations of data, respectively; this third seminar of the series will examine the specific role of GIS in mapping texts of different kinds. As Caquard (2013, 135) has noted, there has been considerable interest in ‘the relationship between maps and narratives’, especially in the context of the spatial turn among literary and film scholars. In many ways this field is being driven by technological innovation, particularly the rise of easy-to-use online mapping tools developed by companies like Google to exploit location-based data; everyone can now map their story. Nonetheless, the standard critique of GIS is that it replicates a Cartesian, positivist conception of the world through allocating geospatial coordinates to objects. This brings the temptation to ignore a technology closely associated with domination and control, to see mapping purely as metaphor rather than geospatial ‘grid’. Geographers, particularly those working in critical and qualitative GIS (e.g. Cope and Elwood 2009) have dissected this critique and highlight the analytical potential of GIS for those interested in qualitative data. Just what does it mean then, to use geospatial technologies to map people’s stories? This one-day workshop seeks contributions exploring the intersection of GIS technologies and qualitative data, in particular text and storytelling. Themes include but are not limited to: - Participatory GIS in narratives of community - Co-construction and GIS - The spatial turn and GIS - Storytelling and the geoweb - GIS and temporality - Network analysis and GIS - GIS and literary mapping Abstracts of up to 250 words should be emailed to Phil Jones ( p.i.jones@bham.ac.uk) or Stefan Bouzarovski ( stefan.bouzarovski@manchester.ac.uk) by 14 March 2014. best wishes, elton References Caquard S 2013 Cartography I: mapping narrative cartography Progress in Human Geography 37;1 135-144 Cope M and Elwood S (eds.) 2009 Qualitative GIS: a mixed methods approach Sage, London ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Elton Barker, Reader in Classical Studies, The Open University, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA Newly published (with Joel Christensen): A Beginner's Guide to Homer (One World publishers) http://www.oneworld-publications.com/pbooks/homer-9781780742298 Follow me on twitter: @eltonteb http://hestia.open.ac.uk/ twitter: @hestiaproject http://googleancientplaces.wordpress.com/ http://gap.alexandriaarchive.org/gapvis/index.html http://pelagios-project.blogspot.com/ twitter: @Pelagiosproject http://www.classicsconfidential.co.uk/ twitter: @classicsconfide --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 23:06:54 +0000 From: "Young, John K" Subject: 2014 STS Conference Registration In-Reply-To: Society for Textual Scholarship 2014 conference Dear members of the STS community, For those of you attending our 2014 conference in Seattle March 20-22, please note that this will be the final reminder to register in advance of the conference itself. You can do so online at: http://textualsociety.org/conference-registration-forms-and-information/. Those waiting to register on-site will not be able to guarantee their meal preferences for the banquet. Thanks, and I hope to see you in Seattle, John Dr. John Young Professor, Department of English Marshall University (304) 696-2349 youngj@marshall.edu www.marshall.edu/english http://www.marshall.edu/english _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E7815658D; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:23:34 +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 5C9C46577; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:23:24 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A20856577; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:23:22 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140305082322.A20856577@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:23:22 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.847 pubs: DHC2012 proceedings; eMOP 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. 27, No. 847. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Laura Mandell (23) Subject: Release of eMOP Midterm Report [2] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (21) Subject: DHC 2012 Proceedings Published --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 07:50:57 -0600 From: Laura Mandell Subject: Release of eMOP Midterm Report Dear Humanist: The eMOP Project at Texas A&M (http://emop.tamu.edu) is in the process of OCR'ing for the first time, in some cases, and re-OCR'ing in others, the EEBO and ECCO collections (Early English Books Online, owned by ProQuest, and Eighteenth-Century Collections Online, owned by Gale Cengage Learning). We are mid-way through our project and very excited about the results and the tools we are building. We wanted to let everyone know who is interested in OCR that a long version of our midterm report to the Mellon Foundation is available online here: http://emop.tamu.edu/node/56 Thanks so much to all our partners for their great work -- the Text Creation Partnership, PRImA Labs at Salford, Texas A&M University Libraries and Computer Science Department, the National Library of the Netherlands, the SEASR team at the University of Illinois, Performant Software, Gale, and ProQuest. -- Laura Mandell Director, Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture Professor, English Texas A&M University p: 979-845-8345 e: idhmc@tamu.edu @mandellc http://idhmc.tamu.edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 18:06:56 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: DHC 2012 Proceedings Published In-Reply-To: <027401cf37cd$ff592790$fe0b76b0$@sheffield.ac.uk> Dear all, We're pleased to announce that The Proceedings of the Digital Humanities Congress 2012 are now available at: http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/openbook This is the first issue of our new journal, Studies in the Digital Humanities. The journal is optimised for viewing on desktop PCs and mobile devices, in HTML, PDF and e-Book formats. We'd like to thank you for your contribution and your patience with us in getting this first issue ready. With very 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 2011 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 13A5C63F8; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 09:10:04 +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 889742DEF; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 09:09:54 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2D3B76372; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 09:09:53 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140306080953.2D3B76372@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 09:09:53 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.848 predominance of English in NLP? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 848. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 10:36:08 +0100 From: Simon Hengchen Subject: Predominance of English in entity extraction and disambiguation Dear colleagues, Our research group is currently working on the evaluation of Named Entity Recognition (NER) within a multilingual historical corpus. Whilst English is the main focus of most research, a lot has been done for other languages (Spanish, Dutch, German, etc) and language-independent systems have been the focus of initiatives (for example, the CoNLL-2002 shared task) within the Natural Language Processing (NLP) domain. Nonetheless, most freely-available and easily usable NER services (through APIs, for example via OpenRefine http://openrefine.org/ and the NER extension) focus on English and, even if they advertise being able to recognize and process other languages, often fail at it. An example of that is when submitting a French corpus to the service Zemanta, the term "avant" ( *before*) is being disambiguated with the URL http://www.avantmusic.net, referring to a US musician. Other URLs are available (Wikipedia, DBpedia, the Twitter or Last.fm pages of the artist) but refer to the same wrongly disambiguated entity. Even if the services do extract and disambiguate the entities correctly, the URIs used for the disambiguation are mostly in English, and often do not have an equivalent in the source language. In this context we are currently developing a historical overview of how the predominance of English has impacted NLP and particularly entity extraction and disambiguation for non-English corpora. The current usage of knowledge bases such as Freebase for disambiguation within NER services really points out this issue, but some of you probably have interesting literature on this topic. We are wondering whether you are aware of initiatives aiming to avoid such problems, and would love to have your input. Kind regards, Simon Hengchen PhD Student Département des Sciences de l'Information et de la Communication - ULB CP123 Université Libre de Bruxelles Avenue F.D. Roosevelt, 50 | B-1050 Brussels http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~shengche _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 D6ED5660F; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 09:10:47 +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 3FEE7660C; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 09:10:39 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 218A86417; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 09:10:37 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140306081037.218A86417@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 09:10:37 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.849 PhD studentship: ethical assessment of 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. 27, No. 849. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 16:10:24 +0000 From: Bernd Stahl Subject: PhD studentship: Ethical Assessment and Evaluation of Research and Innovation PhD Studentship Ethical Assessment and Evaluation of Research and Innovation Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, Faculty of Technology, De Montfort University, Leicester STARTING OCTOBER 2014 [apologies for multiple postings] A PhD research studentship covering stipend and tuition fee costs is offered within the Faculty of Technology working with an internationally recognised research team. It is available to suitably qualified UK or EU students. The project will be undertaken in the context of the EU-funded project SATORI (Stakeholders Acting Together On the ethical impact assessment of Research and Innovation). The SATORI project is a Mutual Mobilisation and Learning Action comprising 16 partner organisations from 13 countries with the aim of establishing a common European framework for ethical assessment of research and innovation. The particular focus of the DMU contribution to the project is on the internal and external evaluation of the project. The successful candidate will be part of the DMU SATORI project team. She or he will be able to build on and link with a number of research projects in the area, such as EU projects (ETICA, www.etica-project.eu; CONSDIER, www.consider-project.eu) and UK projects (FRRIICT, www.responsible-innovation.org.uk). The successful applicant will be able to work with internationally leading scholars from a range of disciplines in the underlying projects and will have the opportunity to feed results back into research and development policy and practice. The PhD project will be supervised by Professor Bernd Stahl, Professor Mark Coeckelbergh and Dr. Kutoma Wakunuma. For more information about the studentship project please visit our web site (www.dmu.ac.uk/ccsr http://www.dmu.ac.uk/ccsr ) or contact Professor Bernd Stahl on +44 (0)116 2078252 or email bstahl@dmu.ac.uk the This research opportunity builds on our excellent past achievements and looking forward to REF2020 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 October 2013 and provide a bursary of £13,770pa in addition to university tuition fees. Applications should be supported by two references and guidance on these can also be found at the link above. Please quote ref: SATORI Scholarship 2014 Late applications will not be considered CLOSING DATE: Friday April 4th, 2014 More detail on how to apply can be found here: http://www.dmu.ac.uk/research/graduate-school/phd-scholarships.aspx ____________________________________________________________ Bernd Carsten STAHL Professor of Critical Research in Technology Director, Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility De Montfort University Faculty of Technology School of Computer Science and Informatics The Gateway Leicester, LE1 9BH, UK +44 116 207 8252 http://www.tech.dmu.ac.uk/~bstahl/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id EC2AB6618; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 09:13:41 +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 42AA46615; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 09:13:32 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A8CA9660C; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 09:13:30 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140306081330.A8CA9660C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 09:13:30 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.850 events: textual transmission; 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 850. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Koen Vermeir (36) Subject: Paris 13/3: workshop "The machine and the Time" [2] From: Sakari_Katajamäki (48) Subject: CFP: TEXTUAL TRAILS (11th Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, Helsinki 2014) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 12:49:31 +0100 From: Koen Vermeir Subject: Paris 13/3: workshop "The machine and the Time" "The machine and the Time": part of the workshop series "Machines and Imagination", organized by Pierre Cassou-Noguès, Koen Vermeir, Viktoria Tkaczyk Salle 412B-Rothko, bâtiment Condorcet 4, rue Elsa Morante, 75013 PARIS Métro : Ligne 14, RER C, station : Bibliothèque François Mitterrand http://www.sphere.univ-paris-diderot.fr/spip.php?rubrique38 13 MARCH 2014 11h-13h Paul Harris (Loyola Marymount Univ) : "Probing the Depths of Time: Science, Philosophy, Poetics" Elie During (Paris 10) : "La machine simultanéiste : introduction au temps vertical" 14h30 Jimena Canales (Harvard University): "Time Travel: Machines, Theories and Desires" Arnaud Regnauld (Paris 8): " 'There are emptinesses to be filled with nothing but seeing --- and in seeing, being nothing but that which fills our eyes with the ghosts of digital thoughtography' - /Filmtext 2.0/ de Mark Amerika". 16h30 Pause 17h00 Darian Mecham (UWE, Bristol) : Titre à préciser Next workshop: 14 MAY The Machine and the Five Senses Michael Wheeler (Stirling) Andreas Mayer (Paris) Margarete Vöhringer (Berlin) Nicolas Wade (Dundee) Kirian Murphy (university of Colorado) James Williams (Dundee) -- Koen Vermeir Senior Research Fellow, CNRS Laboratoire SPHERE (UMR 7219), 5 rue Thomas Mann - Case 7093, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 15:57:00 +0000 From: Sakari_Katajamäki Subject: CFP: TEXTUAL TRAILS (11th Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, Helsinki 2014) CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for proposals: 15 April 2014 TEXTUAL TRAILS - TRANSMISSIONS OF ORAL AND WRITTEN TEXTS 11th Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship Helsinki, 30 October - 1 November 2014 Texts tend to travel across space and time, carried by sound waves, written on parchments and codices, sealed in envelopes and travel trunks, and streaming as bits in the internet. They pass from mouth to mouth, from singers' performances to scholars' notes, from stone engravings to printed books, or from writing desks to digital editions. Sometimes it is possible to trace the trail of a text or a fragment via several phases of transmission. These trails can be, for instance, a part of the genesis of one writing or an editorial history of one literary work, or they can run through a historical text tradition of scribal texts. The eleventh conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, TEXTUAL TRAILS. Transmissions of Oral and Written Texts (Helsinki, 30 October - 1 November 2014), seeks to explore all kinds of textual trails from various angles of scholarly editing and textual scholarship. The present call for papers encourages submissions on related topics, such as: 1. Stemmatology in theory and practice 2. Chains of changes in edition history 3. Textual continuums in genetic editing 4. Digital editing and visualisation of textual trails 5. Metamorphoses of bibliographic codes 6. Evolving ideas and textual growth 7. Variance and invariance in the transmission of oral and written texts 8. Spatio-temporal text mining. PROPOSALS FOR PAPERS AND PANEL SESSIONS ESTS conferences are characterised by a combination of plenary and panel sessions. Please submit your proposal before 15 April 2014, by email to the programme committee (ests2014proposals@gmail.com). You will be notified by 18 June 2014 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 Typically, a panel of academic papers should include 3 (maximum 4) speakers and 1 moderator (session chair). Each session will last for 1.5 hours allowing for 30 minutes for questions and discussion. Proposers should submit: (1) Session title and a session intro (ca 100 words) (2) Paper titles (3) Abstracts for each paper (500 words max.) (4) Short biography for each participant and the panel chair (ca 100 words) (5) Institutional affiliation and address for each participant (6) Audio-visual and other technical requirements. PARTICIPATION AND REGISTRATION Contributors and panel moderators must pay the conference fee and must be members in good standing of the European Society for Textual Scholarship for 2014 (except invited speakers). For more information about the ESTS, please see http://www.textualscholarship.eu/. Your current membership status is indicated at http://ests.huygensinstituut.nl/. More information about registration and possibilities of accommodation will be published later on a conference website. On behalf of the programme committee Sakari Katajamäki, Finnish Literature Society / Edith - Critical Editions of Finnish Literature Teemu Roos, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT ________________________ 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)400 908056 firstname.lastname@finlit.fi www.edith.fi/english www.finlit.fi/index.php?lang=eng _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6BF6C661F; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 09:14:34 +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 0007D6618; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 09:14:25 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8E1076617; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 09:14:23 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140306081423.8E1076617@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 09:14:23 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.851 pubs: online edn of Rape of the Lock X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 851. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 16:55:46 +0000 From: "Muri, Allison" Subject: 300th anniversary of Pope's Rape of the Lock On March 4, 1714, Bernard Lintot published Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock in five cantos. In a rather shameless plug for an in-progress work, I’d like to call your attention to my online edition in honour of this anniversary: http://grubstreetproject.net/works/T5728. I will be adding notes over the next few months, and I hope it may be of use to some in teaching the poem and studying its plates in the near future. The images (for which I thank McMaster’s William Ready Division of Archives & Research Collections) are slow to load because they’re very high resolution. Cheers, Allison .................................................... Allison Muri Department of English University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, SK, Canada ph: 306.966.5503 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6A4B46653; Fri, 7 Mar 2014 08:18:58 +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 226EB663A; Fri, 7 Mar 2014 08:18:45 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9D6556621; Fri, 7 Mar 2014 08:18:41 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140307071841.9D6556621@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 08:18:41 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.852 link doesn't work? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 852. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 09:24:46 -0800 (PST) From: "jwf3885@louisiana.edu" Subject: Re: 27.851 pubs: online edn of Rape of the Lock In-Reply-To: <20140306081423.8E1076617@digitalhumanities.org> I am getting an error message(PAGE NOT FOUND), when I try to follow the link in your message. John W. "Jack" Ferstel University of Louisiana at Lafayette [The following link worked for me just now. Has anyone else had trouble with it? --WM] On Thursday, March 6, 2014 2:14 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote:                 Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 851.             Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London                       www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist                 Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org         Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 16:55:46 +0000         From: "Muri, Allison"         Subject: 300th anniversary of Pope's Rape of the Lock On March 4, 1714, Bernard Lintot published Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock in five cantos. In a rather shameless plug for an in-progress work, I’d like to call your attention to my online edition in honour of this anniversary: http://grubstreetproject.net/works/T5728. I will be adding notes over the next few months, and I hope it may be of use to some in teaching the poem and studying its plates in the near future. The images (for which I thank McMaster’s William Ready Division of Archives & Research Collections) are slow to load because they’re very high resolution. Cheers, Allison .................................................... Allison Muri Department of English University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, SK, Canada ph: 306.966.5503 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 32DAA6659; Fri, 7 Mar 2014 08:19:21 +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 5D8256655; Fri, 7 Mar 2014 08:19:12 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CCF846656; Fri, 7 Mar 2014 08:19:08 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140307071909.CCF846656@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 08:19:08 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.853 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 853. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 10:11:20 +0000 From: Helle Porsdam Subject: User participation in content creation Dear colleagues, I am currently working on user participation in content creation with a particular focus on cultural heritage institutions. Can anyone help me with a few titles (books or articles) that deal with crowdsourcing - but in the broader sense of the involvement of users in the generation of knowledge, interpretation, curation, cataloguing etc., all of which challenges the foundation of cultural heritage institutions and perhaps especially the scholars employed at these institutions. It is what happens to knowledge and the way we think and do research, more broadly, as a result of digitization and the impact this has on cultural heritage institutions that interests me. I am afraid of missing important new scholarly literature on this topic and will be most grateful for any help that you may be able to give. Best wishes, Helle Porsdam Professor of American Studies University of Copenhagen _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A3E87665B; Fri, 7 Mar 2014 08:23:22 +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 850E56651; Fri, 7 Mar 2014 08:23:09 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8E5966650; Fri, 7 Mar 2014 08:23:07 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140307072307.8E5966650@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 08:23:07 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.854 events: at Alberta, Passau, 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. 27, No. 854. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Malte Rehbein (26) Subject: DHd-Tagung in Passau: Frühbuchertarif [2] From: Gareth Beale (41) Subject: Digital Heritage 2014 at the University of York: Call for Papers [3] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (7) Subject: Can you DIG It? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 10:08:49 +0100 From: Malte Rehbein Subject: DHd-Tagung in Passau: Frühbuchertarif -- Announcement for German DH conference in Passau Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, in weniger als drei Wochen beginnt die Tagung "DHd 2014. Digital Humanities - methodischer Brückenschlag oder "feindliche Übernahme"? Chancen und Risiken der Begegnung zwischen Geisteswissenschaften und Informatik". Im wissenschaftlichen Programm stehen 2 Keynotes, 44 Vorträge, 47 Posterpräsentationen, 7 Sektionen und Panels sowie 6 Workshops. Bislang haben sich knapp 250 DH-Interessierte aus allen deutschsprachigen Ländern und darüber hinaus zur Tagung angemeldet. Wer sich noch nicht registriert hat und noch ÃŒberlegt, zu kommen: bis zum 8. März gilt der Frühbuchertarif! * Tagungs-Website: www.dhd2014.uni-passau.de * Detailliertes Tagungsprogramm: https://www.conftool.pro/dhd2014/index.php?page=browseSessions&path=adminSessions * Registrierung: http://www.dhd2014.uni-passau.de/registrierung/ Wir freuen uns auf die Tagung! Bis bald in Passau Malte Rehbein -- Prof. Dr. Malte Rehbein Lehrstuhl für Digital Humanities Universität Passau Innstraߟe 40 / NK 430 D-94032 Passau fon: +49.851.509.3450 (Sekretariat -3451) email:malte.rehbein@uni-passau.de web:http://www.uni-passau.de/rehbein --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 10:57:50 +0000 From: Gareth Beale Subject: Digital Heritage 2014 at the University of York: Call for Papers Dear All I am pleased to announce that the call for papers for Digital Heritage 2014 is now open. This year the conference theme will be *Digital Communities in Action* and we will explore the role which different communities play in Digital Heritage. The conference will be held on the 12th July at the Centre for Digital Heritage at the University of York. The deadline for submissions is the 14thApril. For more information please refer to the call for papers below or the conference website: https://www.york.ac.uk/digital-heritage/events/cdh2014/ The conference will be highly interdisciplinary and will feature contributions from professional practitioners and academic researchers. Please circulate to all individuals or groups you think might be interested. Apologies for cross posting and best wishes, Gareth -- Gareth Beale Centre for Digital Heritage University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK *Call for Papers: Digital Heritage 2014: Digital Communities in Action* The call for papers for Digital Heritage 2014 is now open. We would like to invite proposals for 20 minute papers and we welcome submissions from researchers in any field. This year the conference theme will be *Digital Communities in Action* and so we are particularly keen to encourage presentations which relate to the role of diverse communities in Digital Heritage research. Our keynote talk will be delivered by Prof. Catherine Clarke (Southampton) and will be entitled *You are here: medieval heritage and the modern city.* The conference will be held on the 12th July 2014 in the Berrick Saul building at the University of York. The Centre for Digital Heritage is an international multi-institutional research centre focussed on innovative inter-disciplinary research in the field of Digital Heritage. The centre includes Aarhus University, Leiden University, Uppsala University and The University of York. For more information please refer to the conference website: https://www.york.ac.uk/digital-heritage/events/cdh2014/ Please send abstracts of 200 words to cdh@york.ac.uk before *Monday 14th April*. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 16:54:48 -0700 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Can you DIG It? Humanities Computing Conference at the University of Alberta, March 14, 2014 The Humanities Computing Student Association at the University of Alberta is putting on a one day conference, Can You DIG It? 2014. The conference will take place on March 14th at the University of Alberta. There will be panels and workshops on: • Digging Mobile Media: Topics in Emerging Tech • Digging New Lines: Topics in Digital Mapping • Digital Representation: Women in Video Games • Hearing the Digital: Topics in Sound Art & Music Find out more and register at http://huco.artsrn.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 301E7665C; Fri, 7 Mar 2014 09:16:57 +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 F116F6657; Fri, 7 Mar 2014 09:16:45 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D7C086656; Fri, 7 Mar 2014 09:16:43 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140307081643.D7C086656@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 09:16:43 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.855 pubs: Poetries and Sciences in the 21st Century X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 855. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 08:07:23 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 39.1 (March 2014) Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 39.1 (March 2014) Poetries and Sciences in the 21st Century www.isr-journal.org Editorial Willard McCarty pp. 1-2 Editorial Russell Jones pp. 3-5 Do Poetry and Science Have Interesting and Important Things in Common? Some Thoughts on 'Parsimony' and 'Provisionality' Lesley Saunders pp. 6-20 Reflections on Modelling Across the Arts and Sciences Luis O. Arata pp. 21-32 Poetry, Science and Truth: The Case of 'Poet-Scientists' Miroslav Holub and David Morley Vicky MacKenzie McCarty pp. 33-46 A Compaignye of Sondry Folk: Mereology, Medieval Poetics and Contemporary Evolutionary Narrative in Richard Dawkins' The Ancestor's Tale Janine Rogers pp. 47-61 Creativity in 3D: Poets and Scientists Converge on Writerly Invention Jason Wirtz pp. 62-72 Thinking Technologies: Poetry and Collage as Practice-Based Research Simon Perril pp. 73-84 Poetry, Cosmology, Cosmogony Jonathan Taylor pp. 85-98 WedgwoodÂ’s Glazes: A Poetic Sequence Derived from Glaze Chemistry with Contextual Essay Lisa Mansell pp. 99-108 Review Paul Bohan-Broderick pp. 109-111 -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4065C644B; Sat, 8 Mar 2014 08:49:08 +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 9673A6420; Sat, 8 Mar 2014 08:48:58 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B88C863BD; Sat, 8 Mar 2014 08:48:56 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140308074856.B88C863BD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2014 08:48:56 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.856 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. 27, No. 856. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Desmond Schmidt (44) Subject: Re: 27.853 crowdsourcing? [2] From: Guenter Muehlberger (49) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.853 crowdsourcing? [3] From: Lynne Siemens (138) Subject: Re: 27.853 crowdsourcing? [4] From: Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner (47) Subject: Re: 27.853 crowdsourcing? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 17:33:33 +1000 From: Desmond Schmidt Subject: Re: 27.853 crowdsourcing? In-Reply-To: <20140307071909.CCF846656@digitalhumanities.org> P. Hagon, 2013. Trove crowdsourcing behaviour, https://www.nla.gov.au/our-publications/staff-papers/trove-crowdsourcing-behaviour Causer, Tim, Tonra, Justin and Wallace, Valerie. 2012. "Transcription maximized; expense minimized? Crowdsourcing and editing The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham." Literary and Linguistic Computing 27(2): 119-137. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 853. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 10:11:20 +0000 > From: Helle Porsdam > Subject: User participation in content creation > > > Dear colleagues, > > I am currently working on user participation in content creation with a > particular focus on cultural heritage institutions. > > Can anyone help me with a few titles (books or articles) that deal with > crowdsourcing - but in the broader sense of the involvement of users in the > generation of knowledge, interpretation, curation, cataloguing etc., all of > which challenges the foundation of cultural heritage institutions and > perhaps especially the scholars employed at these institutions. It is what > happens to knowledge and the way we think and do research, more broadly, as > a result of digitization and the impact this has on cultural heritage > institutions that interests me. > > I am afraid of missing important new scholarly literature on this topic > and will be most grateful for any help that you may be able to give. > > Best wishes, > > Helle Porsdam > > Professor of American Studies > > University of Copenhagen --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 08:57:25 +0100 From: Guenter Muehlberger Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.853 crowdsourcing? In-Reply-To: <20140307071909.CCF846656@digitalhumanities.org> Hi, have a look at Tim Causer et al: http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/transcribe-bentham/talks/ and Rose Holley http://rose-holley.blogspot.co.at/ resp. https://www.nla.gov.au/ndp/project_details/documents/ANDP_ManyHands.pdf Best, guenter -- Mag. Dr. Guenter Muehlberger University of Innsbruck Department for German Language and Literature Digitisation and Digital Preservation (DEA) Innrain 52 6020 Innsbruck AUSTRIA ++43-(0)512-507-8454 http://germanistik.uibk.ac.at/dea/ http://www.literature.at/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 16:58:10 +0000 From: Lynne Siemens Subject: Re: 27.853 crowdsourcing? In-Reply-To: <20140307071909.CCF846656@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Helle, you might check out these resources about crowdsourcing within a knowledge production framework. Most focuses on lessons learned along the way. - Causer, T., Tonra, J., & Wallace, V. (2012). Transcription maximized; expense minimized? Crowdsourcing and editing the collected works of jeremy bentham. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 27(2), 119-137. - Causer, T., & Wallace, V. (2012). Building a volunteer community: Results and findings from transcribe bentham. Digital Humanities Quarterly, 6(2). - Duke-Williams, O. (2012). The potential of using crowd-sourced data to re-explore the demography of victorian britain. Paper presented at the Digital Humanities 2012, Hamburg, Germany. http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/conference/programme/abstracts/the-potenti al-of-using-crowd-sourced-data-to-re-explore-the-demography-of-victorian-br itain/ - Dunn, S., & Hedges, M. (2012). Crowd-sourcing scoping study: Engaging the crowd with humanities research. London, UK: King's College London. - Estellés-Arolas, E., & González-Ladrón-de-Guevara, F. (2012). Towards an integrated crowdsourcing definition. Journal of Information Science, 38(2), 189-200. - Fenge, L. E., Fannin, A., & Hicks, C. (2012). Co-production in scholarly activity: Valuing the social capital of lay people and volunteers. Journal of Social Work, 12(5), 545-559. - Geiger, D., Seedorf, S., Schulze, T., Nicerson, R., & Schader, M. (2011). Managing the crowd: Towards a taxonomy of crowdsourcing processes. Paper presented at the Seventeenth Americas Conference on Information Systems,, Detroit, Michigan. - Holley, R. (2009). many hands make light work: Public collaborative ocr text correction in australian historic newspapers: National Library of Australia. - Holley, R. (2010). Crowdsourcing: How and why should libraries do it? D-Lib Magazine, 16. - Holley, R. (2012). Digital cultural heritage awards for crowdsourcing (and thoughts on gamification). Retrieved from http://rose-holley.blogspot.com/2012/02/digital-cultural-heritage-awards-fo r.html - Holley, R. (2012). Building and managing online communities: A case study: Australian newspapers and trove, August 28, 2012, from http://www.slideshare.net/RHmarvellous/building-and-managing-online-communi ties12 - Janssen, O. D. (2012). Crowdsourcing: How the national library of the netherlands (kb) can Retrieved Web Page, February 4, 2013, from http://www.slideshare.net/OlafJanssenNL/crowdsourcing-how-the-national-libr ary-of-the-netherlands-kb-can-use-it - JISC. (2010). Capturing the power of the crowd and the challenge of community collections, January 5, 2013, from http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/programmerelated/2010/communitycollectio ns.aspx - Ketzan, E. (2012). Literary wikis: Crowd-sourcing the analysis and annotation of pynchon, eco and others. Paper presented at the Digital Humanities, Hamburg, Germany. http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/conference/programme/abstracts/literary-wi kis-crowd-sourcing-the-analysis-and-annotation-of-pynchon-eco-and-others/ - Organisciak, P. (2010). Why bother? Examining the motivations of users in large-scale crowd-powered online initiatives. (Master of Arts), University of Alberta, Edmonton. Retrieved from http://repository.library.ualberta.ca/dspace/bitstream/10048/1370/1/ThesisO rganisciak-08-2010v2.pdf - Organisciak, P. (2011). When to ask for help: Evaluating projects for crowdsourcing. Paper presented at the Digital Humanities 2011, Stanford. - Organisciak, P. (2013). Incidental crowdsourcing: Crowdsourcing in the periphery. Paper presented at the Digital Humanities 2013, Lincoln, Nebraska. http://dh2013.unl.edu/abstracts/ab-273.html - Orr, K., & Bennet, M. (2012). Down and out at the british library and other dens of co-production. Management Learning, 43(4), 427-442. - Raddick, M. J., Bracey, G., Gay, P. L., Lintott, C. J., Murray, P., Schawinski, K., Szalay, A. S., & Vandenberg, J. (2010). Galaxy zoo: Exploring the motivations of citizen science volunteers. Astronomy Education Review, 9(1). - Ridge, M. (2012). On the internet, nobody knows you¹re a historian: Exploring resistance to crowdsourced resources among historians. Paper presented at the Digital Humanities 2012, Hamburg, Germany. http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/conference/programme/abstracts/on-the-inte rnet-nobody-knows-youre-a-historian-exploring-resistance-to-crowdsourced-re sources-among-historians/ - Siemens, L. (2013). The crowdsourcing process: Decisions about tasks, expertise, communities and platforms. Paper presented at the DH 2013, Lincoln, Nebraska. http://dh2013.unl.edu/abstracts/ab-149.html - Wiggins, A., & Crowston, K. (2011). From conservation to crowdsourcing: A typology of citizen science. Paper presented at the 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii. - Zou, J. J. (2011). Civil war project shows pros and cons of crowdsourcing. Retrieved from http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/civil-war-project-shows-pros-and-con s-of-crowdsourcing/31749 Hope this is helpful. 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 @lynnelynne53 @uvicmacd --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 19:58:13 +0100 From: Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner Subject: Re: 27.853 crowdsourcing? In-Reply-To: <20140307071909.CCF846656@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Helle, I can recommend the following edited volume - it touches on the issue of 'lay' participation in digital knowledge production both conceptually and empiricallÿ: Paul Wouters, Anne Beaulieu, Andrea Scharnhorst & Sally Wyatt (eds) 2013. Virtual Knowledge. Experimenting in the Humanities and the Social Sciences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Best, Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5F23B649C; Sun, 9 Mar 2014 09:57:20 +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 67D416499; Sun, 9 Mar 2014 09:57:09 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 19064634C; Sun, 9 Mar 2014 09:57:05 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140309085706.19064634C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 09:57:05 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.857 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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 857. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Joris van Zundert (23) Subject: 27.856 crowdsourcing [2] From: Helle Porsdam (5) Subject: 27.856 crowdsourcing --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2014 09:23:04 +0100 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: 27.856 crowdsourcing In-Reply-To: <20140308074856.B88C863BD@digitalhumanities.org> It appears to me that Ben Brumfield's work should be mentioned here as well. His posts and talks have much to offer on the practice of crowd sourcing, and especially the ramifications for scholarly work and indeed the challenge it puts to the foundations of institutional responsibilities. I vividly remember his talk at SDSE 2013 succinctly summarizing the problem for scholars and institutions as (I'm paraphrasing): these amateur professionals are creating their crowd sourced resources anyway, without the help of you the scholarly professionals, you may want to consider talking to them... http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.nl Hope this is of any use! Cheers --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.* --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2014 14:25:53 +0000 From: Helle Porsdam Subject: 27.856 crowdsourcing In-Reply-To: <20140308074856.B88C863BD@digitalhumanities.org> Dear all, Thank you very, very much for all your help in answering my question concerning crowdsourcing. Your willingness to help is in itself a wonderful example of crowdsourcing! With best wishes, Helle _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5E33D64A3; Sun, 9 Mar 2014 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 A17E062E9; Sun, 9 Mar 2014 09:59:56 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A151162E9; Sun, 9 Mar 2014 09:59:54 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140309085954.A151162E9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 09:59:54 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.858 events: Replaying Japan 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. 27, No. 858. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 00:38:04 +0000 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Replaying Japan: Call for papers *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1394349722_2014-03-09_grockwel@ualberta.ca_2807.1.2.txt Replaying Japan Again: 2nd International Japan Game Studies Conference, 2014 https://sites.google.com/a/ualberta.ca/replayingjapan2014/ Proposals in Japanese are most welcome! <日本語での発表要旨も受け付けます。> We are pleased to announce that the International Conference on Japan Game Studies 2014 will be held at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, August 21-23, 2014. This conference is organized in collaboration with the Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies, the Prince Takamado Japan Centre and the University of Alberta with support from the GRAND Network of Centres of Excellence. The conference is the third collaboratively organized conference focusing broadly on Japanese game culture, education and industry. It aims to bring together a large range of researchers and creators from a broad range of different country to present and exchange their work. We invite a broad range of posters/demonstrations and papers dealing with game culture, education and games and the Japanese game industry from the perspectives of humanities, social sciences, business or education. We encourage poster/demonstration proposals if you want to show a game or interactive. The range of possible topics includes (but is not limited to): * Cross cultural study of games and toys * East Asian Game Culture and Market (especially China) * Localization of games * Assessment of educational aspects of games * Preservation of games and game culture * Understanding player culture * Close readings of specific games * Comparative study of specific titles * Game theory * Game design * Game industry (in Japan and transnationally) * Marketing and financing the games industry * Games and transmedia phenomena * Games of chance Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words via email to , before April 1st, 2014. 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: Type of submission (poster/demonstration or paper), Title of submission, 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 April 15th, 2014. Abstracts will be accepted in English or Japanese. <日本語での発表要旨も受け付けます。> While the language of this conference will be English, Abstracts, Posters and PowerPoint slides will be translated into both languages. For those who can’t present in English there will be translation help on demand. For more information about the International Conference on Japan Game Studies 2014, visit the conference home page or write . <日本語での ご質問、お問合せ、及び日本語の研究発表要旨の提出は< rcgs@st.ritsumei.ac.jp> にお願いします。> _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1E8BF6499; Sun, 9 Mar 2014 10:11:42 +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 917356329; Sun, 9 Mar 2014 10:11:34 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D3F536308; Sun, 9 Mar 2014 10:11:32 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140309091132.D3F536308@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 10:11:32 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.859 real-world cyborgian 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. 27, No. 859. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 08:54:45 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: imagining cyborgian machines I am collecting examples of real-world machines imagined in human or biological terms, especially of computers or systems in which computers were essential, from the time of WWII until the end of the Soviet Union. My tthree prime examples so far are: (1) John von Neumann's First Report on the EDVAC (1945), which is full of neurophysiological terminology taken from Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts' 1943 paper; (2) the Final Report of the Air Defense Systems Engineering Committee (1950), in which the proposed system to defend the U.S. against Soviet nuclear bombers is described quite literally and at length as a cyborgian organism (This report is a gem, just declassified by the U.S. Air Force, but quoted from by Evelyn Fox Keller and Thomas Hughes in the mid 1990s); (3) Stafford Beer's Cybersyn Project in Allende's Chile, studied by Eden Medina. I'm not looking for biological entities imagined as machines, rather the other way around. I am also excluding anything that was not actually constructed or could not have been built at the time. All suggestions most welcome! Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CBD676149; Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:25:34 +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 19A996128; Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:25:19 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E626A6061; Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:25:17 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140310062517.E626A6061@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:25:17 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.860 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. 27, No. 860. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Martin Mueller (65) Subject: Re: 27.857 crowdsourcing [2] From: Patrick Durusau (10) Subject: Re: 27.853 crowdsourcing? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 13:55:17 +0000 From: Martin Mueller Subject: Re: 27.857 crowdsourcing In-Reply-To: <20140309085706.19064634C@digitalhumanities.org> Ben Brumfield's work is indeed worth highlighting and very much in the spirit of the groundbreaking essay "New Tools for Men of Letters" published the historian Robert C. Binkley in the Yale Review (1935) http://www.wallandbinkley.com/rcb/works/new-tools-for-men-of-letters. It's not just "men" of letters anymoreŠ Katherine Rowe drew my attention to Binkley's work some time ago. May I also draw attention to AnnoLex, a collaborative curation tool developed by Craig Berry. Together with a handful of students I have used it in "Shakespeare His Contemporaries," a project dedicated to a rough clean-up of approximately 500 Early Modern English plays written between 1576 and 1642 and transcribed in the Text Creation Partnership . We fixed about 36,000 of 48,000 manifest errors, i.e. incompletely or incorrectly transcribed words. You can read about it at http://annolex.at.northwestern.edu and at http://cscdc.northwestern.edu/blog/?p=867 A fuller report and release of the curated texts will follow within a few months. There is a lot of useful and in odd ways absorbing work that can be done by amateurs of all ages to maintain a textual heritage that we seek to "cherish ad preserve," a charming phrase that Penelope Kaiserlian used a few years ago at the Virginia Conference about the future of digital scholarship (http://shapeofthings.org/papers/) Martin Mueller Professor emeritus of English and Classics Northwestern University On 3/9/14 4:57 AM, "Humanist Discussion Group" wrote: > Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2014 09:23:04 +0100 > From: Joris van Zundert > Subject: 27.856 crowdsourcing > In-Reply-To: <20140308074856.B88C863BD@digitalhumanities.org> > > >It appears to me that Ben Brumfield's work should be mentioned here as >well. His posts and talks have much to offer on the practice of crowd >sourcing, and especially the ramifications for scholarly work and indeed >the challenge it puts to the foundations of institutional >responsibilities. >I vividly remember his talk at SDSE 2013 succinctly summarizing the >problem >for scholars and institutions as (I'm paraphrasing): these amateur >professionals are creating their crowd sourced resources anyway, without >the help of you the scholarly professionals, you may want to consider >talking to them... > >http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.nl > >Hope this is of any use! >Cheers >--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.* --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 19:54:26 -0400 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: 27.853 crowdsourcing? In-Reply-To: <20140307071909.CCF846656@digitalhumanities.org> Helle, A recent paper on targeted crowdsourcing: Quizz: Targeted Crowdsourcing with a Billion (Potential) Users by Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis and Evgeniy Gabrilovich. http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en/us/pubs/archive/42022.pdf The engagement of more than 10,000 users as part of this research makes me think this is a line of research to watch. Best of luck with your project! Hope you are having a great week! 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9480E650B; Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:26:36 +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 F23BD6502; Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:26:27 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5F6A76502; Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:26:26 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20140310062626.5F6A76502@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:26:26 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.861 postdoc at Washington & Lee 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. 27, No. 861. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 20:03:39 +0000 From: "Youngman, Paul" Subject: 2yr Mellon Post Doc in Digital History Mellon Junior Faculty Fellow in Digital History Washington and Lee University invites applications for a Mellon Foundation postdoctoral fellowship for recent Ph.D.s in history who intend to pursue careers as teacher-scholars in a liberal arts college setting. These two-year fellowships are open to candidates who earned their Ph.D.s in Spring 2012 or later. Fellows will play an active role in helping to demonstrate innovative methods of teaching, making interdisciplinary connections and teaching new courses in neglected areas of the curriculum. Fellows will have a reduced teaching load to allow time for their own scholarly development. The Department of History seeks a specialist in digital history with a concentration in ancient or any field in pre-1800 global or non-Western history. Applicants should have experience with digital humanities pedagogies and using digital humanities tools in their scholarly research. https://jobs.wlu.edu/postings/1907. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 56FFA6507; Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:27:19 +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 AD0376137; Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:27:11 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id EE7746505; Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:27:09 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140310062709.EE7746505@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:27:09 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.862 Gardin's keynote X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 862. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 18:42:05 +0000 (GMT) From: joeraben1@cox.net Subject: J.C. Gardin's keynote speech J.C. Gardin's keynote speech may be found in *Data Bases in the Humanities and Social Sciences* No. 3, ed. Thomas F. Moberg (Osprey FL: Paradigm Press, 1987). _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, T_FRT_CONTACT autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BF3316521; Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:28:23 +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 60CFC650B; Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:28:14 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0A5D4650B; Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:28:11 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140310062812.0A5D4650B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:28:11 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.863 events: AGORA X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 863. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 10:36:29 +0000 From: Mareike Bartels Subject: Neue AGORA-Workshops im März 2014 Liebe AGORA-Nutzerinnen und -Nutzer, im März 2014 bietet das AGORA-Team neue Workshops zur Nutzung der ePlattform für die Hamburger Geisteswissenschaften an. Workshop I: "AGORA für Anfänger": Dienstag, 18. März 2014, 14.30-16.00 Uhr Workshop II: "Wie organisiere ich meine Materialien?“ Dienstag, 18. März 2014, 16.30-18.00 Uhr Workshop III: "Lehre 2.0: Vorab-Diskussionen und Wiki": Donnerstag, 20. März 2014, 14.00-16.00 Uhr Die Workshops richten sich an Studierende und Lehrende der Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften; Kontaktstudierende wenden sich für Schulungsangebote bitte an die Arbeitsstelle für Wissenschaftliche Weiterbildung (AWW). Detaillierte Informationen zu den Inhalten der einzelnen Workshops finden Sie unter: www.agora.uni-hamburg.de/workshops.html Teilnahme: Bitte wählen Sie aus unserem Angebot den für Sie passenden Kurs und melden Sie sich per E-Mail (inklusive Fach und der Angabe, ob Lehrende/r oder Studierende/r; nennen Sie dabei gerne auch spezifische Bedarfe) bei agora@uni-hamburg.de an. Mit freundlichen Grüßen vom AGORA-Team Silke Lahn, Lena Frömbling und Mareike Bartels P.S.: Sie erhalten diese E-Mail als registrierter Nutzer der AGORA-Plattform. Wenn Sie AGORA nicht mehr nutzen und keine E-Mails mehr erhalten möchten, ist es notwendig, dass Sie Ihre Kennung selbst löschen. Die Anleitung hierzu finden Sie unter: http://www.agora.uni-hamburg.de/hilfe-bei-der-nutzung/faq/wie-kann-ich-meine-kennung-loschen _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8A06C6521; Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:29:11 +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 09700651E; Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:29:03 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3EDA86519; Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:29:01 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140310062901.3EDA86519@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:29:01 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.864 new (?) Stanford course X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 864. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 19:59:27 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: New Stanford Course This report is interesting, and heartening, but I wonder what is really new about it. Isn’t it what humanities computing specialists (to revert to an older term) have argued for, and frequently practiced, for a long time? http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/03/07/stanford-will-start-new-joint-computer-science-programs 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 113336559; Tue, 11 Mar 2014 07:53:49 +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 193D563FB; Tue, 11 Mar 2014 07:53:36 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B7CE56548; Tue, 11 Mar 2014 07:53:34 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140311065334.B7CE56548@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 07:53:34 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.865 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. 27, No. 865. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:48:31 +0000 From: "Schlitz, Stephanie" Subject: RE: 27.860 crowdsourcing In-Reply-To: <20140310062517.E626A6061@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Helle, Here are two additional articles which address crowdsourcing: “Participatory Culture, Participatory Editing, and the Emergent Archival Hybrid.” Forthcoming in Archive Journal http://www.archivejournal.net/ . “Digital Texts, Metadata, and the Multitude: New Directions in Participatory Editing.” Forthcoming in Variants. Best wishes with your study. stephanie _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1E6386564; Tue, 11 Mar 2014 07:54:34 +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 795A2655A; Tue, 11 Mar 2014 07:54:25 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DB99B6559; Tue, 11 Mar 2014 07:54:23 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140311065423.DB99B6559@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 07:54:23 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.866 plagiarism detection 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. 27, No. 866. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 11:53:38 +0100 From: Joris van Zundert Subject: Plagiarism detection software Dear all, A colleague of mine is interested in applying plagiarism detection software to the problem of text reuse and paraphrasing in older texts. He's looking for easy to use/test web based software that will allow him to detect reused text between several files. Trawling the Humanist archive yielded only http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/teachingwithtechnology/plagiarism.xml which is a tool to check against student papers, but that is not what we're looking for. Much obliged for any advice, 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 96051656D; Tue, 11 Mar 2014 07:55:57 +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 518766566; Tue, 11 Mar 2014 07:55:49 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 08E0B654D; Tue, 11 Mar 2014 07:55:47 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140311065548.08E0B654D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 07:55:47 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.867 job at University of London Computing 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. 27, No. 867. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:47:19 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Vacancy for Web/Repositories Developer at ULCC > Dear all > > The University of London has a vacancy for a developer to work on our repositories projects and services, and our many other activities around digital preservation/digital scholarship/e-learning. > > The full ad is here: > > http://is.gd/ulccrepodev14 > > Please share with anyone you think might be interested, and feel free to drop me a line if you've any queries. > > Regards > > Richard > > > -- > Richard M. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 15:08:06 +0000 From: Ram-Verlag Subject: Problems in Quantitative Linguistics 4 Just published: 2014 Studies in Quantitative Linguistics 14, “Problems in Quantitative Linguistics 4″ ISBN 978-3-942303-22-4 (148 pages) Continuation of Problems in QL 1( = Studies in QL 1); Problems In QL 2 (= Studies in QL 4); Problems in QL 3 (= Studies in QL 12). Contents: See attachment please. Edited by: Reinhard Köhler, Gabriel Altmann. Published by: RAM-Verlag. Studies in Quantitative Linguistics 14, “Problems in Quantitative Linguistics 4” is available as: Printed edition: 45.00 EUR plus PP CD-ROM-edition: 20.00 EUR plus PP Internet download (PDF-file): 15.00 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.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: maurizio lana (31) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.866 plagiarism detection software? [2] From: "Center for Comparative Studies" (11) Subject: Re: 27.866 plagiarism detection software? [3] From: Ryan Cordell (42) Subject: Re: 27.866 plagiarism detection software? [4] From: "Bleck, Bradley" (8) Subject: RE: 27.866 plagiarism detection software? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 08:17:35 +0100 From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.866 plagiarism detection software? In-Reply-To: <20140311065423.DB99B6559@digitalhumanities.org> Il 11/03/14 07:54, Humanist Discussion Group ha scritto: > A colleague of mine is interested in applying plagiarism detection software > to the problem of text reuse and paraphrasing in older texts. He's looking > for easy to use/test web based software that will allow him to detect > reused text between several files. this type of detection is very similar to the detection of a common author for a series of texts. so tools and methods for authorship attribution could be interesting. apart from conferences, there is also a Competition on Plagiarism Detection, now at its fifth edition, about plagiarism detection not in school texts but in other types of texts. the porceedings can be a good place to search for info, methods, tools, etc. maurizio -- ricorda Signore questi servi disobbedienti alle leggi del branco non dimenticare il loro volto f. de andré, smisurata preghiera ------- 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/ che cosa sono le digital humanities: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JqLst_VKCA ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università del Piemonte Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici piazza Roma 36 - 13100 Vercelli tel. +39 347 7370925 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:57:53 +0100 From: "Center for Comparative Studies" Subject: Re: 27.866 plagiarism detection software? In-Reply-To: <20140311065423.DB99B6559@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Joris, two of the fee-paying programs for detecting plagiarism most used in the universities are Turnitin (http://turnitin.com/it/) and Ithenticate (www.itenthicate.com). A scholarly product it Factotum (viper.infotech.monash.edu:4277), created by the Monash university for Latin texts. Best wishes Francesco Stella --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 09:30:55 -0400 From: Ryan Cordell Subject: Re: 27.866 plagiarism detection software? In-Reply-To: <20140311065423.DB99B6559@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Joris (and all), I wanted to mention the work of David Smith, my collaborator on the Viral Texts project (http://viraltexts.org) and a computational linguist doing phenomenal work around text reuse in this project and others. If this work interests your colleague you should both feel free to get in touch with us. All best wishes, Ryan --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 08:35:15 -0700 From: "Bleck, Bradley" Subject: RE: 27.866 plagiarism detection software? In-Reply-To: <20140311065423.DB99B6559@digitalhumanities.org> In the U.S. of A, the leading plagiarism detection software is turnitin, at turnitin.com. I don't know that it would serve the purpose you are looking to serve, but one word of warning: my understanding is that any material submitted to the turnitin database becomes their property. This is one reason many faculty don't use it, because students lose their IP rights (even if they are, essentially worthless) while helping turnitin build a database that they can use to entice more institutions to buy their service. Bradley Bleck Department of English Spokane Falls Community College bleckblog.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 70FD765CA; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 07:32:01 +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 830D165C0; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 07:31:51 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0B8D265C0; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 07:31:49 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140312063150.0B8D265C0@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 07:31:49 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.870 Emilio Del Giudice (1940-2014) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 870. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 20:28:01 +0100 From: Domenico Fiormonte Subject: In memory of Emilio Del Giudice On 31st January 2014, Emilio Del Giudice, a great physicist, friend and supporter, as well as an influential member of the international *New Humanities* research group passed away. In such cases one always speaks of "emptiness" but such a word cannot be uttered without recalling the quantum vacuum which Emilio told us about for the first time three years ago. I can now imagine him riding that quantum wave in that material dimension that he explored with scientific rigor as well as with merry images and light-hearted poetry ("science is nothing but a metaphor," he loved to say). This loss touches us on a profound level because without Emilio *New Humanities* would probably not have been born. We have to thank another physicist (but also a humanist), Paolo De Santis, for letting us discover his character and fascinating research on the memory of water, biological matter and electromagnetic fields, the notion of self and the concept of quantum resonance, etc. All these investigations deeply involved our perception of what means today to be human. "The three bullets secret" http://www.edizioniambiente.it/libri/448/il-segreto-delle-tre-pallottole/ , a novel on the military secrets of tactic nuclear weapons, was the book that made him known to the general public in Italy, and also one of the few volumes that bears his signature because he was too versatile and generous to devote himself to monographs. Emilio opened us up to a world and renewed our hopes for a new knowledge. Thanks to him that "new cultural code" that we all desperately were trying to build and protect from the ethical and cultural wreck of our institutions seemed miraculously at hand. Not only was "Quantum Physics' contribution to the idea of consciousness" based on his openness, availability and depth of vision, but in 2011, along with Marcello Buiatti, he was the protagonist of that amazing dialogue "Towards new humanities http://infolet.it/2011/05/18/verso-le-nuove-scienze-umane/ " that shook us from deadly government educational reform, prompting us to create something new while all drowned in the hermeneutics of the reform bill. If, even to a small extent, we were really able to do something new and didn't succumb, this was thanks to Emilio, a scientist who "recognized " us as equal partners so that we, humanists sometimes too shy with our ideas, cheered and found courage. Today, someone much more important than us mirrored our work, http://shass.mit.edu/news/news-2013-21st-century-humanities-at-mit others theorize things alike http://www.ispf-lab.cnr.it/article/2013_202_Abstract , while we put them into practice. Our task, therefore, is not to lose heart and continue on that road. But we know that without Emilio the path seems all-uphill. Domenico Fiormonte _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E954465C3; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 07:39:03 +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 BCCDB65BD; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 07:38:54 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 09A7165BC; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 07:38:52 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140312063853.09A7165BC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 07:38:52 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.871 events: mss studies; stylometry X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 871. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Center for Comparative Studies" (4) Subject: Workshop on Stylometry [2] From: Arianna Ciula (22) Subject: Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies: Results and Outlook --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:42:37 +0100 From: "Center for Comparative Studies" Subject: Workshop on Stylometry Call for applications: Post-graduate Workshop on "Textometry of the historical sources", Rome, École française, 2-6 June 2014 For more see: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1394531221_2014-03-11_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_9734.2.pdf --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 11:19:10 +0000 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies: Results and Outlook ESF Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Final conference: http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/COMST/finalconf.html Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies: Results and Outlook Hamburg, 18-20 March 2014 Scientific organization: COMSt Steering Committee, COMSt Team Leaders COMSt Chair: Alessandro Bausi Local organizer: Evgenia Sokolinskaia (eae [at] uni-hamburg.de) After the nearly five years of the Research Networking Programme in Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies it is time to draw the first results. The final COMSt conference will summarize the achievements of the network, present the contributions to the forthcoming Handbook in Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies as well as invite prominent international speakers from related fields. They will both speak about the recent achievements in research as well as critically evaluate the COMSt approach and outcome. A round table session shall be dedicated to the future outlook: the issues to be explored in new projects; future networking and cooperation; the value of the comparative approach in humanities are among the topics to be discussed by the invited scholars. The conference on 18 and 19 March is a public event, and everyone interested is most welcome to attend. The participation is free of charge. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id EFB396669; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 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 3AF8B65EB; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 07:45:54 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 103B765C3; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 07:45:52 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140313064552.103B765C3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 07:45:52 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.872 plagiarism detection 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. 27, No. 872. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (13) Subject: Plagiarism Software [2] From: Andrew Brook (12) Subject: Re: 27.869 plagiarism detection software [3] From: "Noiret, Serge" (3) Subject: RE: plagiarism detection software: using Turnitin ? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 08:51:13 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Plagiarism Software I note the caveat about Turnitin and intellectual property, but (to avoid alarm in the UK) it is probably worth pointing out that UK universities take the view that under UK law IP remains with the student when Turnitin is used. See for example the following policy from the University of Cambridge: http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/plagiarism/examiners/policy.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 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 11:39:15 -0400 From: Andrew Brook Subject: Re: 27.869 plagiarism detection software In-Reply-To: <20140312062929.048D165B6@digitalhumanities.org> Check out eTBLAST. It was used to detect duplication of wording on Medline -- with remarkable results! There is an article by the person who built the system in the March 2014 Scientific American, pp. 64 - 67. Andrew -- Andrew Brook, D.Phil. Chancellor's Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science President, Canadian Psychoanalytic Society 3A57 Paterson Carleton University Ottawa, ON K1S5B6 Ph: 613 520-3597 Web: www.carleton.ca/~abrook --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 16:11:21 +0000 From: "Noiret, Serge" Subject: RE: plagiarism detection software: using Turnitin ? In-Reply-To: <20140312062929.048D165B6@digitalhumanities.org> Also Turnitin a very well-known commercial anti-plagiarism software, widely used in universities worldwide, could be used for text-mining purposes and not only on English texts, as I tried to explain here http://sergenoiret.blogspot.it/2013/10/going-beyond-turnitin.html Serge Noiret _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8817F666B; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 07:46:54 +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 BF7926669; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 07:46:45 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C4CD76667; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 07:46:43 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140313064643.C4CD76667@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 07:46:43 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.873 source for Douglas Adams' quotation? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 873. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 15:11:41 +0100 From: Alexander O'Connor Subject: Source for the Douglas Adams quote on the initialism of the World Wide Web Dear Humanists, I have a sideline in trying to source well-known quotes more substantively. I have seen this quote from Wikipedia The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it's short for. —Douglas Adams, The Independent on Sunday, 1999 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation_of_%22www%22 The source at 1999 is a bit vague, I can't find from an IoS archive anything more precise, any advice? Regards Alex. -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 150886677; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 07:49:56 +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 A0C2B6672; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 07:49:47 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0462B6670; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 07:49:45 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140313064946.0462B6670@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 07:49:45 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.874 postdocs at the French Institute Research, Innovation, Society X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 874. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 12:12:23 +0100 From: Nathalie JAS Subject: Call for Post-doctoral Position - Deadline May 31st, 2014 In-Reply-To: <102B646B-0F7F-4E69-8108-6DA85142B279@grignon.inra.fr> *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1394623621_2014-03-12_nathalie.jas@ivry.inra.fr_22792.1.2.txt *Call for Post-Doctoral Position - May 2014* *Presentation* Five post-doctoral positions are available at the French Institute “Research, Innovation, Society” (Institut Francilien Recherche, Innovation, Société - http://ifris.org/en/ ). IFRIS welcomes STS scholars, historians, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, economists, people working on management sciences or law, and who work on the production, regulation and uses of science and technologies in societies. Research may concern a variety of issues including public health and biomedicine, agricultural sciences and food security, climate change, biodiversity and environmental questions, ICT, big data and internet, regimes of sciences and innovation in society, as well as theoretical questions. The post-doc fellows selected will undertake an original research project that fits with IFRIS lines of research, notably on the following topics: • Innovation processes, notably bottom up, "responsible" or “social” innovation • Socio-technical transitions and government/governance of change • Property rights and commons • Regulation of techno-scientific activities and their products • Multi-level governance and scales of government • Knowledge and the government of the scientific public sphere • Regimes and institutions of knowledge • Construction of futures Post-doc fellows will be hosted by one of the IFRIS Research Groups. We highly recommend contacting them as soon as possible since a good integration in the groups is one of the core objectives of the IFRIS post-doc programme: • CAK (Centre Alexandre Koyré), contacts: Dominique Pestre, Amy Dahan • CERMES3 (Centre de recherche Médecine, Sciences, Santé et Société), Contact: Jean-Paul Gaudillière • CEPN (Centre d’Economie de Paris Nord), Contacts: Benjamin Coriat,David Flacher • CNAM: LIRSA (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Science de l’Action), contact: Gilles Garel et LISE (Labo Interdisciplinaire pour la Sociologie Economique), contact: Jean-Louis Laville • INRA-SenS (Sciences en Société), Contact: Marc Barbier • IRD: UMR Développement et Sociétés, Contact: Rigas Arvanitis etUMR PaLoc, Contact: Frédéric Thomas • LATTS (Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires, Sociétés), Contacts:Ashveen Peerbaye, Philippe Larédo Post-doc researchers are eligible for a contract of up to 24 months, under the standard French salary and work status. Contracts start according to candidates’ constraints. *Requirements and applications* Researchers holding a doctoral degree or having fulfilled all the obligations of a PhD (certified by their supervisor) in a field relevant to the IFRIS research topics. Candidates cannot apply for a post doc in the group where they have prepared their PhD. Formal applications will include: • A one page resume/CV • A list of publications • A statement of proposed research (in English, 5 to 10 pages) including a (preliminary/provisional) budget for travel expenses. A specific dimension should deal with their contribution to the research agenda of IFRIS (see selection criteria below). • A letter by a member of the hosting research group. The letter will state how the candidate’s project will be integrated in the group and the collaboration and support she will benefit • A reference letter directly sent by their PhD supervisor to IFRIS before June 20th (and for French candidates, their viva report) Selection criteria • Quality of the research project • Relevance in relation to the IFRIS research strategies (http://ifris.org/en/presentation/) • Quality of the integration of the candidate’s project in the hosting research group • Quality of the candidate The application will be sent in one single file, pdf format, and will be registered under the following name: Name_appelpostdoc_IFRIS.pdf (where “name” is the last name of the candidate) Applications will be sent before May 31st, 2014 to: Julie Rust, IFRIS _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0CD076681; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 07:51:50 +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 037AD6677; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 07:51:42 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7C83E6674; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 07:51:40 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140313065140.7C83E6674@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 07:51:40 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.875 events: Eurekamp; Medieval scholarly 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. 27, No. 875. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Center for Comparative Studies" (11) Subject: International Workshop: Medieval Scholarly Research and the Digital Ecosystem. Challenges and Goals around the TRAME project [2] From: Ray Siemens (12) Subject: Eurekamp at DHSI --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:07:10 +0100 From: "Center for Comparative Studies" Subject: International Workshop: Medieval Scholarly Research and the Digital Ecosystem. Challenges and Goals around the TRAME project Medieval Scholarly Research and the Digital Ecosystem. Challenges and Goals around the TRAME project 20-22 marzo 2014 Firenze, via Montebello 7 See program: http://www.sismelfirenze.it/index.php/it/convegni/item/307-medieval-scholarly-research-and-the-digital-ecosystem. Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino (S.I.S.M.E.L.) Via Montebello 7 I - 50123 Firenze tel. 055 2048501 - fax 055 2302832 e-mail: infopoint@sismelfirenze.it http://www.sismelfirenze.it http://www.mirabileweb.it --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 01:05:07 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Eurekamp at DHSI In-Reply-To: Dear members of the DHSI community, This summer, the DHMakerBus http://www.makerbus.ca/ team is working together with Philosophy for Children Alberta from the University of Alberta to hold an extension of their successful Eurekamp during DHSI, on the beautiful UVic campus. You can get a quick idea about what Eurekamp is all about with this video: http://vimeo.com/85884408 Scholars have expressed an interest in having their children accompany them for this week of DH courses, and we thought this would be a great way to make this possible, while at the same time training a new generation of creative, critical thinkers. The course, outlined below, will expose campers to hands on learning and unique experiences such as circuitry, DIY problem solving, programming for beginners, scavenger hunts, and a potential trip to a local farm. For this particular camp Eurekampers will be encouraged to play, think, do, and discuss around the central theme of the Maker Movement. These camps typically cost approximately $199 and include a t-shirt, all programming materials, and an afternoon snack. Before we commit the resources to make this happen we need to know if you, the DHSI community, would be interested in seeing this program happen. To do this we're hoping that you'd be willing to complete a brief three question survey if you are interested. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1nGhkOFc1a1j5Q60UtIuZyLP4QDXy7Kxpx2i-g185Y3g/viewform Thanks so much! Kim Martin and John Simpson on behalf of the DHMaker Bus and Eurekamp Teams _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CDC6D657C; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 07:55:31 +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 AC2016258; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 07:55:22 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AB45C6256; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 07:55:20 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140313065520.AB45C6256@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 07:55:20 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.876 pubs: on palaeographical method; Illinois newspapers X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 876. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (52) Subject: palaeographical method [2] From: "Parker, Erica Mallory" (13) Subject: Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 14:07:10 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: palaeographical method Peter A. Stokes, English Vernacular Minuscule from AEthelred to Cnut c. 990 -- c. 1035 (Brewer, 2014). This is not a book on digital humanities, but many here, I expect, will want to take a look for its reflections on method. I quote here from the first paragraph of the Introduction: > The early twenty-first century has seen some substantial new > developments in the field of palaeography. These have come about > largely through the convergence of two different but related changes: > on the one hand, widespread access to digital images of manuscripts > and computers powerful enough to process them, and on the other hand > revived interest in the long-standing discussion of 'scientific' > method versus connoisseurship in palaeographical study. To summarise > this briefly, it has long been debated whether palaeography can (or > should) be scientific, namely based as much as possible on concrete > evidence and quantitative criteria, or if instead it should (or can > only) be based on the judgement of experts. One response to this > pressure for more 'objective' or 'scientific' methods has been to > turn to digital methods, particularly the automated processing of > digital images to identify scribal hands, but at the time of writing > this approach is yet to bear convincing fruit, and identifying > scribes is a very different problem from writing a history of script. > Although image processing may not yet be helpful in writing the > history of a script, it does not necessarily follow that digital > approaches should be dismissed, and although they are not explicitly > part of this book, it will become clear to the reader that the book > could not have been written without them. Specifically, this study > has taken some aspects of what is now referred to as a 'big data' or > 'distant reading' approach. Associated most closely with Franco > Moretti, distant reading was initially applied to literature in > deliberate contrast to the 'close reading' of I. A. Richards and the > New Critics. To summarise somewhat crudely, Moretti's principle is > to analyse large quantities of text using statistics, graphs and > other visualisations in order to identify large-scale trends rather > than the small minutiae of '‘close reading'; inaccuracies in > individual pieces of data should, in principle, have little impact on > the overall result if the sample size is sufficiently large. Literary > criticism is some distance from palaeography, and a pure 'distant > reading' approach for the latter is not appropriate, not least > because the quantity of surviving material for the early medieval > period is not large enough, and because it is not yet clear how > palaeographical data should best be quantified. Nevertheless some of > the principles of distant reading can usefully be transferred to > palaeography. [...] Dr Stokes is Senior Lecturer, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 16:25:08 +0000 From: "Parker, Erica Mallory" Subject: Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections Hello All, I'm the coordinator for a new digital newspaper website that might be of interest to some members in this group: the Illlinois Digital Newspaper Collections, http://idnc.library.illinois.edu The IDNC website is a free online archive of digitized newspaper content from the University of Illinois Library. There are 41 titles and over 900,000 pages of historic newspapers and trade journals available. Users can clip articles, correct transcribed (OCR) text, tag items, and share articles on social media. Powered by Veridian Digital Library software, IDNC offers a modern and user-friendly way to engage with the past. Please follow us on Facebook (http://www.facebook/idncnews) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/idncnews) for more info, as well as collection highlights. Best, Erica Erica Parker + MS Candidate Graduate School of Library & Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign + Veridian Implementation Coordinator History, Philosophy and Newspaper Library 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 426506662; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 07:45:51 +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 158946422; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 07:45:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 971E862AE; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 07:45:38 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140314064538.971E862AE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 07:45:38 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.877 source for Douglas Adams' quotation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 877. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 02:01:57 -0600 From: Jarom McDonald Subject: Re: 27.873 source for Douglas Adams' quotation? In-Reply-To: <20140313064643.C4CD76667@digitalhumanities.org> The Douglas Adams quote was penned in November of 1999 for his regular column in _The Independent on Sunday_, and then later posted, by Adams himself, at his h2g2 website (you can see it at this link: http://h2g2.com/entry/A281701), The column is also found in _The Salmon of Doubt_, the posthumously published collection of many of Adams's writings. Best, Jarom -- Dr. Jarom McDonald, PhD Director, Office of Digital Humanities Brigham Young University On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 873. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 15:11:41 +0100 > From: Alexander O'Connor > Subject: Source for the Douglas Adams quote on the initialism of > the World Wide Web > > Dear Humanists, > I have a sideline in trying to source well-known quotes more > substantively. I have seen this quote from Wikipedia > > The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened > form takes three times longer to say than what it's short for. --Douglas > Adams, The Independent on Sunday, 1999 > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation_of_%22www%22 > > The source at 1999 is a bit vague, I can't find from an IoS archive > anything more precise, any advice? > > Regards > Alex. > -- > 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 2026B66EF; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 07:48:28 +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 302AC66EA; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 07:48:18 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A92536673; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 07:48:15 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140314064815.A92536673@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 07:48:15 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.878 jobs at MITH, Bournemouth X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 878. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Christos Gatzidis (27) Subject: Senior Lectureship position available in Games Technology/Games Programming at Bournemouth University, UK [2] From: Trevor_Muñoz (127) Subject: Job: Lead Developer, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 19:56:19 +0000 From: Christos Gatzidis Subject: Senior Lectureship position available in Games Technology/Games Programming at Bournemouth University, UK In-Reply-To: <779F9B6AF5F15946B4069E53C07927800240A752B71D@TAME.bournemouth.ac.uk> A Senior Lecturer position in the area of game design/programming has become available in the Department of Creative Technology in the Faculty of Science and Technology at Bournemouth University. A doctoral qualification or equivalent and expertise in key aspects of modern game design such as level design are essential. You will be expected to have a strong understanding of areas including contemporary game engines such as Unreal, CryEngine or Unity, game modification, scripting within engines, content/asset creation for games and, finally, game design concepts and theory. Knowledge and experience in C++ programming is essential. Industry experience in the form of published game titles would be advantageous. A strong research profile in a related area, evidence of successful bids for funding and experience in supervising postgraduate students would be desirable. http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/academic/advert/fst5.html The role is not due to commence until 1 August 2014. Closing date for applications is midnight Wednesday 9 April 2014. Thanks, Christos -- Dr Christos Gatzidis BSc(Hon's), MA, PhD, PGCert, MIET Senior Lecturer In Creative Technology Creative Technology Framework Leader Bournemouth University Room P211 School Of Design, Engineering And Computing Poole House Talbot Campus, Poole, BH12 5BB, Dorset UK Phone No: +44 (0) 1202 965135 Fax No: +44 (0) 1202 965314 Personal Profile at Bournemouth University: http://onlineservices.bournemouth.ac.uk/academicstaff/Profile.aspx?staff=cgatzidis Personal Website at City University London: http://vega.soi.city.ac.uk/~abbp171/ Personal Blog: http://christosgatzidis.blogspot.com/ Doran, J. and Gatzidis, C., 2012. UDK iOS Game Development Beginner's Guide. Birmingham: Packt Publishing.: http://link.packtpub.com/bbexNT VS-Games 2013 (the 5th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications), 11-13 September 2013, Bournemouth: http://www.vsgames2013.org/ **************************************************** --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 16:35:48 -0400 From: Trevor_Muñoz Subject: Job: Lead Developer, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) In-Reply-To: <779F9B6AF5F15946B4069E53C07927800240A752B71D@TAME.bournemouth.ac.uk> Dear colleagues, MITH is looking to hire a creative, team-oriented person to be our new Lead Developer. We're reviewing applications on a rolling basis and we encourage all interested candidates to apply as soon as possible. Please see below for the complete job ad. If I can answer any questions about the position, please don't hesitate to contact me directly with questions: tmunoz@umd.edu Thank you, Trevor Muñoz ==== Lead Devloper, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) The Lead Developer will work with other senior MITH staff to conceptualize, implement, and develop software for research work in a collaborative, team-driven environment. This role requires creative leadership and commitment to research and development leading to novel applications of technology in research projects in the humanities. The successful candidate will have experience developing software applications, establishing development milestones, providing technical management and oversight, and identifying emergent technologies and best practices. Reporting to the Associate Director, the Lead Developer will collaborate with other members of the MITH design and development team to design, write, test, document, and deploy code. She/He will be responsible for conducting regular code reviews, coordinating iterative development schedules, and assuring quality control of all final software deliverables and deployments. Prospective candidates should have proven experience in team-oriented software development within a research-intensive environment. They should be able to demonstrate expertise in at least one version control system and in a range of programming languages and platforms. The ability to estimate effort for software projects, prototype concepts and approaches, draft and communicate design concepts, as well as write and maintain documentation of systems and processes is required. Familiarity with the digital humanities is preferred but not required. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Software Development (60%) * Responsible for full development cycle of planning, designing, testing, documenting and deployment. Manage Development Processes (20%) * Facilitate developer and designer meetings * Create and track project milestones and schedules * Review software code and ensure quality of all deliverables, including documentation Systems Architecture (10%) * Research appropriate software languages, frameworks, and platforms to realize project goals * Design, prototype, and evaluate potential technical approaches * Monitor systems administration and contracted development work Engagement with Open Source Software Projects (10%) * As appropriate, contribute to third-party open source projects and libraries used by MITH during paid time. Contributions may include code, documentation, outreach, group/event organization, and code review. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS * Bachelor's degree * Minimum of three years experience in software development KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES The successful candidate will work on and lead projects involving a variety of technologies/technology stacks. The ability to learn new technologies quickly and effectively is important. We would expect that the Lead Developer could demonstrate: * Expertise with front-end web technologies (HTML5, JavaScript/CoffeeScript, CSS/SASS/LESS) * Experience with a variety of high-level languages (e.g. Ruby, PHP, Python) * Experience using web frameworks for these languages (Sinatra, Rails, Zend, Flask, Django) * Experience with at least one JVM language (e.g. Java, Scala, Clojure, JRuby) and build system (Ant, Maven, SBT) * Knowledge in designing and managing relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) * Knowledge of testing frameworks for a variety of languages (PHPUnit, RSpec, Cucumber, Jasmine, QUnit) * Experience with plugin development for one or more content management systems (e.g. Drupal or WordPress) * Experience with managing Linux operating systems * Experience with a shell language (Bash, Zsh) * Expertise in source code management tools like Git or Subversion * Expertise in software engineering patterns including Model-View-Controller and Model-View-ViewModel architectures * Experience with workflow and deployment tools like Grunt, Rake, and Capistrano * Experience with XML technologies (validation schemes, XSLT, eXist, Cocoon, etc.) PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS Applications from candidates who can also demonstrate the following are strongly encouraged: * Five or more years experience in software development * Experience in managing other developers * Familiarity with pre-existing digital humanities software development community * Able to work in a team-driven design and development process but with clear ability to motivate and manage oneself * Experience designing and managing non-relational (Redis, MongoDB) data stores * Experience with infrastructure management tools (Chef, Puppet, etc) * Experience with RDF and Linked Open Data methods and tools * Experience with authorization and authentication technologies (OAuth, OpenID) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Salary is commensurate with experience, ranging from $76,000 to $96,000. The University offers a comprehensive benefits package, including 22 Days Annual Leave; 15 Days Sick Leave; 3 Days Personal Leave; 15 Paid Holidays; Tuition Remission; Health, Dental, Vision and Prescription coverage. TO APPLY Applications should be submitted via https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/24812 (Position # 119907) and include: 1) a cover letter; 2) a resume or CV; 3) samples of code/projects (or URLs to accessible repositories); and 4) contact information for three professional references. The position is open until filled. VALUE OF DIVERSITY 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. Moreover, the University of Maryland is committed to "inclusive excellence"—the notion that in order to educate our students with excellence, in order to foster outstanding research and scholarship, and in order to be national and global leaders, we must be diverse and inclusive. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. --- Trevor Muñoz Assistant Dean for Digital Humanities Research, University of Maryland Libraries Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) 301.405.9528 | @trevormunoz on Twitter | http://trevormunoz.