12.0015 workshops, course, conferences

Humanist Discussion Group (humanist@kcl.ac.uk)
Wed, 13 May 1998 19:40:52 +0100 (BST)

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 12, No. 15.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>

[1] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (128)
Subject: Workshop Programme "Distributing and Accessing
Linguistic Resources"

[2] From: David Green <david@ninch.org> (50)
Subject: Etext course at Virginia, summer 1998

[3] From: David Green <david@ninch.org> (43)
Subject: Workshops at Museum Computer Network Conference

[4] From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide@cs.vassar.edu> (160)
Subject: EMNLP3: Early registration deadline May 13

[5] From: "R.G. Siemens" <Raymond.Siemens@ualberta.ca> (183)
Subject: Program for the Annual Meeting of COCH/COSH, 1998

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Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 08:35:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: Workshop Programme "Distributing and Accessing Linguistic
Resources"

>> From: Wim Peters <W.Peters@dcs.shef.ac.uk>

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Distributing and Accessing Linguistic Resources
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May 27th,

This workshop is part of First International Conference on Language Resources
and Evaluation at the University of Granada, May 26th to 30th 1998 (see
http://ceres.ugr.es/~rubio/elra.html
for details and how to register).

The workshop will discuss ways to increase the efficacy of linguistic
resource distribution and programmatic access, and work towards the
definition of a new method for these tasks based on distributed processing
and object-oriented modelling with deployment on the WWW.

Organizers: Yorick Wilks, Wim Peters, Hamish Cunningham, Remi Zajac

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Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 09:35:35 -0800
From: David Green <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Etext course at Virginia, summer 1998

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
May 12, 1998

BOOKS AT VIRGINIA: RARE BOOK SCHOOL 1998 (RBS)
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
13 July - 7 August
<http://poe.acc.virginia.edu/~oldbooks>

>Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 10:05:17 -0400
>From: "David M. Seaman" <dms8f@ETEXT.LIB.VIRGINIA.EDU>
>To: ETEXTCTR-L@cornell.edu
>>
>BOOKS AT VIRGINIA: RARE BOOK SCHOOL 1998 (RBS): Rare Book School is
>pleased to announce its schedule of week-long courses for the summer of
>1998, to be offered on the grounds of the University of Virginia in
>Charlottesville, 13 July - 7 August.
>
>Subscribers to this list may find the course listed below to be of
>particular interest:
>
>27 INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRONIC TEXTS AND IMAGES. A practical exploration of
>the research, preservation, editing, and pedagogical uses of electronic
>texts and images in the humanities. The course will center around the
>creation of a set of archival-quality etexts and digital images, for which
>we shall also create an Encoded Archival Description guide.
>
> Topics include: SGML tagging and conversion; using the Text Encoding
>Initiative Guidelines; the form and implications of XML; publishing on the
>World Wide Web; text analysis tools; and the management and use of online
>texts. See <http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/rbs/97> for detailed
>information about last year's course. Some experience with HTML is a
>prerequisite for admission to the course. Offered in Weeks 2 and 4.
>Instructor: David Seaman.
>
>DAVID SEAMAN is the director of the nationally-known Electronic
>Text Center <http://etext.lib.virginia.edu> and on-line archive at the
>University of Virginia. He lectures and writes frequently the creation
>and use of electronic texts in the humanities.
>
>Tuition per course for RBS 1998 Summer Session is $595.
>
>Applications may be requested via the contact information at the end of
>this message. The complete brochure and Expanded Course Descriptions are
>available at our Web site:
>
> <http://poe.acc.virginia.edu/~oldbooks>
>
>Book Arts Press/Rare Book School biblio@virginia.edu
>114 Alderman Library fac-fbap@poe.acc.virginia.edu
>The University of Virginia (804) 924-8851
>Charlottesville
>Virginia 22903
>

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Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 09:46:02 -0800
From: David Green <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Workshops at Museum Computer Network Conference

NINCH ANNOUNCMENT
May 12, 1998

WORKSHOPS AT MUSEUM COMPUTER NETWORK CONFERENCE
September 23, 1998
Santa Monica, CA, USA
<http://www.mcn.edu/MCN98>

The Museum Computer Network announces 11 Pre-Conference Workshops,
on Wednesday, September 23, 1998. All are half-day workshops, except
"Information Management in Museums: Planning and Implementing Successful
Systems" which runs the full day. For complete workshop descriptions, visit
http://www.mcn.edu/MCN98.