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0F4C166F0; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 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 0DC59646D; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 07:51:27 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1FF2B6469; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 07:51:23 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140314065124.1FF2B6469@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 07:51:23 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.879 criticism prize; new alliance with EADH/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. 27, No. 879. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Arianna Ciula (31) Subject: AIUCD (Associazione di Informatica Umanistica e Cultura Digitale) associate organisation of EADH [2] From: Ryan Heuser (5) Subject: A nice day for DH --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 10:48:37 +0000 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: AIUCD (Associazione di Informatica Umanistica e Cultura Digitale) associate organisation of EADH L’AIUCD (Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale) organizzazione associata all’EADH (European Association for DigitalHumanities) I consigli direttivi delle due associazioni AIUCD e EADH sono lieti di annunciare che l’AIUCD (Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale) è ora ufficialmente un’organizzazione associata alla European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) ed è con ciò rappresentata nella Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO). I soci dell’AIUCD sono automaticamente anche soci dell’EADH e da ora godono, senza alcuna eccezione, dei medesimi diritti e dei medesimi vantaggi, quali gli sconti per l’iscrizione ai congressi, la possibilità di concorrere all’assegnazione di borse di studio, e così via. Il modulo per la domanda di iscrizione all’AIUCD è disponibile sul sito dell’Associazione ( http://www.umanisticadigitale.it/ ). I soci attuali dell’EADH che desiderano diventare anche soci dell’AIUCD potranno richiedere la doppia affiliazione. Maggiori dettagli verranno comunicati al più presto. ========================================== AIUCD (Associazione di Informatica Umanistica e Cultura Digitale) associate organisation of EADH The executive committees of AIUCD and EADH are happy to announce that AIUCD (Associazione di Informatica Umanistica e Cultura Digitale) is now officially an associate organization of the European Association of Digital Humanities (EADH) and thereby represented in the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO). Members of AIUCD are automatically also members of EADH and will enjoy, without exception, the same rights and benefits, such as conference fee discounts, eligibility for bursary applications, etc.. The application form for AIUCD membership is active at http://www. umanisticadigitale.it/. Existing EADH members who would also like to become AIUCD members will be able to apply for double membership. More details on this soon. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 04:17:33 +0000 From: Ryan Heuser Subject: A nice day for DH Dear Prof. McCarty, I'm a big fan of Humanist and read it all the time. You've probably already heard this news but just in case; Franco Moretti's "Distant Reading" just took the criticism prize for the National Book Critics Circle book award. A nice day for DH, to be recognized like this! http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/national-book-critics-circle-announces-award-winners-for-publishing-year-20 peace, Ryan _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9FDAF65A9; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 07:52:07 +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 A81EC66F2; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 07:51:56 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E9F0466F1; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 07:51:54 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140314065154.E9F0466F1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 07:51:54 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.880 pubs: on publishing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 880. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 08:35:39 -0400 From: Steven TOTOSY de ZEPETNEK Subject: steven totosy re new article re journals, the academic publishing industry, & electronic publishing In-Reply-To: <20140313065520.AB45C6256@digitalhumanities.org> the new article below would perhaps be of interest to humanist listserve members: Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven; and Jia, Joshua. "Electronic Journals, Prestige, and the Economics of Academic Journal Publishing." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 16.1 (2014): http://dx.doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.2426 . _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 01CB766F3; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 07:52:38 +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 CDB736673; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 07:52:29 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C7FD266F4; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 07:52:27 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140314065227.C7FD266F4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 07:52:27 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.881 PhD studentship at Sheffield/BL X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 881. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 10:23:40 +0000 From: "Baker, James" Subject: PhD with University of Sheffield and British Library Applications are invited for a Collaborative PhD Studentship on the topic of ‘A History of the Printed Image 1750-1850: Applying Data Science Techniques to Printed Book Illustration’. Supervisors: Dr Karen Harvey (Department of History) and Dr James Baker (British Library). * Project Description * This digital humanities project rethinks why, how, and in what ways technology shaped the nature and meaning of book illustration between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth century. Between 1750 and 1850 changes in printing technology enabled several kinds of image to proliferate and for image and text to be brought together in novel and unexpected ways. Existing printing technologies – such as woodcuts – continued alongside new printing technologies. This innovative project seeks to complement art and cultural history approaches by applying data science techniques to the history of printed images and by evaluating the utility of such methods of enquiry. The research will focus on the circa one million digitised images held in the British Library Microsoft Books collection (containing circa 65,000 volumes) which offers unrivaled opportunities to explore the use and re-use of very large numbers of images. The project is a collaboration between the University of Sheffield and The British Library. The student will have access to the British Library Digital Scholarship Training Programme. Targeted skills development in digital research, computational analysis, and data science will be, as necessary and as appropriate, recommended or provided by Dr James Baker and colleagues in the Digital Research Team. The student will also access the usual training offered to research students at the University of Sheffield, as well as the opportunities created by the White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities. Though initiated by the supervisors, the project will be directed to a considerable extent by expertise, interests and findings of the student. * Award Details * The scholarship will cover the UK/EU tuition fees, an annual, tax-free maintenance stipend at the standard Research Council rate (£13,863 in 2014-15), and a Research Training Support Grant of £1000 per year. International applicants will need to pay the difference between the UK/EU and Overseas tuition fees. * Eligibility * Applicants should have, or expect to achieve, a Masters degree or equivalent qualification in an appropriate area of study. Awards are open to UK, EU and international applicants. * How to apply * - Complete an application for admission as a postgraduate student - www.sheffield.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/apply. - Applications should include a CV including academic record (max. 3 pages); supporting statement (max. 3 pages); academic transcripts and two references. - In your supporting statement please state why you are applying for this project. The closing date for applications is Friday 2nd May 2014 at 5pm. Interviews will take place in the week commencing 2nd June 2014. Any academic enquiries should be directed to Dr Karen Harvey k.harvey@sheffield.ac.uk or Dr James Baker James.Baker@bl.uk. ________________________________ [untitled] Dr James Baker Curator, Digital Research T +44 (0)20 7412 7411 @j_w_baker james.baker@bl.uk Digital Research Team The British Library St Pancras London NW1 2DB www.bl.uk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 317E56715; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 07:48:24 +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 159C06511; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 07:48:10 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 031C56502; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 07:48:07 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140315064808.031C56502@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 07:48:07 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.882 Douglas Adams' quotation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 882. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 12:25:57 +0100 From: Alexander O'Connor Subject: Re: 27.877 source for Douglas Adams' quotation In-Reply-To: <20140314064538.971E862AE@digitalhumanities.org> Thank you! On 14 Mar 2014, at 07:45, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 877. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 02:01:57 -0600 > From: Jarom McDonald > Subject: Re: 27.873 source for Douglas Adams' quotation? > In-Reply-To: <20140313064643.C4CD76667@digitalhumanities.org> > > > The Douglas Adams quote was penned in November of 1999 for his regular > column in _The Independent on Sunday_, and then later posted, by Adams > himself, at his h2g2 website (you can see it at this link: > http://h2g2.com/entry/A281701), The column is also found in _The Salmon of > Doubt_, the posthumously published collection of many of Adams's writings. > > Best, > Jarom > -- > Dr. Jarom McDonald, PhD > Director, Office of Digital Humanities > Brigham Young University > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < > willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > >> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 873. >> Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London >> www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >> Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >> >> >> >> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 15:11:41 +0100 >> From: Alexander O'Connor >> Subject: Source for the Douglas Adams quote on the initialism of >> the World Wide Web >> >> Dear Humanists, >> I have a sideline in trying to source well-known quotes more >> substantively. I have seen this quote from Wikipedia >> >> The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened >> form takes three times longer to say than what it's short for. --Douglas >> Adams, The Independent on Sunday, 1999 >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation_of_%22www%22 >> >> The source at 1999 is a bit vague, I can't find from an IoS archive >> anything more precise, any advice? >> >> Regards >> Alex. >> -- >> Dr. Alexander O'Connor >> >> Knowledge & Data Engineering Group >> Trinity College Dublin, Ireland >> >> Alex.OConnor@scss.tcd.ie -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id EC80B671B; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 07:48:37 +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 99F8B6713; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 07:48:29 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B0AEA6716; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 07:48:27 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140315064827.B0AEA6716@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 07:48:27 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.883 how to cite Storify? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 883. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:18:11 -0600 From: Daniel O'Donnell Subject: Cite Storify? A student of mine has an interesting question. She's used storify to curate a collection of third party tweets on a topic for her thesis and we were wondering what to do about citing it. This is not just a technical question (i.e. how would Chicago do it?). Since one of the points of Storify is that you can use it creatively, the person who put the storify together is presumably part of the intellectual authors of the piece, in much the same way an editor has intellectual responsibility for a collection. As far as I can tell, there isn't a standard way of citing Storify per se, though these is a twitter exchange on the question (https://twitter.com/kristinarola/status/405877184591433728). I was suggesting to her that she treat it like a webpage in terms of format, but for the "author" part, she include her name and the authors of the tweets. Something like this: Hobma, Heather, Nancy Sheehan, Deb Howes, and Sara Bodinson. 2014. “Wikipedia and Museums (with Tweets) · HeatherHobma.” /Storify/. Accessed March 14. http://storify.com/HeatherHobma/wikipedia-and-museums. What do others think? -- --- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 023716720; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 07:56:28 +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 4299F6713; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 07:56:18 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 16EFD670A; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 07:56:17 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140315065617.16EFD670A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 07:56:17 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.884 events: quality of information X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 884. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 16:19:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Quatic <000test11006@gmail.com> Subject: Call for Papers - QUATIC 2014 CALL FOR PAPERS QUATIC'2014 9th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology Guimarães, Portugal, 23 to 26 September 2014 http://2014.quatic.org GOALS AND SCOPE ------------------------------------- The International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC) serves as a forum for disseminating advanced methods, techniques and tools for supporting quality approaches to ICT engineering and management. Practitioners and researchers are encouraged to exchange ideas and approaches on how to adopt a quality culture in ICT process and product improvement and to provide practical studies in varying contexts. We invite researchers and practitioners to submit a paper to this conference, and join us in Portugal, in the beautiful and historic city of Guimarães, in September. The conference program is organized on a series of Thematic Tracks, each corresponding to a specific topic of interest: - ICT Verification and Validation http://2014.quatic.org/tracks/thematic-tracks/ict-verification-and-validation - ICT Process Improvement and Assessment http://2014.quatic.org/tracks/thematic-tracks/ict-process-improvement-and-assessment - Quality in ICT Requirements Engineering http://2014.quatic.org/tracks/thematic-tracks/quality-in-ict-requirements-engineering - Quality in Agile Methods http://2014.quatic.org/tracks/thematic-tracks/quality-in-agile-methods - Evidence-Based Software Quality Engineering http://2014.quatic.org/tracks/thematic-tracks/evidence-based-software-quality-engineering - Quality in Web Engineering http://2014.quatic.org/tracks/thematic-tracks/quality-in-web-engineering - Quality in IT Service Management http://2014.quatic.org/tracks/thematic-tracks/quality-in-it-service-management - Quality in Technology Enhanced Learning http://2014.quatic.org/tracks/thematic-tracks/quality-in-technology-enhanced-learning - Quality in Model Driven Engineering http://2014.quatic.org/tracks/thematic-tracks/quality-in-model-driven-engineering The conference will also have a Business Day to foster the dissemination of best practices and to allow a lively discussion of hot topics and quality concerns in specific application domains. During the Business Day conference sponsors will share their knowledge and promote hands-on contact with new tools. Another event, SEDES, will bring together Software Engineering PhD students to present and discuss their work. PROCEEDINGS PUBLICATION --------------------------------------- As in the previous editions, papers accepted at the Thematic Tracks will be published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS), submitted for archiving in the IEEE Digital Library, and submitted for indexing in ISI Web of Science, SCOPUS, ACM Portal, DBLP and DOI System. Authors of the best papers accepted in the Thematic Tracks will be invited to submit extended versions for presentation in the Main Track. During the closing session of QUATIC’2014, awards will be given to the best papers presented during the meeting. Authors of selected papers presented in the Main Track, will be invited to submit extended and improved versions to be published in Software Quality Professional, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Society for Quality. IMPORTANT DATES --------------------------------------- Thematic Tracks - Abstract submission: April 7, 2014 - Paper submission: April 14, 2014 - Authors’ notification: May 26, 2014 - Camera-ready: July 10, 2014 Main Track - Invitation to main track: May 26, 2014 - Extended paper submission: June 16, 2014 - Authors’ notification: July 7, 2014 - Camera-ready: July 21, 2014 PAPER SUBMISSION --------------------------------------- Please follow the specific instructions provided at the page of the respective Thematic Track, from http://2014.quatic.org/tracks/thematic-tracks. COMMITTEES --------------------------------------- General program chairs: - Alberto Silva, University of Lisbon, Portugal - António Rito Silva, University of Lisbon, Portugal Organizing chairs: - Ricardo Machado, University of Minho, Portugal - Miguel Abrunhosa de Brito, University of Minho, Portugal Thematic tracks program chairs: - Karol Frühauf, INFOGEM AG, Switzerland (ICT Process Improvement and Assessment) - Guilherme Horta Travassos, COPPE - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Fernando Brito Abreu, ISCTE-IUL & CITI/FCT/UNL, Portugal (Evidence-Based Software Quality Engineering) - Maria Lencastre, University of Pernambuco, Brazil (Quality in ICT Requirements Engineering) - Marion Lepmets, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland (Quality in IT Service Management) - Eda Marchetti, ISTI-CNR, Italy (ICT Verification and Validation) - Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano – DEIB, Italy (Quality in Web Engineering) - Panagiotis Sfetsos, Alexander Technological Educational Institution, Greece (Quality in Agile Methods) - Francisco Arcega, University of Zaragoza, Spain (Quality in Technology Enhanced Learning) - Marjan Mernik, University of Maribor, Slovenia (Quality in Model Driven Engineering) Program Committee (Main Track): - Rui Abreu (FEUP) - Pedro Adão (SQIG, IST) - Ademar Aguiar (FEUP) - Vasco Amaral (FCT-UNL) - Francisco Arcega (University of Zaragoza) - Fernando Brito e Abreu (ISCTE-IUL) - Kival Chaves Weber (SOFTEX / PBQP) - François Coallier (ÉTS) - Nelly Condori-Fernández (PROS Research Center) - Taz Daughtrey (James Madison University) - Safiullah Faizullah (Hewlett-Pakard) - David Ferreira (IST-UL) - Hugo Ferreira (FEUP) - Karol Fruëhauf (INFOGEM) - Pedro Guerreiro (University of Algarve) - Guilherme Horta Travassos (COPPE - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) - Trudy Howles (Rochester Institute of Technology) - Kai Jakobs (RWTH Aachen University) - Maria Lencastre (University of Pernambuco) - Marion Lepmets (Dundalk Institute of Technology) - Ricardo Machado (University of Minho) - Eda Marchetti (ISTI-CNR) - Maristella Matera (Politecnico di Milano - DEIB) - Marjan Mernik (University of Maribor) - Miguel Mira da Silva (IST-UL) - Ana Moreira (New University of Lisbon) - Maurizio Morisio (Politecnico di Torino) - Ana Paiva (FEUP) - João Pascoal Faria (FEUP) - Mark Paulk (CMU) - João Pereira (IST-UL) - Ana Regina Rocha (COPPE / Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) - Paulo Rupino da Cunha (University of Coimbra) - Claudio Sant'Annna (Federal University of Bahia) - Gleison Santos (UNIRIO) - João Saraiva (DefineScope) - Stephen Seidman (Texas State University) - Panagiotis Sfetsos (Alexander Technological Educational Institution) - Maria Clara Silveira (ESTG-IPG) - Carlos Soares (University of Porto) - Marcello Thiry (Univali / Incremental Tecnologia) - Nikolai Tillman (Microsoft Research) - Ambrosio Toval (University of Murcia) - Joost Visser (Software Improvement Group) - George Wilkie (University of Ulster) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 471656532; Sun, 16 Mar 2014 08:16:53 +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 D3791640F; Sun, 16 Mar 2014 08:16:41 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 80105651A; Sun, 16 Mar 2014 08:16:39 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140316071639.80105651A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 08:16:39 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.885 cite Storify X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 885. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 19:59:12 +0100 From: Miran gmail Subject: Re: 27.883 how to cite Storify? Daniel, here it is how I would cite your item: Proctor, Nancy et al. Wikipedia and Museums http://storify.com/HeatherHobma/wikipedia-and-museums . Storyfy by Heather Hobma http://storify.com/HeatherHobma . 10 Dec. 2013ff. Comments: - as additional contributions could appear later, there is no need to cite all the participants, but just the first one - URLs are not disturbing when embedded in the title as hyperlinks - I can not decide about which date to include: the date of the first message, of the last one, or both - the date of access is not necessary in case the citation is published on the web, because web documents should be dated and the author is supposed to check the links in the article prior to its publication Cheers, miran 2014-03-15 7:48 GMT+01:00 Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 883. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:18:11 -0600 > From: Daniel O'Donnell > Subject: Cite Storify? > _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 97201651A; Sun, 16 Mar 2014 08:20:08 +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 458476489; Sun, 16 Mar 2014 08:19:59 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3A9AC6489; Sun, 16 Mar 2014 08:19:57 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140316071957.3A9AC6489@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 08:19:43 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.886 citing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 886. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 07:00:01 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: citing Dan O'Donnell's note leads to a question he didn't ask: what might be happening to the practice of citation? Though I go to great lengths to cite my sources, I can certainly feel the temptation to think that in many cases citing a source is unnecessary in the age of Google et al. Are people in general drawing a different line than they would have drawn prior to the Web between what must be cited and what is too easily found to bother with? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3B1B36539; Sun, 16 Mar 2014 08:21:41 +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 8FAB06524; Sun, 16 Mar 2014 08:21:31 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 44E73651A; Sun, 16 Mar 2014 08:21:27 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140316072128.44E73651A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 08:21:27 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.887 professorship at Basel X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 887. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 17:35:20 +0100 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: DH position in Switzerland (Basel) Dear list, Here is an announcement from the Basel University. IT profile, professorship in DH, 100%; deadline 12th April. http://kombi.jobs.ch/basic_kombi/display.php?aid=5696379&cat=121&oid=39709 Kind greetings, 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 28D8C650B; Mon, 17 Mar 2014 07:33:50 +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 265116501; Mon, 17 Mar 2014 07:33:39 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3D56364B9; Mon, 17 Mar 2014 07:33:38 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140317063338.3D56364B9@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 07:33:38 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.888 citing X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 888. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Giorgio Guzzetta (71) Subject: Re: 27.886 citing [2] From: Miran gmail (54) Subject: Re: 27.886 citing --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 14:58:16 +0100 From: Giorgio Guzzetta Subject: Re: 27.886 citing In-Reply-To: <20140316071957.3A9AC6489@digitalhumanities.org> These are both interesting questions. As for citing storify, I would go for some sort of a mix between an edited collection and a website, such as Proctor, Nancy et al. 2014 "Wikipedia and Museums (with Tweets)" Storyfy by Heather Hobma Accessed March 14. http://storify.com/HeatherHobma/wikipedia-and-museums. Although I agree in fact that authors should check their links at the moment of publication, making the date of access unnecessary, I believe that there is another issue, especially in the case of storify and similar websites. Storify, and any online publication in general, but especially storify - this is what makes it interesting - can be changed quite easily, and often it will, adding more contributions etc. What is important is not so much the integrity of the link but the version that was seen when the writer of the essay was quoting it and making an argument out of it. So I will definitely add the date when it was accessed. Otherwise it would really be enough to add just the link and forget about everything else, because all the informations you need about it can be very easily found in the storify itself. Which brings me to the second question, about the temptation not to cite because in the digital environment is quite easy to find out who wrote what and when. I think it really depends on where you are publishing. If it is an online publication, I am very tempted to simply create a link and leave it at that, and avoid the stress of properly citing as I used to do. I do this in blog entries, and I think I would do it even in more structured online journal (if peer-reviewers allowed me to do it, of course). Ironically enough, as the storify example shows, this works better for non-digital sources like books and journals, more stable than the digital ones. IMHO, of course, Giorgio Guzzetta PhD Student Digital Arts and Humanities Institute & Italian Department UCC Books are falling apart http://futuread.hypotheses.org/ (blog in hypotheses.org) Amnesia Creativa http://amnesiacreativa.giorgioguzzetta.net/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Par un curieux renversement qui est propre à notre temps, c'est l'innocence qui est sommée de fournir ses justifications (Albert Camus 1951) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 8:19 AM, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 886. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 07:00:01 +0000 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: citing > > > Dan O'Donnell's note leads to a question he didn't ask: what might be > happening to the practice of citation? Though I go to great lengths to > cite my sources, I can certainly feel the temptation to think that in > many cases citing a source is unnecessary in the age of Google et al. > Are people in general drawing a different line than they would have > drawn prior to the Web between what must be cited and what is > too easily found to bother with? > > Yours, > WM > -- > Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital > Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital > Humanities, University of Western Sydney --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 19:59:34 +0100 From: Miran gmail Subject: Re: 27.886 citing In-Reply-To: <20140316071957.3A9AC6489@digitalhumanities.org> Web searching and on-line availability of sources arise questions regarding some basic norms of citing. As I have written in the previous post (http://lists.digitalhumanities.org/pipermail/humanist/2014-March/011811.html), citing URL is unnecessary as nobody would retype it into the command line; it is much easier to type in three or four title words. It is only reasonable to include URLs as hyperlinks (which fails in case of plain text messages in the Humanist Discussion Group). There is no great need any more to arrange the list of references alphabetically nor to put the last name first, because we search for references mostly by using ctrl + f. Why then set up a list of references by authors? With the rise of collective authorship (e. g. in Wikipedia) the role of an individual author is losing its importance and it seems increasingly appropriate to start citation with a title or with a key word. There are, however, useful new data ready to be included into a bibliographic item which have not been provided in any of current citation styles -- that is a link to the book in a digital library or a link to the record in a library catalogue (e. g. ISBN). As we easily access the comprehensive information about the source by a click, we could in principle skip some other traditional bibliographic data among references: editor, place, publishing house, page etc. Take a look at some more examples on https://sl.wikibooks.org/wiki/Nova_pisarija#Knjiga (warninig: in Slovene only) -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C0B78650E; Mon, 17 Mar 2014 07:34:48 +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 3F4F9650C; Mon, 17 Mar 2014 07:34:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 66EE6650B; Mon, 17 Mar 2014 07:34:38 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140317063438.66EE6650B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 07:34:38 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.889 events: concept-level sentiment 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. 27, No. 889. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 12:59:02 +0000 From: feeds Subject: Deadline Extension: ESWC'14 Challenge on Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis The submission deadline of the ESWC'14 Challenge on Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis (http://sentic.net/challenge) has been extended to 31st March. The Challenge will be held in Crete, Greece, on 25th May 2014 at the European Semantic Web Conference. The Challenge is open to everyone from industry and academia. RATIONALE 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. To this end, concept-level sentiment analysis aims to go beyond a mere word-level analysis of text and provide novel approaches to opinion mining and sentiment analysis that allow a more efficient passage from (unstructured) textual information to (structured) machine-processable data, in potentially any domain. Concept-level sentiment analysis focuses on a semantic analysis of text through the use of web ontologies or semantic networks, which allow the aggregation of conceptual and affective information associated with natural language opinions. By relying on large semantic knowledge bases, concept- level sentiment analysis steps away from blind use of keywords and word co- occurrence count, but rather relies on the implicit features associated with natural language concepts. Unlike purely syntactical techniques, concept- based approaches are able to detect also sentiments that are expressed in a subtle manner, e.g., through the analysis of concepts that do not explicitly convey any emotion, but which are implicitly linked to other concepts that do so. The Challenge focuses on the introduction, presentation, and discussion of novel approaches to concept-level sentiment analysis. Participants will have to design a concept-level opinion-mining engine that exploits common-sense knowledge bases, e.g., SenticNet, and/or Linked Data and Semantic Web ontologies, e.g., DBPedia, to perform multi-domain sentiment analysis. The main motivation for the Challenge, in particular, is to go beyond a mere word-level analysis of natural language text and provide novel concept-level tools and techniques that allow a more efficient passage from (unstructured) natural language to (structured) machine-processable data, in potentially any domain. Systems must have a semantics flavor (e.g., by making use of Linked Data or known semantic networks within their core functionalities) and authors need to show how the introduction of semantics can be used to obtain valuable information, functionality or performance. Existing natural language processing methods or statistical approaches can be used too as long as the semantics plays a main role within the core approach (engines based merely on syntax/word-count will be excluded from the competition). TASKS The Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis Challenge is defined in terms of different tasks. The first task is elementary whereas the others are more advanced. The input units of each task are sentences. Sentences are assumed to be in grammatically correct American English and have to be processed according to the input format specified at http://sentic.net/challenge/sentence. Elementary Task: Polarity Detection The main goal of the Challenge is polarity detection. The proposed systems will be assessed according to precision, recall and F-measure of detected binary polarity values (1=positive; 0=negative) for each input sentence of the evaluation dataset, following the same format asinhttp://sentic.net/challenge/task0. The problem of subjectivity detection is not addressed within this Challenge, hence participants can assume that there will be no neutral sentences. Participants are encouraged to use the Sentic API or further develop and apply sentic computing tools. Advanced Task #1: Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis The output of this task will be a set of aspects of the reviewed product and a binary polarity value associated to each of such aspects, in the format specified at http://sentic.net/challenge/task1. So, for example, while for the Elementary Task an overall polarity (positive or negative) is expected for a review about a mobile phone, this task requires a set of aspects (such as ‘speaker’, ‘touchscreen’, ‘camera’, etc.) and a polarity value (positive OR negative) associated with each of such aspects. Systems will be assessed according to both aspect extraction and aspect polarity detection. Advanced Task #2: Semantic Parsing As suggested by the title, the Challenge focuses on sentiment analysis at concept-level. This means that the proposed systems are not supposed to work at word/syntax level but rather work with concepts/semantics. Hence, this task will evaluate the capability of the proposed systems to deconstruct natural language text into concepts, following the same format as in http://sentic.net/challenge/task2. SenticNet will be taken as a reference to test the efficiency of the proposed parsers, but extracted concepts won't necessary have to match SenticNet concepts. The proposed systems, for example, are supposed to be able to extract a multi-word expression like ‘buy christmas present’ from sentences such as “Today I bought a lot of very nice Christmas presents’. The number of extracted concepts per sentence will be assessed through precision, recall and F-measure against the evaluation dataset. Advanced Task #3: Topic Spotting Input sentences will be about four different domains, namely: books, DVDs, electronics, and kitchen appliances. This task focuses on the automatic classification of sentences into one of such domains, in the format specified at http://sentic.net/challenge/task3. All sentences are assumed to belong to only one of the above-mentioned domains. The proposed systems are supposed to exploit the extracted concepts to infer which domain each sentence belongs to. Classification accuracy will be evaluated in terms of precision, recall and F-measure against the evaluation dataset. EVALUATION Systems will be evaluated against a testing dataset which will be revealed and released after the first-round of evaluation during the Conference. Participants are suggested to train and/or test their own systems using the Blitzer Dataset. The testing dataset will be constructed in the same way and from the same sources as the Blitzer dataset. The evaluation will be performed by the members of the Program Committee. For systems that can be tuned with different parameters, please indicate a range of up to 4 sets of settings. Settings with the best F-measures will be considered for judgment. For each system, reviewers will give a numerical score within the range [1-10] and details motivating their choice. The scores will be given to the following aspects: 1. Use of common-sense knowledge and semantics; 2. Precision, recall, and F-measure wrt the selected task; 3. Computational time; 4. Innovative nature of the approach. JUDGING AND PRIZES After a first round of review, the Program Committee and the chairs will select a number of submissions confirming to the challenge requirements that will be invited to present their work. Submissions accepted for presentation will be included in post-proceedings and will receive constructive reviews from the Program Committee. All accepted submissions will have a slot in a poster session dedicated to the challenge. In addition, the winners will present their work in a special slot of the main program of ESWC and will be invited to submit a paper to a dedicated Semantic Web Journal special issue. For the Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis Challenge there will be two awards for each task: - Quantitative: the system with the highest average score in items 1-3 above; - Innovative: the system with the highest score in item 4 above. There will be a board of judges at the conference who will evaluate again the systems in more detail. The judges will then meet in private to discuss the entries and to determine the winners. It may happen that the same system runs for both the awards. An amount of €700 has already been secured for the first task, for what the first point of the evaluation aspects is concerned. We are currently working on securing further funding. HOW TO PARTICIPATE The following information has to be provided via EasyChair: - Abstract: no more than 200 words. - Description: It should contain the details of the system, including why the system is innovative, how it uses Semantic Web, which features or functions the system provides, what design choices were made and what lessons were learned. The description should also summarize how participants have addressed the evaluation tasks. Papers must be submitted in PDF format, following the style of the Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, and not exceeding 5 pages in length. - Web Access: The application can either be accessible via the web or downloadable. If the application is not publicly accessible, password must be provided. A short set of instructions on how to use the application should be provided as well. Please share comments and questions with the challenge mailing list. The organizers will assist you for any potential issues that could be raised. TIMEFRAME - March 31, 2014, 23:59 (Hawaii time): Submission - April 9, 2014, 23:59 (Hawaii time): Notification of acceptance - May 27-29, 2014: Challenge days CHALLENGE CHAIRS - Erik Cambria, National University of Singapore (Singapore) - Diego Reforgiato, CNR STLAB Laboratory (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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1848465EE; Tue, 18 Mar 2014 07:24:29 +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 179F365CC; Tue, 18 Mar 2014 07:24:16 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 47A11642C; Tue, 18 Mar 2014 07:24:14 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140318062414.47A11642C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 07:24:14 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.890 a milestone X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 890. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 11:30:50 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: a milestone "A key milestone in the evolution of a new discipline is the point at which practitioners begin to ask questions about why they work in the way they do, what their collective identity is, and what they have to say as a collective. As a window on this philosophy, the personal reflections of members of a user community can provide valuable insights into the technologyÂ’s history." Charles Care, "Early Computational Modelling: Physical Models, Electrical Analogies and Analogue Computers", in Chris Bissell and Chris Dillon, eds., Ways of Thinking, Ways of Seeing: Mathematical and Other Modelling in Engineering and Technology (Springer, 2012): 95-119. P. 96. Comments? 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: TSD 2014 (111) Subject: TSD 2014 - Last Call for Papers [2] From: Milena Dobreva (95) Subject: 1st International Workshop on Augmented Digital Libraries (ADL'14) [3] From: Luciana Martins (18) Subject: Call for Papers: 16th International Conference of Historical Geographers, London, 5-10 July 2015 [4] From: "Lawrence, Faith" (19) Subject: CFP: Interdisciplinary Coups to Calamities (ICC) at WebSci'14 [5] From: Eleanor Lisney (35) Subject: Register for EVA London 2014 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 08:38:11 +0000 From: TSD 2014 Subject: TSD 2014 - Last Call for Papers ********************************************************* TSD 2014 - LAST CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************* Seventeenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2014) Brno, Czech Republic, 8-12 September 2014 http://www.tsdconference.org/ THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 22 2014 ............ Submission of full papers The submission will be closed during the next working day after the deadline - for individual extension requirements please contact the organizers (tsd2014@tsdconference.org). KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Ralph Grishman, New York University, USA Bernardo Magnini, FBK - Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Salim Roukos, IBM, USA The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association. Venue: Brno, Czech Republic TSD SERIES TSD series 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. TSD Proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index. Moreover, 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 (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and disambiguation, 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) Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. [...] SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line form accessible from the conference website. Papers submitted to TSD 2014 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to the requirements above are subject to be rejected without review. The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX or LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final versions of the papers that will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes. Authors using a WORD compatible software for the final version must use the LNCS template for WORD and within the submit process ask the Proceedings Editors to convert the paper to LaTeX format. For this service a service-and-license fee of CZK 2000 will be levied automatically. The paper format for review has to be either PDF or PostScript file with all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance, presenters will receive further information on submitting their camera-ready and electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the final paper format see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html#Proceedings, Sample File typeinst.zip). Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the conference. The presenters of demonstrations should provide an abstract not exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not appear in the conference proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES March 22 2014 ............ Submission of full papers May 15 2014 .............. Notification of acceptance May 31 2014 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration August 3 2014 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts August 10 2014 ........... Notification of acceptance for demonstrations sent to the authors September 8-12 2014 ...... Conference date Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is necessary. The accepted conference contributions will be published in proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the conference. [...] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 11:27:36 +0100 From: Milena Dobreva Subject: 1st International Workshop on Augmented Digital Libraries (ADL'14) Call for Papers 1st International Workshop on Augmented Digital Libraries (ADL’14) Workshop Website: http://adl2014.wordpress.com/ co-located with i-KNOW 2014 Dates: 15th or 16th of September 2014 ============================================= Digital libraries are becoming increasingly important in research. Traditionally they have been used for tasks such as finding and storing research outputs, however they are increasingly being used as sources for mining information, discovering new trends and evaluating research excellence. The rapid growth in the number of documents being deposited in digital libraries requires the provision for novel approaches that are driven by the needs of knowledge discovery, refinement, and visualisation, aimed at enhancing the individual’s experience. The foundations of such an experience are not built upon digitisation alone, but on a multi-layer knowledge structure that does not only include information about the documents in the underlying collection in the form of metadata, but also information about the content of those documents, such as the entities mentioned and the relationships between them. It is with these building blocks that it will become possible to relate search results with user needs, for instance by the automatic generation of different views that integrate and personalise information items together which can than be exploited by novel interfaces and visualisation techniques. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners from the fields of digital libraries, natural language processing, information retrieval, user interfaces, the semantic web and other disciplines, where they can constructively explore and discuss the conception and realisation of systems incorporating such novelties. Research themes that this workshop aims to address include, but are not limited to: The development of appropriate representations and techniques for the automatic or semi-automatic extraction of metadata from source documents; The automatic identification of entities, in large volumes of documents, and the relationships between these entities; The provision of services and applications capable of linking and contextualizing content across large volumes of documents; The facilitation of search and navigation through innovative user interfaces and visualisations; The design of usable and useful interactive systems for digital libraries; The evaluation of different solutions to the above through effective usability studies using existing collections of documents. Topics of interest related to Digital Libraries include, but are not limited to, the following: ADVANCED ANALYSIS OF DIGITAL COLLECTIONS Extracting semantics, entities, and patterns from large digital library collections Interlinking and contextualizing ubiquitous data Interoperability and Information integration Impact and evaluation of digital libraries IMPROVED USER SERVICES IN DIGITAL LIBRARIES User behaviour and modelling for digital libraries Advanced methods for information discovery and exploration Interfaces to information for novices and experts User studies related to digital libraries interfaces Educational uses of digital libraries ENHANCED NAVIGATION IN DIGITAL LIBRARIES NLP techniques for searching across multilingual full text digital collections Novel methods and techniques for information visualization Personal digital information management Personalisation and recommendation of search results NOVEL VISUALISATION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES Information visualization in digital libraries Navigating information spaces Supporting exploration using enriched digital library content Navigation using visual metaphors Visualisation of large-scale information environments Important Dates Research Paper Track Submission deadline: 16th April, 2014 Notification to authors: 16th May, 2014 Camera ready: 5th June, 2014 Submissions We are accepting submissions for the Research Papers Track. For the Research Papers Track we welcome submissions of original work that has not been submitted or published elsewhere. We encourage full papers (max 6 pages) describing significant work in progress, late breaking results or ideas and challenges for the domain. Possibly papers can be accepted as full papers or as posters. Authors of accepted full papers will be given the opportunity to extend a revised final version for the final proceedings. All accepted papers will be in the proceedings. Submissions should follow the ACM SIG proceedings format (standard style). The review process is single-blind review and each paper will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee. Research Track papers should be submitted in pdf format to easychair no later than midnight Pacific Daylight Time on 16th April 2014. Accepted papers will be published in the CEUR workshop proceedings and selected high quality submissions will be published in the supplementary proceedings of i-KNOW 2014. Challenge Track A themed challenge is currently also being organised. We will shortly be announcing the details. [...] --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 11:18:51 +0000 From: Luciana Martins Subject: Call for Papers: 16th International Conference of Historical Geographers, London, 5-10 July 2015 16th International Conference of Historical Geographers, London, 5-10 July 2015* The call for papers for ICHG 2015 is now open. The conference takes place from 5-10 July 2015 in London, at the Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers). Papers are welcome on any aspect of historical geography and related disciplines including the history of cartography, history of science and environmental history. Details of how to submit proposals for papers and for sessions (the latter containing full details of speakers and abstracts) are now available at: http://www.ichg2015.org/programme/propose/ The final deadline for submissions is *Friday 15 September 2014*. Plenary speakers will be Bill Cronon (Wisconsin), Catherine Hall (UCL) and Simon Schaffer (Cambridge). Full details, including proposal forms, outline schedule, an excellent range of mid-conference study visits, post-conference field trips, accommodation options and provisional registration arrangements are now available on the conference website at www.ichg2015.org --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 16:38:40 +0000 From: "Lawrence, Faith" Subject: CFP: Interdisciplinary Coups to Calamities (ICC) at WebSci'14 Although it says web science I think that the CFP below might well be of equal interest to Digital Humanities scholars: ===CFP: Interdisciplinary Coups to Calamities (ICC) at WebSci'14==== June 23, 2014 | Bloomington, Indiana, USA Successful interdisciplinary collaboration is essential to Web Science, yet surprisingly little guidance exists about how to reach across disciplines and achieve successful collaborations. The fast pace of academic and practitioner workplaces limits the opportunities for mindful reflection about success factors in this complex area. This workshop provides that space. At ICC'14 we will share and reflect on experiences of interdisciplinary collaboration: from the outstanding to the disastrous, and from the surprising to the confusing. If you have ever reached across disciplines and felt there was some lesson to be learned afterwards - whether you had time to reflect on it or not - this is the workshop for you. We will share experiences of interdisciplinary collaborations, generating keywords for each contribution and identifying parallels, discrepancies and unexpected insights. We will identify key issues and possible solutions in interdisciplinary work, yielding insights for the Web Science community regarding the common issues we face and practical approaches to combat these. More information, including the workshop's academic background and history, is available at http://www.icc.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ ==Key dates and venue== Paper Submission: 20 April, 2014 Acceptance Notification: 20 May, 2014 Workshop Date: 23 June, 2014 Workshop Venue: the Indiana Memorial Union (IMU) Biddle Hotel and Conference Center ==Submission details== Preferred papers will: a) Describe a real past or current interdisciplinary collaboration, successful or otherwise, b) Describe that collaboration clearly and concisely, c) Provide an initial indication of what factors may have influenced the success (or otherwise) of the collaboration. Papers may describe pure research, applied research or research-practice collaboration. Papers should be no more than two pages in Word or PDF format, formatted according to the official ACM SIG proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Please use the ACM 1998 classification scheme (http://www.acm.org/about/class/1998/), and submit papers via EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icc14 --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 21:49:02 +0000 From: Eleanor Lisney Subject: Register for EVA London 2014 Electronic Visualization and the Arts London 2014 Tuesday 8th July – Thursday 10th July 2014 Venue: British Computer Society, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7HA www.eva-london.org REGISTER HERE : http://www.eva-london.org/eva-london-2014/register/register-here Early Bird rates until Sunday 25th May. Register for EVA London 2014 Register online: https://events.bcs.org/book/1017/ Registration closes Sunday 6 July 2014 at 11:59pm. No bookings will be taken after this date. Early Bird rates apply until 23.59, Sunday 25th May 2014. There is a discount for speakers and presenters; you will be sent a code to use when booking. To register by post or pay by cheque, please download and complete the attached postal booking form. Registration can only be made with payment. Purchase orders cannot be accepted. The registration fee includes attendance and lunch on the conference days chosen and any workshops, demonstrations or social events on those days, plus one copy of the printed conference proceedings. Overseas delegates please note that neither EVA London nor BCS can issue invitation letters. Registration costs Please see the Rate Card Conference dinner This will be held at the National Gallery Cafe, cost £40 for a fixed price menu. To reserve your place, please select the Conference Dinner when you register. Places are limited so please book in good time. Concessionary rates Concessionary rates are offered for students and those who are unwared or retired. When booking online, select the ‘yes’ radio button to the question ‘Are you a student?’ – it is not possible to change the wording of this question, but it allows access to the concession rate for those who are eligible. Bursaries A limited number of bursaries will be announced at the beginning of May. Bursaries cover the cost of registration. The application process is competitive as we cannot grant bursaries to all those who apply. Cancellations / refunds A full refund will be issued if a cancellation is received by 12:00pm on Monday 30th June 2014. Name substitutions will be allowed after this date.* EVA Organising Committee _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4C33065EA; Tue, 18 Mar 2014 07:36:48 +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 AB7A463CC; Tue, 18 Mar 2014 07:36:38 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 51C3B63C1; Tue, 18 Mar 2014 07:36:36 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140318063636.51C3B63C1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 07:36:36 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.892 pubs: D-Lib for March/April; new book series X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 892. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Michael Sinatra (46) Subject: Launch of new French series 'Parcours numériques' [2] From: Bonnie Wilson (58) Subject: The March/April 2014 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available. --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 05:49:30 -0400 From: Michael Sinatra Subject: Launch of new French series 'Parcours numériques' Dear all, my colleague Marcello Vitali Rosati and I are proud to announce the launch of a new French series entitled 'Parcours numériques'. I am pasting below the formal announcement (in French) but you can also watch this video (in English) which outlines the goals of the series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPCLad6P3Bs With best wishes, Michael Bonjour à tous, j'ai le plaisir d'annoncer le lancement de la nouvelle collection 'Parcours numériques' que je dirige avec Marcello Vitali Rosati: http://www.parcoursnumeriques-pum.ca Cette collection a pour objectif de développer une réflexion théorique approfondie et savante sur le monde numérique. Comment ? En produisant des textes de référence en français qui peuvent enrichir le débat et servir de guide dans les pratiques, tout en expérimentant de nouvelles formes d'éditorialisation. Tous les textes de la collection sont publiés aux formats papier, numérique et numérique augmenté : - les versions papier et numérique homothétique (ePub et pdf) sont payantes. - l'édition numérique augmentée est disponible gratuitement en ligne. Les deux premiers livres publiés la semaine dernière sont le manuel collectif 'Pratiques de l'édition numérique' (sous ma direction et celle de M. Vitali Rosati) et le livre 'Âme et iPad' de Maurizio Ferraris. Pour plus d'information sur le principe qui guide notre collection, je vous invite à lire le billet suivant: http://blog.sens-public.org/marcellovitalirosati/le-futur-du-livre/ Merci de relayer l'information sur notre nouvelle collection! Bonne journée, Michael ----------------------------------- Dr. Michael E. Sinatra, Associate Professor http://michaelsinatra.org/ Département d'études anglaises Université de Montréal ----------------------------------- Founding Director, 'Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques' http://crihn.org Series co-editor 'Parcours numériques' President (French) 'Canadian Society for Digital Humanities / Société canadienne des humanités numériques' http://www.csdh-schn.org Founding Editor 'Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net' http://ravonjournal.org/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 14:35:59 +0000 From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: The March/April 2014 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available. Greetings: The March/April 2014 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains four 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 University of Michigan Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS). The articles include: Digital Preservation File Format Policies of ARL Member Libraries: An Analysis By Kyle Rimkus, Thomas Padilla, Tracy Popp and Greer Martin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Digital Preservation File Format Policies of ARL Member Libraries: An Analysis By Kyle Rimkus, Thomas Padilla, Tracy Popp and Greer Martin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Managing a National Health Repository By Aoife Lawton and Padraig Manning, Health Service Executive, Ireland Preserving Web-based Auction Catalogs at the Frick Art Reference Library By Gretchen Nadasky, Optimity Advisors The opinion piece is: BitTorrent and Libraries: Cooperative Data Publishing, Management and Discovery By Chris Markman, Clark University and Constantine Zavras The conference reports are: Report on the Capability Assessment and Improvement Workshop (CAIW) at iPres 2013 By Christoph Becker, University of Toronto and Vienna University of Technology and Elsa Cardoso, University Institute of Lisbon and INESC-ID Report on the 2nd International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP'13) By George V. Landon, Eastern Kentucky University 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 2014 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 81B336318; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 07:21:20 +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 226EF6260; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 07:21:13 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1E708625F; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 07:21:10 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140319062110.1E708625F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 07:21:10 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.893 milestone X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 893. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 08:56:56 +0100 From: "Jan Rybicki" Subject: RE: 27.890 a milestone In-Reply-To: <20140318062414.47A11642C@digitalhumanities.org> It seems to me that DH has reached that milestone almost from the start: the first occurrence of the bigram "our discipline" appears as early as in Lynette Hunter's "Fact—Information—Data—Knowledge: Databases as a Way of Organizing Knowledge" in Lit Linguist Computing (1990) 5 (1): 49-57, and even more frequently the following year, in Paul Fortier's "Theory, Methods and Applications: Some Examples in French Literature" in Lit Linguist Computing (1991) 6 (3): 192-196 (of course, my search was conducted on LLC alone). "Our field" first appears even earlier, in 1986, but in less general contexts. I am certain that some of our first-generation DHers must very well remember earlier discussions of this kind at some of the prehistoric ALLC or ACH conferences - or were they all about counting and tagging? I think we're a very "self-conscious" bunch. Best, Jan _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6F4B066A6; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 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 E7CEC66A1; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 07:21:59 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8AF6D669A; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 07:21:58 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140319062158.8AF6D669A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 07:21:58 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.894 THATCamp Council election X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 894. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 13:09:43 -0400 From: Amanda French Subject: Electing a THATCamp Council Hi all, Voting is now open in the first election of the first THATCamp Council. If you have a THATCamp account, you can vote any time between now and midnight on Tuesday, March 25th. Read about the candidates and vote here: http://thatcamp.org/03/18/vote-in-the-first-thatcamp-council-election/ Cheers, Amanda -- Amanda L. French, Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor and THATCamp Coordinator http://thatcamp.org @thatcamp _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, LOTS_OF_MONEY,T_MONEY_PERCENT autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D70F666A9; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 07:25:18 +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 DAC9B669A; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 07:25:10 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A43766278; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 07:25:08 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140319062508.A43766278@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 07:25:08 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.895 jobs at Lethbridge (Canada), in Vienna X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 895. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Claudia Resch (15) Subject: Job Announcement: "Digital Humanist (Data Analyst / Web Developer)" [2] From: Daniel O'Donnell (31) Subject: Tenure Track Position, Postcolonial or Modernism. Digital Humanities very welcome. April 15 Deadline. --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 11:53:00 +0100 From: Claudia Resch Subject: Job Announcement: "Digital Humanist (Data Analyst / Web Developer)" Job Announcement "Digital Humanist (Data Analyst / Web Developer)" Dear colleagues, Please allow us to draw your attention to a job announcement from the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, a research department of the Austrian Academy of Sciences: More information about the announcement can be found here: http://www.oeaw.ac.at/fileadmin/service/personal/Digital_Humanities.pdf ACDH/ICLTT-Team Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities Institute for Corpus Linguistics and Text Technology Austrian Academy of Sciences Sonnenfelsgasse 19/8 A-1010 Vienna http://www.oeaw.ac.at/icltt/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 04:55:30 +0000 From: Daniel O'Donnell Subject: Tenure Track Position, Postcolonial or Modernism. Digital Humanities very welcome. April 15 Deadline. The English department in the University of Lethbridge has just released an ad for a Tenure Track job in Postcolonial or Modernism. It is so new that the official ad is not yet up on the Uleth Website. Here's a link to a posting on my blog with the details: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/Blog/university-of-lethbridge-tenure-track-job-postcolonial-or-modernism-dh-welcome-deadline-april-15. I've also reproduced the text below. The position is either Postcolonial or Modernism. We are at the beginning of a rebuilding phase after a series of retirements and need both. Although the ad does not specifically require expertise in Digital Humanities, we are certainly very interested in hearing from people in DH. DH is one of two strategic priorities in the Faculty of Arts and Science and is well supported throughout the University. There are several new initiatives that are going ahead that will be of interest to Digital Humanists, including, the development of new Centres for Studies in the Digital Age and 3D Visualisation. Lethbridge is also home to the Lethbridge Journal Incubator, Global Outlook::Digital Humanities, and, though less relevant in this case, Digital Medievalist. Perhaps most importantly, the Digital Humanities is a major part of the new $3 million THINC project, a project that involves the development of a series of labs focussed on data visualisation, digital fabrication, and 3D visualisation and capture that has been proposed for the new Science facility. If you have any questions about applying for this position, please feel free to contact the chair, Adam Carter (a.carter@uleth.ca) or me (daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca). The deadline for applications is April 15, 2014. ---------------------------------------------------------- The Department of English at the University of Lethbridge invites applications for a probationary (tenure-track) position at the Assistant Professor rank to begin 1 July 2014, subject to budgetary approval. The position is in the area of Twentieth-Century Literature with specialization in either Post-Colonial Literature or Modernism. Applicants should have a Ph.D. at or near completion and teaching experience at the university level. The University aspires to hire individuals who have demonstrated considerable potential for excellence in teaching, research and scholarship. New faculty members are eligible to apply for university funding in support of research and scholarly activities. The position is open to all qualified applicants, although preference will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada. The University is an inclusive and equitable campus encouraging applications from qualified women and men including persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities and Aboriginal persons. The Department of English is a dynamic unit committed to excellence in research and teaching with faculty members who represent a wide range of disciplinary interests. Members of the department are involved in collaborative and interdisciplinary research initiatives within the University of Lethbridge and beyond. The university houses the Institute for Child and Youth Studies (I-CYS), the Centre for Oral History and Tradition (COHT), and a new centre in Digital Humanities is currently under development. The University of Lethbridge is the home of Global Outlook::Digital Humanities (globaloutlookdh.org) and the editorial offices of the scholarly journal Digital Studies/Le champ numérique. Students have the opportunity to have their writing published in the university’s Whetstone magazine and to participate in two annual student writing competitions. The department is dedicated to ensuring the continued quality of its strong undergraduate program and its emerging graduate program. Located in southern Alberta, near the Rocky Mountains, Lethbridge offers a sunny, dry climate that is agreeably mild for the prairies, excellent cultural and recreational amenities and attractive economic conditions. Founded in 1967, the University has an enrollment of over 8,000 students from around the world. Our student body has grown by 50 percent in the last 10 years, phenomenal growth among institutions in Canada. Despite this growth, we have remained true to who we are - student-focused, research-intensive, and grounded in liberal education. For more information about the University, please visit our web site at www.uleth.ca http://www.uleth.ca . Applications should include a curriculum vitae, transcripts, outlines of courses previously taught, teaching evaluations, publication reprints or preprints, a statement of teaching philosophy and research interests, and three letters of reference. Send this material and arrange for letters to be mailed directly to: Dr. Adam Carter, Chair Department of English The University of Lethbridge 4401 University Drive Lethbridge, Alberta, T1K 3M4 Canada Telephone: (403) 380-1894 Fax: (403) 382-7191 Email: bev.garnett@uleth.ca Consideration of completed applications will begin by April 15, 2014, and will continue until the position is filled. -- --- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5339566A2; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 07:34:39 +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 BE836657B; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 07:34:29 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0644062FB; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 07:34:27 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140319063428.0644062FB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 07:34:27 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.896 events: music encoding; network analysis & distant reading; archived 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. 27, No. 896. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Niels_Brügger (179) Subject: Re: PhD-Seminar, Web Archiving and Archived Web — a new Research Method, a new Object of Study? [2] From: kcl - cerch (24) Subject: CeRch Seminar: Clotho: Network Analysis and Distant Reading on Perseus Latin Corpus [3] From: "Roland, Perry (pdr4h)" (17) Subject: Music Encoding Conference call for late-breaking submissions --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 07:10:47 +0000 From: Niels_Brügger Subject: Re: PhD-Seminar, Web Archiving and Archived Web — a new Research Method, a new Object of Study? In-Reply-To: <1D9E16C8-BB27-45AD-801C-497E3B6E4651@imv.au.dk> ***REMINDER*** Submission deadline for the PhD seminar 'Web Archiving and Archived Web — a new Research Method, a new Object of Study?’ is Monday 24 March 2014. Best, Niels Brügger ----- > PhD seminar: Web Archiving and Archived Web — a new Research Method, a new Object of Study? > Aarhus University, Denmark, 11-12 June 2014 > > The submission website for the PhD seminar 'Web Archiving and Archived Web — a new Research Method, a new Object of Study?’ is now open. Deadline for submission of application is Monday 24 March 2014. The seminar application consists of a one-page abstract. The abstract can be either a project description or an expression of interest in the field. Please visit the submission website http://webarc.netlab.dk/index.php/netlab/2014/index, create an account and submit your abstract. > > Best, > > Niels Brügger > > > > Den 03/02/2014 kl. 14.58 skrev Niels Brügger : > >> ***apologies for cross-postings*** >> >> >> PhD seminar >> >> Web Archiving and Archived Web — a new Research Method, a new Object of Study? >> >> Aarhus University, Denmark, 11-12 June 2014 >> Organised by the Danish Digital Humanities Lab/NetLab & Aarhus University, the PhD programme ‘ICT, Media, Communication and Journalism’ >> >> This PhD seminar focus on web archiving and web archives with a view to investigating the nexus between web archiving and web archives as a new research method and as a new object of study. The aim of the seminar is double. On the one hand it is to introduce web archiving as a research method to be used by scholars studying contemporary political, social, and cultural phenomena within the humanities and the social sciences, and, on the other hand, the aim is to introduce to the methodological and theoretical issues related to the use of existing (trans)national web archives, in the main in relation to historical studies involving the web. >> >> Participation as well as coffee and lunch are free of charge. Participants must pay for dinner, travel and accomodation themselves. >> >> The number of participants is limited to 20. >> >> Deadline for submission of application is Monday 24 March 2014. >> >> The lectures and the lecturers: >> • “Virtual Digs: Excavating, Preserving, and Archiving the Web”, Meghan Dougherty, Assistant Professor, Digital Communication, Loyola University Chicago >> • “A Data Driven Approach to Web Archive Research”, Anat Ben-David, post-doctoral researcher with the WebART project, University of Amsterdam >> • “Archiving web material for future research?”, Ditte Laursen, senior researcher and curator at the State Media Archive, State Library in Denmark >> • “Probing a nation’s web sphere”, Niels Brügger, Associate Professor, Aarhus University, Head of the Centre for Internet Studies >> >> Read the full call, including more about the course format, the venue, and how to enrol:http://www.netlab.dk/courses/ >> >> Very best, >> >> Niels Brügger >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> LATEST PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS >> >> August 2013 >> Web historiography and Internet Studies: Challenges and perspectives, New Media & Society, 15(5), 752-764 >> Read more: http://nms.sagepub.com/content/15/5/752.abstract >> >> June 2013 >> Historical Network Analysis of the Web, Social Science Computer Review, 31(3), 306-321 >> Read more: http://ssc.sagepub.com/content/31/3/306.abstract >> >> March 2013 >> The Web and Digital Humanities: Theoretical and Methodological Concerns (w. N.O. Finnemann), Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 57(1), 66-80 >> Read more: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08838151.2012.761699 >> >> >> >> NIELS BRÜGGER, Associate Professor, PhD >> Director, the Centre for Internet Studies >> Department of Aesthetics and Communication >> Aarhus University >> Helsingforsgade 14 >> 8200 Aarhus N >> Denmark >> >> Phone (switchboard) +45 8715 0000 >> Phone (direct) +45 8716 1971 >> Phone (mobile) +45 2945 3231 >> E-mail nb@imv.au.dk >> Webpage http://imv.au.dk/~nb >> >> Profile at LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/50a/555 >> Skype name: niels_bruegger >> >> The Centre for Internet Research http://cfi.au.dk >> NetLab http://netlab.dk >> The history of dr.dk, 1996-2006 http://drdk.dk >> LARM (Radio Culture and Auditory Resources Research Infrastructure) http://www.larm-archive.org >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > > —————————————————————————————— > PhD seminar — Web Archiving and Archived Web — a new Research Method, a new Object of Study? — Aarhus University, Denmark, 11-12 June 2014 > Read the full call, including more about the course format, the venue, and how to enrol:http://www.netlab.dk/courses/ > > > LATEST PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS > > August 2013 > Web historiography and Internet Studies: Challenges and perspectives, New Media & Society, 15(5), 752-764 > Read more: http://nms.sagepub.com/content/15/5/752.abstract > > June 2013 > Historical Network Analysis of the Web, Social Science Computer Review, 31(3), 306-321 > Read more: http://ssc.sagepub.com/content/31/3/306.abstract > > March 2013 > The Web and Digital Humanities: Theoretical and Methodological Concerns (w. N.O. Finnemann), Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 57(1), 66-80 > Read more: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08838151.2012.761699 > > > > NIELS BRÜGGER, Associate Professor, PhD > Director, the Centre for Internet Studies > Department of Aesthetics and Communication > Aarhus University > Helsingforsgade 14, room 236 > 8200 Aarhus N > Denmark > > Phone (switchboard) +45 8715 0000 > Phone (direct) +45 8716 1971 > Phone (mobile) +45 2945 3231 > E-mail nb@imv.au.dk > Webpage http://imv.au.dk/~nb > > Profile at LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/50a/555 > Skype name: niels_bruegger > > The Centre for Internet Research, http://cfi.au.dk > NetLab, http://netlab.dk > Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities (BUDDAH), http://buddah.projects.history.ac.uk > > > > —————————————————————————————— PhD seminar — Web Archiving and Archived Web — a new Research Method, a new Object of Study? — Aarhus University, Denmark, 11-12 June 2014 Read the full call, including more about the course format, the venue, and how to enrol:http://www.netlab.dk/courses/ LATEST PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS August 2013 Web historiography and Internet Studies: Challenges and perspectives, New Media & Society, 15(5), 752-764 Read more: http://nms.sagepub.com/content/15/5/752.abstract June 2013 Historical Network Analysis of the Web, Social Science Computer Review, 31(3), 306-321 Read more: http://ssc.sagepub.com/content/31/3/306.abstract March 2013 The Web and Digital Humanities: Theoretical and Methodological Concerns (w. N.O. Finnemann), Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 57(1), 66-80 Read more: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08838151.2012.761699 NIELS BRÜGGER, Associate Professor, PhD Director, the Centre for Internet Studies Department of Aesthetics and Communication Aarhus University Helsingforsgade 14, room 236 8200 Aarhus N Denmark Phone (switchboard) +45 8715 0000 Phone (direct) +45 8716 1971 Phone (mobile) +45 2945 3231 E-mail nb@imv.au.dk Webpage http://imv.au.dk/~nb Profile at LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/50a/555 Skype name: niels_bruegger The Centre for Internet Research, http://cfi.au.dk NetLab, http://netlab.dk Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities (BUDDAH), http://buddah.projects.history.ac.uk --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:04:35 +0000 From: kcl - cerch Subject: CeRch Seminar: Clotho: Network Analysis and Distant Reading on Perseus Latin Corpus In-Reply-To: <1D9E16C8-BB27-45AD-801C-497E3B6E4651@imv.au.dk> Clotho: Network Analysis and Distant Reading on Perseus Latin Corpus Anthony Glaise (Paris IV-Sorbonne and the École Normale Supérieure) Thibault Clerice (Center for e-Research, King's College London and the École des Chartes) Date: Tuesday, 25th March 2014, from 6.15pm to 7.30pm (GMT) Location: Anatomy Museum Space, 6th Floor, King's College London (Strand Campus) http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/campuses/strand/Strand.aspx Abstract: Clotho is born from a simple need: doing distant reading on a Latin corpus. Why should we do distant reading? We can see many reasons including word sense induction, sentiment analysis, network analysis which were the one we were looking for. Through we think sentiment analysis stricto sensu is not possible in Latin, we aim to provide a way to do that quantitatively through context and network analysis. This does not replace the meme of conventional scholarship; where an expert reader parses a text and pronounces on the nature of its sentiment. Rather, we think that the proper nature of the Latin exemplum and auctoritas is liable to support interpretation by polarizing words according to their strict meaning(s). The Clotho project is divided in two tools. The first one is based on python software, which enables the distant reading of the corpus and the export of its results. The other is a PHP platform which enables a team or a crowd to annotate and clean the results. Both are relatively easy to install and fully open source so new functionalities of wide application can be added. For this project, there have been two outputs: - the first one is Cicero's Network which has been realised with an earlier version of Clotho's Python interface - the second one is Lasciva Roma, a project which will be launched during the seminar, whose aim is to annotate the Latin semantic field of sexuality. Speakers: Anthony Glaise Former MA student at Paris-IV Sorbonne, preparing Agr?gation's exams at Paris IV-Sorbonne and at École Normale Supérieure. Anthony worked on the Greek Christian literature of the 4th century and more precisely on anti-Judaic works by John Chrysostom. Thibault Clerice Research Developer at the Center for e-Research, Kings College London, and MA student at the Ecole des Chartes ( Paris ). Thibault's works focus on both crowd-sourcing and Ancient Rome genders and sexuality. His current MA Thesis topic tries to enlighten the possibilities of digital methods in Latin onomastics and anthropology. Attendance is free and open to all, but registration is requested: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cerch-seminar-clotho-sentiment-analysis-and-distant-reading-on-a-latin-corpus-thibault-clerice-tickets-10115264027 ----- The seminar will be followed by wine and nibbles. All the best, Valentina Asciutti --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:32:12 +0000 From: "Roland, Perry (pdr4h)" Subject: Music Encoding Conference call for late-breaking submissions In-Reply-To: <1D9E16C8-BB27-45AD-801C-497E3B6E4651@imv.au.dk> The Music Encoding Conference Charlottesville, Virginia 20-23 May 2014 https://music-encoding.org/conference The Program Committee announces that "late-breaking" poster submissions will be accepted until *April 14th*. "Late-breaking" posters usually aim to present research projects under development or results that were not available at the time of the original call for submissions. New submissions will be subject to the same review process as before. Please visit https://music-encoding.org/conference/submission for more details. Authors of accepted posters will be notified on or before *24 April* and will need to register by *30 April*. We won't be able to grant any extension. If you have any questions, please contact conference2013@music-encoding.org. -- p. __________________________ Perry Roland Music Library University of Virginia P. O. Box 400175 Charlottesville, VA 22904 434-982-2702 (w) pdr4h (at) virginia (dot) edu _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AA44866AC; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 07:35:16 +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 7197A66AE; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 07:35:08 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5C4A966A2; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 07:35:07 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140319063507.5C4A966A2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 07:35:07 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.897 pubs: D-Lib corrected X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 897. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 12:36:42 +0000 From: Bonnie Wilson Subject: Correction to yesterday's D-Lib release message Greetings: With apologies to Chern Li Liew, in yesterday's announcement of the release of D-Lib Magazine's March/April 2014 issue (http://www.dlib.org), I missed mentioning the first article in the issue: Participatory Cultural Heritage: A Tale of Two Institutions' Use of Social Media By Chern Li Liew, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Best wishes, 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 217EC66F3; Thu, 20 Mar 2014 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 2A25064F3; Thu, 20 Mar 2014 07:53:02 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 413F06482; Thu, 20 Mar 2014 07:53:00 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140320065300.413F06482@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 07:53:00 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.898 milestone X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 898. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 01:36:11 +0000 From: Susan Ford Subject: RE: 27.893 milestone In-Reply-To: <20140319062110.1E708625F@digitalhumanities.org> Ah - Yes - and 'self-consciousness' does not make historiography, and, as Jan notes, does not even make a milestone: it is a consequence of living in a post-modern world. 'the personal reflections of members of a user community can provide valuable insights into the technology’s history.' Hmmm - 'personal reflections' of anybody are good primary data (I'd love to have more personal reflections of Hekataios for example, rather than only being able to see him through Herodotos); and primary data, if there is enough of it, may enable insights, but I'm a bit skeptical. One thing is certain, a history of any 'technology' cannot be written by someone inside the 'discipline', someone who 'did' it: one has only to look at most issues of Annals of the History of Computing, which are very valuable collections of source material, and no more. Susan PhD candidate, Classics, College of Arts and Social Sciences The Australian National University ________________________________________ From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] on behalf of Humanist Discussion Group [willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk] Sent: 19 March 2014 17:21 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CC16766F0; Thu, 20 Mar 2014 07:53:56 +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 CC7BA66F3; Thu, 20 Mar 2014 07:53:47 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5A59C66F4; Thu, 20 Mar 2014 07:53:46 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140320065346.5A59C66F4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 07:53:46 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.899 research travel fellowships X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 899. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 14:39:05 +0000 From: "Opitz, Donald" Subject: Agnodike research travel fellowship Agnodike research travel fellowship The Commission on Women and Gender Studies in Science, Technology and Medicine of the DHST offers biannually a research travel fellowship up to 1000€ to scholars who are either in their final stages of their doctoral research or in the early stages of their post-doctoral research but still within four years of receiving the Ph.D. The research fellowship named by the first female physician and midwife in ancient Greece (4th c. B.C.) is intended to recognize and support the work of scholars who are in the early stages of their careers and assist those who need to travel to archives in order to complete their research. The Commission requires an application consisting of a cover letter, a research proposal, CV, and two letters of recommendation, one being from the PhD advisor. The awardee of the research grant will receive an invitation to present her/his work in the closest forthcoming symposium organized by the Commission. All applications must be submitted no later than May 31, 2014. The applications are considered by a Committee which gives preference to specific and clearly described projects. The Commission on Women and Gender Studies in Science, Technology and Medicine was founded in 1981 by the General Assembly of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science. The aim of the Commission is to promote communication among scholars working on women’s history in science, technology and medicine and also to foster research on the relation of gender and science, technology, and medicine. One of the Commission’s tasks is to hold meetings between Congresses of the IUHPS/DHST and to form symposia at subsequent International Congresses. For more information please visit our website http://wsc.hypotheses.org/ or “like” our Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/cowogs. Questions and submissions to : Maria Rentetzi mrentetz@vt.edu and Donald Opitz dopitz@depaul.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6F3106707; Thu, 20 Mar 2014 07:57:50 +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 EF65D6701; Thu, 20 Mar 2014 07:57:42 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1BD846700; Thu, 20 Mar 2014 07:57:41 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140320065741.1BD846700@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 07:57:41 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.900 events: information management; archiving X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 900. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Goodman Paul (82) Subject: Archives 2.0 - Saving the Past, Anticipating the Future (Call for Papers) [2] From: Milena Dobreva (108) Subject: IMCW2014 - Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 10:13:43 -0000 From: Goodman Paul Subject: Archives 2.0 - Saving the Past, Anticipating the Future (Call for Papers) In-Reply-To: Call for Papers: Archives 2.0 - Saving the Past, Anticipating the Future National Media Museum, Bradford 25 & 26 November 2014 The National Media Museum in Bradford is hosting a two-day conference on the challenges and opportunities around the acquisition and management of archives by cultural institutions. Such archives may be still, moving or mixed-format; analogue or digital or both; they may be from a company, private, practitioner, virtual, community-based or regional; complete or partial; contained or continually developing. This is a Call for Papers asking for perspectives on the strategic issues, opportunities and challenges presented by organisations which actively acquire and curate bodies of work. The conference seeks to examine emergent digital technologies and their impact on archival practice and acquisition. Contributions which evidence new approaches and/or creative and innovative ways of thinking which challenge conventional understanding are particularly welcome. Four sessions will consider different types of archives encompassing perspectives from: * Practitioners & Photographers * Curators and Institutions * Mixed Media & Technology Environment * Commercial & Galleries World Suggested themes and questions include: 1. The Archive * What is considered to be `the asset'? * What constitutes an archive and what challenges do these present to collecting institutions? * At what point is it useful or helpful to call a `collection' an `archive'? * What is the difference between them, if any? * What is the rationale for acquiring archives? 2. Mixed Curatorship * Curatorial perspectives and models of mixed curatorship * Does it need to be comprehensive or representative? * What are the challenges around the acquisition of analogue/digital/mixed archives? 3. Ownership, Role and the Value of Attendant Data * What is the impact of removing an archive from its locale? * To what extent is it valuable for a practitioner to continue to be involved with their archive? 4. The Challenges of Copyright * What is the role of commercial galleries and organisations? * The challenges of acquiring multi-media or mixed format collections. * What are the copyright issues around the acquisition of digital archives, and how can these be addressed? 5. The Future of the Archive: The Role of New Technologies * What are the positive and negative impacts of `new technologies'? * Digitisation against retention of the original * Preservation and dissemination * Public access, engagement and creative exploitation For further information, please contact paul.goodman@nationalmediamuseum.org.uk directly. TIMETABLE Deadline for abstracts [c.250 words for a 20 minute paper] 9 May 2014 Acceptance of abstracts 30 June 2014 Deadline for texts submission (web) 30 September 2014 ----- National Media Museum explores the science, technology and art of the still and moving image and its impact on our lives. National Media Museum is part of the Science Museum Group: www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/about_us/smg.aspx - a family of museums including the Science Museum, the National Railway Museum, and the Museum of Science & Industry Manchester. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 19:40:11 +0100 From: Milena Dobreva Subject: IMCW2014 - Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals In-Reply-To: IMCW2014 - Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals 5th International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World 24-26 November 2014 - Antalya, Turkey http://imcw2014.bilgiyonetimi.net/ Introduction: The 5th International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World (IMCW 2014) will take place in Antalya, Turkey, from November 24-26, 2014. To highlight the 2014 Turkish-German Science Year, IMCW2014 is organized in cooperation with Hacettepe University and the Goethe-Institutes in Turkey. IMCW2014 will be held in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM2014: http://ickm2014.bilgiyonetimi.net/) at the same venue, providing participants with the opportunity to attend and contribute to both important events. The conference brings together a vibrant international community of over 150 participants, including scholars, researchers, professionals, and practitioners interested in current and future directions for the development of information management. It ialso provides a unique opportunity to engage with a large and diverse academic and professional audience in Turkey and the world. The Organizing Committee of IMCW2014 invites interested individuals, research teams, societies, and project groups to submit proposals for workshops and tutorials to be organized within the conference. To encourage participation, IMCW2014 is not charging additional fees for participants registered in the conference to attend workshops/tutorials, and proposers of accompanying events with at least four registered speakers/participants will have their Symposium fee waived. The workshops and tutorials will be held in parallel to the main symposium track on the same dates (24-26 November 2014). Proposals: Workshops: The conference welcomes stand-alone proposals, as well as proposals from workshops held annually. A workshop should present a particular theme or idea, bringing together related sets of papers. Workshop proposers and organizers will be responsible for: the preparation of a Call for Papers (CfP); structuring a Program Committee; promoting and publicizing the workshop through such measures as distributing and circulating the CfP; receiving, reviewing, and selecting submitted papers; and assisting with collecting accepted papers for the IMCW Proceedings which will be published by Springer in the Communications in Computer and Information Science series (CCIS). As a gesture of appreciation and thanks for the efforts of workshop proposers and organizers, the IMCW2014 organizing committee will kindly waive one conference fee per accepted workshop that features a minimum of four speakers registered to attend IMCW2014. A workshop proposal should be structured as follows: · Workshop title and abbreviation (if applicable). · The names and affiliations of the organizers. The organizers should include a short biographical sketch indicating their areas of expertise and interests, their scholarly and/or professional background, and their experience in organizing events. · Proposed duration of the workshop (half or full day). · A description of the workshop's theme and main topics. · The expected number and types of participants in the workshop. · A description of the workshop processes, including: the refereeing process, a tentative list of Programme Committee members, and advertisement channels. This description should also indicate the anticipated timelines for issuing a CfP and the deadline for submissions, the reviewing process, and the preparation of the final programme. The deadline for submitting the final programme to the IMCW2014 organizing committee would be 20 June 2014. Tutorials: A tutorial should present a particular theme or idea, providing a short training session. Tutorial proposals should be structured as follows: · Tutorial title and abbreviation (if applicable). · Aims of the tutorial. · The names and affiliations of the organizers. The organizers should add a short biographical sketch indicating their areas of expertise and interests, scholarly and/or professional background, and their experience in teaching. · Proposed duration of the tutorial (half or full day). · A description of the covered themes. · A note on learning outcomes; for example, what will be the newly acquired knowledge and skills. · Minimum and maximum number of participants. Submission: Workshop and tutorial proposals should be up to four (4) pages in length following the LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs) . Proposals should be submitted to the chairs using the Subject line "IMCW2014 Workshop/Tutorial Proposal - XXXX", where XXXX is the title or acronym of the proposed accompanying event. Upon submitting the proposal, the proposers commit that, in the case of acceptance, they will physically attend and contribute to the event. Publication: An abstracts book that features abstracts of contributed papers, sessions, workshops, tutorials, and posters will be published prior to the actual conference. Authors may also provide the conference organizers with full papers to be considered for publication under Springer's CCIS. These full papers will be subject to another review round. If selected, the full paper will appear in the CCIS proceedings book. Important Dates: Proposal submission deadline: April 10, 2014 Acceptance notification: April 15, 2014 Submitting events' programme to IMCW: June 20, 2014 Last date for early bird registration: July 31, 2014 Last date for regular registration: November 3, 2014 Symposium: November 24 - 26, 2014 More Information: Inquiries can be sent to the Workshop and Tutorial Chairs Prof. Milena Dobreva (milena.dobreva @ um.edu.mt) and Dr. Marc Kosciejew (marc.kosciejew @ um.edu.mt). 