"Managing Digital Imaging Projects", with Mikki Carpenter, and Linda
Serenson Colet, Museum of Modern Art

"Kick-Starting Your Intranet", with Sam Quigley, Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, and Lara Greenwood, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

"Strategic Technology Planning for Museums", with Robert L. Anderson,
Anderson Technologies

"Empowering the Visitor at the Museum Web Site: Designing Points of
Response and Interaction for the Visitor", with Susan Hazan, The Israel
Museum

"Negotiating Skills for Licensing Museum Content", with Amalyah Keshet,
The Israel Museum, and Lesley Ellen Harris, Copyright and New Media
Lawyer

"Information Management in Museums: Planning and Implementing Successful
Systems", with Leslie Latta-Guthrie, University of Alberta, and Charlene
Garvey, Museums Alberta: Information Network

"Using the Getty Vocabularies (Thesaurus of Geographic Names, Art &
Architecture Thesaurus, Union List of Artist Names)", with Michelle
Futornick, Alison Chipman, Lala Lalami, Christi Richardson, Robin
Johnson, and Patricia Harpring, Getty Information Institute

"Building a Project Plan: A Hands-On Workshop", with Holly Rarick
Witchey, San Diego Museum of Art

"Knowledge Management in Museums: Approaches, Tools, and Issues", with
Guy Hermann, Mystic Seaport Museum

"Web Usability: Creating User-Friendly Web Sites", with Dr. Jurek
Kirakowski, University College Cork and Dr. Nigel Claridge, NOMOS
Management AB

"In-House Production Procedures for Museum Multimedia", with Chris
Larrance and Peter Samis, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Robin
Lilien and Charles Passela, J. Paul Getty Museum, and Brian Sullivan, J.
Paul Getty Trust

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MCN Membership Office, 8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501, Silver Spring,
MD, 20910. Tel: (301) 585-4413, Fax: (301) 495-0810, E-mail: mcn@mcn.edu

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Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 17:50:10 -0400
From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide@cs.vassar.edu>
Subject: EMNLP3: Early registration deadline May 13

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!!!!!!! EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS MAY 13 !!!!!!!
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Third Conference on
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
(EMNLP-3)
Sponsored by ACL SIGDAT

Tuesday, June 2, 1998
Granada, Spain

Following the
First International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)


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FURTHER INFORMATION:

Email: emnlp3@cs.vassar.edu

Web:
http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/emnlp3.html
http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~yarowsky/sigdat.html

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Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 16:01:38 +0100
From: "R.G. Siemens" <Raymond.Siemens@ualberta.ca>
Subject: Program for the Annual Meeting of COCH/COSH, 1998

[please excuse x-posting]

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The full conference program (incl. abstracts) can be found at
http://www.interchange.ubc.ca/winder/abs_1998.htm
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COCH/COSH

Brief Program for the Annual Meeting of COCH/COSH at the 1998
Congress of the Social Sciences and the Humanities, May 27 - 28, 1998
University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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*In Memory of Elaine Nardocchio (1945-1998)*
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Consortium for Computers in the Humanities / Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines

WWW Site: http://purl.oclc.org/NET/cochcosh.htm

____ R.G. Siemens Department of English, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. T6G 2E5. Editor, Early Modern Literary Studies: http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html wk. phone: (403) 492-7801 fax: (403) 492-8142 e-mail: Raymond.Siemens@UAlberta.ca www homepage: http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htm

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