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "oxfordjournals-mailer@alerts.stanford.edu" (78) Subject: Lit Linguist Computing Table of Contents for April 2014; Vol. 29, No. 1 [2] From: Willard McCarty (32) Subject: Humanities Computing in paperback --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 14:03:17 +0000 From: "oxfordjournals-mailer@alerts.stanford.edu" Subject: Lit Linguist Computing Table of Contents for April 2014; Vol. 29, No. 1 Literary and Linguistic Computing Table of Contents Alert Vol. 29, No. 1 April 2014 http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/29/1?etoc ----------------------------------------------------------------- Editorial ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hey, this is your journal Edward Vanhoutte Lit Linguist Computing 2014 29: 1-5 http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/29/1/1.extract.html?etoc ----------------------------------------------------------------- Original Articles ----------------------------------------------------------------- Document dissimilarity within and across languages: A benchmarking study Richard S. Forsyth and Serge Sharoff Lit Linguist Computing 2014 29: 6-22 http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/29/1/6.abstract.html?etoc Under the Workbench: An analysis of the use and preservation of MONK text mining research software Harriett E. Green Lit Linguist Computing 2014 29: 23-40 http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/29/1/23.abstract.html?etoc Textual fingerprints of risk of war Robert L. Hogenraad and Rauf R. Garagozov Lit Linguist Computing 2014 29: 41-55 http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/29/1/41.abstract.html?etoc FarsiSpell: A spell-checking system for Persian using a large monolingual corpus Tayebeh Mosavi Miangah Lit Linguist Computing 2014 29: 56-73 http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/29/1/56.abstract.html?etoc An accurate word sense disambiguation system based on weighted lexical features Abdoreza Rezapour, Seyed Mostafa Fakhrahmad, Mohammad Hadi Sadreddini, and Mansoor Zolghadri Jahromi Lit Linguist Computing 2014 29: 74-88 http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/29/1/74.abstract.html?etoc Transparent aggregation of variables with Individual Differences Scaling Tom Ruette and Dirk Speelman Lit Linguist Computing 2014 29: 89-106 http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/29/1/89.abstract.html?etoc Analyzing the BBC Voices data: Contemporary English dialect areas and their characteristic lexical variants Martijn Wieling, Clive Upton, and Ann Thompson Lit Linguist Computing 2014 29: 107-117 http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/29/1/107.abstract.html?etoc Language and gender in Congressional speech Bei Yu Lit Linguist Computing 2014 29: 118-132 http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/29/1/118.abstract.html?etoc ----------------------------------------------------------------- Reviews ----------------------------------------------------------------- Facilitating Access to the Web of Data. A Guide for Librarians. David Stuart. Timo Borst Lit Linguist Computing 2014 29: 133-134 http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/29/1/133.extract.html?etoc Quantitative Methods in Corpus-Based Translation Studies Sara Laviosa Lit Linguist Computing 2014 29: 134-137 http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/29/1/134.extract.html?etoc Noise Channels. Glitch and Error in Digital Culture. Peter Krapp. Iman Shayan Moradi Lit Linguist Computing 2014 29: 137-139 http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/29/1/137.extract.html?etoc The Secret Life of Pronouns. What Our Words Say About Us John Nerbonne Lit Linguist Computing 2014 29: 139-142 http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/29/1/139.extract.html?etoc Corpus Linguistics: Method, Theory and Practice. Tony McEnery and Andrew Hardie. Paul Thompson Lit Linguist Computing 2014 29: 142-145 http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/29/1/142.extract.html?etoc --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 18:18:15 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Humanities Computing in paperback Dear colleagues, Attached is the publisher's flier for the paperback edition of my 2005 book, Humanities Computing, with a new preface. I was surprised when the senior Palgrave editor in charge asserted that there is still shelf-life in the book, now verging on its tenth year. Much has happened since then. But writing the new preface to something I have spent a long time attempting to distance myself from turned out to be a very interesting exercise. I hope those who buy the thing -- at a 20% discount, please note :-) -- agree. Perhaps the new edition and my unexpected discovery of critical pleasure in the contemplation of its virtues and shortcomings are signs of maturity, in the field and in the author, respectively? This must also stand as encouragement to everyone here to stage their own virtual book-(re)launches. That same Preacher who long ago proclaimed that there is nothing new under the sun also said, in the King James Version, "by these... be admonished: of making many bookes there is no end, and much studie is a wearinesse of the flesh" (Ecclesiastes 12:12). I suspect no one here would deny experiencing such weariness from much study, but the energetic joy of knowing, which sometimes accompanies it, is worth everything. So keep 'em coming. If your conscience is troubled, soothe it with the realisation that royalties are highly unlikely to pay for more than a couple of week's groceries, if that. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1395253321_2014-03-19_willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk_20679.2.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C047D6758; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:32:59 +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 ED35A6508; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:32:49 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3C3376437; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:32:48 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140321063248.3C3376437@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:32:48 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.902 milestone X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 902. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 11:20:10 +0100 From: Dino Buzzetti Subject: Re: 27.898 milestone In-Reply-To: <20140320065300.413F06482@digitalhumanities.org> ​Agreed ! "history" and "memory", or recollections, are quite different things, -dino​ On 20 March 2014 07:53, Humanist Discussion Group < willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 898. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 01:36:11 +0000 > From: Susan Ford > Subject: RE: 27.893 milestone > In-Reply-To: <20140319062110.1E708625F@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Ah - Yes - and 'self-consciousness' does not make historiography, and, as > Jan notes, does not even make a milestone: it is a consequence of living in > a post-modern world. > > 'the personal reflections of members of a user community can provide > valuable insights > into the technology’s history.' Hmmm - 'personal reflections' of anybody > are good primary > data (I'd love to have more personal reflections of Hekataios for example, > rather than only > being able to see him through Herodotos); and primary data, if there is > enough of it, may enable > insights, but I'm a bit skeptical. One thing is certain, a history of any > 'technology' cannot be written > by someone inside the 'discipline', someone who 'did' it: one has only to > look at most issues of > Annals of the History of Computing, which are very valuable collections of > source material, and no more. > > Susan > PhD candidate, Classics, College of Arts and Social Sciences > The Australian National University -- 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 [at] gmail.com buzzetti [at] fscire.it web: http://web.dfc.unibo.it/buzzetti/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AA0B4674D; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:34:19 +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 BE3466703; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:34:10 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BD0356527; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:34:08 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140321063408.BD0356527@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:34:08 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.903 AI 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 903. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 00:45:51 +0100 From: Tara Andrews Subject: Call for Participation: COST Trans-Domain Proposal on Artificial Intelligence in the Humanities Dear Humanists, I am writing on behalf of a small group of humanities scholars and AI researchers who are in the process of preparing a COST Trans-Domain Proposal on the topic of how methods of artificial intelligence might be used to capture and model humanistic argumentation. The initial impetus for the action comes from historical research, but the concept is applicable in any field within DH where computing and hermeneutics are sitting uncomfortably side-by-side at the moment. Some background on the genesis of the basic idea may be found here: http://www.digitalbyzantinist.org/2013/07/enabling-the-science-of-history.html We are now looking for interested scholars and researchers from the humanities to join the network of initial proposers! Members of the network must be affiliated with some institution, ideally in a COST member country (see http://www.cost.eu/about_cost/cost_countries for the full list.) If you are eligible and would be interested in participating, please get in touch with me (tara.andrews@kps.unibe.ch) between now and 27 March. Best wishes, Tara Andrews -- Tara L Andrews Assistenzprofessorin in Digital Humanities Universität Bern Gesellschaftsstrasse 2, Büro 237C tel +41 31 631 34 49 Summary, COST Trans-Domain Proposal AIM-HIGH: Artificial Intelligence Models for Humanistic Inquiry Grounded in Hermeneutics One of the most pressing central current questions in humanities research, also relevant to a wider range of disciplines, is how to harness computing to hermeneutical pursuits. How do we reconcile the idiosyncratic, heterogeneous, and ambiguous nature of our evidence with the tendency of computational methods to require uniform, homogeneous and clearly-defined data, without giving in to the temptation to over-simplify the evidence? This is where the interests of humanities and artificial intelligence meet: how do we represent in a formal and computational manner not only the data we have that lends itself to encoding and systematics, but also the other knowledge and working hypotheses at our disposal? When new evidence is added, or when old evidence is re-interpreted, what are the ramifications for our systems of knowledge? Stated more simply, this question goes to the very heart of all humanities research: how do we know what we know? The purpose of this COST action is to establish an equal partnership between scholars from the evidentiary disciplines within the humanities (historical sciences, textual scholarship, etc.) and scientists studying applicable aspects of Artificial Intelligence such as knowledge representation and fuzzy logic, in order to examine a topic of mutual interest. Our mission is to explore how to incorporate computational methods into our humanistic inquiries without losing focus on the hermeneutical aspect; how to represent, visualise, and eventually computationally infer the hypothesis dependency structure that underlies argumentation in the humanities; and what ramifications this has for how we pursue humanistic knowledge. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BFDB0676B; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:35:16 +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 A17946508; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:35:07 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C85D96508; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:35:05 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140321063505.C85D96508@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:35:05 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.904 volunteer for social media in the 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. 27, No. 904. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 16:13:16 +0000 From: "Pierazzo, Elena" Subject: Social Media Coordinator for the TEI: position available The Text Encoding Initiative seeks a motivated volunteer to fill the newly created role of Social Media Coordinator. The successful candidate will maintain the TEI Consortium's Facebook and Twitter presences and create entries for the blog and newsfeed server, with the purpose of increasing the visibility of the TEI and improving its outreach activities. The role requires knowledge of the TEI and of social media, as well as enthusiasm for both. The non-stipendiary appointment will be for one year, renewable for another. Reimbursement for expenses may be available for specific activities as approved by the Board of Directors; furthermore funding will be available to attend the annual Members’ Meeting. We will cover individual TEI membership for one, conference registration at member rates, housing at conference rates for the duration, and reimbursement for travel, food and incidentals using the scale and forms published here: http://www.tei-c.org/Admin/TEI_travel_form.pdf The work will be conducted in close collaboration with the chairs of the Board and the Technical Council and a commitment to a roughly daily engagement with social media is expected. If you are interested please get in touch with Elena Pierazzo by the 5th of April, providing a letter of motivations and listing past experiences with Social Media and the TEI. The appointment will start as soon as possible after such date. 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 015EE6322; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:36:08 +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 586572D1C; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:36:00 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 47861674D; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:35:58 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140321063558.47861674D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:35:58 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.905 Textable: visual programming for text-analysis X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 905. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:07:14 +0100 From: Aris Xanthos Subject: Textable - visual programming for text analysis Dear Humanists, I have the daunting pleasure to announce the release of Orange Textable v1.4.1: http://langtech.ch/textable Textable is a text analysis tool whose originality resides mostly in the adoption of a "visual programming" interface. I like to think of it as a construction kit for text analysis: a set of primitive components which can be (visually) arranged to build a variety of text analysis applications, such as a concordancer for tei-encoded novels, a tool for comparing the complexity of movie scripts of various genres, a cool convertible car--wait, this is one of my daughter's brick sets... I could speak about Textable for hours (in fact I often do), but let me rather suggest that those of you whose curiosity might have been aroused have a look at the following part of the documentation, which demonstrates how to use Textable for monitoring the frequency of "humanities computing" vs. "digital humanities" in the archives of Humanist: http://orange-textable.readthedocs.org/en/latest/illustration.html Any kind of feedback would be most welcome! Best regards, Aris Xanthos Dept of Language and Information Sciences University of Lausanne _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 090EC6770; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:39:17 +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 6A43262B3; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:39:07 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7661062C2; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:39:05 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140321063905.7661062C2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:39:05 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.906 events: graphics & heritage; Nebraska forum; Victorian lives & 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 906. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (104) Subject: The 12th EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage: CFP [2] From: Katherine Walter (8) Subject: 2014 Nebraska Forum on Digital Humanities [3] From: Marion Thain (32) Subject: 19th Century Digitization --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 13:14:57 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: The 12th EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage: CFP In-Reply-To: 1st C A L L F O R P A P E R S Paper Submission Deadline: May 16, 2014 The 12th EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage October, 6th - 8th 2014, Darmstadt, Germany in cooperation with TU Darmstadt Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt http://diglib.eg.org/GCH2014 ================================================================ INVITATION: You are cordially invited to contribute to the 12th EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage (GCH) that, for the first time, will take place in Darmstadt, Germany. Archaeologists and Cultural Heritage scientists as well as ICT experts have in the past collaborated to find solutions to optimize all aspects of managing and delivering cultural information to new generations, but still many unsolved problems remain. In continuation to last years' workshop series, we would like to invite you to participate and contribute to the European Forum for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) applied to the Cultural Heritage domain. Following a long tradition, this event focuses on the integration of digital tools and solutions into the practice of Cultural Heritage, Archaeology and Museums. LOCATION: ========= GCH 2014 will take place in Darmstadt, the birth place of the last Empress of Russia, Tsarina Alexandra Romanov. Darmstadt is famous for its 'Jugendstil' (art nouveau) buildings. The establishment of the Mathildenhöhe artists colony more than 100 years ago played its part in raising Darmstadt to prominence. Magnificent art nouveau houses give this hill of muses an unmistakable character. Through science, literature, art and architecture, Darmstadt has developed a wholly unique appeal that has earned it much acclaim. Today, Darmstadt boasts a great diversity of science and art, many publishing houses and graphic design studios, as well as the European Space Agency's satellite control centre and internationally acclaimed institutes for ICT, literature, art and music - all of this reflected in Darmstadt's official name as 'City of Science'. TOPICS: ======= The 12th EUROGRAPHICS Workshops on Graphics and Cultural Heritage aims to foster an international dialogue between the different fields of expertise and in particular allow ICT experts to have a better understanding of the critical requirements of CH scientists for managing, processing and delivering cultural information to a broader audience. Focus of this year's forum is to present and showcase new developments within the overall process chain, from data acquisition, 3D documentation, analysis and synthesis, semantical modelling, data management, to the point of virtual museums or new forms of interactive presentations and 3D printing solutions. GCH 2014 therefore provides scientists, engineers and CH managers a possibility to discuss new ICT technologies applied to data modelling, reconstruction and processing, digital libraries, virtual museums, interactive environments and applications for CH, ontologies and semantic processing, management and archiving, standards and documentation, as well as its transfer into practice. The result of this interaction will be disseminated through use of innovative digital techniques in research and education for Cultural Heritage and through publications: on-going project results, preliminary ideas and works in progress, and overviews of research in the use of digital technology in the context of Cultural Heritage. We therefore seek original, innovative and previously unpublished contributions in theoretical or applied areas of the digital cultural heritage domain, challenging the state of the art solutions and leveraging new ideas for future developments. In particular: * 2/3/4D data capturing and processing in Cultural Heritage * Material acquisition and presentation * Spatial and mobile augmentation of physical collections with digital presentations * Data acquisition technologies * Digital libraries and 3D documents * Digital capture and annotation of intangible heritage (performance, audio, dance, oral) * Interactive environments and applications for Cultural Heritage * Visualization and Virtual Museums * 3D printing based on new appearance models * Preservation and digital archiving of artefacts * Metadata, classification schemes, ontologies and semantic processing * Multilingual applications, tools and systems for Cultural Heritage * Multimedia data acquisition, management and archiving * Multi-modal interfaces and rendering for Cultural Heritage * On-site and remotely sensed data collections * Serious games in Cultural Heritage * Storytelling and design of heritage communications * Standards and documentation * Usability, effectiveness and interface design for Cultural Heritage Applications * Tools for education and training in Cultural Heritage * New business models and technology transfer into practice GCH 2014 will also include "State-of-the-Art Reports", inspired by the EG STARs. These are longer papers providing useful novel overviews of research in the fields of computer graphics, computer science and related fields that can benefit the multidisciplinary nature of GCH. They are survey papers in what the community considers important areas that have not been covered before or recently. Their aim is to give a detailed account of the principles, algorithms and open problems of a research area, so that an interested reader can quickly become up to speed in this field. We warmly encourage all colleagues to submit to the STAR reports. Two STAR reports will be selected by peer review and published in the local proceedings together with the short and project papers. GCH-STAR authors will present their work within a 60 minute presentation during GCH 2014. CONTRIBUTIONS: ============== We are seeking contributions by following means: - Full research papers presenting new innovative results: these papers will be published by Eurographics in the EG Symposium Series (diglib.eg.org/EG/DL/WS/VAST http://diglib.eg.org/EG/DL/WS/VAST ). - GCH-STAR reports providing a useful novel overview of research in the fields of computer graphics, computer science and related fields that can benefit the multidisciplinary nature of this workshop series. - Short papers presenting preliminary results and work-in-progress or focusing on on-going projects, the description of project organization, use of technology, and lesson learned. These papers will be published in the "Projects & Short Papers" proceedings volume. - Tutorials and Workshops: the conference will also host half-day and full-day working sessions that provide an opportunity to get in touch with ongoing projects and cutting-edge research in the field of digital technologies for Cultural Heritage. The best papers of the Conference will be proposed for an extended submission to ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (http://jocch.acm.org/). IMPORTANT DATES: ================ May 9 Abstract (mandatory for all contributions); May 16 Full Papers, Short Papers, STAR reports due July 2 Workshops & Tutorials, Exhibitions July 14 Notification Sept 1 Final Camera Ready due for accepted works, early registration Formatting & Templates ---------------------- More details on templates, formatting guidelines and submission/registration procedures can be found at: http://diglib.eg.org/GCH2014 For further inquiries get in contact with: info-GCH2014@eg.org COMMITTEE ========= * Event Co-Chairs: Dieter Fellner (TU Darmstadt/Fraunhofer IGD, Germany) Roberto Scopigno (CNR, Pisa, Italy) * Program Co-Chairs: Reinhard Klein (Univ. Bonn, Germany) Pedro Santos (Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt, Germany) * Program Committee: Pierre Alliez Dieter Fritsch Fabio Remondino Carlos Andujar Luc van Gol Patrick Reuter David Arnold Sorin Hermon Maria Roussou Juan Barcelo Wim Hupperertz Holly Rushmeier Andreas Bienert Marinos Ioannidis Robert Sablatnig Vinzenz Brinkmann Livio de Luca Michela Spagnuolo Alan Chalmers Marco Marchesi Didier Stricker Martin Dörr Sofia Pescarin Stella Sylaio Anastasios Doulamis Denis Pitzalis Tim Weyrich Franz Fischnaller Marc Pollefeys Michael Wimmer * Local Organising Committee: Holger Graf Arjan Kuijper Stefanie Behnke Looking forward to meet you in Darmstadt! The Conference Chairs: Dieter Fellner Roberto Scopigno Reinhard Klein Pedro Santos --- -- SOFIA PESCARIN V-MusT.net http://V-MusT.net FP7 NoE Coordinator CNR ITABC - Rome, Italy tel +39.0690672721 skype: pescarin fax +39.0690672684 sofia.pescarin@itabc.cnr.it http://www.vhlab.itabc.cnr.it http://www.vhlab.itabc.cnr.it/ http://www.v-must.net --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 13:57:56 +0000 From: Katherine Walter Subject: 2014 Nebraska Forum on Digital Humanities In-Reply-To: The 2014 Nebraska Forum on Digital Humanities will be held at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on April 10-11, 2014. A public lecture on April 10, "Teaching, Writing, and Researching in the Digital Age," will open the Forum at 3:30 p.m. at the Great Plains Art Museum at 1155 Q Street. Keynote speakers for the public lecture are Matthew L. Jockers (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), T. Mills Kelly (George Mason University), and Ruth Mostern (University of California, Merced). On Friday, invited scholars will share their current research and lead discussion around the Forum's central theme, "Digital Histories and Digital Authorship." Friday's speakers include Vanessa Holden (Michigan State University), Kyle Roberts (Loyola University Chicago), Ben Schmidt (Northeastern University), and Amanda Visconti (University of Maryland). Friday's sessions will be held in the Gaughan Multicultural Center on the UNL City Campus beginning at 8:30 a.m. Registration, which is free, is required for Friday's events. Register here. More information, including participant bios and presentation abstracts, is available at http://cdrh.unl.edu/opportunities/nebraskaforum.php Elizabeth Lorang, Ph.D. Digital Humanities Projects Librarian Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska-Lincoln cdrh.unl.edu http://cdrh.unl.edu | civilwardc.org http://civilwardc.org | whitmanarchive.org http://whitmanarchive.org --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:32:09 -0400 From: Marion Thain Subject: 19th Century Digitization In-Reply-To: AN OPPORTUNITY FOR UK POSTGRADUATES AND POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS: AHRC-funded Colloquium, 16-17 June 2014: School of English, University of Leeds PI Professor Francis O'Gorman (Leeds); Co-I Dr Marion Thain (Sheffield); Administrator Thomas Mandall Subject - Victorian Lives and Letters Consortium (VLLC) As part of a major project in nineteenth-century digital curation, we are holding a two-day AHRC-funded Research Network colloquium at the University of Leeds on 16-17 June. The event is designed to introduce the VLLC, a new large-scale manuscript digitization project involving ourselves and partners in the United States (beginning with Ruskin's diary notebooks and with other major collections of 19th-century lives and letters in the UK and US planned). The event will bring together a group of experts to advise us on the development and enhancement of the project, including in terms of a) technical development; b) partnerships with libraries, archives, and universities; c) financial sustainability; d) editorial standards and academic development Major figures internationally and nationally in nineteenth-century editing and curation, as well as senior figures in digital humanities, will be present. We also have funds to bring UK research students and post-doctoral researchers to the event, and warmly invite expressions of interest from those currently involved in any element of 19th-century digital curation/editing/digital humanities more generally. Funded attendance will also involve the opportunity to be part of a roundtable discussion within the colloquium. To be considered for inclusion, please send both of us a brief description of your current work and how it intersects with the areas listed earlier in this paragraph by *10 April 2014*. Yours sincerely Francis O'Gorman and Marion Thain f.j.o'gorman@leeds.ac.uk; m.thain@sheffield.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D9D106771; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:50:32 +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 F0F31673E; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:50:22 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7DF79653E; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:50:21 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140321065021.7DF79653E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:50:21 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.907 pubs: on Philobiblion (homage to Charles Faulhaber); Digital Intertextuality X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 907. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "MORRAS RUIZ-FALCO, Maria" (40) Subject: Volume homage to Charles Faulhaber - basedate Philobiblon [2] From: Neil Coffee (26) Subject: Digital Intertextuality Workshop Materials --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 17:02:02 +0100 From: "MORRAS RUIZ-FALCO, Maria" Subject: Volume homage to Charles Faulhaber - basedate Philobiblon Dear colleageus, just in case any of you are interested in the history/story and characteristics of Philobibon (http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Philobiblon). It was and still is the first Union Catalogue of Medieval Manuscripts of Iberian literatures (Portuguese, Galician, Catalan & Spanish). Started back in the 90's in CD-ROM, it is now located in a relational basedate with interesting links to images, texts, and much more. Apologies for cross-posting. MMorrás HOMAGE VOLUME FOR CHARLES FAULHABER Vir bonus dicendi peritus: Studies in in Honor of Charles B. Faulhaber, edited by Antonio Cortijo Ocaña, Ana M. Gómez-Bravo, and María Morrás (New York: HSMS, 2014). We are pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of a volume in honor of Charles Faulhaber. The book pays homage to Charles Faulhaber's contribution to Hispanic studies with a collection of essays on textual and manuscript studies. The volume is scheduled to be published in Fall 2014. The pre-publication price is $40 (including shipping) for USA-based individuals and institutions, and $55 (including shipping) for those outside of the US. Subscriptions must be received by May 31, 2014 in order to be included in the Tabula Gratulatoria. Checks in US dollars should be made payable to the Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies and sent to: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies Attn. John O'Neill 613 West 155th St New York NY 10032 Payment is also accepted by credit card (Mastercard, Visa or American Express). Please contact John O'Neill (oneill@hispanicsociety.org) for details. Please indicate exactly how you would like your name to appear in the Tabula Gratulatoria and provide your e-mail and mailing address. -- María Morrás Profesora de Literatura Medieval Departament d'Humanitats Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona maria.morras@upf.edu http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2516-0524 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:25:47 -0400 From: Neil Coffee Subject: Digital Intertextuality Workshop Materials Dear Digital Classicists, On February 13-15, 2014, the University of Geneva and the Fondation Hardt in Vandoeuvres hosted “Intertextualité et Humanités Numériques http://tesserae.caset.buffalo.edu/blog/category/workshop/ ,” a workshop on digital approaches to intertextuality and text reuse focused on classical antiquity. Materials from the workshop are available through the Tesserae blog http://tesserae.caset.buffalo.edu/blog/category/workshop/ . These include an overview of the proceedings, descriptions of current digital projects on intertextuality in the classical world, presentation text and slides, and blog responses by workshop participants. Best wishes, Neil http://www.classics.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/neil_coffee/ Neil Coffee Associate Professor and Chair Department of Classics University at Buffalo, SUNY 338 MFAC Buffalo, NY 14261 (716) 645-0452 http://www.classics.buffalo.edu/ http://www.classics.buffalo.edu/ http://tesserae.caset.buffalo.edu/ http://tesserae.caset.buffalo.edu/ http://dca.drupalgardens.com/ http://dca.drupalgardens.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 070E064FE; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:51:09 +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 137056310; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:51:05 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 820B36237; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:51:02 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140321065102.820B36237@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:51:02 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.908 on early humanities 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. 27, No. 908. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 21:30:22 +0000 (GMT) From: joeraben1@cox.net Subject: "Data" on early humanities computing The following is selected from the introductory chapter of a book I am completing on my own efforts in humanities computing: In September 1964 IBM organized at the same laboratory what it called a Literary Data Processing conference, primarily, I believe now, to publicize the project of Fr. Roberto Busa to generate a huge verbal index to the writings of Saint Thomas Aquinas and writers associated with him. IBM had underwritten this project and Fr. Busa, an Italian Jesuit professor of linguistics, had been able to recruit a staff of junior clergy to operate his key punches. The paper he read at this conference was devoted to the problems of managing the huge database he had created. IBM had persuaded The New York Times to send a reporter to the conference, and in the story he filed he chose to describe in some detail my paper on the Milton-Shelley project. The report of the eccentric professor who was trying to use a computer to analyze poetry caught the fancy of the news services, and the story popped up in The [London] Times and a few other major newspapers around the world. What impressed me most at that conference, however, was the number of American academics who had been invited to speak about their use of the computer, often to generate concordances. Such reference works had, of course, long antedated the computer, having originated in the Renaissance, when the first efforts to reconcile the disparities among the four Gospels produced these alphabetized lists of keywords and their immediate contexts, from which scholars hoped to extract the "core" of biblical truth. The utility of such reference works for non-biblical literature soon became obvious, and for centuries, dedicated students of literature, often isolated in outposts of Empire, whiled away their hours of enforced leisure by copying headwords, lines and citations onto slips which then had to be manually alphabetized for the printer. Such concordances already existed for a small number of major poets, like Milton, Shelley and Shakespeare. Apparently unrecognized by the earlier compilers of concordances was the concept that by restructuring the texts they were concording into a new order – here, alphabetical, but potentially into many others – they were creating a perspective radically different from the linear organization into which the texts had originally been organized. A major benefit to the scholar of this new structure is the ability to examine all the occurrences of individual words out of their larger contexts but in association with other words almost immediately adjacent. Nascent in this effort was the root of what we now conceive as a text database. Some of this vision was becoming visible to the members of the avant garde represented at the Literary Data Processing conference, who had generally taken up a program called KWIC (keyword in context) that IBM had "bundled" with its early computers, a program designed to facilitate control over scientific information. Because it selected keywords from article titles, it was recognized as a crude but acceptable mechanism for literary concordances, to the extent that Stephen M. Parrish had begun publishing a series for Victorian poets, and others at the conference reported on their work on Chaucer, Old English and other areas of literary interest. In hindsight it is evident that the greater significance of these initiatives was twofold: first, they made clear that even in their primitive state in the 1960s, computers could perform functions beyond arithmetic and second, that another dimension of language study was available. From the beginning signaled by this small event would come a growing academic discipline covering such topics as corpus linguistics, machine translation, text analysis and literary databases. Beyond the activity reported at that early conference, it became increasingly evident that computer-generated concordances could not only serve immediate scholarly needs but could also imply future applications of expanding value. Texts could be read non-linearly, in a variety of dimensions, with the entire vocabulary alphabetized, with the most common words listed first, with the least common words listed first, or with all the words spelled backwards (so their endings could be associated), and in almost any other manner that a scholar's imagination could conjure. Concordances could be constructed for non-poetic works, such as Melville's Moby-Dick or Freud's translated writings. Many poets of lesser rank than Shakespeare, Milton, and Chaucer could now be accorded the stature of being concorded, and even political statements could be made, as when the anti-Stalinist Russian Josip Mandelstam was exalted by having his poetry concorded. David W. Packard even constructed a concordance to Minoan Linear A, the undeciphered writing system of prehistoric Crete. Looking beyond that group's accomplishment in creating the concordances and other tools they were reporting on, I had a vision of a newer scholarship, based on a melding of the approaches that had served humanities scholars for generations with the newer ones generated by the computer scientists who were struggling at that time to understand their new tool, to enlarge its capacities. Sensing that the group of humanists gathering for this pioneering conference could benefit from maintaining communication with each other beyond this meeting, I devoted some energy and persistence to persuading IBM to finance what I conceived first as a newsletter. Through the agency of Edmond A. Bowles, a musicologist who had decided he could support his family more successfully as an IBM executive than as a college instructor, I received a grant of $5000 (as well as a renewal in the same amount), a huge award at that time for an assistant professor of English and enough to impress my dean, who allowed me a course reduction so I could teach myself to be an editor. The first issue of Computers and the Humanities: A Newsletter (CHum) appeared in September 1966, and immediately began to outgrow its original conception. In an illustration of the paradox of success following an unplanned initiative, people of began to submit articles, and university libraries began to subscribe. Within a few years, what started as a sixteen-page pamphlet became the standard journal in its field, with a circulation of about 2000 in all parts of the globe, equal to that of the scholarly journals of major universities. Among our contributors was J.M. Coetzee, who had worked as a computer programmer while building his reputation as a novelist and who later won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Throughout the more than two decades that it served the scholarly community, CHum's policy was to present as comprehensive as possible a depiction of the computer's role in expanding the resources of the humanist scholar. Articles covered a wide spectrum of disciplines: literary and linguistic subjects, of course, but also also archaeology, musicology, history, art history, and machine translation. By its breadth of interests, then, far from being a distraction from my scholarly interests, editing CHum for over twenty years was an enriching and broadening experience. First, it kept me in touch with the growing avant garde of humanities computing. By inviting papers on all humanities-related subjects in a wide range of disciplines, I kept myself aware of the various methodologies being developed in every part of the world where humanists were braving a hostile or indifferent environment to create the foundations of what has become today the expanding realm of digital humanities. Not only did I work closely with all my contributors, laboriously copyediting their submissions so that their work appeared as clearly as I knew how to make it, and so that I knew each article intimately, but for the first few years, when humanities computing was still a relatively unknown activity, I published semiannual reports on the entire global activity under the rubric of "Directory ofScholars Active." This feature of the journal, based on questionnaires mailed semiannually to a broad range of computer-oriented academics, has been described as perhaps its most useful feature. I also organized a series of national surveys, beginning with Canada (by Paul Bratley) and culminating in a double issue covering activities in France (by Colette Charpentier). The journal may also have helped develop a sense of community in a thinly populated academic specialty. Its services seem to have functioned to establish humanities computing as a more respectable and legitimate avenue of scholarly advancement than it might otherwise have been considered. In addition, an index of the journal's contents over the first five years allowed newcomers to the field to rapidly acquaint themselves with prior contributions to their special interests. Three books were published under the series title Data Bases in the Humanities and Social Sciences, helpful in not only expanding the limits of this type of research but forming a historical record of that period's accomplishments. And to keep this constituency and the general public further informed, for several years I published a quarterly newsletter called SCOPE that reported the latest developments in humanities-related software. The publishing operation served as a foundation for various important extensions. The "Directory of Scholars Active" was cumulated into a book, printed in what was then innovative digital composition. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 98DD16558; Sat, 22 Mar 2014 08:05:35 +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 A9BF564AA; Sat, 22 Mar 2014 08:05:19 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 393436480; Sat, 22 Mar 2014 08:05:16 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140322070516.393436480@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 08:05:16 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.909 correction to Philobiblon URL X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 909. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 11:24:36 +0100 From: "MORRAS RUIZ-FALCO, Maria" Subject: Correction to Philobiblon URL Sorry, the addres for Philobiblon is case sensitive. The correct link is: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/philobiblon M Morrás _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4EEBA6584; Sat, 22 Mar 2014 11:14:28 +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 38CC66578; Sat, 22 Mar 2014 11:14:19 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DA49E64EC; Sat, 22 Mar 2014 11:14:16 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140322101416.DA49E64EC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 11:14:16 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.910 gendered and epistemological pluralism X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 910. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 09:49:54 +0000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: gendered and epistemological pluralism Some time ago we had a brief fling at the question of gender and computing. This is to rekindle that discussion, if any there be who are interested, by pointing to Sherry Turkle and Seymour Papert, "Epistemological pluralism and the revaluation of the concrete", in Constructivism: Research Reports and Essays 1985-1990, ed. I. Harel and S. Papert, 161-91 (Norwood, N.J.: Ablex) -- which, fortunately, Turkle put online, at http://web.mit.edu/sturkle/www/pdfsforstwebpage/ST_Epistemo%20Pluralism.pdf. I quote the first paragraph to give you an idea, and I hope incentive to click and read: > The concerns that fuel the discussion of women and computers are best > served by talking about more than women and more than computers. > Women's access to science and engineering has historically been > blocked by prejudice and discrimination. Here we address sources of > exclusion determined, not by rules that keep women out, but by ways > of thinking that make them reluclant to join in. Our central thesis > is that equal access to even the most basic elements of computation > requires an epistemological pluralism, accepting the validity of > multiple ways of knowing and thinking. and the last: > On a more down-to-earth level, there is every reason to think that > revaluing the concrete will contribute to a computer culture that > treats the computer as an expressive medium and encourages > differentiated styles of use and relationship with. There is every > reason to think that this computer culture will be more welcoming and > nurturing to women--and to men. Gilligan has said that "women's place > in man's life cycle" is to protect the recognition "of the continuing > importance of attachment in human life" (Gilligan. 1982. p. 23). We > conclude with an analogous point. The role of feminist studies in the > nascent computer culture is to promote the recognition of diversity > in how we think about and appropriate formal systems and encourage > the acceptance of our profound human connection with tools. The problem is not only for (gendered) humans but also for human activities, which we tend to gender metaphorically, such as the (soft) humanities and the (hard) sciences. Insofar as it is of the humanities, digital humanities must hunger equally for that epistemological pluralism, no? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B014C64EC; Sat, 22 Mar 2014 11:16:42 +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 288D8619D; Sat, 22 Mar 2014 11:16:34 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A336F6188; Sat, 22 Mar 2014 11:16:32 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140322101632.A336F6188@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 11:16:32 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.911 events: teaching practices X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 911. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 09:55:32 +0100 From: Toma Tasovac Subject: CfP: DARIAH-EU VCC2 Workshop “Innovative Teaching Methods and Practices in Digital Humanities” @DH2014 Dear colleagues, We would like to share with you our Call for Proposals for the DARIAH-EU VCC2 workshop: “Innovative Teaching Methods and Practices in Digital Humanities” to be held on July 7 at the Digital Humanities Conference 2014 in Lausanne. You will find the full text of the CfP at: http://tinyurl.com/DARIAH-cfp-DH2014 With this workshop, we would like to encourage the participants - and, consequently, the DH community at large - to share their thoughts and ideas on how the development of a digital pedagogy for digital humanities should proceed. We are looking for proposals from both long-time practitioners of DH and recent adopters with innovative ideas, methods and interest in digital humanities pedagogy. We are looking for thoughtful and creative contributions that will be surprising, enlightening and inspirational. We are interested not only in what works but also what doesn't — and what we can learn from failed experiments. This full-day workshop will be divided into two sessions: Showcasing best practices for teaching and learning DH In the morning session, participants will have the opportunity to present their ideas and/or actual teaching methods and materials. Challenges in DH pedagogy The afternoon session will provide a forum for the participants to discuss the most prominent challenges and issues in teaching DH as well as the necessary next steps in promoting DH through digital pedagogy. Proposals should consist of an abstract of up to 500 words and a short bio which should be submitted by e-mail to: zim@uni-graz.at(mailto:zim@uni-graz.at) The submission deadline is April 13. The proposals will be evaluated and selected by a program committee of international experts. The length allocated to each contribution (10-15 minutes) will be decided by the program committee, depending on the number of contributions and the strength of the proposals. Notifications regarding the acceptance of proposals will be sent out by May 12. Feel free to share this with colleagues, blogs and mailing lists that you find appropriate! We are looking forward to your contributions! All best, Claire Clivaz, Walter Scholger and Toma Tasovac --Toma Tasovac Belgrade Center for Digital Humanities http://humanistika.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 44CA763DB; Sun, 23 Mar 2014 09:44:00 +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 49C7F63C0; Sun, 23 Mar 2014 09:43:34 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 25BFD63C0; Sun, 23 Mar 2014 09:43:30 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20140323084331.25BFD63C0@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 09:43:30 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.912 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. 27, No. 912. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 09:43:48 -0400 From: Anna Kazantseva Subject: Call for Participation, EACL Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature April 27, 2014 Co-located with EACL 2014 Gothenburg, Sweden (Our apologies for multiple postings) The Third Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature, co-located with EACL in Gothenburg, invites all and sundry for a day of NLP with a difference. Join us on April 27 to hear two exciting invited talks and eight intriguing presentations. You will meet digital poetics and encounter a particular view of digital humanities. You will find out how to turn a novel into a piece of music, how to recreate a social network in a piece of prose, and much more. https://sites.google.com/site/clfl2014a/ Come one, come all! Anna, Anna, 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B1CB965D8; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 07:20:31 +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 0222C6380; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 07:20:23 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 97AFE64F5; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 07:20:20 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140324062020.97AFE64F5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 07:20:20 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.913 jobs at Okanagan (BC, Canada) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 913. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 21:20:19 +0000 From: Raluca Fratiloiu Subject: Term positions in the Department of Communications at Okanagan College Dear colleagues, The Department of Communications at Okanagan College has some open term positions for 2014-2015. Please pass along this information to anyone you think might be interested. Details about these positions are available here: https://www.employmentopportunities.okanagan.bc.ca/applicants/jsp/shared/frameset/Frameset.jsp?time=1395585790625 . For more information you can contact, Mike Boulter, Chair, by phone at (250) 762-5445 ext 4783 or by email at mboulter@okanagan.bc.ca. Kind regards, Raluca Fratiloiu Raluca Fratiloiu, PhD College Professor Department of Communications OKANAGAN COLLEGE 1000 K.L.O. RD Kelowna BC V1Y 4X8 www.okanagan.bc.ca/communications _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8B1CC6262; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 07:21:20 +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 DB57865DE; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 07:21:11 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0F00665D1; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 07:21:09 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140324062110.0F00665D1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 07:21:09 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.914 events: linguistic analysis of medieval 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. 27, No. 914. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 21:48:47 +0100 From: "Center for Comparative Studies" Subject: Atelier MediText Paris, 27-28 Mars Atelier PALM-MEDITEXT 27-28 March 2014 Université Paris I http://lamop.univ-paris1.fr/IMG/pdf/meditext2014.pdf ----- PALM-Méditext A web-based platform to enable the linguistic analysis of medieval texts (PALM) A corpus of political texts from late medieval England and France (Méditext) J.-P. Genet, C. Fletcher, A. Mairey, N. Kanaoka, C. Morgan, L. Albiero, M. Aouini PALM (Plateforme d’Analyse Linguistique Médiévale) is a software utility, operated over the internet, which makes possible the computer-aided analysis of medieval texts. This initial version is focused on political texts of French and English origin, in Medieval Latin, Middle French and Middle English, dating from the twelfth to the early sixteenth century, but with the possibility of expansion to consider other themes, languages and regions. Before PALM, it was impossible, or at least very labour intensive, to apply such an analysis to a large body of texts from this period, as a result of the absent of standard spelling in these languages at this time and (especially in the case of Middle English) the still unformed nature of their grammar and syntax. [...] http://lamop.univ-paris1.fr/IMG/pdf/PALM-Meditext__English_version.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 71D63664A; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 06:52:30 +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 CCE6065D2; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 06:52:18 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 98F6B65D2; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 06:52:16 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140325055216.98F6B65D2@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 06:52:16 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.915 events: TEI; social media; THATCamp; minimal 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. 27, No. 915. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Chris Forster (18) Subject: EVENT: THATCamp Central New York, Syracuse University, April 11-12 [2] From: Kim (13) Subject: CFP: Social Media and Society Conference [3] From: John Simpson (11) Subject: Call For Presentations: Kickstarting the GO::DH Minimal Computing Working Group @ DH2014 [4] From: "Mylonas, Elli" (94) Subject: TEI Hackathon DH2014 Workshop (July 7) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 13:33:47 +0000 From: Chris Forster Subject: EVENT: THATCamp Central New York, Syracuse University, April 11-12 Hi Folks, Those in the area of central New York (USA), may be interested in attending THATCamp CNY April 11 and 12 at Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY. Additional information is below. Please feel free to spread this message far and wide. Registration is currently open and will remain open until we we can admit no more. THATCamp CNY 2014 When: Friday April 11 (9:00am - 4:30pm) and Saturday April 12 (9:00am - 12:00pm). What: THATCamp Central New York, 2014 Where: Bird Library, Syracuse University THATCamp stands for "The Humanities and Technology Camp." It is an "unconference": an open, inexpensive meeting where humanists and technologists of all skill levels learn and build together in sessions proposed on the spot. We'll provide breakfast, lunch, and coffee. You bring curiosity, some energy, and maybe a laptop, and we'll see what we can do. THATCamp is a great opportunity for established digital humanists to share methodologies, or for beginners to learn the ropes. Have questions? Bring them! If you're interested apply now; then feel free to propose a session on the THATCamp CNY 2014 site. As the event approaches we'll remind folks to propose sessions. Sessions can be on any topic relevant to the humanities and technology. Final determination of sessions (what gets discussed---text analysis, teaching with technology, maps and cultural analysis, whatever!) will happen on the morning of the event, based on the interest of folks assembled. If you have questions, don't hesitate to email: thatcampcny2014@gmail.com For more on THATCamp, see: http://thatcamp.org/about/ To apply for THATCamp Central New York, 2014, please visit: http://cny2014.thatcamp.org/register/ Co-Sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor, from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the SU Humanities Center in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Syracuse University Library Thanks, Chris Forster Assistant Professor, English Syracuse University --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 12:42:54 -0400 From: Kim Subject: CFP: Social Media and Society Conference Thought this CFP would be of interest to those of us doing social network analysis, data mining, etc. http://socialmediaandsociety.com/?p=629 Location: Toronto Date: Sept 27-28 Abstracts due: April 19th -- Kim Martin PhD Candidate` Faculty of Information and Media Studies University of Western Ontario Twitter: @antimony27 Blog: http://howhumanistsread.com/ http://howhumanistsread.wordpress.com/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 13:41:30 -0700 (PDT) From: John Simpson Subject: Call For Presentations: Kickstarting the GO::DH Minimal Computing Working Group @ DH2014 ***-_-_-_-_-_-*** Please share this widely as we would like as global a representation as possible ***-_-_-_-_-_-*** The GlobalOutlook::DigitalHumanities (GO::DH) Minimal Computing Working Group is looking to kickstart itself with a workshop at this year’s DH conference in Lausanne, Switzerland.  We are looking to collect upwards of thirty presenters from the global DH community to share their current experiences with minimal computing in a lightning talk format.  This series of showcase talks will be followed by a focused collection of ideas directed at how the working group should proceed and then some initial decision making about which of these ideas to pursue and who should lead them. THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES TO BE INCLUDED EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT ATTENDING The GO::DH Minimal Computer Working Group uses “minimal computing” to simultaneously capture the maintenance, refurbishing, and use of machines to do DH work out of necessity along with the use of new streamlined computing hardware like the Raspberry Pi or the Arduino micro controller to do DH work by choice.  This dichotomy of choice vs. necessity focuses the group on computing that is decidedly not high-performance and importantly not first-world desktop computing.  By operating at this intersection between choice and necessity minimal computing forces important concepts and practices within the DH community to the fore.  In this way minimal computing is also an intellectual concept, akin to environmentalism, asking for balance between gains and costs in related areas that include social justice issues and de-manufacturing and reuse, not to mention re-thinking high-income assumptions about “e-waste” and what people do with it. Visit http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/working-groups/minimal-computing/kickstart-workshop/ for the full call and find out how you can get involved. ***-_-_-_-_-_-*** Please share this widely as we would like as global a representation as possible ***-_-_-_-_-_-*** -John John Simpson Postdoctoral Fellow INKE and Text Mining & Visualization for Literary History University of Alberta --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 00:35:00 -0400 From: "Mylonas, Elli" Subject: TEI Hackathon DH2014 Workshop (July 7) Call for Participation We are inviting applications to participate in the TEI Hackathon full day workshop that will be held on July 7, 2014, as a pre-conference session at DH2014 (http://dh2014.org/). Digital humanists, librarians, publishers, and many others use the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines to mark up electronic texts, and over time have created a critical mass of XML — some conforming to known subsets of the TEI Guidelines, some to individual customizations; in some cases intricate and dense, in others lean and expedient; some enriched with extensive external metadata, others with details marked explicitly in the text. The fruits of this labor are most often destined for display online or on paper (!), indexing, and more rarely, visualisation. Techniques of processing this markup beyond display and indexing are less well-understood and not accessible to the broad community of users, however, and programmers sometimes regard TEI XML as over-complex and hard to process. What We’ll Do The goal of the hackathon is to make significant progress on a few projects during one day of work (from 9am to roughly 5.30pm). Possible projects might include but are not limited to: * applying visualisation to TEI documents or schemas/ODDs (e.g. visualizing the TEI conceptual model) * mining a large corpus of texts for some data facet and visualising the results * rendering complex markup in an innovative and playful way * writing input or output filters for existing bits of software * extending existing TEI software to take advantage of external resources such as Zotero * adding a TEI mode to a web editor * Programming for multilingual resources All participants will begin discussing the projects that have been proposed before the hackathon, and select a small number to be worked on. More concrete discussion about tools and specs will take place before the date of the hackathon so participants can hit the ground running during the hackathon. On the day of the hackathon, participants will form groups, and work on their projects. Workshop organizers and invited experts will be on hand to consult on TEI details and strategies of dealing with them. The organisers will provide refreshments during the day, will make sample texts available if needed, and will help with software setup where possible. Participants will need to bring their own laptop computers Participants This workshop is intended for reasonably experienced DH practitioners, who may not hitherto have experimented with TEI XML, as well as those who have already been using TEI and developing TEI tools. If you don’t fall into either of these categories, but you have a project that is appropriate for the hackathon, please apply or contact us directly. Application process Applicants will email their application with the following information to hackathon@tei-c.org. Name Affiliation Contact information (email) Skills and experience (to help select projects) One or two suggested projects. These don’t have to be described in great detail, as they will be discussed and shaped further in June. Deadline: Midnight (EST) April 17 (applications received after this date will be considered on a rolling basis only if space remains available) Notification: by April 30 The selection will be carried out by the programme committee based on variety of expertise, interest in challenges with broad application, geographical and gender balance. Organizers and Experts Please don’t hesitate to contact the organizers if you have any questions. Programme committee: Hugh Cayless (hugh.cayless@duke.edu), TEI Technical Council - Research programmer for the Duke Collaboratory for Classics Computing Arianna Ciula (ariananciula@roehampton.ac.uk), TEI Board of Directors - Research Facilitator (Humanities) at the University of Roehampton James Cummings (james.cummings@it.ox.ac.uk), TEI Technical Council (chair) - Senior Digital Research Specialist in Academic IT at University of Oxford’s IT Services Elli Mylonas (elli.mylonas@brown.edu), TEI Technical Council - Senior Digital Humanities Librarian at Brown University Sebastian Rahtz (sebastian.rahtz@it.ox.ac.uk), TEI Technical Council - Director of Academic IT at University of Oxford’s IT Services Other TEI and DH experts Syd Bauman, Senior XML programmer analyst at Northeastern University Digital Scholarship Group Alexander Czmiel, researcher in Digital Humanities at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities Follow up Participants will have the option of applying for a grant of up to $1000 from the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium to allow them to finish their work and make it available to others. Details for this competition will be provided after the workshop has taken place. This workshop is being sponsored by the TEI Consortium ( http://www.tei-c.org/) which will provide lunch, coffee and snacks. Thank you, --elli [Elli Mylonas Senior Digital Humanities Librarian and 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AE24A6663; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 06:53:56 +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 A8AE7665B; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 06:53:47 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7E8ED6646; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 06:53:45 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140325055345.7E8ED6646@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 06:53:45 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.916 spectral imaging on PBS (US) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 916. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 09:30:31 -0700 (PDT) From: "Adrian S. Wisnicki" Subject: PBS special on Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project Colleagues, For those of you with an interest in the use of spectral imaging technology, you might want to check out the program that PBS is airing this week Wednesday in the US on my own David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/episodes/the-lost-diary-of-dr-livingstone-about-this-episode/1103/). For my other Livingstone digital initiative, Livingstone Online, we've also just launched a blog (http://livingstoneonline.wordpress.com) and Twitter account (twitter.com/livingstone13d) that will allow you to track our progress over the next three years as we develop two new NEH-funded projects. Do feel free to follow us or say hello! Best, Adrian S. Wisnicki Assistant Professor, English Department Faculty Fellow, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities University of Nebraska-Lincoln _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2861066BD; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 07:45:45 +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 A208966A8; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 07:45:29 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9353466AC; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 07:45:27 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140326064527.9353466AC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 07:45:27 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.917 student awards for Balisage; job at the BBAW X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 917. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Christian Thomas (28) Subject: Job at BBAW [2] From: Ray Siemens (57) Subject: student support awards for Balisage 2014 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 18:27:16 +0100 From: Christian Thomas Subject: Job at BBAW Dear Humanists, please consider this job announcement from the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities/Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW). For more information see below and http://www.bbaw.de/stellenangebote/ausschreibungen-2014/14-03-20_Ausschreibung_DWDS_wiMi.pdf (in German only): *Reference: AV/1/2014 * eine/n wissenschaftliche/n Mitarbeiter/in im Bereich Informatik Bewerbungsende: 04.04.2014 mit der Hälfte der tariflichen Arbeitszeit und zunächst befristet für zwei Jahre. Best, p.p. Christian Thomas (BBAW) -- 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 http://www.deutschestextarchiv.de/clarin_kupro -- --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 21:25:30 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: student support awards for Balisage 2014 In-Reply-To: <7B2476B4-4514-404A-8680-7999FF498321@blackmesatech.com> > From: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" Students: Balisage wants YOU!!! * Do you work with markup or marked up texts? * Do you use XML, XSLT, XQuery, or other markup-related technology? * Do you wish you could attend the leading technical conference on markup design, standards-based open information management, and applications of markup? * Do you need financial support to do so? Then apply for a Balisage 2014 student award! First-place winner will receive: - Reimbursement for travel to and from the conference - Hotel for the duration of the conference - Conference registration, including breakfast and lunch Additional winners will receive conference registration, including breakfast and lunch. To be eligible, you must be currently enrolled full time in an academic degree program and you must have a demonstrable interest in and commitment to our field. Applications should include: * Application Letter. Tell us, in a page or two, why you want to come to Balisage, and how attending Balisage will help you. * Academic CV, listing any of the following: relevant course work, research projects, published papers, conferences attended, professional employment and activity, blogging, etc. * Letter(s) of recommendation. At least one letter of recommendation from a professional (academic or not) who knows your work. * Permission to publicize, at the conference and in connection with it, your name and participation, in announcements and related materials such as the conference 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. * Paper submission for the conference (optional). A paper submission will strengthen your application even if not accepted for the program. And some of the best papers at previous Balisage conferences have been given by student award winners. DEADLINE: 18 April 2014 (the same day Balisage paper submissions are due). Application materials will be accepted in plain text, HTML, or PDF. Paper submissions must follow the guidelines on the Balisage site. Please send applications to info@balisage.net. Include contact information. If your submission is not acknowledged in 3 business days call us at +1 301 315 9631. Applicants will be notified as to their award status by Tuesday 20 May 2014. More info: Conference: http://www.balisage.net Student Awards: http://www.balisage.net/special/students.html [The fine print ...] Awards will be offered at the discretion of the conference committee. There may be more than one first-place winner, depending on availability of funding for the student support program. -------- There is Nothing So Practical As A Good Theory http://www.balisage.net ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... -- **************************************************************** * C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, Black Mesa Technologies LLC * http://www.blackmesatech.com * http://cmsmcq.com/mib * http://balisage.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3D6DE66E5; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 07:50:07 +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 C0E7D66DE; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 07:49:57 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id EEE6E66DD; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 07:49:54 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140326064954.EEE6E66DD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 07:49:54 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.918 events: hackathon; summery activities; PhD seminar X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 918. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Niels_Brügger (41) Subject: PhD seminar 'Web Archiving and Archived Web — a new Research Method, a new Object of Study?' [2] From: Marco_BÜCHLER (36) Subject: Succeed hackathon at UA [3] From: Constance Crompton (17) Subject: DHSI@Congress Workshops--Wednesday May 28th to Friday May 30th 2014 at Brock University [4] From: James Cummings (53) Subject: Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School 2014: Registration Open --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 09:38:45 +0000 From: Niels_Brügger Subject: PhD seminar 'Web Archiving and Archived Web — a new Research Method, a new Object of Study?' ***DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 31 March*** Submission deadline for the PhD seminar 'Web Archiving and Archived Web — a new Research Method, a new Object of Study?’ (Aarhus University, Denmark, 11-12 June 2014) has been extended to Monday 31 March 2014. The seminar application consists of a one-page abstract which can be either a project description or an expression of interest in the field. Please visit the submission website http://webarc.netlab.dk/index.php/netlab/2014/index, create an account and submit your abstract. The lectures and the lecturers: • “Virtual Digs: Excavating, Preserving, and Archiving the Web”, Meghan Dougherty, Assistant Professor, Digital Communication, Loyola University Chicago • “A Data Driven Approach to Web Archive Research”, Anat Ben-David, post-doctoral researcher with the WebART project, University of Amsterdam • “Archiving web material for future research?”, Ditte Laursen, senior researcher and curator at the State Media Archive, State Library in Denmark • “Probing a nation’s web sphere”, Niels Brügger, Associate Professor, Aarhus University, Head of the Centre for Internet Studies Read the full call, including more about the course format, the venue, and how to enrol:http://www.netlab.dk/courses/ Very best, Niels Brügger ------------------------------------------------------------ PhD seminar — Web Archiving and Archived Web — a new Research Method, a new Object of Study? — Aarhus University, Denmark, 11-12 June 2014 Read the full call, including more about the course format, the venue, and how to enrol: http://www.netlab.dk/courses/ LATEST PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS August 2013 Web historiography and Internet Studies: Challenges and perspectives, New Media & Society, 15(5), 752-764 Read more: http://nms.sagepub.com/content/15/5/752.abstract June 2013 Historical Network Analysis of the Web, Social Science Computer Review, 31(3), 306-321 Read more: http://ssc.sagepub.com/content/31/3/306.abstract March 2013 The Web and Digital Humanities: Theoretical and Methodological Concerns (w. N.O. Finnemann), Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 57(1), 66-80 Read more: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08838151.2012.761699 NIELS BRÜGGER, Associate Professor, PhD Director, the Centre for Internet Studies Department of Aesthetics and Communication Aarhus University Helsingforsgade 14, room 236 8200 Aarhus N Denmark Phone (switchboard) +45 8715 0000 Phone (direct) +45 8716 1971 Phone (mobile) +45 2945 3231 E-mail nb@imv.au.dk Webpage http://imv.au.dk/~nb Profile at LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/50a/555 Skype name: niels_bruegger The Centre for Internet Research, http://cfi.au.dk NetLab, http://netlab.dk Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities (BUDDAH), http://buddah.projects.history.ac.uk --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 15:28:14 +0100 From: Marco_BÜCHLER Subject: Succeed hackathon at UA On the 10th and 11th of April 2014, the Succeed project will hold a hackathon at the University of Alicante, whose aim is to look at improving the state-of-the-art open-source tools for the digitisation of textual content such as books and newspapers. Over the two days, developers will work together in small groups to discuss, roadmap and plan the future development of existing tools. Some of the topics up for discussion are: * How to train the Tesseract http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/wiki/TrainingTesseract3 OCR engine. * Creation of XSLT stylesheets for format conversion, e.g. hOCR, PAGE, FRXML. * Debian package generation. The hackathon provides a unique opportunity to meet developers involved in digitisation projects all over Europe. Participation to the event is FREE OF CHARGE, but please make sure you reserve your place. Participants are also encouraged to take a look at Last year's hackathon's outcomes http://www.digitisation.eu/blog/1st-succeed-hackathon-kb/ and background information http://succeed-project.eu/wiki/index.php/Developers_workshops_%28hackathons%29 . --Marco BܜCHLER Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (GCDH) Papendiek 16 37073 Göttingen (Heynehaus) eMail : mbuechler@e-humanities.net Web : http://www.gcdh.de/ Profil : http://www.gcdh.de/en/people/team/marco-buechler/ Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/marco.buechler LinkedIn : http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=15098543&trk=tab_pro Twitter : https://twitter.com/mabuechler l-h --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 07:52:14 -0700 From: Constance Crompton Subject: DHSI@Congress Workshops--Wednesday May 28th to Friday May 30th 2014 at Brock University Dear all, We are pleased to announce DHSI@Congress, a series of 2.5-hour workshops for scholars, staff, and students interested in a hands-on introduction to the ways that traditional and digital methods of teaching, research, dissemination, creation, and preservation intersect and enhance one another. The DHSI@Congress workshops, which run from Wednesday May 28th to Friday May 30th 2014 at the Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Brock University in St. Catherines Ontario, are built on the community model of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria. The sessions, facilitated by established scholars and emerging leaders in the field, introduce a wide range of Digital Humanities methods and methodologies from 3D printing to project management, from text analysis to gaming (and more!). We invite interested Congress attendees to register for any and all workshops (descriptions) that engage their interest. The sessions will open with a plenary by the Society for Digital Humanities/ Société canadienne des humanités numériques presidents, Susan Brown and Michael Eberle-Sinatra. The plenary, on May 28th at 11:00-12:00 Thistle Complex 243, is free and open to the public. Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors and hosts, all spots in the workshops are made available via a tuition scholarship, requiring only the payment of a $25 administrative fee for each session. DHSI@Congress has been developed by the DHSI in partnership with the Society for Digital Humanities/ Société canadienne des humanités numériques (CSDH/SCHN) and the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS). The 2014 workshops will be delivered in English, with plans for French-language sessions in coming years. Please help us spread the good word. See you at Brock, Best, Constance Crompton and Ray Siemens https://www.regonline.ca/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1526736 ______________________ Constance Crompton Assistant Professor, Digital Humanities and English Department of Critical Studies | Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies University of British Columbia | Okanagan Campus CCS 346 | 3333 University Way, Kelowna BC Canada V1V 1V7 constance.crompton@ubc.ca | @clkcrompton | constancecrompton.com --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 17:02:16 +0000 From: James Cummings Subject: Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School 2014: Registration Open Registration has opened for the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS). DHOxSS is an annual event for anyone interested in Digital Humanities. This year's DHOxSS will be held on 14-18 July 2014. Register now at: http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2014/ DHOxSS is for researchers, project managers, research assistants, students, and anyone interested in Digital Humanities. DHOxSS delegates are introduced to a range of topics including the creation, management, analysis, modelling, visualization, or publication of digital data in the humanities. Each delegate follows one of our five-day workshops and supplements this with morning parallel lectures. There will also be a (peer-reviewed) poster session giving delegates a chance to present posters on their Digital Humanities work to those at the DHOxSS. This year's five-day workshops are: 1. Introduction to Digital Humanities 2. Taking Control: Practical Scripting for Digital Humanities Projects 3. Data Curation and Access for the Digital Humanities 4. A Humanities Web of Data: Publishing, Linking and Querying on the Semantic Web 5. Using the Text Encoding Initiative for Digital Scholarly Editions Morning parallel lectures include contributions from: James Brusuelas, Lou Burnard, Julia Craig-McFeely, Emma Goodwin, Howard Hotson, Eleanor Lowe, Carole Palmer, Allen Renear, Kerri Russell, Judith Siefring, Lynne Siemens, Ray Siemens, William Kilbride, Zixi You, David Zeitlyn, and more. Keynote lectures: Ray Siemens and Melissa Terras Evening events: Monday - a peer-reviewed poster session and reception at Oxford University Museum of Natural History; Tuesday - a guided tour around Oxford city centre; Wednesday - an elegant drinks reception and three course dinner at historic Wadham College; Thursday - The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities Lecture; Friday - Trip to the pub. 10% discount on registration fees if you block book 10 or more places from a single institution. DHOxSS is a collaboration between the University of Oxford's IT Services, the Oxford e-Research Centre, the Bodleian Libraries, the Oxford Internet Institute, and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities. We are very pleased this year to partner with the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to provide the Data Curation and Access workshop. Thanks to all our other external partners listed here: http://dhoxss.humanities.ox.ac.uk/2014/about.html. If you have questions, then email us at events@it.ox.ac.uk for answers. More details at: http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2014/ 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 96F0E6463; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 08:17:15 +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 38564619E; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 08:17:00 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 337E66188; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 08:16:55 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140327071656.337E66188@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 08:16:55 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.919 curricula for a DH master's degree? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 919. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:08:24 +0100 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: Two questions on DH masters curricula Dear all, Does anybody have some experiment/information about : - a DH masters open to students with a BA in computing, or with a BA in Arts and Humanities, or with a BA in Social Sciences? Has been such a model tested somewhere? - courses of specialization in DH (about 30 ECTS, in European terms) that could be added to all kinds of Arts and Humanities masters? Many thanks in advance! 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8B14F66A9; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 08:19:04 +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 B9A516249; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 08:18:54 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 977526249; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 08:18:52 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140327071852.977526249@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 08:18:52 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.920 events: pedagogy of historical enquiry; visual analytics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 920. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Kraft, Gabriele" (28) Subject: International Summer School: Visual Analysis with Digital Tools [2] From: Arianna Ciula (57) Subject: Historical Enquiry Workshop - using technology to develop students' research skills --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 12:04:45 +0000 From: "Kraft, Gabriele" Subject: International Summer School: Visual Analysis with Digital Tools Dear Humanists, The Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (GCDH) is hosting an International Summer School focusing on the ‘Visual Analysis with Digital Tools’. It will take place from 28 July to 1 August 2014 in Göttingen, Germany. Introduction: The Digital Humanities enhance the methods of traditional research in the humanities through automated data acquisition and processing. Visualisations can play a central role in analysing such data. This Summer School will address a set of fundamental problems, such as requirements for scientific visualisation or visual strategies. The main goal, however, is to focus on the practical side to enable the participants to tackle specific visualisation problems in order to advance their own research. There will be two separate strands: 1. Analysing Words and Networks with ConText: Information and Relation Extraction from Text Data, Network Visualisation and Analysis The focus of this workshop is on teaching practical, hands-on skills for using text analysis methods in an informed, systematic and efficient fashion. Our goal is to equip the participants with the skills and tools needed to use the covered techniques for their own research and text data sets. 2. 3D Documentation for Cultural Heritage: Geometry Acquisition and Processing This strand will focus on the visualisation of objects such as sculptures, plaster figurines, etc. and is aimed at students of archaeology, (art) history and related disciplines. After refreshing some basic geometric knowledge and an introduction to technical terms like ‘sampling density’, the strand will shift to practical work. The participants will be acquainted with state-of-the-art equipment and software in the 3D modeling field (Breuckmann/AICON). Programme: Both workshops will take place in parallel, from Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The afternoons will be reserved for the presentation of Digital Humanities projects and small workshops. The programme is complemented by two evening keynotes held by experts in the Visual Analytics field, Prof. Dr. Daniel Keim, Chair for Data Analysis and Visualisation at the University of Constance, and Manuel Lima, founder of visualcomplexity. Applicants: We are inviting up to 40 international participants (MA and PhD students). Up to 20 students can be registered for each one of the two strands. Please send a covering letter indicating which strand you’re interested in, a short CV (1 page max.), and a letter of motivation (2 pages max.) as one integral PDF file to the coordinator of the Summer School, Frank Fischer (frank.fischer@zentr.uni-goettingen.de). The deadline for applications is 30 April 2014. You will be notified on your application status until 15 May 2014. Costs and fees: The registration fee for accepted applicants is 80 € and includes costs for tuition (workshops + lectures) and lunches in the refectory. We provide free accommodation in near-by hostels (mostly dormitory-style) or holiday homes. For further information, please visit the summer school website (http://www.gcdh.de/summer-school-2014/). With best wishes, Ele Kraft Gabriele Kraft Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (GCDH) Papendiek 16 D-37073 Göttingen Tel: 0049 551 39 20476 Email: gkraft@gcdh.de http://www.gcdh.de http://www.gcdh.de/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 16:25:07 +0000 From: Arianna Ciula Subject: Historical Enquiry Workshop - using technology to develop students' research skills Historical Enquiry - using technology to develop students' research skills 11 April 2014 10:00 - 16:00 Portrait Room, Grove House,University of Roehampton (London, UK) Funded by the Higher Educatuion Academy Organised by Dr Ted Vallance, reader in early modern history at the Department of Humanities, in collaboration with Edge Hill University. The event is free but registrationis required: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/historical-enquiry-using-technology-to-develop-students-research-skills-tickets-10368094249 ------------------------------ - How do we help students make the transition from guided study at school and college level to the more independent learning required at university? - How can we encourage students to be reflective and self-aware in their approach to their academic work? - How do we teach students to be effective and discerning researchers? This event will offer some possible digital solutions to these questions. The workshop will present the initial findings from an HEA-funded collaborative teaching development project, run by Edge Hill and Roehampton universities, which explores using online tools and platforms to support student learning on two first-year undergraduate history courses. The workshop will include presentations from students and academic staff involved in the project, and will offer evaluations of usage data gathered from the module sites. The workshop will also cover technical aspects of the project such as the employment of Mahara e-portfolio software. The workshop should be of interest to teachers of history in both secondary and further/higher education. It may be of particular interest to those looking to develop, refresh and enhance first-year methodology and skills courses in history and other related arts and humanities subjects. The event is free and includes refreshments and lunch but registration is compulsory as places are limited. Please contact the event organiser if you have any special dietary requirements, access needs and/or require parking at the event. - 10.00-10.30 Welcome and coffee/tea (Adam Room, Grove House, University of Roehampton) - 10.30-11.30 Introduction from University of Roehampton and Edge Hill teaching team to the project and test modules (Portrait Room, Grove House) - 11.30-12.30 Exploration of example tools and platforms (Portrait Room) - 12.30 -1.30 Lunch (sandwich buffet) - 1.30-3.00pm Initial project evaluation – Edge Hill and University of Roehampton evaluation teams (Portrait Room) - 3.00-3.15 Tea/coffee break - 3.15-4.00pm Response and reflection on historical enquiry and online learning (Professor Alan Booth) (Portrait Room) - 4.00-4.30pm Drinks reception (Adam Room) For more information on travelling to Roehampton and for campus maps: http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/Contact-Us/ Do you have questions about Historical Enquiry - using technology to develop students' research skills? Contact Dr. Ted Vallance, Reader in Early Modern History, Department of Humanities Roehampton University - edward.vallance [at] roehampton.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DBAE76140; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 08:06:37 +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 E7D436480; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 08:06:24 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D9DB96446; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 08:06:21 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140328070621.D9DB96446@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 08:06:21 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.921 curricula for DH master's degree X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 921. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "simon@familie-gruening.de" (16) Subject: Aw: 27.919 curricula for a DH master's degree? [2] From: "Koster, Josephine" (7) Subject: RE: 27.919 curricula for a DH master's degree? [3] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (16) Subject: Re: 27.919 curricula for a DH master's degree? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 13:08:39 +0100 From: "simon@familie-gruening.de" Subject: Aw: 27.919 curricula for a DH master's degree? In-Reply-To: <20140327071656.337E66188@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Claire, I know about such a course in Germany. It's at the University of Bamberg: http: //www.uni-bamberg.de/ma-cith/ All the best, Simon On Mar 27, 2014, at 1:16 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Dear all, > > Does anybody have some experiment/information about : > > - a DH masters open to students with a BA in computing, or with a BA in Arts and Humanities, or with a BA in Social Sciences? Has been such a model tested somewhere? > > - courses of specialization in DH (about 30 ECTS, in European terms) that could be added to all kinds of Arts and Humanities masters? > > Many thanks in advance! > > Claire Clivaz (Lausanne, CH) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 08:38:54 -0400 From: "Koster, Josephine" Subject: RE: 27.919 curricula for a DH master's degree? In-Reply-To: <20140327071656.337E66188@digitalhumanities.org> Claire, you might contact Cheryl Ball, who is on a Fulbright at Oslo School of Architecture & Design this term; she is an expert on digital rhetoric programs and on interdisciplinary digital projects. Also, the @digithumanities account on Twitter is a great source of information and networking; so is @dhgermany, which has more European participants. Hope these may be of some help to you! Best, Jo Koster Winthrop University --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 17:45:40 -0600 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Re: 27.919 curricula for a DH master's degree? In-Reply-To: <20140327071656.337E66188@digitalhumanities.org> Claire Clivaz asks about a DH masters open to students from computing, arts, humanities and social sciences. The MA in Humanities Computing at the University of Alberta is such an MA. We have accepted students who have done well with degrees in everything from computer science to design. For more information please see: http://huco.ualberta.ca Best, Geoffrey Rockwell _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, LOTS_OF_MONEY,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 1CBD16573; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 08:08:56 +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 2E433643C; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 08:08:43 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E07466332; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 08:08:40 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140328070840.E07466332@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 08:08:40 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.922 jobs at National Gallery and NYPL (U.S.); PhD studentships 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. 27, No. 922. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Susan Schreibman (29) Subject: two PhD fellowships available at NUI Maynooth [2] From: Doug Reside (5) Subject: Job: Humanities Curator at NYPL [3] From: "Pugh, Emily" (6) Subject: Project Head for Digital Art History, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (deadline 4/1) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 09:10:38 +0000 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: two PhD fellowships available at NUI Maynooth An Foras Feasa, the humanities institute of the National University of Ireland Maynooth, is delighted to announce funding for two John & Pat Hume PhD fellowships in the area of digital humanities for PhD candidates beginning the 2014-15 academic year. Funding is for a four-year PhD, consisting of a first year of taught modules, followed by three years of research. Funding covers EU fees and a €5000 yearly stipend. Additional funding of up to €3000 may also be available in the form of tutorials, lectures, or by working on an existing DH research project. PhDs may register in An Foras Feasa for the PhD. Alternatively, students may decide on joint supervision between An Foras Feasa and a member of staff in a humanities department. Candidates will join a supportive and vibrant DH community. Current DH projects include The Digital Repository of Ireland, The DixIT ITN, Letters of 1916, and Contested Memories: The Battle of Mount Street Bridge. Further information is available here: learndigitalhumanities.ie with all best wishes susan -- Susan Schreibman Professor of Digital Humanities Director of An Foras Feasa Iontas Building National University of Ireland Maynooth Maynooth, Co. Kildare email: susan.schreibman@gmail.com phone: +353 1 708 3451 fax: +353 1 708 4797 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 07:04:25 -0400 From: Doug Reside Subject: Job: Humanities Curator at NYPL This will be a really great job, I think! Its title is not "digital" curator (because well, virtually all curation is more or less digital these days), but if you read the job description, you'll see that the focus is strongly on the digital humanities. https://jobs-nypl.icims.com/jobs/7874/humanities-curator/job?mobile=false&width=750&height=500&bga=true&needsRedirect=false --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 17:59:26 +0000 From: "Pugh, Emily" Subject: Project Head for Digital Art History, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (deadline 4/1) CASVA, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, seeks a research associate with a PhD in art history to serve as Project Head for Digital Art History for the academic years 2014-2016. Candidates should have proven experience with digital art history projects and be able to provide guidance in the use of digital tools and methods (including database construction, website development, online publishing, and GIS mapping) for enriching and expanding existing CASVA research projects (seehttp://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/research/casva/research-projects.html). The project head for digital art history provides the CASVA deans with technical support and guidance for their research and special projects, including conceptualizing and writing proposals for computer-based, scholarly research projects and publications. This involves working to design applications that meet their specific scholarly goals and articulating them to the Gallery’s technical staff. The project head for digital art history also meets regularly with research teams and other Gallery staff, and creates production schedules to ensure the development and maintenance of digital projects. The position is a full-time salaried appointment with a two-year term and option of renewal for a third year. Research Associates are employees of the National Gallery of Art and have full use of the Gallery’s library, research facilities, and services. As members of CASVA’s scholarly community they are expected to participate in ongoing meetings and programs at the Center. They are also encouraged to pursue their own scholarly research. Applicants should have a PhD in art history or expect to complete all requirements for the PhD by September 2014. Preference is given to applicants who have not already held a regular faculty appointment. All applicants must be proficient in one or more European languages, and demonstrate an ability to work collaboratively. Stipend: $40,000 per annum (plus additional allowances for travel and research; mandatory leave and health benefits) Applicants should submit electronically a cover letter and curriculum vitae to the Selection Committee to casva@nga.gov. Two letters of recommendation should be sent directly by email attachment to casva@nga.gov. Review of applications will begin on April 1, 2014, and continue 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B125462D9; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 08:11:47 +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 DF6B7626B; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 08:11:36 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7F7466265; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 08:11:33 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140328071133.7F7466265@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 08:11:33 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.923 events: digitization; information age X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 923. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (22) Subject: Digitisation Days - Call for Participation [2] From: Connelly Charlotte (31) Subject: REMINDER: Science Museum 'Information Age' conference - call for papers/date change --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 13:46:45 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Digitisation Days - Call for Participation In-Reply-To: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION What are the Digitisation Days? The Digitisation Days are a major event in text digitisation field organised by the Succeed project and the IMPACT Centre of Competence. This event includes: * The DATeCH (Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage) international conference. * An exhibition of digitisation technology where leading companies will showcase state-of-the-art tools. * The Succeed Awards ceremony. * Panel discussions on the future of digitisation, IPR issues, etc. Where and when will they take place? The Digitisation Days will take place in Madrid at the facilities of the Biblioteca Nacional de Espa?a (Paseo de Recoletos, 20-22), 19-20 May 2014. Why should I attend the Digitisation Days? * Become aware of new technology for the digitisation of textual content. * Influence future trends in digitisation: meet researchers, leading companies, and service providers and discuss your requirements. * Participate in the discussions about the future of digitisation. Experts and representatives of the European Commission will share their vision. * Network and build new connections with representatives of libraries, companies and institutions involved in digitisation. A round table http://succeed-project.eu/digitisation-days/overview is scheduled to roadmap the future research for the digital library. All participants, both technological experts and librarians, are invited to participate in a round table meeting to address questions like the following: * What further research/development is needed to support the creation and maintenance of a digital library? * How can European competence centres (such as Impact Centre of Competence, Open Planets Foundation, or V-Must.net http://V-Must.net ) contribute to the advance of the state-of-the-art? How can I register? Please, visit http://www.succeed-project.eu/digitisation-days/registration *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1395931621_2014-03-27_andrew.prescott@kcl.ac.uk_17623.1.1.html http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1395931621_2014-03-27_andrew.prescott@kcl.ac.uk_17623.2.pdf --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 18:02:34 -0000 From: Connelly Charlotte Subject: REMINDER: Science Museum 'Information Age' conference - call for papers/date change In-Reply-To: PLEASE NOTE THE DATE CHANGE OF THIS CONFERENCE. THE CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO APRIL 25TH. REMINDER: Call for contributions 'Interpreting the Information Age': new avenues for research and display November 3rd - 5th 2014 Science Museum, London Dear colleagues, In autumn 2014, the Science Museum will open a ground-breaking new permanent gallery, Information Age. The gallery will expose, examine and celebrate how information and communication technologies have transformed our lives over the last 200 years. To mark this launch, the Museum is hosting a three day conference which will discuss how the history and material culture of information can be made relevant for today's audiences, and celebrate the participation projects which have supported the gallery's development. We would welcome contributions from peers across the sector and beyond, to support this exciting conference. The call for contributions can be viewed at http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/about_us/new_research_folder/news_and_ev ents/Upcoming%20Events.aspx - please send all proposals to research@sciencemuseum.ac.uk by Friday 25th April 2014 (date extended). Kind regards, Charlotte Charlotte Connelly Content Developer - Information Age The Science Museum Exhibition Road London SW7 2DD Tel: 020 7942 4106 Email: charlotte.connelly@sciencemuseum.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DC8F863FD; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 08:36:30 +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 A513163E4; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 08:36:20 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6F31363EA; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 08:36:18 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140329073618.6F31363EA@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 08:36:18 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.924 curricula for DH master's degree X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 924. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Franz Fischer (47) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.919 curricula for a DH master's degree? [2] From: "Helena Barbas" (16) Subject: RE: 27.921 curricula for DH master's degree --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 08:53:49 +0100 From: Franz Fischer Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.919 curricula for a DH master's degree? In-Reply-To: <20140327071656.337E66188@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Claire, As for the German speaking BA and MA landscape you might have a look at Parick Sahle's booklet on 'Digitale Geisteswissenschaften': http://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de/Dokumente/BroschuereWeb.pdf Best, Franz Quoting Humanist Discussion Group : > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 919. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:08:24 +0100 > From: Claire Clivaz > Subject: Two questions on DH masters curricula > > > Dear all, > > Does anybody have some experiment/information about : > > - a DH masters open to students with a BA in computing, or with a > BA in Arts and Humanities, or with a BA in Social Sciences? Has been > such a model tested somewhere? > > - courses of specialization in DH (about 30 ECTS, in European terms) > that could be added to all kinds of Arts and Humanities masters? > > Many thanks in advance! > > Claire Clivaz (Lausanne, CH) -- Dr. Franz Fischer Cologne Center for eHumanities / Thomas-Institut Universität zu Köln, Universitätsstr. 22, D-50923 Köln Telefon: +49 - (0)221 - 470 - 4056 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://dixit.uni-koeln.de http://guillelmus.uni-koeln.de http://confessio.ie --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 09:37:04 -0000 From: "Helena Barbas" Subject: RE: 27.921 curricula for DH master's degree In-Reply-To: <20140328070621.D9DB96446@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Claire - I've been teaching a Digital Humanities seminar at Master Level (MA) at my University - Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas - Universidade Nova de Lisboa - since 2010-2011 - Sylabus here - http://www.unl.pt/guia/2013/fcsh/UNLGI_getUC?set_language=en&uc=722091127 Best regards Helena Barbas Helena Barbas (PhD) Dep. Estudos Portugueses Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas Universidade Nova de Lisboa Gab. 0.26 Av. de Berna, 24-C Lisboa 1069-061 – Portugal Tel.: +351-217908300 e-mail: hebarbas @ fcsh.unl.pt homepage: http://www.helenabarbas.net _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 53E9F63FF; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 08:39:15 +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 BA4F26402; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 08:39:05 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D5EEF63EF; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 08:39:03 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140329073903.D5EEF63EF@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 08:39:03 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.925 postdoc at New South Wales; 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. 27, No. 925. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Sarah Kenderdine (43) Subject: Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Laboratory for Innovation in Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (iGLAM), University of New South Wales [2] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (27) Subject: Funded PhD studentship at UCL --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 07:14:10 +0000 From: Sarah Kenderdine Subject: Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Laboratory for Innovation in Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (iGLAM), University of New South Wales This Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, within the National Institute for Experimental Arts (NIEA), College of Fine Arts, is located at the newly created Laboratory for Innovation in Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (iGLAM), University of New South Wales, Sydney. iGLAM researches at the intersection of emerging technologies and tangible/intangible and natural heritage. Through collaboration with GLAM communities, iGLAM develops applied outcomes at the forefront of visitor experiences. The Post Doctoral Research Fellow will contribute to the research trajectories of iGLAM through excellent theoretical and practised-based research. Researchers interested in the following could apply: * Establishing your own visionary research initiatives within iGLAM that are complimentary to existing research. * Supporting iGLAM through research on major grant initiatives. * Contributing to the overall research activities of iGLAM including workshops, demonstrations, seminars, conferences and public speaking. * Contributing to the overall research outputs of iGLAM through publications, installations, products and services together with and for the GLAMs communities. * Undertaking promotion of iGLAM within the sector both in Australia and overseas. Maintain a keen and high-level interest in both technologically enabled iGLAM activities and their theoretical and practical implications * Developing lasting and sustainable relationships with iGLAM organisations both within Australia and overseas. The position will be of interest to those with: * PhD in any relevant area (of this diverse field) * Strong publication record * A track record of innovative theoretical or practical research in one or more of the GLAM domains * Excellent grant research and writing skills * Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team * Ongoing relationships with GLAMs sector whether international or national iGLAM is offering a full time (35 hours per week) fixed term position available for three years to a pioneer in the iGLAMs sector. A$81K – A$87K per year (plus 17% employer superannuation and leave loading) For further information about the position, please contact the Professor Sarah Kenderdine, on email s.kenderdine@unsw.edu.au or phone (+61 (0) 402 956 432). Professor Sarah Kenderdine National Institute for Experimental Arts, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales Assoc. Director, iCinema Research Centre Special Projects, Museum Victoria Adjunct Prof. CityU, Hong Kong, Applied Laboratory of Interactive Visualization and Embodiment (ALiVE), CityU, Hong Kong Adjunct Prof. RMIT, Melbourne hk m: +852 95344295 / skenderd@cityu.edu.hk aus m: +61 402956432 / skenderdine@museum.vic.gov.au / s.kenderdine@unsw.edu.au --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 10:24:52 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Funded PhD studentship at UCL In-Reply-To: Interested in doing a fully funded PhD on an aspect of archives and records management? Would you like to study in the vibrant and research active Department of Information Studies at University College London? Keen to work with colleagues committed to working in a collaborative and interdisciplinary fashion across the university, London and the world? The International Centre for Archives and Records Management Research (ICARUS, http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/research/icarus) is inviting competitive applications for a three year fully funded doctoral research studentship in the area of Archives and Records Management. Potential applications can propose study of any aspects of the field of archives and records management, including applications from those engaging with archives and records from outside the discipline, but we are particularly interested in receiving proposals for study in the following six areas: - Access to information, open government and information governance - Community-based archives and participatory approaches to archives and heritage - Conceptual and theoretical understandings of archives and records - Description, representation and metadata - Archival activism: records and social justice - Digital technologies in recordkeeping Further details of the studentship and the application process can be found at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/Research-studentships For further details of the studentship please contact Kerstin Michaels (k.michaels@ucl.ac.uk), for an informal discussion on possible applications please contact Professor Elizabeth Shepherd (e.shepherd@ucl.ac.uk), Dr Andrew Flinn (a.flinn@ucl.ac.uk) or Dr Jenny Bunn (j.bunn@ucl.ac.uk). Please note the closing date is 16 May 2014. Dr Andrew Flinn Reader in Archival Studies & Director of Archives and Records Management MA programmes Department of Information Studies G28 Foster Court University College London London WC1E 6BT a.flinn@ucl.ac.uk http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/people/andrewflinn +44 2076792479 ext. 32479 "We have been the dreamers, we have been the sufferers, now we must be the builders" _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, T_FRT_PROFIT2 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7E5576423; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 08:41:12 +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 BC9FD6403; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 08:41:02 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 94D2F63F1; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 08:41:00 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140329074100.94D2F63F1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 08:41:00 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.926 call for submissions: prize for outstanding book X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 926. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 15:34:29 +0000 From: David Nofre Subject: 2014 Computer History Museum Prize (Outstandin​g Book), 15 May deadline Computer History Museum Prize 2014 2014 Call for Submissions The Computer History Museum Prize is awarded to the author of an outstanding book in the history of computing broadly conceived, published during the prior three years. The prize of $1,000 is awarded by SIGCIS, the Special Interest Group for Computers, Information and Society. SIGCIS is part of the Society for the History of Technology. Books published in 2011-2013 are eligible for the 2014 award. Books in translation are eligible for three years following the date of their publication in English. Publishers, authors, and other interested members of the computer history community are invited to nominate books. Send one copy of the nominated title to each of the committee members listed below. To be considered, book submissions must be postmarked by 15 May 2014 For more information, please contact the prize committee chair. Current information about the prize, including the most recent call and a list of previous winners, may always be found at http://www.sigcis.org/chmprize. In 2012 the prize was endowed in perpetuity through a generous bequest from the estate of Paul Baran, a legendary computer innovator and entrepreneur best known for his work to develop and promote the packet switching approach on which modern networks are built. Baran was a long-time supporter of work on the history of information technology and named the prize to celebrate the contributions of the Computer History Museum to that field. 2014 Prize Committee Members Rebecca Slayton: Lecturer in Public Policy, Stanford University, 616 Serra Street, Stanford, CA 94305-6055. rslayton@stanford.edu David Nofre (chair): Research Affiliate, Centre d'Estudis d'Història de la Ciència at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Send books to him at Kleyn Proffijtlaan 47, 2343DB Oegstgeest, Netherlands d.nofre@gmail.com Joseph A. November: Associate Professor, University of South Carolina, Department of History, 817 Henderson St., Gambrell Hall, Room 245, Columbia, SC 29208. november@sc.edu Please address any questions to David Nofre. Previous Winners •2009: Christophe Lécuyer, Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970 (MIT Press, 2006). •2010: Atsushi Akera, Calculating a Natural World: Scientists, Engineers, and Computers During the Rise of U.S. Cold War Research (MIT Press, 2007). •2011: Paul N. Edwards, A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (MIT Press, 2010). •2012: Eden Medina, Cybernetic Revolutionaries:Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile (MIT Press, 2011). •2013: Joseph A. November. Biomedical Computing: Digitizing Life in the United States (Johns Hopkins University Press, 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 15D7C623B; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 08:41:45 +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 953FA6239; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 08:41:36 +0100 (CET) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 9254A61F6; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 08:41:34 +0100 (CET) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140329074134.9254A61F6@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 08:41:34 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Humanist] 27.927 events: The Aesthetic 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. 27, No. 927. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 13:42:57 +0000 From: Michael Takeo Magruder Subject: Invite: Aesthetic Archive Project - Sharing and Discussion Event - 2 April, 3:30pm @ Anatomy Museum The Aesthetic Archive: exploring alternative approaches to digital archives and collections a public sharing and discussion event Wednesday, 2 April 2014 from 15:30 to 18:00 Anatomy Museum, 6th Floor, King's Building, Strand Campus, King's College London The Aesthetic Archive project seeks to consider how the ongoing development, structuring and public consumption of large, digital archives and collections can be informed and expanded through the application of new technologies and alternative approaches. The initiative is a cross-sector collaboration led by Michael Takeo Magruder (Artist and Researcher, Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London) in partnership with Mark Flashman (World Service, British Broadcasting Corporation), and is part of the Cultural Institute at Kings' Innovation Programme. This public sharing event will outline the core ideas behind the collaboration and will bring together a panel of experts to discuss important issues surrounding digital archives. Panellists will include: • Sheila Anderson (Professor of e-Research, KCL) • Tobias Blanke (Senior Lecturer, Centre for e-Research, KCL) • Andrew Prescott (Professor of Digital Humanities, KCL) • Michael Smethurst (Development Producer, BBC R&D) • Zillah Watson (Editor, BBC R&D) The event is free to attend and will be followed by a wine and drinks reception. Directions: KCL Strand Campus Map: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/campuses/strand/Strand.aspx Anatomy Museum Location: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/campuses/download/KBLevel6forweb.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E1BD46464; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 06:47:12 +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 AB3776130; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 06:47:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7C16C6084; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 06:46:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140330044658.7C16C6084@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 06:46:58 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.928 curricula for DH master's degree X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 928. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 15:46:51 +0100 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: Re: 27.924 curricula for DH master's degree In-Reply-To: <20140329073618.6F31363EA@digitalhumanities.org> Thank you a lot to all for all your suggestions!!! Claire Le 29 mars 2014 à 08:36, Humanist Discussion Group a écrit : > > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 924. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: Franz Fischer (47) > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.919 curricula for a DH master's degree? > > [2] From: "Helena Barbas" (16) > Subject: RE: 27.921 curricula for DH master's degree > > > --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 08:53:49 +0100 > From: Franz Fischer > Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.919 curricula for a DH master's degree? > In-Reply-To: <20140327071656.337E66188@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Dear Claire, > > As for the German speaking BA and MA landscape you might have a look > at Parick Sahle's booklet on 'Digitale Geisteswissenschaften': > http://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de/Dokumente/BroschuereWeb.pdf > > Best, > Franz > > Quoting Humanist Discussion Group : > >> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 919. >> Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London >> www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist >> Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org >> >> >> >> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:08:24 +0100 >> From: Claire Clivaz >> Subject: Two questions on DH masters curricula >> >> >> Dear all, >> >> Does anybody have some experiment/information about : >> >> - a DH masters open to students with a BA in computing, or with a >> BA in Arts and Humanities, or with a BA in Social Sciences? Has been >> such a model tested somewhere? >> >> - courses of specialization in DH (about 30 ECTS, in European terms) >> that could be added to all kinds of Arts and Humanities masters? >> >> Many thanks in advance! >> >> Claire Clivaz (Lausanne, CH) > > > -- > Dr. Franz Fischer > Cologne Center for eHumanities / Thomas-Institut > Universität zu Köln, Universitätsstr. 22, D-50923 Köln > Telefon: +49 - (0)221 - 470 - 4056 > 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://dixit.uni-koeln.de > http://guillelmus.uni-koeln.de > http://confessio.ie > > > > --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 09:37:04 -0000 > From: "Helena Barbas" > Subject: RE: 27.921 curricula for DH master's degree > In-Reply-To: <20140328070621.D9DB96446@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Dear Claire - I've been teaching a Digital Humanities seminar at Master > Level (MA) at my University - Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas - > Universidade Nova de Lisboa - since 2010-2011 - Sylabus here - > http://www.unl.pt/guia/2013/fcsh/UNLGI_getUC?set_language=en&uc=722091127 > > Best regards > Helena Barbas > > Helena Barbas (PhD) > Dep. Estudos Portugueses > Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas > Universidade Nova de Lisboa > Gab. 0.26 > Av. de Berna, 24-C > Lisboa 1069-061 – Portugal > Tel.: +351-217908300 > e-mail: hebarbas @ fcsh.unl.pt > homepage: http://www.helenabarbas.net _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4EDB564E0; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 06:48:05 +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 047C46156; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 06:47:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E8ACE6156; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 06:47:54 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140330044754.E8ACE6156@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 06:47:54 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.929 pubs: Guide to Digital Media X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 929. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 15:52:23 -0600 From: Lori Emerson Subject: announcing the publication of the Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media Dear all, I'm very happy to announce that our Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media is now out (edited by Marie-Laure Ryan, Benjamin Robertson, and myself). We're hoping very much to line up reviews - to that end, please let me know if you're interested and have a journal in mind and I'll arrange to have a copy sent to you. I would also be grateful if you'd help spread the word. The JHUP website is down at the moment for maintenance but you can find information on the guidebook on Amazon ( http://www.amazon.com/Johns-Hopkins-Guide-Digital-Media/dp/1421412241) and I have also posted a list of contributors and entry titles on my blog ( http://loriemerson.net/2011/08/10/johns-hopkins-guide-to-digital-media/). yours, sincerely, Lori Emerson -- Lori Emerson Assistant Professor | Director, Media Archaeology Lab Department of English, University of Colorado at Boulder Hellems 101, 226 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0226 loriemerson.net | mediaarchaeologylab.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 41B4262E3; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:50:45 +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 A5D4D657A; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:50:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4D6E46343; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:50:35 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20140331105035.4D6E46343@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:50:35 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.930 PhD studentship in visualisation at the Royal College of Art, 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. 27, No. 930. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 10:30:29 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Fully funded studentship in data visualisation, London (AHRC) In-Reply-To: <613E2575-F5D3-4B7F-86B2-B0BAB3A81039@kcl.ac.uk> Fully funded studentship in data visualisation, London (AHRC): Visualising historic time to integrate data across multiple datasets ----- The Royal College of Art (RCA) and The National Archives (TNA) in London invite applications for one fully funded Thames Consortium Studentship. Funded by AHRC, the three year PhD research programme will be supervised jointly by the RCA and TNA. The studentship begins in late September 2014. The research You will undertake a PhD on the visualisation of archive data with particular emphasis on time-wise interactive visualisations such as timelines and other chronographics. The research is intended to break new ground in representing multiple datasets. We see this as a problem of design, technology, and historiography, where data visualisation and interactivity hold the key to making sense of large data sets. This research builds on the achievements of a successful existing PhD project at the RCA. The project complements the AHRC-funded Big Data project 'Traces through Time' led by TNA to identify and link individuals across large historical datasets spanning a wide timeframe. Applicants should normally have at least a 2:1 from their first degree and a relevant masters degree. If in doubt about the relevance of your previous studies, please discuss this with us. Deadline for applications: midnight (UK time) 28 April 2014. Interviews likely to be week beginning 26 May. To discuss academic / industrial aspects of the studentship, email stephen.boyd-davis@rca.ac.uk To discuss administrative / financial aspects, email richard.makin@rca.ac.uk Information and application here: http://www.rca.ac.uk/ahrc-design-studentship An indication of past work by the academic director of this research can be seen here: http://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/view/creators/Boyd_Davis=3AStephen=3A=3A.html Stephen Boyd Davis Research Leader, School of Design Royal College of Art Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU E stephen.boyd-davis@rca.ac.uk T (Inka Hella, School Administrator) +44 (0)20 7590 4274 T (personal) +44 (0)20 7590 4343 www.rca.ac.uk http://www.rca.ac.uk twitter.com/rcaevents http://twitter.com/rcaevents facebook.com/RCA.London http://facebook.com/RCA.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B41E565EF; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:53:39 +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 C55FD655C; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:53:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8348F6310; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:53:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140331105329.8348F6310@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:53:29 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.931 events: CSDH/SCHN 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. 27, No. 931. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 22:17:11 -0600 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: CSDH/SCHN Programme Available Canadian Society for Digital Humanities / Société canadienne des humanités numériques 2014 ----- The program for this year’s CSDH/SCHN conference is now available at: https://www.conftool.net/csdh-schn-2014/sessions.php Don't forget to register for congress! ----- Le programme de la conférence est maintenant disponible à: https://www.conftool.net/csdh-schn-2014/sessions.php N'oubliez pas de vous inscrire au congrès! _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CFC6D66C1; Tue, 1 Apr 2014 11:01:38 +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 7BB4466C0; Tue, 1 Apr 2014 11:01:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C7B5866BD; Tue, 1 Apr 2014 11:01:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140401090122.C7B5866BD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 11:01:22 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.932 events: semantics; THATCamp South Carolina; digital collaborating X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 932. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: SEMANTiCS (55) Subject: SEMANTICS 2014 - Call for Papers (deadline: May 23, 2014) [2] From: C Cooper (12) Subject: THATCamp Upstate on 4/18 w/presentaton by Michael Poston [3] From: Diane Jakacki (44) Subject: Collaborating Digitally conference - Call for Proposals --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 11:46:24 +0000 From: SEMANTiCS Subject: SEMANTICS 2014 - Call for Papers (deadline: May 23, 2014) 10th International Conference on Semantic Systems Leipzig, Germany September 4-5, 2014 http://www.semantics.cc Important Dates (Research & Application) Abstract Submission Deadline: May 23, 2014 Paper Submission Deadline: May 30, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: June 27, 2014 Camera-Ready Paper: July 14, 2014 Important Dates (Posters & Demo Papers) Submission Deadline: July 17, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: July 31, 2014 Camera Ready Paper: Aug 01, 2014 Submission: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2014 SEMANTiCS proceedings will be published by ACM ICP. The Call for Industry Presentations at SEMANTiCS 2014 can be found here: http://www.semantics.cc/open-calls/industry-presentations The annual SEMANTiCS conference (formerly known as I-Semantics) is the meeting place for professionals who make semantic computing work, and understand its benefits and know its limitations. Every year, SEMANTiCS attracts information managers, IT-architects, software engineers, and researchers, from organisations ranging from NPOs, public administrations to the largest companies in the world. Attendees learn from industry experts and top researchers about emerging trends and topics in semantic software, enterprise data, linked data & open data strategies and methodologies in knowledge modeling and text & data analytics. The SEMANTiCS community is highly diverse; attendees have responsibilities interlinking areas like knowledge management, technical documentation, e-commerce, big data analytics, enterprise search, document management, business intelligence, and enterprise vocabulary management. SEMANTiCS 2014 continues a long tradition of bringing together colleagues from around the world to present scientific papers, panels, posters, and best practices, to discuss semantic systems in birds-of-a-feather sessions and informal settings. SEMANTiCS addresses problems common among information managers, software engineers, IT-architects and various specialist departments working to develop, implement and/or evaluate semantic software systems. The SEMANTiCS program is a rich mix of technical talks, panel discussions of important topics, and presentations by people who make things work - just like you. In addition, attendees can network with experts in a variety of fields. These relationships provide great value to organisations as they encounter subtle technical issues. The expertise gained by SEMANTiCS attendees has a long-term impact on their careers and organisations. These factors make SEMANTiCS the premiere event for our community. The following ‘horizontals’ (topics) and ‘verticals’ (industries) are mainly addressed: Horizontals: * Business Models, Governance & Data Strategies * Knowledge Discovery & Intelligent Search * Data Integration & Enterprise Linked Data * Big Data & Text Analytics * Data Portals & Knowledge Visualisation * Document Management & Content Management * Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management Verticals: * Industry & Engineering * Life Sciences & Health Care * Public Administration * Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums (GLAM) * Media, Publishing & Advertising * Financial Industry * Telecommunications * Energy Research / Application Papers Papers report on novel scientific research and/or applications relevant to the topics of the conference. Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. The number of pages of research papers is limited to 8 pages for full papers and 4 pages for short papers including references and an optional appendix. All accepted full papers and short papers of SEMANTiCS will be published in the digital library of the ACM ICP Series under the ISBN-No.: 978-1-4503-1972-0. Full and short papers should follow the ACM ICPS guidelines for formatting (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) and must be submitted via the online submission system available at the conference website as PDF documents (other formats will not be accepted). For the camera-ready version, we will also need the source files (Latex, Word Perfect, Word). Important Dates (Research & Application) * Abstract Submission Deadline: May 23, 2014 * Paper Submission Deadline: May 30, 2014 * Notification of Acceptance: June 27, 2014 * Camera-Ready Paper: July 14, 2014 Posters & Demos The Posters & Demonstrations Track offer an opportunity to present late-breaking research results, smaller contributions, and innovative work in progress. The informal setting of the Posters & Demonstrations Track encourages presenters and participants to engage in discussions about the presented work. Such discussions can be invaluable inputs for the future work of the presenters, while offering conference participants an effective way to broaden their knowledge of the emerging research trends and to network with other researchers. Poster and demo submissions should consist of a paper of 1-4 pages that describes the work and its contribution to the field. Submissions to Posters & Demonstrations track must be formatted in the Springer LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors), i.e. please do NOT use the ACM template here. Submissions will be reviewed by experienced researchers and practitioners; each submission will receive detailed feedback. Important Dates (Posters & Demo Papers) * Submission Deadline: July 17, 2014 * Notification of Acceptance: July 31, 2014 * Camera Ready Paper: Aug 01, 2014 Please submit at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2014. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 14:13:42 +0000 From: C Cooper Subject: THATCamp Upstate on 4/18 w/presentaton by Michael Poston THATCamp Upstate will be held Friday, April 18th at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina. The event will run from 10 am to 5 pm, with most sessions being held in the Academic Success Center (http://www.clemson.edu/asc/). Michael Poston, editor and encoding architect of the Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Texts, will give a presentation at 1 pm. There will also be a few skills workshops in the morning in addition to participant-generated sessions. To register, please visit the THATCamp's website: http://upstate2014.thatcamp.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ C. Camille Cooper Associate Librarian Digital Humanities, English, Performing Arts, & the RCID program 501 R. M. Cooper Library http://www.clemson.edu/library Clemson University http://www.clemson.edu/ Clemson SC 29634-3001 (864) 656-0841 cooper2@clemson.edu --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 17:04:57 -0400 From: Diane Jakacki Subject: Collaborating Digitally conference - Call for Proposals Call for Proposals "Collaborating Digitally: Engaging Students in Faculty Research" Bucknell Digital Scholarship Conference: 14-16 November 2014 Bucknell University, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will host its first annual international digital scholarship conference. The theme of the conference is "Collaborating Digitally: Engaging Students in Faculty Research" with the goal of gathering a broad community of scholar-practitioners engaged in collaborative digital scholarship in research and teaching. This conference will bring together a broad community of scholar-practitioners engaged in collaborative digital scholarship in research and teaching. We encourage presentations that emphasize forms of collaboration: between institutions of higher education; across disciplines; between faculty, librarians, and technologists; and between faculty and students. We welcome contributions from scholars, educators, technologists, librarians, administrators, and students who use digital tools and methods, and encourage submissions from emerging and established scholar-practitioners alike, including those who are new to digital collaboration. Submission topics may include but are not limited to: engaging with space and place; creating innovative teaching and learning environments; perspectives on implications for the individual's own research and pedagogy within the institutional landscape, etc. Presentations may take the form of short papers, project demos, electronic posters, panel discussions, or lightning talks. For more information about submitting a presentation proposal, please go to the Bucknell Digital Initiatives website: http://goo.gl/eoOnK4 . The deadline for proposals is August 1, 2014. If you have questions or would like more information about the submission process, please email conference coordinator Diane Jakacki: diane.jakacki@bucknell.edu. Bucknell is a private liberal arts university located alongside the historic Susquehanna River in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. At Bucknell "Digital Scholarship" is defined as any scholarly activity that makes extensive use of one or more of the new possibilities for teaching and research opened up by the unique affordances of digital media. These include, but are not limited to, new forms of collaboration, new forms of publication, and new methods for visualizing and analyzing data. -- Diane Jakacki, Ph.D. Digital Scholarship Coordinator Bucknell University diane.jakacki@bucknell.edu @DianeJakacki _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6B72966C7; Tue, 1 Apr 2014 11:02:24 +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 CD4B666AB; Tue, 1 Apr 2014 11:02:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8668066AB; Tue, 1 Apr 2014 11:02:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140401090213.8668066AB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 11:02:13 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.933 Digital Humanities Quarterly: new publishing 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. 27, No. 933. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 23:55:09 +0000 From: "Flanders, Julia" Subject: New publishing model for Digital Humanities Quarterly Dear all, DHQ is pleased to announce an experimental new publication initiative that may be of interest to members of the DH community. As of April 1, we will no longer publish scholarly articles in verbal form. Instead, articles will be processed through Voyant Tools and summarized as a set of visualizations which will be published as a surrogate for the article. The full text of the article will be archived and will be made available to researchers upon request, with a cooling-off period of 8 weeks. Working with a combination of word clouds, word frequency charts, topic modeling, and citation networks, readers will be able to gain an essential understanding of the content and significance of the article without having to read it in full. The results are now visible at DHQ’s site here: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ We’re excited about this initiative on several counts. First, it helps address a growing problem of inequity between scholars who have time to read and those whose jobs are more technical or managerial and don’t allow time to keep up with the growing literature in DH. By removing the full text of the article from view and providing a surrogate that can be easily scanned in a few minutes, we hope to rectify this imbalance, putting everyone on an equal footing. A second, related problem has to do with the radical insufficiency of reading cycles compared with the demand for reading and citation to drive journal impact factor. To the extent that readers are tempted to devote significant time to individual articles, they thereby neglect other (possibly equally deserving) articles and the rewards of scholarly attention are distributed unevenly, based on arbitrary factors such as position within the journal’s table of contents. DHQ’s reading interface will resort articles randomly at each new page view, and will display each article to a given reader for no more than 5 minutes, enforcing a more equitable distribution of scarce attention cycles. This initiative also addresses a deeper problem. At DHQ we no longer feel it is ethical to publish long-form articles under the pretense that anyone actually reads them. At the same time, it is clear that scholars feel a deep, almost primitive need to write in these modes and require a healthy outlet for these urges. As an online journal, we don’t face any physical restrictions that would normally limit articles to a manageable size, and informal attempts to meter authors by the word (for instance, by making words over a strict count limit only intermittently visible, or blocking them with advertising) have proven ineffectual. Despite hopes that Twitter and other short-form media would diminish the popularity of long-form sustained arguments, submissions of long-form articles remain at high levels. We hope that this new approach will balance the needs of both authors and readers, and create a more healthy environment for scholarship. Thanks for your support of DHQ and happy April 1! best wishes, Julia _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C0A9E6718; Wed, 2 Apr 2014 11:43:10 +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 8D6846714; Wed, 2 Apr 2014 11:42:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D7E6C66FB; Wed, 2 Apr 2014 11:42:54 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140402094254.D7E6C66FB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 11:42:54 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.934 MSc funding at Edinburgh; job at MPIWG 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. 27, No. 934. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Jochen Schneider (25) Subject: Research Scholar MPIWG Berlin [2] From: DRITSAS Lawrence (24) Subject: STS scholarships for MSc students at the University of Edinburgh --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 15:54:37 +0200 From: Jochen Schneider Subject: Research Scholar MPIWG Berlin The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Berlin (Dept. III, Artefacts, Action, Knowledge, Director: Prof Dagmar Schäfer), seeks an outstanding scholar for the position of Research Scholar Starting date: 01. September 2014 (TVÖD E14, comparable to assistant professor/associate professor). The position is for three years, with the possibility of renewal. Candidates from all areas researching issues relevant to the history of science and technology are welcome to apply. Current research projects should be relevant to the agenda of Dept. III and the upcoming two working group foci within the project “Histories of Planning”: http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/research/projects/DeptIII_SchaeferDagmar-HistoriesOfPlanning. Candidates should have a doctorate in hand and a strong publication record. Evidence of intellectual versatility, in keeping with the departmental projects and its interdisciplinary and transregional research agenda, is required. The MPIWG is an international, interdisciplinary institute. International experience is highly desirable. The administrative responsibilities of Research Scholars are decided in consultation with the Director and shared with other members of the scholarly staff. There are no formal teaching obligations, but the Institute and Department hold regular colloquia. The MPIWG provides excellent support for research, including travel funds and the possibility of organizing conferences on topics related to the Research Scholar’s interests. Salaries are commensurate with academic experience and qualifications. It is expected that candidates will be able to present their own work and discuss that of others fluently in English. Applications may be submitted in German, English, Chinese or French. 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. Only electronic submissions will be accepted on webportal: https://s-lotus.gwdg.de/mpg/mbwg/research_2014_01.nsf/application Candidates are requested to submit the following documents • Cover letter, (indicating preference for one of the working groups) • Curriculum vitae including list of publications (designating the five most significant ones) • Description of current research project (research prospectus), (maximum 1000 words) • Sample text / publication (article, book chapter; maximum 10,000 words) • Names and contact details of three referees Deadline for submissions: 13. April 2014 For questions concerning the research project and Department III, please contact Prof. Dagmar Schäfer (dschaefer@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de); for administrative questions concerning the position and the Institute, please contact Ms. Claudia Paaß, Head of Administration (verwaltungsleitung@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de), or Mr. Jochen Schneider, Research Coordinator (jsr@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de). --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This will be a box at the job portal: Candidates will be invited for an interview 15./16.05.2014. Please indicate your availability (y/n) --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 13:44:48 +0000 From: DRITSAS Lawrence Subject: STS scholarships for MSc students at the University of Edinburgh In-Reply-To: <532B0944.70106@ed.ac.uk> Funding is available for international students looking to pursue MSc programmes in Science & Technology Studies at the University of Edinburgh. We are delighted to announce *five scholarships* to fund students wanting to pursue a taught MSc in Science and Technology in Society, or the MSc by Research in Science & Technology Studies at the University of Edinburgh. These scholarships will cover tuition fees for students who have been accepted onto one of the above MSc programmes for full-time or part-time study. Most EU nationals are eligible to apply. The application deadline is *1 May 2014*. Further details are available at: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/student-funding/postgraduate/uk-eu/university-scholarships/sfc-hsw. The University of Edinburgh also offers a number of scholarships for students from around the world wishing to pursue MSc programmes; details of scholarships and deadlines are available at: http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/2014/scholarships-100314. For questions or advice about these scholarships or the possibility of joining us for your MSc studies, please visit our website (www.stis.ed.ac.uk http://www.stis.ed.ac.uk ) or feel free to contact: Emma Frow, emma.frow@ed.ac.uk (MSc Science and Technology in Society), or Jane Calvert, jane.calvert@ed.ac.uk (MSc by Research in Science & Technology Studies) -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 24FC2671C; Wed, 2 Apr 2014 11:44:03 +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 DB259671A; Wed, 2 Apr 2014 11:43:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CE1E06713; Wed, 2 Apr 2014 11:43:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140402094351.CE1E06713@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 11:43:51 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.935 an Encoder Predilection Profiling Tool at WWP X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 935. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 11:36:41 +0000 From: "Flanders, Julia" Subject: Encoder Predilection Profiling Tool now available from the Women Writers Project Dear all, The Women Writers Project is pleased to share a new analytical instrument which we hope will be useful to other members of the TEI community. Please try out the Encoder Predilection Profiling Tool (EPPT): http://www.wwp.brown.edu/outreach/seminars/_current/handouts/EPPT_form.pdf The EPPT supports an assessment of the profilee on the following four metrics: 1. Source-oriented vs data-oriented encoding tendencies 2. Normative vs. descriptive encoding tendencies 3. General-purpose vs. project-specific encoding tendencies 4. Research-driven vs. function-driven encoding tendencies It generates an overall four-letter code that can be used to categorize individuals and locate them on a matrix of profiles. Our informal research thus far suggests that these profiles provide a valuable understanding of the deep motivations, preferences, anxieties, and drives that influence encoding decisions. For an encoding language as subtle and rich as the TEI, these factors play a much more decisive part in the encoding outcomes than would be the case in simpler languages like HTML or EAD. Understanding the different fundamental types of encoders is one important step towards a greater understanding of how text encoding operates as a representational system. The WWP anticipates that this tool could be very helpful in screening applicants for TEI workshops, helping to ensure that applicants end up in a workshop that matches their encoder profile and also determining what pedagogical approaches, case studies, and other components will be most effective for a given set of workshop participants. One could also use the instrument to help counsel participants in developing project strategy that takes account of (and if necessary compensates for) their tendencies in a particular direction. At the WWP, we’ve also found this instrument helpful in profiling incoming WWP encoders and staff, to gauge their aptitude in particular areas of the TEI and assign them to specific work areas as appropriate. A further analytical step that we have not yet undertaken is to characterize each individual profile in the resulting matrix, but this may be an exercise that others in the community will find appealing. We hope that others may also find this a useful tool and we welcome feedback. With best wishes for a happy April, Julia Julia Flanders Director, Women Writers Project Director, Digital Scholarship Group Northeastern 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id F2A696722; Wed, 2 Apr 2014 11:46:15 +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 CA9DB671C; Wed, 2 Apr 2014 11:46:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BD79C671B; Wed, 2 Apr 2014 11:46:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140402094604.BD79C671B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 11:46:04 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.936 events: Replaying Japan; the Caribbean 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. 27, No. 936. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Alex Gil (78) Subject: Call for Papers/Projects - The Caribbean Digital [2] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (8) Subject: Replaying Japan 2014 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 14:41:08 -0400 From: Alex Gil Subject: Call for Papers/Projects - The Caribbean Digital In-Reply-To: Call for Papers/Projects *The Caribbean Digital* a small axe event 5 December 2014 Barnard College / Columbia University New York, NY Deadline for proposals: 1 June 2014 The transformation of the academy by the digital revolution presents challenges to customary ways of learning, teaching, conducting research, and presenting findings. It also offers great opportunities in each of these areas. New media enable oration, graphics, objects, and even embodied performance to supplement existing forms of scholarly production as well as to constitute entirely original platforms. Textual artifacts have been rendered literally and figuratively three-dimensional; opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration have expanded exponentially; information has been made more accessible and research made more efficient on multiple levels. Scholars are called upon, with some urgency, to adapt their research and pedagogical methods to an academic climate deluged by a superabundance of information and analysis. This has created opportunities for open-ended and multiform engagements, interactive and continually updating archives and other databases, cartographic applications that enrich places with historical information, and online dialogues with peers and the public. The need for such engagements is especially immediate among the people of the Caribbean and its diasporas. Information technology has become an increasingly significant part of the way that people frame pressing social problems and political aspirations. Aesthetic media like photography and painting--because they are relatively inexpensive and do not rely on literacy or formal training--have become popular among economically dispossessed and politically marginalized constituencies. Moreover, the Internet is analogous in important ways to the Caribbean itself as dynamic and fluid cultural space: it is generated from disparate places and by disparate peoples; it challenges fundamentally the geographical and physical barriers that disrupt or disallow connection; and it places others and elsewheres in relentless relation. Yet while we celebrate these opportunities for connectedness, we also must make certain that the digital realm undermine and confront rather than re-inscribe forms of silencing and exclusion in the Caribbean. In this unique one-day public forum we intend to engage critically with the digital as practice and as historicized societal phenomenon, reflecting on the challenges and opportunities presented by the media technologies that evermore intensely reconfigure the social and geographic contours of the Caribbean. We invite presentations that explicitly evoke: - the transatlantic, collaborative, and/or interdisciplinary possibilities and limitations of digital technologies in the Caribbean - metaphorical linkages between the digital and such Caribbean philosophical, ethical, and aesthetic concepts as "submarine unity," the rhizome, Relation, the spiral, repeating islands, creolization, etc. - gendered dimensions of the digital in the Caribbean - the connection between digital technologies and practices of the so-called Caribbean folk - specific engagements with digital spaces and/or theories by individual Caribbean artists and intellectuals - the ways in which digital technologies have impacted or shaped understandings of specific Caribbean political phenomena (e.g. sovereignty, reparations, transnationalism, migration, etc.) - structural means of facilitating broad engagement, communication, and accessibility in the Caribbean digital context (cultivation of multilingual spaces, attentiveness to the material/hardware limitations of various populations) Both traditional papers and integrally multimedia papers/presentations are welcome. We also welcome virtual synchronous presentations by invited participants who cannot travel to New York City to attend the event. Selected proceedings from this forum will be published in the inaugural issue (September 2015) of *sx:archipelagos *- an interactive, born-digital, print-possible, peer-reviewed Small Axe Project publication. Abstracts of 300 words and a short bio should be sent to Kaiama L. Glover and Kelly Baker Josephs (archipelagos@smallaxe.net) by *1 June 2014*. Successful applicants will be notified by 1 August 2014. -- Kaiama L. Glover Associate Professor of French and Africana Studies Barnard College, Columbia University *Haiti Unbound http://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=11&A=BOOKSONIX_LUP_BOOKSHOP&AS=FIND%257CU1%257CA%257CAND%257CG2%257C&F=form&AS1=haiti+unbound * available from Liverpool UP *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1396378021_2014-04-01_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_11538.2.pdf --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 13:02:49 -0600 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Replaying Japan 2014 In-Reply-To: Interested in game studies? Please consider sending a proposal for the, 2nd International Japan Game Studies Conference, 2014 Note: the deadline for submission of papers is extended to April 14th! We encourage papers on all aspects of video games and Japan or Asia. This conference will be held August 21-23, 2014 at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. This coincides with the Fringe Theatre Festival, one of the largest in the world. (See http://www.fringetheatre.ca/) It is also a time of year when the days are long and the weather perfect. Enjoy Edmonton at its best. For more information see our Call for Proposals: https://sites.google.com/a/ualberta.ca/replayingjapan2014/home/call-for-papers This conference is organized in collaboration with the Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies, the Prince Takamado Japan Centre and the University of Alberta with support from the GRAND Network of Centres of Excellence. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C3826671E; Wed, 2 Apr 2014 11:48:34 +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 B47F2657D; Wed, 2 Apr 2014 11:48:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 17C6A6247; Wed, 2 Apr 2014 11:48:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140402094824.17C6A6247@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 11:48:23 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.937 new journal: Big Data & Society X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 937. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 09:44:18 +0000 From: Judith Simon Subject: Journal "Big Data & Society": now open for submissions Dear colleagues, we are pleased to announce that the new SAGE journal, Big Data & Society, is now open for submissions at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/bdas. The journal invites contributions that analyse Big Data practices and/or involve empirical engagements and experiments with innovative methods while also reflecting on the consequences for how societies are represented (epistemologies), realised (ontologies) and governed (politics). For more details please see our blog athttp://bigdatasoc.blogspot.co.uk/ or follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/BigDataSoc. Journal information and submission guidelines can be found here:http://www.uk.sagepub.com/journals/Journal202236#tabview=manuscriptSubmission Best regards, Editorial Office Big Data & Society: Critical Interdisciplinary Inquiries (Launch 2014) bdseditors@sagepub.com Editor: Evelyn Ruppert (Goldsmiths, UK) Co-editors: Paolo Ciuccareli (Milan, IT), Anatoliy Gruzd (Dalhousie, CA), Adrian Mackenzie (Lancaster, UK), Richard A. Rogers (Amsterdam, NL), Irina Shklovski (Copenhagen IT, DK), Judith Simon (Vienna, AT & Copenhagen, DK), Matt Zook (Kentucky, US) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BAB8F64A5; Thu, 3 Apr 2014 12:09:36 +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 6C2C3648A; Thu, 3 Apr 2014 12:09:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 08BC5645D; Thu, 3 Apr 2014 12:09:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140403100927.08BC5645D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 12:09:26 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.938 job at the Bobst Library, NYU X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 938. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 17:44:29 -0400 From: Jennifer Vinopal Subject: Job: DevOps Engineer at NYU Dear colleagues, We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to work with our Digital Library Technology Services to help us build digital scholarship and digital humanities services for the NYU community. We are seeking a diverse applicant pool. Please share this with anyone you think might be interested and otherwise feel free to distribute this widely. Thank you, Jennifer -------- From the job ad: "plan, configure, and manage both in-house and cloud environments. You will also provide technical assistance in a variety of faculty research projects. Our unit is a group of digitizers, developers, designers, and project managers who process, enable access to, and preserve digital materials." Context: we've created a new library unit called Digital Scholarship Services. This position will work with the rest of our digital library team to provide back-end support and development in support of digital scholarship and digital library initiatives. Link to the full job ad and application process: http://t.co/uWye443nJt ------------------------------------------------------- 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6766B64C0; Thu, 3 Apr 2014 12:10:43 +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 4203C64A3; Thu, 3 Apr 2014 12:10:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A821E64A3; Thu, 3 Apr 2014 12:10:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140403101031.A821E64A3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 12:10:31 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.939 events: Edirom 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. 27, No. 939. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 11:52:12 +0200 From: Peter Stadler Subject: Save the date: Edirom-Summer-School 2014 *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1396432621_2014-04-02_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_6152.2.pgp-signature Dear colleagues, please let me inform you about this year's Edirom-Summer-School (ESS) which will take place 8 to 12 September 2014 at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute of the University of Paderborn, Germany. After last two years' successful cooperation with the german eHumanities project DARIAH-DE, we are proud to announce that this year ESS will officially be co-organized by the Virtual Research Group Edirom (University of Paderborn) and DARIAH-DE. The scope of courses reaches from basic introductions to the markup standards of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI), across working with respective software tools for editorial or library purposes, up to courses dealing with more advanced topics in these fields. The Edirom User Forum again will give opportunity of exchange between current and (potential) future users of the Edirom Tools. This year, we are happy to announce the possibility to apply for a student bursary within the scope of the EADH's Small Grant Program (http://eadh.org) to support ESS attendance for one student. Further information about the ESS's program schedule, registration and application for the student bursary will be provided in April 2014 on the ESS Website at http://ess.uni-paderborn.de. We would like to ask you to forward this announcement to any other persons of interest. In case of any questions about the ESS 2014, please feel free to contact the organization team at ess@edirom.de. The Virtual Research Group Edirom is based at the Musicology Seminar Detmold/Paderborn, which is a co-faculty of the University of Paderborn and the Hochschule für Musik Detmold. Please find further information at http://www.edirom.de. DARIAH-DE is the German part of the EU eHumanities research project Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities. It is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Please find further information at http://de.dariah.eu. Best regards Peter Stadler -- Peter Stadler Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe Arbeitsstelle Detmold Gartenstr. 20 D-32756 Detmold Tel. +49 5231 975-665 Fax: +49 5231 975-668 stadler at weber-gesamtausgabe.de www.weber-gesamtausgabe.de _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8EABD64FD; Thu, 3 Apr 2014 12:11:39 +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 C9F9B64C0; Thu, 3 Apr 2014 12:11:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E1A4C64BB; Thu, 3 Apr 2014 12:11:28 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140403101128.E1A4C64BB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 12:11:28 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.940 pubs: Scholarly Editing 2014 & 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. 27, No. 940. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 12:23:28 -0500 From: Amanda Gailey Subject: 2014 Scholarly Editing Publication and 2015 CFP We are pleased to announce the publication of the newest issue of Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing (vol. 35, 2014), online 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. As always, the editions represent diverse materials from a variety of fields, and this year we also present our first non-English language edition. 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 2014 issue. Amanda Gailey (gailey@unl.edu) and Andrew Jewell (ajewell2@unl.edu) Editors, Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing INVITING EDITION PROPOSALS AND ARTICLES FOR THE 2015 ISSUE OF SCHOLARLY EDITING Scholarly Editing invites proposals for the 2015 issue. Many scholars know fascinating texts that deserve to be edited thoughtfully and imaginatively, and we offer a venue to turn this knowledge 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 2015 issue are due by May 9, 2014. 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 15, 2014, to be considered for the 2015 issue. Please see details at www.scholarlyediting.org/se.about.html. CONTENTS FOR VOLUME 35, 2014 - Introduction to Volume 35 of Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing http://www.scholarlyediting.org/2014/essays/essay.v35intro.html by Amanda Gailey (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) and Andrew Jewell (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) - - EDITIONS - Alex Haley's "The Malcolm X I Knew" and Notecards from The Autobiography of Malcolm X http://www.scholarlyediting.org/2014/editions/intro.haley.html edited by Amy E. Earhart (Texas A&M University) - - Avisos a pretendientes para Indias (Warnings to Those Seeking Office in the Indies) http://www.scholarlyediting.org/2014/editions/intro.avisos.html edited by Clayton McCarl (University of North Florida) - - Comparing Marks: A Versioning Edition of Virginia Woolf's "The Mark on the Wall" http://www.scholarlyediting.org/2014/editions/intro.markonthewall.html edited by Emily McGinn, Amy Leggette, Matthew Hannah, and Paul Bellew (University of Oregon) - - "Lest we get too transcendental": Christopher Pearse Cranch's Changes of Mind in "Journal. 1839." http://www.scholarlyediting.org/2014/editions/intro.cranchjournal.html edited by Christopher M. Ohge (University of California, Berkeley) - - ESSAYS - Digital Documentary Editions and the Others http://www.scholarlyediting.org/2014/essays/essay.pierazzo.html by Elena Pierazzo (King's College London) - - This Editing Life: The Joys and Imperatives of Documentary Editing (Presidential Address, Association for Documentary Editing Annual Meeting, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2013) http://www.scholarlyediting.org/2014/essays/essay.2014presidentialaddress.html by Phil Chase (Papers of George Washington) - - REVIEWS - The Papers of Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Harriott Pinckney Horry: Digital Edition. Edited by Constance Schulz, Robin Copp, Mary Sherrer, Nicollette Calhoun, Peggy Clark, Taylor Kirton, Rachel Love, Justin McIntyre, Neal Millikan, and Benjamin Sheinkin. Charlottesville, VA: Rotunda, 2012 http://www.scholarlyediting.org/2014/reviews/review.pinckney.html by Cynthia A. Kierner (George Mason University) - - Creating a Movement with Teeth: A Documentary History of the George Jackson Brigade. Edited by Daniel Burton-Rose. Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2010 http://www.scholarlyediting.org/2014/reviews/review.burton-rose.html by Silvia P. Glick (Boston University) - Recent Editions http://www.scholarlyediting.org/2014/reviews/review.recenteditions2014.html by W. Bland Whitley (Princeton 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E3CE1631E; Fri, 4 Apr 2014 12:04:07 +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 79B33631F; Fri, 4 Apr 2014 12:04:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4AD1B62D1; Fri, 4 Apr 2014 12:04:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140404100400.4AD1B62D1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 12:04:00 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.941 reasoning & what we can do about 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 941. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 10:02:34 -0400 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the historicity of reason In his fine book Science of Science and Reflexivity (2004/2001), last of his lectures at the Collège de France, Pierre Bourdieu writes as follows, specifically about the sciences but with relevance to us: > The fact that producers [of scientific knowledge] tend to have as their > clients only their most rigorous and vigorous competitors, the most > competent and the most critical, those therefore most *inclined* and > most *able* to give their critique full force, is for me the *Archimedean > point* on which one can stand to *give a scientific account of > scientific reason*, to rescue scientific reason from relativistic > reduction and can explain how science can constantly progress toward > more rationality without having to appeal to some kind of founding > miracle.... There is no need to move outside history in order to > understand the emergence and existence of reason in history. The > closure upon itself of the autonomous field constitutes the > historical principle of the genesis of reason and the exercise of its > normativity.... [Thus it is possible] to *resolve the problem* of the > relationship between reason and history or of the historicity of > reason, a problem old as philosophy and one which... has haunted > philosophers. (p. 54) The situation of digital humanities is, at least at the moment, quite different than that which Bourdieu describes. In important respects only partial autonomy is possible or desirable, I would think. But it seems to me that cultivating our "clients" (to use his language) to become on a fundamental level the sort of audience we most need, "most critical... therefore most inclined and most able to give their critique full force", is a compelling way forward. Most ambitiously it gives us the means to watch if not to have a hand in the evolution of argumentation and reasoning. The exercise of persuading colleagues outside digital humanities that anything other than something which directly advances their pre-digital research is (in my experience, some of it very recent) anything but over. Such people will *say* they want to know about new questions they can ask as a result of computing, but the shock of the new is often far more evident than a putative welcoming of it. Delivering products that meet specifications is the easy bit. Reaching inside a discipline (let us say classics) to mess with the familiar processes of reasoning is quite another matter. But Bourdieu's point about the historicity of reason means that exercise has a future, I'd like to think *our* future. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, 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 D84DA6332; Fri, 4 Apr 2014 12:05:38 +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 8CEE0631F; Fri, 4 Apr 2014 12:05:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B0815631E; Fri, 4 Apr 2014 12:05:28 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140404100528.B0815631E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 12:05:28 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.942 job at Lethbridge (Canada) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 942. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 12:47:38 -0600 From: Daniel O'Donnell Subject: 2nd Call: Tenure Track Job in English 20thC (PostColonial or Modernism), DH welcome, University of Lethbridge, Deadline April 15, 2014. A second call for the Tenure Track job in English at the University of Lethbridge . *Specialisation: 20th Century, particularly Postcolonial or Modernism (we need people in both areas; this is the first of what we hope will be a series of ads) *Sub-specialisation: Open (Digital Humanities is certainly welcome and is a strategic priority of both the Faculty of Arts and Science and the University more generally) *Starting-Salary: In the last 2 years, starting salaries at the U of L have ranged from $63k to $92k with an average of $75k (in other words, enough to make you too expensive for Nazareth College: http://cedarsdigest.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/on-treating-the-unprepared-as-if-they-were-unmotivated-and-unworthy/) *Deadline: April 15, 2014 (we intend to review applications almost immediately after the deadline, so please emphasise this with your referees). *Further details: http://www.uleth.ca/hr/jobs/english Our vacancy is for a tenure track position in 20th Century literature in English. We are looking particularly for either Post Colonial or Modernism (areas in which we have had recent retirements or resignations). Although Digital Humanities is not a prerequisite for the position, it is welcome: DH is a strategic priority in the Faculty and the University and is a key component in a recent central administration application for $4.1 million to fund a new complex of specialised laboratories. Globalisation is also a strategic priority of the University. The University of Lethbridge was Canada's top undergraduate research university in 2012 and remains in the top three. We are also putting significant resources into the development of our (relatively new) graduate school. The Department of English is a relatively small unit (currently 9 full time faculty members) with a strong research and teaching profile. Individual members of the department have great freedom to shape their research and teaching responsibilities. In most cases, faculty members are primarily responsible for developing the teaching programme in their area of research specialisation. The University of Lethbridge is located in Southern Alberta, Canada. Lethbridge has a population of about 80,000 people. It is close (about 180km) to the Rocky Mountains and Calgary (225km). The University has about 8,000 students, of which about 300 are English majors. Faculty in the Department have strong connections to researchers in neighbouring institutions (University of Calgary, University of Alberta, University of Saskatchewan, and the University of Victoria) as well as internationally: the Department is the home of DigitalMedievalist.org, globaloutlookdh.org, /Digital Studies/Le champ numérique/, and the Lethbridge Journal Incubator. It is a former host of the Text Encoding Initiative. -- --- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1DB79632B; Fri, 4 Apr 2014 12:06:40 +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 8B6AA6328; Fri, 4 Apr 2014 12:06:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 65971631F; Fri, 4 Apr 2014 12:06:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20140404100629.65971631F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 12:06:29 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.943 TEI 2014 ConfTool ready for submissions 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. 27, No. 943. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 16:02:28 +0000 From: Martin Mueller Subject: ConfTool is ready for submissions to 2014 TEI Conference The ConfTool site for submissions to the TEI 2014 conference at Northwestern University is now up at https://www.conftool.net/tei2014/. As announced in earlier calls, the deadline for submissions is April 30. The program committee hopes to complete the review of submissions by mid-May. The tagline for this year's conference is "Decoding the Encoded." This is not intended to be exclusive; it merely states that we have a special interest in submissions that explore what people can, should, or will do with texts once they have been encoded in TEI. The conference site itself should be up in a few days. Martin Mueller, Chair, Program Committee Professor emeritus of English and Classics Northwestern 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 287426332; Fri, 4 Apr 2014 12:08:50 +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 9BFEF632B; Fri, 4 Apr 2014 12:08:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D1DFB62DE; Fri, 4 Apr 2014 12:08:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140404100836.D1DFB62DE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 12:08:36 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.944 events: historical networks; geohumanities X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 944. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Karl Grossner (21) Subject: GeoHumanities SIG full-day meeting at DH 2014 [2] From: Marten_Düring (89) Subject: CfP: Historical Network Research Conference 2014 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 07:38:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Karl Grossner Subject: GeoHumanities SIG full-day meeting at DH 2014 In-Reply-To: <1104061803.6925483.1396535810331.JavaMail.zimbra@stanford.edu> The GeoHumanities SIG of ADHO will hold its inaugural meeting on July 8th at the Digital Humanities conference in Lausanne (DH 2014). The full-day program will include project presentations as well as discussions of proposed SIG collaborative activities and organizational matters. A major unifying theme of the SIG, and one emphasized in our founding document, is the topic of digital gazetteers and related challenges of representing temporality. The morning and early afternoon of our meeting day will be devoted to gazetteers and projects addressing their development, as several folks have indicated interest in presenting. The contributors thus far include: - Stuart Dunn, Kings College London (Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus) - Miranda Anderson and Beatrice Alex, Univ. of Edinburgh (Palimpsest project) - Leif Isaksen, Rainer Simon, and Elton Barker [Univ. of Southampton, The Open University, Austrian Institute of Technology] (Pelagios 3) - Humphrey Southall, Univ. of Portsmouth (PastPlace) - Petr Pridal, Klokan Technologies (Old Maps Online) - Susanna Ånäs (Wikidata & Wikimedia) - Eric Kansa, Alexandria Archive Institute (PeriodO) - Tomi Kauppinen, University of Bremen (Fuzzy temporal intervals) - Wolfgang Schmidle, German Archaeological Institute (DAI) (CIDOC-CRM and CRMgeo) - Kathy Weimer, Texas A&M University (Geographic name authority records) - Karl Grossner, Stanford University (Topotime) The late afternoon agenda will include (1) GeoDiRT, a proposed SIG project developing a geo-centered listings of projects and digital resources, aligned with the Dariah/Bamboo DiRT project; (2) suggestions for other SIG activities; (3) SIGs’ role within ADHO generally and (4) our own organizational structure. We would like to hear from you, whether attending DH or not, about potential future SIG initiatives, business and agenda items and/or other ideas for SIG engagement. You can post suggestions to the SIG list (http://lists.lists.digitalhumanities.org/mailman/listinfo/geohumsig ) or email the co-Chairs directly. Karl Grossner, karlg [at] Stanford [dot] edu Kathy Weimer, k-weimer [at] library [dot] tamu [dot] edu http://geohumanities.org @GeoHum_SIG --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 18:06:25 -0400 From: Marten_Düring Subject: CfP: Historical Network Research Conference 2014 In-Reply-To: <1104061803.6925483.1396535810331.JavaMail.zimbra@stanford.edu> On behalf of Christophe Verbruggen, here the CfP for the next HNR conference: > Historical Network Research Conference 2014 > > Ghent University, Belgium, 15-19 September. > > This conference follows up the Future of Historical Network Research (HNR) Conference 2013 and aims to bring together scholars from all historical disciplines, sociologists, other social scientists, geographers and computer scientists to discuss the emerging field of historical Social Network Analysis. The concepts and methods of social network analysis in historical research are no longer merely used as metaphors but are increasingly applied in practice. With the increasing availability of both structured and unstructured digital data, we should be able to analyze complex phenomena. Historical SNA can help us to cope with the organization of this information and the reduction of complexity. > > We invite papers from ancient to contemporary history, which integrate social network analysis methods and historical research methods and reflect on the added value of their methodologies. Since most historical data is unstructured, we seek innovative ways to derive, mine or prepare this kind of data (historical and literary texts, images, …) for SNA. Social scientists or computer scientists working with historical sources or longitudinal perspectives are also welcome. Topics could cover (but are not limited to) the following strands: > > The spatial dimensions of networks; the role of transport in social interaction, on spatial distance and compensation by alternative proximities, and on the use of spatial analytical techniques in quantitative network analysis. > Relational approaches towards collective action; for instance transnational or global (social) movements, dynamics of contention, etc. > The history of science and knowledge circulation; including the dynamics of citation networks, policy networks, discipline formation and relational approaches towards scientific and intellectual movements > History of elites; for instance the meaning of kinship, political elites and policy networks, (trans)national elite formation, global elites, cultural elites and consumption, etc. > The role and organization of historical economic networks established by economic actors in the broadest sense, including networks of individual entrepreneurs, business elites, cities and states. We invite case studies of domestic networks, long-distance trade networks, networks created by migration, patronage networks etc. > Use and abuse of distant reading practices and the promises of ‘big data’ in literary and cultural history > Historical networks and theory: assessments of the theoretical and historiographical foundations of social network analysis in historical and sociological research: a relational turn, paradigm or a method? > … > > Confirmed keynotes: Claire Lemercier (Sciences Po, Paris) and Emily Erikson (Yale University) > > To propose a paper, panel, or poster, please email hnr2014@ugent.be by May 10, 2014. Proposals should take the form of a 250-words abstract accompanied by a short CV; in the case of complete panels, proposals should consist of an abstract and short CV for every panelist together with a short CV for the chair (if different). The conference is free for presenters. The admission fee for other participants is 35 Euro/day without dinner. > > > Pre-conference workshops: > > A general introduction in SNA: the main concepts and the basic techniques of social network analysis > NodeXL (Marten Düring, UNC Chapel Hill) > How to prepare or extract data for a network analysis: a general introduction (Mark Depauw with Yanne Broux or Silke Van Beselaere, Leuven University) > Cleaning up messy data and a practical introduction to Named-Entity Recognition for historical research using Open Refine (Seth Van Hooland and Simon Hengchen) > Data modeling and network visualizations in Gephi (Clement Levallois, EMLYON Business School) > Social network analysis using UCINET (Bruce Cronin, University of Greenwich and Elisa Belotti, University of Manchester) > The Science of Science (Sci2) Tool (tbc) > > The workshops will seek to provide as much practical skills and knowledge as possible. The fee for participation in the workshops is 75 EUR/day. We take registrations on a first come first serve basis, so if you are planning to (or thinking about) attending, it is best to register early. As from April 15 you can find more information regarding the workshops and registration details on our website (LINK). More info: hnr2014@ugent.be > > Conference locations: Ghent University (workshops) and Ghent City Museum (http://www.stamgent.be/en, conference). > > > Provisional Programme: > > > Monday 15 Tuesday 16 -Workshops Wednesday 17 – Workshops Thursday 18 – Workshops Friday 19 – Workshops > Morning > - Data preparation- SNA – Node XL - Gephi 2- UCINET 2- Sci2 1 Conference Conference > Afternoon > - Gephi 1- UCINET 1- Open Refine / NER - Gephi 3- UCINET 3- Sci2 2 Conference Conference > Evening Registration > Public lecture reception Conference dinner > > Organizing committee > > Hans Blomme (Department of History, Ghent University) > Dr. Wim Broeckaert (Department of History, Ghent University) > Fien Danniau (Department of History, Ghent University) > Dr. Karen De Coene (Department of Geography, Ghent University) > Dr. Marloes Deene (Department of History, Ghent University) > Prof. dr. Mark Depauw (Department of Ancient History, University of Leuven) > Dr. Thorsten Ries (Ghent Center for Digital Humanities) > Prof. dr. Seth Van Hooland (Information and Communication Science department, Université Libre de Bruxelles) > Prof. dr. Ronan Van Rossem (Department of Sociology, Ghent University) > Prof. dr. Christophe Verbruggen (Department of History, Ghent University) > > Scientific committee; organizing committee + > > Prof. dr. Philippe De Maeyer (Department of Geography Ghent University) > Dr. Tom De Smedt (Clips, University of Antwerp) > Dr. Marten Düring (UNC Chapel Hill) > Dr. Ulrich Eumann (Center for the Documentation of National Socialism, Cologne) > Prof. dr. Claire Lemercier (SciencesPo, CNRS, Paris) > Linda Keyserlingk (Militärhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr Dresden) > Florian Kerschbaumer (Universität Klagenfurt, Österreich) > Dr. Martin Stark (University of Hamburg) > Dr. Lieve Van Hoof (Department of History, Ghent University) > Prof. dr. Raf Vanderstraeten (Department of Sociology, Ghent University) > > > > --- > > Dr. Marten Düring > CDHI Digital History Postdoctoral Fellow > > University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill > 551 Hamilton Hall > CB# 3195 > Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 > Website at UNC > Personal website > 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 754C563F5; Sat, 5 Apr 2014 11:43:29 +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 E54A963C0; Sat, 5 Apr 2014 11:43:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8FD3F63A7; Sat, 5 Apr 2014 11:43:14 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140405094314.8FD3F63A7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2014 11:43:14 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.945 job at Glasgow; PhD studentships & postdoc at Barcelona X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 945. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Paty Murrieta (17) Subject: Computational History PhD and Postdoc offer [2] From: Ann Gow (15) Subject: Lecturer vacancy at Glasgow - HATII --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 15:00:04 +0100 From: Paty Murrieta Subject: Computational History PhD and Postdoc offer FYI: The Barcelona Super Computer Centre is offering the next PhD scholarships and one postdoc in computational modelling and history: PhD Computer Sciences http://www.bsc.es/about-bsc/employment/vacancies/phd-computing-erc-project-epnet PhD History http://www.bsc.es/about-bsc/employment/vacancies/phd-history-ercepnet Postdoc position http://www.bsc.es/about-bsc/employment/vacancies/post-doctoral-contract-epnet All best, Patricia Murrieta-Flores BA MSc PhD Department of History & Archaeology University of Chester CRM 105, Rockmound bld. Chester CH14AY 01244 512156 / Ext. 2156 p.murrietaflores@chester.ac.uk http://spatialtech-humanities.com/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 15:57:20 +0100 From: Ann Gow Subject: Lecturer vacancy at Glasgow - HATII The Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute at the University of Glasgow is building on its innovative research and teaching program in information management and data curation. We seek a creative and dynamic lecturer to join our team and work collectively to catalyze this growth. The individual will have a strong commitment to excellence in both research and teaching and be excited by and able to thrive in a diverse, intellectually stimulating, multi-disciplinary environment. Recently designated one of only three iSchools in the UK, the post holder will work to establish links with other iSchools in the UK and internationally. Scholars from one or more of the areas of digital curation, digital heritage, knowledge and information management, information retrieval and access, archival and library science, records management, user studies, information society and knowledge economy, and digital humanities related topics regarding the interplay of people, information, technology and social structures are encouraged to apply. The details of the post and how to apply can be found here: http://www22.i-grasp.com/fe/tpl_glasgow01.asp?newms=jj&id=74964&newlang=1 Best wishes Ann ********************* Head of Subject, HATII 11 University Gardens University of Glasgow tel:+(0)141 330 5997 Skype:ann.gow @hatii_glasgow www.gla.ac.uk/subjects/informationstudies/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8747E6409; Sat, 5 Apr 2014 11:45:16 +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 BC44563C8; Sat, 5 Apr 2014 11:45:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1B5B063A4; Sat, 5 Apr 2014 11:45:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140405094505.1B5B063A4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2014 11:45:04 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.946 events: Digital Classicist (London); "Imagine there were no humanities" (Warsaw) X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 946. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Simon Mahony (20) Subject: Digital Classicist London seminar series 2014 programme [2] From: Bogdan Trifunovic (68) Subject: Imagine there were no humanities CfP, Warsaw, 20-21 November 2014 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 10:43:31 +0100 From: Simon Mahony Subject: Digital Classicist London seminar series 2014 programme We are pleased to announce that the programme for the Digital Classicist London 2014 Seminar Series is now online at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2014.html Regards Simon -- Simon Mahony Senior 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 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/people/simonmahony [1] www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/courses/mamsc [2] www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 12:15:48 +0200 From: Bogdan Trifunovic Subject: Imagine there were no humanities CfP, Warsaw, 20-21 November 2014 Please distribute the following Call for Papers. Thanks, Bogdan Trifunovic ------------------- The Faculty of "Artes Liberales" http://al.uw.edu.pl/eng.php, University of Warsaw, is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the international two-day conference Imagine there were no humanities... which will be held in Warsaw on 20th-21st November 2014. http://imaginenohumanities.ibi.uw.edu.pl/ The aim of the conference is to bring together all those interested in discerning the future of the humanities. The conference is intended for a broad constituency: Master's and doctoral students, PhD holders, university teachers, writers, journalists, etc. An additional aim is to act as a summary of all the many discussions which took place during the Faculty's four-year International Doctoral Programme (MPD, http://mpd.ibi.uw.edu.pl/). We invite you to conduct a simple thought experiment. Imagine for a moment that we live in a world with no humanities. There are no literary studies, no history, no philosophy and no art history. All those disciplines have now disappeared from sight, never to return again. What will the consequences of this disappearance be? What will be lost if we lose the humanities? Our thought experiment assumes that the humanities are contingent. They appeared on the intellectual scene at a certain point in time, and it is possible that they could disappear at another point in time. Can we predict the consequences of this disappearance? We would like to treat this thought experiment as a pretext for discussion of the identity of the humanities and the identities of researchers in the humanities. We assume that the question of identity can be posed anew by reflection on what would be lost without the humanities. Most importantly we would like to raise the question of the past, present and future of the humanities. The following list of themes suggests, but does not exhaust, the framework of our thought experiment: - Humanities and ideology: are the humanities ideologised or do they offer an antidote against ideology? - Recovering the silenced voices: how do we read the official and non-official history of the humanities? - The researcher in the humanities and his role today: what can we learn from critics of the humanities? - No humanities - no gender, no race? What would be the future of gender equality without gender studies? How could racism and colonialism be critically verified without postcolonial studies? - The 'collective' and 'individual' in the research process: in what way could large scale, collaborative research projects reshape both the humanities and researchers in the humanities? - Subjects and objects of research in the humanities: could the absence of the subject (the researcher) of the humanities lead also to the disappearance of their object? We invite you to give short, dynamic presentations (ca. 10 minutes) on any of these or related topics, which will be followed by a longer panel discussion. The authors of accepted abstracts will be asked to provide extended resumes (ca. 1000 words) of their papers, which will be circulated among all the participants one month prior to the meeting. The language of the conference is English. Please send a 300-word abstract and a one-page CV to the conference email address imaginenohumanities@gmail.com by 30th June 2014. Should you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us or check the conference website at http://imaginenohumanities.ibi.uw.edu.pl/. After the conference, we plan to publish selected, extended papers in the form of a monograph. All papers submitted for the conference publication will be peer-reviewed by a scientific committee: Prof. Maciej Abramowicz, Prof. Jerzy Axer, Prof. Jan Kieniewicz, Prof. Ewa Łukaszyk, Prof. Joanna Partyka, Prof. Jolanta Sujecka, Prof. Piotr Wilczek. Unfortunately, we are not able to refund the costs of attendance, however we can help with arranging accommodation in Warsaw during the period of the conference. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 935476461; Sun, 6 Apr 2014 11:53:57 +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 C14186245; Sun, 6 Apr 2014 11:53:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B3DD0627D; Sun, 6 Apr 2014 11:53:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20140406095341.B3DD0627D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 11:53:41 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.947 humanities to what end? 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. 27, No. 947. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 17:21:37 +0200 From: Jan Christoph Meister Subject: Re: 27.946 events: "Imagine there were no humanities" (Warsaw) In-Reply-To: <20140405094505.1B5B063A4@digitalhumanities.org> Certainly a worthwhile thought experiment and conference! But how about putting an end to our wailing and antagonizing about the future by giving this a positive spin, rather than attempting to prove our necessity ex negativo and, again, by way of comparison with and reference to past achievements? In my practical experience (that is, as past HoD of Humanities departments competing with other disciplines for attention and funds within and beyond two universities) the single biggest "PR handicap" is that most of our disciplines invest next to no effort into defining their future purpose. How do we plan to "add value" - intellectually, politically, aesthetically, conceptually - to society over the next 2-3 decades? What's our medium-term mission for the next generation of scholarship? Unlike other disciplines that "sell future" (even where it is as invisible as a Higgs Boson particle) we seem stuck on "selling the past". And that's a conceptual and philosophical problem for the Humanities, not just a question of trivial PR strategy. Chris -- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 28F946294; Sun, 6 Apr 2014 12:04:22 +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 E28726394; Sun, 6 Apr 2014 12:04:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B34946245; Sun, 6 Apr 2014 12:04:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140406100411.B34946245@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 12:04:11 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.948 social dynamics of 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. 27, No. 948. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 09:09:23 -0400 From: Willard McCarty Subject: social dynamics of being new Some here will doubtless be thoroughly familiar with writings on the social dynamics of disciplinary interrelations and with the writings of Pierre Bourdieu in particular. I'm a newcomer to these, so forgive, if need be, the pushing forward of what you already know. But I don't see much evidence in the discussions of digital humanities on the academic scene, esp. in the U.S., that gets beyond bandwagon and backlash, who belongs and who does not and so on, and so forth. Hence the relevance of the following from Science of Science and Reflexivity (2004/2001): > Someone who introduces a new legitimate way of doing things shakes > the power relations and introduces time. If nothing happened, there > would be no time; the conservative agents would like to abolish time, > to eternize the present state of the field, the state of the > structure that is favourable to their interests because they occupy > the dominant positions within it, whereas the innovators, without > even seeking to 'compete' with anyone, introduce change by their mere > intervention and bring about a specific temporality of the field. (p. > 64) We should note that the "conservative agents" are not necessarily, and perhaps not even primarily, the senior members of a given academic grouping who "occupy the dominant positions", since I would think conservatism tends to settle with the insecure, and these may well be those who occupy no position at all, or a shaky one. I wonder, though, what good does Bourdieu's observation do us other than to keep us from being surprised when, with no imperial ambitions, we offer interesting new questions to members of some discipline or other and are greeted with hostility? It may happen, as it has to me, after being asked "so what's new about all this?" -- which is another way of resisting. I suppose the question is, how do we get between the clashing monsters of boredom on the one side and hostility on the other? The hostility is very interesting, of course. I've heard more than one person say that digital humanists and their fellow travellers set up a straw man of opposition, that this opposition is a thing of the past. Recent experience has taught be quite otherwise. In fact anxieties that the historical literature tells us were commonplace in the 1960s-1980s, expressed as the fear of being replaced, scholarship being mechanized and so on, I have heard uttered by highly intelligent people this year. As a result one can have quite an interesting and valuable conversation in an attempt not so much to allay the fear as to get to the heart of the matter, e.g. by asking, what *are* the limits of automation? When do we think that making the attempt is dangerous -- because, though it will surely fail if pressed, one's students won't press it and then will make do with whatever automated delivery or analysis delivers to them? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0825E6475; Sun, 6 Apr 2014 12:04:51 +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 C71A263ED; Sun, 6 Apr 2014 12:04:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AACC66294; Sun, 6 Apr 2014 12:04:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140406100441.AACC66294@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 12:04:41 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.949 fellowships at NUI 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. 27, No. 949. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 07:54:49 -0400 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Visiting Fellowship Scheme, NUI Maynooth Visiting Fellowship Scheme NUI Maynooth Academic Year 2014 - 2015 The Faculty of Arts, Celtic Studies and Philosophy and An Foras Feasa Research Institute (NUI Maynooth) are pleased to announce the call for applications for the Visiting Fellowship Scheme in the Humanities at NUI Maynooth, for the academic year 2014 -2015. We are especially interested in fellows working in Digital Humanities. The duration of the visiting fellowship is envisaged as ordinarily between one and six months; applications for a shorter or longer duration will be considered. Fellows will receive an office space and office facilities from An Foras Feasa in the Iontas Building, along with full library access and computer facilities. Fellows will be asked to provide one seminar to postgraduate students in the relevant discipline, and a guest lecture to Faculty and An Foras Feasa members. A limited number of travel stipends of €500 will be available; preference will be given to applicants with limited institutional funding. The current call will close on 15th May 2014 for the academic year 2014-2015. To apply, please send a C.V. (including names of two referees), a statement (c. 500 words) of your research project, the dates you would like to attend AFF, and the benefits offered by the NUI Maynooth visiting fellowship. Applications to foras.feasa@nuim.ie. For queries, contact Professor Susan Schreibman, Director of An Foras Feasa (susan.schreibman@nuim.ie) or Dr Thomas OÂ’Connor, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Celtic Studies and Philosophy (deans.office@nuim.ie). Note: The fellowship does not include accommodation. However, short-stay accommodation may be booked through Maynooth Campus Conference and Accommodation (see http://www.maynoothcampus.com), and information can be provided regarding longer residential stays in the area. -- Susan Schreibman Professor of Digital Humanities Director of An Foras Feasa Iontas Building National University of Ireland Maynooth Maynooth, Co. Kildare email: susan.schreibman@nuim.ie phone: +353 1 708 3451 fax: +353 1 708 4797 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E5145646F; Sun, 6 Apr 2014 12:05:31 +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 064DE6394; Sun, 6 Apr 2014 12:05:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 74C8A6394; Sun, 6 Apr 2014 12:05:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20140406100523.74C8A6394@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 12:05:23 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.950 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. 27, No. 950. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2014 14:29:25 -0400 From: Anna Kazantseva Subject: Second Call for Participation, EACL workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature = = = = = = Second Call for Participation, EACL workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature = = = = = = The Third Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature, co-located with EACL in Gothenburg, invites all and sundry for a day of NLP with a difference. Join us on April 27 to witness two exciting invited talks and eight intriguing presentations. You will become acquainted with digital poetics and learn what happens when narratology meets machine learning. You will hear how to map a novel into a piece of music, how to recreate a social network in a piece of fiction, and much more. https://sites.google.com/site/clfl2014a/ Come one, come all! Anna, Anna, 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B9830651E; Mon, 7 Apr 2014 13:01:02 +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 1224D6308; Mon, 7 Apr 2014 13:00:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8FC2F61DE; Mon, 7 Apr 2014 13:00:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140407110052.8FC2F61DE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 13:00:52 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.951 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. 27, No. 951. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (52) Subject: no humanities or the wrong questions? [2] From: Manfred Thaller (84) Subject: Re: 27.947 humanities to what end? & Re: [Humanist] 27.948 social dynamics of the new --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 10:51:37 -0400 From: Willard McCarty Subject: no humanities or the wrong questions? I agree with Chris Meister's suggestion wholeheartedly, in Humanist 27.947, about turning away from the complaints voiced on behalf of the humanities toward positives. The via negativa can be a powerful road to travel, but in this case I wonder about travelling it as much and as determinedly as we seem to do. Declining enrolments are a very real problem in the U.S. at least, and I don't mean to suggest otherwise. Imagining no humanities surely leads to a dystopic vision, and that can be useful. But what argument comes out of it that will persuade the watchers of CNN and its kind? Allow me to quote from the Columbia University historian Jacques Barzun's "The Misbehavioral Sciences: A Truce to the Nonsense on Both Sides", published in Richard Threulsen and John Kobler, eds., Adventures of the Mind (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1959) -- which is downloadable from the Internet Archive. Barzun wrote to his American audience -- NB in 1959 -- that "This debate is not new, nor is it limited to the United States. It is going strong throughout the western world and particularly in England." Barzun notes the raging debate and the arguments heard then (and now); "And yet", he writes, > all those good reasons why science is not enough, why the humanities > are indispensable, do not seem to stick. Everybody applauds the > speeches--the liberal arts are liberally praised--but the moment a > satellite appears in the sky or a rocket fails to go off, the fair > words are forgotten. Nothing but science and engineering seems to > matter. Could it be that in our so-called better moments we are only > hypocrites? Who is supposed to be fooled by the rhetoric which the > businessman echoes from the commencement speech—is it the speaker or > the audience? Or are they both being fooled by a set of ideas and > phrases that do not breed conviction because they have never been > seriously meant? (pp. 18-19) Barzun observes, > the humanities have existed in an unbroken tradition for 3000 years; > there should be nothing left about them to define, advocate or > challenge. But if there is nothing, why do we keep asking what the > humanities are for and what their place is--as if it lay in our power > to choose whether to save or kill them? (p. 19) He concludes, > The conflict between the "practical" sciences and the "superfluous" > humanities is not a real conflict to those who know the realities > they are talking about. Rather, it is a conflict with the thoughtless > about the meaning of utility. (p. 26) To me the last 10 words of that quotation are what we need -- and what the scientists doing curiosity-motivated research need as well, since they are also afflicted. We need to be asking, what needs doing for which the humanities -- or better, the liberal arts, properly understood -- would be useful *in the proper sense of that word*? Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 08:29:38 +0200 From: Manfred Thaller Subject: Re: 27.947 humanities to what end? & Re: [Humanist] 27.948 social dynamics of the new In-Reply-To: <20140406095341.B3DD0627D@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Christoph, Dear Willard, I think you look at two sides of the same coin. (Being a virtual one, it may have more than two.) Christoph writes: > In my practical experience (that is, as > past HoD of Humanities departments competing with other disciplines for > attention and funds within and beyond two universities) the single > biggest "PR handicap" is that most of our disciplines invest next to no > effort into defining their future purpose. I think that is connected to what I usually refer to as the "lack of an implicit communicable vision of the Humanities". http://en.bab.la/dictionary/english-german/communicable There are many areas of the hard sciences who have absolutely no practical value within any realistic planning period. Nevertheless, there is an absolute consensus in the public and in the political arena, that they have to be supported and funded at a rather high level. Example 1: Fusion research. Uncounted billions have been spent since the forties to find a viable way of producing energy out of controlled nuclear fusion. That has resulted in fusion being under control not only for microseconds, but up to the milisecond range. If a specific approach in the hard sciences has been supported for half a century with that as a result, we can be rather sure, that it will lead to nothing - until somebody has a totally new approach, which will scarcely come out of trying to repeat the old aproaches with more ressources. Nevertheless, there is the vision of "the final solution of mankind's problems with energy". Who would be so niggardly to prevent pursuing so noble a goal? Example 2: Radioastronomy. How can a research policy, that allegedly insists on a short term profitability of research fund that? Will we have startups who serve the expanding market of create-your-own-universe tool-sets within the next five years? No, but there IS the noble goal of "uncovering the last secrets of the universe". Who would be so niggardly to prevent pursuing so noble a goal? Example 3: Research in particle physics has been eminently practical and changing our world. As CERN employed Tim Berners-Lee for sometime. Otherwise ... However, there is the vision of "solving the mystery of matter". Who would be so niggardly to prevent pursuing so noble a goal? These visions are not usually pronounced all that frequently, but they ARE shared by society today. And, before I am misunderstood: I am as intrigued by them, as anybody and would NOT propose to stop supporting them. I would like to point out however, that the prosaic, business-admin lead policies, which are allegedly based on prosaic notions of profitability have actually a strong undercurrent of very romantic notions. The Humanities HAD such a vision until ca. 1950, though it has very rarely been made explicit. Nation building and defining national identities since ca. 1780 could not have worked without Humanists uncovering the big treasures of national literatures, the noble character of national histories, the wonderful heritage of ancient times. Of course, this had to be taken very serious. So, even if it took totally incomprehensible studies of the "long tailed g" in the charters of a local count - that was as necessary a contribution to the creation of identity as the equally incomprehensible output of physics were for the understandign of the universe. So the study of literature, history and the heritage was absolutely necessary to understand your own place in a world of competing nations. Who would be so niggardly to prevent pursuing so noble a goal? I am afraid, as long as the Humanities do not agree - implicitly or explicitly - upon a vision of such magnitude again, it will remain extremely simple to treat them niggardly. To avoid two misunderstandings: If the price to be paid for the eventual disappearance of nationalism is the disappearance of the Humanities, I am tempted. And: I am NOT speaking about Martha Nussbaum's "Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities". This is a wonderful statement, why the Humanities should be taught at the gymnasium / college level. I cannot derive any reason from it, however, why we should undertake Humanities' research. Enters Willard: > In fact anxieties that the > historical literature tells us were commonplace in the 1960s-1980s, > expressed as the fear of being replaced, scholarship being mechanized and so > on, I have heard uttered by highly intelligent people this year. Could it possibly be, that such Humanists themselves are unconsciously aware, that they are missing a vision, which should be followed by whatsoever means it takes? "The way is the goal" is a wonderful notion, if the long term goal has at least an outline. The saying is supposedly derived from Gandhi, who could NOT describe what he had in mind for article 123, clause (c) of the constitution of India, but who most certainly had a long term vision, what she should become. Given that, what is there beyond the next bend of the way, is, indeed, irrelevant. Kind regards, Manfred _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1154E6545; Mon, 7 Apr 2014 13:02:55 +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 C602764FA; Mon, 7 Apr 2014 13:02:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5949664D8; Mon, 7 Apr 2014 13:02:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140407110245.5949664D8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 13:02:45 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.952 social dynamics of 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 952. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 21:39:05 +0000 From: James Smithies Subject: RE: 27.948 social dynamics of the new These are topical issues, and perhaps the two issues I've grappled with most since being hired as a digital humanities academic. I can offer a couple of observations: 1] I get very little hostility from colleagues about digital humanities, and in fact have strong support from a broad range of people at my university, but there is a noticeable communication gap. Traditional academics often assume that - rather than being experts in the problem domain - digital humanists don't see the issues with the application of computing to the humanities, as if we're slightly naïve. That's because they're not aware of our scholarly traditions and literature (as I generally aren't of theirs, in any detailed sense). If I communicate something along the lines of 'don't worry - we're onto it, we understand and are concerned about the issues, we're researching them intensively, and have got your back' the conversation changes. We're doing research, not providing a service, but that's a more accurate portrayal of how we're contributing to the tradition, in many ways, than the rather uninspiring line that we're doing 'revolutionary' things with new technological widgets (like our 15 year old relatives). My line is normally that you'll never find a person more circumspect about the opportunities offered by technology than a digital humanist, because we deal with the constraints all day. Moreover (to point 2, below), that's where the potential for a significant contribution to knowledge comes from. 2] The 'bandwagon issue' and conservatism is a thorny problem, connected as it is with serious issues related to the economics and politics of scholarship. I wonder, though, whether we've reached a point of intellectual exhaustion - or at least an intellectual decision point. The bandwagon 'who's in, who's out' conversation has petered out from what I can tell, but once looked like *the* meaty issue that could offer (or lead towards) intellectual 'respectability'. It *looked*, from the inside and outside, like a solid academic brouhaha. Perhaps it was (is?), but it's interesting to note that it hasn't led to any startling new directions (correct me if I'm wrong, please). DH to me has the potential within it to offer deep new insights and, as you put it Willard, new modes of argumentation and reason, but I don't see gleeful movement in that direction. I'm wondering if we're in a 'post-bandwagon / who's in who's out' period of intellectual stasis. I doubt many people want to rehash it, but where to from here? Everyone comes at DH from a different angle, but I've personally always been excited by the radical epistemological, and even ontological, opportunities posed by the field. It's fantastic that the community has (I hope successfully, and I think praiseworthily) navigated the recent 'boom' and attendant issues, but (if that's case) that just leaves the enlarged community with exciting decisions about what comes next. I'd like to think we're all open minded enough to hope it comes from an unexpected direction, so can park questions of conservatism. I have my angle, you have yours, and the community is large enough now that with positivity and support, someone might just stumble onto something remarkable. Regards, James Dr. James Smithies Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities Associate Director, UC CEISMIC Digital Archive University of Canterbury DDI: +64 3 364 2896 http://dh.canterbury.ac.nz | http://ceismic.org.nz -----Original Message----- From: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [mailto:humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org] On Behalf Of Humanist Discussion Group Sent: Sunday, 6 April 2014 10:04 p.m. 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A54B96576; Mon, 7 Apr 2014 13:03:29 +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 9DBDC6545; Mon, 7 Apr 2014 13:03:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7FF1A6545; Mon, 7 Apr 2014 13:03:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140407110320.7FF1A6545@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 13:03:20 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.953 bursaries for Web 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. 27, No. 953. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 07:34:20 +0100 From: James Cummings Subject: NeDiMAH Early-Career Researcher Bursaries for DHOxSS Humanities Web of Data Workshop NeDiMAH Early-Career Researcher Bursaries for DHOxSS Humanities Web of Data Workshop Deadline: 22 April 2014 http://dhoxss.humanities.ox.ac.uk/2014/bursaries.html Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS) is one of the leading international training events in Digital Humanities. It is for researchers, project managers, research assistants, students, and anyone interested in Digital Humanities. DHOxSS delegates are introduced to a range of topics including the creation, management, analysis, modelling, visualization, or publication of digital data in the humanities. Each delegate follows one of our five-day workshops and supplements this with additional morning parallel lectures. There will also be a (peer-reviewed) poster session giving delegates a chance to present their Digital Humanities work to those at the DHOxSS. This year's DHOxSS will be held on 14-18 July 2014 and the five-day workshops offered are: 1. Introduction to Digital Humanities 2. Taking Control: Practical Scripting for Digital Humanities Projects 3. Data Curation and Access for the Digital Humanities 4. A Humanities Web of Data: Publishing, Linking and Querying on the Semantic Web 5. Using the Text Encoding Initiative for Digital Scholarly Editions The NeDiMAH project has sponsored up to 6 bursaries of up to EUR 500 each for those attending the Humanities Web of Data workshop in particular (see http://dhoxss.humanities.ox.ac.uk/2014/HumData.html). Applicants should be early-career researchers in the humanities, and must be working in participating NeDiMAH countries (see http://www.nedimah.eu/Contributing-Organisations) and priority will be given to applicants whose travel costs mean they would not otherwise be able to attend. ‘Early-Career ResearcherÂ’ is defined as up to five years post-phd (or equivalent). The DHOxSS will offer an excellent opportunity to gain knowledge and participate in discussions about a wide range of digital techniques and research methods, as well as exploring key topics in depth with leading senior researchers and technologists. The application form asks for a description (max 250 words) of how attending the Humanities Web of Data workshop in particular will benefit your research. Applications are due by 22 April 2014. For more information see: http://dhoxss.humanities.ox.ac.uk/2014/bursaries.html and for enquiries email nedimah-bursaries@it.ox.ac.uk. 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id DD42C67C5; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 11:22:51 +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 2F7C266C8; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 11:22:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id EB99E66AD; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 11:22:39 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140410092239.EB99E66AD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 11:22:39 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.954 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. 27, No. 954. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 12:33:24 +0000 From: Martin Mueller Subject: Re: 27.951 humanities In-Reply-To: <20140407110052.8FC2F61DE@digitalhumanities.org> What Manfred Thaller says is is true in some ways but not in others. Support for 'pure' research in most areas of science has markedly declines in the U.S. in recent years, and as a percentage of GDP it is only a fraction of what it was during the fifties and sixties. Budget pressures are only partly to blame; there are deeper cultural and political forces that feed on forms of 'know-nothingism' and look at 'value propositions' from an aggressively short-term perspective. It is easier to see what is going on, harder to figure out how to change it. Martin Mueller Professor emeritus of English and Classics On 4/7/14, 6:00, "Humanist Discussion Group" wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 951. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > [1] From: Willard McCarty (52) > Subject: no humanities or the wrong questions? > > [2] From: Manfred Thaller (84) > Subject: Re: 27.947 humanities to what end? & Re: [Humanist] 27.948 > social dynamics of the new > > >--[1]--------------------------------------------------------------------- > Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 10:51:37 -0400 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: no humanities or the wrong questions? > >I agree with Chris Meister's suggestion wholeheartedly, in Humanist >27.947, about turning away from the complaints voiced on behalf of the >humanities toward positives. The via negativa can be a powerful road to >travel, but in this case I wonder about travelling it as much and as >determinedly as we seem to do. Declining enrolments are a very real >problem in the U.S. at least, and I don't mean to suggest otherwise. >Imagining no humanities surely leads to a dystopic vision, and that can >be useful. But what argument comes out of it that will persuade the >watchers of CNN and its kind? > >Allow me to quote from the Columbia University historian Jacques >Barzun's "The Misbehavioral Sciences: A Truce to the Nonsense on Both >Sides", published in Richard Threulsen and John Kobler, eds., Adventures >of the Mind (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1959) -- which is downloadable from >the Internet Archive. Barzun wrote to his American audience -- NB in >1959 -- that "This debate is not new, nor is it limited to the United >States. It is going strong throughout the western world and particularly >in England." Barzun notes the raging debate and the arguments heard then >(and now); "And yet", he writes, > >> all those good reasons why science is not enough, why the humanities >> are indispensable, do not seem to stick. Everybody applauds the >> speeches--the liberal arts are liberally praised--but the moment a >> satellite appears in the sky or a rocket fails to go off, the fair >> words are forgotten. Nothing but science and engineering seems to >> matter. Could it be that in our so-called better moments we are only >> hypocrites? Who is supposed to be fooled by the rhetoric which the >> businessman echoes from the commencement speech‹is it the speaker or >> the audience? Or are they both being fooled by a set of ideas and >> phrases that do not breed conviction because they have never been >> seriously meant? (pp. 18-19) > >Barzun observes, > >> the humanities have existed in an unbroken tradition for 3000 years; >> there should be nothing left about them to define, advocate or >> challenge. But if there is nothing, why do we keep asking what the >> humanities are for and what their place is--as if it lay in our power >> to choose whether to save or kill them? (p. 19) > >He concludes, > >> The conflict between the "practical" sciences and the "superfluous" >> humanities is not a real conflict to those who know the realities >> they are talking about. Rather, it is a conflict with the thoughtless >> about the meaning of utility. (p. 26) > >To me the last 10 words of that quotation are what we need -- and what >the scientists doing curiosity-motivated research need as well, since >they are also afflicted. We need to be asking, what needs doing for >which the humanities -- or better, the liberal arts, properly understood >-- would be useful *in the proper sense of that word*? > >Comments? > >Yours, >WM >-- >Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital >Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital >Humanities, University of Western Sydney > > >--[2]--------------------------------------------------------------------- >--- > Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 08:29:38 +0200 > From: Manfred Thaller > Subject: Re: 27.947 humanities to what end? & Re: [Humanist] >27.948 social dynamics of the new > In-Reply-To: <20140406095341.B3DD0627D@digitalhumanities.org> > > >Dear Christoph, Dear Willard, >I think you look at two sides of the same coin. (Being a virtual one, it >may have more than two.) > >Christoph writes: >> In my practical experience (that is, as >> past HoD of Humanities departments competing with other disciplines for >> attention and funds within and beyond two universities) the single >> biggest "PR handicap" is that most of our disciplines invest next to no >> effort into defining their future purpose. >I think that is connected to what I usually refer to as the "lack of an >implicit communicable vision of the Humanities". > http://en.bab.la/dictionary/english-german/communicable > >There are many areas of the hard sciences who have absolutely no >practical value within any realistic planning period. Nevertheless, >there is an absolute consensus in the public and in the political arena, >that they have to be supported and funded at a rather high level. > >Example 1: Fusion research. Uncounted billions have been spent since the >forties to find a viable way of producing energy out of controlled >nuclear fusion. That has resulted in fusion being under control not only >for microseconds, but up to the milisecond range. If a specific approach >in the hard sciences has been supported for half a century with that as >a result, we can be rather sure, that it will lead to nothing - until >somebody has a totally new approach, which will scarcely come out of >trying to repeat the old aproaches with more ressources. >Nevertheless, there is the vision of "the final solution of mankind's >problems with energy". Who would be so niggardly to prevent pursuing so >noble a goal? > >Example 2: Radioastronomy. How can a research policy, that allegedly >insists on a short term profitability of research fund that? Will we >have startups who serve the expanding market of create-your-own-universe >tool-sets within the next five years? >No, but there IS the noble goal of "uncovering the last secrets of the >universe". Who would be so niggardly to prevent pursuing so noble a goal? > >Example 3: Research in particle physics has been eminently practical and >changing our world. As CERN employed Tim Berners-Lee for sometime. >Otherwise ... >However, there is the vision of "solving the mystery of matter". Who >would be so niggardly to prevent pursuing so noble a goal? > >These visions are not usually pronounced all that frequently, but they >ARE shared by society today. And, before I am misunderstood: I am as >intrigued by them, as anybody and would NOT propose to stop supporting >them. I would like to point out however, that the prosaic, >business-admin lead policies, which are allegedly based on prosaic >notions of profitability have actually a strong undercurrent of very >romantic notions. > >The Humanities HAD such a vision until ca. 1950, though it has very >rarely been made explicit. Nation building and defining national >identities since ca. 1780 could not have worked without Humanists >uncovering the big treasures of national literatures, the noble >character of national histories, the wonderful heritage of ancient >times. Of course, this had to be taken very serious. So, even if it >took totally incomprehensible studies of the "long tailed g" in the >charters of a local count - that was as necessary a contribution to the >creation of identity as the equally incomprehensible output of physics >were for the understandign of the universe. >So the study of literature, history and the heritage was absolutely >necessary to understand your own place in a world of competing nations. >Who would be so niggardly to prevent pursuing so noble a goal? > >I am afraid, as long as the Humanities do not agree - implicitly or >explicitly - upon a vision of such magnitude again, it will remain >extremely simple to treat them niggardly. > >To avoid two misunderstandings: >If the price to be paid for the eventual disappearance of nationalism is >the disappearance of the Humanities, I am tempted. > >And: I am NOT speaking about Martha Nussbaum's "Not For Profit: Why >Democracy Needs the Humanities". >This is a wonderful statement, why the Humanities should be taught at >the gymnasium / college level. I cannot derive any reason from it, >however, why we should undertake Humanities' research. > >Enters Willard: >> In fact anxieties that the >> historical literature tells us were commonplace in the 1960s-1980s, >> expressed as the fear of being replaced, scholarship being mechanized >>and so >> on, I have heard uttered by highly intelligent people this year. >Could it possibly be, that such Humanists themselves are unconsciously >aware, that they are missing a vision, which should be followed by >whatsoever means it takes? "The way is the goal" is a wonderful notion, >if the long term goal has at least an outline. The saying is supposedly >derived from Gandhi, who could NOT describe what he had in mind for >article 123, clause (c) of the constitution of India, but who most >certainly had a long term vision, what she should become. Given that, >what is there beyond the next bend of the way, is, indeed, irrelevant. > >Kind regards, >Manfred _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, LOTS_OF_MONEY,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1014167D0; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 11:25:41 +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 0673267BA; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 11:25:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DDD9B67B7; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 11:25:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140410092529.DDD9B67B7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 11:25:29 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.955 jobs: English at Lethbridge; late medieval English at Newcastle X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 955. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Andrew Prescott (7) Subject: DH Vacancy [2] From: Daniel O'Donnell (72) Subject: Last Call: Tenure Track Job in English 20thC (PostColonial or Modernism), DH welcome, University of Lethbridge, Deadline April 15, 2014. --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 13:17:53 +0100 From: Andrew Prescott Subject: DH Vacancy Lecturer in Late Medieval Literature in English Newcastle University -School of English Lit, Language & Linguistics Salary: £32,590, with progression to £36,661 Closing Date: 7 May 2014 You will have a PhD in a relevant subject area and proven experience in teaching mid-14th century to early/mid-16th century literature to undergraduate students across a range of modules, with experience of teaching Chaucer highly desirable. You should also have a record of high quality publications in late medieval literature commensurate with your career stage and outstanding plans for future research projects and grant capture. Knowledge of and demonstrable expertise in digital scholarly editing and/or digital humanities is highly desirable and we would like you to have the potential to contribute to the development of the School’s work in the Digital Humanities. Informal enquiries can be made to the Acting Head of School, Dr James Annesley, tel: 0191 208 6617,james.annesley@ncl.ac.uk and the Director of Research, Professor Matthew Grenby, tel: 0191 208 6182, e-mail:matthew.grenby@ncl.ac.uk. The position is available from 1 September 2014. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 08:18:34 -0600 From: Daniel O'Donnell Subject: Last Call: Tenure Track Job in English 20thC (PostColonial or Modernism), DH welcome, University of Lethbridge, Deadline April 15, 2014. A last call for the Tenure Track job in English at the University of Lethbridge. Applications are due April 15, though we will continue to consider applications until the position is filled. Specialisation: 20th Century, particularly Postcolonial or Modernism (we need people in both areas; this is the first of what we hope will be a series of ads) Sub-specialisation: Open (Digital Humanities is certainly welcome and is a strategic priority of both the Faculty of Arts and Science and the University more generally) Starting-Salary: In the last 2 years, starting salaries at the U of L have ranged from $63k to $92k with an average of $75k. Deadline: April 15, 2014. We will continue to consider applications until the position is filled; but do expect to begin examining the pool very soon after the deadline passes (please let your referees know this) Further details: http://www.uleth.ca/hr/jobs/english Required information: Applications should include a curriculum vitae, transcripts, outlines of courses previously taught, teaching evaluations, publication reprints or preprints, a statement of teaching philosophy and research interests. Letter for reference from three referees should be mailed/emailed/faxed separately to the address below. Postal Address: Dr. Adam Carter, Chair, Department of English The University of Lethbridge 4401 University Drive Lethbridge, Alberta, T1K 3M4 Canada Email: bev.garnett@uleth.ca (emailed applications/letters of reference are acceptable) Fax: +1 (403) 382-7191 (faxed applications/letters of reference are acceptable) Administrative office telephone: +1 (403) 380-1894 Please feel free to email the contact the chair (a.carter@uleth.ca), me (daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca), or any member of the department if you have additional questions. As the deadline approaches, emailed applications are probably most certain to arrive on time. Our vacancy is for a tenure track position in 20th Century literature in English. We are looking particularly for either Post Colonial or Modernism (areas in which we have had recent retirements or resignations). Although Digital Humanities is not a prerequisite for the position, it is welcome: DH is a strategic priority in the Faculty and the University and is a key component in a recent central administration application for $4.1 million to fund a new complex of specialised laboratories. Globalisation is also a strategic priority of the University. The University of Lethbridge was Canada's top undergraduate research university in 2012 and remains in the top three. We are also putting significant resources into the development of our (relatively new) graduate school. The Department of English is a relatively small unit (currently 9 full time faculty members) with a strong research and teaching profile. Individual members of the department have great freedom to shape their research and teaching responsibilities. In most cases, faculty members are primarily responsible for developing the teaching programme in their area of research specialisation. The University of Lethbridge is located in Southern Alberta, Canada. Lethbridge has a population of about 80,000 people. It is close (about 180km) to the Rocky Mountains and Calgary (225km). The University has about 8,000 students, of which about 300 are English majors. Faculty in the Department have strong connections to researchers in neighbouring institutions (University of Calgary, University of Alberta, University of Saskatchewan, and the University of Victoria) as well as internationally: the Department is the home of DigitalMedievalist.org, globaloutlookdh.org, /Digital Studies/Le champ numérique/, and Lethbridge Journal Incubator. It is a former host of the Text Encoding Initiative. Faculty are also associated with the Institute for Child and Youth Studies and the in-preparation Centre for Studies in the Digital Age. -dan -- --- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 15C7A63C6; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 11:31:55 +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 170556281; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 11:31:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D49C96281; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 11:31:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140410093144.D49C96281@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 11:31:44 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.956 events: methpds; learning how; heritage; performance X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 956. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Clare Mills (41) Subject: Call for Papers - Digital Humanities Congress [2] From: Francesca Tomasi (18) Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: The Third AIUCD Annual Conference - 'Humanities and Their Methods in the Digital Ecosystem' [3] From: info_dept3 (26) Subject: CfP: "Learning How" Workshop, 5.-6.2.15, Berlin, Germany [4] From: Gareth Beale (47) Subject: cfp: Digital Heritage 2014: University of York [5] From: Willard McCarty (47) Subject: Exploring Conceptual and Creative Practices in Theatre, Film and Television --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 11:09:48 +0100 From: Clare Mills Subject: Call for Papers - Digital Humanities Congress The University of Sheffield's Humanities Research Institute is delighted to announce its Call for Papers for a three-day conference to be held in Sheffield during 4th - 6th September 2014. The Digital Humanities Congress is a conference held in Sheffield every two years. Its purpose is to promote the sharing of knowledge, ideas and techniques within the digital humanities. Keynote Speakers . Professor Laura Mandell (Director, Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media and Culture, Texas A & M University) . Dr Fred Truyen (Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Head of CS/Digital Media Lab at the Institute for Cultural Studies, KU Leuven) . Professor Paul Arthur (Professor of Digital Humanities, The University of Western Sydney) The deadline for proposals is 16 May, full details can be found at hridigital.shef.ac.uk/dhc2014 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 2011 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 12:20:01 +0200 From: Francesca Tomasi Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: The Third AIUCD Annual Conference - 'Humanities and Their Methods in the Digital Ecosystem' The Third AIUCD Annual Conference Humanities and Their Methods in the Digital Ecosystem Scuola di Lettere e Beni Culturali Università degli studi di Bologna via Zamboni 38 — 40126 Bologna 18-19 September 2014 AIUCD 2014, the Third AIUCD (Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale) Annual Conference, is devoted to discussing the role of Digital Humanities in the current research practices of the traditional humanities disciplines. The introduction of computational methods prompts a new characterisation of the methodology and the theoretical foundations of the human sciences and a new conceptual understanding of the traditional disciplines. Art, archeology, philology, philosophy, linguistics, bibliography and diplomatics, history and archival sciences, as well as social and communication sciences, avail themselves of computational methods to formalise their research questions, and to innovate their practices and procedures. A profound reorganisation of disciplinary canons is therefore implied. New emerging notions such as Semantic web, Linked Open Data, digital libraries, digital archives, digital museum collections, information architecture, information visualisation have turned into key issues of humanities research. A close comparison of research procedures in the traditional disciplines and in the digital humanities becomes inevitable to detect concurrencies and to renew their tools and methods from a new interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspective. We invite therefore submissions relating, but not confined to the following topics: — Digital humanities and the traditional disciplines — Computational concepts and methods in the humanities research practices — Computational methods and their impact on the traditional methodologies — The emergence of new disciplinary paradigms Accepted papers (submitted as abstracts of no more than 1000 words) shall be presented on the second conference day. Submissions have to be uploaded as PDF files on EasyChair at the following address: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiucd2014 . The deadline for the submission of abstracts to the Programme Committee is set at the midnight of 12 May 2014. All abstracts shall be submitted to the evaluation process organised by the AIUCD Programme Committee. Authors shall be informed on the acceptance of their submissions within 9 June 2014. Further details about the conference, the members of the Programme Committee and the registration process shall be published on the conference web site at the following address: http://aiucd2014.unibo.it/ http://aiucd2014.unibo.it/ --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 15:54:20 +0200 From: info_dept3 Subject: CfP: "Learning How" Workshop, 5.-6.2.15, Berlin, Germany Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce a workshop "Learning How: Training Bodies, Producing Knowledge," and attach a call for papers. We look forward to hearing from interested scholars. Call for papers: Learning How: Training Bodies, Producing Knowledge, Workshop 05-06 February 2015, organizers: Nina Lerman, Stewart Allen, Research Group Histories of Planning, Dep. III, Artefacts, Action and Knowledge, Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany The focus of this workshop will be on processes of learning in relation to material production: how a less-knowing body becomes more-knowing; how mastery is understood by both "masters" and others; what provisions and resources might be available, and to whom, in a particular time and place. Finding words to analyze knowledge of material processes is often a contested project, but whatever terms scholars choose -- regenerating/ acquiring/ emulating/ developing knowledge -- we propose there is a common set of questions to explore and a rich conversation to be had. The tools of the project "Histories of Planning" are particularly adept at opening and analyzing processes of knowledge production and regeneration: "making material things work" highlights both the intentions of actors engaged in perpetuating material techniques, and the improvisations and insights produced in artisanal encounters over generations, within communities, across boundaries, between bodies and minds. The rubric demands situating types of knowledge specifically -- in particular materialities, workplaces, workshops, kinship groups, classrooms, laboratories, markets, structures of power etc. – yet seeking methodological and comparative points of commonality and conversation. Focal questions for this workshop will be: · What are the structures, from apprenticeships to classrooms, to pay scales to inheritance, within which learning is envisioned? How rigid or flexible are the rules, plans, boundaries? · How is "learning" understood by the people involved? Who is expected to become knowledgeable, and about which materials and processes? · How do we go about studying and articulating human learning processes, familiar or unfamiliar, historical or contemporary? When can we assume a common neurological being or when should we emphasize the contingent cultural constructions of knowing? · Similarly, when can we assume continuities of specific materialities -- "stone", "wood", "metal", etc -- and when do apparently obvious continuities turn out to be materially incommensurate? · How do various cultures, societies, or communities define and value modes of knowing, and how do these differences shape the questions we can ask? Against this topical background the workshop invites discussions about how anthropologists, historians, sociologists, archaeologists, scientists and others can know, investigate, and write about the nonverbal, the veiled and the embodied. We seek to interrogate and explore the different forms of knowledge produced by different disciplinary methods (e.g. interviews, archival research, participant observation, quantitative sampling etc.) and how such data may be used to generate and inform novel understandings of the subjects under scrutiny. Contributors are requested to send in a 250-300 word abstract with their biographical details (full name, institutional affiliation, e-mail address and telephone numbers) by 16 May, 2014. Funding will be available. The “Histories of Planning” project is online here: http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/research/projects/DeptIII_SchaeferDagmar-HistoriesOfPlanning If you have questions about the workshop contact Nina Lerman or Stewart Allen at learninghow@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 17:23:38 +0100 From: Gareth Beale Subject: cfp: Digital Heritage 2014: University of York Dear All Apologies for cross posting. The call for papers for Digital Heritage 2014 is open. The deadline for submissions is the 14th April so make sure you send your abstracts soon. An inclusive forum for all researchers and practitioners working in fields related to digital technologies and heritage, the event aims to promote discussion, collaboration and interdisciplinary thinking. The conference will be held on the 12th July at the University of York. The deadline for submissions is the 14th April. For more information please refer to the call for papers below or the conference website: https://www.york.ac.uk/digital-heritage/events/cdh2014/ The conference will be highly interdisciplinary and will feature contributions from professional practitioners and academic researchers. Please circulate to all individuals or groups you think might be interested. Best wishes, Gareth ----- Call for Papers: Digital Heritage 2014: Digital Communities in Action The call for papers for Digital Heritage 2014 is now open. We would like to invite proposals for 20 minute papers and we welcome submissions from researchers in any field. This year the conference theme will be Digital Communities in Action and so we are particularly keen to encourage presentations which relate to the role of diverse communities in Digital Heritage research. Our keynote talk will be delivered by Prof. Catherine Clarke (Southampton) and will be entitled You are here: medieval heritage and the modern city. The conference will be held on the 12th July 2014 in the Berrick Saul building at the University of York. The Centre for Digital Heritage is an international multi-institutional research centre focussed on innovative inter-disciplinary research in the field of Digital Heritage. The centre includes Aarhus University, Leiden University, Uppsala University and The University of York. For more information please refer to the conference website: https://www.york.ac.uk/digital-heritage/events/cdh2014/ Please send abstracts of 200 words to cdh@york.ac.uk before Monday 14th April. -- -- Gareth Beale Centre for Digital Heritage University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK Tel: +44 1904 328123 Email: gareth.beale@york.ac.uk --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 10:18:43 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Exploring Conceptual and Creative Practices in Theatre, Film and Television -------- Original Message -------- > Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 20:11:23 +0000 > From: Mariann Hardey Dear all, It is my pleasure to be able to draw your attention to a rather delightful event organised by Maxine Gee PhD Student, Department of Theatre, Film and Television, University of York - do enjoy the first TFTV Postgraduate Symposium open to colleagues and students at the University of York. TFTV: Exploring Conceptual and Creative Practices in Theatre, Film and Television University of York Monday 2nd June 2014 With Keynote Speakers: Dr. Ian W. McDonald ( University of Leeds, Aalto University) Lisa Holdsworth (Theatre and TV writer) The Department of Theatre, Film and Television, University of York, is currently inviting applications for papers to be given at the 5th Annual Postgraduate Symposium. This event seeks to encourage a wide array of research interests in the theory and practice of theatre, film and television. We are interested in receiving submissions from postgraduate students researching any and all aspects of the three disciplines and are open to presentations incorporating less traditional research methods, including demonstrations of practical and creative work. The research interests of our own students will form the core of the day’s discussions, but we are happy to incorporate high quality work on any aspect of theatre, film and television. Please send abstracts of 200-300 words to Romana Turina (rt748@york.ac.uk). Papers should be 15 minutes long in order to leave time for discussion. The deadline for entry is Friday 25th April and we aim to respond to all submissions by 30th April 2014. Thank you very much Mariann Dr Mariann Hardey, Ph.D. | @thatdrmaz mariannhardey.com iARC Co-Director | Lecturer | University of Durham Ranked 55th in the World and top ten in the UK in the Financial Times Global MBA ranking Advisory Board, Creative Futures Research Centre http://creativefutur.es Editorial Board, International Journal of Market Research Editorial Board, Journal of Research in Interactive Marketing www.emeraldinsight.com/jrim.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AF0F367D8; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 11:33:00 +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 1DC9567D1; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 11:32:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 26FE366C8; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 11:32:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140410093250.26FE366C8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 11:32:49 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.957 pubs: 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. 27, No. 957. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 14:43:11 -0400 From: Ryan Cordell Subject: DHCommons CFP The editorial team of centerNet's new /DHCommons /journal is thrilled to request submissions for its inaugural issue. We seek mid-stage digital projects who wish peer review and feedback that will contribute to the project's development. Project teams are asked to submit a "project statement" that will be used by the reviewers. The project statement will be published in the journal, alongside the reviews. Project teams are invited to recommend reviewers for their project if they wish. Reviewers will take into consideration both the project statement and the actual project. Projects will be assessed for both their form (technical aspects) and content (humanities content). The project statement should describe how the project contributes to its field(s) and in what ways the digital methods and modes of presentation address larger academic issues. More detailed information about /DHCommons/' Vision, Submission Policies, and Review Policies can be found at http://dhcommons.org/journal. /DHCommons/ editors will be ready and willing to answer questions and work with project directors as they craft these materials, particularly for those submitting to this first issue, which will be by necessity experimental. *Submissions are due by August 15, 2014 for publication of the first issue in late Fall 2014.* /DHCommons/ invites project statements in a wide variety of languages. We have an international Advisory Board and will work with authors towards finding reviewers in the appropriate language. The /DHCommons/ journal aims to support digital humanities scholarship by providing peer review for mid-stage digital projects. /DHCommons/ will make visible the important work that often goes unseen in the midst of DH project development and help DH scholars claim departmental, disciplinary, and institutional credit for that labor. /DHCommons/ intends to provide the robust and recognizable system of academic credit that scholars require. The /DHCommons/ journal is a centerNet http://digitalhumanities.org/centernet/ publication, sponsored by ADHO http://adho.org/ (Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations), supported by DARIAH http://dariah.eu/ (the European Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities), and published by Anvil Academic Press http://anvilacademic.org/ . The founding Co-Editors-in Chief are Ryan Cordell (Northeastern University), Isabel Galina (UNAM) and Laurent Romary (Inria) with Quinn Dombrowski (UC Berkeley) as technical editor. The Editorial Board includes Anne Baillot (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Cheryl E. Ball (West Virginia University), Marin Dacos (Centre pour l'édition électronique ouverte), Rebecca Frost Davis (St. Edward's College), Jason Ensor (University of Western Sydney), Jieh Hsiang (National Taiwan University), Tara McPherson (University of Southern California), Rafael Pérez y Pérez (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Cuajimalpa), Torsten Reimer (Imperial College London), Roopika Risam (Salem State University), Geoffrey Rockwell (University of Alberta), and Patrick Sahle (University of Cologne) _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6BFBB659C; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:20:58 +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 56DFC6594; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:20:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5FEDD656B; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:20:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140411072045.5FEDD656B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:20:45 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.958 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. 27, No. 958. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: ROCCHI PAOLO (11) Subject: RE: 27.954 humanities [2] From: maurizio lana (18) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.954 humanities [3] From: Wendell Piez (171) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.954 humanities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 09:45:58 +0000 From: ROCCHI PAOLO Subject: RE: 27.954 humanities In-Reply-To: <20140410092239.EB99E66AD@digitalhumanities.org> I agree with the Barzun's work quoted by William. Not only humanities are essential to modern culture but are essential to science itself. I'm striving to show how some linguistic concepts (that is to say, basically humanist notions) can clarify the principles of computer science. They operate like a key that opens a complicated lock. Paolo Rocchi Docent Emeritus IBM via Shangai 53, 00144 Roma Contract Professor LUISS University via Salvini 2, 00197 Roma --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 16:45:33 +0200 From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.954 humanities In-Reply-To: <20140410092239.EB99E66AD@digitalhumanities.org> Il 10/04/14 11:22, chris meister ha scritto: >>the single biggest "PR handicap" is that most of our disciplines >>invest next to no effort into defining their future purpose. probably, simply "the single biggest handicap". i see it operating when we 'humanists' cannot identify a single productive, commercial use of our disciplines. don't blame me as if i was thinking only in terms of money: this is only the immediate consequence of playing only at the level of principles, culture, educational needs, and so on. culture in broad sense can produce economical value, but we are shy of it as if it was a route to lose our soul. we prefer to remain in our rooms while the world is struggling outside.maurizio ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università  del Piemonte Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici piazza Roma 36 - 13100 Vercelli tel. +39 347 7370925 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 12:39:52 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.954 humanities In-Reply-To: <20140410092239.EB99E66AD@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, Martin, Manfred and HUMANIST, Respectfully, I think Prof Mueller may agree with Prof Thaller more than he says. The forces of know-nothingism to which Prof Mueller refers are closely aligned with the nationalistic mode of the (sort of pseudo-) "humanism" to which Prof Thaller has insightfully referred, aren't they? The program to use the "study" of history and culture to valorize and magnify nation and tribe? This is only one step away from proclaiming superiority and exceptionalism without any appeal to history at all, for nothing but the (supposed) vindication of it. To the extent that we have joined or even compromised with the prosecutors of these agendas (whatever their reasons or motives), we humanists have been our own worst enemies, building our houses on sand. Similarly, the budget pressures that reflect reductive, short-term "value propositions" are essentially an expression of fear and loathing, not only (this time) of the other, but also of one's own potential to be other, and better, than one is. "Culture and civilization are all very fine, but we can't afford them." Of course, this is both a rejection of our inheritance of freedom, and a self-fulfilling prophecy. It achieves beggary in its proclamation of it. Prof Thaller's word for this was "niggardliness". (It's unfortunate, if understandable, that this word is now unusable in my country due to its echo of another word fraught with painful history.) Prof Mueller is correct to observe that "It is easier to see what is going on, harder to figure out how to change it", and the reason is simple: the sewers polluting both of these stinking swamps are in our own hearts as well as those of our fellow citizens. Changing this requires seeing clearly and speaking truly, but also faith in ourselves and each other. With best regards as always, Wendell On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:22 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 954. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 12:33:24 +0000 > From: Martin Mueller > Subject: Re: 27.951 humanities > In-Reply-To: <20140407110052.8FC2F61DE@digitalhumanities.org> > > > What Manfred Thaller says is is true in some ways but not in others. > Support for 'pure' research in most areas of science has markedly declines > in the U.S. in recent years, and as a percentage of GDP it is only a > fraction of what it was during the fifties and sixties. Budget pressures > are only partly to blame; there are deeper cultural and political forces > that feed on forms of 'know-nothingism' and look at 'value propositions' > from an aggressively short-term perspective. It is easier to see what is > going on, harder to figure out how to change it. > > Martin Mueller > Professor emeritus of English and Classics ... >> >>--[2]--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>--- >> Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 08:29:38 +0200 >> From: Manfred Thaller >> Subject: Re: 27.947 humanities to what end? & Re: [Humanist] >>27.948 social dynamics of the new >> In-Reply-To: <20140406095341.B3DD0627D@digitalhumanities.org> >> >> >>Dear Christoph, Dear Willard, >>I think you look at two sides of the same coin. (Being a virtual one, it >>may have more than two.) >> >>Christoph writes: >>> In my practical experience (that is, as >>> past HoD of Humanities departments competing with other disciplines for >>> attention and funds within and beyond two universities) the single >>> biggest "PR handicap" is that most of our disciplines invest next to no >>> effort into defining their future purpose. >>I think that is connected to what I usually refer to as the "lack of an >>implicit communicable vision of the Humanities". >> http://en.bab.la/dictionary/english-german/communicable >> >>There are many areas of the hard sciences who have absolutely no >>practical value within any realistic planning period. Nevertheless, >>there is an absolute consensus in the public and in the political arena, >>that they have to be supported and funded at a rather high level. >> >>Example 1: Fusion research. Uncounted billions have been spent since the >>forties to find a viable way of producing energy out of controlled >>nuclear fusion. That has resulted in fusion being under control not only >>for microseconds, but up to the milisecond range. If a specific approach >>in the hard sciences has been supported for half a century with that as >>a result, we can be rather sure, that it will lead to nothing - until >>somebody has a totally new approach, which will scarcely come out of >>trying to repeat the old aproaches with more ressources. >>Nevertheless, there is the vision of "the final solution of mankind's >>problems with energy". Who would be so niggardly to prevent pursuing so >>noble a goal? >> >>Example 2: Radioastronomy. How can a research policy, that allegedly >>insists on a short term profitability of research fund that? Will we >>have startups who serve the expanding market of create-your-own-universe >>tool-sets within the next five years? >>No, but there IS the noble goal of "uncovering the last secrets of the >>universe". Who would be so niggardly to prevent pursuing so noble a goal? >> >>Example 3: Research in particle physics has been eminently practical and >>changing our world. As CERN employed Tim Berners-Lee for sometime. >>Otherwise ... >>However, there is the vision of "solving the mystery of matter". Who >>would be so niggardly to prevent pursuing so noble a goal? >> >>These visions are not usually pronounced all that frequently, but they >>ARE shared by society today. And, before I am misunderstood: I am as >>intrigued by them, as anybody and would NOT propose to stop supporting >>them. I would like to point out however, that the prosaic, >>business-admin lead policies, which are allegedly based on prosaic >>notions of profitability have actually a strong undercurrent of very >>romantic notions. >> >>The Humanities HAD such a vision until ca. 1950, though it has very >>rarely been made explicit. Nation building and defining national >>identities since ca. 1780 could not have worked without Humanists >>uncovering the big treasures of national literatures, the noble >>character of national histories, the wonderful heritage of ancient >>times. Of course, this had to be taken very serious. So, even if it >>took totally incomprehensible studies of the "long tailed g" in the >>charters of a local count - that was as necessary a contribution to the >>creation of identity as the equally incomprehensible output of physics >>were for the understandign of the universe. >>So the study of literature, history and the heritage was absolutely >>necessary to understand your own place in a world of competing nations. >>Who would be so niggardly to prevent pursuing so noble a goal? >> >>I am afraid, as long as the Humanities do not agree - implicitly or >>explicitly - upon a vision of such magnitude again, it will remain >>extremely simple to treat them niggardly. >> >>To avoid two misunderstandings: >>If the price to be paid for the eventual disappearance of nationalism is >>the disappearance of the Humanities, I am tempted. >> >>And: I am NOT speaking about Martha Nussbaum's "Not For Profit: Why >>Democracy Needs the Humanities". >>This is a wonderful statement, why the Humanities should be taught at >>the gymnasium / college level. I cannot derive any reason from it, >>however, why we should undertake Humanities' research. >> >>Enters Willard: >>> In fact anxieties that the >>> historical literature tells us were commonplace in the 1960s-1980s, >>> expressed as the fear of being replaced, scholarship being mechanized >>>and so >>> on, I have heard uttered by highly intelligent people this year. >>Could it possibly be, that such Humanists themselves are unconsciously >>aware, that they are missing a vision, which should be followed by >>whatsoever means it takes? "The way is the goal" is a wonderful notion, >>if the long term goal has at least an outline. The saying is supposedly >>derived from Gandhi, who could NOT describe what he had in mind for >>article 123, clause (c) of the constitution of India, but who most >>certainly had a long term vision, what she should become. Given that, >>what is there beyond the next bend of the way, is, indeed, irrelevant. >> >>Kind regards, >>Manfred -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 45F256581; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:22:22 +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 1FFBE6555; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:22:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C910F64FE; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:22:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140411072210.C910F64FE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:22:10 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.959 solutions to the job problem X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 959. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 18:34:09 +0200 From: "Dr. Hartmut Krech" Subject: Solutions to the job problem While, in a quiet moment, I was contemplating the possibility that internet-based photo and video sharing services like Flickr, Instagram, etc. may have been created not so much as a source of revenue in themselves, but as a .purposeful outlet for the masses of digital photographs and videos that would never meet a critical mind in the conventional art shows and show rooms due to the sheer number of their occurrences, I was reminded of my still undocumented (Humanist 26.44) attempt at defining the humanities first and foremost as the community or communities of humanists, whereby, I might add, "digital" would refer to their medium or means of expression and communication, quite similar to "written" ethnography or "visual" anthropology ("scriptural" ethnology is quite a different thing). In an effort that stands in the best tradition of activating or consciousness-raising surveys, Eleanor Dickey, Professor of Classics at the University of Reading, has aggregated quite a number of personal experiences of "independent scholars," recommendations for administrative improvements and ideas for digital enterprises to help those 80 % of Humanities PhDs that will never get a permanent job in their profession despite (and sometimes because of) their high-profile education. The extensive results of her inquiry were posted to the Classicists list of Liverpool University and make impressive and sometimes depressing reading-material. Professor Dickey has given me permission to forward her study to Humanist-L and to ask you for your commentaries and additions. Her original posting is archived at: http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1404&L=classicists&T=0&P=3239 As Prof. Dickey's email address is visible only for listmembers, she asks for commentaries to be sent to her email address e.dickey@READING.AC.UK. Of course, I would highly welcome any ideas from members of Humanist-L that tackle the problem of the future of the humanities from the perspective of those who have dedicated their lives to this subject area and its accepted methods and shared cognizances. Hartmut Krech http://ww3.de/krech Prof. Dickey begins her posting with the following words: "Thank you very much to all the people who answered my questions on what could be done to help the people with doctorates but no permanent job. I received nearly a hundred responses, most containing heart-rending tales of woe as well as exciting ideas for tackling the issue. Clearly the problem is a major one, and the people suffering from it are deserving of help from the academic community: one respondent said that we don't owe them jobs, and that may be true, but having in most cases led them to believe that if they were good enough things would work out, we owe them something better than the circumstances to which these excellent scholars are currently subjected. And we can do something about this! I have compiled a list of the ideas for action that people have submitted; it is below. What I now need to know is how good these ideas are from a variety of perspectives, so I would be very grateful if you (that's you, no matter what your current job status) would rate them for me according to the scale given below and send the result to E.Dickey@reading.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3A07665FB; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:22:59 +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 F327065DC; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:22:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5DEDC65DC; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:22:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140411072249.5DEDC65DC@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:22:49 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.960 job 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. 27, No. 960. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:35:59 -0400 From: Judith Altreuter Subject: WordPress/BuddyPress developer for MLA Commons The MLA has a full-time job opening for a WordPress/BuddyPress developer. WordPress/BuddyPress developer Modern Language Association New York, NY The MLA is excited to announce a new developer position dedicated to its WordPress-based scholarly communication platform, *MLA Commons*. This fast-growing site allows MLA members to create profiles, seek feedback on their work, establish and join groups to discuss common interests, and collaborate with like-minded scholars through new kinds of open-access publications. This developer will be working within the production team to extend and maintain the open-source Commons-in-a-Box program, which is based on BuddyPress. This is an extraordinary opportunity to help shape a platform for the leading membership association in the humanities and contribute to an award-winning and active open source project. In addition, our long-term plans include exciting and eagerly anticipated projects that will expand the scope of *MLA Commons*, some of which are joint ventures with other organizations. Therefore, this developer must be able to communicate and collaborate effectively with others inside and outside the MLA. *Skills & Requirements Proven expertise in WordPress plugin and theme development Comfortable in LAMP/LEMP server environment Experience using REST APIs to connect systems Fluency in CSS, JavaScript, and SQL Familiarity with principles of good UX design Interpersonal skills and intellectual curiosity *Bonus Skills Has worked with Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, Azure, or other cloud platform Experience with BuddyPress, Fedora Repository Project, Solr / Blacklight *Benefits Intellectually stimulating work environment Competitive salary Generous vacation and sick time Flexible work hours 403(b) retirement plan Individual health and dental plans are offered with no shared premium cost About the Modern Language Association In 2013, the Modern Language Association launched MLA Commons to expand the opportunities for its members to communicate their teaching experiences and collaborate on scholarly research. The MLA has an annual convention, works with related organizations, and sustains one of the finest publishing programs in the humanities. Applications can be sent to prod0414@mla.org or through github: http://jobs.commons.mla.org/wp-developer-humanists Thanks, Judith ___________ Judith Altreuter Associate Director of Publishing Operations, Production Modern Language Association New York, NY jaltreuter@mla.org 646-576-5010 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E9426661D; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:27:39 +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 261426163; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:27:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id BE17A6153; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:27:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140411072727.BE17A6153@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:27:27 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.961 events: authorship; language resources; nodes & 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. 27, No. 961. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (20) Subject: Beyond Authorship [2] From: Elisabeth Burr (103) Subject: "Digital Humanities & Language Resources" - Joint "Culture & Technology" and CLARIN-D European Summer School 2014, University of Leipzig [3] From: Brian Rosenblum (61) Subject: Call for Papers - Digital Humanities Forum 2014 - Nodes & Networks --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 11:31:39 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Beyond Authorship Beyond Authorship: a symposium on corpus-based studies of early modern literature 24-27 June 2014 University of Newcastle, Australia This symposium seeks to move beyond authorship as the primary focus of corpus-based studies in early modern literature, to consider broader questions of language and style, genre and form, influence and adaptation; to interrogate the new literary histories enabled by electronic text corpora, and the new methods of analysis they make possible. Confirmed speakers include Douglas Bruster (U Texas at Austin), Gabriel Egan (De Montfort U), Jonathan Hope (Strathclyde U), MacDonald P. Jackson (U Auckland), Lynne Magnusson (U Toronto), and Michael Witmore (Folger Shakespeare Library). John Burrows will give the opening lecture. For programme, registration, and accommodation details, see the symposium website: http://notwithoutmustard.net/beyond-authorship/ -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 02:14:35 +0200 From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: "Digital Humanities & Language Resources" - Joint "Culture & Technology" and CLARIN-D European Summer School 2014, University of Leipzig "Digital Humanities & Language Resources" - Joint "Culture & Technology" and CLARIN-D European Summer School 2014 http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/ We are happy to announce that the phase of application for a place at the Joint "Culture & Technology" and CLARIN-D European Summer School 2014 "Digital Humanities & Language Resources" has been opened. 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, Social 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 museums, in the Language Industries, 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 thematic strands: * *XML-TEI encoding, structuring and rendering* http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/381 * *Query in Text Corpora* http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/390 * *Comparing Corpora* http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/398 * *Historical Text Corpora for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Digitization, Annotation, Quality Assurance and Analysis* http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/378 * *Open Greek and Latin* http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/379 * *Advanced Topics in Humanities Programming with Python* http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/397 * *Stylometry: Computer-Assisted Analysis of Literary Texts* http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/389 * *Editing in the Digital Age: Historical Texts and Documents* http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/383 * *Space - Time - Object: Digital methods in Archaeology* http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/376 * *Spoken Language* http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/388 * *Multimodal Corpora: How to build and how to understand them* http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/393 * *Large Project Planning and Management* http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/386 * *DH for Department Chairs and Deans* http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/384 Each workshop consists of a total of 16 sessions or 32 week-hours. The number of participants in each workshop is limited to 10. Information on how to apply for a place in one or two workshops can be found at: http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/ 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. Participation fees are more or less the same as last year. Thanks to our sponsors, the following support for participants will be available: * The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria (etcl) http://etcl.uvic.ca/ will sponsor up to 5 tuition fellowships for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who take part in the Summer School. * Funding granted by the German Accademic Exchange Service (DAAD) allows us to grant up to 15 scholarships to alumni / alumnae of German universities. *Alumni / Alumnae* are people from outside Germany who as students, graduates, researchers or lecturers have received a degree at a German University or have studied, conducted research or worked at a German University *at least for three months* and who are now outside Germany. For further information about the scholarships see http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/365 If more support becomes available it will be announced here. 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/ 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.uni-leipzig.de/%7Eburr --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 22:06:19 -0500 From: Brian Rosenblum Subject: Call for Papers - Digital Humanities Forum 2014 - Nodes & Networks CFP: Digital Humanities Forum 2014 - Sept 12-13, 2014 Nodes & Networks in the Humanities: Geometries, Relationships, Processes The network has emerged as a powerful model in humanities scholarship in recent years. It is used as a visualization and analytic tool to explore objects, ideas or events and their relationships; as a method to discover, link and create new resources and data; and as a social structure through which we conduct our scholarly and social lives and develop our self-identity. Our digital objects, and our digital selves, all exist in "the Net." As Elijah Meeks argues, "The network is not a social network or geographic network or logical network but rather a primitive object capable of and useful for the modeling and analysis of relationships between a wide variety of objects." KU’s 2014 Digital Humanities Forum will explore these and related topics in a full conference day on Saturday, September 13, which will follow a full day of (gratis) Digital Humanities workshops on September 12. We welcome proposals for papers, posters, panel sessions and workshops on topics from your own research that relate to some aspects of nodes and networks, such as: * network visualizations or network analysis tools and methods that further humanistic research; * the human and processes of identity in the networked environment; * how nodes and networks have descriptive and explanatory power in humanistic research (and are not just DH fetish objects) * dynamics of multidimensional data; * social media and networks; * new scholarship through the use of human or machine networks (e.g. crowdsourcing, linked open data); * collaborative scholarly networks across space, time and disciplinary knowledge; * innovative developments in scholarly communication in a networked world (altmetrics, open peer review, collaborative authoring); * the implications for humanities scholarship and pedagogy in a global, digitally networked world; * prosopographical approaches to history illuminating spatial, temporal, conceptual or other networked relationships, * and related topics. DH Forum best student paper award: Graduate students are encouraged to submit abstracts of papers or poster presentations. One student presentation will be selected for an award based on the quality, originality, clarity of the written abstract, along with its alignment with the DH Forum theme and expected future impact. The awardee will be presented with a check for $400 and award certificate at the conference. Students should identify themselves as such at the time of abstract submission to be considered for the award. For a paper to be eligible, at least fifty percent of the research reported in the paper must be performed by one or more student authors, and the student must be the primary presenter of the paper at the conference. Please submit abstracts of 500 words maximum at: https://idrh.ku.edu/dhforum2014 Proposal Deadline: June 1 Questions may be directed to the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, idrh@ku.edu Arienne Dwyer & Brian Rosenblum, Co-Directors <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Brian Rosenblum Co-Director, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities Head, Center for Faculty Initiatives and Engagement 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0F6826501; Sat, 12 Apr 2014 09:25:45 +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 1853B64A5; Sat, 12 Apr 2014 09:25:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 47F09647D; Sat, 12 Apr 2014 09:25:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140412072532.47F09647D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 09:25:32 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.962 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. 27, No. 962. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 07:50:08 +0000 From: "Bod, Rens" Subject: RE: 27.958 humanities In-Reply-To: <20140411072045.5FEDD656B@digitalhumanities.org> Paolo Rocchi wrote: >> Not only humanities are essential to modern culture but are essential to science itself. >> I'm striving to show how some linguistic concepts (that is to say, basically humanist >> notions) can clarify the principles of computer science. The influence of linguistic concepts on computer science has been well documented. For instance, when in the late 1950s linguists like Noam Chomsky developed a notation for defining grammars, it was taken up by computer scientists such as John Backus who applied this notation to designing programming languages. Chomsky’s syntactic definition of a language served as the pattern for the structure of the whole compiler for ALGOL — the first higher programming language. And there is more: e.g. when the 19th-century philologist Karl Lachmann used the model of a tree of texts with a common root for his textual reconstructions, he gave biologists a powerful method for describing zoological phylogenies. And there is even more, for an overview see https://blog.oup.com/2014/02/how-the-humanities-changed-the-world/ All best, Rens Prof dr Rens Bod, Chair of Computational and Digital 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 | weblog | twitter NEW OUP BOOK: A New History of the Humanities --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 09:45:58 +0000 From: ROCCHI PAOLO Subject: RE: 27.954 humanities In-Reply-To: <20140410092239.EB99E66AD@digitalhumanities.org> I agree with the Barzun's work quoted by William. Not only humanities are essential to modern culture but are essential to science itself. I'm striving to show how some linguistic concepts (that is to say, basically humanist notions) can clarify the principles of computer science. They operate like a key that opens a complicated lock. Paolo Rocchi Docent Emeritus IBM via Shangai 53, 00144 Roma Contract Professor LUISS University via Salvini 2, 00197 Roma --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 16:45:33 +0200 From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.954 humanities In-Reply-To: <20140410092239.EB99E66AD@digitalhumanities.org> Il 10/04/14 11:22, chris meister ha scritto: >>the single biggest "PR handicap" is that most of our disciplines >>invest next to no effort into defining their future purpose. probably, simply "the single biggest handicap". i see it operating when we 'humanists' cannot identify a single productive, commercial use of our disciplines. don't blame me as if i was thinking only in terms of money: this is only the immediate consequence of playing only at the level of principles, culture, educational needs, and so on. culture in broad sense can produce economical value, but we are shy of it as if it was a route to lose our soul. we prefer to remain in our rooms while the world is struggling outside.maurizio ------- Maurizio Lana - ricercatore Università del Piemonte Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici piazza Roma 36 - 13100 Vercelli tel. +39 347 7370925 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 12:39:52 -0400 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.954 humanities In-Reply-To: <20140410092239.EB99E66AD@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, Martin, Manfred and HUMANIST, Respectfully, I think Prof Mueller may agree with Prof Thaller more than he says. The forces of know-nothingism to which Prof Mueller refers are closely aligned with the nationalistic mode of the (sort of pseudo-) "humanism" to which Prof Thaller has insightfully referred, aren't they? The program to use the "study" of history and culture to valorize and magnify nation and tribe? This is only one step away from proclaiming superiority and exceptionalism without any appeal to history at all, for nothing but the (supposed) vindication of it. To the extent that we have joined or even compromised with the prosecutors of these agendas (whatever their reasons or motives), we humanists have been our own worst enemies, building our houses on sand. Similarly, the budget pressures that reflect reductive, short-term "value propositions" are essentially an expression of fear and loathing, not only (this time) of the other, but also of one's own potential to be other, and better, than one is. "Culture and civilization are all very fine, but we can't afford them." Of course, this is both a rejection of our inheritance of freedom, and a self-fulfilling prophecy. It achieves beggary in its proclamation of it. Prof Thaller's word for this was "niggardliness". (It's unfortunate, if understandable, that this word is now unusable in my country due to its echo of another word fraught with painful history.) Prof Mueller is correct to observe that "It is easier to see what is going on, harder to figure out how to change it", and the reason is simple: the sewers polluting both of these stinking swamps are in our own hearts as well as those of our fellow citizens. Changing this requires seeing clearly and speaking truly, but also faith in ourselves and each other. With best regards as always, Wendell _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 307566511; Sat, 12 Apr 2014 09:26:23 +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 CB0906510; Sat, 12 Apr 2014 09:26:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6403E650F; Sat, 12 Apr 2014 09:26:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140412072613.6403E650F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 09:26:13 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.963 funded MAs 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. 27, No. 963. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 11:18:49 +0100 From: Deirdre.M.Quinn@nuim.ie Subject: Scholarships available on MA in Digital Humanities at NUI Maynooth An Foras Feasa at NUI Maynooth is excited to announce two scholarships on the MA in Digital Humanities. Further information may be found at www.learndigitalhumanities.ie and an information session will be held on April 16th between 12pm and 2pm in An Foras Feasa, Iontas, North Campus, National University of Ireland Maynooth. Queries should be directed to maapplications@forasfeasa.ie.  Deirdre Quinn Dr Deirdre Quinn, An Foras Feasa, 1.07, Iontas, NUIM. Maynooth, Co. Kildare. 01 4747186 deirdre.m.quinn@nuim.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7F51065C2; Sat, 12 Apr 2014 09:27:51 +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 F07096265; Sat, 12 Apr 2014 09:27:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 12D856265; Sat, 12 Apr 2014 09:27:39 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140412072740.12D856265@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 09:27:39 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.964 events: digital fiction; machines were 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. 27, No. 964. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Graeme Gooday (21) Subject: Public Lecture: Mario Biagioli (UC Davis): 'When Machines were Texts', University of Leeds, Thursday 15th May 2014 [2] From: Ray Siemens (49) Subject: CREATING DIGITAL FICTION WITH KATE PULLINGER, June 9-13, 2014 @ SFU Vancouver --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 13:30:38 +0100 From: Graeme Gooday Subject: Public Lecture: Mario Biagioli (UC Davis): 'When Machines were Texts', University of Leeds, Thursday 15th May 2014 AHRC Research Network: 'Rethinking Patent Cultures' PUBLIC LECTURE : "When Machines were Texts: The Strange History of the Idea/Expression Distinction" By Prof. Mario Biagioli, Director of the Center for Science and Innovation Studies, University of California, Davis THURSDAY 15th MAY 6 -7pm , Centenary Gallery, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds ****ADVANCE REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL**** To register for attendance visit the public lecture page at www.rethinkingpatentcultures.com http://www.rethinkingpatentcultures.com ABSTRACT: The idea-expression distinction provides the crucial demarcation between the subject of patent law and that of copyright. In the US, that distinction is deemed settled in Baker v. Selden (1879), but has been subsequently challenged by technological developments, like software, involving inventions that look like texts or others, like computer interfaces, that seem to merge software and hardware. I argue that these new technologies do not induce local destabilizations of the idea-expression divide, but rather activate tensions that have been there all along - tensions that are both problematic and unavoidable. For enquiries, please email our Network Administrator at rethinkingpatentcultures@gmail.com (to which address all replies will be directed) Graeme Gooday, (on research leave 2013-14) PI for AHRC Research Network 'Rethinking Patent Cultures' Professor of the History of Science and Technology 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 http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/people/20048/philosophy/person/860/graeme_gooday www.rethinkingpatentcultures.com http://www.rethinkingpatentcultures.com --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 22:12:41 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: CREATING DIGITAL FICTION WITH KATE PULLINGER, June 9-13, 2014 @ SFU Vancouver CREATING DIGITAL FICTION WITH KATE PULLINGER June 9-13, 2014 @ SFU Vancouver http://www.ccsp.sfu.ca/education/publishing-workshops/digital-media-workshops-2014/creating-digital-fiction-with-kate-pullinger/ Join us for this special week-long immersive writing/authoring workshop with award-winning author and digital fiction pioneer Kate Pullinger. This workshops is a unique learning opportunity aimed at writers who wish to explore digital fiction, developers who want to explore literary works, and publishers interested in new models for writing, reading, and collaborating in fiction. Over the five days, participants will work together to collaboratively author a work of interactive, multimedia literature, which will subsequently be available online inviting further participation from a wider public. Participants will work collaboratively with faculty to plan, compose, design, assemble, and promote the work over the course of the week. A series of short morning seminars with faculty will elaborate the dynamics, opportunities, and challenges of composing and producing for networked digital media. Afternoons will be devoted to collaborative work on writing, design and graphic production, audio and video production, and technical development. The goal for the week is the production of a prototype work which forms the basis for an ongoing, collaborative work which gathers an online audience. FACULTY: Kate Pullinger writes for both print and digital platforms. Her new novel, Landing Gear, published in the spring of 2014, takes the story told in Pullinger’s collaborative multimedia digital work, co-created with Chris Joseph, Flight Paths: A Networked Novel, and develops it further. Her novel The Mistress of Nothing won the 2009 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, one of Canada’s most prestigious literary prizes. Her prize-winning digital fiction projects, Inanimate Alice and Flight Paths: A Networked Novel, have reached audiences around the world. Pullinger’s other books include A Little Stranger, Weird Sister, The Last Time I Saw Jane, Where Does Kissing End?, which are all being published in new ebook editions in the spring of 2014. John Maxwell is Associate Professor in the Publishing Program at SFU. His research & teaching focus is on the impact of digital technologies in the cultural sector (and particularly books and magazines), the history of digital media, and the emergence of digital genres and mythologies. Haig Armen is one of Canada’s most respected and innovative digital designers. He is a faculty member in Design & Dynamic Media at Emily Carr University. Haig has had the honour of winning a variety of awards throughout his design career, including three Webby Awards, two Prix Italia for Web Arts and Drama and a Gold Medal from the Art Director’s Club of New York to name only a few. -- - John Maxwell Publishing @ SFU jmax@sfu.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id F118067C3; Sat, 12 Apr 2014 09:28:49 +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 C8C5965C2; Sat, 12 Apr 2014 09:28:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E52E065E3; Sat, 12 Apr 2014 09:28:39 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140412072839.E52E065E3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 09:28:39 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.965 pubs: Glottometrics 27 X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 965. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 15:21:46 +0000 From: Ram-Verlag Subject: Glottometrics 27, 2014 Just published: 2014 Glottometrics 27, 2014 ISSN 1617-8351 Abstracts: See http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1397233321_2014-04-11_ram-verlag@t-online.de_32662.2.pdf Editorial board by: Link Published by: RAM-Verlag http://www.ram-verlag.eu/ . Glottometrics 27, 2014 is available as Printed edition: 30.00 EUR plus PP CD-ROM-edition: 15.00 EUR plus PP Internet download (PDF-file): 7.50 EUR If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact me. Jutta Richter For: RAM-Verlag RAM-Verlag Jutta Richter-Altmann Medienverlag Stüttinghauser Ringstr. 44 58515 Lüdenscheid Germany Tel.: + 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 06B346371; Sun, 13 Apr 2014 09:54:11 +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 26FC16363; Sun, 13 Apr 2014 09:53:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C11076363; Sun, 13 Apr 2014 09:53:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140413075352.C11076363@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 09:53:52 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.966 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. 27, No. 966. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 08:42:26 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: the question of the humanities It does seem to me that at the core of Jacques Barzun's 1959 essay is a most promising way of addressing that which we are calling the crisis of the humanities, or more accurately, the anti-intellectualism of our time (for curiosity-driven research in the sciences is similarly affected). He writes that the conflict with what are now called the STEM disciplines, is > not a real conflict to those who know the realities they are talking about. > Rather, it is a conflict with the thoughtless about the meaning of > utility. Without the asking of that question "about the meaning of utility", are we not vainly trying to prove that our humanities, and so our humanity, qualify under the wrong criteria? Should we not be asking, useful in what sense, to what end? Is this not a question for digital humanities as much as for other disciplines? And I would think that here, with its particular struggles at the forefront of the useful, the discipline could make a valuable contribution. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 946506409; Mon, 14 Apr 2014 07:25:54 +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 291536356; Mon, 14 Apr 2014 07:25:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D29C862D4; Mon, 14 Apr 2014 07:25:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140414052543.D29C862D4@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 07:25:43 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.967 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. 27, No. 967. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 10:11:31 -0500 From: "Robert A. Amsler" Subject: Re: 27.966 humanities In-Reply-To: <20140413075352.C11076363@digitalhumanities.org> There is always a choice between working on things that are seen as "useful" vs. "interesting". In the sciences it's seen as the difference between "applied" and "basic" research. It obviously affects the humanities as well. What is most interesting (oops, I revealed the group I'm from) is that it isn't clear which category actually yields the most significant advances since the unexpected always happens no matter what path one pursues. The pursuit of 'useful' results can be a dead end. The pursuit of 'interesting' work can result in significant breakthroughs. My judgment would be that a society should invest in funding both kinds of work and when the society's arguments for securing funds turn too far toward only one of these goals there is the danger that the 'most' useful or 'most' interesting' goal might not be the one that is going to lead to the most significant impact on 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 976186472; Mon, 14 Apr 2014 07:46:20 +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 B14476378; Mon, 14 Apr 2014 07:46:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id E4D9C62FA; Mon, 14 Apr 2014 07:46:08 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140414054608.E4D9C62FA@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 07:46:08 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.968 which books and articles? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 968. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 06:34:50 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: which books and articles? If you were to give one or two books on digital humanities to a scholar who is highly intelligent, curious and open-minded but largely ignorant of the field, which one or two books would you give that person to introduce him or her to the digitally aided study of text? Which one or two articles? What would you say in each case about these items to motivate him or her to read them? Many thanks for answers and comments. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 63C7D5F9A; Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:31:41 +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 120C66264; Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:31:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 03C886262; Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:31:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140415053126.03C886262@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:31:25 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.969 books and articles? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 969. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Francisco Marcos Marin (25) Subject: Re: 27.968 which books and articles? [2] From: Alex Gil (31) Subject: Re: 27.968 which books and articles? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 08:54:31 -0500 From: Francisco Marcos Marin Subject: Re: 27.968 which books and articles? In-Reply-To: <20140414054608.E4D9C62FA@digitalhumanities.org> Do you mean in English? There are other languages. At 12:46 AM 4/14/2014, you wrote: >If you were to give one or two books on digital humanities to a scholar >who is highly intelligent, curious and open-minded but largely ignorant >of the field, which one or two books would you give that person to >introduce him or her to the digitally aided study of text? Which one or >two articles? What would you say in each case about these items to >motivate him or her to read them? > >Many thanks for answers and comments. > >Yours, >WM > >-- >Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital >Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital >Humanities, University of Western Sydney -- Francisco A. Marcos-Marín PhD The University of Texas at San Antonio mailto:fammdl@gmail.com http://fmarcosmarin.blogspot.com/ 7701 Wurzbach Rd. # 1501 San Antonio, TX, 78229 USA --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 11:39:37 -0400 From: Alex Gil Subject: Re: 27.968 which books and articles? In-Reply-To: <20140414054608.E4D9C62FA@digitalhumanities.org> Debates in Digital Humanities and Matt Jocker's book on Macroanalysis. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 89D5C6578; Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:35:20 +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 2438A6568; Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:35:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CE351650D; Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:35:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140415053510.CE351650D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:35:10 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.970 why not digitized? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 970. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 22:14:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Blair Subject: Walker's "Sufferings of the Clergy" In-Reply-To: <20140414052543.D29C862D4@digitalhumanities.org> I've been frustrated for a couple of years by a lack of access to Clement Walker's "Sufferings of the Clergy of the Church of England". Whittaker's abridgement is readily available online, but the full volumes stubbornly remain 70 miles from me in a university library open only until 1700 local time. Why do you suppose this is? Certainly Walker is among the volumes digitized by Google and Microsoft. There is no doubt that they are an important primary source of information about persons central to the history of the Civil Wars and the Commonwealth. Why do they remain unpublished digitally? Bob Blair -------------------------------------------- On Sun, 4/13/14, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: Subject: [Humanist] 27.967 humanities To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sunday, April 13, 2014, 10:25 PM                  Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 967.             Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London                        www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist                 Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org         Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 10:11:31 -0500         From: "Robert A. Amsler"         Subject: Re:  27.966 humanities         In-Reply-To: <20140413075352.C11076363@digitalhumanities.org> There is always a choice between working on things that are seen as "useful" vs. "interesting". In the sciences it's seen as the difference between "applied" and "basic" research. It obviously affects the humanities as well. What is most interesting (oops, I revealed the group I'm from) is that it isn't clear which category actually yields the most significant advances since the unexpected always happens no matter what path one pursues. The pursuit of 'useful' results can be a dead end. The pursuit of 'interesting' work can result in significant breakthroughs. My judgment would be that a society should invest in funding both kinds of work and when the society's arguments for securing funds turn too far toward only one of these goals there is the danger that the 'most' useful or 'most' interesting' goal might not be the one that is going to lead to the most significant impact on 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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0C0F16586; Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:35:56 +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 F212F657B; Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:35:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A714A6575; Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:35:48 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20140415053548.A714A6575@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:35:48 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.971 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. 27, No. 971. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 17:30:00 -0500 From: Carlos Monroy Subject: Re: 27.966 humanities In-Reply-To: <20140413075352.C11076363@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, As a computer scientist with several years collaborating with scholars in the humanities, I always find appaling the way in which the humanities disciplines are perceived or judged by scientists and scholars in STEM fields, policy makers or the general public, although some exceptions can be found. Presently my work centers on STEM education and research on data analytics. In my experience the humanities scholars I have collaborated with and their practices have been so valuable, I should say essential, for my scholarly work. I always speak of STHEM, with the H for "Humanities" at the center. This is for a good reason, the Humanities are paramount for the advancement of STEM disciplines. Last Friday during the Texas Digital Humanities Conference, I brought this point to one of the keynote speakers (Geoff Rockwell). His response was something along these lines: "there is no better time to be in the humanities than today." I completely agree, some of the hottest topics in STEM are big data, analytics, and visualization. This begs the question, don't we need the humanities to interpret, analyze and communicate big data analyses in any STEM discipline, or in a broader sense, to do science? My answer is a loud Yes! Furthermore, the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) advance the notion of using data and evidence for argumentation in K-12 science education. These two examples seem to suggest that the humanities are needed in the 21st century, or any other age. Perhaps we assume and take for granted that policy makers, the general public, and other scientists will easily understand the role of the humanities. I believe that we as a community should be more vocal, louder, and better articulate the case for the humanities, in the same way it is done for STEM disciplines. -Carlos ****************************** Carlos Monroy, Ph.D. Data Scientist Rice Digital Learning and Scholarship Rice University Houston, TX carlos.monroy@rice.edu http://monroy.blogs.rice.edu/home/ Mobile. 713.576.6505 ****************************** On Apr 13, 2014, at 2:53 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 966. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 08:42:26 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: the question of the humanities > > > It does seem to me that at the core of Jacques Barzun's 1959 essay > is a most promising way of addressing that which we are calling the > crisis of the humanities, or more accurately, the anti-intellectualism > of our time (for curiosity-driven research in the sciences is similarly > affected). He writes that the conflict with what are now called the > STEM disciplines, is > >> not a real conflict to those who know the realities they are talking about. >> Rather, it is a conflict with the thoughtless about the meaning of >> utility. > > Without the asking of that question "about the meaning of utility", are > we not vainly trying to prove that our humanities, and so our humanity, > qualify under the wrong criteria? Should we not be asking, useful in > what sense, to what end? Is this not a question for digital humanities as > much as for other disciplines? And I would think that here, with its > particular struggles at the forefront of the useful, the discipline could > make a valuable contribution. > > Comments? > > Yours, > WM > > -- > Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital > Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital > Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 53BC66589; Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:37:33 +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 9CA2961A7; Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:37:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 065DE619A; Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:37:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140415053724.065DE619A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:37:23 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.972 research assistantships 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. 27, No. 972. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 16:27:33 +0000 From: "Lucic, Ana" Subject: SODA Research Assistantships available starting summer or fall 2014 Some of the people on the Humanist discussion group may be interested in this opportunity. Feel free to forward. Thank you. Ana Lucic PhD Research Assistant, Socio-technical Data Analytics Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Two Socio-technical Data Analytics (SODA) Research Assistantships available starting summer or fall 2014. The iSchool at Illinois (www.lis.illinois.edu) is recruiting high quality masters students to design, develop, and evaluate new computational and socio-technical solutions to the grand challenges of the twenty-first century. We are particularly interested in students who will deepen the diversity of the 2014/15 cohort, such as those changing careers, those who see the potential that big data may play in their current career, or those from historically and statistically underrepresented groups. Two Socio-technical Data Analytics (SODA) Research Assistants will be selected from the 2014/15 MS applicant pool who will each receive tuition waivers and fees, and a stipend as they work towards the SODA specialization (see soda.lis.illinois.edu). These students will work closely with Dr. Blake’s research group (see below) to develop new methods in text mining and summarization to support discovery and information synthesis in medicine and toxicology. All SODA students are members of the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (cirss.lis.illinois.edu) and will have the opportunity to take courses from top researchers in the field including: • Catherine Blake (text mining, discovery and health informatics, summarization), • Jana Diesner (natural language processing, machine learning, network analysis, covert information), • Miles Efron (information retrieval, language technologies, temporal information), • Vetle Torvik (informetrics, data mining, literature-based discovery, name disambiguation). Courses in digital humanities, social informatics, data curation, information organization, youth and user services, and history of information are also available. The MS program has been consistently ranked #1 by US News and World Report. You can pursue your graduate degree at the Urbana-Champaign campus or via LEEP, an innovative hybrid online program that has successfully graduated more than 1500 students since 1996. Applications received by May 1 (to start in either summer or fall 2014) will receive full consideration for funding. For more information go to soda.lis.illinois.edu/apply. Admissions questions can be directed to lis-apply@illinois.edu and questions about SODA can be directed to sodaInfo@illinois.edu. Dr. Catherine Blake =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= Associate Professor - I-School and Medical Information Science Associate Director - Center for Informatics in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS) Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 E. Daniel Street Champaign, IL 61820-6212 Telephone:(217) 333 0115 Facsimile: (217) 244 3302 =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id EA5946596; Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:38:58 +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 98AF2657F; Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:38:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5879A657F; Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:38:48 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140415053848.5879A657F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:38:48 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.973 Lachmannian critical editions to be liberated in France? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 973. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 15:13:25 +0200 From: Claire Clivaz Subject: A turning-point in France about the critical editions? Dear all, A young researcher of the University of Lausanne, Maïeul Rouquette (Institute of Biblical Sciences), points in his blog to a recent decision of a tribunal in Paris about authors and critical editions copyrights. It has still to be confirmed (two steps), but if yes, it would open important perspectives: critical editions, in the Lachmanian tradition, would not be protected by the copyright any more. http://apocryphes.hypotheses.org/389 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E8D4E3C0E; Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:43:49 +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 B61123A7B; Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:43:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 732C23A7B; Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:43:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140415054338.732C23A7B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:43:38 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.974 events: broken networks; archives; 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. 27, No. 974. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Cummings (50) Subject: DHOxSS Peer-Reviewed Poster Session: Call for Posters [2] From: 臺大數位人文研究中心Research Center for Digit (68) Subject: Call for Papers：2014 DADHIC, Taiwan [3] From: Bill Rankin (38) Subject: Conference: Breaking Scientific Networks --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 10:38:24 +0100 From: James Cummings Subject: DHOxSS Peer-Reviewed Poster Session: Call for Posters Please forward, apologies for cross posting. === DHOxSS Peer-Reviewed Poster Session: Call for Posters Deadline: 1 May 2014 http://dhoxss.humanities.ox.ac.uk/2014/posters.html Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS) is one of the leading international training events in Digital Humanities. It is for researchers, project managers, librarians, research assistants, students, and anyone interested in Digital Humanities. DHOxSS delegates are introduced to a range of topics including the creation, management, analysis, modelling, visualization, or publication of digital data in the humanities. Each delegate follows one of our five-day workshops and supplements this with additional morning parallel lectures. There will also be a peer-reviewed poster session giving delegates a chance to present their Digital Humanities work to those at the DHOxSS. Presenting a poster often gives delegates a chance to receive funding to attend from their local institution. This year's DHOxSS will be held on 14-18 July 2014 and the five-day workshops offered are: 1. Introduction to Digital Humanities 2. Taking Control: Practical Scripting for Digital Humanities Projects 3. Data Curation and Access for the Digital Humanities 4. A Humanities Web of Data: Publishing, Linking and Querying on the Semantic Web 5. Using the Text Encoding Initiative for Digital Scholarly Editions The Monday evening reception at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History also will be our peer-reviewed poster session. The poster application form asks for an abstract (max 250 words) of what your poster is about and why it will be useful for delegates at DHOxSS 2014 to see it. Only registered delegates of DHOxSS, or members of the University of Oxford, may present a research poster at DHOxSS. However, you do not need to be registered at the time of submitting the poster application form. The DHOxSS will offer an excellent opportunity to gain knowledge and participate in discussions about a wide range of digital techniques and research methods, as well as exploring key topics in depth with leading senior researchers and technologists. Applications are due by 1 May 2014. For more information see: http://dhoxss.humanities.ox.ac.uk/2014/posters.html and for enquiries email researchsupport@it.ox.ac.uk. Don’t forget our NeDiMAH bursaries, deadline fast approaching: 22 April 2014. http://dhoxss.humanities.ox.ac.uk/2014/bursaries.html James Cummings Director of DHOxSS -- Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings@it.ox.ac.uk Academic IT Services, University of Oxford --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 16:46:19 +0800 From: 臺大數位人文研究中心Research Center for Digit Subject: Call for Papers：2014 DADHIC, Taiwan Call for Papers Crossover & Transformation The 5th International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities 2014 http://www.dadh.digital.ntu.edu.tw/index.php?LangType=en&His=EKALM December 1-2, 2014 International Conference Hall, Humanities & Social Sciences Building (HSSB), Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Introduction Digital Humanities refers to the practice of humanities research with digital resources and information technology. The interdisciplinary nature of digital humanities enables researchers examining new methodology, defining new research issues, discovering new context between quantity data, and exploring how the humanities may evolve. The emergence of Digital Humanities has not only transformed the practice of academic research. With equally importance, digital humanities also aims to endeavor a nuanced and critical understanding of how digital technology shapes our society, inspires innovation, and creates new life style in the digital era. This conference is thus organized to engage more researchers to participate in the ongoing dialogs that will eventually lead to encourage collective projects, to stimulate more new research themes, and ultimately to contribute to the growth and flourishing of the global research community of Digital Humanities. Topics of interest We invite submissions of abstracts relating (but not limited) to the following aspects of digital humanities: 1. Development of digital technologies and their applications to help advancing humanities studies (including digital media, data mining, software design, and modeling, etc.). 2. Interdisciplinary research and humanistic research in literature studies, linguistics, culture, and history that are conducted with the use of digital data or digital technology. 3. Research related to the impact of digital technologies on social, institutional, and linguistic aspects, as well as its impact on globalization and multiculturalism. 4. Innovative forms of digital arts such as music, film and theatre; and digital applications such as digital design and new media. Submission Guidelines 1. The call for papers ( http://www.dadh.digital.ntu.edu.tw/Call.php?LangType=en&His=EKALM ) is open for all who are interested. 2. All submissions are to be done online (website: http://www.dadh.digital.ntu.edu.tw/up_index.php?LangType=en&His=EKALM ). 3. Submitted abstracts should include title, an abstract of 1,000-3,000 words, 5 keywords, as well as the author’s name, affiliation & position, contact number, mailing address, and email. The papers will be reviewed. Authors of accepted abstracts will be required to submit the full papers by September 30, 2014. 4. Important Dates: Abstract Submission Deadline is midnight Taiwan time, July 1, 2014. Notification of Acceptance will be send on July 16, 2014. 5. Publications: A Conference Proceeding will be distributed during the conference. The authors of the accepted papers will be invited to submit a revised version after the conference. If accepted, it will be included in the Series on Digital Humanities v. 6. published by the National Taiwan University Press. Registration Admission to the conference is free, but registration on-line is required. The online registration systemwill be open from October 1, 2014. Conference Secretariat Research Center for Digital Humanities, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Contact：Ms. Yi-chun Chen Address：No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei, Taiwan. Tel：886-2-33669847 Emil：dadhic@gmail.com --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 12:12:20 -0400 From: Bill Rankin Subject: Conference: Breaking Scientific Networks All are invited to an upcoming conference – "Breaking Scientific Networks" – to be held next week at UC Davis. What happens when scientific collaborations fall apart? What causes networks to falter? How resilient are they in the face of outside interference, internal strife, or major geopolitical disruption? In this one-day conference, we will look at the long history of networks, from the early modern period to the present day. Join us for the discussion – all are welcome! Here are the details: When: April 25th, 2014. Breakfast at 9:30am; talks and discussion from 10:00am to 6:45pm. Where: The Center for Science and Innovation Studies at the University of California, Davis. All events will be in the Social Sciences & Humanities Building, room 1246. Who: The conference is organized by Dániel Margócsy (Hunter College, CUNY) and William Rankin (Yale University). Presenters include: Paula Findlen (Stanford) Andrew Lakoff (USC) Dániel Margócsy (Hunter College, CUNY) Elidor Mëhilli (Hunter College, CUNY) Joanna Radin (Yale) William Rankin (Yale) Matthew Sargent (Caltech) Lindsay Smith (University of New Mexico) Sharon Traweek (UCLA) Comments from Mario Biagioli, Allison Fish, and Hélène Mialet (all UC Davis). For more information, please see http://www.breakingscientificnetworks.info For access to the pre-circulated papers, please contact margocsy@gmail.com or william.rankin@yale.edu Please spread the word! Bill Rankin and Dániel Margócsy ======= Bill Rankin Assistant Professor, Yale University Program in the History of Science and Medicine http://hshm.yale.edu/rankin _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BD0FF63F0; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 07:20:17 +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 87CB763B4; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 07:20:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6B32262A7; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 07:20:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140416052005.6B32262A7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 07:20:05 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.975 why not digitized; Lachmannian editions X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 975. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Thomas Koentges (25) Subject: Re: 27.973 Lachmannian critical editions to be liberated in France? [2] From: Patrick Rourke (22) Subject: why not digitized? [3] From: John Levin (28) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.970 why not digitized? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 08:07:07 +0200 From: Thomas Koentges Subject: Re: 27.973 Lachmannian critical editions to be liberated in France? Hello, As far as European law is concerned is the text of a critical edition public domain after 25 years (the critical notes, however, may be still under copyright). Does this change in France now? Cheers, Thomas On 15 Apr 2014, at 07:38 am, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 973. > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist > Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 15:13:25 +0200 > From: Claire Clivaz > Subject: A turning-point in France about the critical editions? > > > Dear all, > > A young researcher of the University of Lausanne, Maïeul Rouquette (Institute of Biblical Sciences), points in his blog to a recent decision of a tribunal in Paris about authors and critical editions copyrights. It has still to be confirmed (two steps), but if yes, it would open important perspectives: critical editions, in the Lachmanian tradition, would not be protected by the copyright any more. > > http://apocryphes.hypotheses.org/389 > > Claire Clivaz --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 09:50:07 -0400 From: Patrick Rourke Subject: why not digitized? From: Bob Blair > Subject: Walker's "Sufferings of the Clergy" > > Why do you suppose this is? Certainly Walker is among the volumes > digitized by Google and Microsoft. There is no doubt that they are an > important primary source of information about persons central to the > history of the Civil Wars and the Commonwealth. Why do they remain > unpublished digitally? > > Bob Blair > To speculate, it is possible that the abridged and unabridged books are not sufficiently distinguished by whatever catalog Google Books is using for them to realize that they have NOT digitized the unabridged version. For an example of this sort of problem, try reading the reviews of any older work in translation on Amazon.com. Whatever system Amazon uses for distinguishing "books" from one another cannot (or willfully does not) distinguish between different translations of a work - something that is vitally important for poetry in translation (e.g., Homer). -- Patrick Rourke ptrourke [(at)] methymna.com --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 15:16:15 +0100 From: John Levin Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.970 why not digitized? In-Reply-To: <20140415053510.CE351650D@digitalhumanities.org> Is this the volume - or one of them - you're looking for? http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=781DAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false Also on Jisc Historic Books: http://www.jischistoricbooks.ac.uk/Search/?bibnumber=T145152&spage=1 HTH 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CD1F72F7C; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 07:21:42 +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 9D69063D3; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 07:21:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7545763C8; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 07:21:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140416052131.7545763C8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 07:21:31 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.976 books and articles X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 976. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (11) Subject: books and articles [2] From: Domenico Fiormonte (15) Subject: Re: 27.969 books and articles? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 06:34:35 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: books and articles Francisco Marcos Marin asks in Humanist 27.969 whether I was asking about books and articles in languages other than English. So allow me to ask explicitly, which one or two books and articles would you recommend *in any (natural) language* to introduce a colleague to the study of the textual digital humanities? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 11:42:36 +0200 From: Domenico Fiormonte Subject: Re: 27.969 books and articles? In-Reply-To: <20140415053126.03C886262@digitalhumanities.org> > Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 08:54:31 -0500 > From: Francisco Marcos Marin > Subject: Re: 27.968 which books and articles? > In-Reply-To: <20140414054608.E4D9C62FA@digitalhumanities.org> > > > >Do you mean in English? There are other languages. > Really? ;-) Thanks Paco, I think that questions like those asked by Willard are in good faith but reveal how much we take for granted. We still need to learn so much from each other and on our own cultural biases - let alone those of the DH field... _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 19ED063F0; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 07:22:18 +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 7D9816060; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 07:22:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 773EC601A; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 07:22:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140416052207.773EC601A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 07:22:07 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.977 early-stage researchers wanted X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 977. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 10:01:06 +0100 From: jennifer edmond Subject: Early stage researcher positions at the working papers event "Downstream from the digital humanities" The ESF-funded NeDiMAH (nedimah.eu) project's Working group on Scholarly Publishing is looking to recruit researchers, in particular early stage researchers, to contribute to its upcoming event "Downstream from the Digital Humanities," to be held on 26-27 May in Zadar, Croatia. *Downstream from the Digital Humanities *will be an opportunity to trace current debates in the digital humanities and beyond about changes in our systems of publication, communication and evaluation back to their roots, so as to understand where the systemic changes in the scholarly communications landscape have been addressed, and where their impact is yet to be assimilated. This event has been developed as a working papers session. Rather than hearing a paper for the first time, all papers will be pre-circulated and read in advance by workshop participants. These papers have already been solicited and prepared: we are now recruiting a second cohort of active participants who, working in pairs, will develop responses to two thematically linked papers and, more importantly, support and shape the ensuing discussion by formulating questions about the papers and the issues they address and potentially pointing toward further avenues for developing the arguments. Early stage researchers who reside in a NeDiMAH partner country (see http://www.nedimah.eu/Contributing-Organisations) will be funded for their participation. Students currently working on their PhDs or who have recently graduated are strongly encouraged to apply for these positions. We would also welcome participants involved in academic communications but from outside of the usual academic circles, eg from the publishing, evaluation, policy or funding agencies or companies. Applicants for these positions should send a brief statement (less than 500 words) regarding their research and their interests in scholarly publishing/policy/communications by 30th April to Jennifer Edmond at ( edmondj@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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E478B641E; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 07:24:39 +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 8D3F461C1; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 07:24:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B119061A6; Wed, 16 Apr 2014 07:24:28 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140416052428.B119061A6@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 07:24:28 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.978 events: new media; teaching methods; media 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. 27, No. 978. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Toma Tasovac (28) Subject: CfP - Extended Deadline: DARIAH Workshop "Innovative Teaching Methods and Practices in Digital Humanities" @DH2014 [2] From: Heather Froehlich (13) Subject: Contemporaneity and New Media - 24th April at Strathclyde University [3] From: Kathi Inman Berens (7) Subject: Call: Students to work a Media Arts Show --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 09:42:43 +0200 From: Toma Tasovac Subject: CfP - Extended Deadline: DARIAH Workshop "Innovative Teaching Methods and Practices in Digital Humanities" @DH2014 Dear colleagues, the deadline for contributions to the full-day DARIAH VCC2 workshop “Innovative Teaching Methods and Practices in Digital Humanities” on July 7 at the DH2014 in Lausanne has been extended to April 28! Also, we are delighted to announce that DARIAH Austria will sponsor a 200-Euro award for the best contribution (voted on by the participants), which will also be used as a showcase in consecutive DARIAH events! We are looking for proposals from both long-time practitioner of DH and recent adopters with innovative ideas, methods and interest in digital humanities pedagogy. We are looking for thoughtful and creative contributions that will be surprising, enlightening and inspirational. We are interested not only in what works but also what doesn't — and what we can learn from failed experiments. The workshop will be divided into two sessions: 1) Showcasing best practices for teaching and learning DH In the morning session, participants will have the opportunity to present their ideas and/or actual teaching methods and materials. 2) Challenges in DH pedagogy The afternoon session will provide a forum for the participants to discuss the most prominent challenges and issues in teaching DH as well as the necessary next steps in promoting DH through digital pedagogy. Proposals should consist of an abstract of up to 500 words and a short bio which should be submitted by e-mail to: zim@uni-graz.at The submission deadline is April 28. The proposals will be evaluated and selected by a program committee of international experts. The length allocated to each contribution (10-15 minutes) will be decided by the program committee, depending on the number of contributions and the strength of the proposals. Notifications regarding the acceptance of proposals will be sent out by May 19. The full text of this call can be found online at: http://tinyurl.com/dariah-eu-cfp Please distribute the call to any colleagues, blogs and mailing lists that you find appropriate! We are looking forward to your contributions! Claire Clivaz, Walter Scholger and Toma Tasovac -- Toma Tasovac Belgrade Center for Digital Humanities http://humanistika.org --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 17:11:27 +0100 From: Heather Froehlich Subject: Contemporaneity and New Media - 24th April at Strathclyde University This workshop will explore a range of responses to new media in contemporary artistic and cultural practice, considering how technological advances have been reflected, used, and resisted within art, literature and media. Discussions will be led by: Dr Timothy Barker (Lecturer in Digital Media, Unversity of Glasgow) Dr Paul Crosthwaite (Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh) Dr Petya Eckler (Lecturer in Journalism, University of Strathclyde) Dr Lisa Otty (Lecturer in English Literature and Digital Humanities, University of Edinburgh) Please see the attached PDF for full details. This workshop is open to scholars working in any area of the arts, humanities, information sciences or social sciences. No prior expertise in the subjects discussed is expected or required. Preparatory reading may be circulated ahead of the event in order to better facilitate informal discussions. Lunch, tea/coffee and wine will be served. For catering purposes, please register attendance and specify any dietary requirements using this link: www.formsofinnovation.com/register Attendance is free and all are welcome. Please circulate this invitation to any researchers in your networks who may be interested. *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1397578621_2014-04-15_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_27919.1.1.html http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1397578621_2014-04-15_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_27919.1.2.pdf --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 17:36:17 +0000 From: Kathi Inman Berens Subject: Call: Students to work a Media Arts Show International media arts show coming to University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee seeks six docents and one social media manager. Please forward to DH & arts students who might wish to volunteer for some or all of the date range, June 17-21, 2014 Learn more, including how to apply, here: http://kathiiberens.com/2014/04/10/docents/ -- Kathi Inman Berens, Ph.D. USC Annenberg Lecturer and Research Fellow www.kathiiberens.com http://www.kathiiberens.com Twitter: @kathiiberens _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 067C26199; Fri, 18 Apr 2014 09:35:53 +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 85FB65FE9; Fri, 18 Apr 2014 09:35:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id DDC2B615A; Fri, 18 Apr 2014 09:35:39 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140418073539.DDC2B615A@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 09:35:39 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.979 events: TEI & Chicago Colloquium; Digital Humanities Congress; Museums Get Mobile X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 979. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Mia (51) Subject: Announcing the opening keynote for Museums Get Mobile: Andy Budd [2] From: "Prescott, Andrew" (21) Subject: Digital Humanities Congress [3] From: Martin Mueller (36) Subject: Final call for papers for the 2014 TEI Conference --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 15:05:48 +0100 From: Mia Subject: Announcing the opening keynote for Museums Get Mobile: Andy Budd In-Reply-To: Dear Humanists, Please excuse the cross-post, but given the rise of mobile and tablet online traffic this is relevant to anyone working on websites or apps. Much audience research from the GLAM sector is applicable to digital humanities work so it'd be great to see some DHers at this museum event. For those who can't make it to Bristol on the day, keep an eye on the #MGM14 hashtag on twitter. Cheers, Mia Museums Get Mobile! MCG Spring Meeting – MShed, Bristol, England, 16 May 2014 #MGM14 Museums Get Mobile! is one of this year’s most important museum events for technology development, exhibition innovation, mobile expertise, multiple platform projects and audience engagement. Curated by the UK Museum Computer Group (MCG), this one day conference is a must for museum curators, managers, consultants, directors, bloggers, novices and experts. Find out what the Natural History Museum knows about how its visitors use their smartphones and tablets before, during and after their museum visit, and what the V&A has learnt about designing sites for different devices. Traffic to your websites from mobile and tablet devices has almost definitely been increasing year on year, and shows no sign of slowing. Can your websites respond to your audience’s needs, devices and contexts? Do your visitors have a smooth, consistent experience, whether following a link from social media, viewing collections, booking tickets or finding out about school visits? We're excited to announce that our opening keynote for Museums Get Mobile! (MGM14) will be Clearleft's Andy Budd. Andy will bring his years of experience to explain how easy responsive design can be - with the right mindset - and why museums should be building responsive website by default. If you saw Andy speak at the MCG's Spring event in Brighton a few years ago, you'll know that he's a brilliantly provocative speaker and isn't afraid to give museums some much-needed tough love! Experts from the British Museum, V&A, Natural History Museum, design consultants and digital agencies will cut through the jargon of ‘responsive design’, ‘mobile first’, and the rise of tablets to explain what really matters. Speakers will share exhibition and online experiences, audience research and digital design, bringing together original case studies, challenges and projects from across the full range of museum venues and platforms. MGM14 will equip your museum to give online visitors the experience they have now come to expect. Like museum visitors, you can BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) to the day: we know there’s a lot of expertise and experience in the people who attend our events, so you will have the opportunity to discuss the impact of responsive design on your content strategy and share lessons on commissioning digital work with your peers – a low battery is guaranteed. In MGM14′s closing keynote, Shelley Mannion from the British Museum will be discussing the role mobile can and should play in museum development and audience engagement. Shelley will be joined by Ivan Teage, Digital Development Manager for the Natural History Museum; Digital accessibility consultant Léonie Watson and the V&A's Andrew Lewis, and many others. Don’t miss out! Get your ticket today: http://museumsgetmobile.eventbrite.com/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 15:17:51 +0000 From: "Prescott, Andrew" Subject: Digital Humanities Congress In-Reply-To: Digital Humanities Congress 2014 Call for Papers The University of Sheffield's Humanities Research Institute with the support of Centernet http://digitalhumanities.org/centernet/ is delighted to announce its Call for Papers for a three-day conference to be held in Sheffield during 4th - 6th September 2014. The Digital Humanities Congress is a conference held in Sheffield every two years. Its purpose is to promote the sharing of knowledge, ideas and techniques within the digital humanities. Digital humanities is understood by Sheffield to mean the use of technology within arts, heritage and humanities research as both a method of inquiry and a means of dissemination. As such, proposals related to all disciplines within the arts, humanities and heritage domains are welcome. The conference will take place at the University's residential conference facility, The Edge. Keynote Speakers • Professor Laura Mandell (Director, Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media and Culture, Texas A & M University) • Dr Fred Truyen (Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Head of CS/Digital Media Lab at the Institute for Cultural Studies, KU Leuven) • Professor Paul Arthur (Professor of Digital Humanities, The University of Western Sydney) Submitting a proposal Proposals for papers, sessions and posters should be submitted by email to dhc2014@sheffield.ac.uk by 16 May. Download full guidelines for submitting a proposal (PDF) Discounted registration All successful proposers will be eligible for the early bird registration packages. Early bird registration will end on 30 June 2014. • Discounted full residential package incl. registration and ensuite bed and breakfast accommodation: £240 (full price: £290) • Discounted non-residential package: £129 (full price: £179) • Student full residential package incl. registration and ensuite bed and breakfast accommodation: £210 • Student non-residential package: £110 The conference website will be updated when online registration opens. Further details at: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/hri/dhc --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 23:14:39 +0000 From: Martin Mueller Subject: Final call for papers for the 2014 TEI Conference In-Reply-To: 2014 TEI Conference (in concert with the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science) 30 April Northwestern University A gentle reminder that the deadline for submitting papers to the 2014 TEI conference will be April 30. The conference will take place October 22-24 and will be hosted by Northwestern University. It will overlap and share some programming with the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science that will meet at Northwestern on October 23-24, 2014. The deadline for submissions will be April 30, 2014. As in previous years, we welcome submissions on anything plausibly related to the Text Encoding Initiative,and as stated in the first call for papers (http://www.tei-c.org/News/#2014-02-04-tei_conference_2014_first_call_for_p apers) we have a special interest in the following topics: 1. The TEI is about text 'encoding', but encoded texts need to be 'decoded' by readers who put the encoding to various uses, increasingly with the aid of digital tools of one kind or another. What is the scholarly value added by encoding? What can people do with TEI encoded texts (and what have they done) that they could not otherwise do or have done? 2. In 2015 some 25,000 TEI-encoded Text Creation Partnership (TCP) texts printed before 1700 will be released into the public domain, and another 45,000 texts will be released in the five years to follow, producing by 2020 a deduplicated, structurally encoded, and open source library of just about every English book printed before 1800. This is a very consequential event for the documentary infrastructure of Early Modern Studies in the Anglophone world. It is also an important event for the TEI. The submissions process will be managed through Conftool at the URL https://www.conftool.net/tei2014/. My apologies for the fact that due to various migration issues the conference site itself is still very much a work in progress. I hope it will be substantially complete by the end of this month. Martin Mueller Chair, Program Committee, TEI Conference 2014 Professor emeritus of English and Classics Northwestern 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5671A61A3; Fri, 18 Apr 2014 09:36:39 +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 A4233619E; Fri, 18 Apr 2014 09:36:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1F669619E; Fri, 18 Apr 2014 09:36:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140418073627.1F669619E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 09:36:26 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.980 pubs: de Vigny's "La Prison" X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 980. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 09:12:20 -0500 (CDT) From: Alan Corre Subject: De Vigny's "La Prison" Since Allison took the liberty of a plug for her republication of an old classic, I shall follow her valuable example. I have published on Kindle my translation into English verse of de Vigny's fine poem "La Prison" which imaginatively details the last day of the life of the "Man in the Iron Mask." If you do not have a Kindle, Amazon offers an app which enables the poem to be viewed on any medium. 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Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Andrea Rehn (89) Subject: Digital Scholar position at Whittier College [2] From: Lisa Spiro (33) Subject: ADHO Seeks Communications Fellows [3] From: Graeme Gooday (13) Subject: University of Lugano, Research Assistant/PhD student position: Origins of European radiotelegraphy --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 13:06:14 +0100 From: Andrea Rehn Subject: Digital Scholar position at Whittier College Job Announcement: Digital Scholar Whittier College, a 4-year liberal arts college in Southern California, seeks to hire a digital scholar. The dynamic and enthusiastic candidate will help create and manage a newly remodeled collaborative digital workspace to be housed in the campus library. The digital scholar will guide a team of faculty, students and staff to support individual and campus-wide digital initiatives. We are particularly interested in a scholar who can inspire and implement the College’s commitment to innovative pedagogies associated with digital technologies. A generous Andrew Mellon Foundation grant of $750,000 provides bridge funding to create this permanent full-time position. Visit Whittier's http://blogs.whittier.edu/DigLAPoet/?page_id=286 Digital Liberal Arts Center http://diglibarts.whittier.edu/ blog for more information. Major Responsibilities - Promote the innovative and evolving use of technology to advance the liberal arts curriculum at Whittier College - Research and lead development initiatives to identify emerging technologies, industry trends and best practices that are appropriate to the College’s environment - Promote and support the use of digital technologies to enhance hybrid learning, the use of web-based collaboration tools, mobile learning technologies and games and simulations in multi-user virtual environments - Serve as a liaison to faculty, informing them about options to integrate technology into their pedagogies - Promote the conceptualization, design, development, and assessment of scholarly digital projects - Coordinate training opportunities for faculty to increase their understanding and awareness of established and emerging technologies - Engage faculty and students in collaborative scholarship and the creation of knowledge using emerging digital technologies - Advance collaboration with other colleges, including efforts to expand undergraduate research - Be knowledgeable in the production of audio and video content in support of teaching and learning, and digital media, electronic media presentation, production, and distribution tools - Teach an annual course in your area of specialization, after year one - Participate in campus governance committee work, after year one Qualifications Graduate degree in a Humanities field (PhD preferred), as well as the following: Evidence of successfully created and managed digital projects; Successful work experience with students, faculty and staff from diverse backgrounds and with various levels of technical expertise; Ability to work effectively across disciplines; Relevant experience working in higher education; Active involvement in academic communities related to digital scholarship (NITLE, EDUCAUSE, HASTAC, etc); Demonstrated effectiveness in a teaching environment; Sophisticated understanding of digital projects and publishing, including working knowledge of Learning Management Systems (Moodle preferred); Familiar with digital repositories; Conversant with a variety of digital methodologies, geographic information systems, data visualization and other modes of digital scholarship; and exceptional organizational, presentation, project management, interpersonal, and communication skills. To be considered for this position, please email your CV with cover letter, a syllabus featuring your digital methodology or pedagogy, contact information for three references, and salary history in a single PDF file to: lcrump@whittier.edu. Applications will be reviewed immediately, and will be accepted until the position is filled. The start date for this position is open for negotiation, but preferably will begin in Summer, 2014. Whittier College is a nationally recognized, selective, independent liberal arts college with a diverse student body of approximately 1600 undergraduates and is distinguished by its small size and innovative interdisciplinary programs. The campus is located on a 95-acre hillside 18 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles. We have a long history of commitment to equity, reflecting our Quaker origins, and our student body mirrors the diversity of the region. We are an official Hispanic-Serving Institution and have had two Title V grants. Our faculty, committed teacher-scholars, weave issues of diversity into their work with students. We seek to attract and retain a highly qualified and diverse faculty (AA/EO). *-- * *Andrea Rehn* *Associate Professor of English**Whittier College* Twitter: @profrehn *http://about.me/andrea.rehn http://about.me/andrea.rehn * *Co-Director, Whittier DigLibArts Center http://blogs.whittier.edu/DigLAPoet/ * --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 08:40:59 -0500 From: Lisa Spiro Subject: ADHO Seeks Communications Fellows The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) seeks applicants for its Communications fellowship. Working on a small team, the fellow will write news releases, blog posts and announcements relevant to ADHO, its constituent organizations, and the broader digital humanities community; monitor and update ADHO’s social media presence; maintain its web site; help to develop and implement ADHO’s outreach strategy; and perform other communications-related responsibilities. The Communications fellow should anticipate spending approximately 3-4 hours per week on the position. The fellowship comes with a small annual stipend of 600 Euros. It is well-suited for graduate students who wish to develop deeper knowledge of digital humanities, contribute to an important digital humanities professional organization, and gain experience in social media and communications. Desired skills and qualifications include: - fluency in more than one language - excellent written communication skills - attention to detail - good graphic design skills - ability to work with minimal supervision - experience creating content using Drupal or another content management system - familiarity with social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook To apply, submit a CV/ resume, a brief writing sample, three references, and a cover letter describing your interest in the position, experience with social media and communications, and expertise with writing, web development, and graphic design to Lisa Spiro, chair of ADHO’s communications committee: lisamspiro@gmail.com. The application deadline is May 16, 2014. Two positions will be available. -- Lisa Spiro, Ph.D. Blog: http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/ Twitter: @lisaspiro Phone: 832-341-0380 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 16:49:02 +0100 From: Graeme Gooday Subject: University of Lugano, Research Assistant/PhD student position: Origins of European radiotelegraphy Open Position Announcement: Research Assistant / Doctorate in Communication Sciences The Institute of Media and Journalism (IMeG), Faculty of Communication Sciences at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI-Lugano), Switzerland, invites applications for a combined research assistant and a Ph.D. student position in the area of media and telecommunication history. We offer an opportunity to work on a research project (founded by the Swiss National Science Foundation) on the origins of radiotelegraphy at the European level. This projects aims to study the political, economic, and social construction of European wireless from the first international conference in which radiotelegraphy was considered (Berlin 1903) to the first in which radio broadcasting was definitely regulated (Washington 1927). A detailed description of the project proposal can be found at: http://search.usi.ch/progetti/704/Inventing-European-Wireless-A-cultural-history-of-wireless-from-point-to-point-telegraphy-to-one-to-many-broadcasting-1903-1927. We are particularly interested in candidates with an interdisciplinary approach, that can combine different fields of research and possess a master degree in media studies, communication sciences, history, international relations, or geography. Fluency in written and spoken English is a must as well as basic knowledge of French and German. The position is fully funded for a minimum of three years (contingent on satisfactory progress). During this period the appointee will undertake his/her doctoral studies and will have the possibility to interact with people within the Institute of Media and Journalism studying different fields of media research, from politics to economics, to consumption. Furthermore, the candidate is expected to join an international network of scholars in the field and to become a credible member of the university's community. The research activities will be carried out in different European archives, but the candidate should take residence in Lugano, Switzerland. Contact: Please send your application, incl. detailed CV (with 2 references), university grade transcripts, and a letter of interest electronically to Gabriele Balbi, gabriele.balbi@usi.ch Deadline: The call is open until the position is filled, but envisaged to be appointed as soon as possible (the project will start in September 2014 and so applications will be considered from now to late June-early July 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 800C06181; Sat, 19 Apr 2014 09:47:28 +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 775355F70; Sat, 19 Apr 2014 09:47:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D331F5F70; Sat, 19 Apr 2014 09:47:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140419074717.D331F5F70@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 09:47:17 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.982 events: comparative media 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. 27, No. 982. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 19:52:42 +0000 From: lisa brown Subject: CFP: Comparative Media @ PAMLA 2014 // Oct. 31 - Nov 2 in Riverside, Calif. Comparative Media at PAMLA 2014 The Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association is looking to grow its standing session on Comparative Media from one panel to two at this year's conference, which will be held 31 October - 2 November 2014 at the Riverside Convention Center in Riverside, Calif. Full CFP below. Please feel free to contact me directly with any questions. Cheers, lisa brown jaloza lbrow008@ucr.edu Comparative Media: PAMLA 2014, Riverside, Calif. (Oct. 31 - Nov. 2) Deadline: Thursday, 15 May 2014 If, as Marshall McLuhan famously asserts, media act as prosthesis, then our increasingly haptic relationship to digital technologies (think the nearly ubiquitous touchscreen interface of tablets and smart phones, as well as the rise of immersive VR as evidenced by Facebook's recently announced acquisition of Oculus) seems only natural. What, then, might constitute a denaturalized mediated environment? In addition to general comparative media topics, this standing session invites proposals that engage with PAMLA 2014's special conference theme, "Familiar Spirits." Possible topics may include, but are certainly not limited to: * Spiritualism as Media * Deus Ex Machina: The Supernatural as Narrative Mediation * Haptic Media v. the Ghost in the Machine * Digital Voyeurism as Contemporary Haunting * Hot v. Cool Media * Analog Media as Today's Strange Stranger * Explorations of the Uncanny Valley * YouTube as Paranormative Commons To submit a proposal, please visit http://www.pamla.org/2014/proposals (log-in required) and select "Comparative Media" from the drop-down menu. Each proposal should include the following: * Your name and institutional affiliation * Working paper title * Approximately 500-word abstract * Approximately 40-word mini-abstract * AV requirements, if any Submission Deadline: Thursday, May 15, 2014 Conference Date: 31 October - 2 November 2014 Location: Riverside Convention Center, Riverside, Calif. Full submission guidelines and procedures are available at http://www.pamla.org/2014/guidelines-and-procedures. Questions? Please contact Lisa Brown Jaloza at lbrow008@ucr.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 67DE3617D; Sat, 19 Apr 2014 10:49:36 +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 1CDA55FDD; Sat, 19 Apr 2014 10:49:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 260E83C0E; Sat, 19 Apr 2014 10:49:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140419084927.260E83C0E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 10:49:27 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.983 the computational idea X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 983. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 09:32:16 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: envisioning the brain through a computational lens It is instructive, I think, to consider what the natural object behind all our efforts (i.e. the human brain) looks like in sharpest focus when viewed not just from the perspective of computing but as or in comparison to digital hardware. One way to get to this is via John von Neumann's The Computer and the Brain (1958). But an even more vivid picture is painted by the philosophical neurophysiologist Warren McCulloch in his description of the brain at the opening of the "Symposium: The Design of Machines to Simulate the Behavior of the Human Brain" (IRE Transactions on Electronic Computers (December 1956): > Since nature has given us the working model, we need not ask, > theoretically, whether machines can be built to do what brains can do > with information. But it will be a long time before we can match this > three-pint, three-pound, twenty-five watt computer, with its memory > storing 10**13 or 10**15 bits with a mean half-life of half a day and > successful regeneration of 5 per cent of its traces for sixty years, > operating continuously with its 10**10 dynamically stable and > unreplaceable relays to preserve itself by governing its own activity > and stabilizing the state of the whole body and its relation to its > world by reflexive and appetitive negative feedback. I'd think it fair to say that although few use such vivid language in discussing the subject, McCulloch's conception of the great project in which so many are now involved -- and into which some, perhaps many, are likely to fit what we do -- is essentially the standard account. McCulloch says "it will be a long time before...". I don't think he means, as some do when using such a phrase, "never"; thus framed, by implication, it becomes "only a matter of time before..." That is, it seems to me that by adopting those terms one closes down and cuts off the limitless fields in which the humanities play. If I'm right, that this *is* the standard account, then not only can we not ignore it, we also need it crucially to illumine what we're about. Comments? The whole Symposium, by the way, is extensively discussed by Roberto Cordeschi in his valuable book The Discovery of the Artificial: Behavior, Mind and Machines Before and Beyond Cybernetics (Springer 2002). The Symposium itself may be found at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 777B06080; Sun, 20 Apr 2014 09:16:55 +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 2D5B83A4D; Sun, 20 Apr 2014 09:16:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 440AB3A4D; Sun, 20 Apr 2014 09:16:35 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140420071636.440AB3A4D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 09:16:35 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.984 the computational idea X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 984. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 16:45:04 +0000 From: Helle Porsdam Subject: AW: 27.983 the computational idea In-Reply-To: <20140419084927.260E83C0E@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, In your mail you point to what seems to me to be the most important issue of all at the moment: The way in which many (or at least some) computer scientists see the computer as the ultimate human enhancement. It is not always said as straightforwardly as McCulloch does here, but it can often be read between the lines - that the human being needs reinforcement, and that the computer can make man/woman better. The same way of thinking is there in parts of neuroscience. Human beings have made a mess of it on this earth, and something needs to be done in order that we don't end up blowing each other up. There are some who would give us pills or other kinds of human enhancement so that we can become more empathetic, for example. In terms of empathy, it is unfortunate that most human beings seem to care only (or at least mostly) about their own immediate family - as the world becomes more global, we need to extend this sort of empathy to people around the world who need our help. This is true - but does it mean that we need to take pills or other kinds of enhancement? In my opinion it is this way of thinking that makes many humanities scholars scared of the digital humanities and turns them into luddites. Andrew Prescott gave a wonderful talk a couple of weeks ago in Copenhagen where he put the digital humanities and the two cultures debate into perspective by going back to the fear and loathing of the Romantic thinkers of all things having to do with machines and the Industrial Revolution. It is this man-machine 'thing' that is so scary to many of us. Who wants to live in a world of machines - and is this where we're heading with computer man/woman? In my own work, I have found a feminist angle productive. Some of this computer thinking which wants us to become machines in the end is very male-oriented, I think - there's a certain gadget excitement involved which is more often associated with men than with women. The work of someone like Sherry Turkle is very interesting in this respect (as in many others too). I also think that we - both men and women - have to, if not directly be on the defensive, then at least to work toward making it quite clear that the humanities are about human beings and their human output! The problem is that one ends up looking like the worst kind of conservative and scared luddite when one defends the humanities by fighting the tendency toward seeing the computer as the ultimate human enhancement. Is there a way, I wonder, in which it is possible to work from inside the digital humanities to defend the human in human being in a more PC way? All the best, Helle ________________________________________ Von: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org [humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org]" im Auftrag von "Humanist Discussion Group [willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk] Gesendet: Samstag, 19. April 2014 10:49 An: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Betreff: [Humanist] 27.983 the computational idea Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 983. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 09:32:16 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: envisioning the brain through a computational lens It is instructive, I think, to consider what the natural object behind all our efforts (i.e. the human brain) looks like in sharpest focus when viewed not just from the perspective of computing but as or in comparison to digital hardware. One way to get to this is via John von Neumann's The Computer and the Brain (1958). But an even more vivid picture is painted by the philosophical neurophysiologist Warren McCulloch in his description of the brain at the opening of the "Symposium: The Design of Machines to Simulate the Behavior of the Human Brain" (IRE Transactions on Electronic Computers (December 1956): > Since nature has given us the working model, we need not ask, > theoretically, whether machines can be built to do what brains can do > with information. But it will be a long time before we can match this > three-pint, three-pound, twenty-five watt computer, with its memory > storing 10**13 or 10**15 bits with a mean half-life of half a day and > successful regeneration of 5 per cent of its traces for sixty years, > operating continuously with its 10**10 dynamically stable and > unreplaceable relays to preserve itself by governing its own activity > and stabilizing the state of the whole body and its relation to its > world by reflexive and appetitive negative feedback. I'd think it fair to say that although few use such vivid language in discussing the subject, McCulloch's conception of the great project in which so many are now involved -- and into which some, perhaps many, are likely to fit what we do -- is essentially the standard account. McCulloch says "it will be a long time before...". I don't think he means, as some do when using such a phrase, "never"; thus framed, by implication, it becomes "only a matter of time before..." That is, it seems to me that by adopting those terms one closes down and cuts off the limitless fields in which the humanities play. If I'm right, that this *is* the standard account, then not only can we not ignore it, we also need it crucially to illumine what we're about. Comments? The whole Symposium, by the way, is extensively discussed by Roberto Cordeschi in his valuable book The Discovery of the Artificial: Behavior, Mind and Machines Before and Beyond Cybernetics (Springer 2002). The Symposium itself may be found at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 15C146083; Sun, 20 Apr 2014 09:20:51 +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 BEB013A7B; Sun, 20 Apr 2014 09:20:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id CA1E0306F; Sun, 20 Apr 2014 09:20:39 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140420072039.CA1E0306F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 09:20:39 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.985 more bursaries for 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. 27, No. 985. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 02:42:18 +0200 From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: "Digital Humanities & Language Resources" - Joint "Culture & Technology" and CLARIN-D European Summer School 2014, University of Leipzig - more bursaries "Digital Humanities & Language Resources" - Joint "Culture & Technology" and CLARIN-D European Summer School, 22nd of July - 01st of August 2014 **http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/ We are happy to announce that not only the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria (etcl) http://etcl.uvic.ca/ and the German Accademic Exchange Service (DAAD) offer generous support to participants of the Joint "Culture & Technology" and CLARIN-D European Summer School 2014 "Digital Humanities & Language Resources", which aims at integrating Digital Humanities and Language Resources, but also the University of Leipzig http://www.zv.uni-leipzig.de/en/ , which through its International Centre http://www.zv.uni-leipzig.de/en/university/uni-international/international-centre.html now makes available bursaries for members of its *Eastern European partner universities* as well as for members of its *non-European partner universities* (please see: http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/365). 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, Social 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 museums, in the Language Industries, 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. In all this the Summer School also aims at confronting the so-called Gender Divide, i.e. the under-representation of women in the domain of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Germany and Europe. But, instead of strengthening the /hard sciences/ as such by following the way taken by so many measures which focus on the so-called STEM disciplines and try to convince women of the attractiveness and importance of Computer Science or Engineering, the Summer School relies on the challenges that the Humanities with their complex data and their wealth of women represent for Computer Science and Engineering and the further development of the latter, on the overcoming of the boarders between hard and soft sciences and on the integration of Humanities, Computer Science and Engineering. +www_ 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 thematic strands: * *XML-TEI encoding, structuring and rendering* http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/381 * *Query in Text Corpora* http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/390 * *Comparing Corpora* http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/398 * *Historical Text Corpora for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Digitization, Annotation, Quality Assurance and Analysis* http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/378 * *Open Greek and Latin* http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/379 * *Advanced Topics in Humanities Programming with Python* http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/397 * *Stylometry: Computer-Assisted Analysis of Literary Texts* http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/389 * *Editing in the Digital Age: Historical Texts and Documents* http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/383 * *Space - Time - Object: Digital methods in Archaeology* http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/376 * *Spoken Language* http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/388 * *Multimodal Corpora: How to build and how to understand them* http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/393 * *Large Project Planning and Management* http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/386 * *DH for Department Chairs and Deans* http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/node/384 Each workshop consists of a total of 16 sessions or 32 week-hours. The number of participants in each workshop is limited to 10. Lectures *will focus among others on digital art history and underresourced languages. Information on how to apply for a place in one or two workshops can be found at: http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/ 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. Participation fees are more or less the same as last year. 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/ 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.uni-leipzig.de/%7Eburr _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AAD286118; Mon, 21 Apr 2014 09:52:13 +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 BD57D6114; Mon, 21 Apr 2014 09:52:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 556742C52; Mon, 21 Apr 2014 09:52:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140421075200.556742C52@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 09:52:00 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.986 the computational idea X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 986. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Patrick Durusau (198) Subject: Re: 27.984 the computational idea [2] From: "Robert A. Amsler" (95) Subject: Re: 27.984 the computational idea [3] From: Charles Ess (106) Subject: Re: 27.983 the computational idea --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 14:22:33 -0400 From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: 27.984 the computational idea In-Reply-To: <20140420071636.440AB3A4D@digitalhumanities.org> Helle, Hoping that readers will check the fuller posts for context, but Willard writes in part: > If I'm right, that this *is* the standard account, then not only > can we not ignore it, we also need it crucially to illumine what > we're about. I completely agree with the sterility of the "standard account" but I would ask of Willard, who is the target of this illumination? In part because of your response: > Is there a way, I wonder, in which it is possible to work from > inside the digital humanities to defend the human in human being in > a more PC way? If the targets of illumination are digital humanists or even humanists in general, then I don't think we are going to carry the day. In part because I see the issue as one of estrangement of the humanities in general and digital humanities in particular from society at large. Unlike the sciences, which has many "popular" magazines and journals, Scientific American and Popular Science, just to pick two obvious ones, where are the equivalent publications in the humanities? It isn't that anyone has excluded humanists from the public spaces but the humanities have withdrawn from the public spaces. Apologies for a discipline specific example but where are the Reinhold Niebuhr's of the day? Instead of thoughtful discussions of theology the airwaves are full of less thoughtful material. Need another example? Ask yourself why the Society of Biblical Literature and the Evangelical Theological Society have meetings at the same location but on consecutive days? Not that I would self-classify myself as an evangelical but isn't it odd that some perspectives are more acceptable in one forum than another? Noting that evangelicals are responsible for a large portion of the digitization of biblical manuscript and other computer related projects. It is perhaps more obvious in biblical studies that elsewhere but the "professional" societies have created a zone of exclusion around themselves and have exited the common marketplace. Is there any wonder the general populace has little regard for them? Science or rather a sterile view of science rules the marketplace by default, due to a self-imposed absence of the humanities. Don't want to appear as a Luddite? Don't fight the caricature of science on its own grounds. Market to the public the myriad positive things the humanities have to offer and let people reach their own conclusions. But that case has to be made in the public marketplace. Not to each other, not to humanists, but in unsafe places where the rules of academic ritual don't prevail. The humanities needs to regain its rightful place in the marketplace of ideas but it can't do that while in self-imposed isolation. Hope you are having a great day! Patrick On 04/20/2014 03:16 AM, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 984. Department of Digital > Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: > humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 16:45:04 +0000 From: Helle Porsdam > Subject: AW: 27.983 the computational idea > In-Reply-To: <20140419084927.260E83C0E@digitalhumanities.org> > > > Dear Willard, > > In your mail you point to what seems to me to be the most important > issue of all at the moment: The way in which many (or at least > some) computer scientists see the computer as the ultimate human > enhancement. It is not always said as straightforwardly as > McCulloch does here, but it can often be read between the lines - > that the human being needs reinforcement, and that the computer can > make man/woman better. > > The same way of thinking is there in parts of neuroscience. Human > beings have made a mess of it on this earth, and something needs to > be done in order that we don't end up blowing each other up. There > are some who would give us pills or other kinds of human > enhancement so that we can become more empathetic, for example. In > terms of empathy, it is unfortunate that most human beings seem to > care only (or at least mostly) about their own immediate family - > as the world becomes more global, we need to extend this sort of > empathy to people around the world who need our help. This is true > - but does it mean that we need to take pills or other kinds of > enhancement? > > In my opinion it is this way of thinking that makes many humanities > scholars scared of the digital humanities and turns them into > luddites. Andrew Prescott gave a wonderful talk a couple of weeks > ago in Copenhagen where he put the digital humanities and the two > cultures debate into perspective by going back to the fear and > loathing of the Romantic thinkers of all things having to do with > machines and the Industrial Revolution. It is this man-machine > 'thing' that is so scary to many of us. Who wants to live in a > world of machines - and is this where we're heading with computer > man/woman? > > In my own work, I have found a feminist angle productive. Some of > this computer thinking which wants us to become machines in the end > is very male-oriented, I think - there's a certain gadget > excitement involved which is more often associated with men than > with women. The work of someone like Sherry Turkle is very > interesting in this respect (as in many others too). I also think > that we - both men and women - have to, if not directly be on the > defensive, then at least to work toward making it quite clear that > the humanities are about human beings and their human output! > > The problem is that one ends up looking like the worst kind of > conservative and scared luddite when one defends the humanities by > fighting the tendency toward seeing the computer as the ultimate > human enhancement. Is there a way, I wonder, in which it is > possible to work from inside the digital humanities to defend the > human in human being in a more PC way? > > All the best, Helle > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 983. Department of Digital > Humanities, King's College London > www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: > humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org > > > > Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 09:32:16 +0100 From: Willard McCarty > Subject: envisioning the brain > through a computational lens > > It is instructive, I think, to consider what the natural object > behind all our efforts (i.e. the human brain) looks like in > sharpest focus when viewed not just from the perspective of > computing but as or in comparison to digital hardware. One way to > get to this is via John von Neumann's The Computer and the Brain > (1958). But an even more vivid picture is painted by the > philosophical neurophysiologist Warren McCulloch in his description > of the brain at the opening of the "Symposium: The Design of > Machines to Simulate the Behavior of the Human Brain" (IRE > Transactions on Electronic Computers (December 1956): > >> Since nature has given us the working model, we need not ask, >> theoretically, whether machines can be built to do what brains >> can do with information. But it will be a long time before we can >> match this three-pint, three-pound, twenty-five watt computer, >> with its memory storing 10**13 or 10**15 bits with a mean >> half-life of half a day and successful regeneration of 5 per cent >> of its traces for sixty years, operating continuously with its >> 10**10 dynamically stable and unreplaceable relays to preserve >> itself by governing its own activity and stabilizing the state of >> the whole body and its relation to its world by reflexive and >> appetitive negative feedback. > > I'd think it fair to say that although few use such vivid language > in discussing the subject, McCulloch's conception of the great > project in which so many are now involved -- and into which some, > perhaps many, are likely to fit what we do -- is essentially the > standard account. > > McCulloch says "it will be a long time before...". I don't think > he means, as some do when using such a phrase, "never"; thus > framed, by implication, it becomes "only a matter of time > before..." That is, it seems to me that by adopting those terms one > closes down and cuts off the limitless fields in which the > humanities play. If I'm right, that this *is* the standard account, > then not only can we not ignore it, we also need it crucially to > illumine what we're about. > > Comments? > > The whole Symposium, by the way, is extensively discussed by > Roberto Cordeschi in his valuable book The Discovery of the > Artificial: Behavior, Mind and Machines Before and Beyond > Cybernetics (Springer 2002). The Symposium itself may be found at > http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/. > > Yours, WM > > -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of > Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in > Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney - -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Technical Advisory Board, OASIS (TAB) Co-Chair, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS) Editor, OpenDocument Format TC, Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300 Former Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34 Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps) Co-Editor, ISO 13250-5 (Topic Maps) Another Word For It (blog): http://tm.durusau.net Homepage: http://www.durusau.net Twitter: patrickDurusau --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 16:40:49 -0500 From: "Robert A. Amsler" Subject: Re: 27.984 the computational idea In-Reply-To: <20140420071636.440AB3A4D@digitalhumanities.org> But most of the modern evidence is that isn't where computing is heading. The current environment of computer gadgetry, phones, tablets, etc. is rapidly evolving to make the presence of the "machine" portion of computing less and less visible. Look alone at how the size of computers has changed over time. They keep getting smaller, from taking up a room, to taking up a desktop, to being on a laptop, to now being on a hand-held tablet. Soon they will be on our wrists, woven into clothing or part of eyeglasses. In a few years they will almost be invisible. Furthermore, computers are taking up a position clearly between human beings and the machines of the industrial revolution. So, they are acting to remove us from having to deal with the machines directly. Our aircraft fly themselves, our cars maintain speed and park themselves, brake themselves and deploy airbags and notify emergency services when there is an accident. Soon cars will drive themselves. I think where we're heading is toward a world in which computers will interface between us and machine such that we won't interact with machines or computers as much as we do today. Clothing will sense whether we're warm or cold and change the properties of the smart fabric from which it is made. Homes will turn on/off lights and heat and ventilation by having computers sense our presence or movement. The computer interface will be almost invisible, reading our expressions, where our eyes are looking, how we're breathing, as well as what we say and how we react. This isn't a world of computer-modified people. It's a world modified so that people don't have to interact with machines and don't even have to learn how to type or swipe fingers to interact with the computers who do actually interact with the machines. Now it still has unsettling changes from the past and new dangers, but it isn't a world in which human beings are made into machines or modified to become more like computers. It's a world in which the computer finally disappears from view and the machines just do what is needed without us telling them what should be done. From what I see of how humans use technology these days, the sooner we get out of the business of driving cars, buses and trucks and piloting aircraft and ships, the better. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 06:07:02 +0000 From: Charles Ess Subject: Re: 27.983 the computational idea In-Reply-To: <20140419084927.260E83C0E@digitalhumanities.org> Hi Willard, and to you only as I am writing in haste. As always, much appreciate your offerings here. But also wonder if there¹s another dimension / tradition to be taken on board - namely, what I understand the original impulses of computation (meaning, minimally, mechanized calculation) beginning with the ancient Greeks. Roughly, the impulse since at least the Pythagoreans, but perhaps with one or two earlier Pre-Socratics, was that by our human rational understanding of the mathematical proportions (and later, we would add, laws) that defined ³the way nature goes² we would come closer to understanding - and, on some readings of Aristotle, becoming identical with - the mind of God in at least an impersonal Greek sense. Computation was simply to help speed up this process of understanding - never to somehow replace it. Ditto for the Medievals and through at least Leibniz. Traces of this might be discerned in some contemporary computational approaches to mathematics and physics - All of which strikes me as the inverse of the AI enterprise, namely, to develop computational approaches that replicate human cognition, decision-making, etc. The two don¹t have to be in conflict, but it seems to me clear that the latter rests on Cartesian and modernist impulses, in sharp contrast with ancient and Medieval ones. Don¹t know if this is worth much noting, and perhaps already well explored in some area of DH that I¹m just not aware of - if the latter, nods towards useful resources would be appreciated. But if you have time for a comment or two, would be appreciated, as always. Very best from a sunny Oslo (and when it gets sunny up here, it is _sunny_) - charles (now: 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/ Editor, The Journal of Media Innovations My latest book, Digital Media Ethics, is now available from Polity: http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=0745656056 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0B4926182; Mon, 21 Apr 2014 09:55:12 +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 0296C616B; Mon, 21 Apr 2014 09:55:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0B4D56172; Mon, 21 Apr 2014 09:55:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140421075502.0B4D56172@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 09:55:01 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.987 events: Penn Palaeography Workshop X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 987. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 19:09:13 +0000 From: Alex Devine Subject: 49th ICMS @Kalamazoo: Penn Paleography Workshop CFPP (Call for Paleographical Problems) 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies May 8-11, 2014 ¶ CFPP: Call For Paleographical Problems! ¶ Paleography Workshop with The Penn Paleography Group Sponsored by SIMS (The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies), University of Pennsylvania ¶ Thursday 8th May, 10am (Session 22 ~ Schneider 1140) This workshop will provide a space for discussing the methodology and practice of paleography in Manuscript Studies and the value of collaborative reading. Rather than a Paleography 101-style workshop, we are eager both to share our experience and to seize the opportunity to open up a larger conversation about paleography with a particular focus on the use of innovative new digital tools and online resources such as Penn in Hand and T-PEN http://t-pen.org/TPEN/ . Topics to be considered may include: how using digital resources has altered our group’s methods of accessing premodern scripts (from written texts and glosses to handwritten addenda and later annotations in early printed books); the dynamics of practicing paleography as a group; and how we can create possibilities for collaborative, interactive transcription. The workshop will consist of three sections: I. A series of ‘lightning presentations’ by group members on selected premodern manuscripts from Penn’s Special Collections, including manuscripts from our newly-acquired Schoenberg Collection. II. Discussion of the paleographical challenges presented in these and other manuscripts. III. A general discussion section open to all attendees in which we encourage questions about the what, why, and how of paleographical study. We encourage attendees to bring their own paleographical problems for consideration by all workshop participants. If you have a paleographical challenge that you would like to share in the workshop (preferably accompanied by jpg files of the pertinent folios of your Ms.), it would be helpful for you to contact us in advance, although you are of course very welcome to simply bring your challenges on the day. * All Are Welcome! - No Registration Required * However if you would like to confirm your interest in participating in this workshop or to contact us with details of your paleographical problems, please e-mail Alexander Devine at aldevine@sas.upenn.edu. -- Alexander Devine The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies The Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books & Manuscripts Van Pelt-Dietrich Library 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 aldevine@sas.upenn.edu (215) 898-7851 pennpaleography.wordpress.com http://pennpaleography.wordpress.com schoenberginstitute.wordpress.com http://schoenberginstitute.wordpress.com *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1397982123_2014-04-20_aldevine@sas.upenn.edu_9843.2.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 38B436237; Tue, 22 Apr 2014 07:55:02 +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 E46916222; Tue, 22 Apr 2014 07:54:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7C3916222; Tue, 22 Apr 2014 07:54:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140422055440.7C3916222@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 07:54:40 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.988 pubs: updated Wright American Fiction X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 988. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 23:22:38 +0000 From: "Dalmau, Michelle Denise" Subject: Announcing an Updated Version of the Wright American Fiction Greetings, The Indiana University Libraries are proud to announce the launch of an updated version of the Wright American Fiction project: http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/wright. The Wright American Fiction project was conceived in 2000 under the leadership and editorship of Perry Willett, and with active participation from several Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Libraries that contributed to the digitization and encoding of the nearly 3,000 titles in this online collection. The Wright American Fiction project draws from the comprehensive bibliography compiled by Lyle H. Wright, librarian at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. Wright listed a total of 2,923 titles in adult fiction, including "novels, novelettes, romances, short stories, tall tales, tract-like tales, allegories, and fictitious biographies and travels, in prose" (from the introduction), and inventoried 18 American libraries for holdings. This compilation is part of his three-volume set listing American fiction from 1774 through 1900, and is considered the most comprehensive bibliography of American adult fiction of the 18th and 19th centuries. American fiction was still in its infancy in the years 1851–1875, but this period saw publication of works by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Dean Howells, and Herman Melville. Many of these authors, especially Twain, Harte and Howells, had just begun their writing careers during this period and went on to write their best known work later. However, most of the authors contained in the bibliography are little known. This period - a momentous one in American history - provides the foundation for later American literature, and this digital collection of 2,887 titles allows insight into American literature, culture, and history otherwise unattainable. The Wright American Fiction project is heavily referenced and often sought for data mining and textual analysis. In continuing support of readers and researchers, the project was recently migrated to ensure ongoing, optimal access to the digital content. In 2012, the Indiana University Libraries began the migration of the Wright American Fiction project to an updated version of the text encoding, TEI P5, and to a new delivery platform, California Digital Library’s eXtensible Text Framework (XTF). Due to limited resources, functionality, facsimile page image, and text encoding improvements were not actively sought except for those original files that did not include full text as part of the original web site. Optical Character Recognition software was run against these facsimile page images to generate uncorrected OCR. The Wright corpus is now full-text searchable in its entirety, comprised of edited, mid-level encoded texts and unedited, minimally encoded texts. Bibliographic searching is also possible as is browsing by author, title and publication year indexes. To learn more about the technical details surrounding the new web site, please visit the project information page (http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/TEIgeneral/projectinfo.do?brand=wright), where specifics about text encoding and technical implementation are provided. Or skip the boring stuff and explore the new web site: http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/wright. —Michelle ----- Michelle Dalmau, Interim Head Digital Collections Services ----- Indiana University Herman B Wells Library 1320 East 10th Street, Rm W501 Bloomington, Indiana 47405 ----- Web: http://michelledalmau.com Twitter: @mdalmau _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 95DB36249; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 07:40:32 +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 2C0BE6220; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 07:40:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 744F5621E; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 07:40:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140423054022.744F5621E@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 07:40:22 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.989 Against Method X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 989. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 15:57:01 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: against method Many here will know and will have read Paul Feyerabend's hugely influential book of 1975, Against Method, which argued against the long-ruling notion that the sciences derived their power from a single method (thus *the* Scientific Method*, a now long-discredited phrase one still comes across on occasion). The attack was long overdue but made considerably more urgent by the rise of computing, which had in many disciplines given new and additional strength to the notion of a single method by which problems of many kinds could be tackled. For example in the field of operations research (in which, for example, Herbert Simon was prominent), enthusiasts believed that computing offered a superior way of handling all manner of problems, better than those with long experience of a pre-computational kind could provide. Consider, if you will, the following paragraph from the first recognized textbook in operations research, Philip M. Morse and George E. Kimball's Methods of Operations Research (New York: Wiley & MIT Press, 1st edn revised, 1951), 10a: > It should be apparent by now that the operations research worker does > not need to be a specialist in any particular branch of science. He > does, however, need to be a person with considerable experience in > research of a scientific nature.... The important requisite is that > impersonal curiosity concerning new subjects that is the very essence > of research ability. The research scientist is trained to reject > unsupported statements and has come to have the habit of desiring to > rest his decisions on some quantitative basis, even if the basis is > only a rough estimate. Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi, who quotes this passage in "Simulating the Unthinkable: Gaming Future War in the 1950s and 1960s", Social Studies of Science 30.2 (2000), comments, > It was thought that scepticism and impatience with tradition combined > with methodological discipline offered a superior perspective. The OR folk had a point, esp in arguing against seasoned military officers about how to conduct a nuclear war, for which simulations were the only reasonable alternative. But still it is easy to see the arrogance, or enthusiasm if you will, of the proponents of OR, newly energized as these people were by (then) powerful mainframe computers and the newly empowered practice of simulation. Theory and a machine seemed to them to trump history and experience. We are (not yet) in such a position of strength as OR was, but perhaps the example is of some value to us when contemplating the limits of context-free method. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BCC356249; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 07:42:05 +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 3ACF06185; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 07:41:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5C2DE6185; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 07:41:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140423054155.5C2DE6185@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 07:41:55 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.990 British Library 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. 27, No. 990. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 12:34:50 +0000 From: "Baker, James" Subject: British Library Labs competition - deadline 30 April British Library Labs competition Calling all researchers, scholars, trailblazers and software developers! British Library Labs wants to work with you to bring your innovative and transformative ideas for using of our digital collections to life! Submit your project idea by Wednesday 30 April 2014 (midnight BST) at http://labs.bl.uk/. Two entries will be chosen by Friday 23 of May, 2014 (by midnight BST) and they will be given the chance to work in 'residence' on their project with the Labs and Library team (with expenses paid up to a limit of £3,600 per winner dependent on the winners' circumstances, the winning ideas, access to resources and budget allowing in addition to the prizes started below). The work will be showcased at an event in November / December, whereupon a first prize of £3,000 and second prize of £1,000 will be awarded. Read more about the competition at the Labs website http://labs.bl.uk/Competition+2014 and see a two minute video with Pieter Francois, one of the winners of last year's competition, on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK80Jy0ijkA. Dr James Baker Curator, Digital Research T +44 (0)20 7412 7411 @j_w_baker james.baker@bl.uk Digital Research Team The British Library St Pancras London NW1 2DB www.bl.uk _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id CF0F36290; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 07:45:19 +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 4C8876264; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 07:45:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 332526251; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 07:45:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140423054509.332526251@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 07:45:09 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.991 events: summer school; textual scholarship; humanities & 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. 27, No. 991. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: James Cummings (54) Subject: Deadline Extended for NeDiMAH Early-Career Researcher Bursaries for DHOxSS Humanities Web of Data Workshop [2] From: Katajamäki_Sakari (49) Subject: CFP (extended deadline): TEXTUAL TRAILS (11th Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, Helsinki 2014) [3] From: "Wasley, Paula" (17) Subject: Join NEH on May 12 for the 2014 Jefferson Lecture with Walter Isaacson, "The Intersection of the Humanities and the Sciences" --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 11:50:38 +0100 From: James Cummings Subject: Deadline Extended for NeDiMAH Early-Career Researcher Bursaries for DHOxSS Humanities Web of Data Workshop In-Reply-To: <534D609E.7080408@it.ox.ac.uk> Please forward on. ==== NeDiMAH Early-Career Researcher Bursaries for DHOxSS Humanities Web of Data Workshop Deadline now extended until 12 Noon (GMT) on Friday 25 April 2014! http://dhoxss.humanities.ox.ac.uk/2014/bursaries.html Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS) is one of the leading international training events in Digital Humanities. It is for researchers, project managers, research assistants, students, and anyone interested in Digital Humanities. DHOxSS delegates are introduced to a range of topics including the creation, management, analysis, modelling, visualization, or publication of digital data in the humanities. Each delegate follows one of our five-day workshops and supplements this with additional morning parallel lectures. There will also be a (peer-reviewed) poster session giving delegates a chance to present their Digital Humanities work to those at the DHOxSS. This year's DHOxSS will be held on 14-18 July 2014 and the five-day workshops offered are: 1. Introduction to Digital Humanities 2. Taking Control: Practical Scripting for Digital Humanities Projects 3. Data Curation and Access for the Digital Humanities 4. A Humanities Web of Data: Publishing, Linking and Querying on the Semantic Web 5. Using the Text Encoding Initiative for Digital Scholarly Editions The NeDiMAH project has sponsored up to 6 bursaries of up to EUR 500 each for those attending the Humanities Web of Data workshop in particular (see http://dhoxss.humanities.ox.ac.uk/2014/HumData.html). Applicants should be early-career researchers in the humanities, and must be working in participating NeDiMAH countries (see http://www.nedimah.eu/Contributing-Organisations) and priority will be given to applicants whose travel costs mean they would not otherwise be able to attend. ‘Early-Career ResearcherÂ’ is defined as up to five years post-phd (or equivalent). The DHOxSS will offer an excellent opportunity to gain knowledge and participate in discussions about a wide range of digital techniques and research methods, as well as exploring key topics in depth with leading senior researchers and technologists. The application form asks for a description (max 250 words) of how attending the Humanities Web of Data workshop in particular will benefit your research. Applications are due by 22 April 2014. For more information see: http://dhoxss.humanities.ox.ac.uk/2014/bursaries.html and for enquiries email nedimah-bursaries@it.ox.ac.uk. Don't forget our poster session as well see http://dhoxss.humanities.ox.ac.uk/2014/posters.html to apply, deadline: 1 May 2014. James Cummings Director of DHOxSS -- Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings@it.ox.ac.uk Academic IT Services, University of Oxford --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 11:35:59 +0000 From: Katajamäki_Sakari Subject: CFP (extended deadline): TEXTUAL TRAILS (11th Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, Helsinki 2014) In-Reply-To: <534D609E.7080408@it.ox.ac.uk> CALL FOR PAPERS Extended deadline for proposals: 14 May 2014 TEXTUAL TRAILS - TRANSMISSIONS OF ORAL AND WRITTEN TEXTS 11th Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship Helsinki, 30 October - 1 November 2014 Texts tend to travel across space and time, carried by sound waves, written on parchments and codices, sealed in envelopes and travel trunks, and streaming as bits in the internet. They pass from mouth to mouth, from singers' performances to scholars' notes, from stone engravings to printed books, or from writing desks to digital editions. Sometimes it is possible to trace the trail of a text or a fragment via several phases of transmission. These trails can be, for instance, a part of the genesis of one writing or an editorial history of one literary work, or they can run through a historical text tradition of scribal texts. The eleventh conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, TEXTUAL TRAILS. Transmissions of Oral and Written Texts (Helsinki, 30 October - 1 November 2014), seeks to explore all kinds of textual trails from various angles of scholarly editing and textual scholarship. The present call for papers encourages submissions on related topics, such as: 1. Stemmatology in theory and practice 2. Chains of changes in edition history 3. Textual continuums in genetic editing 4. Digital editing and visualisation of textual trails 5. Metamorphoses of bibliographic codes 6. Evolving ideas and textual growth 7. Variance and invariance in the transmission of oral and written texts 8. Spatio-temporal text mining. PROPOSALS FOR PAPERS AND PANEL SESSIONS ESTS conferences are characterised by a combination of plenary and panel sessions. Please submit your proposal by 14 May 2014, by email to the programme committee (ests2014proposals@gmail.com). You will be notified by 18 June 2014 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 Typically, a panel of academic papers should include 3 (maximum 4) speakers and 1 moderator (session chair). Each session will last for 1.5 hours allowing for 30 minutes for questions and discussion. Proposers should submit: (1) Session title and a session intro (ca 100 words) (2) Paper titles (3) Abstracts for each paper (500 words max.) (4) Short biography for each participant and the panel chair (ca 100 words) (5) Institutional affiliation and address for each participant (6) Audio-visual and other technical requirements. PARTICIPATION AND REGISTRATION Contributors and panel moderators must pay the conference fee and must be members in good standing of the European Society for Textual Scholarship for 2014 (except invited speakers). For more information about the ESTS, please see http://www.textualscholarship.eu/. Your current membership status is indicated at http://ests.huygensinstituut.nl/. More information about registration and possibilities of accommodation will be published later on a conference website. On behalf of the programme committee Sakari Katajamäki, Finnish Literature Society / Edith - Critical Editions of Finnish Literature Teemu Roos, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT ________________________ 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)400 908056 firstname.lastname@finlit.fi www.edith.fi/english http://www.edith.fi/english www.finlit.fi/index.php?lang=eng *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1398167221_2014-04-22_sakari.katajamaki@finlit.fi_29851.2.pdf --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 13:50:26 +0000 From: "Wasley, Paula" Subject: Join NEH on May 12 for the 2014 Jefferson Lecture with Walter Isaacson, "The Intersection of the Humanities and the Sciences" In-Reply-To: <9705ad3848da4a5ea575cba6ab713203@BN1PR09MB059.namprd09.prod.outlook.com> 2014 Jefferson Lecture PRESS RELEASE MEDIA CONTACT Paula Wasley : 202-606-8424 Tickets to the 2014 Jefferson Lecture with Walter Isaacson available at www.NEH.gov http://www.neh.gov/news/press-release/2014-04-22 Online ticket registration opens April 22 at 10 A.M. WASHINGTON (April 22, 2014) — Online registration for tickets to the 2014 National Endowment for the Humanities’ (NEH) Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities by biographer Walter Isaacson will open today at 10 AM EST. Click here to reserve tickets. http://neh.ticketleap.com/jefferson-lecture-2014/ Walter Isaacson will present the 43rd Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities on Monday, May 12, 2014 at 7:30 PM at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, speaking on the subject of The Intersection of the Humanities and the Sciences. In his lecture, Isaacson, acclaimed author, president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, an educational and policy studies organization, and biographer of Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin, will touch on the careers of Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Steve Jobs, Ada Lovelace and others who fused humanistic thought with scientific discovery. The annual Jefferson Lecture, sponsored by NEH, is the most prestigious honor the federal government bestows for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities. Tickets to the 2014 Jefferson Lecture will be made available free of charge on a first-come, first-served basis via the following TicketLeap online registration form: http://neh.ticketleap.com/jefferson-lecture-2014/ Tickets must be requested online through this registration form; NEH cannot accept ticket requests made by phone, email, or other means. Due to high demand for tickets for the Jefferson Lecture, ticket requests will be limited to two tickets per email address. After completing the online reservation form, registrants will receive an emailed confirmation receipt. Please note that receipts are proof of registration only, and do not themselves constitute a ticket to the May 12th Jefferson Lecture. Actual tickets may be picked up (using either photo ID or a TicketLeap receipt) at an NEH Will Call table in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on May 12 immediately prior to the lecture, between 5:30 – 7:30 PM. All tickets that have not been claimed by 7:30 PM on May 12 will be released on a first-come first-served basis to individuals waiting in a stand-by queue. The April 1st Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities will be live-streamed at www.NEH.gov http://www.NEH.gov . NEH invites those unable to attend to watch the event online and join the national conversation about the intersection of the humanities and the sciences using the hashtag #JeffLec2014. The Jefferson Lecture is the Endowment’s most widely attended annual event. Past Jefferson Lecturers include Martin Scorsese, Wendell Berry, Drew Gilpin Faust, John Updike, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Bernard Bailyn, Toni Morrison, Arthur Miller, James McPherson, Barbara Tuchman, and Robert Penn Warren. Note to press: Accredited journalists wishing to cover the 2014 Jefferson Lecture should RSVP to Paula Wasley at pwasley@neh.gov with your full name, organization, email address, and phone number. Due to high demand for tickets and limited capacity, journalists are encouraged to pre-register to cover the event by May 9 at 12 p.m. EST and to arrive at the event before 7:15 PM. Preference will be given to reporters with a demonstrated commitment to covering the Lecture. Once capacity has been reached at the Kennedy Center, all guests, including media, will be unable to enter the theater. Created in 1965 as an independent federal agency, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports research and learning in history, literature, philosophy, and other areas of the humanities by funding selected, peer-reviewed proposals from around the nation. Additional information about the National Endowment for the Humanities and its grant programs is available at: www.neh.gov http://www.neh.gov . _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D927263DB; Thu, 24 Apr 2014 09:31:05 +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 4F2E463D4; Thu, 24 Apr 2014 09:30:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B9B4B63C6; Thu, 24 Apr 2014 09:30:54 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20140424073054.B9B4B63C6@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 09:30:54 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.992 job at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (Philadelphia) 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. 27, No. 992. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 11:48:05 -0400 From: Dot Porter Subject: New Post: Curator of Digital Collections, Chemical Heritage Foundation A new position at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (Philadelphia, USA): http://www.chemheritage.org/about/careers/curator-of-digital-collections.aspx "The successful candidate will have an advanced degree and a record of accomplishment in managing digital collections. He/she must have experience in management and supervision, and familiarity with application development and other emerging technologies related to digital asset management, access, and preservation. He/she should also ideally demonstrate a record of success in collaboration with people from a variety of disciplines and professions." -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter@gmail.com Personal blog: dotporterdigital.org Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance: http://www.mesa-medieval.org MESA blog: http://mesamedieval.wordpress.com/ MESA on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MedievalElectronicScholarlyAlliance *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 085E663EC; Thu, 24 Apr 2014 09:33:58 +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 A21E263D7; Thu, 24 Apr 2014 09:33:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7D70763DB; Thu, 24 Apr 2014 09:33:48 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140424073348.7D70763DB@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 09:33:48 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.993 DHSI news: graduate certificate; bursary winners X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 993. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ray Siemens (8) Subject: UVic English and DHSI Offer Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities [2] From: Tanya Clement (25) Subject: DHSI Bursary Winners posted, please spread the news! --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 16:35:52 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: UVic English and DHSI Offer Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1398287821_2014-04-23_siemens@uvic.ca_8272.1.2.txt UVic English and DHSI Offer Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities The U Victoria Department of English and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) are pleased to announce a Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities, with applications received beginning September 2014 for intake in May 2015. The certificate program can be taken in conjunction with other graduate degrees at UVic or on its own. Furthermore, one of the most unique elements of this program is that it allows the hundreds of those who come each summer for DHSI to receive graduate university credit for the work they’ve done while at DHSI. Of this initiative, department Chair Robert Miles says, “This program builds perfectly on well-acknowledged local strengths in this emerging area and continues to put UVic at the forefront of innovative DH research and pedagogy. It puts students first and leverages our unique strengths to create a truly exciting opportunity.” To these ends, the new Certificate sees the English department partner with the DHSI and its extensive international network of partner-sponsors, including similar institutes and renowned institutions and groups worldwide; leading professional organizations such as the Modern Language Association, the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the international Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations; and many others. The program will be featured in the coming year’s academic calendar; a template of the program proposal can be found at http://web.uvic.ca/~siemens/DH(SI)GradCertificateProposal.pdf. For further information, please contact program directors Ray Siemens (before 1 July 2014) and Stephen Ross (after 1 July 2014). The Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI: http://dhsi.org/) is run, annually, by the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL: http://etcl.uvic.ca http://etcl.uvic.ca/ ). From 2-6 June 2014, the DHSI team (http://dhsi.org/bios.php) will welcome some 600 participants from around the world to U Victoria. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 14:56:03 +0000 From: Tanya Clement Subject: DHSI Bursary Winners posted, please spread the news! ACH is pleased to announce our 2014 Bursary Winners for the 2014 Digital Humanities Summer Institute: Cammeron Girvin, University of California, Berkeley Ty Berringer, Texas Tech University Penny Johnston, University College Cork, Ireland Andrea Kampen, Library and Information Studies, Dalhousie University Stephanie Kingsley, Scholars’ Lab Fellow, University of Virginia Courtney Lawton, Nebraska Literary Lab, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chris Leeder, School of Information, University of Michigan Aaron Plasek, Humanities & Social Thought, New York University Zachary Schoenberger, Humanities Computing, University of Alberta Jeri E. Wieringa, George Mason University DHSI is a premier, week-long training institute for digital humanities tools, methods, and approaches, held at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. Each year, ACH offers several bursaries, awarded on merit, to help defray the travel and lodging costs of its graduate student members. Please do spread the news: the ACH DH Bursary winners are [also] posted here: http://ach.org/2014/04/23/ach-bursary-award-winners-for-dhsi-2014/ thanks! Tanya -- Tanya Clement Assistant Professor School of Information University of Texas, Austin tclement@ischool.utexas.edu 512.232.2980 #tanyaclement _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 3F26463FB; Thu, 24 Apr 2014 09:35:16 +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 B38C863E0; Thu, 24 Apr 2014 09:35:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3E47E63DE; Thu, 24 Apr 2014 09:35:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20140424073505.3E47E63DE@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 09:35:05 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.994 events: summer camp programme at DHSI 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. 27, No. 994. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 12:44:24 -0400 From: Kim Subject: Make U at DHSI in June Eurekamp http://p4c.ualberta.ca/eurekamp/Programs/ and the DHMakerBus http://www.makerbus.ca/ have partnered to bring a summer-camp style program to DHSI for children ages 8-15. *Make University* (MakeU) will run June 2-6, 2014 in parallel with DHSI, allowing DHSI participants to bring their children and allow them to enjoy a DH themed program developed around themes of making and exploration. On the beautiful University of Victoria campus, campers will receive the full Make University experience - building robotic plants, going on digital scavenger hunts, recording their experiences in blog journals, experiment with lenses, light, and pin-hole photography, transform lasers into microscopes, and remix the world with augmented reality. Please note, while this camp does target DHSI participants ANYONE IS WELCOME! For more information and registration please visit http://p4c.ualberta.ca/eurekamp/Programs/Victoria/ -- Kim Martin PhD Candidate Faculty of Information and Media Studies University of Western Ontario Twitter: @antimony27 Blog: http://howhumanistsread.com/ http://howhumanistsread.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B955963E1; Fri, 25 Apr 2014 07:58:57 +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 95F5464A3; Fri, 25 Apr 2014 07:58:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5E3B36495; Fri, 25 Apr 2014 07:58:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140425055842.5E3B36495@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 07:58:42 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.995 support needed for DH in Romania X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 995. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 16:09:37 +0300 From: Corina Moldovan Subject: need support for DH in Romania Dear all, It started with a random link on your page, while we were preparing to fill a grant proposal and application for ”Mapping Transylvanian cultural representations” as a result of an International Congress. We are since then most devoted visitors, we learned from every post and every link you shared. Please help up building a DH Center in Transylvania, you can see the document attached [below]. The things are pretty developed, we just need the university senate agreement and signature (of the Babes-Bolyai University that we represent). Thank you Corina Moldovan Senior Lecturer Chief of French Department of the Faculty of Letters Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca Romania *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1398345121_2014-04-24_humanist-owner@lists.digitalhumanities.org_28762.2.docx _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7ABC864AC; Fri, 25 Apr 2014 08:00:25 +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 107776495; Fri, 25 Apr 2014 08:00:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3933764A3; Fri, 25 Apr 2014 08:00:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140425060012.3933764A3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 08:00:12 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.996 job at Wilfrid Laurier; PhD studentship 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. 27, No. 996. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Mark Hedges (30) Subject: AHRC-funded PhD opportunity at King's College London and Tate - Digital Art and Digital Preservation [2] From: jeremy hunsinger (79) Subject: Game Studies - Professor (Wilfrid Laurier University) due May 15 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 10:27:31 +0100 From: Mark Hedges Subject: AHRC-funded PhD opportunity at King's College London and Tate - Digital Art and Digital Preservation *PhD Studentship in Digital Art / Digital Preservation* Technical Narratives: method, purpose, use and value in the technical description and analysis of software-based art. Location: King’s College London and Tate Salary Range: Stipend and fees Post type: Full Time Closing Date: 31st May 2014 Applications are invited for an AHRC-funded Collaborative Partnership Award at King’s College London and Tate, to investigate two main questions: How are software-based artworks to be described and represented for the purposes of preservation, understanding and access? What constitutes technical art history for software-based artworks? The term ‘software-based artwork’ refers to art where software is the primary artistic medium. These works form complex systems exhibiting a range of dependencies on changing hardware, commercial software, interfaces or technological environments. Software-based artworks may include bespoke elements coded by the artist or their programmer, and many are interactive or involve complex systems that exhibit particular behaviour, such as responding to a visitor or searching for keywords on the internet. We invite applications from candidates from a range of different backgrounds, which may include conservation, digital preservation, digital humanities, information science, computer science or curatorial practice. Successful applicants will normally have a good first degree (at least 2.1, or international equivalent) in a relevant field, and will have obtained or be currently working towards a Masters degree at Merit level (or international equivalent) in a relevant field. If English is not a candidate’s native language, he or she will also need to satisfy the English language entry requirements of King’s College London. For more information see: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/graduate/funding/database/index.php?action=view&id=563 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 11:12:41 +0000 From: jeremy hunsinger Subject: Game Studies - Professor (Wilfrid Laurier University) due May 15 Game Studies - Professor (Game Design and Development) Wilfrid Laurier University Location: Ontario Professor of Game Studies Game design is a rapidly growing field that demands practitioners with a high degree of sophistication in understanding critical game studies along with the technical capabilities to create a finished game product or experience. A proposed program in Game Design and Development at the Brantford campus of Wilfrid Laurier University seeks a senior colleague to shape and guide the formative years of this program. Applications are being accepted for this position, beginning July 1, 2015, at the Associate or Full Professor level, subject to budgetary and program approval. The successful candidate must have a Ph.D. in a relevant discipline and will have academic and practical expertise in the area of games. The academic home for this position is in the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences. The proposed program, a Bachelor of Fine and Applied Arts, intends to have incoming students by the fall of 2015. It will prepare students to work within educational institutions or with corporations and non-profit organizations with the goal of initiating positive change; students will be able to create games and interactive experiences that make a difference. We seek someone whose area of research involves both the mechanics and the motivations of game playing. Examples of "games" might include LARP's, MMO's, analog board games, or any variety of digital 2-D or 3-D games. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated experience in creating games with a publication record that speaks to both theoretical and applied aspects of game studies and the teaching load will include a number of courses within the Games program including focused, senior-level special topics courses. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated familiarity with building an academic program with post-secondary partners and be willing and able to seek out sources of external funding in order to create a research lab that will bring together Laurier faculty and students with community partners in an effort to prototype and/or create gamified solutions to social, cultural, or commercial needs Interested candidates are invited to forward a letter of application, curriculum vitae, samples of published work and a teaching dossier that includes summaries of course evaluations and course outlines. Candidates should also provide contact information (address, telephone and e-mail addresses) for three references. Materials are to be sent to: Dr. Kathryn Carter c/o Megan Chipman Faculty of Human and Social Sciences Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford Campus 73 George Street Brantford, Ontario, Canada N3T 2Y3 Email: LBGDDhires@wlu.ca The deadline for receipt of materials is May 15, 2014 at 4:30 pm. Electronic applications are encouraged. 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. In accordance with the requirements of Human Resources Skills Development Canada and Citizenship and Immigration Canada, the successful applicant will be required to prove they are legally able to work in Canada. Members of the designated groups must self-identify to be considered for employment equity. Candidates may self-identify, in confidence, to the Dean of the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, Dr. Bruce Arai. Further information on the equity policy can be found at: https://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2465&p=10545 Applicants are encouraged to address any career interruptions or special circumstances that may have affected their record of research and teaching, in accordance with SSHRC and NSERC definitions and guidelines. To obtain a copy of this job description in an accessible format, please contact Nancy Lambert, Administrative Manager, at nlambert@wlu.ca. Jeremy Hunsinger Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Live without dead time. -graffitti Paris 1968 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0F9BF64BA; Fri, 25 Apr 2014 08:05:30 +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 75D8C64B6; Fri, 25 Apr 2014 08:05:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C4BEA64A5; Fri, 25 Apr 2014 08:05:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140425060512.C4BEA64A5@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 08:05:12 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.997 events: experimental interfaces for reading; tangible & embodied; information age X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 997. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Florian 'Floyd' Mueller (80) Subject: CFP: ACM Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI) 2015 [2] From: "Blyth Tilly" (26) Subject: Science Museum 'Information Age' conference - call for papers/date change [3] From: Stan Ruecker (101) Subject: Conference on Experimental Interfaces for Reading 2.0 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 22:07:54 +0000 From: Florian 'Floyd' Mueller Subject: CFP: ACM Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI) 2015 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: PAPERS and STUDIOS & WORKSHOPS ACM TANGIBLE, EMBEDDED AND EMBODIED INTERACTION (TEI) 2015 January 16-19, 2015 in Palo Alto, California, USA http://tei-conf.org/ ===== SUBMISSION DEADLINES ===== Papers: 01 August 2014, 11:59 pm PST Studios & Workshops: 22 August 2014, 11:59 pm PST The work presented at TEI focuses on physical interaction with computing technology and addresses theories, design, user experience, interfaces, interaction, and technical development. The intimate size of this single-track conference provides a unique forum for exchanging ideas and presenting innovative work through talks, demonstrations, posters, art installations and performances, and participating in hands-on studios and workshops. With the rise of DIY and maker culture and the acceptance of research in tangible, embodied and embedded interaction, the TEI conference has gained substantial visibility and activity over the past decade. It brings together research disciplines, including tangible computing, physical computing, speculative design, IT product design, appliance design, whole body interaction, gestural interaction, embodied interaction, responsive architecture, and responsive and interactive environments and spaces. Application areas are diverse, including: public art and performance; games; learning; planning; automotive, fashion, furniture, and architectural design; music and sound creation; as well as productivity and creativity tools in domains ranging from scientific exploration to non-linear narrative. TEI brings together researchers, practitioners, businesses, artists, designers and students in this emerging field, providing a meeting ground for diverse communities of research and practice including computing software, hardware, mechatronics, camera vision and sensor technology; human computer interaction; interaction, interface and experience design; computer supported collaborative work and learning; product, industrial and architectural design; and interactive art and performance. We invite submissions from all of these perspectives: theoretical, conceptual, technical, applied, or artistic. The conference is designed to provide appropriate presentation forms for different types of contributions. Accepted submissions of all types will be included in the ACM digital library proceedings. Suggested Topics Authors are invited to submit high-quality work detailing original research that contributes to advancing this rapidly developing field. Appropriate topics include but are not limited to: -- Conceptual explorations -- Case studies and evaluations of field deployments -- Analysis of key challenges and proposals of research agendas -- Programming paradigms and tools, toolkits, software architectures -- Design guidelines, methods, and processes -- Novel interfaces, applications, or innovative systems -- Theoretical foundations, frameworks, and concepts -- Philosophical, ethical & social implications -- Learning from the role of physicality in everyday environments -- Embodied interaction, movement, and choreography of interaction -- Organic user interfaces: flexible, non-flat or actuated display interfaces -- Role of physicality in human perception, cognition and experience -- Teaching experiences, lessons learned, and best practices -- Standardization, production, and business applications ===== PAPERS ===== Papers may be 2, 4 or 8 pages long in the two-column ACM SIGCHI format. They must be in PDF file format. Regardless of length, a paper may be presented as a poster, talk or demo. Length must match the contribution, and the same general criteria hold for all papers. All papers will undergo the same review process and be published in the same way. All work – both papers and optional video illustrations – must be submitted electronically via the TEI Precision Conference site. During submission, authors may propose the presentation format that they feel best suits their contribution, which may include multiple presentation forms. The available formats include: -- Poster -- Demo -- Talk Please do consider the most appropriate presentation format for your work. TEI particularly encourages demonstrations and installations by publishing their descriptions in the full conference proceedings. There will be a second submission opportunity for work in progress. Selected works will be presented during dedicated poster sessions at TEI. One author of each accepted submission must register for the conference before the early registration deadline in order for the final paper version to be published in the conference proceedings. Papers will be published in the ACM digital library. If you have further questions about Papers for TEI, contact the Program Chairs at program_chairs@tei-conf.org [...] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 10:59:18 +0100 From: "Blyth Tilly" Subject: Science Museum 'Information Age' conference - call for papers/date change Call for contributions 'Interpreting the Information Age': new avenues for research and display November 3rd - 5th 2014 Science Museum, London Dear colleagues, In autumn 2014, the Science Museum will open a ground-breaking new permanent gallery, Information Age. The gallery will expose, examine and celebrate how information and communication technologies have transformed our lives over the last 200 years. To mark this launch, the Museum is hosting a three day conference which will discuss how the history and material culture of information can be made relevant for today's audiences, and celebrate the participation projects which have supported the gallery's development. We would welcome contributions from peers across the sector and beyond, to support this exciting conference. The call for contributions can be viewed at http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/about_us/new_research_folder/news_and_ev ents/~/media/14CF9342DB8B459D92E3DAECBC3F5C39.ashx - please send all proposals to research@sciencemuseum.ac.uk by Friday 25th April 2014. Dr Tilly Blyth Keeper of Technologies and Engineering Science Museum Exhibition Road London SW7 2DD --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 13:08:52 -0500 From: Stan Ruecker Subject: Conference on Experimental Interfaces for Reading 2.0 We are pleased to announce the call for papers for a one-of-a-kind conference at the IIT Institute of Design in downtown Chicago, Sept 28-30, 2014. *Experimental Interfaces for Reading 2.0* http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/inke-conference/ *Call for Papers* Proposals (abstracts only) due midnight (12.00am) CST June 30, 2014 Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2014 Digital documents are now ubiquitous, and the electronic book is a normal part of many people’s lives. However, we have really only scratched the surface of ways to help people read and make use of digital documents. This conference will focus on some of the experimental human-computer interfaces that have been designed and, in some cases, prototyped for use with digital texts, images, and other media. Featured events include: • Keynote lectures • Lightning talks, where authors present 10-minute versions of their work, followed by a brief discussion (papers may be conceptual, theoretical, application oriented, and more) • Poster and digital demos session Possible topics include but will not be limited to: • ebooks • journals and monographs • interactive visualization • visual analytics • cultural analytics • social editions We invite proposals in three categories – lightning papers, panels (4 papers or more), posters, and digital demos – that address the conference topics and other issues pertinent to research in the area. Proposals should indicate one of the above categories, and consist of: - a title - an abstract of approximately 250 words - a list of works cited - the names and affiliations of presenters and their coauthors. We are pleased to welcome proposals in all languages of our community; note that the chief working language of past gatherings has been English. Please send proposals to INKEIDCONF@gmail.com Selected presentations will be invited to submit by November 15 prepared papers for a special issue of the journal *Interdisciplinary Science Reviews* (ISR), with guest editor Stan Ruecker. *INKE Interface Design* The Interface Design (ID) team is part of a seven-year research project on the future of reading called Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE). The goal of ID is to produce and study experimental prototypes that are contextualized by research done throughout INKE as well as by environmental scans of existing systems. Different years have focused on different research areas: interdisciplinary citation, corpora, the scholarly edition, and journals and monographs. *Sponsors* Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) The Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) IIT Institute of Design *Schedule* Evening 1: Thursday, September 18, 2014 5:00-7:00 Registration 7:00-8:30 Welcome and opening plenary 1 8:30-10:00 Reception Day 2: Friday, September 19, 2014 8:30-9:30 Registration and a decent breakfast 9:30-10:30 Plenary 2 10:30-11:00 Coffee break with hot snack 11:00-12:00 Session 1 (4 papers or a panel) 12:00-2:00 Lunch (on your own—we will provide suggestions) 2:00-3:00 Session 2 (4 papers or a panel) 3:00-3:30 Coffee break with hot snack 3:30-4:30 Session 3 (4 papers or a panel) 4:30-5:30 Plenary 3 5:30 Dinner (on your own) Day 3: Saturday, September 20, 2014 9:00-9:30 A decent breakfast 9:30-10:30 Plenary 4 10:30-11:00 Coffee break with hot snack 11:00-12:00 Session 4 (4 papers or a panel) 12:00-2:00 Lunch (on your own—we will provide suggestions) 2:00-3:00 Session 5 (4 papers or a panel) 3:00-3:30 Coffee break with hot snack 3:30-4:30 Posters and digital demos 4:30-5:30 Plenary 5 5:30-5:45 Wrap-up and farewell *Registration* Cost: $300 regular, $150 student or unwaged Includes opening reception Thur night Reception only (cost tba) *Directions* IIT Institute of Design is located at 350 N LaSalle Street, Chicago, IL 60654 (on the southwest corner of LaSalle and Kinzie; downtown, not on IIT’s main campus). Cabs are plentiful in Chicago, but if you’re interested in public transportation from either O’Hare or Midway Airport, ID is two blocks from the Clark/Lake stop for the blue train line (to/from O’Hare) and the orange line (to/from Midway) 5-6 blocks from both the State/Grand and State/Lake red line stops, and one block from the brown line stop at the Merchandise Mart. The school is also on the 156 LaSalle bus route, which runs roughly 6a-730p. Single CTA rides are $2.25 (except departures from O’Hare, which are $5); transfers are $0.25 (not available on the bus if paying cash). For more information about the CTA, visit www.transitchicago.com. Transit from either airport to the ID vicinity is roughly 30-50 minutes, depending on time of day. *Contact* INKEIDCONF@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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id D6C9D64BC; Fri, 25 Apr 2014 08:05:28 +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 32A5464AC; Fri, 25 Apr 2014 08:05:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 651EF6495; Fri, 25 Apr 2014 08:05:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140425060512.651EF6495@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 08:05:10 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.997 events: experimental interfaces for reading; tangible & embodied; information age X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 997. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Florian 'Floyd' Mueller (80) Subject: CFP: ACM Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI) 2015 [2] From: "Blyth Tilly" (26) Subject: Science Museum 'Information Age' conference - call for papers/date change [3] From: Stan Ruecker (101) Subject: Conference on Experimental Interfaces for Reading 2.0 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 22:07:54 +0000 From: Florian 'Floyd' Mueller Subject: CFP: ACM Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI) 2015 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: PAPERS and STUDIOS & WORKSHOPS ACM TANGIBLE, EMBEDDED AND EMBODIED INTERACTION (TEI) 2015 January 16-19, 2015 in Palo Alto, California, USA http://tei-conf.org/ ===== SUBMISSION DEADLINES ===== Papers: 01 August 2014, 11:59 pm PST Studios & Workshops: 22 August 2014, 11:59 pm PST The work presented at TEI focuses on physical interaction with computing technology and addresses theories, design, user experience, interfaces, interaction, and technical development. The intimate size of this single-track conference provides a unique forum for exchanging ideas and presenting innovative work through talks, demonstrations, posters, art installations and performances, and participating in hands-on studios and workshops. With the rise of DIY and maker culture and the acceptance of research in tangible, embodied and embedded interaction, the TEI conference has gained substantial visibility and activity over the past decade. It brings together research disciplines, including tangible computing, physical computing, speculative design, IT product design, appliance design, whole body interaction, gestural interaction, embodied interaction, responsive architecture, and responsive and interactive environments and spaces. Application areas are diverse, including: public art and performance; games; learning; planning; automotive, fashion, furniture, and architectural design; music and sound creation; as well as productivity and creativity tools in domains ranging from scientific exploration to non-linear narrative. TEI brings together researchers, practitioners, businesses, artists, designers and students in this emerging field, providing a meeting ground for diverse communities of research and practice including computing software, hardware, mechatronics, camera vision and sensor technology; human computer interaction; interaction, interface and experience design; computer supported collaborative work and learning; product, industrial and architectural design; and interactive art and performance. We invite submissions from all of these perspectives: theoretical, conceptual, technical, applied, or artistic. The conference is designed to provide appropriate presentation forms for different types of contributions. Accepted submissions of all types will be included in the ACM digital library proceedings. Suggested Topics Authors are invited to submit high-quality work detailing original research that contributes to advancing this rapidly developing field. Appropriate topics include but are not limited to: -- Conceptual explorations -- Case studies and evaluations of field deployments -- Analysis of key challenges and proposals of research agendas -- Programming paradigms and tools, toolkits, software architectures -- Design guidelines, methods, and processes -- Novel interfaces, applications, or innovative systems -- Theoretical foundations, frameworks, and concepts -- Philosophical, ethical & social implications -- Learning from the role of physicality in everyday environments -- Embodied interaction, movement, and choreography of interaction -- Organic user interfaces: flexible, non-flat or actuated display interfaces -- Role of physicality in human perception, cognition and experience -- Teaching experiences, lessons learned, and best practices -- Standardization, production, and business applications ===== PAPERS ===== Papers may be 2, 4 or 8 pages long in the two-column ACM SIGCHI format. They must be in PDF file format. Regardless of length, a paper may be presented as a poster, talk or demo. Length must match the contribution, and the same general criteria hold for all papers. All papers will undergo the same review process and be published in the same way. All work – both papers and optional video illustrations – must be submitted electronically via the TEI Precision Conference site. During submission, authors may propose the presentation format that they feel best suits their contribution, which may include multiple presentation forms. The available formats include: -- Poster -- Demo -- Talk Please do consider the most appropriate presentation format for your work. TEI particularly encourages demonstrations and installations by publishing their descriptions in the full conference proceedings. There will be a second submission opportunity for work in progress. Selected works will be presented during dedicated poster sessions at TEI. One author of each accepted submission must register for the conference before the early registration deadline in order for the final paper version to be published in the conference proceedings. Papers will be published in the ACM digital library. If you have further questions about Papers for TEI, contact the Program Chairs at program_chairs@tei-conf.org [...] --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 10:59:18 +0100 From: "Blyth Tilly" Subject: Science Museum 'Information Age' conference - call for papers/date change Call for contributions 'Interpreting the Information Age': new avenues for research and display November 3rd - 5th 2014 Science Museum, London Dear colleagues, In autumn 2014, the Science Museum will open a ground-breaking new permanent gallery, Information Age. The gallery will expose, examine and celebrate how information and communication technologies have transformed our lives over the last 200 years. To mark this launch, the Museum is hosting a three day conference which will discuss how the history and material culture of information can be made relevant for today's audiences, and celebrate the participation projects which have supported the gallery's development. We would welcome contributions from peers across the sector and beyond, to support this exciting conference. The call for contributions can be viewed at http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/about_us/new_research_folder/news_and_ev ents/~/media/14CF9342DB8B459D92E3DAECBC3F5C39.ashx - please send all proposals to research@sciencemuseum.ac.uk by Friday 25th April 2014. Dr Tilly Blyth Keeper of Technologies and Engineering Science Museum Exhibition Road London SW7 2DD --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 13:08:52 -0500 From: Stan Ruecker Subject: Conference on Experimental Interfaces for Reading 2.0 We are pleased to announce the call for papers for a one-of-a-kind conference at the IIT Institute of Design in downtown Chicago, Sept 28-30, 2014. *Experimental Interfaces for Reading 2.0* http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/inke-conference/ *Call for Papers* Proposals (abstracts only) due midnight (12.00am) CST June 30, 2014 Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2014 Digital documents are now ubiquitous, and the electronic book is a normal part of many people’s lives. However, we have really only scratched the surface of ways to help people read and make use of digital documents. This conference will focus on some of the experimental human-computer interfaces that have been designed and, in some cases, prototyped for use with digital texts, images, and other media. Featured events include: • Keynote lectures • Lightning talks, where authors present 10-minute versions of their work, followed by a brief discussion (papers may be conceptual, theoretical, application oriented, and more) • Poster and digital demos session Possible topics include but will not be limited to: • ebooks • journals and monographs • interactive visualization • visual analytics • cultural analytics • social editions We invite proposals in three categories – lightning papers, panels (4 papers or more), posters, and digital demos – that address the conference topics and other issues pertinent to research in the area. Proposals should indicate one of the above categories, and consist of: - a title - an abstract of approximately 250 words - a list of works cited - the names and affiliations of presenters and their coauthors. We are pleased to welcome proposals in all languages of our community; note that the chief working language of past gatherings has been English. Please send proposals to INKEIDCONF@gmail.com Selected presentations will be invited to submit by November 15 prepared papers for a special issue of the journal *Interdisciplinary Science Reviews* (ISR), with guest editor Stan Ruecker. *INKE Interface Design* The Interface Design (ID) team is part of a seven-year research project on the future of reading called Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE). The goal of ID is to produce and study experimental prototypes that are contextualized by research done throughout INKE as well as by environmental scans of existing systems. Different years have focused on different research areas: interdisciplinary citation, corpora, the scholarly edition, and journals and monographs. *Sponsors* Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) The Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) IIT Institute of Design *Schedule* Evening 1: Thursday, September 18, 2014 5:00-7:00 Registration 7:00-8:30 Welcome and opening plenary 1 8:30-10:00 Reception Day 2: Friday, September 19, 2014 8:30-9:30 Registration and a decent breakfast 9:30-10:30 Plenary 2 10:30-11:00 Coffee break with hot snack 11:00-12:00 Session 1 (4 papers or a panel) 12:00-2:00 Lunch (on your own—we will provide suggestions) 2:00-3:00 Session 2 (4 papers or a panel) 3:00-3:30 Coffee break with hot snack 3:30-4:30 Session 3 (4 papers or a panel) 4:30-5:30 Plenary 3 5:30 Dinner (on your own) Day 3: Saturday, September 20, 2014 9:00-9:30 A decent breakfast 9:30-10:30 Plenary 4 10:30-11:00 Coffee break with hot snack 11:00-12:00 Session 4 (4 papers or a panel) 12:00-2:00 Lunch (on your own—we will provide suggestions) 2:00-3:00 Session 5 (4 papers or a panel) 3:00-3:30 Coffee break with hot snack 3:30-4:30 Posters and digital demos 4:30-5:30 Plenary 5 5:30-5:45 Wrap-up and farewell *Registration* Cost: $300 regular, $150 student or unwaged Includes opening reception Thur night Reception only (cost tba) *Directions* IIT Institute of Design is located at 350 N LaSalle Street, Chicago, IL 60654 (on the southwest corner of LaSalle and Kinzie; downtown, not on IIT’s main campus). Cabs are plentiful in Chicago, but if you’re interested in public transportation from either O’Hare or Midway Airport, ID is two blocks from the Clark/Lake stop for the blue train line (to/from O’Hare) and the orange line (to/from Midway) 5-6 blocks from both the State/Grand and State/Lake red line stops, and one block from the brown line stop at the Merchandise Mart. The school is also on the 156 LaSalle bus route, which runs roughly 6a-730p. Single CTA rides are $2.25 (except departures from O’Hare, which are $5); transfers are $0.25 (not available on the bus if paying cash). For more information about the CTA, visit www.transitchicago.com. Transit from either airport to the ID vicinity is roughly 30-50 minutes, depending on time of day. *Contact* INKEIDCONF@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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8E8183B60; Sat, 26 Apr 2014 08:51:58 +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 6C08A64B4; Sat, 26 Apr 2014 08:51:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 7C15D63C1; Sat, 26 Apr 2014 08:51:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140426065137.7C15D63C1@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 08:51:37 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.998 MCs/PhD studentships at Calgary X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 998. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 11:57:31 +0000 From: Ehud Sharlin Subject: Funded MSc/PhD Studentships at the University of Calgary's Computation Media Design (CMD) Program (January 2015 Admission) The Computational Media Design (CMD http://www.cmd.ucalgary.ca/) Graduate Program at the University of Calgary is looking for exceptional MSc/PhD students to join our program in January 2015. Successful applicants will become part of a small group of researchers who are exploring exciting relationships among music, art, design, science and technology. The Computational Media Design Graduate program is composed of the Faculty of Arts: School of Creative and Performing Arts - Music and Department of Art, the Faculty of Environmental Design and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary. Students who complete the CMD program earn graduate degrees, either Master of Science or PhD, and are funded throughout their studies. In the expanding world of multimedia and design there is an increasing need for graduates who can conduct and direct complex projects that combine computing expertise with the creative vision and energies of artists and designers. Many opportunities exist for our graduates in companies whose primary business is game design and development, film, TV, web design, simulation, networking, interactive media, and mobile and wearable computing. Interest in our graduates also comes from the creative fields of dance, music, theatre and the visual arts. Our research-based graduate degrees explore the relationships between and among art, music, design, science and technology. Successful applicants will be supervised by two members of our Faculty (http://www.ucalgary.ca/cmd/people) enabling them to conduct research at the intersection of music, art, design and computer science. We are located at the vibrant city of Calgary, an hour drive away from the mountains and lakes of the beautiful Canadian Rockies. Considering applying? Please visit: http://www.ucalgary.ca/cmd/admission (we are currently looking for a small number of candidates for January 2015 admission, the application deadline is June 2nd, 2014). Thank you, Ehud Sharlin, CMD Program Director -- Ehud Sharlin, Ph.D. Associate Professor uTouch Research Group, Interactions laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary http://utouch.cpsc.ucalgary.ca 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4 Office: +1.403.210.9404 Mobile: +1.403.836.4240 Fax: +1.403.284.4707 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 55DA56503; Sat, 26 Apr 2014 08:53:50 +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 AA4B563B0; Sat, 26 Apr 2014 08:53:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4A1E163B0; Sat, 26 Apr 2014 08:53:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140426065338.4A1E163B0@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 08:53:38 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.999 events: experimental interfaces for reading (correction); music info retrieval; 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. 27, No. 999. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Goodman Paul (31) Subject: Archives 2.0 - Saving the Past, Anticipating the Future: SAVE THE DATE! [2] From: Stan Ruecker (4) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.997 events: experimental interfaces for reading; tangible & embodied; information age [3] From: "Downie, J Stephen" (51) Subject: MIREX 2014: Announcing the Music Information Retrieval eXchange for 2014 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 13:28:22 +0100 From: Goodman Paul Subject: Archives 2.0 - Saving the Past, Anticipating the Future: SAVE THE DATE! Archives 2.0 - Saving the Past, Anticipating the Future: Save the Date! National Media Museum, Bradford, United Kingdom 25 & 26 November 2014 Later this year, the National Media Museum will be hosting a two-day conference on the strategic acquisition and management of archives by cultural institutions. This event will bring together a number of key practitioners from the cultural and academic sectors to consider the strategic issues, opportunities and challenges presented to organisations which actively acquire and curate bodies of work. These archives may consist purely of photographic or moving footage or they may be mixed in nature, often including equipment, correspondence and ephemera; they could be analogue or digital or both; they may be assembled by a company, private individual, practitioner, community-based or regional body; complete or partial; contained or continually developing. The conference will also seek to examine emergent digital technologies and their impact on archival practice, acquisition and access Please note the dates of the event. Online registration is expected to begin in June. Further information or direct enquiries: http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/Collection/ArchivesConference or Archives2.0@nationalmediamuseum.org.uk Best wishes Paul Paul Goodman Head of Collections, Projects National Media Museum Pictureville, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD1 1NQ Direct tel: 01274 203378 --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 10:29:45 -0500 From: Stan Ruecker Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.997 events: experimental interfaces for reading; tangible & embodied; information age In-Reply-To: <20140425060512.651EF6495@digitalhumanities.org> I do apologize. The conference dates for the Reading 2.0 conference should be Sept 18-20, 2014. I hope you can make it. yrs, Stan --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 20:31:09 +0000 From: "Downie, J Stephen" Subject: MIREX 2014: Announcing the Music Information Retrieval eXchange for 2014 In-Reply-To: <20140425060512.651EF6495@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Colleagues: The 2014 Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) is now open for submissions! This will be tenth year of MIREX and we hope for the best one yet! Over the past nine years, MIREX has evaluated nearly 2050 MIR algorithm runs on a wide variety of music-related tasks. This year we have 20 possible tasks, but if you and your colleagues wish to propose new tasks or new data, please feel free to set up at task page on the wiki. We strive to keep MIREX a community endeavor. In keeping with MIREX tradition, if we have three teams involved in a task, we will run that task. For the second year in a row, we also are looking for volunteer Task Captains to adopt and run tasks. BACKGROUND INFORMATION More information can be found at the MIREX 2014 wiki, including details on submitting: http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/2014:Main_Page SUBMISSION STARTING POINT http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/MIREX_2014_Submission_Instructions Please follow the instructions carefully. It is important that you read (and understand) the submission instructions from top to bottom. This Year, MIREX has rolling deadline from July to September, please refer to the list at the bottom of this email for the submission data for your task. CONTACT INFORMATION: The EvalFest mailing list is our primary point of communication. To subscribe, visit https://mail.lis.illinois.edu/mailman/listinfo/evalfest. For personal questions, please contact the MIREX 2014 Team . Remember, MIREX is all about community involvement; so, get involved! Cheers, J. Stephen Downie, on behalf of the MIREX 2014 Team --------------------- DEADLINES # July 16th 2014 - Audio Classification (Train/Test) Tasks - Audio K-POP Genre Classification - Audio K-POP Mood Classification - Audio Tag Classification # August 16th 2014 - Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval - Symbolic Melodic Similarity - Structural Segmentation - Audio Tempo Estimation - Audio Offset Detection # September 16th 2014 - Audio Onset Detection - Audio Beat Tracking - Audio Key Detection - Multiple Fundamental Frequency Estimation & Tracking - Real-time Audio to Score Alignment (a.k.a Score Following) - Audio Cover Song Identification - Discovery of Repeated Themes & Sections - Audio Melody Extraction - Query by Singing/Humming - Query by Tapping - Audio Chord Estimation ********************************************************** "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 _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E753264C0; Sun, 27 Apr 2014 08:52:13 +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 D49E36492; Sun, 27 Apr 2014 08:51:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B1CEC61C6; Sun, 27 Apr 2014 08:51:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140427065152.B1CEC61C6@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 08:51:52 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.1000 events: medieval Latin; mind, mechanism & mathematics X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 1000. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: S B Cooper (34) Subject: Workshop: MIND, MECHANISM AND MATHEMATICS - Columbia University, New York City, May 12-14, 2014 [2] From: "Center for Comparative Studies" (29) Subject: Towards a Medieval Latin Digital Library - Round Table in Florence --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 23:39:26 +0000 From: S B Cooper Subject: Workshop: MIND, MECHANISM AND MATHEMATICS - Columbia University, New York City, May 12-14, 2014 The Turing Centenary Research Project MIND, MECHANISM AND MATHEMATICS 2nd Workshop, Columbia University, New York City, May 12-14, 2014 http://turing.colorwork.com http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/give-page.php?710 The second annual workshop of the Turing Centenary Research Project will be held May 12-14 at the Morningside Campus of Columbia University, New York City. The research project, funded by the John Templeton Foundation, is a multidisciplinary activity focused on a number of issues related to computability in a broad sense - see: http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/give-page.php?704 The first workshop was held in Milan, Italy, in June 2013: http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/give-page.php?709 This more public event is open to all. As well as short talks from the winners of the 2012 Turing Centenary competition, this exciting event features a number of distinguished speakers from a spectrum disciplines. The meeting will be of particular interest to participants from mathematics, computer science, biology, linguistics, artificial intelligence, philosophy - extending to those concerned with computability-theoretic issues in the humanities, arts and social sciences. Invited speakers provisionally include: ERIC ALLENDER (Rutgers), MARTIN DAVIS (New York University and UC Berkeley), RAY DOUGHERTY (New York University), STUART KAUFFMAN (University of Vermont), BENJAMIN KOO (Tsinghua University), RUSSELL MILLER (City University of New York), KLAUS SUTNER (Carnegie Mellon University), STEPHEN WOLFRAM (Wolfram Research) Please feel free to register at http://turing.colorwork.com/Schedule.html for all events you are interested in attending. Registration is free - a small (optional) cash donation on the day is invited. Further information from the Co-Chairs: S Barry Cooper pmt6sbc@leeds.ac.uk, Gautam Dasgupta gd18@columbia.edu --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 00:16:12 +0200 From: "Center for Comparative Studies" Subject: Towards a Medieval Latin Digital Library - Round Table in Florence Towards a Medieval Latin Digital Library - A “Medioevo europeo” workshop (Working group 3 of the COST Action ) April 28, 2014 SISMEL, Firenze, via Montebello 7 A scholarly research in European medieval studies can be only founded on the knowledge and the consultation of the actual sources, which until the XIII century are for the most part in Latin. In this field of studies many digital archives have been growing in last years, which collect medieval Latin texts and documents, and perform different kinds of search on them. A free cross-consultation of such databases could very much help the development of the studies, by giving a unique or at least a main reference for quotations and queries about words, names of persons and places, and concepts across the times and the countries. A first meeting of the responsibles and the operators of those archives can take stock of the actual situation by expounding the different features of every data-base, and will become an occasion to design a project for making the medieval Latin archives interact and develop. 9, 30-13.30 Presentation of the data-bases 1. Agostino Paravicini Bagliani (SISMEL, COST Action Medioevo Europeo) Foreword 2. Clemens Radl (München) MGH digital 3. Maurizio Lana (Vercelli) DigiLibLT 4. Eva Sediki (Zürich) Corpus Corporum 5. Alain Meurant (Louvain-la-Neuve) Itinera electronica 6. Emiliano Degl’Innocenti (Firenze) Biblioteca Digitale SISMEL-ENTMI 7. Paolo Mastandrea (Venezia) Poetria Nova, Poeti d’Italia 8. Erwin Rauner (Augsburg) Analecta Hymnica 9. Maurizio Campanelli (Roma) Biblioteca Italiana -parte latina 10. Jan Koláček (Praha): Cantus Index - Online Network of Medieval Music Databases 11. Jean-Philippe Genet (Paris) PALM-Meditext 12. Francesco Stella (Siena) ALIM and other digital libraries 15.00-17.30 Round-Table The issues at stake: Cross-consultation, Integration, Copyright, European Projects Closing remarks. Participants include Greta Franzini (Leipzig) and Christian-Emil Ore (COST Action Medioevo Europeo) Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino (S.I.S.M.E.L.) Via Montebello 7, I - 50123 Firenze tel. 055 2048501 fax 055 2302832 e-mail: infopoint@sismelfirenze.it http://www.sismelfirenze.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id E8F356281; Sun, 27 Apr 2014 09:16:04 +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 6024561BD; Sun, 27 Apr 2014 09:15:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0F6C661B7; Sun, 27 Apr 2014 09:15:47 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140427071548.0F6C661B7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 09:15:47 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.1001 some editorial matters X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 1001. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 08:01:44 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: editorial matters Only a few here will know that some weeks ago the procedure for handling applications to Humanist changed, from an immediate admission to one involving an intermediate step in which the applicant has to reply to an automatically generated message. This step was taken because a flood of bot-generated applications was greeting me nearly every morning, forcing me to pick through them to find the genuine ones and delete the rest. But since the new procedure was initiated I've noticed that the number of those who respond to the automatic message is significantly less than the number who apply. On the one hand this can be viewed as eliminating those of insufficient determination, and so good; on the other it can be viewed as unnecessarily harsh, and so bad. I worry. I'd appreciate your thoughts on the matter, both technical and moral. This is also to alert you to a hiatus upcoming, between my departure from the northern hemisphere and my full recovery of wits and mechanisms after arrival in Sydney. I anticipate the last message from London will be on 2 or 3 May, the next on the 6th. But as always any postings sent to Humanist will be kept safely wherever it is that they are kept. So, please worry the former but not the latter. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5CFE66422; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 07:19:47 +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 8B6FD6193; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 07:19:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2DCC66279; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 07:19:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140428051929.2DCC66279@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 07:19:29 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.1002 editorial matters X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 1002. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ken Friedman (35) Subject: Re: 27.1001 some editorial matters [2] From: Alan Corre (4) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.1001 some editorial matters [3] From: Andrew Brook (13) Subject: Re: 27.1001 some editorial matters [4] From: James Rovira (68) Subject: Re: 27.1001 some editorial matters [5] From: "Robert A. Amsler" (55) Subject: Re: 27.1001 some editorial matters --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 08:49:27 +0000 From: Ken Friedman Subject: Re: 27.1001 some editorial matters In-Reply-To: <20140427071548.0F6C661B7@digitalhumanities.org> Dear Willard, To me, this seems simple and practical. As lists grow significantly, they develop new requirements. I see nothing wrong in asking folks to identify themselves. It's very common on some lists. Hope to see you in Sydney -- lots of changes, lots of news to catch up on. Yours, Ken Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | University Distinguished Professor | Swinburne University of Technology | Melbourne, Australia | University email kenfriedman@swin.edu.au | Private email kenfriedman0@gmail.com | Mobile +61 404 830 462 | Academia Page http://swinburne.academia.edu/KenFriedman Guest Professor | College of Design and Innovation | Tongji University | Shanghai, China ||| Adjunct Professor | School of Creative Arts | James Cook University | Townsville, Australia On 14/04/27 5:15 PM, "Humanist Discussion Group" wrote: > Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 08:01:44 +0100 > From: Willard McCarty > Subject: editorial matters > >Only a few here will know that some weeks ago the procedure for handling >applications to Humanist changed, from an immediate admission to one >involving an intermediate step in which the applicant has to reply to an >automatically generated message. This step was taken because a flood of >bot-generated applications was greeting me nearly every morning, forcing >me to pick through them to find the genuine ones and delete the rest. >But since the new procedure was initiated I've noticed that the number >of those who respond to the automatic message is significantly less than >the number who apply. On the one hand this can be viewed as eliminating >those of insufficient determination, and so good; on the other it can be >viewed as unnecessarily harsh, and so bad. I worry. > >I'd appreciate your thoughts on the matter, both technical and moral. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 07:17:23 -0500 (CDT) From: Alan Corre Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.1001 some editorial matters In-Reply-To: <20140427071548.0F6C661B7@digitalhumanities.org> Happy landings, Willard. --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 13:23:56 -0400 From: Andrew Brook Subject: Re: 27.1001 some editorial matters In-Reply-To: <20140427071548.0F6C661B7@digitalhumanities.org> Hello Willard, Having to click on a link to confirm that one really has applied to join a website is pretty standard now, so I'd say that anyone not willing to do that is probably not too serious about being a member of Humanist. Andrew -- Andrew Brook, D.Phil. Chancellor's Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science President, Canadian Psychoanalytic Society 3A57 Paterson Carleton University Ottawa, ON K1S5B6 Ph: 613 520-3597 Web: www.carleton.ca/~abrook --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 19:16:28 -0400 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: 27.1001 some editorial matters In-Reply-To: <20140427071548.0F6C661B7@digitalhumanities.org> Replying to an automatically generated message seems like a simple enough thing, but perhaps to make the process even simpler embed a confirmation link in the message? I suspect the difference is between people trolling for email addresses and those really interested in the list. I wouldn't worry. Jim -- Dr. James Rovira Associate Professor of English Tiffin University http://www.jamesrovira.com Blake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety Continuum 2010 http://jamesrovira.com/blake-and-kierkegaard-creation-and-anxiety/ Text, Identity, Subjectivity http://scalar.usc.edu/works/text-identity-subjectivity/index --[5]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 21:44:46 -0500 From: "Robert A. Amsler" Subject: Re: 27.1001 some editorial matters In-Reply-To: <20140427071548.0F6C661B7@digitalhumanities.org> A confirmation of a request by replying to an email is a normal part of many transactions on the web; most common when used to recover account access after a forgotten password, or to confirm a request to sign up to an account. I'd consider such a request a normal part of doing business over a computer, and I'd think anyone should. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A7336650F; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 07:20:26 +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 8292464B4; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 07:20:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id C356864AA; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 07:20:14 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20140428052014.C356864AA@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 07:20:14 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.1003 project-based courses? 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. 27, No. 1003. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 23:11:34 +0000 From: James Smithies Subject: Request for references to project-based courses Dear All, I'm in the process of developing a course proposal to submit to Faculty titled 'Digital Project'. It's a 4th year Honours course in applied digital humanities that allows students to build a digital tool, website (etc) over the course of a semester. We're running a 1-student trial this year and an interim website is available here: http://dh.canterbury.ac.nz/projects/. The model appears to be solid, but a colleague has suggested I add some references to other similar courses in the proposal to Faculty. If anyone on the Humanist list can suggest such courses I'd be grateful. With thanks in advance, James Smithies Dr. James Smithies Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities Associate Director, UC CEISMIC Digital Archive University of Canterbury DDI: +64 3 364 2896 james.smithies@canterbury.ac.nz http://dh.canterbury.ac.nz http://dh.canterbury.ac.nz/ | http://ceismic.org.nz http://ceismic.org.nz/ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 457CA64B4; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 07:21:38 +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 2653D2CA6; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 07:21:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id D1B2C6193; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 07:21:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140428052126.D1B2C6193@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 07:21:26 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.1004 pubs: cfp for issue on emotion & sentiment in 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. 27, No. 1004. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 11:25:34 -0400 From: Mark Finlayson Subject: CFP for Special Issue on Emotion and Sentiment in Social and Expressive Media A CFP relevant to the Humanist list: > > INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT > > Special Issue on > Emotion and Sentiment in Social and Expressive Media > http://sentic.net/essem/ > > ------------------------------------ > Submission Deadline: 30th April 2014 > (Deadline Approaching!) > ------------------------------------ > > AIMS AND SCOPE > > Although sentiment analysis and emotion detection have been trending topics since a while, not enough emphasis has been placed so far on social and expressive media. The latter, in particular, play a key role in applicative fields related to creativity, its expressions and outcomes, such as figurative arts, music or drama. In such fields, the advent of digital social media has brought about new paradigms of interactions that foster first-person engagement and crowdsourcing content creation: the subjective and expressive dimensions move to the foreground, opening the way to the emergence of an affective component within a dynamic corpus of contents - created or enriched by users. > Social and expressive media generate -in a continuous loop of interaction between online environments and the community of users- a corpus of digitized contents (e.g. text, images, sounds). New contents are added to the Web by its users every day, in an orthogonal way with respect to the new/old media distinction, with new formats relying on traditional media like text (fan generated fictions, tweets, reviews) and established expressive forms being delivered through new media (amateur video clips, podcasts, pictures). This calls for delving into the evolution of approaches, techniques and tools for automatic processing, indexing and retrieval of the affective and subjective information conveyed by those media. > > In order to bring advancements in automatic processing of such information, a key role can be played by cognitive models of emotions. Suitable affective and emotional models, which underlie the expressive aims of those media, need to be defined and integrated into traditional techniques of analysis and information processing. Generation and manipulation of produced contents (for distribution, categorization, browsing, visualization etc.) need to encompass a model of their affective qualities (and of their reception by the users), especially when the practical goal of assembling and delivering to the users contents in a personalized way is pursued. Moreover, the focus on multimedia contents asks for the development of new techniques of automatic extraction and classification of affective information where both textual and extra-linguistic features can be exploited. Affective-based visualization techniques may also support the development of novel tools for the analysis and exp > > loration of multimedia information. > > We invite high-quality submissions that address the topic of Emotion and Sentiment in Social and Expressive Media under different perspectives. We encourage the submission of papers from related areas, such as natural language processing, information retrieval, semantic web, affective computing, and interactive multimodal systems. The multidisciplinary approach will extend the possibility of cross-validation. > > We especially welcome papers facing the following challenges: > > - detecting emotion and sentiment in social media and in fields related to creativity, its expressions and its outcomes (e.g. figurative arts, music, drama); > - automatic processing, indexing and retrieval of the affective information in social and expressive media based on structured knowledge of affective information, e.g. affective categorization models expressed by ontologies, better still if psychologically motivated; > - visualization of emotion and sentiment in social and expressive media in order to enhance navigation and access to information and multimedia contents; > - fostering the interoperability and integration of tools by encouraging compliance with emerging standards, which enable semantic metadata processing. > > TOPICS OF INTEREST > > - sentiment-based indexing, search and retrieval in social & expressive media > - subjectivity, sentiment and emotion detection in social & expressive media > - social & expressive media corpora and annotations > - creative language (humor, irony, metaphor, etc.) in social & expressive media > - concept-level sentiment analysis > - sentiment and emotion summarization & visualization > - emotion modeling and ontologies > - emotions in multimedia and multimodal systems > - emotions in sounds and music computing > - emotions in interactive entertainment > - emotions in storytelling > - emotions in cultural heritage access > - semantic web technologies for subjectivity & sentiment analysis > - knowledge representation and reasoning about emotions > > IMPORTANT DATES > > Submission Deadline: 30th April 2014 > First Review: 31st July 2014 > Revisions Due: 31st October 2014 > Final Decision: 31st January 2015 > Final Manuscript Due: 31st March 2015 > Tentative Publication Date: 2015 > > GUEST EDITORS > > Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain > Cristina Bosco, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy > Erik Cambria, National University of Singapore, Singapore > Rossana Damiano, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy > Viviana Patti, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy > > SUBMISSION FORMAT > > Author guidelines for preparation of manuscript can be found at: > http://www.elsevier.com/journals/information-processing-and-management/0306-4573/guide-for-authors > For more information, please contact: Paolo Rosso (prosso@dsic.upv.es). > > SUBMISSION GUIDELINES > > Contributions should be submitted via the journal online submission system available through the journal homepage (not earlier than 15th March 2014), > selecting SI:ESSEM when at the Article Type step in the submission process: > http://ees.elsevier.com/ipm/login_action.asp _________________ Mark A. Finlayson Research Scientist, MIT CSAIL 32 Vassar St. Room 32-258, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA +1.617.253.0287 (office); +1.617.515.0708 (mobile); 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id AA8DC6394; Tue, 29 Apr 2014 09:23:50 +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 E29DF6379; Tue, 29 Apr 2014 09:23:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 6B2E26303; Tue, 29 Apr 2014 09:23:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140429072338.6B2E26303@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 09:23:38 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.1005 project-based courses X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 1005. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (35) Subject: project based course [2] From: Marijn Koolen (44) Subject: Re: 27.1003 project-based courses? [3] From: matt hayler (42) Subject: RE: 27.1003 project-based courses? [4] From: Tara Mc Pherson (6) Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.1003 project-based courses? --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 06:53:28 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: project based course Dear James, The Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London (now Department of Digital Humanities) ran an undergraduate minor programme for many years in which the final year was just such a course as you have asked about. The numbers of students were usually small (not more than a dozen ever, as I recall), but almost invariably those who completed the course attested to its value. In fact I remember several saying that it was one of the very best experiences of their undergraduate years. Information on the course, written when it was running, may be found at http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/legacy/teaching/av3000/. The fact that this course is now a thing of the past needs some explanation, however. Our intention was to replace the minor programme with a full honours one. Colleagues and I designed it but, alas, it never got off the ground. By the time it was ready to go, student numbers in the minor had dropped to zero. The department had no choice but to shut down all undergraduate activities. Consensus was that with the uptake of IT courses in the schools students no longer could see the need for what they *thought* we were offering, namely a skills course (which ironically was exactly how it had been sold -- draw your own conclusions). We made some brave attempts to communicate the truth of the matter (e.g. by visits etc), but in an educational system in which students are rather narrowly streamed and in which there is no reliable mechanism for recruitment, these had no effect. The happy ending to this story is that the Department will be running an undergraduate BA in Digital Culture starting in 2015. See http://tinyurl.com/DDH-DigitalCultureBA for more. Our MA programmes are described at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/study/pgt/index.aspx. Other legacy material may be found at http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/legacy/teaching/. Please forgive the broken links. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 13:25:44 +0200 From: Marijn Koolen Subject: Re: 27.1003 project-based courses? In-Reply-To: <20140428052014.C356864AA@digitalhumanities.org> Hi James, At the University of Amsterdam we're running a project called Coding the Humanities http://codingthehumanities.com/ , that's aimed at collaborative tool building and reflecting on the tools used in the humanities. Currently we running a programming course at Master level called Art, Science & Technology, where the students learn programming in JavaScript and build small tools for their research, some individually, some in groups. The students build up a portfolio of the tools they build. You can find a course description here: http://ast.codingthehumanities.com/ Best regards, Marijn Koolen On 28/04/2014 07:20, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: > > Dear All, > > I'm in the process of developing a course proposal to submit to Faculty titled 'Digital Project'. It's a 4th year Honours course in applied digital humanities that allows students to build a digital tool, website (etc) over the course of a semester. We're running a 1-student trial this year and an interim website is available here: http://dh.canterbury.ac.nz/projects/. > > The model appears to be solid, but a colleague has suggested I add some references to other similar courses in the proposal to Faculty. If anyone on the Humanist list can suggest such courses I'd be grateful. > > With thanks in advance, > James Smithies > > Dr. James Smithies > Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities > Associate Director, UC CEISMIC Digital Archive > University of Canterbury > DDI: +64 3 364 2896 > james.smithies@canterbury.ac.nz > http://dh.canterbury.ac.nz http://dh.canterbury.ac.nz/ | http://ceismic.org.nz http://ceismic.org.nz/ > > -- Marijn Koolen Assistant professor of Digital Humanities University of Amsterdam Institute for Logic, Language & Computation Science Park 107 Room F2.44 1098 XG Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel: 020 525 7256 E-mail: marijn.koolen@uva.nl Web: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~mhakoole --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 14:42:19 +0100 From: matt hayler Subject: RE: 27.1003 project-based courses? In-Reply-To: <20140428052014.C356864AA@digitalhumanities.org> Dear James, I run a Digital and Cyberculture Studies course at the University of Exeter with a significant digital creation component. Here's the initial blog post before I launched the course (with rough description) - http://4oh4-wordsnotfound.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/digital-and-cyberculture-studies.html The module blog can be found here (looking a little scruffy, students new to blogging were encouraged to play with formatting to learn the basics) - http://dandcs.wordpress.com/ In a recent talk I described some of the projects built last year: "stories were constructed across social media, websites, and interactive fiction; centuries-spanning love letters were hyperlinked together by theme; music was written on mobile phones and out of poetry and distributed on Spotify and Bandcamp; memes were released, Wikipedia entries attacked, and blogs begun; a novel about space and place was mapped using Google Maps; a student house was wired for sound and video and became somewhere between a panopticon and a publicity stunt; and straight and gay dating profiles were started, compared, and analysed." If you have any questions about the module do give me a shout, it's been a lot of fun to run! Best Dr. Matt HaylerUniversity of ExeterLecturer (Education and Scholarship) in Digital Humanities, Cyberculture, and Critical TheoryNetwork Coordinator, AHRC Cognitive Futures in the Humanities Research NetworkStaff profile - http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/english/staff/hayler/Twitter - @cryurchin --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 09:23:11 -0700 From: Tara Mc Pherson Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.1003 project-based courses? In-Reply-To: <20140428052014.C356864AA@digitalhumanities.org> While perhaps more digital media studies than DH, this program may be of interest. http://map.usc.edu/programs/honors/ Best, Tara McPherson _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5FE0363A4; Tue, 29 Apr 2014 09:28:12 +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 759AA6394; Tue, 29 Apr 2014 09:28:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B64CA6394; Tue, 29 Apr 2014 09:28:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140429072801.B64CA6394@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 09:28:01 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.1006 events: minimal computing; medieval & modern mss; innovation lab & THATCamp X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 1006. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: IESEvents (19) Subject: Medieval and Modern Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age: 1 May 2014 [2] From: IESEvents (12) Subject: Reminder: CFP - Minimal Computing Working Group at DH2014 [3] From: Elena González-Blanco (22) Subject: Launching a DH Innovation Lab at UNED (Madrid) + THATCamp --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 11:07:53 +0000 From: IESEvents Subject: Medieval and Modern Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age: 1 May 2014 Alberto Campagnolo (University of the Arts London, and visiting researcher King's College London): 'A Tale of Two Fields: Book Conservation and Digital Humanities'. Thursday 1 May 2014: 5.30pm, Lecture Theatre, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square London WC1B 5DR Followed by a wine reception in Room L103. A free public lecture in association with Medieval and Modern Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. If you would like to attend this event please email IESEvents@sas.a.uk or call +44 (0)207 862 8675. Institute of English Studies Events University of London School of Advanced Study Room 239, 2nd Floor South Block Senate House Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Tel: +44 (0)20 7862 8675 Email: IESEvents@sas.ac.uk http://ies.sas.ac.uk http://ies.sas.ac.uk/ --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 08:56:43 -0700 (PDT) From: IESEvents Subject: Reminder: CFP - Minimal Computing Working Group at DH2014 The GO::DH Minimal Computing Working Group will kickstart itself at DH2014 with a workshop.  A key component of this workshop is a series of lightning talks (2-5 minute presentations) on current work going on in the area from around the globe.  The deadline for submissions is May 1. As CFPs go the requirements are pretty light: just a single page on what you have been up to regarding minimal computing, whether it be working with hardware, software, theory, or any combination thereof.  We even have provisions being put in place to include those who would like to participate but who will not be in Switzerland for DH2014. We can take up to 30 submissions for the workshop and expect that all submissions will be included in a bundled PDF file that will be circulated to the DH community and made available on the working group web page. Sound great but just finding out about this now?  Need a little more time?  Send workshop organizer John Simpson a note at john.simpson@ualberta.ca  and we'll happily work out a short extension with you. CHECK OUT THE FULL CFP AT http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/working-groups/minimal-computing/kickstart-workshop/ -John John Simpson University of Alberta Postdoctoral Fellow, Text Mining & Visualization for Literary History Postdoctoral Fellow, INKE --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 02:28:37 +0100 (BST) From: Elena González-Blanco Subject: Launching a DH Innovation Lab at UNED (Madrid) + THATCamp Dear Friends, It is a pleasure for me to announce that we are launching the Digital Humanities Innovation Lab (LINHD) at UNED www.uned.es/humanidadesdigitales on 30th April in Madrid. For the occasion, we have organized a THATCamp on Digital Humanities open for participation to everybody interested in the topic. Attendance is free, and the event will also be broadcasted via internet. For more information see www.linhduned.thatcamp.org Feel free to spread this information to everybody interested! Looking forward to meet you on Wednesday, Best regards, Elena González-Blanco Academic Director, LINHD Dpto. de Literatura Española y Teoría de la Literatura, Despacho 722 Facultad de Filología, UNED Paseo Senda del Rey 7 28040 MADRID tel. 91 3986873 www.uned.es/remetca http://filindig.hypotheses.org/  www.uned.es/humanidadesdigitales _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6046E63C6; Wed, 30 Apr 2014 07:50:36 +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 982716335; Wed, 30 Apr 2014 07:50:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4ECEA6201; Wed, 30 Apr 2014 07:50:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140430055027.4ECEA6201@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 07:50:27 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.1007 editorial matters X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 1007. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:44:18 +0900 From: Charles Muller Subject: Re: [Humanist] 27.1001 some editorial matters In-Reply-To: <20140427071548.0F6C661B7@digitalhumanities.org> Willard wrote: > But since the new procedure was initiated I've noticed that the number > of those who respond to the automatic message is significantly less than > the number who apply. On the one hand this can be viewed as eliminating > those of insufficient determination, and so good; on the other it can be > viewed as unnecessarily harsh, and so bad. I worry. I have been for almost 2 decades the lead editor of an academic mail list that deals with religion. In the beginning, we had a lot of trouble with various types of religious practitioners and religious extremists who joined, and who were often vocal in their disdain for the views of scholars who joined the list. So we had no recourse but to change to a subscription system that included a query that required an intelligent response. I never heard of any good scholar being put off by this. On the contrary, they tended to be encouraged by the fact that they were clearly about to join a serious, scholarly, well-tended academic forum. From that time, our membership grew even faster, in part, I believe, due to the high reputation of the list (which is, by the way, H-Buddhism). We now have 1,500 subscribers around the world, all scholars. Regards, 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 Twitter: @H_Buddhism _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8CB9763EE; Wed, 30 Apr 2014 07:51:26 +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 6C49763D3; Wed, 30 Apr 2014 07:51:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id F06E263D3; Wed, 30 Apr 2014 07:51:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20140430055115.F06E263D3@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 07:51:15 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.1008 job at Groningen X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 1008. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:40:22 +0200 From: John Nerbonne Subject: Job Announcement for Humanist University Lecturer in Information Science in Groningen: "We are particularly interested in candidates with additional expertise in one of the two following directions: applications of information science for digital humanities and applications of machine learning in language and web technology." Closing date: May 21. http://www.rug.nl/about-us/work-with-us/job-opportunities/overview?details=00347-0000005629 -- 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 296EF63D3; Wed, 30 Apr 2014 07:58:31 +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 BF5BA6033; Wed, 30 Apr 2014 07:58:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 225665F69; Wed, 30 Apr 2014 07:58:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140430055820.225665F69@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 07:58:20 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.1009 Ivanhoe Game returns X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 1009. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 23:29:12 -0400 From: Stephanie Kingsley Subject: The Ivanhoe Game Launch Announcement *Connect, Create, Inspire: the Ivanhoe Game returns!* The Scholars’ Lab Praxis Fellows are thrilled to announce the beta release of the Ivanhoe Game http://ivanhoe.scholarslab.org/ ! Ivanhoe is a collaborative role-playing game in which players make critical interventions in a text, cultural object, or topic to help them learn. Ivanhoe is about connecting ideas, crafting new interpretations, and inspiring creative scholarship. The Ivanhoe Game is now available as a WordPress Theme! It is the practicum project of this year’s Praxis Fellowship , an intensive year-long program in the UVa Scholars’ Lab that trains humanities and social-sciences graduate students in digital-project management, design, development, troubleshooting, and distribution. Fellows work together to compose a project charter , wire-frame ideas, give dynamic conceptual pitches , and write code to build a digital humanities tool, all the while being mentored by the brilliant and ever-patient Scholars’ Lab faculty. Fellows blog throughout the year, reflecting on their triumphs and learning experiences and sharing them with the wider DH community. See posts from Veronica and Scott about the perplexities of coding with PHP, alternative design ideas from Zach, reactions from Eliza at first learning version control in GitHub , thoughts from Francesca about the nature of game play and collaboration , and my own project-management musings as I discovered my role within the group. Praxis is an innovative approach to graduate training which emphasizes collaboration and iterative learning: Fellows work together in a trial-and-error process to discover how to take a project from being a mere idea to a useable product ready to be introduced to the world. Our project, the Ivanhoe Game WordPress Theme, is now ready to take its first steps into the world of digital scholarship and pedagogy. This tool is a vibrant reimagining of a game originally developed in the UVa SpecLab . (For more on Ivanhoe’s history , see “Designing Ivanhoe ,” by Johanna Drucker; “IVANHOE: Education in a New Key http://www.rc.umd.edu/pedagogies/commons/innovations/IVANHOE.html ,” by Jerome McGann; and “Subjectivity in the Ivanhoe Game: Visual and Computational Strategies ,” by Bethany Nowviskie. ) The Ivanhoe Game can be played on any type of cultural object or topic. In Ivanhoe, players assume roles and generate criticism by pretending to be characters or voices relevant to their topic and making moves from those perspectives. We think of these moves as interventions—a text or work is not stable but, rather, dynamic and ever subject to interpretation by its readers. Furthermore, these interventions are reflective and deliberate: they are “self-conscious acts of interpretation,” as Scott so concisely and perfectly puts it. Ivanhoe thus provides a way of delving into a subject while also maintaining a firm focus on the players themselves. A few features of our Ivanhoe distinguish it from the original. Whereas the SpecLab Ivanhoe Game was largely text based, we have designed Ivanhoe to accommodate subjects from any discipline and moves with all manner of media. Another element of Ivanhoe that the Praxis Fellows have found particularly provocative and have given special attention is the network of moves that these games generate. From one move can spring forth a multitude of other moves. We have programmed ways of linking moves together as “Source” posts and “Responses” to emphasize that network. Lastly, we have always seen Ivanhoe as something which should above all be accessible, so that the concept of Ivanhoe may be freely adapted by as wide a user base as possible. We have built it as a WordPress Theme, which anyone with a WordPress page may easily apply and use for whatever purpose they like. Now that you have heard just enough about Ivanhoe to be a little baffled but exhilarated nonetheless, we invite you to try it out and explore its possibilities. To download the Theme itself, visit our informational site . There, you will find out more about us and Ivanhoe, as well as documentation to assist you in using Ivanhoe. If you wish to try Ivanhoe but do not have a WordPress page, visit our testing app , hosted on Heroku and available for a limited time for Ivanhoe trial. As Ivanhoe is a work in progress, we would love your feedback, so feel free to post any issues you find to our GitHub page . Thanks, and we hope you enjoy connecting, creating, and inspiring with Ivanhoe. *Stephanie Kingsley, for the 2013-2014 Praxis Fellows* _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 24D4C6401; Wed, 30 Apr 2014 08:01:21 +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 D997463C6; Wed, 30 Apr 2014 08:01:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 1B8E86033; Wed, 30 Apr 2014 08:01:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140430060110.1B8E86033@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 08:01:09 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.1010 events: Chicago Colloquium; digital fiction X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 1010. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Ray Siemens (12) Subject: Tuition Scholarships, Pathways: Creating Digital Fiction with Kate Pullinger -- June 9-13 2014 @ SFU [2] From: Martin Mueller (60) Subject: Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanites and Computer Science Call for Papers --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 14:43:11 +0000 From: Ray Siemens Subject: Tuition Scholarships, Pathways: Creating Digital Fiction with Kate Pullinger -- June 9-13 2014 @ SFU ETCL and DHSI are pleased to sponsor tuition scholarships to Publishing@SFU’s Pathways: Creating Digital Fiction with Kate Pullinger, taking place the week after DHSI, June 9–13 2014, and Simon Fraser U in Vancouver. This is a week-long immersive writing/authoring workshop with award-winning author and digital fiction pioneer Kate Pullinger, offering a unique learning opportunity aimed at writers who wish to explore digital fiction, developers who want to explore literary works, and publishers interested in new models for writing, reading, and collaborating in fiction. Over the five days, participants will work together to collaboratively author a work of interactive, multimedia literature, which will subsequently be available online inviting further participation from a wider public. Participants will work collaboratively with faculty to plan, compose, design, assemble, and promote the work over the course of the week. A series of short morning seminars with faculty will elaborate the dynamics, opportunities, and challenges of composing and producing for networked digital media. Afternoons will be devoted to collaborative work on writing, design and graphic production, audio and video production, and technical development. The goal for the week is the production of a prototype work which forms the basis for an ongoing, collaborative work which gathers an online audience. Further information about this workshop is available here: http://digitalpathways.net/about/ Details about how to apply for tuition scholarships is here: http://digitalpathways.net/2014/announcements/sponsors-and-scholarships/ -- FACULTY: Kate Pullinger writes for both print and digital platforms. Her new novel, Landing Gear, published in the spring of 2014, takes the story told in Pullinger’s collaborative multimedia digital work, co-created with Chris Joseph, Flight Paths: A Networked Novel, and develops it further. Her novel The Mistress of Nothing won the 2009 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, one of Canada’s most prestigious literary prizes. Her prize-winning digital fiction projects Inanimate Alice and Flight Paths: A Networked Novel have reached audiences around the world. Pullinger’s other books include A Little Stranger, Weird Sister, The Last Time I Saw Jane, Where Does Kissing End?, which are all being published in new ebook editions in the spring of 2014. John Maxwell is Associate Professor in the Publishing Program at SFU . His research & teaching focus is on the impact of digital technologies in the cultural sector (and particularly books and magazines), the history of digital media, and the emergence of digital genres and mythologies. Haig Armen is one of Canada’s most respected and innovative digital designers. He is a faculty member in Design & Dynamic Media at Emily Carr University. Ryan Nadel, with his company 8 Leaf Digital Productions, produces and designs digital media experiences in a broad range of sectors including education, graphic novels, and TV franchises, including the interactive companion to Art Spiegelman’s recent book MetaMaus and the transmedia campaign for the TV show Continuum . Kate Armstrong is a Vancouver-based writer, artist and independent curator. Her interdisciplinary practice merges networked media, written forms and urban experiences and engages with open forms of experimental narrative that bring poetics and computational function together in physical or network space. She is the Director of the Social + Interactive Media (SIM) Centre at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Board President and past acting Executive Director of Western Front, and is an Artistic Director for the 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) to be held in Vancouver in August 2015. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 01:42:38 +0000 From: Martin Mueller Subject: Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanites and Computer Science Call for Papers Dear Colleague, The ninth annual meeting of the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) will be hosted by Northwestern University on October 23-24, 2014. A skeletal website is up at http://dhcs.northwestern.edu. There will be more flesh on it as time goes on. This is a call for papers on just about anything that plausibly stays within the intersection of DH and CS. A submission for a paper or poster should include an abstract of ~750 words and a minimal bio. Send it to martinmueller@northwestern.edu by June 30, 2014. We expect to notify you of accepted submissions by July 25. The DHCS Colloquium has been a lively regional conference (with non-trivial bi-coastal and overseas sprinkling), rotating since 2006 among the University of Chicago (where it began), DePaul, IIT, Loyola, and Northwestern. At the first Colloquium Greg Crane asked his memorable question "What to do with a million books?" Here are some highlights that I remember across the years: * An NLP programmer at Los Alamos talking about the ways security clearances prevented CIA analysts and technical folks from talking to each other. * A demonstration that if you replaced all content words in Arabic texts and focused just on stop words you could determine with a high degree of certainty the geographical origin of a given piece of writing. * A visualization of phrases like "the king's daughter" in a sizable corpus, telling you much about who owned what. * A social network analysis of Alexander the Great and his entourage. * An amazingly successful extraction of verbal parallels from very noisy data. * Did you know that Jane Austen was a game theorist before her time and that her characters were either skillful or clueless practitioners of this art? And so forth. Given my own interests, I tend to remember "Text as Data" stuff, but there was much else about archaeology, art, music, history, and social or political life. Looking back over the almost ten years of the DHCS Colloquium, I also remember that some of the most interesting papers have come from graduate students. While the DHCS Colloquium is not a graduate student conference per se, we will look with particular interest at paper and poster submissions by graduate students. This year's colloquium will partly overlap and share some programming with the annual members meeting and conference of the Text Encoding Initiative, which will be hosted by Northwestern University, October 22-24. The details of shared programming remain to be worked out, but there will be a shared plenary session on Thursday afternoon, October 23. "Text as Data" will look at its topic from various technical perspectives and range across the humanities and social sciences. The session will be moderated by Daniel Diermeier, the IBM Professor for Regulation and Competitive at Northwestern¹s Kellogg School Management and the Director of the Ford Motor Company Institute for Global Citizenship. We look forward to receiving many and interesting submissions. As in previous years, the program committee will consist of members from past and current host institutions. With best wishes for a good summer from myself and the program committee Martin Mueller Chair, Program Committee DHCS 2014 Professor emeritus of English and Classics Northwestern University Martin Mueller Professor emeritus of English and Classics Northwestern 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 311AC6520; Thu, 1 May 2014 07:45:02 +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 37C03644D; Thu, 1 May 2014 07:44:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 8038D644D; Thu, 1 May 2014 07:44:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140501054451.8038D644D@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 07:44:51 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.1011 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. 27, No. 1011. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 23:08:29 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Job advert, Arizona State University, Tempe Job advert for the post of Assistant Director, Institute for Humanities Research, Nexus Lab -- Digital Humanities / Transdisciplinary Informatics Tempe Campus Arizona State University Full-time, Academic Professional Please see the attached for further information. Jennifer Quincey, Ph.D. Research Advancement Administrator CLAS Humanities Research Administration/Institute for Humanities Research Arizona State University 480-965-2024 *** Attachments: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Attachments/1398895922_2014-05-01_willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk_11487.2.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 0B00D6571; Thu, 1 May 2014 07:47:05 +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 E70046523; Thu, 1 May 2014 07:46:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B2DF76520; Thu, 1 May 2014 07:46:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140501054653.B2DF76520@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 07:46:53 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.1012 events: art at King's, digital humanities 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. 27, No. 1012. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: "Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna" (33) Subject: CfP | CHArt conference @ King's College London Arts & Humanties Festival, 18th Oct 2014 [2] From: James Cummings (51) Subject: DHOxSS Peer-Reviewed Poster Session: Call for Posters -- Deadline Extended! --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 12:45:51 +0000 From: "Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna" Subject: CfP | CHArt conference @ King's College London Arts & Humanties Festival, 18th Oct 2014 In-Reply-To: *** CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS *** Deadline: Wednesday, 21 May 2014 Conformity, Process and Deviation: Digital Arts as ‘Outsider’ CHArt 2014 conference, part of the UNDERGROUND Arts & Humanities Festival, King’s College London, Strand Saturday, 18 October 2014 Digital engagement with art is thriving. Much of it is actively subversive of the traditional frameworks that enable art to be created and responded to – whether casually or professionally. This subversion takes various forms, including notions of value, uniqueness, fixity and location. The CHArt 2014 Conference wishes to explore the role of digital technologies in the underground creation, display, consumption and study of art. The online ‘urban dictionary’ defines underground as follows: "A genre in music and other forms of media intended for an elite audience, that is often characterized by its high levels of originality and experimentation, and does not conform to typical standards, trends, or hypes as set by the popular mainstream media.” If emerging conformity and new processes must be disrupted; then what is mainstream; and what is not? – and who can tell? Contributions are welcome from all sections of the CHArt community: art historians, artists, archaeologists, architects and architectural theorists and historians, philosophers, archivists, curators, conservators, educators, scientists, cultural and media theorists, content providers, technical developers, users and critics. CHArt invites theoretical papers and demonstrations of academic and artistic work addressing – metaphorically or literally – questions of subversive content, design and communication, including: * Subversive engagement with digital arts and culture; * Originality and experimentation v. standards, trends and hypes; * Disruptions of the commonplace or the mainstream; * Visual digital subcultures; * Submerged identities; * Visualising the underground; * Elite audiences v. multi-peer connectivity; * Working in partnership with or against diverse organisations; * Cross-disciplinary subversive interventions (art/science; big data/visualisation; design/interaction). Submissions should be in the form of a 300-400 word synopsis of the proposed paper or demonstration, with brief biographical information (no more than 200 words) of presenter/s, and should be emailed to chart@kcl.ac.uk by Wednesday 21 May 2014. Postgraduate students are encouraged to submit a proposal. CHArt can offer assistance with the conference fees for up to three student delegates. Priority will be given to postgraduate students whose proposals 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. Please note that submissions exceeding the stated word count will not be considered. CHArt | Computers and the History of Art (www.chart.ac.uk) was established in 1985. CHArt’s mission is to examine and raise awareness of innovative digital techniques that support the study, administration, curation and display of all forms of art and design. CHArt acts as an independent international forum for new discussion. The scope of CHArt is necessarily broad to encompass all aspects of the history of art and design, but is also constrained by a focus on how technology supports engagement with this field. Membership of CHArt is open to anyone, but CHArt particularly welcomes those who devise, use, support, research or teach relevant digital processes. CHArt is hosted by the Department of Digital Humanities King’s College, University of London 26–29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL chart@kcl.ac.uk The Arts & Humanities Festival at King’s College London is an annual event which brings together academic practices across the College with external partners. It showcases the research going on throughout the Faculty of Arts and Humanities with an emphasis on practical applications and public engagement. A range of events take place across the Festival, including exhibitions, performances, lectures, readings, roundtables, debates, film screenings, Q&A sessions and guided walks/ tours. More information at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahfest/index.aspx Deadlines: 21 May 2014 Submission of proposals 16 June 2014 Acceptance notification 27 June 2014 Speakers to confirm attendance, strictly with payment. All successful proposers will be eligible for the reduced registration fee of £100 (£50 for postgraduate student speakers). 18 August 2014 Paper submission. Papers submitted by this date will be considered for publication. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 21:13:32 +0100 From: James Cummings Subject: DHOxSS Peer-Reviewed Poster Session: Call for Posters -- Deadline Extended! In-Reply-To: <534BAC90.6070209@it.ox.ac.uk> Deadline extended! DHOxSS peer-reviewed poster session deadline extended until 12 May! === DHOxSS Peer-Reviewed Poster Session: Call for Posters Deadline: 1 May 2014 http://dhoxss.humanities.ox.ac.uk/2014/posters.html Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS) is one of the leading international training events in Digital Humanities. It is for researchers, project managers, librarians, research assistants, students, and anyone interested in Digital Humanities. DHOxSS delegates are introduced to a range of topics including the creation, management, analysis, modelling, visualization, or publication of digital data in the humanities. Each delegate follows one of our five-day workshops and supplements this with additional morning parallel lectures. There will also be a peer-reviewed poster session giving delegates a chance to present their Digital Humanities work to those at the DHOxSS. Presenting a poster often gives delegates a chance to receive funding to attend from their local institution. This year's DHOxSS will be held on 14-18 July 2014 and the five-day workshops offered are: 1. Introduction to Digital Humanities 2. Taking Control: Practical Scripting for Digital Humanities Projects 3. Data Curation and Access for the Digital Humanities 4. A Humanities Web of Data: Publishing, Linking and Querying on the Semantic Web 5. Using the Text Encoding Initiative for Digital Scholarly Editions The Monday evening reception at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History also will be our peer-reviewed poster session. The poster application form asks for an abstract (max 250 words) of what your poster is about and why it will be useful for delegates at DHOxSS 2014 to see it. Only registered delegates of DHOxSS, or members of the University of Oxford, may present a research poster at DHOxSS. However, you do not need to be registered at the time of submitting the poster application form. The DHOxSS will offer an excellent opportunity to gain knowledge and participate in discussions about a wide range of digital techniques and research methods, as well as exploring key topics in depth with leading senior researchers and technologists. Applications are due by 1 May 2014. For more information see: http://dhoxss.humanities.ox.ac.uk/2014/posters.html and for enquiries email researchsupport@it.ox.ac.uk. Don’t forget our NeDiMAH bursaries, deadline fast approaching: 22 April 2014. http://dhoxss.humanities.ox.ac.uk/2014/bursaries.html 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 850FF65D8; Fri, 2 May 2014 07:19:39 +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 B5B446584; Fri, 2 May 2014 07:19:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 044C86516; Fri, 2 May 2014 07:19:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140502051927.044C86516@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 07:19:26 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.1013 varying the cognitive span X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 1013. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 01 May 2014 12:21:29 +0100 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Varying the cognitive span To my mind historian and philosopher of science David Gooding (1947-2009) wrote several of the most intellectually rich and powerful explorations of his subject, the experimental sciences. I just finished a slow read of one of these, his "Varying the cognitive span", in Hans Radder, ed., The Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation (Pittsburgh, 2003). I'm about to spring a small bit of it on you, as temptation to read the whole of it, because I think it's among the best I know to help us explore our own subject. I would hope for some discussion to be provoked by the following. Perhaps I should recommend a mutatis mutandis but I really think that unnecessary. If discussion of the sciences causes you to break out in spots or foam at the mouth, then please consider this a health warning :-). He begins: > Increased dependence on instruments to access primary, abstracted > features of the physical world marks an important change. Although > this change clearly displaces ordinary human modes of perception and > cognition, it does not eliminate them. We can characterize this > schematically as follows. Aspects of the world are selectively > redescribed to make them amenable to manipulation according to rules > that in many cases are now implemented in machines. The effect is > that certain human modes of cognition and certain skills apparently > cease to be relevant. They are replaced, to a greater or lesser > extent, by the very limited modes of cognition of a machine. He cites the example of medical diagnostics, whose early automation proved embarrassing to people surprised by how much a statistically based expert system could in fact do. He then picks up clinician Marsden Blois' term "cognitive span": > At its widest, our cognitive capacities must confront the world as > experienced from moment to moment. At its narrowest, only a few > highly specialized, skilled, and context-specific capacities are > needed. A typical process of diagnosis would begin with a wide "span" > or range invoked when a patient first enters the consulting room: > there is a preliminary conversation, reading of body language, taking > a history, conducting a physical examination, and so on.... Together > these make up the human ability of making "clinical judgements" about > possible causes of the symptoms identified... Later in the process, > results of laboratory tests or X rays reduce the number of possible > diagnoses to a small set of most probable conditions, for which a set > of interventions may be specified. Here's where the expert system becomes effective. Gooding points out that the narrow end of the reductive "funnel", as Blois called it, couldn't happen without the wide end, where human cognition operates. (We have only promises that computation will extend back to the initial phase of diagnosis.) But the argument isn't finished. He goes on: > Having reduced some aspect of the world to a form that can be > processed according to rules, the output of the computation needs to > be reintroduced into the world of meaningful, human action. To be put > to work theoretically, information has to be reintegrated as > meaningful and relevant evidence into a system of concepts, > assumptions, and hypotheses. This involves translating the output > into a familiar notational system and, in some cases, restoring more > basic sensory modes of apprehension, as in the case of data > visualization or the phenomenology of a thought experiment. This he calls "expansion". Digital computation is involved in both the reduction (encoding, algorithmic analysis) and the expansion back into the human world (visualisation, mostly). In research, of course, the process is cyclical. Viewed historically, e.g. in the tradition of triumphalist pronouncements e.g. from Lord Kelvin (1824-1907), Robert Millikan (1868-1953) and Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), that "qualitative is just poor quantitative", Gooding counters that "there do appear to be modes of understanding that are inherently analogue rather than numerical or digital". He concludes: > If humans are analogue devices, and it is humans that continue to do > science, then we would expect the cyborg vision of the onward march > of digitalization to need qualification. Instead of looking for > cognitive capacities of the sort required by an algorithmic view of > science as rule-based reasoning about an inherently digitizable > world, we should investigate those cognitive capacities that enable > practitioners from different cultures to exchange meanings and > methods. Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 19EA265EA; Fri, 2 May 2014 07:20:50 +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 3189D65DB; Fri, 2 May 2014 07:20:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 68BF465D8; Fri, 2 May 2014 07:20:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140502052038.68BF465D8@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 07:20:38 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.1014 events: the Great Parchment Book, imaging & conservation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 1014. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 13:37:49 +0100 From: Melissa Terras Subject: Great Parchment Book conference on imaging and conservation, London, 25th July 2014 London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) has been working with partners at University College London (UCL) on a ground-breaking project to conserve, digitally reconstruct, transcribe and publish the 17th century Great Parchment Book of the Honourable the Irish Society. You find out more about the project on the Great Parchment Book website at http://www.greatparchmentbook.org/. LMA is holding a free Great Parchment Book Day at LMA on Friday 25 July 2014. The morning will focus on the Great Parchment Book story; the afternoon will look to the future and explore accessing historical documents through innovative technologies. A more detailed programme will be posted in due course, but in the meantime you can reserve your place at http://the-great-parchment-book.eventbrite.co.uk In connection with this LMA is exploring the possibility of developing its role as a centre of expertise for the conservation, imaging, and digital flattening of distorted parchments using UCL’s digital platform, and engaging in collaborative partnerships with other institutions holding such documents. If this would be of interest to you and you would like to explore further, please contact philippa.smith@cityoflondon.gov.uk And last, but not least the Great Parchment Book project has received a European Succeed Award Commendation of Merit. The winners were selected from 19 nominations world-wide and, due to the high quality of the project, the Board decided to distinguish it with one of two Commendations of Merit. Succeed is funded by the European Union. It promotes the take up and validation of research results in mass digitisation, with a focus on textual content. You can find further information about the awards by clicking on http://succeed-project.eu/succeed-awards and http://succeed-project.eu/succeed-awards/awards-2014. Mrs Philippa Smith Principal Archivist (Collections and Systems Management), London Metropolitan Archives, 40 Northampton Road, London EC1R 0HB Tel. 020 7332 3843 (direct line) Fax. 020 7837 4306 Email: philippa.smith@cityoflondon.gov.uk www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma Explore our latest project http://www.greatparchmentbook.org/ ----------------- Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE CITP FHEA Director, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities Professor of Digital Humanities 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/ Twitter: @melissaterras _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 215A1645D; Sat, 3 May 2014 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 3129A3A57; Sat, 3 May 2014 06:58:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id AB4D42F12; Sat, 3 May 2014 06:58:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140503045832.AB4D42F12@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 3 May 2014 06:58:32 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.1015 events: Around the World; Catullus online; 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. 27, No. 1015. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: London Trivium (22) Subject: ICS Seminar May 6: Catullus Online [2] From: Clare Mills (52) Subject: DHC 2014 - Call for Papers [3] From: Geoffrey Rockwell (25) Subject: Around the World 2014 --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 09:58:18 +0100 From: London Trivium Subject: ICS Seminar May 6: Catullus Online List members may be interested in the following seminar: 'Developing an online critical edition: the case of Catullus Online' János Gerevich (Woodpecker Software) & Dániel Kiss (University College, Dublin) Tues May 6, 4.30pm Room 246, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU part of the Trivium: Classical Intersections series The poems of Catullus survived the Middle Ages in an exceptionally bad shape. While much more remains to be done to reconstruct this text, even what has already been achieved so far remains to be digested. In late 2009 we set out to remedy this situation by putting together a repertory of conjectures on Catullus and publishing it online as a digital critical edition of the poems of Catullus. However, there existed no online repertories of conjectures. Creating one meant building up a new genre from scratch. After a year of working together, we set up *Catullus Online* ( www.catullusonline.org), which was inaugurated in January 2013. In this paper we discuss the creation of this website as a pioneering case study for editing repertories of conjectures and critical editions online. All welcome! Helen, Henry & Anastasia. --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 12:28:10 +0100 From: Clare Mills Subject: DHC 2014 - Call for Papers Dear all, This a reminder that the deadline for submitting proposals for the next Digital Humanities Congress in Sheffield is in exactly two weeks’ time – 16 April. Further details below. Best wishes, Clare Digital Humanities Congress 2014 Call for Papers The University of Sheffield's Humanities Research Institute with the support of Centernet is delighted to announce its Call for Papers for a three-day conference to be held in Sheffield during 4th - 6th September 2014. The Digital Humanities Congress is a conference held in Sheffield every two years. Its purpose is to promote the sharing of knowledge, ideas and techniques within the digital humanities. Digital humanities is understood by Sheffield to mean the use of technology within arts, heritage and humanities research as both a method of inquiry and a means of dissemination. As such, proposals related to all disciplines within the arts, humanities and heritage domains are welcome. The conference will take place at the University's residential conference facility, The Edge. Keynote Speakers • Professor Laura Mandell (Director, Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media and Culture, Texas A & M University) • Dr Fred Truyen (Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Head of CS/Digital Media Lab at the Institute for Cultural Studies, KU Leuven) • Professor Paul Arthur (Professor of Digital Humanities, The University of Western Sydney) Submitting a proposal Proposals for papers, sessions and posters should be submitted by email to dhc2014@sheffield.ac.uk by 16 May. Download full guidelines for submitting a proposal (PDF) http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.364638!/file/DHC-Call-for-Papers-20 14.pdf Discounted registration All successful proposers will be eligible for the early bird registration packages. Early bird registration will end on 30 June 2014. • Discounted full residential package incl. registration and ensuite bed and breakfast accommodation: £240 (full price: £290) • Discounted non-residential package: £129 (full price: £179) • Student full residential package incl. registration and ensuite bed and breakfast accommodation: £210 • Student non-residential package: £110 The conference website will be updated when online registration opens. Further details at: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/hri/dhc --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 16:37:29 -0600 From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Around the World 2014 Around the World 2014: Privacy and Surveillance in the Digital Age An online conference involving participants from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Nigeria, and the United States May 21st, 2014 We will be streaming live and prerecorded presentations and sessions from around the world on privacy and surveillance from this web site: http://aroundtheworld.ualberta.ca The Kule Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Alberta is hosting the second Around the World Conference that brings together, by video streaming, participants from around the world. This online discussion brings together scholars from institutions like: University of Western Sydney Australia Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo Brazil University of Alberta Canada Queen's University Canada University of Lethbridge Canada University of Hamburg Germany National University of Ireland – Maynooth Ireland Haifa University Israel Roma Tre University Italy Ritsumeikan University Japan Tohoku University Japan Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Netherlands Ekiti State University Nigeria Columbia University United States Mark your calendar and join the day-long conversation online using #UofAworld For more information contact: Geoffrey Rockwel or Oliver Rossier Kule Institute for Advanced Study kias@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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 4E71364AC; Sat, 3 May 2014 06:59:40 +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 EDCEB645D; Sat, 3 May 2014 06:59:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 2D91A305B; Sat, 3 May 2014 06:59:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20140503045932.2D91A305B@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sat, 3 May 2014 06:59:32 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.1016 Scholarly Editing: call for editions and articles 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. 27, No. 1016. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 13:10:48 -0500 From: Amanda Gailey Subject: Reminder: Call for Digital Editions and Articles INVITING EDITION PROPOSALS AND ARTICLES FOR THE 2015 ISSUE OF SCHOLARLY EDITING Scholarly Editing invites proposals for the 2015 issue. Many scholars know fascinating texts that deserve to be edited thoughtfully and imaginatively, and we offer a venue to turn this knowledge 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 2015 issue are due by May 9, 2014. 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 15, 2014, to be considered for the 2015 issue. Please see details at www.scholarlyediting.org/se.about.html. -- Amanda Gailey Assistant Professor, Department of English Fellow, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities Co-editor, *Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing *(scholarlyediting.org) University of Nebraska 202 Andrews Hall 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 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, LOTS_OF_MONEY,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8271F3C07; Sun, 4 May 2014 23:38:39 +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 0D7AB3009; Sun, 4 May 2014 23:38:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 3BF7E2C56; Sun, 4 May 2014 23:38:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140504213823.3BF7E2C56@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 23:38:23 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.1017 job 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. 27, No. 1017. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sat, 03 May 2014 10:55:26 +0100 From: Richard Lewis Subject: Job: Digital humanities/musicology at Oxford e-Research Centre JOB ADVERTISEMENT With apologies for cross posting. Research Associate - ElEPHãT and Transforming Musicology Oxford e-Research Centre, Oxford Grade 7: £29,837 - £36,661 p.a. http://www.transforming-musicology.org/news/2014-05-02_research-associate-elephat-and-transforming-musicology/ We are seeking a Research Associate which is a technical role working on Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies that support research in Digital Humanities, specifically for the ElEPHãT and Transforming Musicology projects. These projects share a need for identifying and semantically linking diverse digital resources (images of books OCR-ed text, digital audio, symbolic music representations etc.) and the digital methods and analysis performed over these resources by humanities researchers. The ElEPHãT project, a joint project between the Centre and the Bodleian Digital Libraries, will use Linked Data to create worksets combining digitised content from the large-scale (11 million+ volumes) HathiTrust collection and the fully human-transcribed EEBO-TCP (Early English Books Online - Text Creation Partnership) corpus. These worksets will form the basis for new scholarly investigations of these texts on a large scale and the insights that will emerge from such study. The AHRC funded Transforming Musicology project sets out to bring computational techniques, such as those developed in the Music Information Retrieval (MIR) community, to bear on the discipline of musicology as it evolves and adapts to a digital age. The University of Oxford e-Research Centre leads the creation of a semantic framework for the project which will describe these new digital methods, linking them to the results they produce and the music resources over which analysis has been undertaken, again using Semantic Web and Linked Data approaches, and tackling challenges such as reuse, reproducibility and citation of the methods and data. The closing date for applications is 12.00 noon on 21 May 2014. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis Computing, Goldsmiths' College t: +44 (0)20 7078 5203 @: lewisrichard http://www.transforming-musicology.org/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 2647A6237; Sun, 4 May 2014 23:43:21 +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 1A2856193; Sun, 4 May 2014 23:43:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 4394F3B40; Sun, 4 May 2014 23:43:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140504214312.4394F3B40@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 23:43:12 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.1018 events: communicability, graphics, design for interaction X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 1018. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 06:50:35 +0000 From: Willard Mccarty Subject: CCGIDIS 2014 -- Call for Papers -- Extended Deadline: May, 9th :: 4th International Symposium on Communicability, Computer Graphics and Innovative Design for Interactive Systems :: Venice, Italy :: May 22 - 23, 2014 In-Reply-To: <20140504065024.11792.qmail@webmaildh5.aruba.it> CCGIDIS 2014 -- Call for Papers -- Extended Deadline: May, 9th :: 4th International Symposium on Communicability, Computer Graphics and Innovative Design for Interactive Systems :: Venice, Italy :: May 22 - 23, 2014 AInCI :: International Association of Interactive Communication :: www.ainci.com ALAIPO :: Latin Association of Human-Computer Interaction :: www.alaipo.com Fourth International Symposium on Communicability, Computer Graphics and Innovative Design for Interactive Systems ( CCGIDIS 2014 ) Venice, Italy :: May 22 - 23, 2014 http://www.ainci.com/CCGIDIS%202014/symposium_CCGIDIS_2014.html CCGIDIS 2014 will be composed of research presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations, workshops, doctoral consortium, demo session and poster presentations. Papers must be submitted following the instructions found on the submission of papers section. All accepted papers will be published in the respective conference proceedings (in printed book form, and CD/DVD) by international and prestigious publishing houses in USA and Europe: http://www.ainci.com/CCGIDIS%202014/symposium_publications.html Very Important: The authors can present more than one paper with only one registration (maximum 3 papers and 15 pages each one of them). More information (publications session): http://www.ainci.com/CCGIDIS%202014/symposium_paper.html All contributions -papers, workshops, demos and doctoral consortium, should be of high quality, originality, clarity, significance and impact. In the current international symposium/conference it is demonstrated how with a correct integration among professionals of formal and factual sciences interesting research lines in the following subjects: 2D, 3D, Advances in Software and Hardware for Audio-Visual, Artificial Life, Biocomputing, CAD, CAE, CAM, Communicability, Computer Animation, Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Creativity and Original Design, Education, Human-Computer Communication, Human-Computer Interaction, Industrial Design, Imaging, Intelligent User Interface, Interactive Systems On-line and Off-line, Medical Image Processing, Modelling, Quality Design, Rendering, Scientific Visualization, Ubiquitous Computing, Virtual Agents On-line, etc. and other computational areas are solicited on, but not limited to (alphabetical order): http://www.ainci.com/CCGIDIS%202014/symposium_topics.html An extensive listing connotes and reflects the requirement and also skill necessary to find intersection zones of the disciplines among the different domains, fields, and specialities; which at the same time potentially boosts and merges the formerly different scientific views. All submitted papers will be reviewed by a double-blind (at least three reviewers), non-blind, and participative peer review. These three kinds of review will support the selection process of those that will be accepted for their presentation at the international conference. Authors of accepted papers who registered in the conference can have access to the evaluations and possible feedback provided by the reviewers who recommended the acceptance of their papers, so they can accordingly improve the final version of their papers. Important NEW Dates: Papers Submissions: May, 9th Authors Notification: A few days, after the submission Camera-ready, full papers: May, 19 Important Information: Keynote speakers/relators = 5 (confirmed) Cultural Events = 3 (confirmed). Free for all participants and authors. P.S. In case you are not interested for this International Symposium, we would be grateful if you can pass on this information/email to another interested person you see fit (thanks a lot). If you wish to be removed from this mailing list, please send an email to info[at]ainci.com with “CCGIDIS 2014: unsubscribe” in the subject line. Finally, we are working for a new mailing list. Excuse us once again for the people with send us a email with “CCGIDIS 2014: remove” and maybe had received this email. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 491C26262; Sun, 4 May 2014 23:47:07 +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 F1DB96235; Sun, 4 May 2014 23:47:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 0D6326123; Sun, 4 May 2014 23:46:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140504214659.0D6326123@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 23:46:58 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.1019 pubs: Reading Writing Interfaces; Critique, Social Media & the Information Society X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 1019. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Christian Fuchs (77) Subject: New paperback: Critique, Social Media and the Information Society (ed. Christian Fuchs, Marisol Sandoval) [2] From: Lori Emerson (29) Subject: just published: Reading Writing Interfaces | From the Digital to the Bookbound --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 May 2014 18:12:18 +0000 From: Christian Fuchs Subject: New paperback: Critique, Social Media and the Information Society (ed. Christian Fuchs, Marisol Sandoval) New paperback: Fuchs, Christian and Marisol Sandoval, eds. 2014. Critique, Social Media and the Information Society. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-72108-0. http://fuchs.uti.at/books/critique-social-media-and-the-information-society/ This book is an outcome of the 4th ICTs and Society Conference “Critique, Democracy, and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society: Towards Critical Theories of Social Media” (May 2-4, 2012, Uppsala Univeristy, Sweden) Read the introduction: Christian Fuchs and Marisol Sandoval - Critique, Social Media and the Information Society in the Age of Capitalist Crisis http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/intro.pdf In times of global capitalist crisis we are witnessing a return of critique in the form of a surging interest in critical theories (such as the critical political economy of Karl Marx) and social rebellions as a reaction to the commodification and instrumentalization of everything. On one hand, there are overdrawn claims that social media (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc) have caused uproars in countries like Tunisia and Egypt. On the other hand, the question arises as to what actual role social media play in contemporary capitalism, crisis, rebellions, the strengthening of the commons, and the potential creation of participatory democracy. The commodification of everything has resulted also in a commodification of the communication commons, including Internet communication that is today largely commercial in character. This book deals with the questions of what kind of society and what kind of Internet are desirable, how capitalism, power structures and social media are connected, how political struggles are connected to social media, what current developments of the Internet and society tell us about potential futures, how an alternative Internet can look like, and how a participatory, commons-based Internet and a co-operative, participatory, sustainable information society can be achieved. With contributions by Andrew Feenberg, Catherine McKercher, Christian Fuchs, Graham Murdock, Gunilla Bradley, Jernej Amon Prodnik, Margareta Melin, Marisol Sandoval, Mark Andrejevic, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Peter Dahlgren, Robert Prey, Sebastian Sevignani, Thomas Allmer, Tobias Olsson, Verena Kreilinger, Vincent Mosco, Wolfgang Hofkirchner. Contents 1. Christian Fuchs and Marisol Sandoval Introduction: Critique, Social Media and the Information Society in the Age of Capitalist Crisis Part I: Critical Studies of the Information Society 2. Christian Fuchs Critique of the Political Economy of Informational Capitalism and Social Media 3. Wolfgang Hofkirchner Potentials and Risks for Creating a Global Sustainable Information Society 4. Sebastian Sevignani, Robert Prey, Marisol Sandoval, Thomas Allmer, Jernej Amon Prodnik and Verena Kreilinger Critical Studies of Contemporary Informational Capitalism: The Perspective of Emerging Scholars 5. Gunilla Bradley Social Informatics and Ethics: Towards the Good Information and Communication Society Part II: Critical Internet- and Social Media-Studies 6. Andrew Feenberg Great Refusal or Long March: How to Think About the Internet 7. Graham Murdock Producing Consumerism: Commodities, Ideologies, Practices 8. Marisol Sandoval Social Media?: The Unsocial Character of Capitalist Media 9. Nick Dyer-Witheford The Global Worker and the Digital Front 10. Mark Andrejevic Alienation’s Returns 11. Peter Dahlgren Social Media and Political Participation: Discourse and Deflection 12. Tobias Olsson “The Architecture of Participation”: For Citizens or Consumers? Part III: Critical Studies of Communication Labour 13. Catherine McKercher Precarious Times, Precarious Work: A Feminist Political Economy of Freelance Journalists in Canada and the United States 14. Margareta Melin Flight as Fight: Re-Negotiating the Work of Journalism 15. Vincent Mosco Marx is Back, But Will Knowledge Workers of the World Unite?: On the Critical Study of Labour, Media and Communication Today --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 09:56:38 -0600 From: Lori Emerson Subject: just published: Reading Writing Interfaces | From the Digital to the Bookbound Dear colleagues, I hope you don't mind me announcing the publication of my book _Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound_, now out from University of Minnesota Press's Electronic Mediations series. Once again, as these things go, I'm hoping to line up reviews - please do let me know if you're either interested in writing a review or please feel free to pass on this information to any interested colleagues/students. The press information is here:http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/reading-writing-interfaces Table of Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Indistinguishable From Magic | Invisible Interfaces and Digital Literature as Demystifier Chapter 2: From the Philosophy of the Open to the Ideology of the User-Friendly Chapter 3: Typewriter Concrete Poetry and Activist Media Poetics Chapter 4: The Fascicle as Process and Product Chapter 5: Postscript | The Googlization of Literature Works Cited And excerpt from Chapter Two, "From the Philosophy of the Open to the Ideology of the User-Friendly," is available here: http://loriemerson.net/2013/02/02/from-the-philosophy-of-the-open-to-the-ideology-of-the-user-friendly-2/ yours, Lori Emerson --- Lori Emerson Assistant Professor | Director, Media Archaeology Lab Department of English, University of Colorado at Boulder Hellems 101, 226 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0226 loriemerson.net | mediaarchaeologylab.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A3641629E; Mon, 5 May 2014 20:00:47 +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 0DBD1625C; Mon, 5 May 2014 20:00:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 02F966251; Mon, 5 May 2014 20:00:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140505180037.02F966251@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 20:00:36 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.1020 net neutrality X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 1020. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 13:06:24 -0400 From: Brian Croxall Subject: Net Neutrality and the ACH In-Reply-To: Dear colleagues -- As you know, the ACH is a major professional society for the digital humanities. We support and disseminate research and cultivate a vibrant professional community through conferences, publications, and outreach activities. Along with these efforts, the organization occasionally advocates on issues that affect our community. In this spirit, the ACH recently joined in an effort related to the issue of net neutrality in the United States. An open letter on the subject was sent to American FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler by 33 presidents, chairs, founders, leaders, and editors of 27 major, international digital humanities scholarly organizations and platforms, including the president of the ACH. Announcement: http://ach.org/2014/04/30/net-neutrality/ Open Letter: http://ach.org/activities/advocacy/open-letter-on-net-neutrality/ If you would like to learn more about the issue of net neutrality or take individual action, you can learn more at this list of resources that the ACH has also assembled: http://ach.org/activities/advocacy/net-neutrality-info-and-action/ . Best, Brian Croxall, ACH Executive Council Member Vika Zafrin, Executive Secretary of the ACH http://ach.org _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 9F0A86314; Mon, 5 May 2014 20:02:50 +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 E10ED6303; Mon, 5 May 2014 20:02:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 61CD6625F; Mon, 5 May 2014 20:02:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140505180240.61CD6625F@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 20:02:40 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.1021 job at Milan: research fellow in language resources & NLP X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 1021. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 16:12:07 +0000 From: Passarotti Marco Carlo Subject: Job announcement: Research Fellow in Milan (Italy) The CIRCSE Research Centre, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan, Italy), invites applications for a full-time, fixed-term Research Fellow position in the area of language resources and natural language processing. THE RESEARCH CENTRE The CIRCSE Research Centre (http://centridiricerca.unicatt.it/circse_index.html) is the official acknowledgement of the former GIRCSE, which was founded by father Roberto Busa SJ, the author of the Index Thomisticus and one of the pioneers in humanities computing. The research centre hosts the Index Thomisticus Treebank project and maintains a number of NLP tools and language resources, mostly for Classical languages. JOB DESCRIPTION The successful candidate will manage the computer science related aspects of the CIRCSE research activities and projects. In particular, the candidate will develop/re-use software to support research activity in the area of text analysis, implementation and exploitation of language resources such as treebanks and lexica. She/he will be in charge of the processing pipeline for storing, analyzing, retrieving and annotating digital collections, including (but not limited to) literary and philosophical texts written in Classical languages. REQUIREMENTS: - programming skills: C++ or Java, Python or Perl - regular expressions - good knowledge of English PREFERENTIAL CONDITIONS: - PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Computational Linguistics - setup and usage of SQL and no-SQL DB systems - processing semi-structured data (for instance, XQuery) - basic administration of an Apache web server - designing and developing web-based applications - methods and tools for natural language processing - attested research experience in computational linguistics and, particularly, in developing language resources - basics of theoretical linguistics FORMAL MATTERS: - duration: the post is available for up to two years (1 year + 1 year) - salary for the first year: 19,370 Euros (1,470 monthly, after taxes) - starting date: September 1st, 2014 HOW TO APPLY The full announcement and the application form can be downloaded at http://progetti.unicatt.it/progetti-assegni-di-ricerca-legge-240-2010-art-22-presentazione-1122. See under "Decreto rettorale n. 960 del 5 maggio 2014". In particular, see the job description reported between the bottom of page 3 and the top of page 4 in the full announcement here: http://progetti.unicatt.it/progetti-Bando_960.pdf. DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: June 4th, 2014 DO NOT HESITATE TO ASK FOR HELP! Although fluency in Italian is not a requirement, documents for application are in Italian. Informal enquiries about this position should be sent to Dr. Marco Passarotti (marco.passarotti@unicatt.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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 7EDC26314; Mon, 5 May 2014 20:05:10 +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 0E58F629E; Mon, 5 May 2014 20:05:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id A5A71625C; Mon, 5 May 2014 20:05:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140505180500.A5A71625C@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 20:05:00 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.1022 on the conquest of English departments X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 1022. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 14:17:40 +0200 From: Neven Jovanovic Subject: A contribution for Humanist In-Reply-To: <20140504214659.0D6326123@digitalhumanities.org> Hi Willard, looking at it from the sidelines, here is an interesting document -- much of what we all know and speak of and live in, expressed in not very friendly terms, but worth thinking about for another round: Technology Is Taking Over English Departments The false promise of the digital humanities BY ADAM KIRSCH The New Republic, MAY 2, 2014. "A humanities culture that prizes thinking and writing will tend to look down on making and building as banausic—the kind of labor that can be outsourced to non-specialists." Best, Neven _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C55EC6138; Tue, 6 May 2014 19:28:51 +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 550283C0E; Tue, 6 May 2014 19:28:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5BA992F46; Tue, 6 May 2014 19:28:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140506172840.5BA992F46@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 19:28:40 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.1023 Humanities Intensive Teaching and Learning Institute (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. 27, No. 1023. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 14:49:27 -0400 From: Jennifer Guiliano Subject: HILT announcement The Humanities Intensive Teaching and Learning (HILT) Institute will be held August 4-8, 2014 on the campus of the University of Maryland. We've got an exciting slate of classes taught by incredible instructors. Courses for 2014 include: Project Development led by Simon Appleford, Clemson University and Jennifer Guiliano, MITH This course will explore the fundamentals of project planning and design including, but not limited to: formulating appropriate disciplinary questions for digital humanities research, investigating digital humanities tools and resources, structuring your first project, critical path scheduling, understanding roles and responsibilities, risk management, documenting your project work, writing your first grant proposal, budget setting and controls, building the project team, and selecting and implementing project management tools and software. This is an advanced course and, as such, you are expected to have an understanding of the definition of digital humanities. Materials will be covered through lectures, discussions, presentations, and hands-on activities. Participants will get the most of the course if they arrive with at least some sense of a potential digital humanities project that they would like to develop throughout the course. Introduction to Web Development, Design, and Principles led by Jeremy Boggs, Scholars’ Lab, and Jeri Wierenga, George Mason University This course introduces students to best practices and techniques for standards-based, accessible web design and development including, but not limited to: Current trends and issues in web design/development; Responsive design for a variety of platforms and devices; HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; Managing code using the Git version control system. By the end of the course, students will be familiar with steps and skills to conceive, design, develop, and publish a web site. Topics will be covered primarily through hands-on activities, with some supplementary lectures and discussions. By the end of the course, students will have a modest web site published on the Web. Prior experience with web design or development could be useful, but is not required. Humanities Programming led by Wayne Graham, Scholars’ Lab, and Brandon Walsh, University of Virginia This course focuses on introducing participants to humanities programming through the creation and use of the Ruby on Rails web application framework. This course will introduce programming and design concepts, project management and planning, workflow, as well as the design, implementation, and deployment of a web-based application. Technologies covered in this course will include git, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, Rails, and relational (and non-relational) data stores. Over the course of the week, we will work through the practical implementation of a developing and deploying a small-scale web application Games in the Humanities Classroom led by Anastasia Salter, University of Baltimore Games can be a great way to add experiential and playful learning to the humanities classroom by integrating learning objectives with game mechanics. We’ll look at three main ways to integrate games into learning objectives: teaching and debriefing existing games, making games for students to play, and building games with your students. Along the way, we’ll discuss what makes an effective learning game and how integrating games can offer a gentle way to learn from failure while offering the opportunity for exploration, collaboration, and the probing of ideas through new lenses. Participants will engage in “critical play” of several examples of humanities board games, text games, and graphical games and learn simple tools for making games in these genres while building simple games. No programming experience is required or assumed. Large-Scale Text Analysis with R led by Mark Algee-Hewitt, Stanford University Text mining, the practice of using computational and statistical analysis on large collections of digitized text, is becoming an increasingly important way of extracting meaning from writing. This technique gives us information we could never access by simply reading the texts. But extracting this data can be a difficult task, both conceptually and methodologically: particularly for those who work in the humanities and who are also able to benefit the most from these methods. “Large-Scale Text Analysis with R” will provide an introduction to the methods of text mining using the open source software Environment “R”. In this course, we will explore the different methods through which text mining can be used to “read” text in new ways: including authorship attribution, sentiment analysis, cluster analysis and topic modeling. At the same time, our focus will also be on the analysis and interpretation of our results. How do we formulate research questions and hypothesis about text that can be answered quantitatively? Which methods fit particular needs best? And how can we use the numerical output of quantitative text analysis to explain features of the texts in ways that make sense to a wider audience? While no programming experience is required, students should have basic computer skills and be familiar with their computer’s file system. Participants will be given a “sample corpora” to use in class exercises, but some class time will be available for independent work and participants are encouraged to bring their own text corpora and research questions so they may apply their newly learned skills to projects of their own. Network Analysis and Visualization led by Elijah Meeks, Stanford University This course will cover the principles of network analysis and representation with an emphasis on expressing network structures and measures using information visualization. The tool we’ll be using will be Gephi, which is freely available at gephi.org, with some time spent on learning how to deploy your network visualization in a dynamic or interactive manner on the web using a variety of frameworks. This course will introduce and explain a variety of traditional network statistics, such as various measures of centrality and clustering, and explain the appropriate use of network statistics to various classes of networks. The workshop will consist of lectures followed by discussion and hands-on activities. If participants can bring a sample of their network data, the activities will usually be applicable to all manner of networks, but a variety of sample network datasets will be available to explore different network phenomena. This workshop will cover traditional social networks, geographic networks, dynamic networks, and n-partite networks and will deal with issues of modeling networks, formatting data, and using information visualization best practices in representation of your network. Born-Digital Forensics led by Kam Woods, University of North Carolina, and Porter Olsen, MITH This course will introduce students to the role of digital forensics in the act of preserving, investigating, and curating born-digital culture artifacts. We will explore the technical underpinning and the physical materiality of the digital objects we frequently, in our screen-centric world, mistake as ephemeral. Using open source tools including Linux, The Sleuth Kit, and BitCurator, students will get hands-on training exploring a wide variety of digital media and learning how to look for deleted files, how to search and redact personally identifiable information, and how to produce information-rich metadata about a forensic disk image. In addition to practical skills, students will develop a theoretical understanding of digital storage media–and the forensics disk images produced from them–as objects of study in their own right and the importance of learning to read these objects as richly as we do more traditional texts. There are no essential prerequisite skills for this course; however, a working knowledge of Linux will be a great benefit. Students who have access to their own collection of born-digital materials to work with are encouraged to bring them to the course. Crowdsourcing Cultural Heritage led by Ben Brumfield, Independent Developer, and Mia Ridge, Ph.D. Candidate, Open University Successful crowdsourcing projects help organizations connect with audiences who enjoy engaging with their content and tasks, whether transcribing handwritten documents, correcting OCR errors, identifying animals on the Serengeti or folding proteins. Conversely, poorly-designed crowdsourcing projects find it difficult to attract or retain participants. This class will present international case studies of best practice crowdsourcing projects to illustrate the range of tasks that can be crowdsourced, the motivations of participants and the characteristics of well-designed projects. We’ll study crowdsourcing projects from the worlds of citizen science, investigative journalism, genealogy and free culture to look for lessons which might apply to humanities projects. We’ll discuss models for quality control over user-generated projects, explore the cross-overs between traditional in-house volunteer projects internet-enabled crowdsourcing, and look at the numbers behind real-world projects. Finally, the course will give students hands-on experience with several different crowdsourcing platforms for image annotation, manuscript transcription, and OCR correction. Students are encouraged to bring their project ideas and some scanned material for the lab sessions. Critical Race and Gender in the Digital Humanities led by Jarah Moesh, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Maryland The methods and tools used and produced by Digital Humanists function as organizing principles that frame how race, gender, sexuality, and ability are embodied and understood within and through projects, code-bases, and communities of practice. The very ‘making’ of tools and projects is an engagement with power and control. Through a critical theoretical exploration of the values in the design and use of these tools and methods, we begin to understand that these methods and practices are structures which are themselves marginalizing, tokenizing, and reductionist. By pairing hands-on learning/making with Critical Race Theory, Queer, and Gender Theories, we will interrogate the structures of the tools themselves while creating our own collaborative practices and methods for ‘doing’ (refracting) DH differently. To accomplish this, each day will focus on one tool or method. Mornings will be a combination of reading-based discussion and experimental structural/tools-based exercises, while afternoon sessions will focus on pulling it all together in collaborative analytical projects. While no prior technical experience is necessary, you will be experimenting with, and creating your own theoretical practice that incorporates key themes in critical race, gender and queer theories with digital humanities methods and tools. Therefore, the key requirement for this course is curiosity and a willingness to explore new ideas in order to fully engage with the materials. Students are also encouraged to bring their own research questions to explore through these theories and practices. The costs to attend HILT are: Non-student/Regular: $950 Student: $500 Sponsored student scholarship: $250 Group discounts are available by contacting dhinstitute@umd.edu ---- The Keynote Speaker for Humanities Intensive Learning + Teaching 2014 will be Tara McPherson. Tara McPherson is Associate Professor of Critical Studies at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. She is a core faculty member of the IMAP program, USC’s innovative practice based-Ph.D., and also an affiliated faculty member in the American Studies and Ethnicity Department. Her research engages the cultural dimensions of media, including the intersection of gender, race, affect and place. She has a particular interest in digital media. Here, her research focuses on the digital humanities, early software histories, gender, and race, as well as upon the development of new tools and paradigms for digital publishing, learning, and authorship. Her Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender and Nostalgia in the Imagined South(Duke UP: 2003) received the 2004 John G. Cawelti Award for the outstanding book published on American Culture, among other awards. She is co-editor of Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture (Duke UP: 2003) and editor of Digital Youth, Innovation and the Unexpected, part of the MacArthur Foundation series on Digital Media and Learning (MIT Press, 2008.) Her writing has appeared in numerous journals, including Camera Obscura, The Velvet Light Trap, Discourse, and Screen, and in edited anthologies such as Race and Cyberspace, The New Media Book, The Object Reader, Virtual Publics, The Visual Culture Reader 2.0, and Basketball Jones. The anthology, Interactive Frictions, co-edited with Marsha Kinder, is forthcoming from the University of California Press, and she is currently working on a manuscript examining the digital transformation of the archive as it mutates into the database. She is the Founding Editor of Vectors, www.vectorsjournal.org, a multimedia peer-reviewed journal affiliated with the Open Humanities Press, and is a founding editor of the MacArthur-supported International Journal of Learning and Media (launched by MIT Press in 2009.) She is a widely sought-out speaker on the digital humanities, digital scholarship, and feminist technology studies. Tara was among the founding organizers of Race in Digital Space, a multi-year project supported by the Annenberg Center for Communication and the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations. She is on the advisory board of the Mellon-funded Scholarly Communications Institute, has frequently served as an AFI juror, is a core board member of HASTAC , and is on the boards of several journals and other organizations. At USC, she co-directs (with Phil Ethington) the new Center for Transformative Scholarship and is a fellow at the Center for Excellence in Teaching. With major support from the Mellon Foundation, she is currently working with colleagues from leading universities and with several academic presses, museums, scholarly societies, and archives to explore new modes of scholarship for visual culture research. She is the lead PI on the new authoring platform, Scalar, and for the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture, scalar.usc.edu. --- For more information on HILT, visit http://www.dhtraining.org/hilt -- Jennifer Guiliano Assistant Director, MITH UMD 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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id A29F26352; Tue, 6 May 2014 19:35:51 +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 7C4EC618E; Tue, 6 May 2014 19:35:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 5F7AD60BD; Tue, 6 May 2014 19:35:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140506173540.5F7AD60BD@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 19:35:40 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.1024 events: standardization; spatial inscription; the 5 senses; theory+design+implementation X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 1024. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Andree Bergeron (50) Subject: International workshop, The Spatial Inscription of Science, Paris, 26-27 may 2014 [2] From: Kai Jakobs (49) Subject: CfP - European Academy for Standardization [3] From: Quinn Dombrowski (34) Subject: CfP: DH-CASE 2014 at DocEng [4] From: Koen Vermeir (27) Subject: Workshop "Machines and the 5 senses", 14 May, Paris --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 08:40:01 +0200 From: Andree Bergeron Subject: International workshop, The Spatial Inscription of Science, Paris, 26-27 may 2014 Dear Colleagues, We are happy to announce the upcoming international workshop The spatial inscription of science: exhibitions, devices, architectures, to take place on 26-27th May 2014 at the Curie Museum, 1 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris. This event is part of the project Matières à penser. Les mises en scènes des sciences et leurs enjeux (19.-21. siècles) and supported by CIERA. The programme and further informations here , below and on the project's blog: http://matap.hypotheses.org/paris-maimay-2014-2 The admission is free subject to availability. Andrée Bergeron, Charlotte Bigg, Jochen Hennig and Renaud Huynh The spatial inscription of science: Exhibitions, Devices, Architectures An International Workshop Organised by Andrée Bergeron (Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris), Charlotte Bigg (Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris), Jochen Hennig (Humboldt Universität, Berlin), Renaud Huynh (Musée Curie, Paris) Musée Curie, Paris, 26-27 May 2014 Scientific spaces such as universities, laboratories but also museums and temporary spaces for showing science have a lot to tell us. Whether through their architecture, their material and symbolic inscription in the urban fabric, and their evolution over time and across different geographical and cultural environments they are revealing of the evolving relations between science, science policy and science popularization. Starting from this working hypothesis, this workshop brings together historians of science, of the museum, of art, urban historians as well as exhibition makers to discuss concrete embodiements of three types of spaces, each considered within the scientific, social and political context of their making : the university, the scientific and technical exhibition, and the dome. The workshop aims to contribute to recent historiographical developments in the history of science, the history of scientific museums and of science popularization that have emphasized spatial issues as well as the material and visual cultures involved in scientific work and communication. It also aims to foster a dialogue between historical investigations (19th and 20th centuries) and current reflections about the place of science in our societies today. Download the program (pdf) : http://f.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/1024/files/2014/05/Plaquette-uk.pdf [...] -- Andrée Bergeron Maître de conférences Centre Alexandre Koyré, CNRS/EHESS/MNHN 27 rue Damesme 75013 Paris Attention nouvelle adresse mail : andree.bergeron@cnrs.fr --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 09:49:30 +0200 From: Kai Jakobs Subject: CfP - European Academy for Standardization 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS =================== 19th EURAS Annual Standardisation Conference Cooperation among standardisation organisations and the scientific and academic community 8 - 10 September 2014 Belgrade, Serbia http://www.euras.org/uploads/euras2014/EURAS_2014_Draft_CfP.pdf Organised by The European Academy for Standardisation (EURAS) http://www.euras.org/ The Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade To accelerate and sustain economic growth, industry needs standards. They provide the basis upon which to invest, to innovate and to gain global market share in an increasingly competitive world. Thus, standardisation is crucial to boost private investment in innovative goods and services. How can cooperation among standardisation organisations and the scientific and academic community contribute here? How can we define and measure quality of standards in different areas? What methods can be used in predicting of success of a standard in the market? While the developed countries have long been leaders in international standardisation, transitional and developing countries remain largely passive and reap far less benefits than they could. The role of standards in the development of the global knowledge economy is significant. For example, standards are a basis for the transfer of new technologies. This is of particular relevance for transitional countries. Unfortunately, the activities of the scientific and academic community in this area are still inadequate. How can cooperation among standardisation organisation, scientific and academic community contribute to achieving technology catch up in transitional countries? Standardisation in relation to science, research, knowledge development and knowledge transfer demand academic reflection from different angles. The EURAS 2014 conference seeks to receive academic papers on the above theme. Sample paper topics include: * Standardisation and Europe's research and innovation agenda * Standards as a driver for innovation * Standardisation and IPR * The role of standardisation in removing barriers to trade * Standards and knowledge transfer * Impact of standards and standardisation * Quality of standards * National or international policy and standardisation * Relationship between standardisation and legislation * Role of industry and their associations in standardisation * Standardisation via industry consortia * History of standardisation * Standardisation processes Standards and conformity assessment EURAS conferences provide a platform for those interested in standardisation research. Therefore, other standardisation papers not specifically related to the conference theme are also welcome. Full papers (up to 30 double spaced pages; rtf. .doc or .docx format) should be submitted to Kai Jakobs at Kai.Jakobs@cs.rwth-aachen.de. Authors of accepted papers are expected to serve as discussants upon request. All papers will be reviewed (double blind) by members of the Programme Committee. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, as part of the ?EURAS Contributions to Standardisation Research? book series. Particularly good and relevant papers will be fast-tracked to the International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research (JITSR). For more detailed information please consult the EURAS website (www.EURAS.org). [...] ________________________________________________________________ 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 --[3]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 08:15:14 -0700 From: Quinn Dombrowski Subject: CfP: DH-CASE 2014 at DocEng CfP: DH-CASE 2014 at DocEng Deadline: June 1st (abstracts), June 8 (full papers) We invite contributions related to the intersection of theory, design, and implementation, emphasizing a "big-picture" view of architectural, modeling and integration approaches in digital humanities. Submissions are encouraged that discuss data and tool reuse, and that explore what the most successful levels are for reusing the products of a digital humanities project (complete systems? APIs? plugins/modules? data models?). Submissions discussing an individual project should focus on these larger questions, rather than primarily reporting on the project’s activities. This workshop is a forum in which to consider the connections and influences between DH annotation tools and environments, and the tools and models used in other domains, that may provide new approaches to the challenges we face. It is also a locus for the discussion of emerging standards and practices such as OAC (Open Annotation Collaboration) and Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives, and Museums (LODLAM). Submission specifications Papers should be submitted at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dhcase2014. An abstract of up to 400 words must be submitted by June 1st, and the deadline for full papers (6 to 8 pages) is June 8, 2014. Submissions will be reviewed by the program committee and selected external reviewers. Papers must follow the ACM SIG Proceedings format ( http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Up to three papers of exceptional quality/impact will be invited to submit an extended abstract (2-4 pages) for inclusion in the DocEng 2014 conference proceedings. It is planned that proceedings will be published via the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series. Workshop organizers will produce and submit a paper to “Digital Humanities Quarterly” (www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/) summarizing topics that arise in the workshop. We may consider a special issue on workshop topics or key findings to an appropriate journal. For more information, please visit http://research-it.berkeley.edu/dhcase2014 --[4]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 17:41:45 +0200 From: Koen Vermeir Subject: Workshop "Machines and the 5 senses", 14 May, Paris In-Reply-To: <53690199.7050804@yahoo.fr> Le séminaire Machines et imaginations (dir. Pierre Cassou-Nogues et Koen Vermeir) tiendra sa prochaine séance le mercredi 14 mai à 9h45 à l'Université Paris Diderot Salle Klimt, 366A, bâtiment Condorcet, 4 rue Elsa Morante, 75013 Paris (With Michael Wheeler (Stirling), James Williams (Dundee), Kirian Murphy (Colorado), Nicolas Wade (Dundee), Margarete Vöhringer (Berlin) and Andreas Mayer (Paris) starring...) * :: La machine et les cinq sens* 9 :45 Introduction 10 :00 Michael Wheeler (Univ. of Stirling) /Minds without Frontiers : Extended Senses and the Senses of Extension./ 11 :00 James Williams (Dundee Univ.) /Duchamp transformations and the refinement of feedback by continental philosophy (with some examples from David Foster Wallace)./ 14 :00 Kirian Murphy (Univ. of Colorado) /Le Sens de l’électromagnétisme dans la littérature du 19e siècle./ 15 :00 Nicolas Wade (Dundee Univ.) /Machines and motion in the third dimension./ 16 :30 Margarete Vöhringer (Zfl Berlin) /Sight disorders - Visual instruments and their effects in Arts and Sciences./ 17 :30 Andreas Mayer (Paris) /Walking Machines in the 19th Century./ _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id BB7116344; Tue, 6 May 2014 19:37:12 +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 640C560D5; Tue, 6 May 2014 19:37:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 27E906045; Tue, 6 May 2014 19:37:02 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140506173702.27E906045@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 19:37:02 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.1025 pubs: on Book Traces; Educational Media, Memory & Society X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 1025. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org [1] From: Willard McCarty (10) Subject: crowdsourcing annotations [2] From: Young Lee (38) Subject: Table of Contents: Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society (Vol. 6, Issue 1) --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 21:12:20 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: crowdsourcing annotations Many here will be interested in Andrew Stauffer's Book Traces crowdsourcing project. It is described in the Chronicle for Higher Education for 6 May, freely accessible online at http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/book-lovers-record-traces-of-19th-century-readers/52415?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 16:23:11 +0000 From: Young Lee Subject: Table of Contents: Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Dear Colleague, We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society has been published by Berghahn Journals. JEMMS explores perceptions of society as constituted and conveyed in processes of learning and educational media. The focus is on various types of texts (such as textbooks, museums, memorials, films) and their institutional, political, social, economic, and cultural contexts. Please visit the Berghahn website for more information about the journal: http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/jemms Current Issue: Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 2014 ARTICLES Representing Australia's Involvement in the First World War: Discrepancies between Public Discourses and School History Textbooks from 1916 to 1936 Heather Sharp http://bit.ly/1dnNXXd The Holocaust in the Textbooks and in the History and Citizenship Education Program of Quebec Sivane Hirsch; Marie McAndrew http://bit.ly/1eLEBCW What Stories Are Being Told? Two Case Studies of (Grand) Narratives from and of the German Democratic Republic in Current Oberstufe Textbooks Elizabeth Priester Steding http://bit.ly/NPINqL Decoding the Visual Grammar of Selected South African History Textbooks Katalin Eszter Morgan http://bit.ly/1nYcLcN Debating Migration in Textbooks and Classrooms in Austria Christiane Hintermann; Christa Markom; Heidemarie Weinhäupl; Sanda Üllen http://bit.ly/ORVMt2 FORUM Mobile Learning in History Education Alexander König; Daniel Bernsen http://bit.ly/1iZMWnX Wie lassen sich Wertaussagen in Schulbüchern aufspüren? Ein politikwissenschaftlicher Vorschlag zur quantitativen Schulbuchanalyse am Beispiel des Themenkomplexes der europäischen Integration Andreas Slopinski; Torsten J. Selck http://bit.ly/1p1hXK8 Recommend JEMMS to your library Are you unable to access these articles through your library? As a key researcher in your field you can recommend JEMMS to your library for subscription. A form for this purpose is provided on the JEMMS website: http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/jemms/jemms_lib.pdf Free Sample Issue of JEMMS View Volume 1, Issue 2 here: http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/jemms/index.php?pg=sample Free Online Trial Berghahn offers a free 60-day online trial to JEMMS. Please visit: http://berghahn.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/berghahn/emms/trial;jsessionid=7i1vpdc73hded.alice For additional information, including subscription details as well as submission guidelines, visit http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/jemms Contact: journals@berghahnbooks. _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 5897B618E; Tue, 6 May 2014 21:10:45 +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 0562960FE; Tue, 6 May 2014 21:10:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id 93A0660F7; Tue, 6 May 2014 21:10:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140506191032.93A0660F7@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 21:10:32 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.1026 social structures & experience? X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 1026. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 04:55:51 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: social structures & experience In "The early progress of scientific simulation", in Gabriele Gramelsberger, ed., From Science to Computational Sciences (2011), David Alan Grier argues for a mid 18C beginning to the mathematical simulation of physical phenomena. By the end of the 18C, he writes, the social structure of "any large computing group" comprised three levels: the scientist/mathematician at the top; then the planner, who translated the scientist's mathematical analysis into a computational plan; and finally the human computers, who carried out the actual computations. The digital machine has eliminated the last of these jobs for humans to do, but we still have the division between the first and second levels. As a matter of curiosity I wonder what is happening to this division as DIY computing becomes easier to take on and so more important -- if it is, that is. Text encoders, for example, know that scholarship happens in the act of implementation, in essentially the same struggle that Grier's planner enacted at the end of the 18C. Those who actually build the great resources we have now and will have more of may sputter at the thought of DIY. They may want to expand that acronym (as chippies and other builders sometimes do) as "Destroy It Yourself". But I suspect that the boundary between scholar and technical builder is moving. Collaborative groups that are truly collaborative must blur that boundary all the time -- and that sort of blurring also is not new. While I would not want to deny the value of the person, like me, for whom being a digital humanist means sitting alone, reading, thinking, writing, corresponding with others and publishing, it seems to me that much of the noise and nonsense which comes with popularity would diminish if more of those who make such noise actually had some hands-on experience with computing -- including what Adafruit (www.adafruit.com) calls "physical computing". Comments? Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id C1E446330; Tue, 6 May 2014 21:11:42 +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 D4EAB61C1; Tue, 6 May 2014 21:11:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B58736125; Tue, 6 May 2014 21:11:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Message-Id: <20140506191132.B58736125@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 21:11:32 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.1027 events: Silences of Science X-BeenThere: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Online seminar for digital humanities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Errors-To: humanist-bounces@lists.digitalhumanities.org Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 27, No. 1027. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 18:24:44 +0000 From: "Mellor, Felicity" Subject: silences of science conference The Silences of Science: Patterns of silence and contemplation in the work of scientists A one day conference at Imperial College London. 12th June 2014. Current research policy also rewards the most communicative scientists. But are there times when we shouldn't communicate - when communication might be damaging to science or when staying silent might be more productive? Are there limits to how open science should be? Equally, are scientists too often silenced in public debate? Just some of the questions to be explored in a series of panel debates at this conference. Panelists include Professor Sir Brian Hoskins (Director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change), Professor James Wilsdon (Professor of Science and Democracy at the University of Sussex), Professor Kevin Anderson (Director of the Tyndall Energy Programme), and the scientist-turned-playwright Dr Hassan Abdulrazzak. The programme and registration form can be found at http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/humanities/sciencecommunicationgroup/research/silencesofscience. All are welcome. There is no conference fee. If you would like to attend, please email a completed registration form to f.mellor@imperial.ac.uk by 23rd May. We hope you are able to join us for some lively debate and lots of talk about not talking! _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on s16382816.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Original-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Delivered-To: humanist-archiver@dhhumanist.org Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 116C56391; Wed, 7 May 2014 03:12:52 +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 C3D8A6384; Wed, 7 May 2014 03:12:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: by digitalhumanities.org (Postfix, from userid 10009) id B17B96358; Wed, 7 May 2014 03:12:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Humanist Discussion Group To: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20140507011238.B17B96358@digitalhumanities.org> Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 03:12:38 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Humanist] 27.1028 Happy 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. 27, No. 1028. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist Submit to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 10:25:00 +1000 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Humanist's 28th year begins Because the clock that tells the time sits elsewhere in the world from where I am (in Sydney, Australia), the completion of Humanist's 27th year has as of this moment not yet been marked by the automatic change-over in volume and issue numbering. But here it is 7 May, and so time to celebrate. Happy birthday Humanist! We edge on 30 years of operation. Some of us, a dwindling number, have seen all of them pass. But melancholy be gone! Before that 30th turn, shortly after Humanist turns 29, we here will be holding the 2015 Digital Humanities conference at the University of Western Sydney. Plans and arrangements for that event are, I am reliably informed, well underway in the capable hands of Paul Arthur, Harold Short, Jason Ensor and some others. The Parramatta campus of UWS, where the conference will be held, is a beautiful site and offers inter alia an hour's ferry ride down the Parramatta River, then under the Harbour Bridge and past the Opera House to Circular Quay, from which other ferries go to many beautiful spots. When I was in a Sydney camera shop last year a clerk asked me, so obviously a foreigner, if I were planning to take some photos of the Bridge. My reply then remains true now: I am weary of taking photos of that Bridge, I said, but I never get tired of looking at it. Some Sydneysiders call it the Coat Hanger. If only we lived in a world so well designed that our coat hangers had such beauteous engineering in them! Anyhow, the ferry ride is a treat, the campus beautiful -- and of course the intellectual programme will be among the very best. For those fortunate enough to come here and travel afterwards I am compiling an annotated list of destinations -- some around Sydney, others a bit further away (e.g. the Blue Mountains) and then those astonishing places to which most of us fly. Google for Uluru, the Olgas, King's Canyon, Karijini, Broome, the Kimberley (esp Windjana Gorge), Kakadu, Arnhem Land. Read Robyn Davidson's Tracks, then watch John Curran's fine movie based on it and filmed in location. This morning, however, to celebrate Humanist properly, my nose was stuck in a book, G.E.R. Lloyd's The Ideals of Inquiry: An Ancient History (Oxford, 2014). You may recall from a previous posting David Gooding's argument about the human interpretative expansion which follows the increasingly effective reduction brought about by our digital instruments. Thus Lloyd in his final chapter: > We can, of course, see immeasurably more with the tools that are now > available, optical and radio telescopes, microscopes and the like, > where analysing the data with computers adds enormously to their > usefulness. But what we observe always has to be processed and > interpreted in the light of assumptions, hypotheses, conjectures, > even when we use computer modelling again to help in that work. We > cannot escape our assumptions, though we can be critical of them, > just as our predecessors did not escape theirs -- and yet many of > them too saw the need to be self-critical. > > In today's science we do not bring into existence a new faculty, even > when we develop a new style of reasoning. The same underlying > capacity, more or less aware of its fallibilities, more or less > trained, more or less 'domesticated', is in play throughout. (p. 135) What I cannot do here without quoting the entire book (not a long one) is give an adequate sense of Lloyd's meticulous care in weaving back and forth between the alternatives of continuity and innovation across the four cultures of Ancient Greece, Mesopotamia, India and China. What I can do to honour all that has made Humanist possible and sustained it for these last unbelievably many years is to pick up his suggestion that the task we have before us is to develop computer modelling, which Ian Hacking "now rightly stresses should be added to the distinctively modern 'styles of thinking & doing'" (p. 131). So, no new faculty (continuity) but a new way of deploying it (innovation), with massively important consequences to be explored. What a birthday present that is! Enjoy the birthday, which is all of ours. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/), Professor, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, and Research Group in Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney _______________________________________________ List posts to: humanist@lists.digitalhumanities.org List info and archives at at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist Listmember interface at: http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/Restricted/listmember_interface.php Subscribe at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/membership_form.php